Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Oldcastletown, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oldcastletown
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castletown Castle (Site of) (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.25468, -8.42324
- SMR number
- CO018-015----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
No visible surface trace of castle; later country house, now in ruins, occupies the site. Castle of the Fitzgibbon family, commonly known as the White Knights (Healy 1988, 428-30). Described in 1583 as having 'one hall and three chambers and three cellars enclosed within stone walls' (ibid., 429). Captured by Lord Broghill in 1650, subsequently passed to Fennel family (ibid., 430).
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
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.