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door in the west end ; the south wall has a defaced window near the east 

 end, and a mark of another hreak or opening of no definite shape now built up 

 at 12 feet 6 inches from the west end, where probably there was once another 

 window, or else the nave must have been very dark. In the north wall is 

 another plain pointed door; its inner face was enriched by mouldings in 

 plaster. I can only recall the plaster mouldings over the beautiful stone- 

 work in the chancel of St. Patrick's Cathedral among Irish examples. High 

 up the wall near it (though now accessible owing to the raising of the soil for 

 several feet) a small stoup with uncouth animals, one on each side and two in 

 front, has been reset by the modern restorers. Another very defaced doorway 

 lies close to the west of the last. The two may have opened from a building 

 outside and to the north of the nave. The top of the walls has a water table, 

 the joints covered by long, narrow stones and projecting flags to throw off 

 the water. There was a thin battlement, now nearly all gone. In the 

 south-east comer is an opening, now closed, and so forming a recess; this 

 led from the lower landing of the south stairs, most probably to a wooden 

 pulpit in the south-east comer of the nave. 



The chancel was entered by a large pointed arch of four plain recesses, 

 the stone-work roughly dressed and once smooth plastered, and very probably 

 painted ; the sockets for a rood-beam or screen remain in the sides. Just within 

 the chancel is the closed slit of a small ope or " squint " from a curious little 

 cell in the north wall hereafter described. Beside it is the O'Mailles' later 

 monument, a well-cut undated slab and frame of black stone with a greenish 

 sheen like bronze. It is attributed to Grania Uaile, but the general 

 appearance suggests a later date ; indeed the foliage (rather than mantling) is 

 very similar to that in dated monuments from 1660 to 1720, and it probably 

 belongs to the latter half of the seventeenth century. The crest is a rearing 

 stallion, with, however, a mule's tail, on a wreath above a helmet and a curious 

 barred ornament. The shield is of strangely irregular design, a wild boar 

 trippant in the middle between three bows bent with arrows pointed at him, 

 while a galley appears at the bottom dexter comer. The mantling ends in 

 large tassels, and below all in large, raised letters is the name, OMAILLE ; 

 above this, between the tassels, in smaller raised capitals, are the words 

 of the appropriate motto " TEEEA MAEIQ' POTEXS,'' the " NS " 

 termination running up the side and not conspicuous. (Plate II.) 



To the north, close beside the tablet, is a fine and fairly perfect late per- 

 pendicular screen and recess; it possibly fulfilled the double debt of the 

 founder's tomb and the " Easter Sepulchre," and was evidently used for the 

 latter, as the crucifixion appears scribed and with traces of painting at the 

 back of the recess. The interior of the chancel must be now at least -I feet 



