Westropp — On the Churches of County Clare. 157 



115, Same, " Conpessional," externally 10 feet 6 inches by 8 feet 



6 inches. A small oblong cell north of the cemetery. There 

 is a recess at the -^est end, and the doorway faces the east ; it 

 is filled with large plain slabs, 



116, Same, Oeatokt. A mere foundation to the north-east of the last. 



117, ^«TO^, St. Michael's, 6 feet by 4 feet 6 inches. An oblong foundation 



and enclosures west of St. Caimin's, and on the summit of the 

 island. 



118. Same, "Baptism Chitrch" (marked on the map as "St. Michael's"), 



19 feet 10 inches by 11 feet 9 inches. Its foundations alone 

 remained with the low north wall when I first visited it in 

 1877. In 1838 the east gable and its defaced window and a 

 south window remained, but they fell in a great storm January 

 6, 1839, as O'Donovan notes that year on the original letter 

 "how soon a piece of writing becomes an antiquity." The 

 south window was a small oblong slit. In 1879 the rich semi- 

 circular-headed west door of three orders, the inner piers covered 

 with chevrons, was recovered and rebuilt. The round-headed 

 gateway of the enclosure was also rebuilt. 



119. Same, St. Mahy's, 54 feet 9 inches by 22 feet 2 inches. A large 



church ; an early semicii'cular-headed window has been rebuilt 

 in the south wall ; the west door is late, plain, and pointed. 

 The head of the double east window is of the fifteenth century, 

 a corbel with a face, an elaborate but very late altar, a cross- 

 scribed slab, &c., remain. St. Mary's weU lies to the east of 

 this church on the shore of the lake. 



120. Clonkush, Sheet 137, Gal way. — Parish church, -i^ by 18 feet. The 



western gable had a door, but has long since fallen. The south 

 wall was much decayed in 1838, and the foundations picked out. 

 A round-headed arch, 7 feet high, stood at the south-west angle 

 projecting from the building. The east windows had two ogee 

 heads (shaft intact) ; the south window had a flat lintel inside ; 

 the head was ivied. The people called the ruin Meelick Abbey. 

 Eastward lay a ruin called " Tenambraher," a priest's house, 

 25 feet by 13 feet 4 inches. The north-west and north-east angles 

 and two fi-agments of the south wall remained. The "poll 

 cholomhain " (poul cluman) or sacristy lay to the north-east. It 

 is a smaU stone-roofed cell, 7 feet 6 inches by 4 feet 6 inches 

 and 6 feet 3 inches high, with a square-headed slit in the east 



