Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mitchelstown
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- White Knights Tower (Site of) (1935)
- Coordinates
- 52.27028, -8.28142
- SMR number
- CO019-026001-
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; area now occupied by Dairygold industrial complex. Castle of the Fitzgibbons, commonly known as the White Knights (Healy 1988, 422). Smith (1750, vol. 1, 346), in describing the later house (14918), noted nearby '...walls of a castle which belonged to the white knight and was a fine old building, but destroyed in the wars of 1641'.
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
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.