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No wall or tower remains at Crosshaven, only a stolen window frame holding a trefoil design. The Fitzgeralds likely raised the castle beside the Owenaboy river during the fifteenth century, but the sea and time erased the rest. What is left floats between memory and invention, a small stone fragment waiting for someone to imagine the room it once lit.

On S bank of Owenaboy river near confluence with Cork Harbour. No visible surface trace of castle, probably built by Fitzgeralds. Only surviving fragment one side of cusped ogee-headed windoww light, with trefoil design in recessed spandrel, probably 15th century in date (see drawing: O Murchadha 1967, 88); now in private possession. 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

Probably built by the Fitzgeralds in the 13th or 14th century; remembered for its association with the influential Norman-descended family in Munster and the surviving fragment of a cusped ogee-headed window with trefoil design.

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