Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Ballybeg East, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybeg East
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.21575, -8.65614
- SMR number
- CO025-005----
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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 level pasture. Semicircular mound of grass-covered stones (H 1.55m) with traces of walls running N and S from it. A low (H 0.6m) earthen bank runs N-S, c. 20m E of mound. Site of Lady Doodhaw's Castle (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 3, 293), of which 'a large mound with a small piece of masonry on south side' survived in 1908, though in 1880 'a small portion of the walls existed' (ibid.).
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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.