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 427
, I subjoin an illustration of the doorway of the Roiuid Tower … of Antrim. This doorway, which is placed at an elevation of abouttwelve feet from the giound, is constructed of large blocks of coarse-grained basalt fomid in the neighbourhood, many of the stones ex-tending the entire thickness of the wall, which is three feet threeinches. It is but four feet four…
Church architecture · Round towers
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