Dunraven, Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham-Quin, Earl of, 1812-1871, Stokes, Margaret, 1832-1900 · London, G. Bell and Sons · leaf 301
might not be endangered by their weight; and that they were notconsidered merely as an ornament, but used as beacons to direct the traveller towards the church or monastery.Lights were kept burning in them during the night, at least, such was the fact with respect to the new tower atWinchester,… … Ecclesiastical Towers. 153 which covered them, and without knowledge or thought of the forms that lay below.That these were the forms of Christians is rendered probable by the position of theskeletons, lying east and west, for it is held that the Pagan Irish on their conversion toChristianity made…
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