Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Country house
Carrignamuck, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrignamuck
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dripsey Castle (1938)
- Coordinates
- 51.92711, -8.75562
- SMR number
- CO072-018----
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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
Three-storey double-gable-ended house of late 18th-century appearance. Entrance front (E) of 7 bays with central 3-bay pedimented breakfront; central door approached by flight of stone steps, limestone surround with entablature supported on slender consoles. Windows on entrance front has limestone architraves, prominent keystones at ground floor level. Shallow stone string courses between floor levels. Round-headed central 1st-floor window. Rear elevation of 5 bays; central bay has Venetian window between ground and 1st floor, and Diocletian window between 1st and 2nd floor recessed under semicircular brick arch. Two-storey, stone-built farmbuildings around courtyard to rear. In wood, to S of house, square tower of roughly same date as house. Carrignamuck castle (CO072-019----) to NE.
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
- Designed landscape - belvedereunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - belvedereunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.