What is recorded here

No stable in Rochfordstown is complete without the plaque on its wall, where the arms of Sir Robert Travers and Elizabeth Boyle face the road with the date 1630. The building may be young, but the stones were taken from a lost castle and carried into ordinary farm life. That movement turns a boundary marker into a living record: what was broken or abandoned became the wall of a working place.

On the wall of a stable, c. 85m SE of the site od a castle (CO085-052----). A stone plaque (CO086-001----) with the coat of arms of Sir Robert Travers, impaled with the arms of his wife Elizabeth Boyle (Cremin 1910, 143-146; Fitzgerald 1910, 196-8), and bearing the date 1630. The stable is part of the farm buildings of Castlewhite House, and probably dates to the 19th century. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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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