460 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 
Dromore Stocks.—I understand that Dromore still possesses its. 
town stocks ; they are erected on the rough stone from which formerly 
the old Dromore cross arose. This early cross lies broken and 
neglected, and some of its fragments are reported to be built into walls, 
but an effort is being made to recover and restore these scattered pieces. 
The stocks consist of two upright iron lateral supports, with a cross- 
bar of iron, having two semicircular apertures for the culprit’s hmbs; 
and there is a corresponding movable iron above, which is elevated by a 
lever passing over the top of one of the supports, and connected with 
the lower bar by a long iron rod; when the limbs were secured this. 
was fastened with a padlock opposite the lower half of the stocks. My 
informant, when a lad, says he often had his feet in them; but as an 
instrument of punishment they have been disused for many years. 
The culprit sat on a stone, which he believed was part of the shaft of 
the old cross. 
P.S.—The Christ Church Stocks, in the year 1761, stood at the 
junction of the south transept, with the eastern wall of the Choir in 
Christ Church-place, where its situation is delineated in an old map: 
of the ‘ Liberties of Christ Church.” 
