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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 155

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The next example is of somewhat later date, being one of the Imnsesei-ected by the celebrated St. Fechin, who floiuished in the se\entli … century, at his little monastic establishment on Ard-Oilean, or HighIsland, off the coast of Connamara, in the county of Galway. Thisbuilding, hke the preceding one, is square in the interior, and measiu-i-s s 2 . 1 :V2 INQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN AND USES nine feet by seven feet six inches in height;…

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