What is recorded here
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
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