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 279
reater antiquity of the nave,which, indeed, there is every reason to believe, if not of St. Kevinstime, is of an age very closely following it, is sufficiently indicated bythe Cyclopean character of its masonry,—of which I have given anexample at page 187,—audits massive doorway, placed in the… … Moreover, in the chancel there is no massive masonry in any part ofthe walls, and the stones, of which they are composed, seem all tohave been boulders or surface stones ; and those forming the quoinsin the east angles are of granite, not mica slate,—the stone of the dis-trict,^as in the angles of…
Church architecture · Round towers
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