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Mr. PETRIE'S Inquiry into the Origin and 



The intermediate stories between the uppermost and the second, or doorway 

 story, are each lighted by a single aperture ; but, in consequence of the Tower 



being enveloped in ivy, their exact situations cannot be determined, with the 

 exception of one in the fifth story, lately exposed by a storm, and which is 

 angular-headed, and faces the east. The lowest story is filled up to the level 

 of the doorway. It will be perceived from the section above given, that be- 

 tween the floors of each of the stories, rough corbel stones project 

 from the wall about the middle of its height ; and this is not an un- 

 common feature in the interior of the Towers, such corbel stones, 

 in one example that of the Tower of Ardmore, in the County of 

 Waterford being sculptured with animal and human heads, and 

 other ornaments. My late ingenious friend, Mr. William Morrison, 

 suggested to me that these corbels might possible be for the purpose 

 of fixing ladders to join the stories, as shown in the annexed outline ; 

 but a more probable conjecture, to my mind, is, that they were in- 

 tended as supports for shelves, on which to place the precious things 

 deposited in the Towers. 



But little is known of the history of the ecclesiastical establishment to 

 which this Tower belonged, beyond the fact that it was, at an ancient period, 



