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windows at the east end of the croft over the chancel ; and the second, one of 

 the oblong apertures of the south tower, splaying externally, and curved at the 

 sill. 



I should not conclude this description of Cormac's Chapel without noticing 

 a curious quadrangular recess, which is placed in the north wall, between the 

 doorway and the tower. This recess is at present occupied by a tomb, and was 

 obviously intended originally for such a purpose ; and according to the popular 

 tradition, it was the place of the tomb of the founder, Cormac Mac Carthy. 

 The present tomb, however, is obviously not the original one, which, as I was 

 informed by the late Mr. Austin Cooper, had been removed into a small chapel 

 in the north transept of the Cathedral, more than a century since, after the 

 abandonment of that noble edifice to ruin in Archbishop Price's time, and 

 where, divested of its covering stone, it still remains, and is now popularly 

 called " the Font." 



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It is said that the covering stone of this tomb was ornamented with a 

 cross, and exhibited an inscription in Irish, containing the name of Cormac, 

 king and bishop of Munster, and that this sculpture and inscription were 

 ground off its surface by a tradesman of the town, who appropriated the stone 

 as a monument for himself and family ; and I may remark, that the probability 



