What is recorded here

Borderland quarrels and a lost stone chamber belong to Marshalstown, but no castle wall remains for anyone to touch. Arthur Hyde received the place in 1588, yet the name changed and the stones vanished before modern tools could measure them. What is left is a field behind a demolished house, waiting for someone to imagine the room where the boundary argued.

Local tradition (Healy 1988, 421) locates castle on site now occupied by farm buildings behind Marshalstown House (14916). House now demolished; no evidence of castle structure in farm buildings. A 1588 grant of lands in the area to Arthur Hyde included 'the castle and lands of Ballymariscall alias Marshallstowne' (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 2, 89). Marshalstown was on borderland between Condons and White Knights (Nicholls 1993, 187). 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

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