Designed landscape in Castlelishen, County Cork

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What is recorded here

Square tower, attached to farm building to ESE of Castle Lishen (14873). Two-storey, with rectangular door ope on SW elevation flanked by small rectangular ope. Window opes in 1st floor elevations. Pyramidal-type hipped roof with finial in centre. Known by owner as 'the tea house'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO006-020003

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