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county of Kerry, is very striking. It may be of the same age as it, and, 
therefore, possibly of the tenth or eleventh century. 
Fig. 18. This represents a cross placed over a holy well, dedicated to 
our Lady, near Kilmurry, county of Cork. The inner cross is evidently 
formed by modern scratchings, the work of the devotees who come to 
pray at the well. 
Fig. 19. This is a fragment of a tombstone from the old church of 
Dowth, county of Meath. From the fact of the edges of the stone hav- 
ing been chamfered off, I am disposed to regard it as a thirteenth-cen- 
tury work, although the design of the cross is derived from the old Irish 
type. 
eee 20. This singular relic, having a standard cross enclosed in a 
circle carved upon it, is formed of a small block of yew timber, and 
placed in the interior of the old church of St. Patrick’s Well, near Clon- 
mel, county of Tipperary, near the N. E. angle of the old stone altar, 
which is yet remaining in this ruin. I regard it as a work of the four- 
teenth century. 
Fig. 21 represents a tombstone from the grave-yard of Dromkeen, 
county of Limerick. The cross is of the old twelfth century type; but 
the work much more modern. 
Figs. 22 and 23. These two illustrations are from singularly small 
tombstone flags, used as lintels over two doors in the Tower of Ardmul- 
laghan old church, on the south bank of the Boyne, near Navan, county 
of Meath. I believe them to be the work of the thirteenth century, but 
after the early Irish type. 
Fig. 24 represents a tombstone in the interior of Kildare Abbey; 
It is coffin-shaped; and though the design of the cross is very early 
Trish, I think the carving is not older than the fourteenth century. 
Fig. 25. A tombstone from the Cathedral of St. Canice, Kilkenny ; 
possibly of the fourteenth century. The cross is carved in high relief, 
and richly foliated. 
Fig. 26. Stone cross at head of a grave in the churchyard of Ough- 
terard, county of Kildare. The form is unusual, and I supposed it to 
be of the fifteenth century. 
Fig. 27. This represents a group of small, rudely-formed granite 
crosses, from the roadside near the village of Carrick, at Bannow, county 
of Wexford. Where such crosses have been erected, and they are com- 
mon in the county of Wexford, it is customary to stop funerals and 
rest the coffin there, and, on leaving, to place at the spot a small wooden 
cross, a bundle of which is previously provided. Some of these wooden 
crosses are represented in the sketch. 
Fig. 28. Cross ofa very old type, deeply carved into one of the quoin- 
stones in the wall near the west gable of the old church of Clogrennan, 
county of Carlow. 
Fig. 29. This represents a tombstone from Mourne Abbey, near 
Mallow, county of Cork. The two fish, which appear above the arms 
of the cross, and the two Maltese crosses below, are, I think, armorial 
bearings, and may probably be those of one of the Hacket family, whose 
