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Designed landscape - belvedere

Carrigdownane Lower, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Designed landscape - belvedere, Carrigdownane Lower, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Carrigdownane Lower
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Tower (1936)
Coordinates
52.21860, -8.39433
SMR number
CO018-098----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, atop knoll, c. 150m S of Stannard's Grove and Carrigdownane Castle (14329). Indicated on 1842 OS 6-inch map as 'pillar'. Solid construction (H c. 8m) of random-rubble limestone, atop slight plinth. Square base (2.3m x 2.3m) rises to c. 3.5m, then tapers gradually with height; divided into three tiers by string courses; surmounted by octagonal pinnacle (see photograph in Grove White 1905-25, vol. 4, opp. 226). Stannard's Grove, c. 150m to N, indicated on 1842 OS 6-inch map, though date plaque on house states built in 1904 by William Stackpoole; rebuilt 1924 after being blown up in 1921. Two-storey, 7-bay, gable-ended house. Piered entrance sweep to W, with roughly inscribed date of '1842'.

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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