Courtmacsherry (Irish: Cúirt Mhic Shéafraidh, meaning 'MacSherry's Court'),[2] often referred to by locals as Courtmac, is a seaside village in County Cork, on the southwest coast of Ireland.

The village consists of a single long street on the southern shore of Courtmacsherry Bay, with thick woods on rising ground behind.

[3][4][5] Around the time of the Norman invasion of Ireland, the major townships in the area were those now known as Timoleague, Lislee, Barryroe and Dunworly.

[9] His grandson Henry Boyle, 3rd Earl of Shannon arranged for the building of Courtmacsherry House in the 1840s, as a family residence.

[9] Following the third Earl's death in 1842, his six adult daughters (known as "the Ladies Boyle") were granted the Courtmacsherry estate of 6,000 acres.

[9] Boyle leased Courtmacsherry House and 10 acres of land to a Bandon businessman, James Brennan, in 1897.

[10] The Grand Jury Map of County Cork, published in 1811, shows Courtmacsherry as a small cluster of houses near Wood Point.

A lifeboat was placed at Courtmacsherry in December 1825, one of the first three in Ireland, by the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck (RNIPLS).

To house the boat, a new boathouse and slipway was built at Barry's Point, some 5.6 kilometres (3.5 mi) south of Courtmacsherry.

[14][13] On 7 May 1915, the Kezia Gwilt was launched to the aid of ocean liner RMS Lusitania, torpedoed off the Old Head of Kinsale by German submarine U-20.