Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - belvedere
Aghavrin, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghavrin
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Aghavrin Castle (1938)
- Coordinates
- 51.92551, -8.81289
- SMR number
- CO072-001----
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
On top of a prominent rock outcrop; named 'Tower' on Carrigaknubber Rock on 1842 OS 6-inch map; mass rock (CO072-149----) at base. Ruined square 3-storey tower (2m x 2m); rectangular window opes with hood mouldings; embattled parapet. Slim circular stairway-like projection on SE corner rises higher than tower with embattled parapet; slit windows. Access not gained. Built by Captain Cooke of Aghavrin House (CO061-085----) in c. 1840s; generally known as Admiral's Folly (Hartnett 1939, 38).
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
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.