Kilcrea Castle

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Kilcrea Castle
Kilcrea Castle ruins

Kilcrea Castle ruins

Alternative name (s): Caisleán Chill Chré
Creation time : 1465
Castle type : Niederungsburg (Tower House)
Conservation status: ruin
Standing position : Irish nobility
Construction: Quarry stone
Place: Ovens
Geographical location 51 ° 51 '54.5 "  N , 8 ° 43' 7"  W Coordinates: 51 ° 51 '54.5 "  N , 8 ° 43' 7"  W.
Height: 41  m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference
Kilcrea Castle (Ireland)
Kilcrea Castle

Kilcrea Castle ( Irish : Caisleán Chill chre ) is the ruin of a tower house with fence from the 15th century west of the Abbey Kilcrea the village of Ovens in Ireland's County Cork . The ruins are mostly hidden in the high thicket.

Unlike the abbey, which is owned and maintained by the National Monuments Service of Ireland , the ruins of the castle are on private land that is currently used for raising cattle. The castle has been listed as a Protected Structure by the Cork County Administration .

history

The castle was built in 1465 for Cormac Láidir Mór (or More ), chief of the McCarthys clan and builder of Blarney Castle and Carrignamuck Tower House , on marshy land above an old fort, possibly from the Bronze Age .

In the middle of the 19th century, a section of the now disused railway line Cork-Macroom was built on the north side through the moat .

description

The building faces north (towards the River Bride ). The tower house with five floors is on the west side, the enclosure on the east side, in the direction of the abbey. The remains of a three-story tower lie in the southeast corner of the enclosure. Sources from the 1840s mention that the enclosure was enclosed by two square-plan towers, but any remains of a second tower on top of the enclosure are now lost in the undergrowth.

Gallery images

  • patio

  • South east coast

  • Battlement

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kilcrea Castle . In: Gazetteer of Irish Antiquities . Retrieved September 13, 2018.
  2. ↑ National Monuments in State Care: Ownership & Guardianship (PDF) In: National Monuments Service . Republic of Ireland. S. 6. March 4, 2009. Archived from the original on May 12, 2014. Retrieved on September 13, 2018.
  3. ^ Cork County Council - Record of Protected Structures (Structure number 00555) . Cork County Council. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
  4. ^ Thomas Johnson Westropp: The Monastery of St. Brigid, Kilcrea, and the Castle of the MacCarthys . In: Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society . Cork Historical and Archaeological Society. Pp. 159, 220, 1908. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
  5. ↑ John Windele: Historical and Descriptive Notices of the City of Cork . 1840. p. 230.
  6. ^ J. Sterling Coyne, NP Willis: The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland . 1841. Retrieved September 13, 2018.

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