Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Ballynacallagh, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynacallagh
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Fort (in Ruins) (1902)
- Coordinates
- 51.60286, -10.16021
- SMR number
- CO126-012001-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On grassy island just separated from SE corner of Dursey Island by narrow gorge; sod-covered remains of two rectangular buildings within a rectangular enclosure (23m N-S; 31.3m E-W). Garrisoned by O'Sullivan Beare in 1602 but taken by Carew before the fall of Dunboy (Healy 1988, 196).
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
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.