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Round Tower in Town Parks

Round tower
Round Tower in Town Parks
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The round tower is SW of the present Church of Ireland church and the likely site of the daimhliag. It is now incorporated into the masonry wall of the graveyard (ME017-04434-). It was extant in 1076 as in that year Murchadh O’Melaghlin, King of Tara, was murdered in it (Cogan 1862-70, 1, 41). It is constructed on a plinth resting on rock outcrop. The entrance doorway on the N side is 1.5m above the raised level of the graveyard and is round-arched and of sandstone. The tower (int. diam. 2.6m at the doorway) has five floors and has five pointed windows at the top. The conical cap is missing. (Barrow 1979, 168) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 2 July, 2014
The round tower is SW of the present Church of Ireland church and the likely site of the daimhliag. It is now incorporated into the masonry wall of the graveyard (ME017-04434-). It was extant in 1076 as in that year Murchadh O’Melaghlin, King of Tara, was murdered in it (Cogan 1862-70, 1, 41). It is constructed on a plinth resting on rock outcrop. The entrance doorway on the N side is 1.5m above the raised level…

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME017-044013

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Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Nigel Thompson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Mark Duncan, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Oliver Gargan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; XNukes, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Picea_breweriana_Canyon_Creek_Lakes_1.jpg : Tom Hilton derivative work: MPF, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0; Christian Pirkl, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 at; Robert Adam, Wikimedia Commons · Creative Commons Zero, Public Domain Dedication; Kieran Campbell, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0; Garry Dickinson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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