Landed Estates
University of Galway

Kilcor Castle

Estate(s)
Townland Kilcor North
Civil Parish Castlelyons
PLU Fermoy
DED Kilcor 136
County Cork
Barony Barrymore
Description The home of the O'Brien family in the 18th and 19th centuries, sold by them in the mid 19th century. Cornelius O'Brien was the occupant in 1837 and at the time of Griffith's Valuation. He held the house valued at £17.15 shillings from James Reid. Kilcor was bought by Francis Doyne Dwyer and later passed to the Phipps family through marriage. In the 1940s the Irish Tourist Association Survey reported that it was the residence of Captain H. Phipps.
Kilcor Castle (www.buildingsofireland.ie)

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