Sites and Monument Record: Inveravon Tower (SMR 397)
Description
All that remains above ground now is the outer semicircle of a tower of the castle. It measures 3.8m (12ft 4ins) in diameter and has walls 1.5m (5ft) thick. It is built of sandstone rubble in carefully laid courses of which 5 go to a height of 4ft. The whole is 17 courses in height. The tower contains a basement, vaulted with a segmental arch rising to 12ft 2ins, with access from a door on the west and lighted by two slit windows 5ft high with internal splays. To the east of the jamb is a third window, and in the upper part of the wall, above the door, is a square window. A scarcement, 5ft above the present floor level, indicates an intermediate floor, which cut the window lights about half way.
Unpublished excavations by EJ Price produced some 13-14th century material as well as later green-glazed ware 1978-196.
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