Tower towering over a tower towering over Ballyfin?
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Where: Leinster, Leix, Ireland
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This strange edifice with the bizarre tower upon a tower in the Irish Tourist Association's Collection is one we have not seen before AFAIK? One would have expected it to appear in the Lawrence or Eason collections. What was it for and does it still exist?
Photographer: Irish Tourist Association Photographer
Collection: Irish Tourist Association Photographic Collection
Date: 1940
NLI Ref: NPA ITA 1316 (Box VI)
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Photographer: Irish Tourist Association Photographer
Collection: Irish Tourist Association Photographic Collection
Date: 1940
NLI Ref: NPA ITA 1316 (Box VI)
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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Rory_Sherlock
Still there, on Ballyfin Demesne, Co Laois: www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/12801...
suckindeesel
https://flic.kr/p/2no6WV4 Is Tomcooney
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It must have been restored recently, and, joy of joys, there is a googleball up there. Wow! - 👀 maps.app.goo.gl/n8R4SZPKLCtbL6Aa8 👀
suckindeesel
We were here recently https://flic.kr/p/2p8GaQW Ballyfin House
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" ... When it comes to follies, the jewel in the crown at Ballyfin is the Round Tower. It looks old because it was built that way, as a ruin. They say that from the top you can see 16 counties. It’s a pleasant thing, as a couple of our fellow-guests did, to take a book up to the little room at the top and while away an hour or two before wandering back down to the house for coffee and a scone, mid-morning. ..." From a wonderful description of the demesne in 2018 - roaringwaterjournal.com/2018/05/20/ballyfin-bliss/
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32162360@N00/ Think "they" might have been spoofing about being able to see 16 counties, even on the very finest of days...
oaktree_brian_1976
Is it related to that semaphore one from a few days ago?
oaktree_brian_1976
It's a "folly", this is an interesting read: www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2012/08/follies/3/
oaktree_brian_1976
It appears to be owned by the Molex company's owner (known to computer nerds as the origin of the molex connector) www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/architecture-de...
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/66151649@N02 Thanks very much, Brian.