GarraunigerinaghCastle(inRuins) (1936)* — Report the wrong picture

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Garraunigerinagh Castle stands in ruins on a low hillock overlooking flat Cork land, preserving only a two-storey garderobe tower and fragments of north, east and west walls. Arthur Hyde received the castle and lands of Granagenaghe in a 1588 grant, though it may have belonged to Condon before that date. The broken internal stonework still shadows the sloping shaft where waste once dropped through the tower, leaving a familiar human function behind after the rest of the house disappeared.

On low hillock, overlooking surrounding flat land. All that survives is 2-storey garderobe tower which projected from N side of castle. North wall (L 2.9m) survives with return of E wall (L 4.4m) and W wall (L 3.2m); latter has short return to W at its broken end at 1st-floor level. Blocked arched opening at ground-floor level in N wall. At 1st-floor level blocked lintelled ope at E end of N wall and splayed ingoing of window at S end of E wall. Broken stonework on internal faces of E and W walls suggests presence of sloping garderobe shaft, probably exiting through arched opening at base of tower. Little known of history of site; not depicted on Down Survey (1655-6) barony map. Land grant of 1588 to Arthur Hyde included '...the castle and lands of Granagenaghe...' (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 2, 89). Probably a Condon castle originally. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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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