Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bastioned fort
Dunboy, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunboy
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.63321, -9.92474
- SMR number
- CO128-001001-
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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
Built on ruins of Dunboy Castle (CO128-001002-) about 1650-56 (Gowen 1978, 1-49). Irregular star in plan, covering an area 32m x 35m. Six salient angles; entrance to E completely destroyed; bank roughly 5m thick. Walls of earlier tower trimmed to height 10-11 feet, re-roofed and internal partition wall built; annex built abutting W wall of tower. Site now as revealed by Fahy's excavation.
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
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Sea wallunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.