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82. Oran : c. 62 J feet ; h. \2 feet. Stump. Mr. G. A. Kelly tells me 

 that about nine courses of regular blocks of conglomerate remain, 

 with a plinth 8 inches wide ; seven courses of limestone blocks 

 rest on the former. There is a large breach in the wall. The 

 interior is 8 feet across, and has been used for burials. 



SS.'^'Roscommon : Burned in 1049. (Chronicon Scotorum). 



County Sligo. 



84. Dromcliff : h. 40 feet. Top stories gone. Door, 8 feet up, has lintel. 



Descriptions, Colonel "Wood Martin's " History of Sligo," vol. i. ; 

 Dunraven's "Notes," vol. ii. p. 47. National monument. 



COUNXY TlPPEEAKT. 



85. Cashel: c. 50 feet; h. 80 feet. Perfect. Door, 12 feet up, has 

 round head of six stones and mouldings ; floors rested on joists 

 set in wall. Descriptions, Brash, loc. cit. p. 91 ; Dunraven's 

 " Notes," vol. II. p. 9 ; and many others. National monument. 



86.^Emly : Burned in 1058 by the men of Turlough O'Brien. 



87. Roscrea : c 50 feet ; h. 80 feet. Top stories gone ; double plinth. 

 Doorway, 9 feet 9 inches up, has round head of three stones, a 

 raised band, and also carvings of a ship and knot. Description, 

 Dunraven's " Notes," vol. n. p. 6. National monument. 



County Tyrone. 

 88.*''Errig'al Keeroge : Mason, in 1819,^ gives the statement of Eev. 

 J. Baldwin that, near the Franciscan Convent of Ballinasaggart, 

 " the foundations of a round tower were to be seen there within 

 ten years, but now even the ruins have disappeared." Scheduled 

 as a National monument. 



County Wateefoed. 

 89. Ardmore : c. 52 feet ; 7^. 95 feet. Perfect. Cap had a finial. Door, 

 13 feet up, has round head and roll moulding on edge. There 

 are three external string courses, like that at Dysert, County 

 Clare. Inside are projecting stone corbels, with faces or scrolls. 

 The door has a round head and moulding, and is 13 feet up. 

 Descriptions, R. Brash, loc. cit., p. Ill; same in Journal Pi,. S. A. 1. 

 (1856), p. 35; Dunraven's ''Notes," vol. ii. p. 39; Journal 

 R.S.A.I. (1856), p. 35. National monument. Ogams in church. 



' Parochial Survey, vol. iii., p. 155. 



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