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Round Tower through Window

The round tower at Glendalough as seen through a window of the nearby ruins of a church.

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Glendalough Lower Lake

Glendalough derives it’s name from the Irish name for the area, “Gleann Da Loch” which roughly translates as “glen of the two lakes”. It was a cold enough day so we only got a good look at the lower lake, but I’m looking forward to visiting again!

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]]> http://inphotos.org/glendalough-lower-lake/feed/ 12 Glendalough Round Tower http://inphotos.org/glendalough-round-tower/ http://inphotos.org/glendalough-round-tower/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2006 08:21:22 +0000 Donncha http://inphotos.org/glendalough-round-tower/ Glendalough Round Tower
Glendalough Round Tower

A Christian graveyard lies at the base of the round tower at Glendalough. Here’s a detail of a gravestone with the tower in the background.
Looking around, we saw graves from the 19th century, but I’m positive there are older graves.
Way back in 2004, I took some shots of the round tower at Ardmore and that town too. I was slightly nervous at Glendalough because I stumbled over a grave at Ardmore, hitting my Sony 717 off something and it died on me shortly afterwards. Thankfully the same didn’t happen in Wicklow!

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]]> http://inphotos.org/glendalough-round-tower/feed/ 5 Glendalough Bridge http://inphotos.org/glendalough-bridge/ http://inphotos.org/glendalough-bridge/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:19:26 +0000 Donncha http://inphotos.org/glendalough-bridge/ Glendalough Bridge
Glendalough Bridge

We spent last weekend driving – up to Bray in Co. Wicklow, visited Glendalough, The Sally Gap and promptly got lost a few times on the way to Avoca!
On Sunday we returned to Cork, but took a detour via Tullow and Carlow to visit Killkenny. We called to friends in Fermoy and arrived home late last night.
The N11 on the east coast is very impressive! Getting to Killkenny from Bray is a chore however. There are only secondary roads the whole way, but the scenery is amazing and we saw bits of the country we hadn’t been to before!
This is the first photo from that trip taken at Glendalough.
The round tower in the background was built sometime between the 8th and 12th centuries. Round Towers were built to protect monastic scriptures, gold and property from Viking raiders. The only entrance is far off the ground, and easily defended.

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