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Mr. PETRIE'S Inquiry into the Origin and 



eight inches in breadth ; and the internal one is five feet two inches in length, 

 and two feet nine inches in breadth. 



The next example is of somewhat later date, being one of the houses erected by 

 the celebrated St. Fechin, who flourished in the seventh century, at his little mo- 



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nastic establishment on Ard-Oilean, or High Island, off the coast of Connamara, 

 in the county of Galway. This building, like the preceding one, is square in 



