It is located to the northwest of the city, approximately 3 km from the town of Blarney on the R617 road.

[1] The 1845 Ordnance Survey map shows a hamlet called Tower Village at the junction of the townlands of Coolflugh, Kilnamucky, and Cloghphilip in the civil parish of Matehy.

[4] By 1902, the Cork and Muskerry Light Railway (CMLR) branch line to Blarney had a station at Tower Bridge.

[8][9] A health treatment facility, "St Ann's Hydropathic Establishment", was founded in the area in the 1840s.

[10] It was served by St. Anne's railway station on the CMLR,[10] and described as having extensive grounds with "facilities for tennis, billiards, golf and fishing".