Lisheen House is gone, demolished at some point after its last recorded use as a family seat, and replaced with the kind of modest domestic building that marks the end of many such stories across rural Ireland. What survives is a single 19th-century drawing and a handful of archival references, enough to sketch the outline of what was lost.

The site has a longer history than the Georgian facade might suggest. The Civil Survey of 1654 to 1656, which recorded land ownership in the years around the Cromwellian confiscations, noted that in 1640 there had been 'a good thatcht house with stone walls' at a place recorded as 'Lissin Irea', owned by 'Theobald Bourke of Lissin Irea Irish Papist'. That thatched, stone-walled structure may well have been absorbed into whatever building came later, a common enough practice in Irish rural architecture where earlier fabric was simply built around or over rather than cleared away. By the 19th century, the house had taken on the form visible in the surviving drawing: a late Georgian composition of five bays and three storeys over a basement, with two central chimney stacks and a hipped, overhanging roof. The style is recognisably of its period, symmetrical and restrained, the kind of house that announced modest landed prosperity without excessive display. At that time it was the seat of Sir J. J. Fitzgerald, Baronet, as Samuel Lewis recorded in 1837. The drawing also shows a secondary structure at a right angle to the rear of the house, though whether this was a two-storey return or a detached outbuilding is not possible to determine from the image alone.

Nothing of the house now remains on the ground. The interest here is less in any physical remnant than in the layered nature of the site itself, a place where a Gaelic landowner's thatched dwelling, a Georgian gentleman's residence, and an entirely ordinary modern bungalow occupy, in sequence, the same patch of Tipperary ground.