 ... Conquest. But I have also shown in that essay that the earlier colonists in the country, the Firbolg and Tuatha De Danann tribes, which our historians bring hither from Greece at a very remote period, were accustomed to build, not only their fortresses,...  Lives of the Irish saints - Pagina 412di John O'Hanlon - 1873Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Royal Irish Academy - 1902 - 1676 pagine
...were accustomed to build not only their fortresses but even their dome-roofed houses and sepulchres of stone without cement, and in the style now usually called Cyclopean and Pelasgic.' " Page 385.—" Two peculiarities mark the ecclesiastical architecture of Ireland; one,... | |
 | William Smith, Samuel Cheetham - 1875 - 920 pagine
...were accustomed to build, not only their fortresses, but even their dome-roofed houses and sepulchres, of stone without cement, and in the style now usually called Cyclopean and PeliUgic." Besides the small churches which have been mentioned above, larger structures were also... | |
 | Charles Anderton Read - 1880 - 390 pagine
...were accustomed to build, not only their fortresses, but even their dome-roofed houses and sepulchres, of stone without cement, and in the style now usually called Cyclopean and Pelasgic. I have also shown that this custom, as applied to their forts and houses, was continued in... | |
 | Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - 1880 - 444 pagine
...were accustomed to build not only their fortresses but even their dome-roofed houses and sepulchres of stone without cement; and in the style now usually called Cyclopean and Pelasgic (op.cit., 12^). Elsewhere in Ireland.no doubt the dwellings were made of wood, mud, or sods,... | |
 | Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - 1880 - 430 pagine
...were accustomed to build not only their fortresses but even their dome-roofed houses and sepulchres of stone without cement, and in the style now usually called Cyclopean and Pelasgic (op.cit., 124). Elsewhere in Ireland, no doubt the dwellings were made of 'wood, mud, or sods,... | |
 | John O'Hanlon - 1881 - 46 pagine
...Firbolgs, it would appear, had been settled in the district of Hy-Many, province of Connaught, even before the introduction of the Christian religion,...and in the style, now usually called Cyclopean and Pelasgic.? The Firbolgs were certainly in Hy-Many during the reign of Duach Gallach, who was supreme... | |
 | British Archaeological Association - 1896 - 436 pagine
...were accustomed to build not only these fortresses, but even their dome-roofed houses and sepulchres, of stone without cement, and in the style now usually called Cyclopean and Pelasgic.1 But remains probably belonging to the Picts are still to be found in Wales. In Carnarvonshire alone... | |
 | Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Douglas Hyde, Lady Gregory, Charles Welsh, James Jeffrey Roche - 1904 - 532 pagine
...were accustomed to build, not only their fortresses, but even their dome-roofed houses and sepulchers, of stone without cement, and in the style now usually called Cyclopean and Pelasgic. I have also shown that this custom, as applied to their forts and houses, was continued in... | |
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