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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1828 Excerpt: ... represented to have accumulated at some places of peculiar sanctity? It has been said that one appellation of the round tower was Clogh-Ancoire, the stone of the anchorite; and some weight has been attributed to the word ancoire, as meaning anchorite; and Dr. Smith even goes so far as to derive the word cloghad, a name often given to the towers, from Clogh-ancoire; but the Irish dictionaries contain no such word as ancoire; it seems to be evidently borrowed from the Latin; and the circumstance affords an additional evidence that they were not built for anchorites, since there was no word in the native language to designate that profession, and to express it they were obliged to have recourse to a foreign word Iricised. Again they have been conceived to have been Penitentiaries--"Areti inclusorii ergastula," the prison of a narrow enclosure--where culprits were placed in confinement; that first, restrained to the topmost floor, they were allowed to descend story by story, according to. their progress in amendment; a sort of purgatory upon earth. Dr. Smith derives this opinion from an Irish MS. Life of Dunchad O'Braoin, Abbot of Clonmacnoi8e, -f-but he gives no date, nor any account of its authenticity. From this idea of penitential towers Dr. Smith draws a theory, that the Latin word turris was adopted to signify penitence in Irish; but no such word is to be found in the Irish Dictionaries. As the situations of several of Smith's History of Waterford, p. 357. X Smith's History of the county of Cork, II. p. 415 Dr. S. had changed his opinion between the publishing of Waterford and Cork.--The towers of Cashel and Devenish had no floors--were the penitents suspended from the top? X Tor and Tur, --a tower, a heap, a pile. Tor--a body of men, a congregatii Tur, a ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781235775246
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 154
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1235775240
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 286 gr

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