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4A MEMOIR refpedting the ANTIQUITIES of the CHURCH 
of KILLOSSY, 7 the County of KILDARE; with fome 
CONJECTURES on the ORIGIN of the ANCIENT IRISH 
CHURCHES. By Mr. WILLIAM BEAUFORD, 4. B. 
‘Tue parifh church of Killoffy, in the barony of Naas and Read Jan. 
county of Kildare, for the fingular conftru@tion of its fteeple, *? ‘7? 
merits the attention of the curious in antiquities. The prefent 
church is modern, but ftands on the foundation of the ancient, 
which it. equals in every dimenfion, except the height of the 
roof, which originally was conftructed of ftone, as in the ancient 
churches of Glendaloch and Cafhel, as is apparent from fome 
remains of it {till vifible at the tower. The tower which joins 
the church is round, and founded on a fquare bafe, nearly half of 
the prefent height, each fide terminating in a pediment or triangle 
of equal altitude, from one of which poeceded the ftone roof of 
the old church. 
(Ka) Turs 
