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Designed landscape - belvedere

Ballinaspig More , County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Designed landscape - belvedere, Ballinaspig More, 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
Ballinaspig More
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Tower (in Ruins) (1950)
Coordinates
51.87994, -8.53641
SMR number
CO074-055001-

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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (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 landscaped rock outcrop to NW of Bishopstown House (CO074-05502-); indicated on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Roofless, crenellated circular tower (H 2.3m; int. diam. 4.55m); entrance with added curved porch on S side; window facing N. Fireplace in W wall and niche in E wall. Interior originally decorated with shells inset in plaster of which only the imprints survive. Quartz pebble floor; remains of ledge at base of internal walls composed of glassy slag. Built as retreat by Dr. Peter Browne, Bishop of Cork and Ross 1710-1735; part of Bishopstown demesne (CO074-05503-) (McCarthy 1981).

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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