Frrauson—On the Doorway of the Round Tower, Kildare. 98 
the new work over the external jambs and over the head of the outer 
arch in his drawing of the doorway, reproduced from the Academy’s 
Transactions (vol. xx., p. 208) above. 
I am able in one detail to make a slight correction in Petrie’s 
enlarged drawing of one of the details. He has shown the capitals of 
the inner pilasters as consisting of a double arcade with contained 
stems and foliage. He may easily be excused for failing to make out 
the lines of a surface so abraded, and in a position so difficult for obser- 
vation. I present a cast, from which it will be seen that the design 
is somewhat different. The forms which he regarded as semicircular 
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appear here as of Gothic design; but they seem to be parts of a floral 
rather than an architectural composition. A flower on a stem rises 
between the arcades, giving something of the effect of the honeysuckle 
ornament. I also present another cast, showing the entire accuracy 
of his drawing as regards the decoration of the soffete. 
On the resulting question, whether the whole tower be not of a 
date posterior to the time of Cambrensis, I content myself with ob- 
serving, that of the other works with which its gabled canopy con- 
nects it, some are known to be older, and none to be later, than that 
epoch. 
