Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Dunisky, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunisky
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (Site of) (1943)
- Coordinates
- 51.86077, -8.92786
- SMR number
- CO083-012----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 area of rock outcrop, surrounded by tillage; no visible surface trace of castle shown as rectangular structure on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Gillman (1892b, 220) described the 'small portion of the castle' surviving in his day as 'probably of the fashion of Carrignamuck' (CO072-019----) (ibid.); he argues that it was built between 1465 and 1500 by the MacCarthys but occupied by their gallowglass, the MacSweenys.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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
- Inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.