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cap, are four pointed openings, the largest of which is not more 

 than 3 feet high and 1 foot broad. The stones are giving way 

 on the north side. Part of the north-west side of the conical cap 

 is destroyed."! tj^^ jj^-g^^^ Hon."W. Burton, in "A Tour Through 

 Connaught," 1778, states that the height of this tower is 70 feet 

 high, the internal diameter 9 feet, and the walls 5 feet thick, 

 the whole diameter being 19 feet. The "Statistical Survey of 

 County Mayo," 1819, amusingly cites a late tombstone (probably 

 1598) to fix the date of the round tower in a.d. 98. A good 

 view is given by Eev. H. Bishop in " Pictorial Architecture of 

 the British Isles," p. 4, and an old and disproportioned one in 

 Grose, vol. i., Plate 67. National monument. 



County Meath. 

 68.*Ardbraccaii : Pell in 1182. (Annals Clonmacnoise.) 

 eg.'^'Clonard : Pell in 1039. (Annals Clonmacnoise and Pour Masters.) 

 70. Donoughmore : c. 56 feet; h. 100 feet. Toprebuilt.^ Door, 12 feet 

 up; it has round head and flat bands. On the keystone and block 

 above it is figure with extended arms and crossed legs. To each 

 side a projecting stone carved with a face. Two plinths. 

 Description^ Sir W. "Wilde, "The Boyne and Blackwater," 

 p. 161. National monument. 

 7l.*Duleek: The cap was struck off by lightning, 1147. (Annals 

 P. M.) No trace or tradition remains. 



72. Kells : c. 53^ feet ; h. 99 feet. Cap gone. Door, 12 feet above 

 street, has round head, with projecting corbels carved, with faces 

 to each side, and a flat band all round. Over arch is a defaced 

 carved lintel. Description, Dunraven's "Notes," vol. ii. p. 19. 

 National monument. 



73.*'Slane : The foreigners burned the " Cloicteach " of Slane, with all 

 its occupants, and a bell, " the best of bells," 945 or 948. Strange 

 to say, a fused mass of bell metal was dug up in the graveyard 

 near the Abbey many years since, and was given to theEectorof 

 Slane, the Eev. John Westropp Brady. 



74.*Trim: Burned by Conor O'Loughlin in 1128 (Ann. Inisf., Lough 



Ce). 



1 " Ordnance SuiTey Letters," Co. Mayo, MSS. R.I.A., 14 E. 19, p. 478. 



2 The cap and four top lights were extant about 1745, see Journal U.S. A. I., 

 1892, p. 126. See also curiously confused statement of Wilkinson in "Practical 

 Geology," p. 72. 



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