What is recorded here

Indicated, Templemichael is a bawn on the east side of a promontory where the Glendine River meets the Blackwater River. The surviving corner tower stands beside a lost Fitzgerald tower house, its thin walls and blocked embrasure preserving only the edge of a larger domestic defense. Daniel Grose drew the same angular remains in the 1830s, proving that much of the bawn had already slipped back into the riverbank before anyone wrote it down.

Located on the E side of a short promontory (dims. c. 260m E-W at S; c. 200m N-S) jutting N into the confluence of the W-E Glendine River with the N-S Blackwater River. Templemichael is a Fitzgerald tower house (WA037-014001-) that was probably built in the 16th century, but the only evidence of its bawn is a corner tower just 4m to the NE. This is a circular tower (ext. diam. 5.1m; int. diam. 3.1m; H 3.7m over the bawn; ext. H 6.7m), entered through a rebuilt doorway at SW. Only one level survives with a wall recess and three embrasure, two with plain lights, the other blocked. Walls extending to the W and S may have formed the bawn wall, but they are not bonded to the tower. Daniel Grose illustrates the tower house and corner tower accurately from the 1830s (Stalley 1991, 51). Templemichael church site (WA037-013001-) is immediately adjacent to the W. Stalley, R. (1991) Daniel Grosse (c. 1776-1838): the antiquities pf Ireland. The Irish Architectural Archive. Dublin. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 07 October 2011

Templemichael was built by the Fitzgerald family in the 15th or 16th century. It is important as an example of a surviving tower house associated with one of the most influential Norman-descended families in Munster.

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