Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - belvedere
Carrigdownane Lower, County Cork, Ireland
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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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 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
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.