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at Killiney (No. 10). It stands about 100 yards away from a small 

 graveyard in the parish of Killahan. It is about 10 feet high, and 

 made of sandstone. It is a Greek cross, one arm broken off. There 

 is a small one at Killiney churchyard, in Corkaguiny Barony, quite 

 rectangular. 



6. Kilmalchedor Church and Hermitage, Barony of Corkaguiny. — 

 This is the ruin of the largest stone-roofed church to be found, I believe. 

 The roof is all gone. The architecture is of the earliest Christian period. 

 Within a mile of the church is the hermitage, with a most perfect stone 

 roof, the largest remaining in Kerry. It is perfectly dry inside. The 

 art of building such roofs with stones laid on the flat appears to be 

 either forgotten or abandoned, for no good reason. See my model of 

 the hermitage presented through Dr. Petrie to the Royal Irish Aca- 

 demy, in 1852. Both these monuments are unprotected from being- 

 damaged, and the churchyard of Kilmalchedor is not enclosed. The 

 hermitage is used as a sheep-fold. 



7. Glenfahan Crypts and Monumental Stones called Cloghauns, Barony 

 of Corkaguiny {see Ordnance Map of Kerry, Sheet 52). — Here are a 

 great many small buildings like the Kilmalchedor hermitage, of 

 various shapes and sizes, and in every stage of decay and destruction. 

 A great number of monumental stones, with and without marks, are 

 to be seen over a distance of two miles along the coast — all of great 

 interest to the antiquarian, and protected only by the reverence of 

 the people for them : they make sheep-folds of them, nevertheless.* 



8. Stradbally Church, Barony of Corkaguiny (Ordnance Sheet 35). 

 — This church always excites some surprise from having its east win- 

 dow built to one side of the gable. It is in a small churchyard which 

 is safe from desecration, but, like many of the old churches, it is liable 

 to destruction from being overgrown with ivy. This plant sends its 

 roots through the strongest walls, and bursts them asunder. Prom 

 what I have seen of its powers in that way I can easily believe that 

 the round towers at Ardfert and Aghadoe were destroyed by it.f 

 There is a large plant of it on Rattoo Tower, and I have asked Mr. 

 Gun to get it cut away, but he fears to incur the popular odium by 

 touching it, and it might be hard to get any man to do the work. If, 

 however, it could be shown that the object of clearing away the ivy 

 was for the preservation of the tower, and that the Roman Catholic 

 priest could Be got to sanction it, I suppose there would be no diffi- 

 culty. In the demesne of Rattoo there is an old church with a perfect 

 stone window of a peculiar Gothic pattern, and the gable it is in is 

 very well clothed with the destroying ivy. 



* [See on these ruins a paper by the late G. V. Du Noyer, in the eighty-seventh 

 number of the Journal of the Archseological Institute, March, 1858, " On the Ee- 

 mains of Anoient Stone-built Fortresses and Habitations, occurring to the west of 

 Dingle, county Kerry."] 



f The remains of a round tower at Aghadoe still stand about 12 feet high. — 

 (Ordnance Sheet 66). 



