Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Donegall East, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Donegall East
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Donegall Castle (in Ruins) (1902)
- Coordinates
- 51.51537, -9.35779
- SMR number
- CO150-003----
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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
On NE tip of Ringarogy Island, overlooking channel of Ilen estuary. Raised platform (22m N-S; 34m E-S; H c. 0.75m) with low grass covered undulations indicates area of site; stones from castle were ferried, in 1826, to Skibbereen to build the Pro Cathedral. Castle of the O Driscoll clan (Healy 1988, 181).
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
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.