What is recorded here

Carrigaphooca Castle is a ruined five storey tower built by the MacCarthys of Muskerry in the early 15th century on a steep rock above the River Sullane. Its name means castle on the rock of the fairy, and it still stands in a valley once called the valley of the reds. The tower was simple, defensive and exposed, the kind of place where pride, fear and local war would have felt at home.

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

Carrigaphooca Castle was built by the McCarthy family, a prominent Gaelic Irish clan, in the 15th or 16th century. It is remembered as a defensive stronghold in the historical landscape of County Cork, reflecting the region's medieval Gaelic heritage.