150 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



in the north, wall. The south door is defaced. The "plague 

 stone " with raised circles, one forming a Celtic cross, is built 

 into the wall : it is said to have kept pestilence from the parish 

 even at the time of the great cholera. Founder, St. Luchtighern, 

 son of Cutrito, c. 550.^ The place was a monastery, and was 

 ravaged in the Danish wars. " Tuaim Pionlocha," 944 (Annals 

 Foui' Masters). " Thonmynloka," 1302, now passing into 

 "Fenloe." Monuments, Hewson, 1722, P.M.D., iir. (1897), 

 plate ii., p. 385. 



89. Same, Oeaxoey. — To the south-east of the last. Only the end wall 



remains, having a door with lintel and inclined jambs, and 

 above it three corbels with human faces. A very early 

 building. It is 12 feet wide externally. (See illustration, 

 Plate XL, fig. 10.) 



90. CLoifLOGHAN, Sheet 51. — Parish church, 53 by 15 feet. The 



west end had fallen before 1839. Now only the east gable and 

 portions of the sides remain. It is a very ancient oratory, per- 

 haps of the tenth century. The east and south windows have 

 inclined jambs (Plate XL, figs. 2 and 3), the former having a 

 semicircular head, the latter a lintel. Founder unknown. ' ' Clone 

 . . . kilthany," 1302. As "KiUtheany" is Killeany, 1189,=' 

 perhaps Clonloghan was founded by Enda. 



91. XiLcoNET, Sheet 61. — Parish church. 55 feet 7 inches by 17 feet 



9 inches. A late fifteenth-century church : the east window has 

 two pointed lights ; the south window is also pointed, and the 

 splays have flat arches. The door was to the south : the west 

 gable is breached. Founder, traditionally St. Cannara, a con- 

 temporary of St. Senan, c. a.d. 550. " Kellchoniry," 1302. 

 The compound is probably Conaii'e. 



92. Deomleste, Sheet 51. — Parish church, 72 by 21 feet. The west 



gable, much of the south wall, and the east window have been 

 destroyed. Founder, possibly Sanctain, son of Samuel the low- 

 headed,^ date unknown, who was of Drum Laigill, in Tradree. 

 "Drumligil," 1302. Drum Laighean ("Annals of the Four 

 Masters"), 1593. 



1 " Calendar of Oenghus," p. 85, April SOth. 



2 Charter of Clare Abbey. 



' Calendar of Oenghus, p. 85, May 11th. 



