An Irish View

By alexforsyth

Red Abbey

This is Cork's Red Abbey as seen from the back window of a house I was surveying today.

Over to Wiki...

...The Red Abbey in Cork, Ireland was a 14th century Augustinian abbey which took its name from the reddish sandstone used in construction. Today all that remains of the structure is the central bell tower of the abbey church, which is one of the last remaining visible structures dating to the medieval walled town of Cork.

Wiki goes on to say that it is a national monument which is maintained by Cork City Council...

Yup, that explains why the downpipe ends half way down the building, still out of sight out of...

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