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supported by clustered jamb-shafts, with carved capitals and bases. The 

 peculiar ornamentation of these can hardly be described intelligibly ; a glance 

 at the drawings, Plate X, will give a good idea of the designs. There are 

 two small holes in the intrados of the arch, just above the abacus on each side 

 as though to receive the ends of curtain-rods. The supporting jambs are not 

 quite perpendicular ; just below the capitals they are 9 feet 1 1 inches apart, 

 and just above the bases they are 10 feet 2 inches. 



The chancel is butted against the nave, without any attempt being made 

 to bond them together. There is not the least mark or break in the east 

 gable of the nave to indicate where the upper part of the walls or the roof of 

 the chancel came in contact with it. This is well shown in the pliotograph, 

 Plate XI, fig. 2, which also shows the contrast between the masonry of the 

 two parts of the church, and the row of billets that decorates each side wall of 

 tlie chancel. 



Fig. 4. Window in St Caimin's Church. 



The chancel is carefully built, with well-squared stones : its masonry 

 much resembles that of the chancel of St. Finghin's Church at Clonmacnois. 

 It measures internally 14 feet 7 inches by twelve feet six inches. There 

 is a window on the south side of the altar, with rounded head. There 

 was probably also an east window, which has entirely disappeared. Its stones 



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