124 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



and of little areliitectural interest. Priests' houses are found at a few 

 places — Toomullin, Correen, Killballyone, Temple dnbh, Leanna, and 

 Clonrush. 



Othek Peatuees. 



Round Towers remain at Kilnaboy, Dysert O'Dea, Dromcliff, Inis- 

 caltra and Scattery ; there is reason to believe that others once existed 

 at Tomgraneyand Rathblamaic.^ (Illustration, Plate X.) 



High Crosses and Standing Crosses. — There were four sculptured 

 crosses at Kilfenora. One has been removed to Clarisford, near Kil- 

 laloe. A j)lain cross and the site of another are also shown. A beau- 

 tiful high cross remains at Dysert O'Dea, and remains of plainer ones 

 at Skeagh-a-vanoo, near Kells, and Kilvoydane, near Corofin ; a curious 

 tan cross stands at Roughan, near Kilnaboy,- and rude crosses at Ter- 

 mon Cronan, Dysert, and E'oughaval. There were at least two crosses 

 of some size at Iniscaltra ; on the base of one appears the inscription 

 ^ Hat) 1 t)echenboip. Several cross sites are remembered near Coro- 

 fin, Monasternashraduff, near Dysert, and Glennagross. Ardnacrusha, 

 near Limerick, Crusheen, and " Cross" at Kilkeedy. 



Carvings of Scriptural Scenes. — Single figures of our Lord crucified 

 occur on the crosses at Kilfenora and Dysert O'Dea, circa 1150. A 

 more elaborate panel of the Crucifixion, and scenes from the Passion — 

 the arrest, the scoiu'ging, the entombment, and the Resurrection, are 

 found on the base of the 1460 "MacMahon" tomb in Ennis. A 

 figure of our Lord mocked lies in a recess in the chancel ; it formed 

 a boss in the canopy of the same tomb. Carvings of oiir Lord and the 

 Apostles occupy the recess of that monument. The Yirgin and Child 



1 See Journal E. S.A.I. , 1894, pp. 28, 333, &c. ; 1897, p. 282. Proc. R.I.A., 

 Ser. HI., vol. v. (1899), pp. 297, 298. 



^ It is necessary to note, in face of recent attempts to deny the identity of the 

 " present'' cross with that so strangely and incorrectly descrihed by Hely Button 

 find others — 1, that the present cross is recognised by many persons now living in 

 the neighbourhood as the one removed from ttie site some thirty years ago; 2, that 

 a local antiquary has a letter from a neighboiuing gentleman, iu which the latter 

 states that he heard the former owner of the house in which the "present " cross 

 was found say that he had taken it away ; 3, the " present " cross corresponds to 

 tlie description of the "former " cross in the Ordnance Survey Letters, R.I. A., in 

 1839; 4, that I have heard, so far back as 1878, the name of the person who 

 removed the cross, and that be lived at the place M'here the " present " cross was 

 found. Dysert, Rougban, Skeagb a vanoo, and Kilvoydan, are carefully described, 

 by Dr. G. Macnamara, in the Journal R.S.A.I., 1899, p. 244 ; 1890, p. 26. 



