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ficult to imagine; and in the north and west sides appearances of 

 irregular arches, which have been filled up : in the centre of that, at 

 the west end, there has been a square-headed door ; on the south 

 side there ascends to the upper chamber a staircase two feet wides 

 and of a singular construction : the steps are each an irregular 

 triangle, and placed alternately, so that two risers occupy only the 

 breadth of one step, as usually placed ; by this mode a power is 

 gained of ascending to any given height in half the usual space. 

 The guide pointed it out as the right and left stair-case. 



There has been a partition wall, now wholly pulled down, be- 

 tween this stair-case, which is lighted by a large window half way 

 up, and the chapel ; at the foot of it, on the lowest step, there was 

 a door which opened towards the stairs and against the wall, into a 

 flat niche which just received it. Modern heads and muUions of 

 free-stone have been added to the windows of this compartment, the 

 side uprights of which are of a coarse grit that has suffered much 

 injury from the weather; and it is remarkable that in all the older 

 stone-work of the windows there is invariably a groove cut along 

 the middle, and close to it, at invervals, small deep round holes, as if 

 for the reception and fixture of sashes of some sort : while the more 

 modern heads and. mullions are perfectly smooth, and therefore 

 could have been with difficulty glazed or closed in any manner. 

 The western division is only twelve feet by nine, and contains at its 

 east end a stone altar, six feet two inches long, by two feet five 

 broad, which occupies so much of this small room as hardly to 

 allow the supposition of its having been used as a chapel. Behind 

 the altar, but not quite in the centre of it, is the square closed door- 

 way visible in the chapel. The altar is by the country people con- 

 sidered as the tomb of St. Doulagh ; whether tomb or altar it ap- 

 pears to be an addition of a later dale than the building, which 



