Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Dovecote
Kiltinan, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kiltinan
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Turret
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tower (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 52.43741, -7.65868
- SMR number
- TS070-101007-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In gently undulating, though relatively flat, terrain. Kiltinan castle (TS070-101004-) is located 200m to the NE. The NW side of the dovecote is built into a low slope (H above the exterior to the SE 3.45m; H above the exterior to the NW 1.7m). This circular structure (int. diam. 2.86m) is constructed of limestone rubble, roughly coursed (wall T 1.25m) with a steep stone corbelled roof (H c. 3m) which has a central circular opening of well-cut and dressed stones. The doorway (H 1.05m; Wth 0.95m) in the NE facing wall has a re-used jamb (L 0.55m; Wth 0.26m; D 0.32m) dressed with punch-tooling within drafted margins with an external chamfer (Wth 0.1m) and internal rebate (D 0.08m) and the lintel is a re-used sill or lintel (L at least 1m; Wth 0.21m; D 0.22m) of a single light window (Wth 0.49m) with an external chamfer (Wth 0.1m). The nesting boxes (H 0.15-0.16m; Wth 0.22-0.25m; D 0.27m) consisting of horizontal and vertical slabs, are largely broken, the best preserved being in the NW, SSW and above the doorway.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
- Sheela-na-gig (present location)under 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.