128 Froccediiig'i of the Royal Irish Academy. 



sacrilege was soon afterwards avenged by their disastrous defeat at 

 Beal an chip.^ 



Church Plate. — The Protestant churches. — Killaloe Cathedral, 

 l)aten, " Ex dono reverendissim in Christo Patris, Mcholai Episcopi 

 Laonensis." Elagon — " Deo et sacrisper Eever.Dan. Witter, sac. sanct. 

 Theol. Doct. et Episc. Laonen., 1674." Ennis has a chalice with the 

 words, "Eor Ennis Chui'ch, 1683." Kilnasoola has a chalice and 

 paten with this inscription, " Ex dono Donati O'Brien Paronetti in 

 usum ecclesiae Killanasulach in Comitatu Clare," c. 1690. Kilfinaghta, 

 a chalice with " The gift of (apparently T. W.) to ye Six Miles 

 Chuixh in ye County of Clare, July ye 8, 1713." 



In the Poman Catholic Church of Corofin are three noteworthy 

 chalices with the following inscriptions: — 1. " Calix benedictionis 

 cui benedicinius nonne communicatio sanguinis Christi 1 Cor. x. D. 

 Robertus Ai'thuiais et Margarita Blake ejus soror Deo Optimo maximo 

 dicant." No. 2. " Ex dono Thadaei Daly Penaldus O'Kelly sacerdos, 

 1620." 1^0. 3. " Orate pro anima Jacobi O'Grypha sacerdotis qui me 

 fieri fecit, 1670." The latter were repaired by the Pev. James 

 M'Mahon in the present century. 



Church Glass. — Of course no great trace remains of mediaeval glass. 

 Eragments of coloui-ed glass were found at Inchicronan, and we read 

 of "blue coloured glass" at Ennis Friary. Many of the small 

 windows, even in the fifteenth-century churches, were evidently 

 never glazed. A heavy cast-iron window-frame, turning on pivots, 

 and made to hold 16 small panes, was found in the ruins of Ennis 

 Eriary, and was long preserved at Stamer Park. 



Among the many friends who helped me in this survey I can only 

 name the principal, Mrs. O'Callaghan, of Maryfort, Mrs. Stacpoole, 

 of Edenvale, Mrs. MacDonnell (junior), of Newhall, the late Dr. W. H. 

 Stacpoole Westropp, of Lisdoonvarna, the late Mr. George Studdert 

 O'Sullivan, Dr. George U. Macnamara, Pev. J. B. Greer, Mr. Pichard 

 J. Stacpoole, and Colonel George O'Callaghan Westropp. While out- 

 side the district 1 most gratefully acknowledge many valuable sugges- 

 tions from Mr. Pobert Cochrane, Sir Thomas Drew, Mr. James MiUs, 

 Mr. Standish Hayes 0' Grady, and the late Dr. W. Erazer. 



1 " Annals of the Four Masters." 



[Survey of the Churches. 



