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 194
of cotempora-neous origin with the latter, which was erected by Bishop Lughach,one of the earliest propagators of Christianity in Kerry, but of whosehistory nothing luore is preserved than his name and festival day,the (ith of October, as set down in the Martyrology of Aengus, andin all the later… … It is the doorway of the church at Glendalough, popularly called OurLadys Church, and which, according to the tradition of the old na-tives of the place, as communicated to me many years since, was thefirst chui-ch erected in the lower part of the valley or city of Glenda- OF THE ROUND TOWEKS OK…
Church architecture · Round towers
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