Sarsfields Court (in Ruins) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Sarsfields Court stood on a south-facing slope in County Cork, a semi-fortified house with a high tower and bell built by the Sarsfield family in the middle of the seventeenth century. It collapsed and was demolished in the 1950s, leaving no visible trace except cut stone buried in a nearby garden. The pasture now holds only the memory of a tower that once rose above the grass, its steps and bell swallowed by time and neglect.

In pasture, on S-facing slope. No visible surface trace; demolished in the 1950s after a collapse; some cut stone in nearby garden of landowner. According to Healy (1988, 68), the building consisted of 'a high tower containing a flight of steps and a bell tower', it was apparently 'a semi-fortified house' erected in the middle of the seventeenth century' by Sarsfield family (Power 1923, 205). 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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