Lissen Hall, Co Tipperary – ruin

by jenjunebug

Lissen Hall, Co Tipperary

Lissen Hall, County Tipperary entrance front 1979, photograph: Wiliam Garner, Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland by The Knight of Glin, David J. Griffin and Nicholas K. Robinson, published by The Irish Architectural Archive and The Irish Georgian Society, 1988.

Mark Bence-Jones. A Guide to Irish Country Houses (originally published as Burke’s Guide to Country Houses volume 1 Ireland by Burke’s Peerage Ltd. 1978); Revised edition 1988 Constable and Company Ltd, London.

p. 189. “(Otway-Ruthven/IFR; Carroll/LGI1912) A fine 2 storey mid-C18 house , which Dr Craig considers to have been designed by the same architect or builder as Castle Otway, Co Tipperary. Five bay pedimented breakfront, elegant frontispiece of channelled ashlar, the impost-moulding binding the doorway to the windows on either side. High pitched roof. Now ruined.”

Listed in Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland by The Knight of Glin, David J. Griffin and Nicholas K. Robinson, published by The Irish Architectural Archive and The Irish Georgian Society, 1988. 

p. 136. A fine two storey mid Georgian pedimented house similar to Castle Otway in the same county. Very fine arched doorcase; built by the Otway family. Now a ruin.

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