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angle of the former. Carrigtwohill Church was one of the many places 

 burned by the redoubtable Murrough O'Brien. Unfortunately, the building 

 has been considerably modified and interfered with in comparatively modern 

 times to adapt it to purposes of Protestant worship. Part of the nave (eastern 

 end) was roofed over, and the chancel-arch was transformed into an east 

 window. From the occurrence of two arches in the side-walls of the nave, it 

 looks as if the church hail a transept or transepts, or, perhaps, aisles. The 

 total length of the church is about 150 feet. In the surrounding large and 

 much-used cemetery are many grave monuments of interest. The most 

 important is, doubtless, the rather elaborately carved tablet which is set 

 into the surviving fragment of the north side wall of nave. The present 

 inscribed slab seems to be a later insertion into a seventeenth-century 

 monument; its inscription reads: — 



" This Monument 



Was erected by S 



Jam i Ki. 



For Himself 



and Eis Family Anno 



Domini, 1688." 



bir Jan ''onimemorattid, sat as Member for Cork city in 



Kin_' James's Irish Parliament, L689 ; he was commander-in-chief of the royal 

 fon k, Kerry, and Limerick, and first sovereign of Middleton (1087).' 



A standing stone (reversed), near Bouth side of the chancel, commemo- 



- : — 



"MARGARITA I»OULY (or DONLT) i'UIN- 



I . • \ Annos 

 hi ( ictava Die 

 Jukh Anno Domini 1735." 



In the - . presumably (for bis body was buried at Carrigtwohill), repose the 



Babes of another Cotter— better remembered in popular story. He was executed in Cork 

 —nominally for rape— in the time <>f Queen Anne. Cotter was a Papist, and aggressive 

 it that. Debarred by the Penal Laws from possession of carriage horses, he drove into 

 Cork with a team of bullocks, and to emphasize situation and purpose he fastened orange 

 favours to the animals' legs. Moreover, he enjoyed the reputation of a gallaDt, and was 

 tront-r-ao it was told— to boast of favours from the lady to)k of his enemies. All this and 



more of similar sort did not help him when he stood before a judge who had reason to 

 suspect him of undue influence in his own domestic circle, and before a jury, some members 

 of which bore him more than a grudge. He was convicted, and suffered the extreme 

 penalty at the corner of Broad Lane, in Corl I secutor was a Quaker damsel, 



Betty S.|uib by name, who had formerly been his mistress. He met this lady on the road 

 from Clonmel and gave her — presumably on her demand— some money and his watch. 

 ' hi second thoughts he demanded the watch back, and finally recovered it, partly by force. 



