Barryscourt Castle

Barryscourt Castle is a citadel located in east County Cork in southern Ireland, close to the town of Carrigtwohill. The website on which Barryscourt citadel now stands has been occupied for over one thousand years- there is evidence of a timber watermill having been constructed subsequent to a stream at the website sometime within the 7th century, lengthy earlier than any fortification existed there.

Barryscourt fell into the arms of the Anglo Norman de Barry own family inside the 12th century, and masonry from this era found at the web page may be the remains of another watermill or probable an early fortification built by using the Barrys. While the de Barry's lands in numerous elements of County Cork were divided amongst various branches of the circle of relatives, Barryscourt remained inside the ownership of the maximum effective branch, the Barrymores Barra mor or Great Barry in Irish. The Barrymore line later became extinct, Barryscourt hence passing to a far off cousin, James Fitz Richard of the Barryroes in 1556.