Carrigrenan Tower

Carrigrenan derives from the Irish Carraig Ghrianáin, combining carraig (rock) and ghrianáin (sun-related diminutive), literally meaning 'sun-rock' or 'rock of the sun.' The tower stands on the shore of Lough Mahon on Little Island in Cork Harbour, within the former grounds of Carrigrenan House, a 19th-century estate described in Samuel Lewis's 1837 Topographical Dictionary of Ireland as positi...