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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 316

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ding itself; asin the following example in Cormacs Glossary, at the word Qicoe : Qicoe, .1. ecDoe ^pece aeDipiciuin 6acine, .1. cumoac. Aicde, i.e. ecdoe Irecte ix^oui] Gro3ce, cedificium Latine, i. e. cumoach. And, in like manner, the verb curhoaijim is used to translate theLatin condo, with which… … In its general plan, as above shown, Cormacs chapel exhibitsmany points of resemblance with the earlier stone-roofed churchesof the Irish, as in its simple division into nave and chancel, and inthe crofts or apartments placed over them; but, in most other re-spects, it is totally unlike them, and…

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