What is recorded here
On both sides of Blackwater River (see 14806), on main Cork-Dublin road. Not listed as one of Cork's market towns in 1299 (O'Brien 1993, 94); site then occupied by Cistercian abbey (14384). No evidence of town here until 17th century when Richard Boyle established an English settlement which in 1637 consisted of about…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO035-107
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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