Bibliographic Details
Main Creator:	Cooper, Austin, 1759-1830, artist
Summary:	View of the tower-house at Donore, near Killyon, County Meath, Ireland, with doorway beside the staircase in a circular turret at one corner. There is machicolation at roof level above the doorway. The roof seems to be thatched
Format:	Prints & Drawings
Language:	English
Published / Created:	1785
Subjects:	Castles & palaces > Ireland > Meath (County) > 1780-1790 Forts & fortifications > Irish > Ireland > Meath (County) > 1780-1790 Antiquities > Ireland > Meath (County) > 1780-1790 Ink drawings > Irish > 1780-1790 Wash drawings > Irish > 1780-1790
Notes:	From: Antiquities of Abbeys, Castles & c. & c. in Ireland, Vol. I Title inscribed in ink l.c. Image within a circular ink frame diam. 11 cm. Watermark u.l. on sheet is part of a shield with fleur-de-lys Physical description: 1 drawing diam. image 10.4 cm., on sheet 18.2 x 26.7 cm. Citations/References: An Eighteenth Century Antiquary : The Sketches, Notes and Diaries of Austin Cooper (1759-1830) / Liam Price. - Dublin 1942 Plate 40, left Citations/References: Irish Castles and Castellated Houses / H.G. Leask. - Dundalk, 1964 ed. page 77 Citations/References: Meath Tower Houses / Fiona Galway. - Ríocht na Midhe Vol. 7 (4), 1985-1986 pages 31-35 (this drawing reproduced on page 32) Citations/References: Archaeological Inventory of County Meath / Michael J. Moore (compiler). - Dublin, 1987 page 170, No. 1731 more
Credits:	Attributed to Austin Cooper