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Attached four-stage round-plan tower, built c. 1220, part of curtain wall of medieval Dublin Castle. Extensively remodelled 1810-13. Lead-capped flat roof with central dome light, behind parapet with corbelled crenellations. Uncoursed rubble limestone walling, having stepped ashlar batter to northeast, coursed ashlar limestone walling to attached two-storey building south, both with crenellated machicolations, having widely projecting moulded corbel table to tower. Various square-headed window openings, with splayed reveals and mullions, and pointed-arch Y-tracery windows to south bow corridor separated by slender gable-capped buttresses, with timber sliding sash and casement windows. Two-storey structures to south linking to State Apartments to west and Chapel Royal to east.
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