Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Ballyknock North, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyknock North
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ballyknock Castle (Site of) (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.03431, -8.08217
- SMR number
- CO055-007004-
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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 disused farm yard, within ringfort (CO055-007001-). Interior of ringfort overgrown; uneven low mound in SW quadrant identified by Healy (1988, 379) as 'heap of rubble left after what remained of the walls had been knocked down'. Abandoned farm buildings to N of recent origin. Little is known of its history, probably built by the Fitzgerald family.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.