306 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



64. Balla: c. 51 feet; h. 84 feet. There is in the graveyard a 



"round tower locally called clogap balld — the belfry of Balla 

 — -which is, at the greatest calculation, not more than 35 feet 

 high. On the north side, within 21 feet of the ground, 

 commences the doorway, which is arched above. It is 5 feet 

 8 inches high and nearly 3 feet at the bottom. On the east side 

 of the tower, near the top, is a quadrangular place for a 

 bell. . . . The bell was placed therein about five years ago. 

 It is not remembered that this tower was ever higher than 

 it is."i 



65. Killala : c. 51 feet ; h. 84. Perfect ; floors on offsets. Door, 1 1 feet 



up, has round head. Description, Dunraven's "IS'otes," Yol. n. 

 p. 18. National monument. - 



66. Meelick, e. 42 feet ; li. 60. It stands within the churchyard to 

 the north-west. At the height of 15 feet from the ground on the 

 south side there is a door which is circular at the top, 5 or 6 feet 

 high and 3 feet broad. At a height of about 1 5 feet above the 

 door, a little to the west, is a pointed opening 2\ feet or 3 feet 

 high, and a little more than a foot broad. Tliere is, at the same 

 height, another pointed opening to the north of the door, and 

 north of this last is a square opening one foot every way. It is 

 much higher on the tower and faces exactly to the north. Near 

 the top at the south-east side is a quadrangular opening IJ feet 

 high and 1 foot broad, and on the east side, at the top, is a square 

 opening of that size, and another not altogether so near the top. 

 The tower is at least 60 feet high, the stones over the door are 

 loose, and there is said to be a floor level with the door."^ 

 National monument. 



67. Turlougli, c. 57 feet; A. 70 feet. Attached to the Abbey " stands 

 a round tower, in which there is, at a height of 1 5 feet from the 

 ground, an arched doorway 5|- feet high and 1\ feet broad, and 

 under it at the ground there is a breach. It appears that there 

 were three floors inside this tower, Avhich received light through 

 small quadrangular openings. . . . At the top, under the conical 



1 " Ordnance Siu'vey Letters," p. 414. 



2 CaUed " The jSTeedle Tower," and "The Steeple," in the Diaiyof the Bishop 

 of KiUala, 1798. 



3 " Ordnance Siu-vey Letters," p. 383. A view of the door is given ia "Early 

 Christian Architecture of Ireland," Plate xxvi., and in Wilkinson's "Practical 

 Geology, and Ancient Architecture," p. 77. 



