Drishane Castle, Co.y Cork

Jon. Fisher delin ; Jo. Turner pin Nov. 1794
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Bibliographic Details
Main Creator: Turner, Joseph Reverend ca. 1772-1835, artist
Contributors: Fisher, Jonathan, d. 1809, artist
Summary:View of a five-storey tower house at Drishane, near Millstreet, County Cork, Ireland. It shows the tower on a raised plinth reached by a set of steps, and with a curious, conical-roofed turret beside it
Format: Prints & Drawings
Language:English
Published / Created: November 1794
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Notes:A similar copy by Gabriel Beranger (ca. 1730-1817), in watercolour, is preserved in Ms. TX 1958 in the National Library of Ireland. There is another copy also by Beranger, but in circular format, in a private collection in Dublin

From: Antiquities of Abbeys, Castles & c. & c. in Ireland, Vol. II

Image within a circular ink frame 14.7 cm. Watermark u.l. on sheet is I S

Title inscribed in ink l.c. on sheet

Physical description: 1 drawing diam. image 14.6 cm., on sheet 18.3 x 26.7 cm.

Citations/References: The Castles of County Cork / James N. Healy. - Cork/Dublin, 1988 pages 328-331

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