Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - folly
Tuogh (Owneybeg By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tuogh (Owneybeg By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Turret
- Latest-edition OS map
- Turret, Tower Hill (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.59905, -8.35796
- SMR number
- LI015-027----
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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)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on the W-facing slope of a hill in gently rolling former pasture, immediately E of a disused quarry. Structure shown on 1840 OS map and named 'Turret' is located in an area of dense scrub vegetation and it was not possible to find any standing remains of the structure. It was probably an eyecatcher/folly as it is located close in a prominent position close to the entrance into the demesne of Tower Hill country house which was built in 1800 (see Spellissy 1989, 135).
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 3 July 2013
References
Spellissy, S 1989 Limerick The Rich Land. Ennis. O'Brien Publishers
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.