
What is recorded here
Coppingers Court rose in County Cork around 1610 as a four-storey fortified house for Sir Walter Coppinger, its machicolations and tooled chimneystacks still marking the shape of a vanished power centre. Flame took it in 1641, ending its occupation and leaving only rubble behind. What remains is not a complete building but a sharp outline: a castle reduced to edges, shadows and the memory of the men who watched the countryside from above.
Coppingers Court is recorded as a castle in County Cork. Its open map record supplies this location and any linked names or public references.
Coppingers Court in County Cork was built as a defensive structure during the late medieval period, likely by a local Anglo-Norman family. It is remembered as an example of early Irish castle architecture and as part of the historical landscape of Cork.
Places near here
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IndicatedEnclosure · 1119 yd
Trá an tAonaighBeach / strand · 1461 yd
Lookout over MillcoveViewpoint · 1612 yd
Drombeg Fulacht Fia and RuinsVisitor information · 1.0 mi
Walk 1 - Drombeg Standing Stone Circle (7 - 9 km)Walking route · 1.4 mi
The Black RocksIslet · 1.6 mi
Faill na SeabhachCliff · 1.9 miOther information
Photo: Mike Searle · CC BY-SA 2.0