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Tuts is probably an unique, being the only one of the kind, 
I believe, yet difcovered in this kingdom, if not in the Britifh 
ifles. The tower of the ivy church “at Glendaloch, and the old 
church of Little Saxum_ near Bury in England, are thofe which 
have the greateft refemblance to this of Killoffy; but the fquare 
bafe only of the tower at Glendaloch joins the church, and the 
whole tower at Saxum is round from the foundation*. In the 
ifland of Zante is, or was till lately, a Greek church exaétly on 
the fame conftruCtion with this; alfo feveral others in various parts 
of the Levant+. The infulated réund towers, and the fmall old 
churches difcovered in Ireland, with ftone roofs and circular arches, 
as thofe of Cafhel and Glendaloch, and thofe in England called 
Saxon, as well as thofe in Spain named Mafforabic, bear a great 
refemblance to each other, and are apparently of the fame origin; 
being all, moft probably, conftru€ted on the model of the Grecian 
archite@ure, but not in that noble ftyle fo confpicuous in the 
monuments of ancient Greece and Rome, but in the degenerate 
ftyle of the latter Greek empire, from the time of Arcadius at the 
beginning of the fifth, to the clofe of the tenth century. 
THE various G Goth: ic aiid Vandalic tribes, which feated them- 
felves in the weft of Puce, and on the ruins of the Greek and 
Roman 
* Antiquarian Rep. 
+ Plan and View of Zante, by a French Engineer.—Paris Edit. See'alfo Drum- 
mond’s Travels, in which are views and plans of a number of curious buildings in the 
eaft fimilar to thofe under confideration, and round towers refembling thofe in 
Ireland, feveral of which have been converted into minarets by the Turks. 
$ Grofe’s Antiquities, vol. 1. Antiq. Rep. Swinburn’s Travels in Spain. 
