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Currane Tower

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Currane Tower
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Freestanding two-storey folly tower, c. 1810, on a square plan.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 10301918

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Picture notes
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Computer-made picture. It does not show this playground.
  • Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Miguel Angel Masegosa Martínez, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
  • liam murphy, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • VisionsofthePast, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • liam murphy, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Alex Passmore, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • kevin higgins, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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