Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - belvedere
Moydilliga, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moydilliga
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lodge (1935)
- Coordinates
- 52.12607, -8.10781
- SMR number
- CO037-001002-
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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
In pasture, tall roofless late 19th-century tower. Indicated on 1905 OS 6-inch map as lodge beside ringfort (12794) c. 20m to W, with avenue into Modeligo House (named on 1905 OS 6-inch map to N) in between. Avenue no longer survives. Square tower (2.9m E-W; 2.9m N-S; H c. 8m) of random-rubble sandstone construction with slight base batter. Door ope, stone arched with wooden lintel, in W wall; brick-arched windows in all four elevations. Slightly projecting embattled parapet wall. Internal walls have socket holes to support stairs; previous visit noted wooden stairway lying in nearby field. Roof collapsed. According to newspaper article (Cork Examiner 18/12/1931), built by Mr Braddell to view the hunt.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.