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Castle - tower house

Leamlara, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - tower house, Leamlara, 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
Leamlara
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Leamlara Castle (in Ruins) (1935)
Coordinates
51.96824, -8.26654
SMR number
CO064-109002-

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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)
  • 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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 top of a scarped knoll, in demesne of Leamlara House; heavily overgrown remains of rectangular tower (11.3m E-W; 7.4m N-S) surviving to max. H 2m. Surviving features include: rounded corners; W jamb of door near E end of S wall; lower steps of straight mural stair in E wall rising from SE corner; W ingoing of window in N wall and splayed S ingoing of window or loop in W wall; garderobe chute exit near S end of W wall; and small wall press at Send of W wall (interior). 1935 OS 6-inch map marks site of 'Castle Moat' immediately N of ruins; no visible remains of such a feature though site listed as 'possible motte' by Glasscock (1975, 105).

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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