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Castle - unclassified

Sarsfieldscourt, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - unclassified, Sarsfieldscourt, 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
Sarsfieldscourt
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Sarsfields Court (in Ruins) (1935)
Coordinates
51.95292, -8.39510
SMR number
CO064-044----

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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)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (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

In pasture, on S-facing slope. No visible surface trace; demolished in the 1950s after a collapse; some cut stone in nearby garden of landowner. According to Healy (1988, 68), the building consisted of 'a high tower containing a flight of steps and a bell tower', it was apparently 'a semi-fortified house' erected in the middle of the seventeenth century' by Sarsfield family (Power 1923, 205).

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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