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never could have been intended that the bell ringer should stand 

 exposed to the weather, or have to mount from ten to twenty feet 

 whenever the bell was to be tolled. It may be farther asked, 

 if they were built for Campanilae why they were so suddenly 

 laid aside ? and why did the architects of churches of a later date, 

 rejecting the beautiful and national round tower, either raise no 

 tower at all, or invariably build square steeples ? 



Great stress has been laid* upon the towers being sometimes 

 called Clogh-teach,-!- and Cloghad, which latter has been ingeniously 

 derived from the Saxon clugga, a bell ; a derivation which is made 

 to answer the double purpose of proving that they were belfries, and 

 that they were built by the Danes. A simpler derivation might 

 have been drawn from the Irish word clog, a bell ; but that would 

 not have suited the second purpose. It may also be deduced, and 

 not without some probability, from cloch or clogh, a stone. The 

 pillar stones, which were called Cloghad, are now often named 

 Clogh-more, the great stone ; going to the stone is frequently used 

 as an equivalent expression for going to chapel,| in the same 

 manner as the Highland phrase of going to the Clachans, before 

 mentioned. 



It is said that Cloghad was a name applied by the Druids to most 

 places of worship,§ and naturally enough, as they were usually 

 formed of enormous stones; the appellation may have been trans- 

 ferred to the towers merely in the meaning of a place of worship, or 

 of assembling together. Clogh-teach has been said to signify di- 

 rectly bell-house, and no doubt clog means bell ; but clogli is a 



* Dr. Ledw'icb's Irish Antiquities, p. 158. 

 \ John Lynch, A.D. 1662. 

 ■^ llyland's History of Waterford, p. 265. 

 § Collect. Reb. Hib. II. p. 286. 



