88 Mr. PETEIE'S Inquiry into the Origin and 



now submitted to the reader, or is it on such statements that a question of this 

 nature is to be decided ? But I have not done with the discoveries in the 

 Cloyne Tower yet. It will be seen from the annexed notice on this subject, 

 recently published in the Cork Southern Reporter, and kindly transmitted to 

 me by Mr. Windele, on the 9th of April, 1842, that the human remains found 

 in this Tower, and originally represented only as " human bones and a skull," 

 havin<r gradually assumed the forms of three human skeletons, are now in- 

 creased to four, and it is difficult to conjecture how many they will make in the 

 next accounts. These are certainly very extraordinary bones ! It will be seen 

 also, from the same article, that the researches in the Round Tower of Cashel, 

 which had been given up as an unsuccessful affair, even proving " that at least 

 all the Towers were not sepulchral," were, after all, not so unfortunate as had 

 been supposed. But I must let the South Munster Society of Antiquaries now 

 speak for themselves : 



" ROUND TOWERS. 



" Towards the close of the last summer we announced to our readers that a discovery had been 

 made, of importance, in the elucidation of the mystery in which the origin of these structures was 

 involved. We then gave details connected with the discovery of human remains within the foun- 

 dation of Ardmore Tower. From that time to the present, we venture to affirm, more attention 

 has been paid, and more of practical, rational investigation, has been directed to the subject, than it 

 ever previously received. 



"We have had the pleasure of laying before our readers various interesting communications 

 from our literary friends, which, by the talent, ingenuity, and erudition, they display, prove that 

 the subject is in the very best hands. The South Munster Antiquarian Society has also been most 

 active, owing to the untiring exertions of its members, correspondences have been opened in France, 

 England, Scotland, and in many places in Ireland, all with most satisfactory results. 



" Through the kindness of the Rev. Mr. M'Cosh, of Brechin, (Scotland) a correspondence has 

 been established with the well known learned historian of that city, D. D. Black, Esq., whose work 

 we have read with very great pleasure. 



" We shall now, leaving the discussion to those who are so well able to conduct it, proceed to 

 state the discoveries made subsequently to that at Ardmore. 



" In the month of September, several of our fellow-citizens met by appointment at Cashel the 

 Very Rev. Dr. Cotton, of Lismore, and Edward Odell, Esq., whose labours we before mentioned. 

 The Round Tower there, was examined. Although human remains were found within that struc- 

 ture, yet, because they were near the surface mixed with earth and decayed timber, it was supposed 

 they had been thrown in casually from the adjacent cathedral or burial ground. But it is now to 

 be noted that there was evidence of a previous delving; and the discoveries since made shew, at 



