Aughagower Round Tower, Ireland
This afternoon I am reporting on the one thousand year old Aughagower Round Tower in Mayo, west of Ireland. To the writer's mind there are similarities in architecture between Aughagower and Abernethy Round Tower in Scotland. The following information was sourced from the Mayo-Ireland website : Quote Aughagower round tower was built between 973 and 1013 AD. It is 16m high and well preserved up to the fourth floor and open to the sky having no roof. Brian Boru, High King of Ireland, built 32 round towers across Ireland and the one in Aughagower was among them. The squared and hammer dressed blocks used to erect it and the semi-circular headed doorway are two architectural features that typically belong to the masonry of the Middle and Late period. The original round-headed doorway faces East and stands at 2.2m above the present ground level. It is about 1.5m high and 65cm wide. In recent centuries a second doorway facing North-West was inserted at ground level; it is 1.6m high an...