Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Gortnaclohy, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnaclohy
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (Site of) (1944)
- Coordinates
- 51.54224, -9.25751
- SMR number
- CO141-094----
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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
In pasture, on E bank of stream. Shown on OS 6-inch map (1842) as dotted circular area. According to O'Donovan (1876, 13), 'site of the 'bawn', and traces of the foundations, are still visible'. MacCarthy Reagh castle (Coleman 1922, 66). No visible surface trace.
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
References
Coleman, J. 1922 The old castles of South-West Cork. Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 28, 62-71.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.