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81. Q,TjrN, St. Finghin's Chttrch, Sheet 42. — Parish Church, 79 by 27 



feet. A Gothic churcli, built probably about 1280, with a later 

 belfry tower. The east window is a triple lancet, the south 

 window richly moulded. Founder, Finghin; identity doubt- 

 ful. The well Toberinghine is dedicated to Inghean Baoith. 

 " Cuinche," in 1110, was adopted by the Synod of Eath- 

 breasail as a boundary mark for the diocese of Killaloe and 

 that of Limerick. " Cil Cuinche " was burned by the Irish 

 over De Clare's soldiers in 1279. Description, E.S.A.I., 1900, 

 and a view, R.S.A.I., 1890, p. 292. (See Plate X.) 



82. QuiiJ", Feaj^cisca-N Feiakt, Sheet 42. The building consists of a 



nave, chancel, transept, and belfry, with domestic buildings 

 rotmd an arcaded cloister ; a hospital, or guest house, and the 

 foundations of other buildings. It rests on the foundations, and 

 retains some of the walls and bastions of Thomas De Clare's 

 " round to wery castle," 1280. This was destroyed by Cuvea 

 Macnamara about 1286, and was adopted as an abbey before 

 1350.^ i^0MW^<;r, probably Mac con Macnamara. It was rebuilt 

 by Sioda Cam Macnamara, 1402, to which period the cloister 

 and vaulted rooms belong. It was further repaired and enlarged, 

 probably on its reform, by Maccon Macnamara, 1433 (under 

 papal license). The transept, belfry tower, and most of the 

 details of the upper rooms date from this time. Monuments, 

 Odo Macnamara, c. 1500 (a neat canopied tomb); John Mac- 

 namara (chief), 1601 ; Donough Macnamara, 1654 ; Tiege 

 Macnamara, of Eannagh, 1714; Macnamara, of Ballymarkahan, 

 1722; Edmund Macnamara, 1761 ; and many others of this 

 family; Molony, 1748; Scanlan, 1771; Stamer, 1799; Lords 

 Dunboyne ; Eev. John Hogan, the last friar, 1820. There is 

 also a CTU'ious piece of stucco-work, probably c. 1645 (sketched 

 by Dyneley, 1680). Descriptions, Dyneley (1680), ll.S.A.I., 

 1866 (illustrations) ; Bishop Pococke's " Tour " ; Grose, vol. ii., 

 p. 69 (illustration) ; Lady Chatterton's " Eambles in the South 

 of Ireland" ; T. jS". Deane, Proc. E.I.A., 1882 (plan) ; T. J. 

 Westropp, E.S.A.I., 1888, p. 334 ; 1894, p. 83 ; 1900 (plans and 

 illustrations) ; N". C. Macnamara, " Story of an Irish Sept," pp. 

 104, 142, 144, 200; Eeport of Board of PubHc Works, 1881, 

 1882, p. 89 (plan and illustrations); Dwyer, pp. 483, 536; 

 Frost, p. 50 (illustration). Vested as a National Monument. 



- 1 Wadding, " Annales Minorum," vol. iii., p. 574; larsier edition, vol. viii., 

 p. 47 ; and \ol x., p. 218. 



