2007:233 - BARRYSCOURT, Carrigtwohill, Cork
County: Cork
Site name: BARRYSCOURT, Carrigtwohill
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 98E0238
Author: Dave Pollock
Author/Organisation Address: Knockrower Road, Stradbally, Co. Waterford
Site type: Castle - tower house
Period/Dating: Late Medieval (AD 1100-AD 1599)
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.