County: Cork Site name: CASTLE WARREN, Barnahely
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 87:5201 Licence number: 99E0279
Author: Mary O'Donnell, Archaeological Services Unit, University College Cork
Site type: Castle - tower house and Bawn
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 576881m, N 563901m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.826877, -8.335384
The site at Castle Warren consists of a complex of medieval and post-medieval buildings around a courtyard and includes a tower-house and bawn of probable late 16th-century date and Castle Warren House, which dates to the 18th century. It is currently owned by the Industrial Development Authority, who wished to secure the site by erecting a chain-link fence with an access gate around the tower-house and bawn, at a distance of 10m from the boundary walls.
Five trenches were excavated by machine just inside the line of the fence before the digging of the foundation pits for the fence. No archaeological features relating to the later medieval occupation at the site were uncovered during excavation of the test-trenches or monitoring of the excavation of the foundation pits.
