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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 342

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se, and nineteen feet five inches in height; and the inner, fifteenfeet eight inches in Avidth, and sixteen in height. The shafts of thecolumns,—which, with the exception of the outermost at each side,are semicircular,—are unornamented; but their capitals, which arerectangular, on a semi-circidar…

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