Editing Crookhaven (section)

==History==
The village name is attributed to an association with the Crooke family, and initially with [[Sir Thomas Crooke, 1st Baronet]]<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.crookhaven.ie/ | publisher = Crookhaven.ie | title = History | access-date = 9 January 2017 | archive-date = 5 November 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161105115456/http://www.crookhaven.ie/ | url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.logainm.ie/en/1412757 | publisher = Logainm.ie | work = Placenames Database of Ireland | quote = Earliest reference to Crook'''e'''haven attributed to "''Calendar to Fiants of reign of Henry VIII. 1510-47...of Queen Elizabeth. 1558-1603'' (print 1875-90) | title = An Cruachán / Crookhaven | access-date = 9 January 2017 | archive-date = 9 January 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170109113159/https://www.logainm.ie/en/1412757 | url-status = live }}</ref> who also founded [[Baltimore, County Cork]] about 1610. The Crooke family were granted large estates in west Cork in the early 17th century, but their association with the area ended around 1665, on the death of Sir Thomas's son and heir Sir Samuel.<ref>{{cite book| author= Burke, John  | title = Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Scotland and Ireland| edition = 2nd | place = London | date = 1841}}</ref> In the late 1500s and early 1600s the village was used as a base for piracy<ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/south-west-was-haven-for-piracy-and-prostitution-190252.html |publisher= Irish Examiner |title= South-West was haven for piracy and prostitution |date= 12 April 2012 |access-date= 8 June 2015 |archive-date= 9 January 2017 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170109184449/http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/south-west-was-haven-for-piracy-and-prostitution-190252.html |url-status= live }}</ref> - where not only the local justices (including the [[vice-admiral]] of [[Munster]]) but the broader population were involved.<ref>{{cite book|author= Senior C.N. |title= A Nation of Pirates: English Piracy in its Heyday |publisher= Penguin Books |date=2004 |quote=As quoted in Rodger, N.A.M., The Safeguard of the Sea. A naval history of Britain, 660-1649. |page=349 |isbn=978-0-14-029724-9}}</ref> These activities were unaffected by official discouragement under King [[James VI and I]], but the Dutch attack on Crookhaven in 1614 did significant damage<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.discovery.com/history/adventures-of-17th-century-pirate-alliance-uncovered-in-ireland-140227.htm |publisher=Discovery Communications (News) |title=Adventures of 17th-Century Pirate Alliance Uncovered |access-date=8 June 2015 |archive-date=9 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150509135030/http://news.discovery.com/history/adventures-of-17th-century-pirate-alliance-uncovered-in-ireland-140227.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> and English piracy in the region declined thereafter.

The village was an important port of call for [[shipping]] between Europe and the United States, and many inhabitants were in the business of supplying the ships as they sheltered in Crookhaven after or before a long voyage.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.mizenhead.net/marconi.html | publisher = MixenHead.net | title = Mizen Head Signal Station| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070717040005/http://www.mizenhead.net/marconi.html  | archive-date= 17 July 2007}}</ref> In 1959 Crookhaven was the subject of a film by English film maker [[Jim Clark (film editor)|James Clarke]] in his film ''Irish Village''.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.tcd.ie/irishfilm/showfilm.php?fid=37416 | title = Irish Village Film details | publisher = Trinity College Dublin | work = Irish Film & TV Research | access-date = 9 January 2017 | archive-date = 9 January 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170109113834/http://www.tcd.ie/irishfilm/showfilm.php?fid=37416 | url-status = live }}</ref> At that time the film records the population of the town and local farms as being 69.

Crookhaven was also used by [[Guglielmo Marconi]] as a location for experiments in wireless communication and ship-to-shore communication. Some of these tests and experiments took place between the Fastnet lighthouse, Crookhaven, and Cape Clear Island - since they were so closely connected. The area was useful for these purposes as a fixed telegraph line also connected Crookhaven and Cape Clear Island - located eight miles away. Marconi worked here from 1901 until 1914 when he sold the rights. The station was ultimately destroyed in 1922.<ref>{{cite book| author = Sexton, Michael| title=  Marconi The Irish Connection | place = Portland | publisher = Four Courts Press| date= 2005| isbn = 9781851828401}}</ref>