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Cloghleigh Castle, Moorepark, Fermoy, Co. Cork

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  • 18 older comments, and then…
  • Swordscookie said:
    It looks as if it was inhabited at that stage, whenever that might have been!
  • Rory Sherlock said:
    Cloghleigh is a large tower house, generally typical of those in Munster, and it probably dates to the sixteenth century. It has distinctive rounded corners and a number of interesting horizontal loops. It is on the Teagasc farm at Moorepark and the interior was not accessible when last I visited it. Originally a castle of the Condons, it eventually passed to the Moores, who made repairs to it in the nineteenth century.
  • B-59 said:
    It has a bloody history, according to www.abandonedireland.com/Cloghleagh.html
  • B-59 said:
    maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,582644,601740,11,9
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Quite good - youtu.be/sZPAGY5OotE?t=14m47s (from 14:48)

Basically a giant lump of rock

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  • Mike | MP-P said:
    Love the title of this. A good laugh for Monday morning :) Wonderful historic photo.
  • Seuss. said:
    That is Cloghvorra. See "The Cause of an Ice Age" by Sir Robert Stawell Ball
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Mike | MP-P Thanks :)
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Seuss. Thank you! So, this is the Cloghvorra Stone written of by Irish scientist, mathematician and astronomer, Robert Stawell Ball. The quote that keeps appearing is: "The problem that first demands solution is to discover the disruptive agent which would be potent enough to rip the Cloghvorra Stone from its parent bed, to bear it down the valley for miles, and to cast it on the mountain side." (p. 3, The Cause of an Ice Age, 1891) But the "problem that [also] demands solution" still is where is it? Have Google Mapped, but in vain...
  • heady school said:
    There is a limestone boulder, 2,000 tons, at Roughty, two miles south-east of Kenmare (vide Explanation of Sheet, 184, p. 36). This boulder, called ' Cloghvorra,' 26 feet x 16 feet X 15 feet, of limestone lies on old red sandstone, 260 feet above the sea, on the side of a hill half a mile south of Roughty Bridge, having been moved southward. www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/henry-carvill-lewis/papers...

Patiently waiting for the fall?

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  • derangedlemur said:
    www.thekingdomring.ie/blog-1/tag/Ring-of-Kerry
  • derangedlemur said:
    OSI: bit.ly/36PW3q4
  • derangedlemur said:
    There are other pictures of it on flickr but I think there'd be demarcation issues that would bring out the union if I linked to one.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    From The Lemur's link above - "The myth goes of mighty giants on either side of the Roughty river throwing boulders at each other. One landed on Gearran Bán where Carrigacappeen lies, and the other on Knockeirka Hill where Cloghvorragh (Cloughrock) fell."
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Demarcation be damned! In 2010 via Paddy Leahy, who says ground to top is about three metres -