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Designed landscape - folly

Coolhill, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Designed landscape - folly, Coolhill, County Kilkenny, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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-

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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