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Collection: Reconstructed Kilcolman Gallery

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Tower House Bedroom. View from above with roof removed. The Study is in the south-east corner of the building. Note Irish-style crenellations around the ramparts.

Tower House Bedroom. View from north. Windows are more secure and hence larger on this floor than on lower levels of the tower house: the higher the floor, the more difficult they are to access. Larger windows also let in more light. The two doors on the left (east) wall lead to the stairs (up and down). Spenser's study can be seen through the door facing the viewer.

Tower House Bedroom. View from the south. In the foreground are Edmund and Elizabeth's curtained bed and wardrobe.

Tower House Bedroom. View of fireplace, window and ceiling. Wood paneling added decoration and helped to keep rooms warm.

Tower House Chapel. View from above. Windows face south and east.

Tower House Chapel. View from the east. A late-medieval mural fresco of St. Christopher, who holds the Christ child and is trampling a snake (representing the devil), are on the facing wall.

Tower House Chapel. View from the east. The entrance to the staircase, to the north, is on the right out of sight. A window is on the south wall. The make-shift altar (a table and cloth) stands beneath the east window. A small recess in the wall, or aumbry, containing a leather vessel for wine, a pewter plate and chalice (for religious services) can be seen on the right.

Tower House Chapel. View from the west of the east window. Spenser compares the 'lookes' of 'Cynthia', or Queen Elizabeth I, in his poem, 'Colin Clouts Come Home Againe', as being 'like beames of the morning sun,/ Forth looking through the windowes of the east,/ When first the fleecie cattell have begun/ Upon the perled grasse to make their feast.' (lines 604-07)

Tower House from above.

Tower House Parlor. View from above. The table has been set for eating. When not in use, it and the chairs were likely lined up against the walls.

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