Uses of the Round Towers of Ireland, fyc. 



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cathedral church of Kilmacduagh, erected for St. Colraan Mac Duach by his 

 kinsman Guaire Aidhne, king of Connaught, about the year 610. 



This doorway is six feet six inches in height, and in width two feet six inches 

 at the top, and three feet two inches at the bottom. The lintel stone, which 

 extends the entire thickness of the wall, is five feet eight inches long, one foot 

 nine inches high, and three feet wide. This doorway was closed up with rub- 

 ble masonry, as represented in the sketch, in the fourteenth or fifteenth century, 

 when the church was rebuilt and considerably enlarged, and a new doorway, 

 in the pointed style, placed, as was usual in that age, in the south wall. 



Of the foundation of the original church or cathedral of Kilmacduagh, 

 which, for the time, was one of considerable size, the following notice is given 

 by Colgan from the additions of the Scholiast to the Festilogy of Aengus : 



"Statute tune piissimus Rex viro Dei Ecdesiam inibi extruere; quare mane sequentis diei misit 

 ad eum sexaginta vaccas effcetas cum seruis 8f ancittis adfabricee opus perjiciendum. Postridie igitur eius 

 diei Ecclesia Cathedralis de Kill-mhicduach cavpta est cedificari; cui exinde proceru regionis Aidhne, 

 Sf stirpis Guarince sepultura cosecrata est." Acta Sanctorum, p. 245, col. 1. 



Of this description of doorway I shall only here insert another example from 



