What is recorded here

Eight floors of limestone rise through a conical roof above St Macullin’s graveyard, their walls thinning from 1.4m to 0.9m as they climb toward the sky. A trap door hangs beneath the first landing, opening into a basement no wider than a room, while narrow slits admit pale light across the upper chambers. William Reeves restored the roof in 1860, but the tower itself has watched Lusk for centuries, detached yet joined to the belfry like a shadow cast by stone.

Located within St Macullin's graveyard, the round tower forms a detached north-east turret to the 15th century belfry tower at Lusk. It is built of coursed limestone masonry and contains eight floors under a conical roof (H c. 34m). The wall is slightly battered and the thickness of the wall is reduced from the bottom to the top (T 1.4m-0.9m). The tower is entered in the ESE through a doorway which has a plain moulding. A trap door in the interior provides access to the basement of the tower (int. dims.2.2m-2.5m). The interior is lit by narrow slit opes (Healy 1975, 20; Barrow 1975, 65-67, 8:10 (03)). The conical roof was restored in 1860 by William reeves, rector of Lusk at the time. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 15 December 2014

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