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Castle - tower house

Carrignavar, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - tower house, Carrignavar, 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
Carrignavar
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Castle (in Ruins) (1935)
Coordinates
51.98521, -8.47264
SMR number
CO063-022001-

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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

On crest of steep W-facing slope, overlooking Cloghnagashee river. Rectangular tower largely reduced to mound of rubble (H c. 4m; 13m E-W; 8m N-S), except lower part of W wall with short returns at either end, and part of corner turret projecting from N end of W wall (5.7m E-W; int. 2.9m N-S). Retaining wall to S appears recent as does short wall on S side of turret; these may be part of 'recent repairs' noted by O'Donoghue (1914). Just S of centre in W wall, upper part of stone arch of door survives: pointed in two orders with chamfered edges. According to Coleman (1907, 169), 'Daniel MacCarthy built the castle of Carrignavar in 1616'; a photograph of c. 1907 (ibid., facing p. 172) shows the castle heavily ivy-clad but standing to at least two storeys.

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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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