Excerpt from The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, Vol. 1 of 27: Polite Literature and Antiquities HE supposition that timber entered largely into the construction of medieval Armagh afiords a ready and reasonable explanation of the numerous conflagrations with which the Irish Annals record that it was visited. A closely packed town, encircling a hill, and hugging in its secular embrace the group of ecclesiastical buildings which occupied the summit, was likely to give and take whenever the fiery element broke ...
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Excerpt from The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, Vol. 1 of 27: Polite Literature and Antiquities HE supposition that timber entered largely into the construction of medieval Armagh afiords a ready and reasonable explanation of the numerous conflagrations with which the Irish Annals record that it was visited. A closely packed town, encircling a hill, and hugging in its secular embrace the group of ecclesiastical buildings which occupied the summit, was likely to give and take whenever the fiery element broke out in either department. Wood was plenty for the purposes of building, and the neigh bouring baronies of the Fens, as well as the numerous Der-rye in the low lands of the county, indicate by their names that vast supplies of that material lay near at hand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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