Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Sarsfieldscourt, County Cork, Ireland
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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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 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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.