the encounter finally came to time, and lovers
of antiquities will be glad to learn that the tower-building giant "didn't
lave a whole bone in the blaggard's ugly carkidge." After the battle, the
victor "shtarted for to kick the tower down," but, upon second thought,
concluded to put the roof on it and "lave it for a wondher to thim little
mortials that come afther him," for which consideration all honor to his
memory.

The Tower Ardpatrick was, according to tradition, built under the auspices
of Ireland's great saint, while the high tower on the Rock of Cashel is
attributed, by the same authority, to Cormac Macarthy, king and archbishop
of Cashel, who, being once engaged in hostilities with a neighboring
potentate, needed a watch-tower, so summoned all his people, built the
tower in one night, and, at sunrise, was able by its help to ascertain the
location of the opposing army and so give it an overwhelming defeat. The
Glendalough Tower was built by a demon at the command of Saint Kevin. This
saint had conspicuously routed Satan on a previous occasion; so the
arch-fiend and all the well-informed of his subjects kept at a safe
distance from Glendalough, not caring to take any risks with so doughty a
spiritual champion as Saint Kevin had proved himself to be in more than
one encounter.

"But there was wan snakin' vagabone av a divil that come from furrin parts
an' hadn't heard the news about the saint, and the blessed saint caught
him wan avenin' an' set him to work to build that tower. So the black
rogue wint at it as hard as he knew how, an' was workin' away wid all the
hands he had, as busy as a barmaid at a fair, thinkin' that afore sunrise
he'd have it so high it 'ud fall down be itself an' do the blessed saint
not a ha'porth av good. But afther batin' owld Satan himself, Saint Kevin
wasn't to be deludhered be wan av his undershtrappers, an' was watchin'
wid his two eyes every minnit o' the time, so whin the divil had the tower
high enough, he threw his bishop's cap at it, an' it become shtone an'
made the roof, so the omadhawn divil was baten at his own game."

[Illustration: "Crackin' their Haythen Shkulls"]

The round tower is not without a touch of romance, one of the most notable
structures, Monaster-Boice, having been built by a woman under peculiar
circumstances. According to the legend, she was young, beautiful, and
good, but though she ought to have been happy also, she was not, being
persec