Castle (Site of) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Knockantota South holds no ruin, only level pasture where MacCarthys built a masonry castle now vanished. The 1842 map still marks the site, preserving a shape the grass has erased. What remains is a ghost in the survey line, a castle that exists only in the memory of the land and the patience of those who read its absence.

In level pasture; no visible surface trace of castle apparently built by MacCarthys (Healy 1988, 67); marked 'site of' on 1842 OS 6-inch map. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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 family, likely in the medieval period, Knockantota South is remembered as an archaeological site marked on early 19th-century maps, reflecting the historical presence of the MacCarthys in the region.

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