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Taghadoe : Round Tower

CountyKildare
Grid RefN 924 345
Longitude6° 36' 43.95" W
Latitude53° 21' 9.54" N
Nearest TownMaynooth (3.5 Km)
OS Sheet50
UTM zone29U
UTM x658923.74752685
UTM y5914158.5558935
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Visit Notes

Saturday, 15th December 2001

This is a lovely round tower. It is incomplete and maybe truncated but in this flat rural setting, next to it's tiny shell of a church, this place is quite picturesque.

The church has 'quaint' little crenelated turrets on its four corners offering some perverse mix of war and religion.

The tower and church are separated by about 2 m.

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