Macalisi'ei{ — l^he History and Antiquities of Inis Ceattra. 129 



offer conclusive evidence. Brash, however, gives a careful drawing of the 

 arch,' without the ivy, with every stone clearly indicated, and with no sugges- 

 tion whatever of the head. There is no reference to the ivy in his letterpress; 

 but it is of course possible that the drawing is a fancy sketch, attempting to 

 show what the arch would have been like if there had not been any ivy upon 

 it. If the head in question were concealed by the ivy, naturally Brash 

 would not have suspected its existence. Brash shows twenty-eight voussoirs 

 in the outer order of the arch ; the plate in the Board of Works Eeport shows 

 thirty-five, including the stone bearing the head, which is correct. It errs, 

 however, in showing seventeen voussoirs on each side of the stone with the 

 head : there are actually eighteen voussoirs on the north side of the arch, 

 sixteen on the south. 



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Fig. 5. Altar in St Caimin's Church. 



The altar as restored (fig. 5) is a block of masonry, with bowtell mouldings 

 at the angles capped with floral capitals. The flat altar-stone was not found ; 

 but there is no reason to doubt that the restoration, so far as it goes, is 

 accurate. Two courses of the structure of the altar were remaining when 

 Brash wrote. 



The aumbry-like opening to the west of the south window of the chancel 

 is shown by Brash as running through the wall to the outside, but not 

 straight. He draws it running obliquely, trending westward from the 

 inner face of the wall to about the middle, and then bending so as to 



'Gent. Mag., ioc. cit., p. 14. 



