. Romantic Ireland . beentruly said, the people of Navan have turnedtheir backs upon it, and from scarce a spotin the town itself can a glimpse od eitherstream be had. Navan has a past decidedly more interestingthan its present. Its ancient patronymic wasNuachongbhail, and it was one of the earliestfortified places in the county of Meath. Hughde Lacy walled it around; but remains of thiswork have now almost disappeared, thoughthere are still somie very tangible evidences ofthe earliest style of fortifications known inErin in the Great Moat of Navan. The Round Tower of Donaghmore, the mostperfe
. Romantic Ireland . beentruly said, the people of Navan have turnedtheir backs upon it, and from scarce a spotin the town itself can a glimpse od eitherstream be had. Navan has a past decidedly more interestingthan its present. Its ancient patronymic wasNuachongbhail, and it was one of the earliestfortified places in the county of Meath. Hughde Lacy walled it around; but remains of thiswork have now almost disappeared, thoughthere are still somie very tangible evidences ofthe earliest style of fortifications known inErin in the Great Moat of Navan. The Round Tower of Donaghmore, the mostperfect of its kind in Ireland, and the ruins ofDonaghmore church, are near by. ProfessorFlinders Petrie ascribes the date of the towerto the tenth century. It is one hundred feetin height, and its base circumference is sixty-six and a half feet. He further describes theremarkable doorway as having a figure ofOur Saviour, crucified, sculptured in relief onits keystone and the stone immediately above The Round Tower, Kelts. The Boyne Valley 269 it. This fact should establish beyond alldoubt that the motive of these great roundtowers of Ireland, or at least of this particularone, was Christian and not pagan. One is bound to> visit Kells if only to takecognizance of its famous market-cross. Kells,in the county of Meath, is, or should be, coup-led, in the minds of visitors, with the nameof Tara. They have nothing in common, butthey are neighbours, and properly should beseen in connection with each other. Tara pre-sents, at first glance, nothing more than asmall conical elevation rising above the Boyne;but its memories as the residence of the mag-nificent Cormjac, St. Patrick, the Druids, thelaw-givers, the bards, and all the ancient pre-historic civilization which centred around it,are very great. Kells is a dozen or more miles from Tara,and should not be confounded with Kells inKilkenny. Kells was granted to St. Columbain the sixth century, and a small house stillexists which is fon
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