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 431
cted with a monasteryfoimded there in the sixth century by St. Columbkille. I should have remarked that the quadrangular doorways of theTowers never exhibit ornaments of any kind; but those which arearched are often adorned,—and of these, the most ancient appear OF THE ROUND TOWERS OF IRELAND. 407… … And in the doorways of those Towers of better masonic con-struction, and, as there is every reason to believe, of later date, thesebands are often oniamented with one, two, or three torus mouldings :such, for example, is the doorway of the Tower of Monasterboice, inthe County of Louth, represented…
Church architecture · Round towers
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