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On the E side of the road leading S from Killarney, 300m SE of Flesk Bridge. A square building (5m x 5m; H c. 8m; walls 0.6m thick) with an attached circular tower, containing a spiral stone stairs (int. diam. c. 1.35m), midway along its N side (see plans in Bary 1996, 32). It has a cruciform slate roof with each wall…

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On the E side of the road leading S from Killarney, 300m SE of Flesk Bridge. A square building (5m x 5m; H c. 8m; walls 0.6m thick) with an attached circular tower, containing a spiral stone stairs (int. diam. c. 1.35m), midway along its N side (see plans in Bary 1996, 32). It has a cruciform slate roof with each wall rising to a gable, and contains two floors with an attic; the building was partially restored in the mid-1990s. The ground floor window on the W wall incorporates a limestone sill from a mullioned window, and two chamfered jambs. These are of late 16th/early 17th-century date. Some of the quoin stones have similar tooling marks and are probably of the same date. However, the building itself appears to be a late-18th/early-19th century ornamental tower, but incorporating these earlier fragments whose origin is unknown.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KE066-134

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