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head (see Plate XI., figs. 5, 9). Two of tlie south Tvindows are 

 of sandstone, recessed, and Tvith roimd monldings, semicircular 

 heads, and inclined jambs^ (Plate XL, figs. 5 and 9) ; the thii'd 

 is plain, -mith inclined jambs. The south door is slightly 

 pointed, and has an ancient corbel with a human face cut in 

 sandstone above it. The masonry throughout is small, bad, and 

 decayed. Founder unknown. " Kilfinity," 1302. Monu- 

 vmits, CiTiice, 1600 ; Ptodan, 1619 ; Ptochford, 1723. P.M.D., u. 

 (1894), p. 448, &c. 



98. SroirLEBEiDGE. — KilfinagMa Parish. It is alleged in "Hibemia 



Dominicana"- that a house of Dominicans stood near this place. 

 Xo ruin or site is remembered. There is a gi-aveyard attached 

 to the Protestant chiu'ch, which is at least as old as the 

 Eestoration. Monuments, Cotter, 1679; Yandeleiu' (yault), 

 1685; "Westropp (vault), 1698, 1781; Hickman, 1771. 



99. KiLFiKTiiS-Ais^, Sheet 52. — Parish church, 32 feet by 16 feet 6 inches. 



A late looking chui'ch. All the featiu-es were defaced before 

 1839; the west gable had fallen. Founder, some suppose 

 Senan, like at Kiltinanlea. " KUhyntina," 1302. It was then 

 in Limerick diocese. " Cil fin Tinain" in a deed, 1620.^ The 

 Eev. Jasper White, in 1658, writes: — "The parish church of 

 Kilienaghta [sic) was the chapel of St. Thomas on the mountain 

 at a place called Ballybuchalane, near Cratloe " — now Bally- 

 broughane, in which the ruin stands. 



100. Ceughaxe, Sheet Q2.—Xilfintinan Parish. 65 feet by 20 feet 



8 inches. A fif teenth-centiuy chui'ch. The west gable had fallen 

 before 1839 ; the east gable had then a pointed window, much 

 broken, and has since fallen. The slightly pointed door and 

 window remain in the south wall. The Eev. Jasper White 

 says it was the parish church of Kilfintinan in 1658. Founder 

 unknown. Ilonuments, Pi,eddan, 1705. Blood, 1738; Maghlin, 

 l761;Xugent, 1770. P.II.D., ii. (1894), p. 447. BaUin- 

 phunta dolmen stands near the south wall of the graveyard.* 



101. KiiLEELT, Sheet 62. — Pffr/s/; 6V;«;y7/, entirely levelled. Founder^ 



St. Elia, or Lelia,^ sister of St. Mainchin, c. 550. Her day was 

 August 11th. 



^ The one figured has recently been destroyed by a falling tree. 



3 "Hibernia Dominicana," p. 213. ^ Trans. E.I. A. xv. 



* Borlase's "Dolmens of Ireland," vol. i., p. 86. 



* Eev. Jasper White's Manuscript, 1658. 



