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Annaghdown. — Beautifully situated on the shores of Lough Corrib 

 stands the graceful Norman castle, large and almost perfect. Here was 

 an ancient religious settlement, as attested by the many ecclesiastical 

 ruins scattered around ; one of the most beautiful Hiberno-Romanesque 

 windows in existence is built into a modern church, whilst the corres- 

 ponding door is well preserved, with other features of almost equal value. 



InchanguoiIvE. — To a few were given the pleasure of visiting this 

 most remarkable island in Lough Corrib, through the great kindness of 

 Mr. Henry Hodgson, J. P., who lent his boats, and otherwise hospitably 

 entertained the visitors. Here are two of the earliest churches with 

 deeply sculptured doors, Teampul Phaidrig and Teampul-na-Neave, both 

 carefully conserved by Lord Ardilaun. In the graveyard is a little rude 

 cross-carved pillar, with perhaps the most ancient Christian inscription 

 in Ireland, to the memory of Lugnaedon, son of Limenueh, the sister of 

 S. Patrick, 



Inis Mac Dara. — This little island out in the Atlantic off Roundstone 

 (the latter a place that no one should miss visiting) is very seldom visited, 

 so it was with great delight a small party chartered a lumbering hooker 

 to make the voyage to the Church of Saint Sinach Mac Dara, and well 

 were they repaid by a sight of the 6th or 7tli century stone-roofed 

 church, the crosses, and stations. This same hooker subsequently took 

 one of the party to Aran from Roundstone. Indeed, long after the 

 excursion was over, members were seen straggling about Connemara 

 and the islands of the sea, quite unable to drag themselves away from 

 the glories and m^-steries of the west, ever seeking for that Hybrasil 

 which lay in the lap of the setting sun. 



Many notes and details were taken of the antiquities visited that will 

 serve for future use in publications more suitable for that purpose than 

 the Irish Naturalist. 



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