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Ivy chokes the upper wall while gun loops aim empty at the street, proving the house was built to wound before it was built to hold. It stands at the eastern edge of Cloyne, folded into the garden boundary of Cloyne House, its rectangular shadow still marking the ground where a fortified residence once watched Rock Street. The broken walls do not ask to be admired; they warn that domestic life in this area was also a military calculation.

Near E end of Cloyne, on S side of Rock Street; now forming NW corner of garden wall around Cloyne House (CO088-01910-). Rectangular structure (20.7m N-S; 18.15m E-W): N end-wall along street, reduced to one storey; W side-wall stands to two storeys, top ivy-clad; only very short returns of S and E walls survive. Interior area covered by overground scatter of rubble. Four window lights on external W face: rectangular openings (H 0.85m; Wth 0.35m) chamfered on outer edge; inside light embrasures blocked; two at ground floor level and two, slightly off-set, at 1st floor level. Also on W face, at ground floor level near NW corner, two small oval openings set vertically forming opening for gun loop; embrasure blocked. Remains of late 16th/early 17th century appearance. Fleming (1903b) notes at least three castles in Cloyne, none of which can be identified with present structure. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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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