Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Lahard, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lahard
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Doonpower (in Ruins) (1935)
- Coordinates
- 51.78725, -8.16308
- SMR number
- CO100-017003-
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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 coastal promontory fort (CO100-01702-) projecting S into sea. Only remains of castle are grass-covered mound at inner end of entrance causeway. Westropp (1914, 103) noted peel-tower or gatehouse (L 30 feet; W17 feet) 'with wall 6 feet thick of good slab masonry'. He records one fragment of wall 'ending in window-jambs 6 feet long and 10 feet high'. According to Healy (1988, 132) built in 1595 by order of Queen Elizabeth but destroyed soon after by the Earl of Desmond when 'the garrison was either put to the sword or thrown over the cliff'.
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
- Prehistoric site - lithic scatterunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Prehistoric site - lithic scatterunder 1 mi
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.