What is recorded here
Freestanding three-stage round-plan castellated tower, built c.1860. Parapet with machicolations. Dressed limestone water spouts. Roughly-coursed snecked rubble limestone walls. Square-headed window openings with dressed limestone surrounds. Tower surrounded by metal palisade fence.
Built as a folly for Barnane House, and known as Rock Tower, this picturesque tower forms part of an interesting group of former demesne-related structures, with the ornamental walled garden, gate lodges and ruins of the main house.
From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 22402803
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