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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 318

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oused, but also where carillons were played, we need notdisconnect the towers from bells, or sever them from the beautiful associations with theirsound which still linger in the traditions of the peasantry, and which their name con-veys. Thus the memory of a bell which once hung in the bell-house… … Ancient Bells of Ireland. silver, can be heard across the waste; the same story is told of the bells of Ferta, hiddenin a neighbouring swamp ; and Dr. Petrie relates, that at Rattoo a silver bell of wonderfulsweetness is said to have hung in the upper story of the tower, but during the troubles it…

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