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Castle - tower house

Drough, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - tower house, Drough, 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
Drough
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Carriganoura Castle (in Ruins) (1935)
Coordinates
52.26686, -8.32332
SMR number
CO019-016----

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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

On rock outcrop, c. 200m N of Funshion River. Fragmentary remains of tower consisting of N wall (L 6.2m) with return of W wall (L 6.61m) and E wall (L c. 1.3m); clad with ivy (Cotter 1994, 102).
Slight external base batter on W wall; NW corner stands to c. 8m H, NE to c. 2m. Part of garderobe outlet survives near ground level at extreme N end of E wall. Sill and part of E jamb of blocked window light in N wall. Rebuilding evident at N end of W wall. Spiral stairs, steps now missing, begin at 1st-floor level in NW corner, outer wall of staircase collapsed.
Castle of a branch of the Condons (Nicholls 1993, 187).

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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