Carrignavar (Irish: Carraig na bhFear, meaning 'the rock of the men'[2][3]) is a village in County Cork, north of Cork city.

It lies east of Whitechurch and west of the R614 road, by a bridge over the Cloghnagash River.

For election purposes, Carrignavar is within the Dáil constituency of Cork North-Central, and (for planning purposes) is designated a "key village" within the municipal district of Cobh by Cork County Council.

[7] In the eighteenth century, Charles MacCarthy was a Jacobite sympathiser and patron of late Gaelic poetry; he and his poets converted, at least in form, from Roman Catholicism to the Anglican Church of Ireland to escape the Penal Laws.

[8] John Sheedy bought it in the early twentieth century and later sold it to the Sacred Heart Fathers, who opened Sacred Heart College (Irish: Coláiste an Chroí Naofa) secondary school there in 1950.