Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castle
Ballymacoda, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymacoda
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ballymacoda Castle (Site of) (1934)
- Coordinates
- 51.89206, -7.93067
- SMR number
- CO078-003----
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Shown on 5 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 flat tillage. Site of castle abandoned farmyard where house and some outbuildings recently demolished. Surviving walls show no features earlier than 18th/19th century. According to Healy (1988, 124), arch stones from door 'of tower house type....had recently been found and taken away'. A castle of the Imokilly Fitzgeralds (ibid.); known as Cosledena Castle'; according to Lewis (1837, vol. 2, 162) built in 1521.
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
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- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.