Crossword-Solution: THEACH 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

They had much ampler possession of England and Scotland, and permanent possession of Normandy, but never a Round Tower did they erect there; and, finally, the native Irish name for a Round Tower is _cloic-theach_, from _teach_, a house, and _cloc_, the Irish word used for a bell in Irish works before "the Germans or Saxons had churches or bells," and before the Danes had ever sent a war-ship into our seas.

The following are the passages which Vallancey has so misquoted and garbled-- "'CUILCEACH, a steeple, cuilceach Cluan-umba, Cloyne steeple--this word _is_ a corruption of Clog-theach.

But apparently, though the generic name duir-theach still continued to be applied to them, some of them were constructed, from a very early period, entirely of stone; and of these the roofs were occasionally formed of the same material as the walls, and arched or vaulted, as in the Inchcolm oratory.

Theach himself, surrounded by slaughtered foes and followers, and bleeding from numerous wounds, in the act of stepping back to cock a pistol, fainted from loss of blood, and expired on the spot.” The few survivors threw down their swords, and were spared—to die on the gallows shortly afterwards.

Another, Theach, or Blackbeard as he was called, lurked in Pamlico Bay, and was supposed to be favoured by Cornbury and other governors of South Carolina; he, however, was taken by two Virginian vessels sent out by Spotswood from the Chesapeake in pursuit of him.