Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Round tower
Swords Glebe, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Swords Glebe
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Round Tower
- Coordinates
- 53.45765, -6.22447
- SMR number
- DU011-034005-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Associated with the monastic enclosure is a round tower which rises to four storeys and is entered in the east through a lintelled doorway with inclined jambs (dims. H.26m, wall Wth 1.30m, int. diam 2.40m). The interior is lit by plain square-headed opes above the doorway and at same level in the N and S. There is a corbelled roof over the first floor with timber floors on second and third. The upper portion of the tower is a later reconstruction and topped with an undecorated Latin cross (DU011-034006-).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 08 January 2015
Nearby in the register
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.