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Author | : Tadhg O'Keeffe |
Publisher | : Tempus Publishing, Limited |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
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The round tower is Ireland’s most distinctive medieval monument. This book explores the towers’ qualities as works of architecture as well as examining their relationships with other buildings at the sites on which they stand. The author suggests how the towers were employed in ceremonies and other ritualised activities of the Viking Age church in Ireland. They prove to be crucial evidence in a new history of Irish Christianity between the Viking raids and the late 12th-century invasion.
Author | : Brian Lalor |
Publisher | : Collins Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781848892644 |
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A guide to Ireland's unique form of architecture, the round tower. Fully illustrated, this book examines the architectural design, setting, and function of these towers.
Author | : Brian Lalor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2005-04 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781903464779 |
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The history of this unique Irish structure, Including their construction, Architectural design and function
Author | : Henry O ́Brien |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 534 |
Release | : 2018-05-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3732687643 |
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Reproduction of the original: The Round Towers of Ireland by Henry O ́Brien
Author | : Brian Lalor |
Publisher | : Origins and Architecture Explo |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
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The remains of over 70 Christian/early-medieval Round Towers survive in Ireland, with the bulk of them located north of the Dingle Peninsula and south of Lough Neagh. Many of those that remain are in association with surviving monastic settlements and are sited in some of the most beautiful and historic areas of the country.
Author | : Henry O'Brien |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 1834 |
Genre | : Ireland |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Richard Smiddy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 1876 |
Genre | : Round towers |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Roger Stalley |
Publisher | : Town House Trinity House |
Total Pages | : 47 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781860591143 |
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From Glendalough in Wicklow to Kilmacduagh in Galway, and from Tory Island off the Donegal coast to Ardmore in Waterford, so-called round towers punctuate the Irish landscape in a memorable and often dramatic way. We know of the existence of over eighty examples, though it is likely that there were once many more, perhaps over a hundred in the country as a whole. While some have been restored, many survive as ruins, and a few are only known from historical sources. Most scholars believe that the Irish round tower must have been based on prototypes abroad, and there are depictions of round towers in ivories and manuscript illuminations, both European and Byzantine, from the sixth century onwards. But a century or more ago, the purpose of the towers was the focus of much speculation and eccentric theorising. For some they were fire temples, designed for sun worship; others saw them as primitive astronomical observatories. In Irish Round Towers Professor Roger Stalley looks into this and the other questions that surround these unique monuments to a lost time. Establishing the historical context of the towers, he asks: when were the towers built, who built them, and how were they built
Author | : Lennox Barrow |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Ireland |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Henry O'Neill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1877 |
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ISBN | : |
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