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 429
r St. Colman ]\Iac Duach,by liis kinsman, Gnaire Aidhne, king of Connaught; and the perfectsimilarity of the masonry of the Tower to that of the origmal portionsof the great church, leaves no doubt of their being cotemporaueousstructiu-es. In the popular traditions of the country the erection… … has a perfect similarity of form and style of construction to that of theTower of Kilmacduagh; audit is not unhkely that both are the workof the same eminent builder, with whose era the erection of the greatchiuch of Glendalough would very well synchronise. It is placed atan elevation of about ten…
Church architecture · Round towers
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