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Mr. PETRIE'S Inquiry into the Origin and 



churches exhibiting ornamental architecture, which we know from historical 

 evidences to have been erected in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, are not 

 only very different in their style of decoration from those presumed to be of 

 earlier date, but have a remarkable agreement in their details with those of the 

 known Norman structures in England and France. To prove such agreement 

 it may be proper to adduce one or two examples of such churches in this 

 place, and many others will be found in the Third Part of this Inquiry. 



Such an example, then, is found in the entrance porch, or doorway, of the 

 church of Freshford, or Achadh ur, in the county of Kilkenny, a church origi- 

 nally erected by St. Lachtin in the seventh century, but rebuilt towards the 

 close of the eleventh, or commencement of the twelfth, as a perfectly legible 



