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Belvelly Castle is a 14th or 15th-century tower house in County Cork, Ireland, built for the Anglo-Norman Hodnett family before passing through the hands of the De la Roch and De Barra families. It overlooked the only road bridge connecting Fota Island to Great Island, a strategic position that drew Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, to garrison troops there during the Irish Confederate Wars. By the 19th century it had fallen into ruin, yet local coachmen still brought sailors from Queenstown to kiss its stones, mistakenly believing they visited Blarney Castle. Restored in late 2018 as a private dwelling with sculptures on its roof, the castle now stands inhabited again after centuries of vacancy and misdirection.

Belvelly Castle is recorded as a castle in County Cork. Its open map record supplies this location and any linked names or public references.

Belvelly Castle was built in the 17th century by the Blake family, a prominent local landowning family in County Cork. It is remembered as a historic family seat and an example of early Irish country house architecture.