turlough round tower and church

A well-preserved round Tower which is lower and fatter than most examples. It had a round-headed doorway (now blocked up), and flat - and gable-headed windows. The church beside it, although built in the 18th century, incorporates a 16th century mullioned window and a small plaque with the Crucifixion dated 1625. The first church here was founded by St. Patrick and, because of this, the Archbishops of Armagh long claimed jurisdiction over it. But in 1351 the Pope authorised the Archbishop of Armagh to relinquish his rights over it to the Archbishop of Tuam. After the Dissolution it passed to the Bourkes, but some time after 1655 it came into the ownership of the Fitzgerald family.