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Waterloo Round Tower

Ireland

The 186th tallest tower in the world

m

The Waterloo Round Tower is a folly bell tower in Waterloo village in Ballygibbon townland, 2 kilometers north of Blarney in county Cork, 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 round towers which are common in Ireland, but is otherwise unrelated to them.

Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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