Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Tuocusheen, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tuocusheen
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (Site of) (1904)
- Coordinates
- 51.80968, -8.70878
- SMR number
- CO096-031----
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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
Square, level area, just E of farmhouse; partially used as garden; known locally as site of castle. Wall along E side (L c. 15m) has external batter (H 2.8m), inner facing does not survive (int. H c. 1.2m); wall along S side (L c. 16m) has very loose rubble facing externally (H c. 1.25m) and is planted with trees. No visible surface trace of return walls to W or N. According to Healy (1988, 293), a castle of the Barry Oge.
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.