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107. KiLNOE, Sheet 28. — Parish church. Entirely levelled before 1839.^ 



JSTot named in 1302. The "^ell is dedicated to MochuUa. 



108. jFeaele, Sheet 28. — Parish church. One gable stood in 1780.^ 



It stood to the south of the modern chni'ch, and where the 

 Burke monument remains. Founder, Mochonna or Cuanna, 

 perhaps of Kilshanny and Kilquane, called Mochonna of Moynoe 

 in the Calendar of Oengus, March 29th. " Pichell," 1302. 

 Monuments, Bui'ke, 1779. P. M. D., m. (1897), plate 2, p. 385. 



109. Faht, Sheet 19. — FeaJcle Parish. Only fragments of the -wall 



remain, and a rock basin called a well ; not far away are the 

 curious cromlechs and rock markings of Dromandoora.^ 



110. ToMGKAJSTET, Sheet 28. — Parish church, 75 feet 4 inches by 21 feet 



4 inches. An unusually fine example of a nearly uninjured 

 chiu'ch of the tenth and eleventh centuries still used for 

 worship. The west door, antse, and wall (except the upper 

 part of the gable) are of large " cyclopean " masonry, ante 

 A.D. 969. The door has a lintel and inclined jambs, with 

 a flat raised band round it. The south lights are plain rect- 

 angles, with low mouldings. The more eastern part of the 

 church is of regular coursed masonry, with a plinth and corner 

 shafts, the north and two south windows being richly decorated. 

 There is also the head of a richly carved window in the south 

 wall ; the east window has round angle shafts inside ; the light 

 has been rebuilt. Several carved fragments, two faces, &c., appear 

 in the walls. (See Plate XIII.) There was a round tower here ; 

 some tradition of it subsisted in Petrie's time ; but when Brash 

 visited the place nothing remained. The " cloghlea," a tall 

 limestone pillar, split, but held togetlier by ivy, marks the 

 bounds of the old termon and modern glebe. A holy well of 

 St. Golan of Iniscaltra (died 552) remains farther westward. 

 Founders, Cronan and Colan of Iniscaltra, ante, 550. The 

 records of the church commence in 735 — " Tuaim Greine." 

 It was rebuilt by the Abbot Cormac O'Killeen, who died 969, 

 and again by Brian Boru, King of Ireland, about a.d. 1000. The 

 Ordnance Survey Letters describe it as modern ! Descriptions, 

 Dunraven, i., p. 182; Dwyer, p. 475. 



' Lewis' "Topographical Dictionary" says: — "The ruins of the old church 

 remain," 1837 ; but this is probably inaccurate. 



2 Ordnance Survey Letters, E. I. A. MSS., 14 B. 23, p. 174. 

 ^ Proc. E.I. A., vol. X., p. 441, and vol. iv., Ser. in., p. 546. 



