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ing the unusual outside holes — are to be seen 

 at the castles of Oxwich and Manorbeer. At a 

 farmhouse called the Vann, beside Caerphilly 

 Castle, is a fine example containing twenty 

 tiers of nest-holes, fifty in a tier. 



At E wenny Priory, near Bridgend, one of the 

 most interesting buildings in Wales, and also 

 one of the least known, we find a dovecote in 

 an unexpected place. The Priory Church offers 

 the rare example of a fortified religious build- 

 ing of pure Norman architecture. In a tower 

 in the line of the former fortifications there may 

 now be seen a pigeon-house, fitted with L- 

 shaped nest-holes, the inner arms of which are 

 unusually short and turn to the right in every 

 case. The room's internal measurements are 

 twenty-five by fifteen feet. 



Passing from South Wales to the northern 

 corner of the Principality, we pause before a 

 dovecote in the island of Anglesea — at Pen- 

 mon Priory. 1 1 is a stone building about twenty 

 feet square, but covered with a circular stone 

 roof. The transition from square walls to cir- 

 cular roof is ingeniously effected by the arrange- 

 ment of the horizontal stones of which the roof 



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