Stroxes—Probable Date of the Tara Brooch, §c. 455 
stolen by Gillacomhgain were afterwards ‘‘revealed against him,” 
there is really no ground for identifying them with this find at Ardagh. 
Another result of this inquiry has been the wish to correct the 
-opinion expressed at the close of the work on the arly Christian Archi- 
tecture of Lreland, that the national character of our art first died out 
in the twelfth century. It would appear now that, as early as the end 
-of the tenth century, merely local and native designs were beginning to 
give place to others more in harmony with Continental art, just as the 
round arch decorated Romanesque took the place of the primitive 
dlecorated style, with horizontal lintel and inclined jambs of the tenth- 
century architecture of Ireland. 
