Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castle
Phale Upper, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Phale Upper
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Phale Castle (Site of) (1842)
- Coordinates
- 51.72337, -8.96492
- SMR number
- CO108-040002-
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
In pasture, on S-facing slope. Sharp drop down to stream on E side. Shown on O.S. map (1842) as square structure. MacCarthy castle 'which was taken down in the early 19th century' (O Murchadha 1985, 57). No surface trace remaining. Adjacent to gallows tree (CO108-04001) and graveyard (CO108-04003). Pair of ogee-headed windows (CO108-03801-) built into wall of nearby Phale Court may be from this site.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.