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City saves old coins to restore medieval tower

Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2001 / December 05 2001: City saves old coins to restore medieval tower

A novel fund-raising drive featuring the "largest money box in Ireland" has been launched to restore Waterford's medieval French Tower on Castle Street. With the introduction of the euro approaching, people are being invited to deposit their old coins in the "money box" run by the Civic Trust, which has been placed in the centre of the old section of the city, on the corner of Arundel Square and Blackfriars Lane. The trust restored another of Waterford's six towers, Beach Tower in Jenkin's Lane, in 1996.

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