168 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



The precise date at which the title-deeds, including the charters printed 

 in this volume, were placed in the Muniment Eoom of the Ormondes at 

 Kilkenny Castle, cannot be ascertained ; but it is probable that most of the 

 chartei-s wen^ handed over to James, ninth earl of Ormonde, when the lauds 

 wei-e leaseil to him after the dissolution of the abliev.' 



APPENDIX A. 



The CoxvKNTi-Ai, Bimldisgs of Duiske. 



By the late .Robebt CocnRAS'E, f.s.a., f.r.i.b.a." 



Thk abbey church of GraignenaniaDagh was built on the typical Cistercian plan, 

 and followed very closely the ritual arrangement of buildings adopted by that 

 Order. I have been able to prepare the accompanying ground-plan by the help of 

 the indefatiguble explorer of the ruin. Mr. Patrick O'Leary, who for years past has 

 been engagwl in tracing out the site ; and I have obtained from Mr. J. G. Robertson 

 some measurements of the walls of transepts and side chapels, as they stood in 

 1813, made by bis relative, the late William Robertson of Kilkenny. Considerable 

 portions of the walls have disappeared since that date. 



The Abbkv Chdbch. 



The Church comprises a nave 130 ft. in length, and 29 ft. in width, with side 

 aisles ; full lengtli of nave, 13 ft. in width, divided from the aisles by a series of 

 pointed arches, seven in number, supporting side walls containing the clerestory 

 windows, which are round-headed couplets. There are also tower, choir, transepts, 

 and side chapels. 



The piers of the nave arches are rectangular in plan, with chamfers at the 

 angle?, and have corbels introduce<l in the thickness of the piers, from which a 

 slender shaft about 3 fl. in height rises, the capital supporting a moulding in the 

 soffit of the arch.' 



• See p. 161. 



' By tho kind perraission of the Council of the R<iyal Society of .Antiquaries of Ireland, 

 this account "f the reniAins of the conventual buildiiii;s i.s reprinted from the Sf)cietj-"s 

 Journal for ISW, pp. 213-2-17. It jirovidea a clear and full dt-scriplion of the abbey and 

 it.i precinct.-t fnmi the hand of a learned architect and antitpiary. Dr. RoWrt Cochrane, 

 to whom IriiJi archaeology owes much. The plan >>f the buildings, as drawn out by 

 Dr. Cochrane, is specially valuable (I'Utc V). 



' The details of mouldingH have Karly Engii.sh features, but do not show the deep 

 hollows |>cculiar t<> that jieri'jd. They consist, for the most )>art, of rounds and fillets, 

 simple, but effective, and the work of men who knew how to restrain their fjowers, rather 

 than give free rein to their idea-s. The piers have the angles chamfered at the base ; the 

 chamfer is stop[>cd at the springing of the arch by simple foliayc caning, such as a 

 single leaf, and fn>m this springs the -vrch nuailding before described, without the inter- 

 vention of a capitAl. The capitals of corbel shafts in thickness of piers have Early English 

 capitaU with dog-tooth ornament and foliage carving. [Some illustralii>DS of the ancient 

 tiles foaod at Graiguenamanagh Abljey are given in Mr. < >'Le4«ry"8 jiaper. ■Jourual 

 R if.A.I.. vol. xiii, p. 237.] 



