296 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academij. 



three plinths. Descriptions, E. Getty, Ulster Journal of Archae- 

 ology, vol. IT. (1856) p. 132 ; Lord Dunraven, " Notes on Irish 

 Architecture," vol. n. p. 1.^ 



2. Armoy : c. 47 feet ; h. 40 feet. Top stories gone. Door has round 

 head of one stone and a raised band over arch. Sill, 8 feet 

 6 inches up. Human remains found heaped in tower, 1843. 

 Description, E. Getty, loc. cit. p. 173. 



3.*''Carrickfergus : The State papers for 1588 mention repairs at Car- 

 rickfergus to a " wach chouse tuiTet, sometimes called a steple, 

 with certeyne lofts belonging to same." In a map of the town, 

 in 1575, a manifest round tower, with a plinth and a conical 

 roof, is drawn near the end of a church.^ 



4. Rams Island (Enisgarden, Lough Neagh) : c. 40 feet ; h. 42 feet. 

 Top stories gone. Door, 8 feet up. Human remains said to 

 have been found under a lime floor. Description, E. Getty, 

 loc. cit. p. 135. 



County Aemagh. 



5.*Armagh : This tower was burned between 980 and 996, and again, 

 1020. Its cap was blown down in a great storm, 1121.^ 



County Caklow. 



6.*Kellistown : (Cil Osnada.) A view of it is given in " Anthologia 

 Hibernica" (1794), j). 105, with this description: "It is built 

 of gritstone, 12 feet internal diameter, and is at present much 

 destroyed." It was about 58 feet in circumference and 30 feet 

 high, and stood north-west of the church ; there was a break 

 in the top facing westward. The tower was demolished in 

 1807. The old view has been re-published by Miss Margaret 

 Stokes.^ 



7. St. MuUins : c. 51 feet. Base found in repair of ruins as a "National 

 monument." Iron staple of door found in wall. Description, 

 P. O'Leary and Robert Cochrane, Journal Royal Society of 

 Antiquaries of Ireland (1892), p. 382, National monament. 



1 The top stone liad a socket, and a block of an arcMtrave -^^as built into tbe cap. 



2 See Ulster Journal of Arcbajology, vol. iv., p. 131. 



3 Tighemach, Chronicon Scotonun, A. 4 M., and Ann. Clon. 

 ^ "Early Christian Architecture," p. 75. 



