Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - belvedere
Reenmurragha, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Reenmurragha
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tower (in Ruins) (1944)
- Coordinates
- 51.54464, -9.32667
- SMR number
- CO141-073----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1841 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Two-storey circular tower (int. diam. 2.7m; wall thickness 0.7m) on New Court demesne. Marked '(in Ruins)' on OS 6-inch map (1842). Pointed door in NE wall flanked by narrow splayed windows; pointed windows at 1st floor level. Inserted 1st floor wall to SW with 6 tier nesting boxes on internal elev.Three other towers (CO141-114001-; CO141-114002-; CO141-115---) on demesne. Bridge (CO141-113---) visible from tower.
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
- Designed landscape - belvedereunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - belvedereunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.