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bases differ in like manner. The resemblance of these ornaments to those at 

 Timahoe will, I think, be at once obvious. The height of the piers in this 

 archway, from the floor to the spring of the arches, is six feet five inches ; and 

 to the vertex of the -innermost arch, ten feet two inches. 



Though not essentially necessary to my purpose in this comparison, I trust 

 I shall be excused for introducing in this place a more detailed notice of the 

 remarkable round window already referred to, and which seems to me to be 

 not only the most curious of its kind remaining in the British Isles, but also, 

 I have little doubt, the most ancient. 



As the details of this window will be sufficiently seen in the prefixed illus- 

 tration, it is only necessary to remark, that the ornaments are in very low relief, 

 or, as I might say, inciso, or in hollow ; and that it measures about seven feet 



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