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 313
yle in the British empire. The erection (^f thiscluirch is popularly but erroneously ascribed to the celebrated king-bishop Cormac ]Mac CuUenan, who was killed in the battle ofBealach Mughna, in the year 908; and it is remarkable that thistradition has been received as true by several antiquaries,… … erected in the tenth or beginning of the eleventh century, by someof Cormacs successors in Cashel; but he adds, that it was priorto the introduction of the Norman and Gothic stjdes, for in everyrespect it is purely Saxon. Dr. Milner, from whose reputation as awriter on architectural antiquities, we…
Church architecture · Round towers
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