16^ Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



to be the cliurcli of nine saints. Founder., St. Senan, c. a.d. 

 500, TviLO foimded a church, at Eoss an airchail in Corcovaskin.i 

 It has been identified with Eoss Ben choir, ' ' on the western 

 ocean," the cell of St. Kieran's nurse, Cocha'^; but this place 

 seems to have been " on the eastern ocean."^ 



172. KzLcoAN (Ceoss), not marked on the Ordnance Survey, Kilhally- 



one Parish. The church was demolished before 1816,* a grave- 

 yard remains south of the last. Founder, Coan, the last sur- 

 vivor of the " nine saints" of Ross. 



173. KiLMACDUAK', Sheet 47. — Parish church. The east gable and 



portions of the sides remain ; it was built of flagstones on a 

 rising gi'ound near a stream. The east window is well moulded, 

 and has an ogee head. It dates fi'om the later fifteenth century. 

 The south window is very early ; it is made of sandstone, and 

 recessed with inclined jambs ; the older head has been replaced 

 by a plain semicii'cular head of flagstone. The walls have a 

 neat cornice with wedge-shaped corbels. Eound the church 

 remains a " village " of over thii'ty vaults. Founder, St. Senan, 

 c. A.D. 550; at " Cil mhic an dubhain,"^ " Kihnadayn," 1302. 

 " Cil mhic dubhain," 1591.« 



174. 'ZiLETTSH, Sheet 67. — Parish church. A very ancient church con- 



sisting of a nave, 44 feet by 19 feet, and a choir about 

 18 feet 6 inches square. The west door has a lintel and 

 inclined jambs; the sides and the piers of the chancel arch are 

 early, but the arch itself is pointed like the south door. 

 Founder, possibly Senan. Accobran and lleallan, of Cilrois, in 

 Corcovaskin, are also named.'' " Kellroys," 1302. "Cilrois," 

 in O'Brien's Eental, 1390.^ 



175. KiLCAEEOL, Sheet 67. — Kilrush Parish. This church was standing 



in 1816. It contained " a worm-eaten image " of St. Carrol.^ 

 176 to 178. MoTLotTGH, Sheet 67. — Kilrush Parish. An early founda- 

 tion of St. Senan, c. a.d. 520, and his birthplace, " Maghlaca."^" 

 Pescription (Illustration) O'Hanlon, i., p. 470 ; Mason, 

 p. 433. It had three chui'ches. 



1 "Vita S. Senani." ^ Archdall's " Moaasticon." 



3 " Silva Gadelica," ii., p. 11. * Mason, vol. ii., p. 437. 



* " Vita S. Senani" ^ " Ann. Four Masters." 



"> Calendar of Oenghus, Jamiary 28th. ^ Mason, p. 430. 



8 Mason, p. 433. Kilcarrol appears in a mortgage, 1611. — Trans. R.I.A., xv. 



1" "Vita S. Senani," Colgan, Mason viii. 



