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The ecclesiastical architecture of Ireland, anterior to the Anglo-Norman invasion; comprising an essay on the origin and uses of the round towers of Ireland, which obtained the gold medal and prize of the Royal Irish Academy (1845)

Petrie, George, 1789-1866 · Dublin : Hodges and Smith · leaf 110

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wer your queries. The feet of the skeletons were under or in a line belowthe door of the Tower, which faces the S. E. ; consequently the bodies lay from N. ^^^to N. E. (not West and East as in Report). The hollowing of the mason-work to receive the bodies you are to reject. Thatwas a fancy of my… … The semi-official statement, above alluded to, is as follows : Round Towers—Cloyne. A correspondent of the Southern Reporter thus writes—The announcement madein your last paper, so far as regards the proceedings of the South Munster AntiquarianSociety at Cloyne, mentions merely the operations of…

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