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240 AECHITECTURE OF IRELAND. Part II. identical Avith many found in the North of Italy, but very unlike anything either in England or Scotland, and give a foreign look to the whole building which is very striking. 682. Tower, Jerpohit Abbey. The same may be said of the next example (Woodcut No. 68-3) from a house in Galway. Its ai-chitecture might be Spanish, but its ornamental details look like a reminiscence of the entwined decoration -ilL-i— <J. 683. House, Galway. of a Runic cross. From whatever source they are derived, it certainly was not England. Ballyromney Court, illustrated in "Woodcut No. 684, is perhaps the most usual form of an Irish mansion in the last age of Gothic. After