Editing Father Mathew (section)

==Father Mathew's Tower==
In 1842, at his own expense, landowner William O'Connor built a castellated neo-Gothic stone tower to commemorate Father Mathew on what was then called Mount Patrick and is now known as Tower Hill in [[Glounthaune]] outside [[Cork (city)|Cork city]]. The tower, which was subsequently converted into a private residence, retains a number of its original features, including a life-sized statue of Father Mathew in the tower's garden.{{fact|date=April 2024}} Around 2014, the refurbished and modernised tower was sold for approximately one million euro.<ref>https://www.independent.ie/business/the-irish-rapunzel-style-castle-selling-for-less-than-a-million/29923827.html ''The Irish Rapunzel-style castle selling for less than a million '', Irish Independent, 17 January 2014</ref>  An eyewitness description of the tower, from the summer of 1848, is included in [[Asenath Nicholson]]'s ''Annals of the Famine in Ireland in 1847, 1848 and 1849''.<ref>{{cite book | title = Annals of the Famine in Ireland in 1847, 1848 and 1849 | publisher = Ulsterbooks | date = 2017 | pages = 184–193 | first = Asenath |last = Nicholson | isbn = 1910375632}}</ref>