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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 158

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lesiastic, and reads as follows : 6ie co6Lim mec . . . niec. That is, THE STONE OF COLUM SON OF . . . MEL. It is greatly to be regretted that any part of this inscription shouldbe imperfect, but we have a well-preserved and most interesting ex-ample of the whole alphabet of this character on a… … I should observe that a drawing of this inscription, made by thelate Mr. Pelham, and which, he tells us, may be depended upon as acorrect copy, has been already pubhshed by General Vallancey in thesixth volume of his Collectanea, Part I.; and I may add, as a charac-teristic example of that…

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