remains ofthe ancient Irifh flyle, having a fquare lintel, and upon thata femi-circular arch highly decorated. The Round Tower on the north of the cathedral is aperfecSl one, and difplays mofl of the peculiarities of thefe mofl:interefting remains of Irifh antiquity. As the reader is aware,for a… … BOUNn TOWER : ROCK OF CASHEL. Their tall pointed charaaer fuggefted that they belonged to theworfhippers of the fun and of fire. For a confiderable periodthis theory of General Valiancy and his difciples prevailed ;but Dr. Petrie in his Ecclefiaftical Archite6lure of Ireland,publifhed in 1845, put…
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