Designed landscape - belvedere

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on crest of hill. 'Turret' is a square, gazebo-type feature (L 5.7m) composed of roughly coursed rubble limestone. Entrance in E wall at ground floor level. Ground floor lit by narrow, single-light windows with splayed ingoings centrally placed in N, S and W walls. Small put-logs survive in E wall to support a wooden floor. First floor has rectangular window opes in centre of N, S and E walls, the W wall is mostly destroyed at this level. No roof survives. Brick infill used to block bottom of N and S window opes. Alcove on either side of ope in E wall. Some internal plaster survives. The crest of hill on which this building stands is flat, with some small quarry hollows. There are low remains of very denuded stone wall (W c.2m) E of the 'turret', roughly level with interior and falls off downslope. There is a lot of outcrop protruding all around the site, not forming any defineable line. Just off the crest there is a slight lip formed of loose stones on N side (H c.1.2m). S side of hill is overgrown with gorse.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008