Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Tinnakill (portnahinch By.), County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tinnakill (portnahinch By.)
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tinnakill Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.12806, -7.25128
- SMR number
- LA008-001001-
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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
Situated in flat countryside on slightly elevated site. A four-storey high tower house (max. dims 10m NE-SW, 11.80m NW-SE, wall T 2.35m) built of roughly coursed limestone. Punch-dressed limestone blocks with finely dressed margins used as quoins and in windows and doorway indicating a late sixteenth or early seventeenth century date. There is a groin vault over second-floor level, other floors were of wood. Garderobes in NE angle, mural passage in SW wall, mural stairs in SW and SE walls. Sheela-na-gig (LA008-001002-) said to have come from here (JKAS 1904, Vol. IV, 205-15; JKAS 1920, Vol. IX, 262-3).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
Nearby in the register
- Sheela-na-gigunder 1 mi
- Graveyard1 mi
- Sheela-na-gig1 mi
- Church1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.