Belvelly Castle

Belvelly Castle is a 14th or 15th century tower house in County Cork. It is situated subsequent to the small village of Belvelly, opposite and overlooking the best avenue bridge connecting Fota Island to Great Island. The fort changed into in the beginning built by means of and for the Anglo Norman Hodnett own family however changed into taken by using the De la Roch and De Barra families in the 14th century. The Hodnetts later however leased-lower back their lands.

Some sources advise that Walter Raleigh occupied the fort within the 16th century earlier than being reoccupied by the De Barra family, and utilized by Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery to garrison troops in the course of the Irish Confederate Wars within the mid-17th century. By the 19th century the citadel had fallen into damage. During World War I, the citadel received an increase in visitors while neighborhood coachmen delivered sailors docked at nearby Queenstown to the fort apparently beneath the influence that they have been surely traveling Blarney Castle and its Blarney Stone. The citadel was occupied and particularly modified through the Irish Army for the duration of the Emergency 1939 1945.