Site of Dunfierth Castle — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Dunfierth Castle vanished completely, leaving only farm sheds and cattle pens on a narrow ridge beside a medieval church. It was probably a tower house belonging to the Fitzgeralds, judging from a carved monkey stone found locally in the 1980s and later sold. The castle itself has no visible trace, but that misplaced monkey may still be living somewhere in a garden, remembering the house it lost.

According to the OSL (Herity 2002, 37), ' … there stood an old castle, none of which remains'. On a low, narrow, N-S pasture ridge with a medieval church (KD004-005001-) c. 60m to the WSW. The area is now occupied by farm sheds, concrete yards and cattle pens and there is no visible surface trace of the monument, which was probably a tower house. A stone with a monkey carved on it was reported locally to have been found here in the 1980's and subsequently sold. It may have been part of a coat of arms of the Fitzgeralds (SMR file). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

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