page_title: Island of Ireland Peace Park
section_title: Design
hierarchical_section_title: Island of Ireland Peace Park / Design
caption_attribution_description: Stone tablet beside the Irish Peace Tower in Flanders, Belgium, listing the counties of the island of Ireland symbolically run together. Photograph by User:Redvers originally from en:wikipedia, now transferred to Commons. Note that the photograph has been altered by the author since the original upload and that the licence status has changed from Own Work GDFL to the more explicitly free Own Work Public Domain All Rights Released.
context_page_description: The Island of Ireland Peace Park and its surrounding park, also called the Irish Peace Park or Irish Peace Tower in Messines, near Ypres in Flanders, Belgium, is a war memorial to the soldiers of the island of Ireland who died, were wounded or are missing from World War I, during Ireland's involvement in the conflict. The tower memorial is close to the site of the June 1917 battle of Messines Ridge, during which the 16th Division fought alongside the 36th Division.
context_section_description: The 110-foot (34 m) tower is in the traditional design of an Irish round tower and is partially built with stone from a former British Army barracks in Tipperary, the remainder of the stone from a work-house outside Mullingar, County Westmeath.
  The design has a unique aspect that allows the sun to light the interior only on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, the anniversary of the armistice that ended the war and the time for the minute's silence on Remembrance Day.
  A commemorative ceremony is held yearly in the park on Armistice Day in conjunction with similar ceremonies at the nearby multi-national Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres.
caption: The counties of Ireland, 
  symbolically run together.
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