Kinneigh Round Tower

Just outside the SW corner of Kinneigh graveyard (CO094-104003-), on the site of a monastery founded by St Mo-Cholmog. This round tower is comprised of a unique hexagonal base standing to a height of 18 feet (5.48m; Caulfield 1879, 16), with the remainder cylindrical portion of the tower surviving to a height of 67 feet 3inches (20.50m; Crawford 1927, 67). It is built of roughly-dressed slaty stones, and is entered by a lintelled door (H 1.45m; Wth 0,71m tapering to 0.61m) on the NE face of the hexagonal base, at 1st-floor level. It is lit by four small square-headed windows placed at various height (H 0.38m to 0.5m; Wth 0.3m). The tower now survives to six storeys but was originally taller, possibly with an additional floor, and the characteristic conical cap that some round towers display (Ibid.), though that is not a universal feature. An internal ladder leads to the top, which was altered in the 19th century to make a belfry for the adjacent Church of Ireland church. (Coleman 1894, 177-182 and 202-206; Buckley 1905, 135-8).

This is a National Monument in State Ownership (no. 618).