- Liscarroll
Liscarroll is a village in
County Cork, Ireland whose name comes from the Irish "Lios Cearuill" (Carroll’s Fort). The village is located nearMallow andButtevant about two miles south ofRiver Awbeg .Liscarroll Castle
The remains of
Liscarroll Castle , a large13th century Hiberno-Norman fortress , still towers over the village.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. [ [http://homepage.eircom.net/~liscarroll/Website/index_files/Page693.htm Poems on Liscarroll] ]Liscarroll Fort
Also in the area is Liscarroll Fort, a
ringfort some 30 m diameter which dates to between the 5th and10th century . It is the burial place of almost twenty members of the FitzGerald/FitzPierce family killed in theBattle of Liscarroll in1642 .ee also
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Battle of Liscarroll References
* [http://homepage.eircom.net/~liscarroll/Website/index_files/Page592.htm Liscarroll Community Council]
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