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29. Ejlfenoea, Sheet 16. — St. Fachhtan's Cathedeal. The nave 

 is used as a Protestant chiu'ch ; the chancel is in ruins ; 

 they measure 67 feet 9 inches and 35 feet 9 inches long, being 

 each 20 feet 9 inches wide. The east window, the south piscina, 

 and north wing are of the later twelfth centmy, c. 1170. The 

 pointed arcade of the nave is of the f oui'teenth or early fifteenth 

 century, and there are several other features of the latter period.. 

 The east window has three semicircular lights ; one capital has a 

 gi'oup of little clerics. The north wing has plain, round headed 

 window slits, and opened by pointed arches into the nave ; one 

 is closed by a fijie monument of good decorated Gothic, the other 

 by a low door. Founder, St. Fachnan, perhaps of Eoss Carbery, 

 c. A.D. 560. Kilf enora was annexed to the Archbishopric of 

 Cashel in 1152. The name appears in the Book of Rights 

 (450-902) in the name Cathair Fhionnabhrach, Fenabor in 

 1189, Funbranensis 1273, Fenaborens 1302. Monuments, cleric 

 with supposed Celtic tonsure, bishop in full pontificals (later 

 mediaeval). A slab, with incised cross, forming the sill of the 

 northern canopied monument. A beautifully decorated high 

 cross, the fragments of a second, and two plainer ones, remain ; 

 another has been removed to Killaloe ; and the site of a sixth 

 is shown in the fields to the north of the village. Dean 

 Lowe, 1638; MacenchaiTii and O'Dea, 1650; Dean Blood, 

 1683-1700; Macdonough, 1685. The well of St. Fachtnan 

 has an inscription of the Macdonoughs, 1684. Descriptions, 

 Dunraven Kotes, vol.' ii., (view); Fallon's "Cathedrals of 

 Ireland" (view) ; Frost, p. 98 (view) ; R.S.A.L, 1900 (plan 

 and three views); P.M.D., u. (1892), p. 38. The nave and 

 crosses are vested as iN'ational Monuments. 



30. Ejxcaeeagh, Sheet 16. — Kilfenora Parish, hospital and church, 26 



feet by 14 feet 6 inches. A fragment stood 1839, now levelled. 



31. ExLToifAGHTA, Sheet 16. — Kilfenora Parish. Levelled since 1839. 



32. Kjicameen, Sheet 9. — Kilfenora Parish. A birrial ground and cist 



in a levelled caher near Ballykinvarga. Founder, possibly 

 Caimin of Inniscaltra, c. 640. Description, E.S.A.I., 1897. 



33. Ktlmai^aheen, Sheet 15. — _Prtm7« (?7mr<?A, entirely levelled. Founder, 



probably Mainchin, a friend of St. Maccreiche; the "Life of 

 Maccrecius " attributes it to the latter saint, who built it at the 

 "dun" of Baoith Bronach, king of Corcomroe, c. 570. "Kil- 

 mankyn," 1302; Cil mainchm, 1573. 



