TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Architectural fragment

Formaoil (tc Trian Iarthach), County Kerry, Ireland

The record

Townland
Formaoil (tc Trian Iarthach)
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
51.86755, -10.24704
SMR number
KE088-025001-

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

Fermoyle Castle was reputedly built in the early seventeenth century by the O'Sullivans of Formoyle and Ballycarna, a sub-sept of the O'Sullivan Mores (RIA MS 24 K 43). Owen O'Sullivan was wounded in an engagement with Cromwellian forces at nearby Ballinskelligs in 1641 (Smith 1756, 104).

A number of punch-dressed sandstone blocks are incorporated into old farm buildings located adjacent to NE of KE088-025----.

The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1111. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Date of upload: 31 July 2013

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
See your own family's places on a living map