Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Military camp
Unknown, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Unknown
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- CO098-084----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The exact location of the Irish Camp, where the forces of O'Neill and O'Donnell camped immediately before the Battle of Kinsale, is not known. Hayes-McCoy (1949, 1966) locates it in Coolcarron, though his map actually shows it in the townland of Mullagh; this identification was followed by later writers (Mulcahy 1966). However, the Annals of the Four Masters (O'Donovan 1851) place the camp in Belgooly (see Silke 1970, 140). Most of the camp sites associated with the battle are depicted on the Trinity College painting (Morgan 2004, 114) but this does not show the Irish Camp because it lay outside the area depicted in the painting.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).
Date of upload: 22 December 2009