Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Round tower
Mollaneen, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mollaneen
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cloigtheach Round Tower
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cloigtheach (in Rns) (1920)
- Coordinates
- 52.90927, -9.06876
- SMR number
- CL025-091003-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in a graveyard (CL025-091002-) just 2m NW of the Romanesque church (CL025-091001-) at Dysert O’Dea. The much ruined remains of a round tower surviving on one side to a height of c. 18m and narrowing as it rises. It is 18.5m in circumference at base (diam. c. 5.89m) and its walls (T 1.25m) are composed of roughly coursed limestone blocks. A round-headed doorway with inclined jambs at E (Wth 0.95m) is 2m over external ground level and is well preserved. A single ogee-headed window is close to the top of the wall at NW. There is a rebate over the ground floor. A breach to NW at ground level, supported by a pillar or masonry may represent a late entrance, introduced when the medieval window was installed in the upper wall. The external wall near the breach displays evidence of burning. This is a national monument in State care, no. 16. (Westropp 1894, 155-6; Barrow 1979, 60-61; Ó Murchadha 1993, 36-42; Lalor 1999, 111-12)
The following images are uploaded:
CL025-091003-_01.jpg Round tower from E.
CL025-091003-_02.jpg Round tower from S showing church adjacent.
CL025-091003-_03.jpg Round tower from NE.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 7 September 2017
References
Lalor, B. 1999 The Irish round tower. Wilton, Cork. Collins Press.
Westropp, T.J. 1894 Churches with round towers in Northern Clare. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries 24, part 3, 332-40.
Barrow, G.L. 1979 The round towers of Ireland: a study and gazetteer. Dublin. The Academy Press.
Ó Murchadha, S. 1993 Diseart Tola and its environs, part II. The Other Clare 17, 36-42.
Nearby in the register
- Tomb - effigialunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.