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Castle - unclassified

Hollyhill (Barrymore By.), County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - unclassified, Hollyhill, 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
Hollyhill (Barrymore By.)
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Sheelaboynashkeanes Castle (1935)
Coordinates
52.05457, -8.26549
SMR number
CO044-041----

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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)
  • 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Incorporated into farmyard buildings parts of ground and 1st floor walls of rectangular building (int. 18.5m N-S; 6.18m E-W) which has been heavily modified at various stages. Door and window opes all of recent appearance except possibly slit ope near W end of N wall at ground level. Size of structure suggests 17th century fortified house rather than tower-house. Little is known of sites' history which may have been a Barry stronghold (Healy 1988, 434); according to Power (1923, 172) 'locally believed to have been occupied, in the seventeenth century, by the female leader of a band of outlaws', hence 'caisleán bhuidhe na scian' - yellow Julia of the knives' castle.

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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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