Barryscourt Castle in Cork, Ireland

Filed by Max the Cryptid Reporter

Barryscourt Castle is one of those places in Cork where the landscape can make history feel surprisingly close. Just outside Carrigtwohill, the castle sits quietly behind its walls, but its stones contain traces of medieval power, rebellion, domestic life and even fragments of writing that reach back to Ireland’s much older tradition of Ogham. The castle we see today dates principally from the late medieval period. Heritage Ireland dates its construction to between 1392 and 1420, during the ti