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teristics of the Cyclopean style more than the other, the 

 stones being mostly of enormous size. It is situated on 

 Church Island, in Lough Ree, in the county of Kerry ; 

 though nearly circular on the outside, it is quadrangular 

 within, and measures 16 feet 6 inches in length from 

 North to South, and 15 feet 1 inch from East to West. The 

 wall is 7 feet thick at the base, and at present but 9 feet 

 9 inches in height. The door-way is on the North side and 

 measures on the one side 4 feet 3 inches in height, and in 

 width 2 feet 9 inches at top, and 3 feet at bottom ; three 

 stones form the covering of this door-way, of which the 

 external one is 5 feet 8 inches in length, 1 foot 4 in height, 

 and 1 foot 8 in breadth. The other is one of the houses 

 erected by the celebrated St. Feehin, who flourished in the 

 7th Century, at bis monastic establishment on High Island, 

 off the cost of Connemara, in the county of Galway; this 

 building, like the house of St. Finan Conn, is Square in 

 the interior, and measures 9 feet in length and 7 feet 

 6 inches in height ; the door-way is 2 leet 4 inches wide, 

 and 3 feet 6 inches high. That the quadrangular form of 

 building was derived originally from the Romans, is evident 

 from the following translation of a prophecy, ascribed to a 

 certain Magus of the name of Con, taten from the ancient 

 Life of St. Patric, supposed to have been written by St. 

 Erin in the 6th Century: — "Adveniet cum circulo tonsus 

 in capite cujus redes erunt adinstar asduim Romanarum 

 asdes ejus erunt angustre et angulatas;" which, though very 

 queer Latin, can only be rendered — a man having bis head 

 shaven in a circle shall come, whose church shall be like 

 the Roman churches, narrow and angular. One of the 

 earliest attempts at quadrangular building is the Oratory 

 of Gallerus, the very great antiquity of which is proved 

 by the existence of an upright stone close by, bearing an 



