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elsewhere. It is entered by a primitive lintelled doorway 2 feet 4 inches wide, 

 and, perhaps, 3 feet high. Over it, and at the same level to the south, are 

 small niches like the ambries in huts at Dun Eoghanacht on Tnishmore (Aran) 

 Dingle, and elsewhere. In the east end of the enclosure, which is 24 feet long 

 and 22 feet wide, stands a dry-stone altar, roughly 9 feet square, on which 

 lie the "pumice-stone" block and other objects. Near the gable of the 

 church, and to the south of its window, is the Zcacht, a well-cut early tombstone 

 carved with a cross with spade-like ends of two bands, the arms being detached 

 triangles. Stones carved with crosses remain, two fencing the Zeacht, one in 

 each of the eastern corners of the cashel, and one at its south-western angle. 



An oblong enclosure 20 feet wide, and practically of the same length as the 

 cashel, adjoins the latter to the north ; in it lie a cist-grave of thin slabs, 6 feet 

 long, and another altar or station, with a standing stone in the middle. 

 Another enclosure lies to the west, with a modern (or at least rebuilt) 

 fold-like structure. A third lies to the south-east of the cashel. Indeed, it 

 is not easy to decide which of all these buildings have any connexion with 

 the church, or are of any great age. 



On the low ridge to the north of Templepatrick is a row of stations. The 

 northern (A) has a slab with a cross with expanded ends. Three more run to 

 the south-east ; the second (B) is not in line with the rest, and has a double cross 

 *ormed with raised panels in the spaces ; the third (C) has a cross, with its 

 head indented like a cross moline in heraldry ; its sides expand ; near it is a 

 basin 29 inches by 13 inches, cut in the natural rock. The other stations do not 

 seem to have carved stones, except the great southern one. The principal 

 one is on a bold whale-backed rock, and has a cross-slab. The cross is very 

 slightly indicated by shallow indentations in the sides; bands run around 

 these. The head panel, if ever carved, shows now no trace of ornament. In 

 the centre is a weird figure, the hollow-eyed face alone clear ; below is an 

 interlacing, elusively clear at a distance, but nearly effaced out of all design 

 on nearer view. (Plate VIII.) 



There are at least five more small stations, one on the bank at the 

 strand ; each consists of a small heap, with a plain pillar rising in the middle. 



Tobermurry (Tobar Wudri), the well of the Blessed Virgin, lies far up the 

 island to the north-west of the church. It is still in high esteem and veneration, 

 being visited and prayed at before any pilgrim leaves the island. 



5. INISHBOFIN. (Plates IX, X.) 

 Inishbofin or Bofin, formerly in the Barony of Murrisk in Co. Mayo, was 

 in 1873 restored with its companion, Inishark, to Connemara (Ballinahinch) 

 barony in Co. Galway, to which in the fourteenth century it had belonged, 



