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Barracks

Carrignagroghera , County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barracks, Carrignagroghera, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Carrignagroghera
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
New Barracks (in Ruins) (1935)
Coordinates
52.14362, -8.28005
SMR number
CO035-105----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

Level area, overlooking ground sloping down to Blackwater River (c. 400m to S) and Fermoy town; c. 200m W of another military barracks (15197). Fragmentary remains of military barracks built in 1809 (Lewis 1837 vol. 1, 622). Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as square 'ordnance ground' (L c. 225m) containing three long ranges of buildings arranged on three sides of an open area and various other smaller ranges around perimeter; W end of complex named 'Union Work House' (later relocated across river to SE) and the rest as 'West Barracks'. Roughly same ground plan shown on 1902 OS 6-inch map, where it is named 'New Barracks', with two additional buildings to S and two military cemeteries to NW (15200). All buildings now demolished apart from a 1-storey 'officer's mess' (long axis E-W) along S side: rusticated limestone construction; N elevation of 12 bays with central 2 bays rising to an open pediment; side elevations 2 bays deep; ornate brick-dressed round-headed windows and decorative cornice- building of mid/late-19th century appearance. Also surviving are parts of the high stone wall enclosing the complex, best preserved on E side where there is an entrance archway and ordnance stones; along inside face of E wall are marks left by buildings now removed. Much of the interior is now used as a rugby pitch.

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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