Download or read book Ireland s Round Towers written by Brian Lalor and published by Collins Books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to Ireland's unique form of architecture, the round tower. Fully illustrated, this book examines the architectural design, setting, and function of these towers.

Download or read book Ireland s Round Towers written by Tadhg O'Keeffe and published by Tempus Publishing, Limited. This book was released on 2004 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The round tower is Ireland’s most distinctive medieval monument. This book explores the towers’ qualities as works of architecture as well as examining their relationships with other buildings at the sites on which they stand. The author suggests how the towers were employed in ceremonies and other ritualised activities of the Viking Age church in Ireland. They prove to be crucial evidence in a new history of Irish Christianity between the Viking raids and the late 12th-century invasion.

Download or read book The Round Towers of Ireland written by Henry O ́Brien and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Round Towers of Ireland by Henry O ́Brien

Download or read book The Irish Round Tower written by Brian Lalor and published by . This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of this unique Irish structure, Including their construction, Architectural design and function

Download or read book The Irish Round Tower written by Brian Lalor and published by Origins and Architecture Explo. This book was released on 1999 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remains of over 70 Christian/early-medieval Round Towers survive in Ireland, with the bulk of them located north of the Dingle Peninsula and south of Lough Neagh. Many of those that remain are in association with surviving monastic settlements and are sited in some of the most beautiful and historic areas of the country.

Download or read book The Round Towers of Ireland written by Henry O'Brien and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Round Towers of Ireland written by Richard Smiddy and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Irish Round Towers written by Roger Stalley and published by Town House Trinity House. This book was released on 2000 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Glendalough in Wicklow to Kilmacduagh in Galway, and from Tory Island off the Donegal coast to Ardmore in Waterford, so-called round towers punctuate the Irish landscape in a memorable and often dramatic way. We know of the existence of over eighty examples, though it is likely that there were once many more, perhaps over a hundred in the country as a whole. While some have been restored, many survive as ruins, and a few are only known from historical sources. Most scholars believe that the Irish round tower must have been based on prototypes abroad, and there are depictions of round towers in ivories and manuscript illuminations, both European and Byzantine, from the sixth century onwards. But a century or more ago, the purpose of the towers was the focus of much speculation and eccentric theorising. For some they were fire temples, designed for sun worship; others saw them as primitive astronomical observatories. In Irish Round Towers Professor Roger Stalley looks into this and the other questions that surround these unique monuments to a lost time. Establishing the historical context of the towers, he asks: when were the towers built, who built them, and how were they built

Download or read book The Round Towers of Ireland written by Lennox Barrow and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Illustrations of the Round Towers of Ireland written by Henry O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Essay on the Druids the Ancient Churches and the Round Towers of Ireland written by Richard Smiddy and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pilgrimage in Ireland written by Peter Harbison and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1995-06-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The landscape of Ireland is rich with ancient carved stone crosses, tomb-shrines, Romanesque churches, round towers, sundials, beehive huts, Ogham stones and other monuments, many of them dating from before the 12th century. The purpose and function of these artifacts have often been the subject of much debate. Peter Harbison proposes in this book a radical hypothesis: that a great many of these relics can be explained in terms of ecclesiastical pilgrimage. He has constructed a fascination theory about the palace of pilgrimage in the early Christian period, placing it right at the center of communal life. The monuments themselves make much better sense if it looked at in this light—as having come into existence not through the practices of ascetic monks but because of the activities of pilgrims. He begins by searching the historical sources in detail for evidence of early pilgrimage sites. By examining their monuments he projects the findings to other locations where pilgrimage has not been documented. He goes on to describe monument-types of every kind and to identify pilgrims in sculpture surviving from before AD 1200. The Dingle Peninsula in Kerry proves to be a microcosm of pilgrimage monuments, enabling the author to reconstruct a tradition of maritime pilgrimage activity up and down the west coast of Ireland. Indeed, the famous medieval traveler's tale of the fabulous voyage of the St Brendan the Navigator can now be seen as the literary expression of a longstanding maritime pilgrimage along the Atlantic seaways of Ireland and Scotland, reaching Iceland, Greenland, and even North America.

Download or read book The Round towers of Ireland written by Henry O'Brien and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Towers and Temples of Ancient Ireland written by Marcus Keane and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Irish Round Towers written by Hector McDonnell and published by Wooden. This book was released on 2005 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Irish Druids and Old Irish Religions written by James Bonwick and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an ethnological study on the Druids and their religion.

Download or read book A New Interpretation of Irish Round Towers written by Barbara Freitag and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study presents evidence to establish a secular origin and function for the towers and to situate them as products of the period between the 10th to 12th centuries.