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)
- Coordinates
- 51.54372, -9.32543
- SMR number
- CO141-114001-
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
Indicated on OS 6-inch map (1842) as 'Tower (in ruins)' on New Court demesne. D-shaped platform (straight side 6.8m N-W) projecting 4m from W bank of Ilen river with retaining stone wall (H 2.5m) around shoreline side. No visible surface trace of tower. Three other towers (CO141-114002-;CO141-073---; CO141-115---) on demesne.
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
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - belvedereunder 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.