Kanturk

Kanturk is a town in the north west of County Cork, Ireland. Kanturk is located at the confluence of the rivers Allow and Dallow, streaming in addition on as tributaries into the Backwater. It is about 50 kilometers from Cork, Blarney and Limerick, and lies just north of the primary N72 Avenue, 15 km from Mallow and approximately 40 km from Killarney. A historical web site near the metropolis is Kanturk Castle, recognized domestically because the Old Court, a fortified house built in 1601 for Mac Donagh Mc Carthy as a defense in opposition to English settlers.

It becomes a limestone rubble Tudor mansion four storey excessive, 28 meters in length and 11 meters extensive, with 4 towers of 5 storeys excessive and a peak of 29 meters. According to legend, the castle turned into by no means finished as phrase of its creation reached the Privy Council in England. They ordered Mac Donagh to forestall building works, as they feared it might be used as a base to assault English settlers. Mac donogh become allegedly so furious at this information that he smashed all the blue ceramic tiles for the roof and threw them into a nearby circulate.