Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Spanish Island, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Spanish Island
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.49452, -9.38958
- SMR number
- CO149-024----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1841 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1866 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1868 · 4. Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In rough grazing, on a plateau to the N of Hackett's Cove on the E side of Spanish Island. According to Healy (1988, 214), this plateau is where a castle of the O'Driscolls, which was attacked in 1537, stood. There is now no evident trace of such a structure 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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Corn storeunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.