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Castle Treasure (Site of)

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Castle Treasure (Site of)
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Castle Treasure vanished into Cork pasture, leaving only a hidden ridge and a ghostly rectangular shadow on old maps. The Goulds probably raised its walls, yet grass and time erased the stone until nothing remains but a coordinate and a name.
In pasture, on N-facing slope of E-W ridge; no visible surface trace. Marked 'site of' on all editions of OS 6-inch map, but 1842 map also indicates three walls of rectangular structure (c. 20m E-W; c. 10m N-S). Probably built by Goulds (Healy 1988, 40). 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

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