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6. CoECOMEOE Abbey, S. Mauia de Petea Peetili oe De Yieidi 

 Saxo. — Ahley Parish^ Sheet 3. It consists of a cruciform 

 clixircli, witiL a riclily-vaiilted chancel roof and clustered 

 colmnns. A small chapel lies to either side of the chancel. To 

 the south of the church is a small cloister garth with build- 

 ings to the east. Two detached buildings lie to the south, 

 and a gate-house to the west. The remains of a massive wall 

 enclose an extensiye park roimd the abbey. There is a well 

 named Tobersheela. Most of the fabric of the abbey is of the 

 late twelfth and early thirteenth century. Founder, Donald- 

 more O'Brien, King of Munster, c. a.d. 1180-1190. Monuments, 

 Conor na Siudaine O'Brien, King of Thomond, slain in battle, 

 1268. A very perfect effigy. The figure of a bishop in full 

 pontificals. A cross carved on a slab of yew. Deacriptions, 

 Dublin Penny Journal (illustration), 1833-1834; Guide to Lis- 

 doonvarna, 1876; Pteport of the Board of Public "Works, 1878, 

 1879, p. 72 (plan and good illustrations) ; Frost, p. 22; P.M.D. 

 II., p. 275 ; T. J. Westropp, E.S.A.I., 1895 and 1900, p. 301 

 (all with illustrations). It is vested as a ^National Monument. 



V. KiLLONAGHAJS", Sheet 4. — Parish church, 48 by 21 feet. The ruin 

 has a well-built east window, with a semicircular head and 

 external moulding ; the other features are defaced. Probably 

 c. 1080. Founder, Onchu, probably son of St. Blathmac ; if 

 so, c. A.D. 580. " Killonchan," 1302. 



8. CExmxrN-, Sheet 4. — Killonaghan Parish. Only the east gable and 



parts of the sides remain ; the east and south windows have 

 each got rudely arched semicii'cular heads in the splay, and 

 semicircular heads cut in single blocks of stone in the light. 

 Founder, according to tradition, St. Columba, who built it after 

 leaving Aran ; perhaps the present building is of the tenth 

 century. " Cromglaon " (crom gleann), 1302, i.e., "crooked 

 glen." It was at that time a parish church. 



9. Eathboeney, Sheet 5. — Parish church, 56 feet 6 inches by 21 feet. 



A late Gothic building, c. a.d. 1500, except the lower part of 

 the east and north walls for about 5 feet high, which seem 

 early Irish work. The east window richly moulded, divided 

 by a shaft and transom into four lights, with trefoil heads and 

 a flat hood.i South window has a single trefoil-headed light. 



1 See illustration, Plate XII., fig. 7. 



