2007:233 - Barryscourt, Carrigtwohill, Cork

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Cork Site name: Barryscourt, Carrigtwohill

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0238

Author: Dave Pollock, Knockrower Road, Stradbally, Co. Waterford.

Site type: Medieval castle

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 582113m, N 573188m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.910550, -8.259964

In 2007 further works to enhance Barryscourt Castle as a visitor attraction involved erecting a wooden gate at the entrance and rebuilding a length of post-medieval enclosure wall at the corner of the tower-house. Groundworks were carried out under supervision in April, May and August.
Recent hardcore at the gate immediately overlay boulder clay; no archaeological levels nor old soil profile survived. At the corner of the tower-house, old soil pre-dating construction was exposed 0.25m below present ground level, apparently cut by two medieval ditches (not investigated). The fill of the later and larger ditch, a pond or moat cut around the corner of the tower-house, had continued to settle after construction of the wall, causing it to lean.