Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Religious house - Franciscan nuns (Poor Clares)
Knockaverry, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockaverry
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- St Annes Tower (1935)
- Coordinates
- 51.94370, -7.84278
- SMR number
- CO067-027----
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Shown on 5 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
Convent of St. Anne, founded c. 1190 (Hayman 1855, 327); the nuns tended the beacon tower (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 325). Convent no longer standing by 1644; circular tower survived (H c. 24ft; diam. c. 10ft) until 1848 when it was demolished to build present lighthouse (Hayman ibid., 328-9).
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
- Lighthouseunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Franciscan friarsunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.