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The antiquary and artist George Petrie (1790 1866) was one of the
founding fathers of Irish archaeology. Having trained since
childhood with his painter father, he began to travel around the
country, sketching landscapes, monuments and ruins. He later worked
for the Royal Irish Academy, and then for the Ordnance Survey,
organising the publication of essays on the historical monuments it
mapped. His interests extended from architecture and ecclesiastical
history to ancient music and Irish wolfhounds, and he was at the
forefront of efforts to preserve endangered historic buildings. In
particular, his studies of the round towers of Ireland successfully
demolished many myths about their building and purpose. This
biography, published in 1868, was written by his friend and
companion on many antiquarian expeditions, William Stokes (1804
78), the distinguished physician who was one of the first to
introduce Laennec's stethoscope into the British Isles."
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