OF005-020---- Circular tower (diam. at base 5.6m; wall T 1.12m; H 19m) five storeys high built with coursed finely cut ashlar blocks of limestone on a protruding plinth. The top storey which was rebuilt in the medieval period has 8 rectangular slits. Round headed door at first floor level, facing SE. Conical cap now destroyed, wooden floors carried on corbels at every level. One simple flat headed window at second and third floors facing SW and N respectively. Locally known as O' Rourke's tower which according to the Annals of Clonmacnoise was built in the year 1124, the roof of which was struck by lightning in 1135 (Barrow 1979, 173-5). English soldiers carried off the bell of the Round tower in 1552 (Harbison 1972, 202-4). Depicted on the first two editions of the OS 6-inch map but not on the last edition. (Cooke 1875, 372; Monahan 1886, 66-8; Westropp 1907, 290; MacAlister 1910, 20-7; O' Flanagan 1933 vol. 1, 65)

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Spatial	The Round Tower, Clonmacnoise
Protection Type	National Monuments in State Care
Start Date	1101
End Date	1200
Period Name	12th Century AD
Materials	Rubble, Stone
Heritage Asset Type	Round tower