Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Military camp
Dunboy, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunboy
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.63207, -9.92541
- SMR number
- CO128-039001-
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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 a coniferous wood, c. 200m to the SW of O'Sullivan Beare's castle (CO128-001002-) and the bastioned fort (CO128-001001-) at Dunboy. Following the defeat of the Irish forces in the Battle of Kinsale in December 1601, George Carew, the English commander, erected siege works around the tower house at Dunboy. Carew encamped behind a rocky ridge, c. 130m to the SW of the tower house, and set up an artillery position on the ridge. In 1602 a short-lived siege ensued between the 4,000 strong English army and a small force of O'Sullivan Beare followers who had remained to defend Dunboy castle. Stafford (1633, 310) records that the English forces found '...a faire place of good ground, and of capacity sufficient to encampe in, within twelvescore of the Castle, and yet out of the sight of it, by reason of a rising ground interjacent…'. There are no visible remains of the encampment in this location.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).
Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Sea wallunder 1 mi
- Bastioned fortunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.