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preserved and incorporated in the new erec- 
tion,—of which many instances occur; and 
some few still remain entire, and stand by 
the side of the modern church: this is the 
case with Cormack’s chapel at Cashel.(D) 
In most, if not in all these instances, the 
Round Tower belonging to the Stone-Roofed 
Chapel has been preserved, for some reason, 
not now perhaps easy to conjecture; possibly, 
from admiration of its height and singular 
appearance, or, possibly, from the expence 
and danger of taking it down. 
From those who haveattentively seacisioetal 
the subject, we do not anticipate any objec- 
tion to our position of the Round Towers 
being of the same date as the Stone-Roofed 
Chapels, near which they stand. If then they 
were built at the same time, they must have 
been erected for some purpose connected with 
the religious application of the chapels. 
(p) Cormack’s Chapel is the only instance we have met with of 
any display of ornament and variety in the stone-roofed Chapels. It 
is quite unique in one respect: it hasa square tower at the side and 
connected with it, about the dimensions of many of the Round Towers, 
and adapted for the suspension of a single Bell. A Round Tower stands 
not far off on the same rock, apparently of an older date than the Cha- 
pel, and evidently anterior to the remains of a great Cathedral, by the 
wall of which it is partially enclosed. The Cathedral has a very large 
square tower for its bells. Probably the Round Tower belonged to some 
ancient stone-roofed Chapel, once stunding on the site of the present 
Cathedral. 
