Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - folly
Coolhill, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolhill
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tower
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tower (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 52.46459, -6.93412
- SMR number
- KK033-027002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
Identified as a 'Tower' on the 1st (1839-40) ed. OS 6-inch map and 'Tower (in Ruins) on the 2nd (1903) ed. This is an 18th/19th-century folly (ext. dims. 4.1m x 4m; int. dims. 2.45m x 2.4m) which is incorporated into and contemporary with the stone walled field boundary which runs NNE-SSW from the NE and SW face of the tower. It was at least three storeys high, though it only survives to midway of the second-floor level. It had a doorway in the NE wall at ground level and has large pointed window openings. It is not related to the tower house (KK033-027001-) which lies 135m to the NE. Another tower (KK033-027003-), probably contemporary with this one, was located 76m E of the tower house but only some overgrown stones (max. H 0.5m) survive.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 23 August 2016
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - follyunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Dovecoteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.