Castle of Garran, Queen's Co.y

Revd. Mr. Seymour delint. ; A.C. pinxt. 2 Nov.r 1794
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Bibliographic Details
Main Creator: Cooper, Austin, 1759-1830, artist
Contributors: Seymour Reverend
Summary:View of Garran Castle (probably built in the 16th century), County Laois, Ireland, showing a machicoulis on one of the narrow sides (presumably over a non-visible doorway). There is also a baritzan high up at parapet level on one corner of the building. To the building's right are the remants of some tall building beside it
Format: Prints & Drawings
Language:English
Published / Created: 1794
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Notes:Another copy of this drawing by Gabriel Beranger (ca.1730-1817) is preserved in the Royal Irish Academy's manuscript 3.c.30, page 48. This was published in Peter Harbison's Beranger's View of Ireland (Dublin, 1992), page 61. A smaller version, in round format, is in a private collection in Dublin

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

Image within ink frame diam. 14.7 cm. Watermark u.l. on sheet is too indistinct to make out anything

Title inscribed in ink l.c. on sheet

Physical description: 1 drawing diam. image 14.4 cm., on sheet 18.3 x 26.7 cm.

Citations/References: Archaeological Inventory of County Laois / P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. - Dublin, 1995 page 114, No. 955 (under Garranmaconly)

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Coo 2122 TX (2) 65
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