Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Whitehall, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Whitehall
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Rincolisky Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 51.51784, -9.41617
- SMR number
- CO149-007----
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
Rectangular tower-house (9.1m N-S; 11.4m E-W) in elevated position on SE shore Roaringwater Bay; on N side neck of Cunnamore promontory. Now two storeys in height but stood at least one storey higher. Doors in E wall at ground and 1st floor levels (set one above the other); 1st floor door covered by pointed arch. Windows have square-headed lights with splayed and lintelled embrasures. Pointed wicker-centered vault over 1st floor (axis E-W). Mural stairs rise from S side of 1st floor doorway to SE corner where wall now broken. Castle of the O'Driscoll clan, reputedly built in 1495 (Coleman 1926, 47).
See Excavations 2004, 70-71, no. 343.
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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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.