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Waterloo Round Tower
The Waterloo Round Tower is a folly bell tower in Waterloo village in Ballygibbon townland, 2 kilometers north of Blarney in County Cork , county Cork,Republic of Ireland , Ireland. It is situated next to St. Mary's church on a hill, and overlooks the River Martin and the 18th-century Putland's Bridge which predates the tower. The tower was built in 1843 to resemble mediaeval Irish round tower , round towers which are common in Ireland, but is otherwise unrelated to them. History The foundation stone was laid on July 27, 1836 by a local parish priest, father Matt Horgan, based on the design by John Windele. The foundation was a gift to the parish by the landlord at the time, named Putland, after whom a nearby bridge is also named. Father Horgan, whose choice of the design was prompted by his studies of the origins of ancient Irish monastery towers, died in 1848 and is said to have been buried in the grounds of the church and the tower. Design The tower narrows towards the ...
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Record Of Monuments And Places
The Record of Monuments and Places (RMP; ga, Taifead ar Shéadchomharthaí agus Áiteanna) is a list of historical and archaeological sites the Republic of Ireland established under the National Monuments Acts. It can be consulted in county libraries and local authority offices and online and is maintained by the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht's National Monuments Service. Each site receives a symbol of the format XX00-001---, where XX are two letters to indicate the county. Subsites of a site are in the format XX00-00101-. For example, the Aghade Holed Stone (located in County Carlow) has the RMP code ''CW013-032---''. It is also National Monument number 347; the two numbering schemes are not connected. While many sites recorded on the RMP are protected under the National Monuments Acts, not all entries are automatically afforded heritage protection. See also * National monument (Ireland) * National Inventory of Architectural Heritage The National Invento ...
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