Westropp — On the Churches of Count ij Clare. 151 



93. Btjnkattt, Sheet 62. — Parish churchy 66 by 26 feet. A late build- 



ing, much probably as late as the sixteenth century. The east 

 window is rectangular and defaced; the south wall has two 

 single lights, one with a late ogee head, and a third window 

 with three rectangular opes (shafts intact). There is a neat, 

 well cut, pointed south door (Plate XII., fig. 8). Founder 

 ujiknown. "Bunraite" (Dr. Todd reads "Buntradi-aighe") is 

 named, in the tenth century;^ "Bunraht" charter 1189. The 

 place was the chief town of the De Clares, 1276-1318. 

 Monuments, P.M.D., in. (1896), p. 226. 



94. BuNEATTT Castle, Sheet 62. — There is an oratory in the south-east 



tower of the castle. It has a piscina, and the ceiling is stucco, 

 richly moulded, probably made by Donough, " the great Earl" 

 of Thomond, 1610. 



95. Feenagh, Sheet 52. — Parish church, 56 by 18 feet. 15th century; 



the east gable has fallen ; the south door had a semicircular 

 arch, and an ogee-headed stoup. The window has an ogee head. 

 i^o^mf/^r unknown. 'Tudach," 1302. Monuments, Hensey, 

 1717, 1760; Garvey, 1776, 1793; Cusack, 1788. 



96. KiLMUEEY NA Gall, Sheet 42. — Parish church. 21 feet of late 



masonry of the north wall stood in 1 839 ; it is entirely levelled. 

 Founder, probably the English of Bunratty before 1318,- whence 

 probably its epithet "of the foreigners." It is not named 

 in 1302. " Ivilmoor," " it pertained to Killaloe anciently," 

 1615.3 



97. KiiFiNAGHTA* (Ballysheen), Sheet 52. — Parish church, 63 by 



22 feet. An ancient church, dating probably about 1080. The 

 west gable was standing in 1839, but part of the north wall 

 had then fallen; the gable has since collapsed. The east 

 window is defaced, ivied, and built up ; the large semicircular- 

 headed splay has mouldings and bases ; to the right are two 

 moulded ambries, cut in sandstone, the upper with an angular 



1 " Wars of the GaedhiU with the Gaill." 



2 Lands ia Kilmurry Parish belonged to Thomas De Clare at his death, 1287. 

 It may even be included among the ten advowsons in his gift, despite its omission 

 in 1302, The Commissioners may have regarded its recent and ' foreign ' origin as 

 excluding it from the list of recognised parishes. Mr. Frost's " History," p. 59, 

 regards FaoUe, the patron saint of Athcliath, in Galway Bay, as the older patron- 

 ness of Kilmurry Church, the well being Tober faoUe. 



^ Dwyer, p. 89. ^ So named in Putty's Map. 



