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Castle - tower house

Ballynahow (Spiers), County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - tower house, Ballynahow (Spiers), 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
Ballynahow (Spiers)
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Ballynahow Castle (in Ruins) (1934)
Coordinates
52.17851, -8.30043
SMR number
CO027-105----

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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 top of a steep incline, overlooking Funshion River c. 100m to N. Rectangular tower (10m E-W; 6.6m N-S), surviving only to one storey and missing most of E wall (see plan in Cotter 1994, 105).
Ground-floor doorway near N end of E wall, judging by rebate to take open door visible along E end of N wall. Ground-floor chamber (5.45m E-W; 2.85m N-S) formerly covered by vault (long axis E-W) of which only springings survive. Chamber lit by central window in S and W walls, each with wide square-set embrasure covered by segmental vault, each missing its light; S embrasure enlarged to create wide doorway. Remains of garderobe chute at E end of N wall. Quoin stones have been robbed from NW and SW corners.
A castle of the Condons (Healy 1988, 382).

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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