Castle Blagh (Site of) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Castleblagh vanished completely from wet Cork pasture, erasing even the ruins Grove White heard about decades before its final disappearance. The place likely belonged to the Roche family, but the earth reclaimed its stones and memory, leaving only a broken line on an old map. What remains is a hole in local history where a castle should stand, proof that landscapes forget as quickly as they remember.

In wet pasture, on S side of stream. No visible surface trace of castle. Marked on 1842 OS 6-inch map as site of Castle Blagh, and depicted as subcircular enclosure (c. 20m E-W) defined by broken line. Grove White (1905-25, vol. 2, 60) was informed that 'there were some vestiges of the ruins of a building, supposed to have been the castle...even these ruins have disappeared'. Probably a Roche castle (ibid.). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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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