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Carriganass Castle is a ruined 16th-century tower house perched on a rock above the Ouvane river in County Cork. Built around 1540 by Dermot O'Sullivan, it witnessed clan feuds, the defeat at Kinsale, and later passage into Barretts ownership before decaying into ruins. Today its broken walls and corner turrets rise beside walking routes that trace old pilgrim and exile paths across West Cork.

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

Carriganass Castle was built in the 16th century by the O'Donovan family, a prominent Gaelic-Irish clan in west Cork. It is remembered as a significant example of a tower house and as the site of a major battle during the Irish Confederate Wars in 1647.