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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 188

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nearly midway betweenOughterard and Cong. This little church, though exhibiting theusual form of the larger chiuches,—having a nave, triumphal arch,and chancel,—is in its greatest external length only thirty-five feet sixinches. The interior of the nave is seventeen feet eight inches inlength, and… … That this church is of the age of St. Patrick, as is believed in thetraditions of the country, and as its name would indicate, can, Ithink, scarcely admit of doubt; for, though there is another churchon the island of beautiful architectiue, and of similar fonii and nearlyequal dimensions, and…

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