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a simple rectangular building, measuring seventy-three feet in length, 
by twenty-five in width; there are two doorways, one in thesouth wall, 
at the distance of twenty-three feet from the west gable, and the other in 
the north wall directly opposite. In the west gable are two narrow 
windows, one above the other, ogee-headed on the outside, but flat 
within ; they are widely splayed, their sides slightly inclined, and their 
lintels formed of Ogham stones. This gable is prolonged into a flat bel- 
fry, pierced with two semicircular-headed openings for bells. 
The masonry at either side of this belfry is known to architects 
as ‘‘ Long and Short,” and which is to be met with in Ireland in 
churches of a much older date than the one I am describing. Close to 
the east gable are two windows of the same form as those just men- 
tioned, one in the north, and the other in the south wall. The lintels 
of each are formed by long Ogham stones. The doors of this church 
are wide, and on the outside headed with a depressed pointed arch, very 
nearly approaching to the semicircular. They are flat-topped within, 
and the lintel over that in the south wall bears some Ogham characters. 
So few, however, are these, that I am led to imagine that the greater part 
of this inscription would be found along the angle of the stone which 
is now buried in masonry. This stone is pierced with a hole at its 
western end, a work possibly contemporaneous with the Oghams. 
From the architectural features of this church I believe it to be a 
work of the fourteenth century, but it is manifest that the Ogham in- 
scriptions are of a much earlier date, as in some instances portions of 
them were and are yet concealed by the surrounding masonry. The 
sketches, Nos. 2 and 3 of the window lintels, are clear examples of this 
interesting fact. 
Shortly after the finding of the Rath Ogham, and those from St. 
Seiskinan’s Church, I had great pleasure in communicating the fact to 
the Rev. Dr. Graves, at the same time sending him careful drawings of 
them all. 
The magnificent Ogham pillar, No. 21, is one well known; it is a 
block of red conglomerate, 18 to 14 feet high, and stands on the road- 
side between Carrick-on-Suir and Curraghmore. 
The Ogham, No. 22, is one which I was also the first to notice in 
the summer of 1849; it lies in the graveyard of Gowran Abbey, county 
of Kilkenny, and bears on it an incised cross of the ninth or tenth cen- 
type. 
The last Ogham which I have figured-is one now in the Museum of 
the Academy. It is remarkable for being ornamented with a Greco- 
Trish cross, enclosed in a simple circle, in which respect it agrees accu- 
rately with the Ogham pillar from the Pass over Mount Brandon; and as 
the cross and Ogham letters on this stone are clearly a contempora- 
neous carving, without doubt it is the same age as the Brandon mono- 
lith. 
Prozar Stones.—The district lying to the N. and W. of Dingle, 
county of Kerry, is rich in early Christian pillar-stones. The following 
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