Coolcroo Castle, County Tipperary

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Situated on flat pasture with extensive views. The poorly preserved remains of a possible T-plan tower house (ext. dims. 3.5m N-S; 10.9m E-W; wall T 1.55m) the N half of which survives to first-floor level only. The walls are constructed with roughly coursed limestone rubble with prominent base-batter. A small tower projecting from the N wall survives to second-floor level and contains a garderobe, the outlet of which is visible at base of the N wall. The ground floor has a barrel-vaulted chamber orientated on an E-W axis, with a small recess containing a slit ope and a gun loop in the N wall and a secret chamber over the recess at mezzanine level. This secret chamber is accessed from the first-floor chamber in the N tower. Mural stairs in the E wall lead to a lobby in the NE angle which accesses the first-floor chamber and the smaller chamber in the N tower from which the garderobe and upper tower chambers are reached. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record TN042-048

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