bt aac 
ftone with an under croft after the Roman archite@ure, called 
fince St. Faith’s Church, which church was alfo again rebuilt in 
the Gothic ftyle in 1087*: 
Tue. Irifh do not appear to -have adopted this fpecies of archi- 
teGture, or to have built in lime and ftone, prior to the ninth cen- 
‘tury. The firft edifice of this kind was moft probably the oratory 
of Malachy, about 850; towards the clofe of which century the 
churches.of Glendaloch were erected and. ornamented in the tafte 
of the northern nations}. Soon after Cormac’s chapel in 906]; 
the monaftery of Monaincha about 1oo0§; and the round tower ~ 
of Kenith, in the county of Cork, in 1015|].. From this period, 
ftone-roofed criptic churches and round towers became common in | 
this. ifland; and .continued the reigning tafte for ecclefiaftical 
buildings until. the introdution of the Norman and Gothic archi- 
teGture in the beginning of the twelfth century, when the ftyle 
was difcontinued. 
Havine: thus, in. as concife a manner as poffible, given fome - 
conjeCtures relative to the origin.of the ancient Irifh churches, 
and the times of their. erection, it. will be neceffary to con- 
[L]. fider : 
* Godwin’s Eng. Bifhops. 
+ Ledwiche’s Irith Antiquities. 
+ Harris’s Irith Bifhops. 
§ Ledwiche’s Irifh Antiq. 
| Smith’s Hiftory of Cork, vol. 2: 
