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Lough Corrib : its shores and islands ; with notices of Lough Mask (1872)

Wilde, W. R. (William Robert), 1815-1876 · Dublin : McGlashan & Gill · leaf 249

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en thetwelfth and fourteenth centuries,and it very likely occupies the siteof the original church of St. Cor-mac, and the small square-headed .^doorway of which is in all proba- fbility that by which the nave ofthe church was entered from thenorthern side, although it mayhave been carried there… … INISHMAIN ABBEY. 2dd it is placed. There is no arch above it. Whoever built Inish-main exhibited great taste, as well as skill, and, possibly inpious remembrance of the prophecy of St. Cormac, preservedthis portion of his church, which was very likely all that re-mained of it when the more modern…

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