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The round tower at Lusk was built in the 10th or 11th century. It stands 27 m high (originally nearly 32 m high). Inside are nine storeys including the basement making it the highest number of any round tower.
- Lusk Water Tower
Lusk Water Tower. Coordinates: 42°45′46.25″N 104°26′34.0″W....
- Lusk Water Tower
Discovered in 1969; only the 2.6 m foundations remain (unusually deep for an Irish round tower) Lusk: Dublin: Leinster: Complete to cornice 26.6 metres (87 ft) Full height but without cap; is attached to a church (which was built later) Maghera: Down: Ulster: Incomplete 5.4 metres (18 ft) Stump with a large hole in the side Meelick ...
- Ireland
- Bell towers
The round tower of Lusk was already built in the 9th century and offered protection to the monastery complex during the numerous Viking raids in this area. At first glance, the 27-metre-high round tower appears to be part of a belfry.
Lusk Water Tower. Coordinates: 42°45′46.25″N 104°26′34.0″W. The Lusk Water Tower was built in 1886 to provide water for steam locomotives on the former Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad, at Lusk, Wyoming. Lusk itself was built by the railroad at the same time.
- August 12, 1991
- 1886, moved 1919
- Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley Ra
- Along C & NW RR tracks across from US 20, Lusk, Wyoming
Lusk takes its name from the Irish Lusca, meaning "vault". The huge vault is below the round tower of Lusk, and holds the body of St. Macculindus, buried around 496, and about 18 bishops who succeeded him. The tower itself has six stories, each reached from below by an iron ladder. [10]
- 496
- Lusk, Dublin, Leinster
- 6 September
La torre circolare del monastero di Clonmacnoise, Irlanda. Le torri circolari (in inglese: Round Tower) sono delle torri di pietra edificate nell' alto medioevo soprattutto in Irlanda e in misura minore in Scozia . Benché fra gli studiosi non vi sia completo accordo sullo scopo delle torri, le ipotesi prevalenti sostengono fossero ...
LUSK HERITAGE CENTRE comprises of a round tower, a medieval belfry and a 19th-century church. they form a unit, although they were built over a period of almost a thousand years. the belfry now houses an exhibition on medieval churches of north county Dublin and also the magnificent 16th-century effigy tomb of Sir Christopher Barnewall and his ...
