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than is its due. Delany gave me the name St. Brigid's, which I have adopted. 

 The Ordnance Survey name, St. Michael's, is unknown to everyone whose 

 traditions have remained uncontaminated by literary influences. 



There is a platform, 5 feet 4 inches square, rising 6 inches above the 

 present level of the ground, to the north of the church. It is built of loose 

 stones. Possibly it is the base of a cross. As will be seen from the plan, 

 Plate IX, where it is marked " foundation," it is not laid out parallel to the 

 church. 



III. St. Caimin's Church (plan, fig. 2; views, Plates XI, XI I ; details, 



Plate X; figs. 3-5). 



As before, we first describe this church as it appears at present. It is an 

 early rectangular building, with corner antae, to which a Piomanesque chancel 

 has been added. 



The Nave, the original Church, measures 30 feet 3 inches by 20 feet 

 3 inches internally. The orientation of the long axis is 110 degrees magnetic. 

 The masonry is rough, of large, long stones, though at the two ends of the 

 side walls tlie stones are rather smaller, as though there had been a 

 rebuilding. There are antae at the corners on both east and west faces. The 

 walls inside are plastered, but the plaster is much broken. There are high 

 gables, with copings kneed at intervals into the wall. 



A Romanesque doorway is inserted into the western face, which obviously 

 caimot have been an original feature of the church (see Plate X). It resembles 

 the doorway of St. Brigid's, but is less elaborate. It is in three orders. There is 

 here no impost at the spring of the arch,' and the ornamentation of the 

 voussoirs is not carried down the jambs, as in the case of the doorway of 

 St. Brigid's. The inner order of St. Caimin's doorway, like the middle order 

 of that of St. Brigid's, is decorated with chevrons at right angles to the 

 face of the arch. The central order, of which only a few of the voussoirs 

 survive, has a simple moulding of incised lines ; whereas the outer order has 

 an elaborate pattern of zigzags upon it.- The zigzags on the face of the order 

 alternate ingeniously with those on the soffit ; the apices of the latter fall into 

 the spaces between the apices of the former. In the inner order of the 

 St. Brigid's doorway, which is otherwise similar, the apices of the two sets of 



'But there ought to be; Petrie's drawing (Eccl. Arch., p. 282) shows that there 

 was an impost on the original north jamb, which was still standing in his time. The 

 arch as " restored " can only be described as a clumsy patchwork. 



- Petrie's drawing Qoc. cit.) almost seems to suggest that what the restorers have made 

 the outer order, padded out with new voussoirs, was really the second order in the 

 original arch. 



