Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - belvedere
Courtmacsherry, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Courtmacsherry
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- The Octagon (in Ruins) (1902)
- Coordinates
- 51.63569, -8.68878
- SMR number
- CO136-042----
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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
Remains of tower on high ground to E of Court Macsherry house; commanding good view over Courtmacsherry Bay. N portion of structure survives forming three sides of octagon; central section set back. External string course between ground and 1st floor.
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
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Slab-lined burialunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.