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series of sixteen sketches represent those which I had the good fortune 
to meet with. 
The ornamented pillar slab, 5 feet high, figured in the first sketch, 
is perfectly unique and striking, from the classic elegance of design in 
its carvings. It stands in a “‘calluragh” burial ground, one mile east 
of Ballyferriter, on the Dingle road. The upper ornament is a Greek 
cross, brought out in slight depresso, and enclosed in a circle, the 
spaces between the arms being ornamented with quaint, crook-like de- 
vices. The lowest member of the cross has a long, slender shaft leading 
from it, and terminating in a simple right-and-left scroll. At either 
side of this shaft, S-shaped scrolls, of purely Greek design, pass down- 
wards, and terminate in a straight line, which cuts the base of the shaft 
at right angles. On the left side of the stone there are three letters 
(D, N, E), carvedina bold manner, and in the Uncial character,—doubt- 
less a contraction of the word Domine. The top left-hand corner of the 
stone is pierced with a small hole. I believe this carving to be the work 
of the seventh or eighth century. 
In the townland of Ballywiheen, close to the south-east shore of 
Smerwick Harbour, there are the remains of a small stone-roofed oratory, 
and in the graveyard attached to it is the remarkable stone, Fig. 2. In 
it we have another example of the Greek cross enclosed in a circle, but, 
unlike the former one, the emblems are brought out in high relief. Of its 
class, this carving is also unique, and I believe it to be of equal anti- 
quity with the former. The stone is only 2 feet high, and is placed at 
the head of a grave. 
Near the stone-roofed oratory of Kilmalkedar is the pillar-stone No. 3. 
It bears a simple cross, in a circle, below which is a rough inscription. 
This carving is in deep depresso. 
The next monolith, which is 4 ft. 6 in. in height, is from the grave- 
yard of the old stone-roofed oratory of Temple-na-Coonagh, near Galla- 
rus. Fig. A, No. 4, represents the west, and Fig. A, No. 5, the east face 
of this stone. The whole of the west face of this slab is occupied by 
bold carvings, in deep depresso. There is first a simple cross; below 
this, and connected with it, a circle enclosing a cross, which is of the 
modified Greco-Irish type; below this, again, is a large cross of the 
same type, the lower arm the longest, and ending in a device like a half 
moon on its back; and, nearest the ground, a simple cross, the base of 
which is concealed in the earth. The east face bears a small simple 
cross, of a type like the former, but the upper arm remarkably short. 
The date of the carvings may be about the ninth century. 
The same graveyard affords another standing-stone of a remarkable 
type, probably older than the former: it represents a triple cross, of a 
very peculiar form, and quite of a class with that on the polished Ogham 
stone from Ballintaggart Hill. The smaller cross below is apparently of 
a later period. 
In the calluragh burial-ground, one mile to the east of Ballyferriter, 
in the townland of Reask, is the pillar-stone represented by Fig. 7. The 
cross upon it is of the modified Greco-Ivish type, but it is surmounted 
