What is recorded here

Licklash Castle stands in ruins across County Cork, Ireland, remembered as a fortified hall-house rather than a grand palace. Its broken walls suggest a small, defensible home where ordinary people watched roads, kept firelight, and endured weather. The name itself sounds like a tongue catching on stone, fitting a place that resists easy description. What is left invites imagination more than proof, and that uncertainty keeps the castle alive.

According to the existing information in the database for this record, this is referred to in the 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork - vol. 4 North Cork' (2000, 519-20) under the entry (no. 14334) for a hall-house (CO036-001001-). 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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