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to the fourth class, in which the masonry is " closely 

 analogous to the English-Norman masonry of the first half 

 of the twelfth century," and the Hiberno-Romanesque 

 ornament began to appeal, so that the range of time through 

 which the tower building passed may have extended 

 from the ninth till the thirteenth century. "The Belfast 

 Museum contains a large number of skulls of persons who 

 were buried in and about the round towers. In some cases 

 the remains were under the foundations." See Ulster 

 Joiirfial of Archceology (old series), Petrie's Roit7id Towers, 

 Margaret Stokes's Early Christian Art in Irelafid, 

 Vallancey's Collectanea, Round Toivers by S. J., and 

 Round Toivers by O'Brien. 



W. J. F. 



THE RESTORED 

 TOWN CROSS OF DOWNPATRICK. 



