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Reginalds Tower?

  • 28-11-2012 01:44PM
    #1
    spankmemunkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,118 ✭✭✭


    Is this the oldest standing building in Ireland or the oldest standing tower in Ireland, I suppose newgrange must be older, so it must be the oldest standing tower that i heard or read somewhere?


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  • #2
    Finnbar01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,107 ✭✭✭Finnbar01


    It is the oldest civic building in Ireland.


  • #3
    spankmemunkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,118 ✭✭✭spankmemunkey


    What is a civic building?


  • #4
    mike65
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    One that is not used privately. The tower has been a mint and a prison for example.


  • #5
    Dicky Pride
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,322 ✭✭✭Dicky Pride


    And we almost lost it During the Civil war. A bunch of anti-treatyites left some explosives behind them after the pro-treaty legion advanced on the city. Luckily for us, they never exploded.


  • #6
    south
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    And the first building to use mortar in Ireland.


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  • #7
    Finnbar01
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    Has it still got the cannon balls in its walls?

    I remember there a few years back one fell out and hit an American tourist on the shoulder.


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