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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 164

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140 INQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN AND USES tomb, as is indicated in the engla^dug by the dotted lines, whichmark the portion now detached, and perhaps lost, though remaining in iVacfments when I sketched it. … This monumental stone was discovered about forty years agowithin a circular enclosure known as St. Brecans tomb, at a depthof about six feet from the sm-face, on the occasion of its being firstopened to receive the body of a distinguished and popular EomanCathohc ecclesiastic of the coimty of…

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