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this, which to us are all but lost, were no doubt living, I'eal, and vivid in the 

 ninth century. The four stones are arranged as Mac Crciche arranged his, as 

 nearly as possible ; and no doubt the saint's abstinence from food was also 

 emulated. The slaii l}T.ng in front of the door of the cdla is most probably 

 the gravestone of the inclusus ; it resembles in style the slabs at Olonmacnois 

 which are contemporary with the Coscrach of the Annals. Exca\'ation showed 

 that between the slab and the cell at a depth of 7§ inches, there was a pave- 

 ment of flagstones (laid down to scale in the plan, fig. 7). There is also an 

 u'regular footing-step, 5 inches in the maximum breadth, beneath the plinth 

 surrounding the cell. The slabs were raised, and then carefully replaced and 

 covered up again. Nothing was 1o be seen beneath them save some tiny 

 fragments of bone. At the head of the gravestone were some smaller slabs., 

 more irregularly disposed, and not so deep in the ground ; among the latter 

 was a block of quartz, about twice the size of a man's fist. 



VI. Tcampull na hhFear lujonta (plan, fig. 8 ; view, Plate XXV, fig. 2). 



The " Church of the Wounded Men " stands in the Saints' Graveyard. 

 The name recorded liy O'Couor and (in a corrupt spelling) by Brash, seems 



Fio. 8. Plan of TeampuU na bhFear ngonta. 



now to be forgotten. The Ordnance map has confused it with St. Brigid's, 

 and calls it " Baptism Church." AVho the " wounded men " may have been 

 it is iuipussible to say. The word properly means " wounded to death," as in 

 a battle ; and the name may preserve the last echo of the memory of a raid 

 that the island monastery suffered. They may possibly be the same as the 

 mysterious " ten men " to whom cross No. 11 is dedicated. 



The building itself may be described in few words. It is rectangular, 

 measuring externally 14 feet 1^ inch north to south by 19 feet east to 



