A Memoir Respecting the Antiquities of the Church of Killossy, in the County of Kildare; With Some Conjectures on the Origin of the Ancient Irish Churches (vol. 3)

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1. Comparison to the Ivy Church Tower at Glendalough

   Glendalough · electoral division · Wicklow

   The tower of the ivy church at Glendalough is noted as having the greatest resemblance to the unique tower at Killossy, though only its square base joins the church rather than the whole structure.

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   This Is probably an unique, being the only one of the kind, I believe, yet difcoyered in this kingdom, if not in the Britilh iiles. The tower of the ivy church at Glendaloch, and the old church of Little Saxum near Bury in England^ are thofe which have the greateft refemblance to this of Killofly; but the fquare bafe only of the tower at Gleudaloch joins the church, and the whole tower at Saxum is round from the foundation*. In the illand of Zante is, or was till lately, a Greek church exadly on the fame conftrudiom with this ^ alfo feveral others in various parts of the Levant f. The infulated round towers, and the fmall old churches difcovered in Ireland, with Hone roofs and circular arches, as thofe of Cafhel and Glendaloch, and thofe in England called Saxon, as well as thofe in Spain named Maflbrabic, bear a great refemblance to each other, and are apparently of the fame origin |^ being all, moft probably, conHruded on the model of the Grecian archi tenure, but not in that noble ftyle fo confpicuous iii the monuments of ancient Greece and Rome, but in the degenerate ftyie of the latter Greek empire, from the time of Arcadius at the beginning of the fifth, to the ctefe of the tenth century*

   The various Gothic and Vandalic tribes, which feated them* felves in the weft of Europe^ and on the ruins of the Greek and

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2. Cormac's Chapel Built at Cashel in 906

   Cashel · townland · Tipperary · 906

   Cormac's chapel at Cashel is cited as an early example of Irish stone church architecture, dated to the year 906, following the oratory of Malachy.

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   The Iriih do not appear to have adopted this fpecies of architedure, or to have built in lime and ftone, prior to the ninth century. The firft edifice of this kind was moft probably the oratory of Malachy, about 850 ; towards the clofe of which century the churches of Glendaloch were eroded and ornamented in the tafte of the northern nationsf. Soon after Cormac's chapel in 906 J; the monaftcry of Monaindia about iooo§; and the round tower of Kenith, in the county of Cork, in 1015II. From this period, ftonc-roofcd criptic churches and round towers became common in this ifland^ and continued the reigning tafte for ecclefiaftical buildings until the introdudion of the Norman and Gothic archie tedura in the beginning of the twelfth century, when the ftyle was difcontinucd.

   Having thus, in as concife a manner as poflible, given fome conjcdures relative to the origin of the ancient Irifh churches, and the times c^ their eredion, it will be neceffary to con-

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   As the companion tells it

   Somewhere close to Cashel stands Cormac's Chapel, built in 906. The Irish do not appear to have built in lime and stone before the ninth century. The first such edifice was probably the oratory of Malachy, around 850. After that came the churches of Glendalough, and then this chapel in 906, among the earliest Irish stone churches. From this period, stone-roofed churches and round towers became common across the island, until the Norman and Gothic styles arrived in the early twelfth century.

3. Churches of Glendalough Erected Late Ninth Century

   Glendalough · electoral division · Wicklow · 850–900

   The churches of Glendalough were erected and ornamented in the taste of the northern nations toward the close of the ninth century, marking an early period of stone church building in Ireland.

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   The Iriih do not appear to have adopted this fpecies of architedure, or to have built in lime and ftone, prior to the ninth century. The firft edifice of this kind was moft probably the oratory of Malachy, about 850 ; towards the clofe of which century the churches of Glendaloch were eroded and ornamented in the tafte of the northern nationsf. Soon after Cormac's chapel in 906 J; the monaftcry of Monaindia about iooo§; and the round tower of Kenith, in the county of Cork, in 1015II. From this period, ftonc-roofcd criptic churches and round towers became common in this ifland^ and continued the reigning tafte for ecclefiaftical buildings until the introdudion of the Norman and Gothic archie tedura in the beginning of the twelfth century, when the ftyle was difcontinucd.

   Having thus, in as concife a manner as poflible, given fome conjcdures relative to the origin of the ancient Irifh churches, and the times c^ their eredion, it will be neceffary to con-

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