Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - belvedere
Ballagharea, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballagharea
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.32331, -8.86052
- SMR number
- CO006-025----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In farmyard, to rear of 19th-century Fortwilliam house. Square 3-storey tower attached to NW end of 2-storey outbuilding, each floor divided by string courses. Door in SW elevation on farmyard side. Blocked windows on 1st floor, two slim lancets on NE and SW elevations. Embattled parapet, with pseudo-bartizans.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.