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Designed landscape - belvedere

Ballygibbon (Muskerry East By.), County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Designed landscape - belvedere, Ballygibbon, 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
Ballygibbon (Muskerry East By.)
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Belfry (1937)
Coordinates
51.95499, -8.57456
SMR number
CO062-200002-

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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)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Stone-built circular tower built in 1836 by Fr. Matthew Horgan (Mulcahy 1989b, 27), just SE of RC Chapel completed in 1817. Finely carved Hiberno-Romanesque style doorway, modelled on Nun's Chapel, Clonmacnoise; several window opes with rounded and triangular heads; top enclosed by parapet wall. Tower designed by John Windele (Windele 1844, 246); intended to be higher; taper towards top due to abrupt finishing after project ran out of money (ibid, 28). Similar tower at Whitechurch (CO063-095----).

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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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