round tower

noun

a freestanding circular stone belfry built in Ireland from the 10th century beside a monastery and used as a place of refuge

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He telephoned the Archives and I was buzzed through a locked door to climb up several hundred stone steps to the Round Tower.

He stood in the kitchen of the Round Tower chatting amiably over instant coffee with the different staff members and researchers.

To write my previous books, I did months of research in the Royal Archives, in the Round Tower of Windsor Castle.

In one section there is a huge square tower four stories high; in an adjoining section, a large well-built round tower.

The only sign that human creatures had ever been near the spot was a large round tower which rose up in the centre of the plain.

Figure 168 represents two Egyptian deities in worship before an emblem of the male, which closely resembles an Irish round tower.

About the middle of the area is a round tower, which was the keep or citadel.

A village about six miles from Ballycastle, where there is a round tower.

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