Castletownshend

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Castletownshend Baile an Chaisleáin
Village
Castletownshend village seen from St Barrahane's Church
Castletownshend Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 51°32′N 9°11′W / 51.533°N 9.183°W / 51.533; -9.183
Country	Ireland
Province	Munster
County	County Cork
Population  (2016)[1]
• Total	196
Time zone	UTC+0 (WET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-1 (IST (WEST))

Castletownshend (Irish: Baile an Chaisleáin, literally "town of the castle")^[2] is a village about 8 km (5 mi) south-east of Skibbereen, in County Cork, Ireland. The village developed around a small 17th-century castle built by Richard Townsend, whose descendants still reside there.

The main street of the town, lined with large homes from the 18th century, runs down a sharply sloped hill leading to Castlehaven Harbour and the castle. The Church of St Barrahane, built in 1826, overlooks the town.

Castletownsend was the home of Edith Anna Œnone Somerville, one half of the writing duo Somerville and Ross, who together authored the Irish RM series of humorous novels on Irish life in the early 1900s. The two met each other for the first time in Castle Townshend in 1886.^{[citation needed]}

Sir Patrick Buckley (1841–1896) was born near the village in the townland of Gortbrack.

• List of towns and villages in the Republic of Ireland

Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Castletownshend.

• Buildings of Ireland: Drishane House

51°32′N 9°11′W / 51.533°N 9.183°W / 51.533; -9.183