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 268
f the monks or clergy ofa neighbom-ing establishment effected the expulsion of himself andhis monks from Ratliain in the year 630, by the jirince of the country,Blathmac, the son of the monarch Aedli Slaine; and, after havingwandered for some time from place to place, he ultimately formeda second… … It is not, however, to this distinguished man that I am disposedto attribute the erection of the present church at Rathain, but to one OF THE ROUXI) TOWERS OF IRELAND. 245 wlio flourished nearly two centuries later, and whose name has beenalso venerated as that of the patron of the jilace,—an…
Church architecture · Round towers
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