Kilcrea Castle
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| Native name Irish: Caisleán Chill Chré |
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| Area | County Cork, Ireland |
| Built | Mid-15th century[1] |
| Built for | MacCarthys of Muskerry |
| Architectural style(s) | Fortified tower house and bawn |
 Kilcrea Castle in Ireland
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Kilcrea Castle is a ruined 15th century towerhouse and bawn located to the west of Kilcrea Friary near Ovens in County Cork, Ireland. The ruins are mostly hidden by a thick copse of trees.
Unlike the Friary, which is owned and maintained by the National Monuments Service of Ireland,[2] the ruins are on privately owned lands, the land immediate to, and including the ruins themselves, currently serving as a cattle farm. The castle is listed as a Protected Structure by Cork County Council.[3]
History
The castle was completed by 1465 by Cormac Láidir Mór (or More), chief of the McCarthy clan and builder of Blarney Castle and Carrignamuck Tower House, in a marshy area over an old fort possibly dating to the bronze age.[4]
The overall structure was built facing north (towards the River Bride), with the main five-story tower house on the western side and the bawn on the eastern side towards the friary.[5] The remains of a three-story tower anchor the southeast corner of the bawn. Text from the 1840s state that the bawn was enclosed with two square towers,[6] however any physical evidence of a second tower on the bawn is lost to the undergrowth.
In the mid-19th century a cutting of the now disused Cork and Macroom Railway line was built through the moat of the castle on the northern side.
Gallery
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Kilcrea castle inner courtyard.jpg
Inner castle courtyard
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Kilcrea castle southeast tower.jpg
Southeast tower
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Kilcrea castle top of wall.jpg
Castle battlements
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