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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 62

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s supported by a remarkably well-built buttress of dressedstone, evidently of much later date. The entire length of thisDomhnach-mor, or large cathedral church, is 108 feet 9 inches,by 21 feet 2 inches broad in the clear, of which space thechancel occupies 17J feet by 141, having a reveal of four… … the clerics, is undistinguishable. The choir arch has also beencompletely destroyed; but several of the stones of the clustered f2 68 THE PRESENT AND THE PAST. pillars that supported it can be seen strewn around, or formingheadstones to modern graves. Owing to the luxuriant growthof the dwarf…

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