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Timahoe Round Tower

Timahoe, County Laois

A tower with a doorway of carved heads with tangled hair.

Timahoe's round tower stands on the site of a monastery founded by St Mochua. It is famous for its doorway, high above the ground, carved in Romanesque style with heads whose beards and hair are knotted together.

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When
1100s
Where
52.9600, -7.2040
Group
Towers & follies

Visiting

Free, in the village, reached by a footbridge over a stream.

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