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tower, the roof line of which is still to be seen on the sides of the 

 tower ; the groove at the roof line was cut into the stone, of which 

 this is a section (Plate YL, fig. 2.) The height of the apex of the roof 

 line is eighteen feet. The height where the roof line meets the buttress, 

 twelve feet. The length of the chapel was thirty-three feet, the 

 breadth twenty-two. At about three feet from the turret, the walls 

 of the chapel incline towards the tower : the length of these walls is 

 seven feet. 



This turret was repaired by Sir Richard Worsley, about 1756, and 

 its angles strengthened by buttresses. (See Plate VI., figs. 1 and 2, 

 elevation; and Plate VIL, fig. 2, plan.) The foundation of the 

 chapel was also cleared and discovered. In an ancient survey belong- 

 ing to Sir Richard Worsley there is a rude drawing of this chapel, when 

 entire, from which it appears it had only a body without a transept ; 

 the tower stood at the east end. 



A description of this tower, with four views of it in its decayed 

 state, is seen in the ''Gentleman's Magazine," Yol. xxvii., page 176. 



In the east view (Plate YIL, fig. 2) which I have given, can be 

 seen where the sepulchral chapel was connected with the lantern, 

 which suggests a similarity to the small Tower and Chapel at Clon- 

 macnoise. Pour of the angles of the tower point to the four cardinal 

 points, which further corroborates its connexion with the French Lan- 

 terns of the Dead, and all probably with the Irish Round Towers. 



An objection has been made to its analogy to the Round Towers, 

 on account of the tower of St. Catherine's Down being octagonal, and 

 also as the entrance door is on a level with the ground ; but this ob- 

 jection is of little weight, as the base of the Round Tower at Kinneigh, 

 Co. Cork, is hexagonal, and as the entrance door of the small tower 

 at Clonmacnoise is also on the level of the ground. 



Several of the Lanterns of the Dead in Prance are octagonal : that 

 of Felletin (Creuse) is octagonal, is forty-six feet high, and has eight 

 arched windows. All the French Lanterns have stone roofs, and their 

 windows generally face the four cardinal points. 



DESCRIPTION OF PLATES. 



Fig. 1. Plate VI., is a west view of the lantern, or tower, showing the buttresses 

 added by Sir E. Worsley. 



Fig. 2, same Plate, is an east view of the lantern, showing the groove cut into 

 the stone for connecting the roof of the chapel. 



Fig. 1, Plate VII., is the ground plan of the chapel. 



Fig. 2, the ground plan of the tower. 



Fig. 3, horizontal section, showing plan of windows of the tower. 



