Carhoo Upper () is a townland within the civil parish of Magourney and catholic parish of Aghabullogue, County Cork, Ireland. It is in size, and west of Coachford village.
Carhoo firstly appears c. 1590 as 'Carown' in a sketch map The description of Muskery, retained as part of the Dartmouth Map Collection, at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. In the Down Survey Maps (1656-8), it is referred to as 'Carrow' and 'Carrooe', and the accompanying terrier lists Thomas and Edmund Coppinger as proprietors by way of mortgage. The Ordnance Survey name book (c. 1840) describes Carhoo Upper as bounded on the north by Rockgrove townland and on the west by Aghinagh parish. Townland name versions include 'Carhoo' and 'Carhue'. O'Murchú (1991) holds Ceathrú as meaning a quarter, in this instance a measurement of land, such as a townland or ploughland, and being a smaller division than a tuath or triocha céad. The Placenames Database of Ireland gives the townland an Irish name of An Cheathrú Uachtarach, with Ceathrú meaning a quarterland.
+ Townland populationYearPop. 1841 127 1851 53 1861 44 1871 32 1881 18 1891 28 1901 22 1911 20
+ Earlier versions of townland name Year Form c. 1590 Carown (Sketch map of Muskery) 1656-8 Carrow/Carrooe (Down Survey) 1811 Carhue (Bath's Grand Jury map) 1840 Carhue/Carhoo (OS name book)
Townland sites/items of interest Glashagarriff Bridge, Carhue
References Histpop; Area, population and number of houses, Vol. II, Ireland, 1881, page 207 HistPop; Area, houses, and population, Munster, Ireland, 1911 Page 94
External links 1841/42 surveyed OS maps (maps.osi.ie) 1901 surveyed OS map (maps.osi.ie) acrheritage.info