Liscarroll
Liscarroll (Irish: Lios Cearúill, meaning "Carroll's ringfort")[2] is a village in County Cork, Ireland The village is located on the R522 regional road near Mallow and Buttevant about two miles south of River Awbeg. Liscarroll is within the Cork North-West (Dáil constituency).
Liscarroll Lios Cearúill | |
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Village | |
 Liscarroll Castle overlooks the village | |
  Liscarroll Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 52°15′37.15″N 08°48′13.25″W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Munster |
| County | County Cork |
| Population (2016)[1] | 249 |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-1 (IST (WEST)) |
Liscarroll Castle
The remains of Liscarroll Castle, a large 13th-century Hiberno-Norman fortress, still tower over the village.[3]
The castle is the subject of an 1854 poem by Callaghan Hartstonge Gayner which concludes:
Beneath its folds assemble now, and fight with might and main,
That grand old fight to make our land "A nation once again",
And falter not till alien rule in dark oblivion falls,
We’ll stand as freemen yet, beneath those old Liscarroll walls.[4]
Other notable locations
Liscarroll Fort, also in the area, is a ringfort approximately 30 m diameter which dates to between the 5th and 10th century. It is the burial place of almost twenty members of the FitzGerald/FitzPierce family killed in the Battle of Liscarroll in 1642.
There are two donkey sanctuaries in the area, the Donkey Sanctuary[5] and the Jones' household.
References
- "Census 2016 - Small Area Population Statistics (SAPMAP Area) - Settlements - Liscarroll". Census 2016. Central Statistics Office.
- "Placenames Database of Ireland". Retrieved 18 September 2012.
- http://www.liscarroll.ie/castle
- Poems on Liscarroll Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
- https://www.thedonkeysanctuary.ie