Turret, designed landscape in County Cork (CO099-013----)

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On 1842 OS 6-inch map as 'Turret' to W of Hoddersfield House (CO099-060---), in open fields. Ruined square structure (3.2m N-S; 3.2m E-W) entered by stone steps on E elevation. Interior infilled. Commanding view of sourrounding countryside. According to local information used as platform from which to shoot deer. Smith (1750, vol. 1, 209) refers to it as 'a gazebo, which commands a prospect of the harbour of Cork, the ocean, and a vast tract of sea coast'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO099-013

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