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to me obvious from the character of the masonry, and of some of the features 

 in the nave, that the latter, though unquestionably remodelled, was never 

 wholly destroyed. 



As is usual in Irish churches, the ornamented portions of this are chiefly 

 found in its western doorway and chancel arch, the general features of which 

 will be seen in the annexed illustration. 







Of the chancel itself only portions of the side walls remain, and these walls, 

 which are of ashlar masonry, are of a totally different character from those of 

 the nave, and are probably cotemporaneous with the ornamented features of the 

 latter, or, at least, with some of them, as indeed some doubts may be enter- 

 tained that these features are themselves of cotemporaneous age. The entrance 

 doorway, of which a portion only now remains, consisted externally of three 

 concentric and receding semicircular arches, ornamented on their faces with 

 the chevron moulding, not, however, carved in relief, but in hollow lines, as 

 in the round window at Rahin, already described. The piers of these arches 

 were rectangular, but rounded at their angles, so as to form slender semi- 



