Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Ballyvodock West, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyvodock West
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ballyvodock Castle (in Ruins) (1933)
- Coordinates
- 51.88765, -8.21201
- SMR number
- CO076-015002-
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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
On top of a low rise, on slight promontory, overlooking tidal channel to S. Roughly square tower (8.75m E-W; 8m N-S); only ground floor survives, except at SE corner where ivy-clad section of 1st floor wall remains. Door ope at W end of S wall; traces of window ope in centre of W, N and E walls. Joist holes indicate position of wooden floor overhead. Probably built by Hodnetts but later passed to O'Cahills; according to Coleman (1915, 158) 'destroyed by gunpowder, in the last decade of the 17th century'.
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
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.