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two-storied, as the putloek holes for the dividing vrooden floors indicate. 

 The tower was at least three stories in height, and its upper chambers were 

 reached by a circular stone stairway in the north-west angle. The ground 

 - cy, which is vaulted, sqnan - tnd ribbed in a curious way. 



constitutes the chancel arch of the church. This is tall pointed, and narrow, 

 only ten feet wide. TL- is nave was lighted by five windows, viz., 



two in each of the side-walls, and one in the west gable. All are placed 

 high up, and have d rable ogee-headed lights without, and splay widely 

 inwards. Uufortunat ept in the case of tbe west and south-east 



windows, the architectural details have been partially or entirely destroyed. 

 Internal length of the nave is about sixty-four feet, and the width twenty- 

 It had a rather ela ray in the fourteenth- 

 century sty!' [uintuple mouldings. Doorway and window have been 

 blocked up with mas the interests of the desecrating bail- 

 ors. The choir yards in internal length 

 by about seven and a half B ly anything of it. how- 

 ever, remains be igment at the i. ' angle; the 



• • jamb of tl. _ 

 window, whi j The foundations of the 



Within :r. partly buried in the earth and 



with partially oblitei recumbent si 



four wide. One of these bears a 



ith, or fourteenth, century cross. From 

 oinate tl. believe this ci 



• t< > this slab 

 is a ksmith — a hammer 



and - monument, or. | 



lively recent The third si g nearest the 



former east gab! entury style) in raised Roman 



— 



1 W indele is a . t*le that tbJ9 portion «f the building was used, a century 



or so since, as his rustic academy by a poor hedge schoolmast I -•• bad old times. 



One day he absented I ug his wife in charge, and that fateful day 



the side wall of the c: -<-d. burying the deputy teacher and many of her charges 



beneath the ruins. (Windele mss., I: I. A.. 12, I, 11. p. 35.) 



ubstones inscribed with craft emblems are comparatively rare in Munster, though 



they are of frequent enough occurrence in other parts of Ireland. The writer remembers 



■ r example in the present barony, but in the adjoining Imokilly barony there are 



at least two examples — if the fa he supposed Smith monument in Cl'.yne 



Cathedral be a craft emblem. The other example is in Aghada old graveyard, and will 



and described under Imokilly Bar 



