What is recorded here

Cloyne is a historic town in County Cork, Ireland, where an early monastic foundation grew into a medieval cathedral and borough. Its surviving round tower, cathedral remains, fortified house and lost market cross mark a place where worship, trade and defence overlapped for centuries.

Cloyne was an important early monastic foundation which later became the location of a medieval cathedral (vol. 2, 5605). There are references to a town here from the 13th century (Ó Loingsigh 1994, 1) and Graham (1977, 52) classifies it as a 'medieval borough'. The town contains the remains of a round tower (vol. 2, 5597), the cathedral (vol. 2, 5605), a 16th/17th-century fortified house (vol. 2, 5591) and the sites of a tower house (CO088-019014-), a 16th/17th-century house (CO088-019008-) and a market cross (CO088-019012-). A 17th-century armorial plaque (CO088-019013-) from the town is now missing. (Zajac et al. 1995, 28) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

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