owlery

From owl +‎ -ery.

owlery (plural owleries)

1. (zoology) An abode or a haunt of owls.
   • 1850​ April 1​, Thomas Carlyle, “No. III. Downing Street.”, in Latter-Day Pamphlets, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 93:

     Or perhaps there is now no heroic wisdom left in England; England, once the land of heroes, is itself sunk now to a dim owlery, and habitation of doleful creatures, intent only on money-making and other forms of catching mice, for whom the proper gospel is the gospel of M‘Croudy, and all nobler impulses and insights are forbidden henceforth?

• owlery in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

• Lowery, Lowrey, Rowley, Worley, lowery, yowler