Kerrycurrihy (Irish: Ciarraí Cuirche) is a historical barony in central County Cork, Ireland.
[4][5] This area was anciently part of Muskerry Ilane, which also included the Imokilly barony.
A biography of the 7th-century saint Mo Chutu of Lismore says that One day Mochuda went to Kerrycurrihy, and found there in the district Corc, the king of Munster.
There fell a fiery ball from the air, and killed the wife and son of the king, and two of his chariot horses.
[7]The Annals of the Four Masters mentions that at the AD 908 Battle of Ballaghmoon, at which the bishop-king Cormac mac Cuilennáin was slain at the head of a large Munster army, among the Munster dead was "Fogartach the Wise, son of Suibhne, lord of Ciarraighe-Cuirche.