Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - folly
Derk, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derk
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tower (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.53232, -8.33643
- SMR number
- LI024-075----
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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 a small coppice of mature Beech trees, on the demesne lands of Derk House which stands 275m to SW, with excellent views from NNW-N-E-S. Tree-ring (LI024-074----) lies 100m to NNE. Annotated 'Tower' and depicted on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map as a circular-shaped building. Surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as a three-storey, circular-shaped, roofless tower constructed of rubble stone. The ground floor has a base batter and the brick around the top may have formed crenellations. The ground floor door opening has a segmental arch of brick and this style is carried through to the window openings. The walls are rendered on the interior and on the exterior. The interior is hollow, however it has a fireplace opening and a flue in the rear wall, opposite the ground floor entrance. Multiple window openings would suggest that this tower was built as a folly on the demesne lands of Derk House. Monument is obscured by mature trees on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 19 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - follyunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - pond barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.