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Notes on Irish architecture (1875)

Dunraven, Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham-Quin, Earl of, 1812-1871, Stokes, Margaret, 1832-1900 · London, G. Bell and Sons · leaf 303

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with the first Christian edifice.VOL. 11. X 154 Ecclesiastical Towers. the north or north-west of the church, from respect to the wish which is even nowgenerally entertained by the Irish to be buried to the east or south. The cases of thethree leaning towers of Ireland, Monasterboice, Kilmacduach,… … Church on Irelands Eye. towers should have been so ignorant as to base their ponderous mass on such aninsecure foundation. May it not be explained by the fact that they were not in thisinstance working with that-forethought which is the offspring of e.xperience and theslow growth of native effort,…

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