Picturesque Ireland : a literary and artistic delineation of the natural scenery, remarkable places, historical antiquities, public buildings, ancient abbeys, towers, castles, and other romantic and attractive features of Ireland . and we must believe that it is not now in Westminster Abbey ; but at the same time we are notby any means convinced that this romidpillar-stone nowplaced over the Croppies grave is the stone. Per-haps \kv& flat sctdpttired stone, in the grave-yard, latterlycalled the cross of St. Adamnan, may have been it:an opinion held by ODonovan. Wakeman believeswith Dr. Petrie
Picturesque Ireland : a literary and artistic delineation of the natural scenery, remarkable places, historical antiquities, public buildings, ancient abbeys, towers, castles, and other romantic and attractive features of Ireland . and we must believe that it is not now in Westminster Abbey ; but at the same time we are notby any means convinced that this romidpillar-stone nowplaced over the Croppies grave is the stone. Per-haps \kv& flat sctdpttired stone, in the grave-yard, latterlycalled the cross of St. Adamnan, may have been it:an opinion held by ODonovan. Wakeman believeswith Dr. Petrie that the Croppies stone at Tara isthe veritable Lia Fail. The writer of the old manu-script so often referred to, and so wonderfully correctin other respects, appears to have had no doubt of thestone being at Tara in his day. He even lays downits position on the hill; and where he says it stood,we find the extraordinary relic which now marks the Croppies grave in the Forradh did actually stand. Upon the southern slope of the hill is Rath Laoghaire, or the Rath ofLaoghaire, or Lowry, the king of Tara, at the time of St. Patricks arrival ; whowas buried in a standing position in it ; and at a quarter of a mile in the same. Font at Kilcarn. 264 PICTURESQUE IRELAND.
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