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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 49

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iefly of mica slate, with a few courses of granite at intervals,which have rather the appearance of encircling bands ; it is well built of spawled masonry ;some of the stones measure 3 ft. long, they are hammer-dressed to bring them into thenecessary curve. The masonry altogether appears far better… … Glend.alougm. The doorway, which is 10 ft. above the level of the ground, is constructed of blocks ofgranite chiselled, without moulding or ornament of any kind ; it is round headed, withinclined sides, the arch being cut out of three stones ; it is 5 ft. 7 in. high, 2 ft. wide at thebase, and i…

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