Fahanacowley Castle (Site of) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Fahanacowley Castle stood on a wooded cliff above a narrow stream, belonging to the O Driscoll line before time and weather erased most of it. The 1842 map still draws a rectangular shadow where the building once cast one, but today only a ruined stone wall survives, swallowed by a field fence and hidden beneath trees. What remains is less a castle than a clue: a straight edge of stone in tangled ground, waiting for someone to imagine the rooms that disappeared.

On top of a wooded cliff on W side of N-S stream. Shown on OS 6-inch map (1842) as rectangular structure. Ruinous stone wall (H 1.5m; Wth 1.3m; 15m N-S) incorporated into field-fence, may have been associated with castle. No other surface trace. O Driscoll castle (Healy 1988, 262). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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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