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Monastery · Glendalough, Ireland

The Round Tower and monastic city

A sixth-century monastic settlement in a glacial valley, with a 30 m round tower whose door is four metres off the ground for reasons nobody has to explain twice.

Lough NeaghGlendalough, IrelandSnowdon — 1,085 mCarrauntoohil — 1,038 mDublin, IrelandThe Aran Islands (Inis Mór), IrelandDingle, IrelandGalway, IrelandEryri / Snowdonia (Betws-y-Coed), United KingdomGlendaloughSnowdon 1,085 mCarrauntoohil 1,038 mIRISH SEADublinGalway
The Round Tower and monastic city is in Glendalough, and this is Glendalough — the atlas draws Europe in one projection whose finest unit is about four kilometres, so it maps the town rather than the street. The frame is about 590 km across and 210 km deep at this latitude. Coastline from Natural Earth, public domain. The full map →

Give it 2 hours · Open year-round · 53.011°N, -6.327°E

Accessibility

Not documented. EuropeDoor holds no step-free access, hearing loop or accessible toilet information for any place, and inventing it would be worse than the gap — the position in full.

Getting there

Dublin to Galway and Cork by train is easy; everything else really wants a car, and the small roads are small. All of Ireland →

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Glendalough · Dublin & the East · Ireland

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The record

What this atlas holds about The Round Tower and monastic city, and nothing it does not.

Kind
Monastery
Give it
2 hours
Season
Open year-round
Where
53.011°N, -6.327°E
In
Glendalough