What is recorded here

Conva Castle in County Cork still shows a bawn wall and a circular flanking tower beside its house. The small tower measured thirty-six decimetres across inside, large enough for a guard, a ladder and a little fear. It is easy to imagine someone climbing into that round space at dusk, listening for horses or arguments on the land below.

A section of the bawn wall of Conva Castle (CO034-037001-) survives to the N and W of the tower house, with a circular flanking tower (int. diam. 3.6m) in the NW corner (see plan Cotter 1994, 69-71). 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

Built by the MacCarthy Reagh dynasty in the 15th or 16th century, Conva Castle is remembered as a defensive structure in the historical landscape of west Cork, reflecting the power and territorial divisions of the Gaelic aristocracy before the English plantations.

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