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Monasterboice, Co. Louth, Ireland
Celtic High Cross and round tower at the cemetery of Monasterboice. That hole part way up the tower is actually the front door. Round towers, most around 100-feet high, were built at Irish monasteries in the 11th and 12th centuries to protect against ever-increasing Viking incursions. They served as watchtowers against Norse raiders, and is the plunderers got too near, the monks would grab their most precious manuscripts and such, scurry up the ladders to these doors 15 to 20 feet above the ground, then pull the stairs up after them and just sit, waiting out the sacking and the pillaging. Co. Louth, Ireland.

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