What is recorded here

Half a kilometre north of Clonmoyle House, a roofless square tower still stands on its made mound, four broken arches pointing at the Dripsey River like a chest thrown open to the sky. Local story gives it a sharper edge: built to mark a Colthurst boy lost at Trafalgar, so the house could keep watching the water for him. The arches have lost their tops, but the mound has not forgotten its shape.

Mid/late 19th-century roofless square tower (3.25m NW-SE; 3.25m NE-SW); one-storey with high parapet wall. On top of a man-made mound on high ground overlooking Dripsey River to N and Clonmoyle House (9647) further to N. Four tall stone arched opes (top of arches collapsed) in each of ground floor walls above which are occuli on SE and SW walls. Fireplace in E corner; parapet wall coped with oversailing stones. According to local information, built to commemorate the death of member of Colthurst family at Battle of Trafalgar. 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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