What is recorded here

Mallow Castle still stands beside a forgotten grid of low earthworks, hiding a garden or small farm from the nineteenth century. Deer now walk the pasture where people once tended beds or kept stock, while a hidden ditch and field boundary mark the edge of that lost design. The house watches over the change, proud and impatient, believing memory should serve its own story rather than preserve the smaller lives that built the land.

In gently undulating pasture, within the present deer-park of Mallow Castle (CO033-009002-). An aerial photograph (CASAP) shows a rectilinear system of low earthwork banks covering an area (c. 120m E-W; c. 90m N-S) immediately E of the 19th-century country house. This system is not shown on the 1842 OS 6-inch map and is terminated on its W side by a ha ha and on its N side by a demesne field boundary. It may be the remains of garden enclosures or small fields associated with the fortified house (CO033-009001-) which lies immediately to the SW. Access to the deer-park was not gained. 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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