Round Towers

In Ireland, some of the old monastic sites have round towers that were used to watch out for invaders and as refuges from them. We saw four at Monasterboice, Kildare Town, Glendalough, and Kilkenny. We got to climb two of them. Here is the one at St. Brigid's Cathedral in Kildare :




and the view from the top (the Wicklow Mountains are in the distance):