Castles and forts in County Cork
The Discover Alone map has 482 castles and forts in County Cork, Ireland. Below are the 60 with the most written about them, pictures first. Every one has its own page with directions and places nearby.
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White Knights Tower (Site of)Castle — unclassifiedWhite Knights Tower belonged to the Fitzgibbons and stood near Mitchelstown until the wars of 1641 destroyed its fine…
White Castle (in Ruins)House — fortified houseWhite Castle stands in Ardcloyne pasture as a broken western wall and a small southern return, preserving a gun loop, a…
Wallstown CastleCastleWallstown Castle in County Cork is a rare unbroken settlement where a medieval tower house still stands inside the yard…
Tynte's CastleCastleTynte's Castle stands as a three-storey stone tower on Main Street in Youghal, built in the late 15th century by the…
TumulusCastle — motteGlengarriff holds a circular motte castle, steep-sided and overgrown, with a sharp eastern drop into the glen stream.…
Towers (in Ruins)House — fortified houseMossgrove stands as ruined towers and sod-covered walls in County Cork, built by the Baldwin family during the 17th…
Tower (in Ruins)BawnFour corner towers once guarded a square bawn beside Ballinterry House, but time and change erased three. The surviving…
Togher CastleCastle — tower houseAn Tóchar is a four-storey tower on the north bank of the Bandon river, built probably in the late 16th century by the…
Timoleague CastleCastle — tower houseCastle Lower stands as a two-storey ivy-clad ruin on the Argideen river, though it rose four storeys high in 1907…
Three Castles (in Ruins)Castle — tower houseThree castles in ruins mean one castle built in three parts: a main tower, two smaller towers, and a curtain wall tying…
The Tower (Barn)CastleThe Tower (Barn) is a castle in County Cork, Ireland. Perhaps its limestone walls stood tall enough to block the sky…
Templeconnell Castle (in Ruins)Castle — tower houseTempleconnell Castle stands as a ruined five-storey tower in level pasture, overlooking bogland on three sides. The…
(Site of) CastleCastle — unclassifiedRostellan is a flat, forgotten margin where a castle vanished into a grand house and the house vanished into nothing.…
Short Castle (Site of)Castle — unclassifiedKnocknagappul was a MacCarthy Reagh castle on a natural rise overlooking the Bandon River. It has vanished completely…
Shippool CastleCastleShippool Castle stands in County Cork, Ireland. A castle is a building that keeps memory alive, and this one keeps the…
Shanballymore Castle (Site of)Castle — unclassifiedShanballymore Castle left no walls, only a scattered handful of uncut stones hidden in grass beside the Awbeg River.…
Shanagh Castle (Site of)Castle — unclassifiedShanagh Castle belonged to the Nagle family before forfeiture and transfer to Hughes in 1657, yet no wall, chamber or…
Scart Castle (Site of)Castle — unclassifiedScart Castle belonged to Clan Dermot MacCarthy and watched the southern and western horizons from a steep Cork pasture.…
Sarsfields Court (in Ruins)Castle — unclassifiedSarsfields Court stood on a south-facing slope in County Cork, a semi-fortified house with a high tower and bell built…
Ruane Castle (Site of)Castle — unclassifiedRuane Castle belonged to the Roches until forfeiture passed it to Broderick in the mid-17th century, reducing a…
Rossmore Castle (in Ruins)Castle — tower houseRossmore Castle stands as an ivy-clad tower on the north shore of Dunmanus Bay, its north wall rising three storeys…
Rossbrin CastleCastleRossbrin Castle guards the cove entrance as the eastern anchor of the O'Mahony line, its stones marking a boundary that…
Ronayns CourtHouse — fortified houseRonayns Court stood as a fortified house on the south side of the Douglas estuary, bearing an inscribed fireplace dated…
Rock Castle (in Ruins)Castle — tower houseRock Castle stands as a two-storey rectangular ruin at the head of a narrow inlet overlooking Dunworley Bay in County…
Ringrone Castle (in Ruins)Castle — tower houseRingrone Castle is a ruined tower house built by the de Courcey family on a slight eminence overlooking the Bandon…
Ringrone CastleCastleMyles De Courcey built Ringrone Castle in 1225 to guard the Kinsale port, creating a martial anchor for his family…
Rincolisky Castle (in Ruins)Castle — tower houseRincolisky Castle is a ruined O'Driscoll tower house on the Roaringwater Bay shore, reputedly built in 1495. Its…
Old Mansion HoCastle — Anglo-Norman masonry castleOld Mansion Ho stood in Aglish as a fortified manor for Teige of the Muskerry MacCarthys before the Lee Valley…
OCrowleys Castle (in Ruins)Castle — tower houseAhakeera is a ruined tower house belonging to the Crowley clan, sitting on a steep slope in West Cork. Ivy now covers…
O'Driscoll CastleCastleO'Driscoll Castle stands on a Baltimore sandstone ridge where O'Driscolls, MacCarthys, Waterford merchants, Spanish…
Monteen Castle (in Ruins)Castle — tower houseMintlaw castle stands three storeys tall on rising ground near the Owenkeagh river, its ivy-clad walls marking a…
Monkstown CastleHouse — fortified houseMonkstown Castle is a ruined fortified house in County Cork where the Archdeacon family built a defensible home in…
Monanimy CastleCastle — tower houseMonanimy Castle stands on sloping ground above the Blackwater River, holding the kind of shape that suggests pride…
Mogeely CastleCastleMogeely Castle stands on the River Bride flood plain in County Cork, its 46-metre square bawn now crowded with farm…
Meadstown Castle (Site of)Castle — unclassifiedMeadstown Castle vanished into a ordinary farm building, yet its bottle-shaped chimney and wide iron-crane fireplace…
Mashanaglass Castle (in Ruins)Castle — tower houseMashanaglass Castle is a late sixteenth-century tower house in County Cork, built around 1584 when the Mac Sweeneys…
Mallow Castle RuinRuinsMallow Castle Ruin stands in County Cork, its broken walls still catching light and shadow. The stones may have held…
Mallow Castle (in Ruins)House — fortified houseMallow Castle stands as the earliest fortified house in County Cork, marking a bold shift from pure defence to domestic…
Mallow Castle HouseCastleMallow Castle House stands in County Cork, Ireland, recorded simply as a castle though no further detail survives in…
Macroom Castle (in Ruins)Castle — tower houseMacroom Castle stood on the east bank of the Sullane river as a multi-period tower house belonging to the Mac Carthy…
Macroom CastleCastleMacroom Castle is a broken ring of stones where the River Sullane cuts through County Cork, holding the gatehouse and…
Macroney CastleCastle — tower houseMacroney Lower is a renovated three-storey tower on a Cork plateau, granted from the Condons to the Mansergh family in…
Lombards CastleCastle — tower houseLombards Castle stands as a ruined tower house on the west side of the main street in Buttevant, probably built for a…
Lohort CastleCastle — tower houseLohort Castle stands as a five-storey rectangular tower within its own demesne in County Cork, marked by rounded…
Lissangle Castle (Site of)Castle — unclassifiedLissangle Castle vanished beneath a working farmyard, leaving no stone or trench for modern eyes to find. Clan Dermod…
Lislee Court (Site of)Castle — unclassifiedLislee Court stood as a ruined rectangular castle on a WNW-facing slope in County Cork, commanding wide views south…
Lisgriffin CastleCastleLisgriffin Castle is a ruined stronghouse built around 1605 by the Barry family to overlook the Bregoge River valley.…
Liscarroll CastleCastleLiscarroll Castle rose in County Cork as a massive rectangular fortress built by the De Barry family in the 13th…
Licklash Castle (in Ruins)Castle — hall-houseMariano and the Licklash guard followed the river road because the castle stood above the water and the tower could…
Lettertinlish Castle (Ruins)CastleLettertinlish Castle stands in ruin across County Cork, its walls reduced to scattered stone and memory. The site may…
Leighmoney Castle (Site of)Castle — unclassifiedLeighmoney Castle vanished beneath a modern bungalow and tillage, erasing the fortress where Spainards and royalists…
Leamlara Castle (in Ruins)Castle — tower houseLeamlara Castle stands as a low rectangular ruin on a scarped knoll, its walls barely rising two metres above the…
Kinure Castle (Site of)Castle — unclassifiedKinure Castle vanished from a west-facing slope above Ballinclashet creek, leaving no stone or ditch for modern eyes to…
Kilworth CastleCastleKilworth Castle stands in County Cork, Ireland, a name preserved though its visible form may have surrendered to time.…
Kilnatoora CastleCastle — tower houseKilnatoora Castle stands as a five-storey ivy-clad tower immediately south of a sheer rock face, built by a branch of…
Kilmeedy CastleCastle — tower houseKilmeedy Castle is a five-storey tower in rocky pasture, built for the O Donoghues or the O Mahony clan and stripped of…
Kilmaclenine CastleCastleKilmaclenine Castle holds two forgotten shapes on a limestone ridge in County Cork: an old square bawn called The Mote…
Kilgobbin CastleCastleKilgobbin Castle stands as a five-storey square keep on the west bank of the River Bandon, where the Walsh family built…
Kilcrea Castle (in Ruins)Castle — tower houseKilcrea Castle stands as a ruined five-storey tower beside the River Bride, reputedly built by Cormac Láidir Mac Carthy…
Kilcolman Castle (in Ruins)Castle — tower houseKilcolman Castle stood as a rectangular tower house for the Earl of Desmond before Edmund Spenser lost it to fire in…