Ireland · Ruin
Dunboy Castle
Dunboy Castle is a 15th-century tower house and enclosing bawn on the Beara Peninsula in County Cork, built by the O'Sullivan Bere clan to guard Berehaven harbour. The castle's tower house and curtain walls were largely destroyed in the 1602 Siege of Dunboy; the exposed stone ruins remain a public site.
Its prime
1600
Today
Ruin
As it stood in 1600
The shape it held in its prime.
By 1600 Dunboy presented a compact, multi-storey rectangular tower house standing within an enclosing bawn of continuous curtain walls and low defensive platforms, all built of local grey limestone with ashlar and rubble courses. The complex occupied a grassy, rocky headland overlooking Berehaven harbour; the courtyard lay on a slope down to the sea. Entrances and wide arched openings punctured the curtain, steps cut into the stone gave access across the inner yard, and the whole silhouette read clearly from the water.
Step inside
5 places to explore in 1600.
The record describes 5 distinct spots at Dunboy Castle — including 2 interiors: bawn courtyard (inner ward), vaulted archway set into the curtain wall. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.
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See Dunboy Castle with the fires lit.
The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1600 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.
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