The Irish round tower
Subtitle: origins and architecture explored
By: Brian Lalor.
Publisher: Collins Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Wilton, Cork, Ireland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Church architecture -- Ireland -- Catalogs.; Round towers -- Ireland -- Catalogs.; Architecture, Medieval -- Ireland -- Catalogs.; Church architecture -- Ireland.; Round towers -- Ireland.; Architecture, Medieval -- Ireland.
Genres: Catalogs.
Description: "There has been much debate on the origin of the Round Tower, but few publications. This book, which makes a significant contribution to the debate, is the first for twenty years on the subject and only the second published during the twentieth century. In this fully-illustrated study the author views them as an integral unit of an often now-vanished ecclesiastical complex."--BOOK JACKET. "Their architectural design, construction, function and landscape setting are looked at in detail and the uniqueness of each Round Tower is described."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-242) and index.