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What is recorded here

White Knights Tower belonged to the Fitzgibbons and stood near Mitchelstown until the wars of 1641 destroyed its fine old building. Smith described surviving walls in 1750, but even that trace has vanished beneath the Dairygold industrial complex. The castle did not merely break; it was erased from the living landscape, leaving only a name and a forgotten knight behind.

No visible surface trace of castle; area now occupied by Dairygold industrial complex. Castle of the Fitzgibbons, commonly known as the White Knights (Healy 1988, 422). Smith (1750, vol. 1, 346), in describing the later house (14918), noted nearby '...walls of a castle which belonged to the white knight and was a fine old building, but destroyed in the wars of 1641'. 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

Built by the Fitzgibbon family, known as the White Knights, in the late medieval period; the site is significant as a historical landmark associated with this prominent local family in County Cork.

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