Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Shanballymore Upper, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shanballymore Upper
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ruane Castle (Site of) (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.22385, -8.47481
- SMR number
- CO018-071----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope. Displaced block of mortared masonry (L c. 3.8m; H c. 2.2m) is only visible remains of castle: straight wall face at N end, possibly side of window. Castle of the Roches, forfeited and granted to Broderick in mid-17th century (Healy 1988, 399).
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
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.