At the most northern end of the western range a round tower could be seen on the summit of a hillock.
Petrie produces the earliest historical authority which satisfactorily proves the erection of a round tower in the sixth century.
The peculiar glories of Monasterboice are its crosses and its round tower.
A dozen men shut into a round tower, the door of which was generally from ten to fourteen feet from the ground, could laugh at an army of Danes who had neither battering rams nor artillery of any kind.
There are the remains of his oratory and house and of seven rude churches or chapels, together with a round tower and a holy well still in repute.
There are remains of a round tower at Aghadoe, near Killarney, and another, one of the finest and most perfect specimens in Ireland, 92 ft.
On one of them, by a church, is a round tower or fort, with a flag; the church is the successor of one battered down by Cromwell in 1649, in his frightful siege of the place.
They had also erected new batteries behind the Redan and behind the Round Tower.
The Garden and Redan Batteries came into play soon after we opened fire, but some time elapsed before the Round Tower or the Mamelon answered.
The Redan, Round Tower, Garden and Road Batteries, aided by the ships, lighted up the air from the muzzles of their guns.
The word Sithbhe is indeed given in both Lexicons, but explained a city, not a round tower.
The Irish word for a Round Tower is cloich-theach, or bell-house, and there is no proof that the Druids called any place of worship cloghad.
Beyond, on the highest point of the peninsula of St. Hospice, is a round tower, the remains of the fortifications razed by the Duke of Berwick in 1706.
On the western side rises the famous round tower of Constance, 96 ft.
Round Tower, a species of building peculiar to Ireland; that at Swords is here represented.
The day was so bright and pleasant that we decided to spend it somewhere in the country, and as we wanted to see a round tower, and as there is a very handsome one at Clondalkin, a few miles west of Dublin, we decided to go there.
Our first visit was to Turlough where there is a round tower with an iron gate quite close to the ground.
It has a round tower in good preservation, and an ancient church.
There are the ruins of Aghadon Castle on one ridge and the shrunk remains of a round tower.
Far, far off where the forest rose in a kind of mound, Freddie thought he could see what looked like the top of a round tower, just emerging above the haze of trees.
The generic Irish name for the round tower is Colcagh, fire-God; but the proper names designating particular towers are still more characteristic.
In every locality where a round tower stands, there linger among the peasantry traditions pointing to a use sacred but not Christian.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "round tower" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
