340 Observations on the 
Jaid in regular layers in the usual mode, the 
Tower most probably could not long have 
maintained its inclined attitude. The chur- 
ches near this tower are apparently of a more 
modern date. 
The circumstance respecting the Round 
Towers which most deserves attention, as best 
pointing out their origin and destination, is 
this, —that they are always found in the imme- 
diate vicinity of a church, or where one is 
known to have stood. All which have fallen 
under our own observation, without a single 
exception, have had a church attached to 
them, though generally in a state of complete 
dilapidation. Their position in relation to 
the church varies, as weil as their distance 
from it; some standing as near as 8 feet, 
others as far off as 124 feet, and in one or 
two instances being in actual contact, 
The Round Towers, however, are not al- 
ways of the same date as the churches which 
stand near them: had they been so, few 
would have mistaken the obvious purpose of 
their erection. But they are sometimes, evi- 
mon one of squared stones. It may however be observed that when the 
Greeks, Tuscans, and Peruvians erected those works, they appear to have 
been in about the same stage of civilization, as the Irish were at the 
time when we have good reason for supposing the Tower of Kilmac- 
duagh was built. 
