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Castle - unclassified

Renny Lower, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - unclassified, Renny Lower, 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
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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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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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