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 157
are extremely Ioav, as in the pagan forts and houses. As an example of these most interesting structiues, Avhich, thehistorian of Kerry truly says, may possibly challenge even the RoundTowers as to point of antiquity, I annex a view of the oratory at <>V rilK Rdl^XD TOWERS OK IHKI.AXI). 1 Mi… … This orator}, which is wholly built of the green stone of the district,is externally twenty-three feet long by ten broad, and is sixteen feethigh on the outside to the apex of the ppamid. The dooi-way. whichis placed, as is usual in all our ancient churches, in its west-end wall,is five feet seven…
Church architecture · Round towers
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