Castle Magner (in Ruins) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Castle Magner still stands as a ruined bawn in County Cork, its western edge surrendered to an ordinary farmyard. The boundary between medieval defence and domesticated soil has blurred until neither can be separated. What was once a fortified threshold may now be a feeding trough, a drying green, or a place where children ran before the walls collapsed. The bawn does not demand reverence; it invites curiosity about how much human life has passed through without noticing the shape of the ground beneath their feet.

This bawn is referred to in the 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork - vol. 4 North Cork' (2000, 529) under the entry (no. 14350) for a tower house (CO024-109001-). The reference to the bawn in the entry reads as follows: Bawn and area immediately to W occupied by farmyard. 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 in the 16th century, Castle Magner was likely held by the McCarthy family, a prominent Gaelic clan in Munster. It is remembered as an example of a defended tower house with a bawn, reflecting the defensive architecture of the late medieval period in southern Ireland.

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