Uses of the Round Towers of Ireland, fyc. 



135 



" Rebus Ecclesiae ibi dispositis Patricius se contulit ad locum qui & Mag-selga legitur appel- 

 lari, vbi sex Brian! Principis offendit filios, Bognam, cognomento Eubrum, Derthractum, Echenum, 

 Crimthannum, Coelcharnum, & Eochadium. Ibi in loco amoeno, vbi circumfusa regio late conspi- 

 citur, vir Dei cum aliquot comitantibus Episcopis moram contraxit inter tres colossos siue edita 

 saxa ; qua? gentilitas ibi in memoriam aliquorum facinorum, vel gentilitiorum rituum posuit. In 

 his autem lapidibus, lapidis angularis, qui fecit vtraque vnum, Christi Domini tria nomina tribus 

 linguis expressa curauit incidi ; in vno lesw, in altero Soter, in tertio Saluator nomen impressuru 

 legitur." Trias Thaum. p. 136. 



As an example of the monumental pillar-stones, inscribed in the Ogham cha- 

 racter, which are found in connection with some of the uncemented stone oratories 

 in Kerry, to which I have alluded, I annex a cut of the pillar-stone which marks 

 the grave of St. Monachan, and which is situated at the south-west end of his 

 oratory, called Temple Geal, about three miles to the north-west of Dingle : 



Having now, as I trust, sufficiently shown that the Irish erected churches 

 and cells of stone, without cement, at the very earliest period after the intro- 



