 | Joaquín Lorenzo Villanueva - 1833 - 412 pages
...architecture extant in any country. In 1820, Henry de Loundres, archbishop of Dublin, put out this fire, called " unextinguishable," — which had been...from the earliest times, by the nuns of St. Brigid, at Kildare. It was re-lighted, and continued to burn until the Irish " Round Towers,"* as well as the... | |
 | Joaquín Lorenzo Villanueva - 1833 - 390 pages
...architecture extant in any country. In 1820, Henry de Loundres, archbishop of Dublin, put out this fire, called" unextinguishable,"— which had been...preserved, though a remnant of the pagan idolatry of Baal—from the earliest times, by the nuns of St. D rigid, at Kildare. It was re-lighted, and continued... | |
 | Rev. G. Hansbrow - 1835 - 456 pages
...has been for several years neglected, and at present is almost in ruins ; near it is a round tower. In 1220, Henry de Loundres, archbishop of Dublin, put out the fire called inextinguishable, which had been preserved, from a very early time by the nuns of St. Brigid. This... | |
 | John Laws Milton - 1864 - 668 pages
...1820, meaning I presume 1280, Henry de Loundres put out a fire of this kind called " inextinguishable," which had been preserved, though a remnant of the...of Baal, from the earliest times by the nuns of St. Brigit at Kildare. It was re-lighted and continued to burn until the total suppression of the nunneries... | |
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Towers," which are specimens of the^nesf architecture extant in any country. In 1820, Henry de Loundres, archbishop of Dublin, put out this fire, called " unextinguishable," — which had been preserved, though a remnant of the pagan idolatry of Baal... 