Glenbeigh Towers, country house in County Kerry

What is recorded here

Glenbeigh Towers in Kilnabrack Upper was a Victorian house that dressed as a medieval fortress, right down to a separate little fort with gun slits. Most people buying a house worry about the neighbours. This one allowed for a siege.

Remains of detached two-bay three-storey over raised base stone-built Medieval Revival style Victorian tower house with attic, built 1867-1871, with batter to base, single-bay three-storey engaged octagonal turret to south-east corner originally with octagonal spire, two-bay side elevation and originally with recessed gable ends to attic. Originally about a courtyard, burnt in 1922 and now ruinous and mostly collapsed with south-east corner remaining. Sandstone rubble stone walls with ashlar string courses and quoins. Sandstone ashlar surrounds to window openings with pointed, trefoil or square-heads having stepped sandstone sill courses. Remains of detached single-bay single-storey stone-built bastion, built 1867-1871, to west with base batter, gun loops and originally connected to main block with battered bawn wall, now ruinous. Remains of detached two-bay single-storey stone-built outbuilding, built 1867-1871, to north-east, now ruinous and mostly collapsed.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21306301

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