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Irish Round Towers were built from the 800 A.D. to 1000 A.D. period, during the Viking invasions. They were built near churches of monastic sites, for the safety of clergy, shrines and treasures: also as watch towers and belfries....

This tower was built in the 1300's and is the only remaining part of the old Abbey, which was once here and the Chapel of which Brian Boru was waked after his death in the Battle of Clontarf in 1014....