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Author: P 1862-1951 Power Publisher: Legare Street Press ISBN: 9781019200698 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Author: Patrick Power Publisher: Theclassics.Us ISBN: 9781230736976 Category : Languages : en Pages : 136
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...church stood--the townland and church deriving their name in turn from the (probably 6th century) founder of the latter. The English, as was their custom, re-dedicated the church, the new (_//) See Journal, Waterford and S.E. Ireland Archaeological Society, Vol. II., p. 83. titular being St. Michael the Archangel, as the "pattern," still kept, testifies. Only insignificant remains of the church survive; these are rather picturesquely situated on the extreme point of a fertile headland which juts out into that portion of Tramore Bay, known as ' The Back Strand." A landslip seems likely, in the no distant future, to bury in the waves the walls which have withstood the storms of centuries. The church consisted of nave and chancel, but unfortunately the chancel arch has fallen. A curious feature of the ruin is the sloping pier, evidently cotemporaneous with the church itself, which supports the north side wall. It is evident that when the builders had reached the height of three or four feet from the ground they found the wall out of plumb--inclining outwards--possibly through defective foundation. They solved the difficulty by erecting the sloping pier, and thence upward incorporating the pier with the wall! Close to the church lie a great stone font or laver of rude workmanship and portion of a second and much smaller, but otherwise similar, vessel. Several well denned mounds, with traces of many earthen buildings and enclosures, immediately to the north of the ruin, tell of former extensive settlement. An ancient roadway is traceable along the headland and by the church till it loses itself over the low clay cliff, a few yards to the south-east of the ruin. TOWNLANDS. Ballinvella, thMle An t)ile--" Homestead of the Old...
Author: Patrick Power Publisher: Sagwan Press ISBN: 9781340012977 Category : Languages : en Pages : 552
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Author: P Power Publisher: ISBN: 9789354151248 Category : Languages : en Pages : 564
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Author: Iwan Wmffre Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited ISBN: Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 532
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This work is primarily meant to be a record of the locations, age, pronunciation and explanation of place-names in the county of Cardiganshire in Wales. Each headword is followed by a location by grid-reference and when possible by a notation of pronunciation in phonetic script, by historical forms, and often by a discussion of etymologies.