Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Broghill North, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Broghill North
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.37082, -8.69989
- SMR number
- CO002-027----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on slight N-facing slope. No visible surface trace of castle. Photograph taken in 1909 (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 1, 316) shows several stumps of masonry on raised platform; according to local information, these were levelled during land reclamation c. 1955; field known as 'castle field'. Castle of the Earls of Desmond, granted to Hugh Cuffe in 1597 as part of Munster Plantation (ibid., 317), subsequently acquired by Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, who probably built mansion depicted here on Down Survey (1655-6) (1655-6) barony map.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.