{"id":1400,"date":"2013-03-27T21:44:38","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T20:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/?p=1400"},"modified":"2018-05-25T09:35:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T09:35:08","slug":"talbots-tower-well-worth-a-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/?p=1400","title":{"rendered":"Talbots Tower&#8230;..well worth a look"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for somewhere to go during Easter holidays? Why not check out one of Kilkenny cities newly reconstructed and conserved\u00a0 gems, Talbot&#8217;s tower, located on new\u00a0 street\/ Ormonde road. <br id=\".reactRoot[1].[1][2][1]{comment524768687566880_5726974}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[1]\" \/>This tower was built at the point where the south and west walls of Kilkenny met.<br id=\".reactRoot[1].[1][2][1]{comment524768687566880_5726974}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]\" \/>It was probably built around 1260 and was designed to protect the city from attack.<br id=\".reactRoot[1].[1][2][1]{comment524768687566880_5726974}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[5]\" \/>Its outward facing arrow loops and its stone roof can still be seen. the overall plan is to create a new city plaza adjacent to the tower and city walls. the marking of the city line walls\u00a0 project is also ongoing around the city.<\/p>\n<p>Under: view of Tower prior to recent renovation project<\/p>\n<div id=\".reactRoot[1].[1][2][1]{comment524768687566880_5726974}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[1]\"><a href=\"https:\/\/keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Talbots-Tower-deconstruction-plate-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1401\" alt=\"Talbots Tower deconstruction plate 1\" src=\"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Talbots-Tower-deconstruction-plate-12.jpg\" width=\"1755\" height=\"1168\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1403\" alt=\"Talbots Tower deconstruction plate 7\" src=\"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Talbots-Tower-deconstruction-plate-71.jpg\" width=\"642\" height=\"951\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/talbot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1404\" alt=\"talbot\" src=\"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/talbot1.jpg\" width=\"465\" height=\"620\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>Above :Tower under conservation with the\u00a0 moat having been excavated<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for somewhere to go during Easter holidays? Why not check out one of Kilkenny cities newly reconstructed and conserved\u00a0 gems, Talbot&#8217;s tower, located on new\u00a0 street\/ Ormonde road. This tower was built at the point where the south and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/?p=1400\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":10,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,10],"tags":[134,385,401,526,541,567],"class_list":["post-1400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cityscape","category-kilkenny-city","category-news","tag-city","tag-new-street","tag-ormonde","tag-talbots","tag-tower","tag-wall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3232,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions\/3232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}