Lough Corrib : its shores and islands ; with notices of Lough Mask (1872)
Wilde, W. R. (William Robert), 1815-1876 · Dublin : McGlashan & Gill · leaf 253
th the exception of the crypts on the westface, as shown in the cut, is perfectly solid, and formed ofundressed stone. These crypts are certainly the most remarkable and in-explicable structures that have yet been discovered in Ireland.At top they are formed somewhat like the roof of a high-pitched… … sloping stones, some of which are 4 feet long, are filled up withlayers of stone laid horizontally. The illustration upon the op-posite page, taken from the inside of the northern crypt, gives afair representation of this roofing, above and around which theentire structure seems to be a solid mass…
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