What is recorded here

Cappagh castle may be Cappawhite castle, and some of its walls may still stand hidden inside the garden wall of Cappagh House. That much is in the old accounts; the exact spot is not. A castle does not need a clear outline to keep occupying a place. It waits behind walls, roads and living rooms, passing itself off as ordinary stone until someone remembers it is not.

Castle depicted on Down Survey Map (1655-6) within townland. According to Seymour (1917, 40-41) this was an O'Dwyer castle which may have been located in the village of Cappawhite. However, this may be the same castle (TS051-003---) which White (1892, 59) describes as having portion of its walls incorporated in the garden wall of Cappagh House. The Civil Survey (1654-6) mentions 'the walls of a stone house in Cappagh' (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 76). There may have been a large house as well as a castle in this townland. The precise location of the castle within the townland is unknown. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 16 June 2015

The castle at Cappagh in Parkroe was likely built by the O'Dwyer family in the 15th or 16th century and is remembered as part of the regional Gaelic lordship structures in pre-colonial Munster.

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