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Designed landscape - belvedere

Ballydoyle, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Designed landscape - belvedere, Ballydoyle, 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
Ballydoyle
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Old Tower (1842)
Coordinates
52.19007, -8.46140
SMR number
CO026-112----

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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)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (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

Rubble mound of collapsed circular tower, atop steep E side of Awbeg River valley, immediately W of Rockvale House. Tower collapsed after storm c. 1985, leaving mound of limestone rubble (H c. 1.5m; diam. c. 5m). Photograph (CAS, 1984) shows tower (H c. 6m) built of random-rubble limestone, with large 1st-floor window, topped by projecting stones cornice. According to owner, it was 3-storey over basement with door ope to E. Grove White (1905-25, vol. 4, 183) refers to tower as a columbarium; photograph (ibid. opp. 183) taken in 1906 shows circular tower, unroofed, with lintelled ground-floor door. However, present owner does not recall any nesting boxes within tower. Rockvale House, of mid-19th-century appearance; front elevation (N) is 3-bay, 2-storey with Wyatt windows; gable-ended, chimneys on gables; according to owner, replaced earlier house, some walls of which survive on W side of present house. Remains of stone-built tea house (14958) c. 400m to S.

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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