2015:358 - CARRIGTWOHILL: Barryscourt Castle, Cork
County: Cork
Site name: CARRIGTWOHILL: Barryscourt Castle
Sites and Monuments Record No.: CO075-018001, 018003
Licence number: E004608
Author: Dave Pollock
Author/Organisation Address: Knockrower Road, Stradbally, Co. Waterford
Site type: Castle - tower house
Period/Dating: Medieval (AD 400-AD 1600)
ITM: E 582150m, N 572500m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.904361, -8.259403
An archaeological trench was cut around the south and west sides of the tower-house at Barryscourt Castle, in advance of installing new drainage.
Most of the material found in the trench predates the tower-house. This includes a number of infilled medieval ditches and a yard surface. The ditches and surface have been encountered elsewhere, but their chronological order has been uncertain. Their order is now clearer, but the location of the early core of the castle remains obscure.
Further works, under supervision, encountered a number of known and previously recorded ditches.
