Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Round tower
Inishkeen Glebe, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inishkeen Glebe
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Round Tower
- Latest-edition OS map
- Round Tower
- Coordinates
- 54.00372, -6.57864
- SMR number
- MO029-031002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The round tower at Inishkeen was described (Reade 1855, 376-7) as having a circumference of ‘51 feet (ext. diam. c. 4.85m) and survives to a height of 42 feet (c. 12.8m)’. The rebuilt lintelled doorway is 4.1m off the ground and faces SE. Debris in the interior was cleared to 0.75m below ground level in 1973 (Barrow 1979, 172-3). The tower had three internal floors according to Reade, but only two levels of internal corbels survive (ibid.).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
This is a National Monument in state ownership: No. 208
See the attached views _1 from E; _2 from SE
Date of revosed upload: 1 December 2016
References
Barrow, G.L. 1979 The round towers of Ireland: a study and gazetteer. Dublin. The Academy Press.
Reade, Rev. G. H. 1855 Proceedinga: Antiquities of ishkeen parish. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 3, 375-8.
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- Cistunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Memorial stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.