Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Round tower
Sleenoge, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sleenoge
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cloigtheach (Round Tower)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cloigtheach (Round Tower) (1904)
- Coordinates
- 51.76411, -8.97553
- SMR number
- CO094-104002-
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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
Just outside the SW corner of Kinneigh graveyard (CO094-104003-), on the site of a monastery founded by St Mo-Cholmog. This round tower is comprised of a unique hexagonal base standing to a height of 18 feet (5.48m; Caulfield 1879, 16), with the remainder cylindrical portion of the tower surviving to a height of 67 feet 3inches (20.50m; Crawford 1927, 67). It is built of roughly-dressed slaty stones, and is entered by a lintelled door (H 1.45m; Wth 0,71m tapering to 0.61m) on the NE face of the hexagonal base, at 1st-floor level. It is lit by four small square-headed windows placed at various height (H 0.38m to 0.5m; Wth 0.3m). The tower now survives to six storeys but was originally taller, possibly with an additional floor, and the characteristic conical cap that some round towers display (Ibid.), though that is not a universal feature. An internal ladder leads to the top, which was altered in the 19th century to make a belfry for the adjacent Church of Ireland church. (Coleman 1894, 177-182 and 202-206; Buckley 1905, 135-8).
This is a National Monument in State Ownership (no. 618).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Photographs attached
CO094-104002-_01: View of the tower from SE.
CO094-104002-_02: View of the tower within the graveyard, from NE
CO094-104002-_03: View of the tower from N.
CO094-104002-_04: View of the tower and St Bartholomew's Church of Ireland, from SE.
CO094-104002-_05: View of the tower from N.
CO094-104002-_06: View of the tower from from E.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Date of last revision: 29 June 2023
References
Coleman, J.C. 1894 The round towers of Cloyne and Kinneigh, Co. Cork. Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 33, 177-206.
Crawford, H.S. 1927 The round tower of Kinneigh, Co. Cork. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 17, 67-8.
Caulfield, R. 1879 Examination and measurements of the round tower of Kinneigh, Co. Cork. Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland, Ser. 4, 5, Pt. 1, 16-24.
Buckley, J. 1905 The round tower of Kinneigh, Co. Cork. Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 11, 135-8.
Nearby in the register
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.