Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Dromdowney Lower, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromdowney Lower
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (Remains of) (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.17665, -8.69941
- SMR number
- CO024-151002-
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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
Rectangular area (c. 20m x c. 10m) indicated by broken line on 1842 OS 6-inch map; hachured fosse SW->NW shown to W of site of castle on 1905 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. No visible remains of castle; recent farm buildings have been constructed on site. Photograph taken 1905 (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 3, opp. 77) shows stumps of masonry here. Smith (1750, 319) refers to 'Drumdowne, a ruined castle of the Barrys'. Castle passed to Sir Philip Percival who destroyed it in mid-17th century to prevent it falling to his enemies (Grove White ibid., 77).
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
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.