Turlough : Round Tower
Visit Notes
Sunday, 6th July 2003
This is a beautiful specimen! Its proportions are perfect. It is no way what you would call a tall round tower - in fact its quite squat and chubby, but something about it is just right. It could be the proportions or it could just be the location, on a spur looking out over the river and valley below. Not even the reletively new looking church ruins next to it take anything away.
The stone conical roof is still present and beneath this the four windows, as usual facing the cardinal points, have pointed tops, echoing the shape of the tower. Perhaps it is this that makes it look so pleasing to the eye.
Unusually the doorway, which is raised up some 5m from the ground, is bricked up. I've not seen that before.
Monday, 1st June 2009
Another site that it's hard to believe I first visited nearly 6 years ago. The short, stumpy form of this round tower is still a surprise, but its high location makes it visible from a long way away. The entrance to the graveyard from the road is several meters lower then the base of the tower, adding extra height to the tower when you approach it.
Set into the wall of the ruined church next to the tower there is a slab dated to the 17th Century depicting the crucifixion .
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This is an explanation of (and a bit of a disclaimer for) the coordinates I provide. Where a GPS figure is given this is the master for all other coordinates. According to my Garmin these are quite accurate. Where there is no GPS figure the 6 figure grid reference is master for the others. This may not be very accurate as it could have come from the OS maps and could have been read by eye. Consequently, all other cordinates are going to have inaccuracies. The calculation of Longitude and Latitude uses an algorithm that is not 100% accurate. The long/lat figures are used as a basis for calculating the UTM & ITM coordinates. Consequently, UTM & ITM coordinates are slightly out. UTM is a global coordinate system - Universal Transverse Mercator - that is at the core of the GPS system. ITM is the new coordinate system - Irish Transverse Mercator - that is more accurate and more GPS friendly than the Irish Grid Reference system. This will be used on the next generation of Irish OS maps. |
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