Tinnakill Castle

Situated in flat countryside on slightly elevated site. A four-storey high tower house (max. dims 10m NE-SW, 11.80m NW-SE, wall T 2.35m) built of roughly coursed limestone. Punch-dressed limestone blocks with finely dressed margins used as quoins and in windows and doorway indicating a late sixteenth or early seventeenth century date. There is a groin vault over second-floor level, other floors were of wood. Garderobes in NE angle, mural passage in SW wall, mural stairs in SW and SE walls. Sheela-na-gig (LA008-001002-) said to have come from here (JKAS 1904, Vol. IV, 205-15; JKAS 1920, Vol. IX, 262-3).