Dysert O'Dea round tower

Situated in a graveyard (CL025-091002-) just 2m NW of the Romanesque church (CL025-091001-) at Dysert O’Dea. The much ruined remains of a round tower surviving on one side to a height of c. 18m and narrowing as it rises. It is 18.5m in circumference at base (diam. c. 5.89m) and its walls (T 1.25m) are composed of roughly coursed limestone blocks. A round-headed doorway with inclined jambs at E (Wth 0.95m) is 2m over external ground level and is well preserved. A single ogee-headed window is close to the top of the wall at NW. There is a rebate over the ground floor. A breach to NW at ground level, supported by a pillar or masonry may represent a late entrance, introduced when the medieval window was installed in the upper wall. The external wall near the breach displays evidence of burning. This is a national monument in State care, no. 16. (Westropp 1894, 155-6; Barrow 1979, 60-61; Ó Murchadha 1993, 36-42; Lalor 1999, 111-12)