Stretching up 23m and featuring a single lofty window, the magnificent Turlough Round Tower, a short distance northeast of the National Museum of Country Life, is a robust 11th-century structure crowning a hilltop beside a ruined 18th-century church.
Turlough Round Tower
County Mayo
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