Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - folly
Camas North, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Camas North
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Turret
- Latest-edition OS map
- Turret
- Coordinates
- 52.48331, -8.58164
- SMR number
- LI031-117----
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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
19th century folly belonging to Camas House located 240m to S. Described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage [NIAH] as follows; 'Freestanding square-plan two-stage turret, built c. 1820. Battlemented top to turret with carved copings. Roughly dressed limestone walls having dressed quoins and cut limestone stringcourses to upper stage. Loop openings. Located within rubble stone boundary wall to Camas House' (www.buildingsofireland.ie; NIAH Reg. No. 21903128).
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 1 April 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.