Add your own picture and explain the route, parking, gates, paths or landmarks that help people find it.
Earn 5 points after the picture is checked and accepted.
Add your photo and local directionsShare what you foundWhat is recorded here
In pasture, on S-facing slope. Sharp drop down to stream on E side. Shown on O.S. map (1842) as square structure. MacCarthy castle 'which was taken down in the early 19th century' (O Murchadha 1985, 57). No surface trace remaining. Adjacent to gallows tree (CO108-04001) and graveyard (CO108-04003). Pair of ogee-headed windows (CO108-03801-) built into wall of nearby Phale Court may be from this site.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.