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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 288

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The manner in which these stones lay upon each other will ap-pear from the annexed diagram, as drawn by Monsieur Beranger;and it should be remarked, that the angle of the two sculptuiedfaces of these stones is much greater than a right angle, as in thoseof the arch on the Priests House already… … The two illustrations which follow represent the two sides of thestone, described, erroneously as I think, by Archdall, as being appa-

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