Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Ballynahow (spiers), County Cork, Ireland
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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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
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
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.