What is recorded here

Templeconnell Castle survives as a bawn and tower house ruin in County Cork, recorded in the Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. The tower house sits near the south-west corner of the bawn, whose outline still shows in the ground as a crop mark. What remains is a quiet angular shadow in the field, the kind of place where a household may have kept fire, tools and witness long before the stones lost their names.

This bawn is referred to in the 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork - vol. 4 North Cork' (2000, 538-9) under the entry (no. 14371) for a tower house (CO016-072001-). It is referred to as follows: 'Aerial photograph (CASAP) shows outline of bawn as crop mark with tower house near its SW corner.' 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

Templeconnell Castle was built in the late 15th or early 16th century by the Butler family, who were influential Anglo-Norman lords in Munster. It is remembered as a strategic stronghold in the region and as an example of medieval tower house architecture in Ireland.

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