Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Hollyhill (barrymore By.), County Cork, Ireland
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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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
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Mill - fullingunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.