Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Reenavanny (whiddy Island), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Reenavanny (whiddy Island)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Reenavanny Castle (in Ruins) (1902)
- Coordinates
- 51.70113, -9.48394
- SMR number
- CO105-033----
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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
Built on rock outcrop at NE end of Whiddy Island. SW side of tower house (10.7m NW-SE; 8.6m NE-SW) remains. SW wall survives to 2nd floor level; short return (0.6m) of SE wall at ground level; NW wall survives to ground-floor level. Remains of lintelled window ope and one side of doorway in NW wall. Three horizontal rows of joist holes, c. 1m above the other, on inner SW face; stone-lined guardrobe chute exposed at first-floor level. Base batter around external walls removed. Castle of O Sullivan Bear; much of it collapsed during gales of 1920. (O Murchadha 1985, 304).
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.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
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Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.