304 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



49. Kilkenny (St. Canice's Cathedral) : c. 46^ feet ; h. 100 feet. Cap 

 gone ; floors rested on offsets. Leans slightly. Door, 12 feet up, 

 has round head of three stones. Description, " History of St. 

 Canice's Cathedral" (James Graves and J. Prim), and many other 

 sources. 



50. Kilree: c. 50| feet; h. 93 feet. Cap gone. Late battlements. Door 

 has round head of one block and raised band. Description and 

 Views, Trans. R.I.A., vol. xv. (1829), p. 219; ''Early Chris- 

 tian Architecture of Ireland," Plate xxiv ; "Wilkinson, loc. cit. 

 ITational monument. 



51.*Tullamaine : Destroyed by a storm in 1121. 



52. TuUoherin : c. 50^ feet ; h. 73 feet. Cap gone ; upper story rebuilt ; 

 late battlements ; leans towards south. Door destroyed, 1 1 feet 

 up. Popular name " Cloictheach Thulaigh." Eight top lights. 

 Descriptions and Views, Trans. R.I. A., vol. xv. p. 220 ; Eev. E. 

 F. Hewson, Journal R.S.A.I. (1893), p. 208 ; Ogam inscrip- 

 tion in graveyard. National monument.^ 



King's County. 



53. Clonmacnoise (O'Rorke's Tower): c. 58^ feet; h. 62 feet. 

 Upper story rebuilt. Eight top lights. Door has round head. 

 Description, P. A. Brash, " Ecclesiastical Architecture of 

 Ireland," p. 65 ; Dunraven's "JS'otes," vol. ii. p. 32, and many 

 others. National monument. 



54. Clonmacnoise (Temple Finghin) : c. 49 feet ; h. 56 feet. Perfect ; 

 herring-bone masonry in cap. Windows irregularly spaced. 

 Door on ground level, church attached. Descriptions^ Brash loo. 

 cit. and Dunraven's " Notes," p. 45. National monument. 



55.*Durrow : It has been inferred that a round tower once stood at 

 this place, from a passage in Adamnan's Life of St. Columba, 

 "lapso de monasterii culmine rotundo.''^ 



County Limeeick. 

 56. Ardpatrick ; h. 8 feet. Stump. In its base were found oyster 

 shells, fragments of metal, and lump of amber, and it is said three 

 bells. Local name, " Cluice." Description, " Limerick, its History, 

 &c." Maurice Lenihan, pp. 720, 721. 



1 Kilree is stated to be 120 feet high, and Txilloherin 60 feet high in 'i'rans. 

 R. I. A., vol. XY. pp. 219, 220. 



