What is recorded here
Roadside octagonal tower incorporated into enclosing W wall of Castletownshend House. Three storey with embattled parapet; small narrow windows on all elevations, door ope in N wall. String course between storeys.
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO142-079001
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- MrCorman, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Christian Pirkl, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 at
- Garry Dickinson, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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