Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Knockeens (carbery West (w.d) By., Skull Par.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockeens (carbery West (w.d) By., Skull Par.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (Site of) (1943)
- Coordinates
- 51.54341, -9.66173
- SMR number
- CO139-014002-
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 1841 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Within cliff-edge fort (CO139-014001) on N side of Dunmanus harbour; Dunmanus castle (CO139-015---) on S side. Shown on OS 6-inch map (1842) as rectangular structure 'in ruins'. Low grass-covered square area (6.3m NE-SW; 4.4m NW-SE) on inner bank of fort at cliff edge. Westropp (1915, 281) describes this as 'a turret'. O'Mahoney castle (Healy 1988, 201).
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
- Cliff-edge fortunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Boulder-burialunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.