What is recorded here

Castle is a grass-covered mound in Ballybeg East pasture, still shadowed by the vanished walls of Lady Doodhaw's Castle. What remains is a semicircular heap of stones, faint wall traces, and a low earthen bank, yet the shape suggests a building that once cut through the flat land. The castle has been reduced to a ridge in the field, but that ridge still belongs to the place and remembers the hand that built it.

In level pasture. Semicircular mound of grass-covered stones (H 1.55m) with traces of walls running N and S from it. A low (H 0.6m) earthen bank runs N-S, c. 20m E of mound. Site of Lady Doodhaw's Castle (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 3, 293), of which 'a large mound with a small piece of masonry on south side' survived in 1908, though in 1880 'a small portion of the walls existed' (ibid.). 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 by or associated with Lady Doodhaw, the site is remembered locally as "Lady Doodhaw's Castle," though its exact date and wider historical significance remain unclear.

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