Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Caherduggan North, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherduggan North
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Caherduggan Castle (Site of) (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.19817, -8.63000
- SMR number
- CO025-012001-
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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
On S-facing slope with quarry immediately to S. No visible surface trace of castle. Originally a Barry holding (MacCotter and Nicholls 1996, 208), Caherduggan became a possession of the Roches in the later Middle Ages (Ó Murchadha 1985, 134). Down Survey (1655-6) barony map shows castle here with mill to S and there are traditions relating to a settlement (CO025-153----) here; according to Grove White (1905-25, vol. 2, 11), person born in 1824 'remembered to have seen the remains of the old castle'. Both 1905 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps show site of castle in middle of field but 1842 OS 6-inch map appears to show castle c. 120m to ESE, c. 10m W of road.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.