Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - belvedere
Rockborough, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rockborough
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tower (1938)
- Coordinates
- 51.90207, -8.99212
- SMR number
- CO070-089----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Roofless overgrown tower to NE of Rockborough House (CO070-110----). Square in plan(c. 5m square); core at ground floor level is solid with door in S wall which leads via a lintelled passage through E side to stairs in N wall which rises to 1st floor level. Door in N wall between ground and 1st floor opens into stairway. Remains of wide window opes in walls of 1st floor chamber.
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
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.