Lough Corrib : its shores and islands ; with notices of Lough Mask (1872)
Wilde, W. R. (William Robert), 1815-1876 · Dublin : McGlashan & Gill · leaf 74
9 inches in girth ; and when I say that it was origi-nally one of the most beautifully built round towers in Ire-land, I do not think I will be accused of exaggeration bythose who have given the subject consideration. The stone-. THE ROUND TOWER OF KILCOONA. 711 some of which upon the lower course… … after the manner of the ancient Cyclopean masonry. Novestige of the doorway remains, as the present top is belowthe level of the usual site of that portion of a Cloictheach orIrish round tower, but it was probably on the east face. Theinterior of the tower is at present a solid mass of clay…
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