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would seem from the arch above the sqviare door to have once been 

 undivided in its whole length. Underneath this altar begins a sub- 

 terraneous passage, which it is said leads to St. Doulagh's well, a 

 beautiful clear spring in a field outside of the present church-yard . 

 the water is contained in a circular bason, cut out of one stone, and 

 over it is a curious octagon building, which in several points of 

 workmanship appears to be of the same date as the church. Adjoin- 

 ing is a covered bath, supplied by the spring. 



At the south-west corner of the smaller chamber is a narrow stair- 

 case, which leads to a small low-arched room, a sort of mezzanine, 

 between the ground-floor and the upper chamber ; this apartment, 

 which is called the Prior's, has a window on the west, and on the 

 south two narrow ones in a sort of small recess gained in the thick- 

 ness of the wall. From this recess winding stairs lead up to the 

 tower; and close to it is a narrow door-way to a flight of steps 

 eighteen inches wide, which communicate with the upper chamber : 

 this room reaches the whole length of the building ; for two-thirds 

 of its length it is of a very good height, but the floor of the remain- 

 ing third rises three or four feet to give head-room for the Prior's- 

 chamber : where this rise begins there have been broad steps. The east 

 window of the upper story is small, that at the west end has the 

 remains of tracery coarsely finished of a rough grit-stone, which has 

 suffered much from the weather, but is evidently coeval with the 

 original building : — indeed all the windows, except those of the 

 chapel, appear to be so, since they are formed in the simplest • 

 way, half of each head, with its ill-shaped cusps, being cut out of 

 one stone, a mode which belongs only to the very rudest age of 

 gothic architecture. No ornament of moulding or sculpture remains 

 in any part, but the groining and the vaulted cielings may have 

 had a lining of cut stone, and this appears in some degree pro bable, 



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