Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Kilmeen, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmeen
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Fahanacowley Castle (Site of) (1900)
- Coordinates
- 51.67484, -8.97617
- SMR number
- CO121-052----
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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 wooded cliff on W side of N-S stream. Shown on OS 6-inch map (1842) as rectangular structure. Ruinous stone wall (H 1.5m; Wth 1.3m; 15m N-S) incorporated into field-fence, may have been associated with castle. No other surface trace. O Driscoll castle (Healy 1988, 262).
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.