The history, architecture, and antiquities of the cathedral church of StCanice, Kilkenny . indow some remains of an earlier fabric;the details, though transitional in character,may be referred to the close of the EarlyEnglish period of Gothic architecture; theengaged angle shafts and capitals are espe-cially worthy of attention. No trace of a Round Tower is now discoverable,did such an appendage to the monastery ever exist; but a small stone-roofedturret (no doubt the turris parva of the Inquisition), still extant in the ceme-Dubiin Penny tery, has been gravely set down by an anonymous writer
The history, architecture, and antiquities of the cathedral church of StCanice, Kilkenny . indow some remains of an earlier fabric;the details, though transitional in character,may be referred to the close of the EarlyEnglish period of Gothic architecture; theengaged angle shafts and capitals are espe-cially worthy of attention. No trace of a Round Tower is now discoverable,did such an appendage to the monastery ever exist; but a small stone-roofedturret (no doubt the turris parva of the Inquisition), still extant in the ceme-Dubiin Penny tery, has been gravely set down by an anonymous writer as the depository of thei, sacred fire ! A cursory inspection serves to show that the date of this structureis, comparatively speaking, very modern—the existence of a tier of shot-holesproving it to have been erected after the introduction of firearms. AGHABOb.—Having brought our brief notice of Seir-Kieran down to thepresent day, it will be necessary to revert to the sixth century of the Christianera, when the monastic house, which ultimately became, in the modern sense of. 1 See this doorway figured by Dr. Petrie, in Clchab bo, Martyrology of Aengus, Gloss,his Inquiry into the Origin and Uses ojthe Round Oct. 11; Achad bou, latine campulus bovis,Towers of Ireland, p. 171. AdamnarCs Life of St. Columba, Tr. Thaum., CHAP. I.] AGHABO. 15 the word, for a short period, the cathedral of the diocese of Ossory, was founded,and began to supplant, in the estimation of the tribes of the district, the earlierestablishment of St. Kieran. The first order of Irish saints, the contemporaries of Patrick and Kieran ofSaighir, had now passed away3. They were for the most part bishops, ordainedin great numbers in order to supply the wants of an infant Church, and pro-mote the effectual preaching of Christianity to the heathen Irish; and theylived collegiately with their inferior clergy, caput Christum, et unum ducemPatricium habentes. But although thus conforming to the rule given th
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