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which is of a kind to attract attention even if found in one 

 of our most richly adorned churches, but much more so 

 in a building in this remote situation. At the height of about 

 four feet from the floor, the nave shows, on each side through 

 its whole length, a series of square pannelled compartments, 

 separated by short massive pilasters projecting from the 

 wall. These compartments, twelve in number, are in per- 

 fect preservation, and appear to have been originally exe- 

 cuted in polished stone. The nave windows occupy a com- 

 partment at each side, and are surmounted by plain round 

 arches. 



Within the choir, and springing directly from each side 

 of the doorway, there are small arched apertures, the use of 

 which the author is at a loss to conjecture. The semicir- 

 cular head of the western doorway is filled with a single 

 stone, on the inner side of which is a projecting effigy, now 

 too much defaced to admit more than a conjecture as to what 

 it represented. In the church-yard stands a rude gigantic 

 cross, formed of a single stone ; another, less rude, lies half 

 prostrate, and has been built into the wall of a tomb. Ogham 

 stones are found at several places in the neighbourhood ; 

 there is one, much effaced, in the churchyard. 



Having noticed the vulgar tradition that the church 

 " was built long ago by the Spaniards," the author offers some 

 conjectures as to the probable date of its erection, which he 

 concludes to have been in the eighth or ninth century, "when 

 the Danes had intercourse with this and with other parts of 

 Ireland ;" but he supposes that it was ornamented and finished 

 in its present style at a subsequent period. 



The following notice of an ancient Boat, found near 

 Drogheda, was read by W. I. Hughes, Esq. 



During the progress of the works carried on by the Cor- 

 poration of Drogheda for the improvement of the port and 

 harbour, it was found necessary to deepen the bed of the River 



