Cork Local Studies Digital Archive

Desmond's Castle, Kinsale : from "Castles in County Cork", Vol. 06, no. 25 : graphic

Item

https://www.corkdigitalarchive.ie/files/original/a5ee77683303ddd2fb3efe2c844901e6.pdf

Dublin Core

Title

Desmond's Castle, Kinsale : from "Castles in County Cork", Vol. 06, no. 25 : graphic

Subject

Castles Ireland Cork (County).
Tower-Houses Ireland Cork (County).
Cork (County) History.

Description

Transcript of text: - Known locally as "The French Prison". In 1747 or 48 there was a fire in "the gaol" and 54 persons, mostly Spanish prisons, perished. Leahy describes this building in "England in the 18th Century Vol. 2. p.358. Nothing seems to be known of its history. - The building was taken over by the Board of Works 1938. Cork Jour. 1905 &1931. - Download size (PDF): 111 KB. Image no Vol_06-25.

Creator

Healy, James N. James Nagle, 1916-1993.

Date

10/09/2012
1937

Contributor

Cork County Library

Rights

Reproduction rights reserved.

Format

1 handwritten page with 1 ph Digital Image graphic

Identifier

569949

Citation

Healy, James N. James Nagle, 1916-1993., “Desmond's Castle, Kinsale : from "Castles in County Cork", Vol. 06, no. 25 : graphic,” Cork Local Studies Digital Archive, accessed December 24, 2024, https://corkdigitalarchive.ie/items/show/1345.