| At a Glance |
| County | Cork |
| OS Map | 73 |
| OS Coordinate | R 401 194 |
| Archaeological Inventory | Cork Vol. 4 Part 2 - North Cork |
| Inventory Reference | 14348 |
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Castlelishen Tower House, Co. Cork
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Location:
Dimensions: Rectangular tower 15.2m E-W, 9.3m N-S. Currently 3 stories tall but was originally higher.
Features:
The ground floor chamber is 6.5m E-W and 4.8m N-S which is lit by a double-splayed lintelled slit windows
in the west and south walls
The mural stair rises to the 1st-floor level and continues from there as spiral stairs.
The 1st floor chamber has a much damaged east wall and a breach at its southeast corner. This chamber is lit by slit windows
in the east and west walls. At the east end of the south wall there is the west side of a recess that may have been
a mural chamber with a garderobe. A pointed-arch door at the west end of the north wall leads to a vaulted mural chamber
over the doorway.
The first floor chamber has a vaulted ceiling (long axis is east-west). Little survives above this vaulted ceiling except for a
slender piece of the north wall which rises one more story.
History:
Other Items of Interest:
Wide round-arched opening (2.1 meters wide) at west end of north wall. This opening is not original
and leads to a small lobby which has a rebuilt opening that leads south to a ground floor chamber.
A second doorway in this lobby leads east to a straight mural stairs.