Castle Redmond (Site of) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Mnemo knows the castle is gone because the memory shape is empty. The district shape records a missing castle and repeats the gap. That is not a failed archive. It is an archive of absence, showing the place where the castle disappeared from the living record.

On E bank of tidal stretch of Owenacurra river; marked 'site of' on 1842 OS 6-inch map; no visible surface trace. Fitzgerald castle, reputedly built in the 15th century (Healy 1988, 120-1). See Excavations 2001, 49 The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

The Fitzgerald family is believed to have built Castle Redmond in the 15th century. It is remembered as a historical site associated with the influential Fitzgerald dynasty in Ireland.

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