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83. Danga^beack, Sheet 42. — Qum Parish. " Dangynbrecacli," a 



separate parisli, 1302. Site forgotten. 



84. Shankill, Sheet 34. — Quin Parish. A graveyard and fragments 



of a church near Dangan Ivigen. 



BaEONX of BUiSfEATTT LoWEE. 



85. EJXMAXEEET, Sheet 51. — Parish church, 38 by 15 feet. It was 



evidently rebuilt late in the eighteenth century. Founder un- 

 known. Kilmalitrie, 1302. Monuments, Mac Mahon, 1733 ; 

 P.M.D., HI. (1897), p. 399. 



86. KiLNAsooLAGH, Sheet 51. — Parish church. Fragments of late 



mediaeval windows remain ; the present building is late. Founder 

 unknown, but a pattern was held at ISTewmarket on Easter 

 Monday. '' Kellomsolech," 1302; " Cil Subhalaigh," 1317.^ 

 Monuments, Colpoys, 1684. Sir Donat O'Brien, hart., 1717 

 (P.M.D., II. (1894), p. 51, III. (1897), p. 399, and E.S.A.I., 

 1890, p. 76), Blood, 1799, &c. 



87. KiLKEARiN, Sheet 42. — Kilnasoolagh Parish. Entirely levelled. 



88. ToMFrNLOUGn,'^ Sheet 42. — Parish church, 71 by 25 feet 6 inches. 



The side walls are very early, of large " cyclopean" masonry 

 in parts ; two windows remain, one flat-headed, with inclined 

 jambs ; the other is recessed, and has a semicircular head, 

 probably of the eleventh centuiy. The church was evidently 

 partly rebuilt about 1300, perhaps by the English settlers 

 under the De Clare. It had a plain three-light east window, 

 and a richly moulded pointed double-light south window, the 

 capitals carved with leaves (see Plate XII., fig. 2), and the hood 

 resting on faces, two pointed heads, and a central detached 

 shaft with moulded bands (now fallen). A well-moulded 

 ambry remains in the south-east corner. The older east window 

 is now defaced by a well-made late fifteenth-century one, with 

 semicircular headed splay and two trefoil-headed lights (shaft 

 intact), with a square hood. The west gable is badly 

 breached ; near it are corbels marking the position of a gallery, 

 which was reached by a door (about 7 feet above the ground) 



1 "WavsofTorlough." 



2 MSS. E.I. A., 23 L. 22, p. 424, an ancient account of Tomfinlough, in 

 Thoniond. 



