What is recorded here

Belfry is a circular stone tower built in 1836 by Fr. Matthew Horgan beside the RC Chapel in County Cork. John Windele designed it to rise higher, but money ran out and the top tapered abruptly under a parapet wall. Its carved doorway copies Nun's Chapel at Clonmacnoise, while rounded and triangular windows catch light across the finished stone. The sudden ending preserves more of Windele's intent than a completed tower would have.

Stone-built circular tower built in 1836 by Fr. Matthew Horgan (Mulcahy 1989b, 27), just SE of RC Chapel completed in 1817. Finely carved Hiberno-Romanesque style doorway, modelled on Nun's Chapel, Clonmacnoise; several window opes with rounded and triangular heads; top enclosed by parapet wall. Tower designed by John Windele (Windele 1844, 246); intended to be higher; taper towards top due to abrupt finishing after project ran out of money (ibid, 28). Similar tower at Whitechurch (CO063-095----). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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