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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 61

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ers of an inch in some places. It is round-arched with inclined sides, and measures 5 ft. 3 in. in height, and 2 ft. 2 in. wide at the 20 Belfry of Kells. base, and i ft 11 in. at the springing of the arch. The wall is 3 ft. 6 in. thick. Thisdoorway is ornamented with an architrave running round it… … Belfrv of Kells. ing stone; over the arch is a horizontal lintel stone, the part which covers over thecentre arch stone projects, and there was carving here, but it is now quite gone. Thelength of the stone over the key-stone in the arch of the door is 4 ft, while that of the sillis 5 ft.; the…

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