Castlepark

Castlepark

The Castlepark peninsula in Kinsale harbour on the coast of County Cork, on the south coast of Ireland is really more a presque-isle than a peninsula, being joined to the mainland only by an extremely narrow neck at its north-western corner. Thus, the Castlepark peninsula is almost completely surrounded by water: the River Bandon, flowing from the north-west, bounds the peninsula on the north; the entrance to Kinsale harbour bounds the peninsula on the east; the Atlantic ocean bounds it to the south; and the tidal inlet known as Sandycove Creek bounds the peninsula on the west.Most traffic into Castlepark now arrives via the Duggan Bridge, built 1976, which crosses the River Bandon from the northern, Kinsale, bank just east of the neck which joins the peninsula to the mainland [cite book |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=OKDE6knNUSQC|title=Ireland|date=2006|isbn=1740599683|author=Fionn Davenport, Charlotte Beech, Tom Downs, Des Hannigan] .

Among the old buildings on the peninsula are James's Fort (early 17th century), Ringrone Castle (12th or 13th century) and the ruins of Ringrone church, the latter surrounded by an ancient graveyard that is still in use [cite book |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=RmANAAAAYAAJ|title=The Ancient and Present State of the County and City of Cork|date=1893|author=Charles Smith, Thomas Crofton Croker, Richard Caulfield] .

Located within the parish of Courceys, the peninsula, which has an area of a little under convert|500|acre|km2, contains three townlands: "James's Fort", "Castlepark" and "Castlelands".

The "James's Fort" townland, which contains James's Fort, is, itself, a peninsula, protruding out of the north-eastern corner of the Castlepark peninsula.

On the western side of the neck which joins the James's Fort peninsula to the main Castlepark peninsula there is a marina; on the eastern side of the neck, there is a sandy beach; a small village, most of whose houses were built in the 1970s although some date back to at least the early 19th century, straddles the neck.

The rest of the peninsula consists of farmland with scattered housing.Most of the land is used for tillage (cereals and sugar beet), although there is some grazing of cattle and sheep. By the late 1990s, only one of the farms was still involved in dairying.

Sandycove Island, at the mouth of Sandycove Creek, is uninhabited; a herd of goats grazes the island so, presumably, fresh water is available.

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