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Otlier names not derived from such a source are nevertheless so 

 unsupported by any authority that we may omit them till such facts 

 are produced. Thus in the present notes are omitted the Tower of 

 Singiand (near Limerick), Boyle, Ferbane,^ and Ballygacldy ; that of Sier 

 Eieran, which Eev. James Graves considered of very late date ; that of 

 Ballyvourney, County Cork, which Du lioyer discovered to be the 

 foundation not of a Bound Tower, but of a circular cloghaun,^ and that 

 of Mutton Island, County Clare, given in the notes to the new 

 edition of Archdall's " Monasticon," but of which neither trace nor 

 tradition was apparent in either 1839, when the Ordnance Survey was 

 made, or in 1887. The Bound Tower of Clare Island, to the alleged 

 site of which Mr. Geo. Kinahan has called my attention, as marked 

 on the Geological Survey maps, also requires verification. Finally I 

 must confess to failure in finding any description of the Bound Tower 

 attached to the S.-W. angle of Killeevy church in County Armagh. 



LIST OF ROXTND TOWERS.^ 



County Antrim. 



1. Antrim: circumference, 50 ieet; height, 93 feet. Berfect. Bopularly 

 named " The Steeple." A Celtic cross on stone above lintel of 

 door. Door lintelled, 7 feet 4 inches up. Base of tower has 



1 Perhaps the neighhouring towers of Clonmacnoise. 



2 " Index of Sketches," E.I.A., vol. iv. (1863), No. 10. 



3 Heights, in some cases approximate. Only fullest descriptions are noted. As 

 to references, E.I. A. is, of com-se, Eoyal Irish Acaderay, and E.S.A.I. The Eoyal 

 Society of Antiquaries of Ireland under its various names — The Kilkenny Society, 

 The Eoyal Historical and Arch^ological Association of Ireland, &c. An asterisk 

 prefixed shows that the Eound Tower so marked has been destroyed. 



Ware's "Bishops" (edited by Harris) gives views of the Eound Towers of 

 Cashel, Cloyne, Kilkenny, KHmacduach, and the two at Clonmacnoise. 



Grose's "Antiquities of Ireland " gives those of Kildare, Donoughmore, Kells, 

 Lusk, Swords, Glendalough, Kilkenny, Clonmacnoise, Old Kilciillen, Castle- 

 dermot, Devenish, Cashel, and Turlough. 



Dum-aven's "Notes on Irish Architecture" (edited by Miss M. Stokes) gives 

 photographs of those of Antrim, Dysert O'Dea, Devenish, Kilcoona, KUmacduach, 

 Iniscaltra, Aghadoe, Dysert Aenghus, Monasterboice, Killala, KeUs, Timiiboe, 

 DromcUfi (Shgo), Cashel, Eoscrea, Ardmore, and Glendalough. 



" Cloictheachs " named in our Annals. ("Steeples" in "Annals of Clon- 

 macnoise"); Annadown, 1238; Ardbraccan, 1170; Armagh, 996, 1017, 1171; 

 Clonard, 1040; Clonmacnoise, 1124, 1131 ; Down, 1017 ; Dromcliff, 1396 ; Duleek, 

 1147; Emly, 1059; Fertagh, 1156; Kells, 1076; Louth, 987; Monasterboice, 

 1097; Eoscommon, 1049; Eoscrea, 1135; Slane, 950; Tomgraney, 966; Trim, 

 1281; TuUamaine, 1121; Tullyard, 1171. 



