Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Dunworly, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunworly
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dunworly Castle (in Ruins) (1902)
- Coordinates
- 51.57246, -8.74938
- SMR number
- CO145-002----
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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
On seaward side of narrow neck of Illaunbeg promontory, rectangular tower (5.75m E-W; 4.9m N-S), with narrow gaps (2m to E; 4m to W) to cliff-edge on either side. Opposite linteled doorways at E ends of N and S walls; single double-splayed window ope in S wall. Two tiers of stone corbels and joist holes (c. 1m apart) show unusual arrangement of wooden floor over ground level. Unlit attic under stone roof consisting of two pointed arches separated from each other and from side walls by series of overlapping slabs- only one slad now left between easternmost arch and E wall. Similar roofs are present at Dunlough (CO146-001001-) and Dunanore (CO153-015002-) castles. The tower does not survive above this level. Traces of curtain wall (Wth 0.95m) run W from S end of W wall of tower for c. 4m to cliff-edge. Castle of the Barry Roe clan (Westropp 1914, 115).
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
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Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.