Liscarroll
| Liscarroll Irish: Lios Cearúill | |
| County Cork | |
|---|---|
 Liscarroll Castle overlooks the village | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | R452123 |
| Location: | 52°15’37"N, 8°48’13"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 249 (2016) |
| Local Government | |
| Dáil constituency: |
North-West |
Liscarroll is a village in County Cork, on the R522 regional road near Mallow and Buttevant about two miles south of River Awbeg.
The name of the village is the Irish Lios Cearúill meaning 'Carroll's ringfort'.[1]
Liscarroll Castle
The remains of Liscarroll Castle, a large 13th-century Hiberno-Norman fortress, still tower over the village.[2]
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.
About the village
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[3] and the Jones' household.
Outside links
References
- ↑ Lios Cearúill / Liscarroll: Placenames Database of Ireland
- ↑ Liscarroll Castle
- ↑ The Donkey Sanctuary