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13. KixcoRNEY, Sheet 9. — Parish church. IS'ave, 39 by 20 feet ; and 



chancel, 16 feet 10 inches square. It is much defaced, and has 

 fine old masonry, probably of the tenth century, and fragments 

 of a decorated south door, and an east window of c. 1080; the 

 head of the window has a human face and rich foliage, and 

 is curiously recessed. There is a plain late font. Founder, 

 TXQcertain. "Kilcorny," 1302. Monuments, Comyn, 1714. 

 Description, Keane, p. 368, R. S.A.I, (illustration), 1900. 



14. KiLcoLJiANVAEA, Sheet 9. — Kilcorney Parish. It was levelled 



before 1839. Founder uncertain. 



15. JN'oTTGHAYAL, Sheet 9. — Parish church. It is gi'eatly overgrown. 



JSTave and chancel, 53 feet by 21 feet 6 inches, and 28 by 21 feet. 

 An early chiu'ch with massive masonry, probably of the tenth 

 century, but much repaired ; the chancel arch has a gemi circular 

 head, and resembles that of Oughtmama and Dysert, being of 

 finely cut blocks. The heads of the east and south windows 

 appear to be ancient. There is a handsome pointed arched 

 door, with a lintel and undercut ornaments, probably c. 1180, 

 and some twelfth and sixteenth century windows. Founder, 

 Mogua;! date and identity uncertain. Probably "the new 

 chapel," 1302. " JS'ua Conghabhaile,'' "new monastery." 

 " mioghevaeU," 1584. Bescription, P.M.D., 1896, p. 238 ; 

 E.S.A.I., 1900. (See Plates IX. and XL, fig. 7.) 



16. Same, O'Davoeen's Chapel, Sheet 9. — Noughaval Parish. A 



vaulted oratory, near to' and south-east from the last, 20 by 

 12 feet. The windows are oblong and chamfered ; the heavy 

 barrel vault has nearly fallen. A tablet recorded the building 

 by the Davorens in 1725. This and the pointed south door 

 have disappeared since 1839. An ancient-looking Celtic cross 

 is set through the slab of an open-air altar, near the west 

 gable ; the octagonal pier of a market cross stands to the north 

 of the great church. On the ridge to the east of this church 

 lie a fine series of prehistoric stone forts, cairns, cromlechs, 

 and souterrains extending to Ballyganner south. ^ The well and 

 holy tree of St. Mogua lie to the north-east of the church. 



17. CABEAjf, Sheet 'd.— Parish church, 56 by 20 feet. A late building 



of c. 1500. There remain an east window, a single pointed 



^ Perhaps Mochuda, alias Cronan. 



2 Froc. R.I. A., vol. v., Ser. in., p. 544 ; Journal U.S. A. I., 1897, p. 116. 



