Military camp, County Cork

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What is recorded here

The exact location of the Irish Camp, where the forces of O'Neill and O'Donnell camped immediately before the Battle of Kinsale, is not known. Hayes-McCoy (1949, 1966) locates it in Coolcarron, though his map actually shows it in the townland of Mullagh; this identification was followed by later writers (Mulcahy 1966). However, the Annals of the Four Masters (O'Donovan 1851) place the camp in Belgooly (see Silke 1970, 140). Most of the camp sites associated with the battle are depicted on the Trinity College painting (Morgan 2004, 114) but this does not show the Irish Camp because it lay outside the area depicted in the painting. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO098-084

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