Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - folly
Kenmare, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kenmare
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Turret (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 51.88122, -9.58214
- SMR number
- KE093-061009-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In partly cleared woodland, on elevated site overlooking Kealnagower stream to the N. Ruins of two-storey castellated tower constructed of random rubble. Ground floor is circular in plan with rectangular window opes and door ope; first floor is heptagonal with small rectangular lights. Also known as "Hutchins' Folly" the tower is said locally to have been built in the early 19th-century by an American named Hutchins.
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 30 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Courthouseunder 1 mi
- Market-houseunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Barracksunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.