Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - belvedere
Demesne (imokilly By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Demesne (imokilly By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Bishops Tower (in Ruins) (1935)
- Coordinates
- 51.87136, -8.10338
- SMR number
- CO077-030----
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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
Marked on 1842 OS 6-inch map as 'Bishop's Tower (in ruins)'. Square, two-storey structure (4.6m N-S; 4.6m E-W) with crenellated parapet. Door in W elevation surmounted by niche for plaque; windows in both floors; fireplace in SE corner of ground floor. Building popularly ascribed to Bishop Brinkley (1826-1835) and thought to have been used as an observatory. Fleming (1896, 128) thinks it was built by Bishop Bennett as a 'tea tower' for social gathering. Stone plaque inscribed 'WC 1807' in farmyard of Cloyne house (CO088-01910-) said to come from tower.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.