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Balla Round Tower
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Archaeological monument (SMR)

Balla Round Tower

In Irish: Cloigtheach Bhalla

On the Sites and Monuments Record
RRound tower
DirectionsIts record on the heritage map ↗
About

About Balla Round Tower

The Sites and Monuments Record lists Balla Round Tower, in Balla. 6 other places on the record stand within 400 m.

SMRSee it on the heritage mapIts entry in the Sites and Monuments Record, on the State’s heritage map · MA090-024004-↗

The Sites and Monuments Record lists it as an archaeological site; it has a page here because it has an encyclopedia article.

Visit

Make it a walk: 5 historic places in about 15 minutes

Balla · about 800 m on foot, as the crow flies

DirectionsWalk the tour in Google Maps
  1. 1Balla Round TowerStart here
  2. 2Athavallie House (farmyard complex)Regional rating (NIAH) · 200 m on
  3. 3Athavallie House (walled garden)Regional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
  4. 4Athavallie House (country house)Regional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
  5. 5Holy Trinity Church (Balla)Regional rating (NIAH) · 300 m on
Farther afield
Bank of IrelandRegional rating (NIAH)400 mSaint Cronan's Catholic ChurchRegional rating (NIAH)400 mBalla Railway StationRegional rating (NIAH)1.1 kmRockstownRegional rating (NIAH)1.1 km
Around it

3 within 150 m

Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.

RegWater pump, Market Square, Balla50 mRegNally Monument69 mRegAthavallie House (gates / railings / walls)71 m

Questions about Balla Round Tower

Is Balla Round Tower on the National Inventory?

It is on the Sites and Monuments Record (MA090-024004-), the State’s list of archaeological sites.

Can you visit Balla Round Tower?

It can be seen from the street; whether you can go inside depends on its owner.

Is Balla Round Tower protected?

Being on the National Inventory or the Sites and Monuments Record is a record, not protection by itself: buildings are protected by their council’s Record of Protected Structures, which each council keeps and no national open list gathers, so this page can’t say which are on it.

Source: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage and Sites and Monuments Record, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata (CC0).

Sources: Sites and Monuments Record and the National Monuments Service’s monuments to visit · Photos: Wikimedia Commons, including the National Library of Ireland’s collections, each credited with its licence and copied to our own server · Wikidata (CC0) for other names and articles. Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).

Contains Central Statistics Office (CSO) data, Census 2022, and Tailte Éireann boundaries (CSO Urban Areas, Small Areas, local electoral areas, constituencies), under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).