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Mr. PETRIE'S Inquiry into the Origin and 



Of this building, which is still used as a parish church, the chancel only 

 appears to be ancient, and even this has suffered the loss of its original east 

 window. The chancel arch, however, still remains, as also a circular window 

 richly ornamented, which lighted a chamber placed between the chancel and 

 the roof. The chancel is stone-roofed, as we may well believe the entire church 



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third, 

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to have been originally. It is in the 

 ornaments of the chancel archway, 

 however, that the similarity in design 

 and execution to those in the Tower 

 of Timahoe is chiefly found. This 

 archway, as will be seen from the an- 

 nexed drawing, consists of three rect- 

 angular piers at each side, rounded at 

 their angles into semi-columns, which 

 support three semi-circular arches en- 

 tirely unornamented, except by a plain 

 architrave on the external one. The 

 capitals, on which the greatest richness 

 of ornament is found, are those on the 

 or innermost of these piers at each side ; and, like those at Timahoe, 

 ornaments, though similar in design, are dissimilar in detail, and their 



