Chapter 4: Eanach Dúin (Annaghdown) to Coill Beag
- Parish of Annaghdown
- Disaster of Annaghdown
- Monastery and Abbey
- Nunnery
- Bellhouse
- Annaghdown Castle
- Craobh Castle
- Kilcoona Round Tower
- St. Cuana
- Cloch-an-Uabhair Castle
- Lee's Island
- Cnoc Ferry and Coill Beag
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In the "Annals of the Four Masters" we find the following entry:
"A.D. 1238, the Cloictheach of Annadown was erected." This is the
latest notice of a Cloic Theach, "bell house" or round tower, erected
in Ireland,
and antiquarians have anxiously sought for it; but after a rigorous
scrutiny on several occasions, we have not been able to discover the
slightest vestige of any such structure in or about the ruins of
Eanach Dúin; and the hypothesis that the foregoing notice might refer
to a square belfry like that at Baile Chláir na Gaillimhe Friary, is
quite untenable.