134 Proceeding a of the Royal Irish Academy. 



slit, t'U'O [south, windows (one defaced, one witli ogee head), a 

 rickly moulded, pointed south door, with a stoup in the right 

 jamb ; also three corbels at the east end of the north, wall, 

 which are caiTed with tbe faces of a king, a woman, and a 

 warrior. The altar remains. The west gable had a bell 

 cbamber, and there is a machicolation at the north-west 

 comer. South of the church is a small cairn, round which 

 coffins are earned, and which probably gives the place its name. 

 Founder vodkjio^sni. "Came," 1302. "Well of Tobermacreagb 

 lies to south. JDescription of parish, iMason, rn., p. 281. 



18. Kjzn'allia, Sheet 6, Car ran Parish. A small oratory, 16 by 12 



feet, with a featui'eless west gable and fragments of the side 

 walls ; the sill of the north window remains. jSTot far to tbe 

 north is a large bullaun in the natural rock, and beyond it a 

 a well and altar ; on the latter are several round stones, and a 

 flat stone with two long roimd-ended depressions. To the south- 

 west on the slope, under the cliffs of Kinallia, is the saint's 

 cave, 15 by about 5 feet wide. Founder^ St. Colman Mac 

 Duach, c. 620 : see his Life in Colgan. Descriptio7i, Tahy, 

 " Diocese of Kilmacduach," pj). 65, 67. 



19. Teeitox CEO^^AI^', Sheet 10. — Carran Parish, 21 feet 10 inches by 



12 feet 10 inches. A most venerable oratoiy in excellent 

 preservation. The east window has inclined jambs and lintels ; 

 lines of roundels are cut in each jamb. The west door is also 

 lintelled, and has inclined jambs ; several corbels carved with 

 heads project from the gable. The north door is late and 

 pointed. In the graveyard are two curious tombs of two slabs 

 pitched together, with end pieces similar" to those at Slane, 

 Co. Meath. The base and shaft of a plain cross stand on 

 the ridge to the north-west. Founder, Cronan ; identity 

 uncertain. Descriptions, Petiie, p. 184 ; Dunraven, i., pp. 105, 

 107. (See Plate XL, figs. 4 and 8.) 



20. Sladoo, Sheet 10. — Carran Parish. A rudely built late sti'ucture, 



all features desti'oyed; no trace of the alleged stone roof. 

 . Description, Handbook to Lisdoonvama, " P. D." 



21. (rT.-FA^nnT.TAfRn TT.T.T: , Shcct 10. — Carran Parish. A separate parish 



in 1580. A defaced fifteenth-century chui'ch, much ivied and 

 overgrown. The ' ' fijiger-marks " of St. Columba^ appear on 



1 MSS. T.C.D., F. 2, 14. 



