Home

Who
What
Where
When
Why
Lombard's Castle
 

County

Cork

Coordinates

N 52° 13' 47.7"   W 008° 40' 12.48"

Nearest town

Buttevant

Grid Ref.

V 54208 08898

Map No.

73

Elevation a.s.l. (m)

95

Date of visit

Friday 17 June 2016

GPS Accuracy (m)

3
Show Google Map              Show Monuments in the area

   
PREVIOUS      NEXT
The sad ruins of the tower house seen from the southeast.


Rather than a real castle this was a tower house or family house for a family of merchants of Italian origins.
Their main businesses were the wool trading and money borrowing or banking.
The current tower house dates 15th or 16th century but it is possible that an earlier building was in its place. The tower house stands at the corner of a grid pattern of the medieval town so the building was erected at the beginning of the settlement.
At the end of the Williamite War it was granted to Colonel John Gifford. At that time it had two acres of land behind the castle called the gardens and one acre of land as an orchard.
After 1750 it was turned into a Protestant school and it served this function until 1820.
Today all that remains is the wall facing the street with a square tower at the north (10°) end. It has a very dull appearance and is not very inspiring.
The informative sign next to the castle has a very bad error in its text. It says that the term Lombard indicates a group of merchants who followed the Normans into Ireland and they were mostly from the city of Lucca, in Lombardy, a region in the northern Italy. As a matter of fact Lucca is in Tuscany, in central Italy. I think they mistook it with Lecco which is in Lombardy.


Browse by Monument Type
Browse by County
Browse by Date of Visit
Browse by Map Number

A-Z List

Clickable Counties
Clickable OS Maps Grid

Find a Map

Multimap

The days before GPS

The Stones in the Movies

Glossary
Links
Guestbook
FAQ

What's NEW?


Search


Site view counter: 25574763

Copyright © 1994-2024 Antonio D'Imperio
All the photos, the graphics and the texts on this website are automatically copyrighted to me under the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works 1886. Any violation of the copyright will be pursued according to the applicable laws.

info@irishstones.org

Powered by AxeCMS/CustomEngine(V0.25.00 build 999) by Sergio "Axeman" Lorenzetti. (C) 2009-2015

counter