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signal tower — Inis Mór [Inishmore]

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signal tower — Inis Mór [Inishmore]
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Freestanding two-bay two-stage signal tower, built 1804-6, on a square plan. In ruins, 1898. Roof now missing. Rendered battered walls retaining sections of slate hung finish. Square-headed window openings with lichen-spotted cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings with no fittings surviving. Interior in ruins. Set in shared grounds with piers to perimeter having lichen-spotted cut-limestone shallow pyramidal capping supporting flat iron gate.

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