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across the arms, and has twenty-two panels containing 

 sculptured scriptural subjects. (See Ulster Journal of 

 Arilueology, N.S., vol. iv, page i, for a full description and 

 illustrations.) This cross has been well cared for, and is still 

 in excellent preservation. The visitor to Ardboe should 

 study the old churches close by this cross. Other crosses 

 at Drumgooland, Armagh, Donaghmore, and in Tynan 

 Abbey demesne and at Caledon are worthy of inspection. 

 A number of rudely-cut crosses and fragmentary pieces 

 are scattered profusely over the counties of Down and 

 Antrim, and may be looked for at Newtownards, Bun-na- 

 margie, Cushendun, Connor, Kilroot, Carrickfergus, Temple 

 Astragh, Maghera, Bangor Abbey Church, etc. ; but none 

 of the elaborately-carved slabs so common at Clonmacnoise 

 and similar places are to be found here. (See Ulster Journal 

 of ArcJuvoloi^y ; Early Christian Art in Ireland, by Margaret 

 Stokes; O'Neill's Sculptured Crosses of Aficient Ireland.) 



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Sculptured Slabs. 



The cuneiform slabs, mostly Anglo-Norman, but some few 

 dating from the earlier period of the Celtic Church, occur 

 frequently throughout both Antrim and Down, and present 



ANGLO-NOKMAN GRAVE-SLAB, MOVILLA. 



an interesting subject of monumental study. The richest 

 collection in one place is in the old ruined Abbey of St. 

 Finian, at Movilla, about a mile east of Newtownards, one 



