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eventually the upper part fell, leaving the lower part 40 feet 

 high. It is described in ''A Tour in Ireland by two English 

 Gentlemen," 1748, as " a mean spiral structure, low and poorly 

 built." It had been levelled by 1750, and the foundations were 

 seen by Crofton Croker so lately as 1808.^ 



19.*Ross Carbery : This was a lofty and perfect tower, with a high 

 conical roof, ending in a small finial. The door had a circular 

 head, and the base of the structure below the door-sill was pro- 

 tected, like Clondalkin, with a casing of masonry.^ 



County Donegal. 



20. Raphoe : The Ulster Journal of Archa3ology,^ citing a manuscript 

 of Sir James Ware's notes in the British Museum, says that 

 Dr. John Leslie, when building the episcopal palace, pulled down 

 ' ' a round tower or pyramid at Raphoe Cathedral, and found the 

 bones of a man under it." It stood "on a hill in which the 

 Bishops of Eaphoe kept their studies " {sic).^ 



21. Tory Island: c. 5 1^- feet; h. 51 feet. Top nearly destroyed ; it has 

 one vaulted floor ; other floors rested on joists let into wall. Door 

 has round head of ten stones, and is 8 feet 6 inches up ; a bell, 

 fragments of a quern and of urns, and bones of whales and sheep 

 were found in base. Descriptmi, E. Getty, loc. cit. vol. i. (1853) 

 p. 140, and vol. v. (1857), p. 121. jSTational monument. 



County Dowm", 



22.*Downpatrick : This tower was struck by lightning in 1017. It 

 was 66 feet high and 44 feet circumference, the walls being only 

 3 feet thick. It leaned towards the Cathedral, from which it was 

 40 feet distant. There was an irregular gap, 10 feet from the 

 top on the west side, and the entrance was 2 feet 6 inches wide 

 at the sill ; Harris, in 1744, notes it as a " very high pillar." It 

 was taken down in 1789-90, as Dubourdieu says, "to make way 

 for repairs at the Cathedral," probably for fear it might fall. A 

 less reliable account attributes its demolition to the local landlord. 



1 See T. Crofton Croker's edition of the " Tour " of M. Le Goiiz. 

 - This is shown on the Cathedral seal in Harris' " Ware's Bishops." 

 3Yol. iv., p. 163. 



•* Cited by Bishop Reeves in the Introduction to the " Life of St. Columba," 

 p. liv. 



