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Ireland's round towers : origins and architecture explored / Brian Lalor.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cork : The Collins Press, 2016.Description: 247 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
  • cartographic image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781848892644 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 726.59709415 23
Summary: Round towers are the only form of architecture unique to Ireland. The remains of over seventy survive, widely distributed throughout the island, from Cork to Antrim, in some of the most beautiful and historic areas of the country. They include the iconic towers at Cashel in Co. Tipperary and Glendalough in Co. Wicklow, Ireland's most-visited monastic site. This fully illustrated study views the round tower as an integral unit of an ecclesiastical complex, now mostly vanished, looking at its architectural design and construction, its function and landscape setting.
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4 Week Loan Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Library, Drogheda Merlin Park University Hospital, Galway Library Merlin Pk Galway ARC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available GM05070
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Originally published in 1999 (hardback) and 2005 (paperback).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Round towers are the only form of architecture unique to Ireland. The remains of over seventy survive, widely distributed throughout the island, from Cork to Antrim, in some of the most beautiful and historic areas of the country. They include the iconic towers at Cashel in Co. Tipperary and Glendalough in Co. Wicklow, Ireland's most-visited monastic site. This fully illustrated study views the round tower as an integral unit of an ecclesiastical complex, now mostly vanished, looking at its architectural design and construction, its function and landscape setting.

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