Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Renny Lower, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Renny Lower
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (in Ruins) (1935)
- Coordinates
- 52.14598, -8.43473
- SMR number
- CO034-030----
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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 cliff-edge, overlooking Blackwater River valley to S. All that now stands is section of W wall (L 5.42m; H 4m), with short (L c. 0.4m) return of N wall. Double-splayed lintelled window at S end of W wall.
According to Smith (1750, vol. 1, 343), a Fitzgerald castle. Subsequently in possession of Edmund Spenser of Kilcolman and his descendants (Healy 1988, 430).
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Prehistoric site - lithic scatterunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.