300 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



23. Drombo : f. 51A-feet ; A. 35 feet. Top stories gone. Door, lintelled 

 4|- feet UX3 ; traces of fire in interior ; boars' tusks and bones of 

 oxen ; beloT^ them a human skeleton, E. and W. Description^ 

 E. Getty, loc. cit. yoI. hi. (1855), p. 113. 



24. Island Mahee (Nendrum) : (-.44^ feet; /;. 9 feet. Stump; side 

 breached ; no human remains found in base. Identified by 

 Bishop Eeeves. I)escri;ption, E. Getty, loc. cit. vol. in. (1855), 

 p. 136. 



25. Maghera : /?• 25 feet. Lower part remains. Door, 7 feet up. 

 Description, E. Getty, loc. cit. p. 131. Upper part blown down 

 in 1714 (Seward) and 1704 (Lewis) lying in an unbroken column 



on the ground. JSTational monument. 



COTJIS^TY DrELIX. 



26. Clondalkin : t?. 47 feet; /?. 89 feet. Perfect; door has lintel ; top 

 windows rebuilt. Descriptions, Grose, "Antiquities," vol. i., 

 p. 16; Petrie, "Ptound Towers," p. 95. Section, p. 397. ISTational 

 monument. 



27.^Dublin — St. Michael le Pole : It stood near the disused church 

 in a court off Ship-street, the entrance to which is now 

 marked by a tablet recording the fact. In " the memorial of 

 Gabriel Beranger " (E.S.A.I. Journal, 1870-71, p. 43), that 

 artist's careful view of the building, done in 1766, is given along 

 with the folio wing' account : — When the church was granted to 

 be a school-house, the following Chapter minute was recorded : 

 "that Mr. Jones do not pull down the monument or Tower of 

 St. Michael le Pole near his school-house." On August 23rd, 

 1706, an order to the same effect was issued. " The Free Press," 

 1778, states that some forty years earlier the tower was much 

 decayed, and was repaired by a lover of antiquities who applied 

 to Dean Swift and others for aid. He erected scaffolds, and had 

 the joints pointed both inside and outside. In 1775 a severe 

 storm so injured the tower that it threatened to fall on the 

 school. The Dean and Chapter being anxious, if possible, to 

 preserve the ancient building, consulted an architect as to the 

 possibility of its repair ; no safe plan could be devised, so it was 

 taken down to the level of the school-roof to the great wrath of 

 the citizens. It retained its conical cap in Beranger's time ; the 

 top windows had lintelled heads. 



