Talk:Cloghan Castle (County Cork)

A fact from Cloghan Castle (County Cork) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 October 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the collapse of Cloghan Castle in County Cork, Ireland, was said to have been caused by the barking of a ghostly black dog?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2022/October. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Cloghan Castle (County Cork).

Wikipedia

Ireland Low‑importance

	Ireland portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Ireland, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Ireland on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.IrelandWikipedia:WikiProject IrelandTemplate:WikiProject IrelandIreland articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Military history: Fortifications / European

This article is within the scope of the Military history WikiProject. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks. To use this banner, please see the full instructions.Military historyWikipedia:WikiProject Military historyTemplate:WikiProject Military historymilitary history articles

This article has been checked against the following criteria for B-class status:
Referencing and citation: criterion met Coverage and accuracy: criterion met Structure: criterion met Grammar and style: criterion met Supporting materials: criterion met

Associated task forces:
/
	Fortifications task force
	European military history task force

This article was created or improved during the "The 20,000 Challenge: UK and Ireland", which started on 20 August 2016 and is still open. You can help!

Did you know nomination

Latest comment: 2 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 21:44, 18 October 2022 (UTC)Reply

(

Comment or view
Article history

)

Sketch of the castle, made in 1853

... that the collapse of Cloghan Castle (pictured) in County Cork, Ireland, was said to have been caused by the barking of a ghostly black dog? Source: "The tower house collapsed in the mid-Nineteenth Century (Donovan 1876, iaG) allegedly due to the shaking it received from the barking of a ghostly black hound that haunted it." from: Samuel, Mark Wycliffe (1998), The Tower Houses of West Cork (PDF) (PhD thesis), University College London, p. 555, retrieved 3 October 2022
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley

Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 19:58, 3 October 2022 (UTC).Reply

Hook, length, date, qpq, paraphrase check ok. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Soman (talk • contribs)

Add topic