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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 349

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, appears from tlu inscribed tombstones atClonmacnoise to have been during the ninth and tenth centuries,after which I have seen no example of it on such monuments. Thelatest is that on the tombstone of Maelfinnia, who was probably theabbot ilaelfinnia, the son of Spellan, and grandson of Maenach,… … The inscription reads: • OROic t)0 maecFiHNia. A PRAYER FOR MAELFINNIA.Another characteristic ornament of more palpable meaning whichalso occurs in some of our oldest churches, is that form of cross some-times produced by the interlacing of two ovals, and at other timesmore complicated, being…

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