The history, architecture, and antiquities of the cathedral church of StCanice, Kilkenny . of a Pagan pyre, atwhich, more Scythico, animals as well as menwere cruelly sacrificed; and we have an instanceof this, quoad the latter, in the immolation ofthe captives of Fiachra, after the batte of Caonry,fought in A. D. 380. -Book ofBallymote, fol. 1G6.—Letter of a Member of the South Munster An-tiquarian Society, Kilkenny Moderator, Oct. 30,1847. The captives may have been burned; butwas the holocaust made in a Round Tower? CHAP. IV.] THE ROUND TOWER. 123 ment, perfectly similar to the doorways of
The history, architecture, and antiquities of the cathedral church of StCanice, Kilkenny . of a Pagan pyre, atwhich, more Scythico, animals as well as menwere cruelly sacrificed; and we have an instanceof this, quoad the latter, in the immolation ofthe captives of Fiachra, after the batte of Caonry,fought in A. D. 380. -Book ofBallymote, fol. 1G6.—Letter of a Member of the South Munster An-tiquarian Society, Kilkenny Moderator, Oct. 30,1847. The captives may have been burned; butwas the holocaust made in a Round Tower? CHAP. IV.] THE ROUND TOWER. 123 ment, perfectly similar to the doorways of the earliest churches. From thisstatement few will be found to dissent; and, on the grounds therein putforward, we must place the date of the Round Tower of St. Canice at a com-paratively early epoch, its peculiarities corresponding exactly to the criteriaabove given. Its doorway resembles those of the towers of Kilmacduagh inthe county of Galway, and of Glendalough in the county of Wicklow, both, id., P. 399, Dr. Petrie, erected early in the seventh century. We here insert. No. 29. No. 30. that skilful artists delineation of the former, as also of the door of the tower ofOughterard (No. 30), which bears a striking resemblance to that of St. tower is, probably, of not much later date than a church foundedthere in the sixth or seventh century. The windows of our tower are, as alreadyobserved, flat-headed apertures, with inclined sides, and are almost identical * The great church of Kilmacduagh was masonry of the tower to that of the original por- erected about the year 610, for St. Colman Mac tions of the great church, leaves no doubt of their Duach, by his kinsman, Guaire Aidhne, king of being cotemporaneous structures. — Inquiry Connaught; and the perfect similarity of the into the Origin, &c, p. 400. 124 THE ROUND TOWER. [sect. I. with those figured by Dr. Petrie in the accompanying engravings of twoof the windows of the Round Tower of Swords,
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