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about 1 foot 6 inches square ; the total length of the slab when complete was 

 about 6 feet ; its breadth was betvyeen 1 foot 7 inches and 1 foot 8 inches. 

 There was no cross, but the surface was divided longitudinally into two 

 panels, each containing a floral pattern. Eeference to the drawing will give 

 the best idea of the design. In preparing this, I have derived great help 

 from excellent tracings kindly put at my disposal by Mr. Crawford. One 

 fragment is at CXX 1 ; the other two are on the floor of the church, marking 

 modem graves. 



(87). CNIS^ 8. Plate XXYI; BW, plat* 2, under figs. W, Z. Another very 

 fine .slab, of about the same date — probably a little later. It is complete, but 

 much worn. It measures 6 feet 3 inches by 2 feet 6 inches, tapering to 1 foot 

 9 inches ; the thickness is 2{ inches. The stone was found in St. Mary's. 

 It bears a cross, with expanding circular centre, having a rosette with the 

 unusual number of nine lobes in the middle : floral patterns fill the angles 

 of the cross, for which reference may be made to the drawing ; in the base 

 of the slab is a square panel with a foui'-leaved flower. 



(88). Plates XXYII, XXVIII. Against the south waU of St. Mary's, inside: 

 the fragment of an elaborate monument, consisting of a triangular pediment 

 contained in a moulded border, flanked by pinnacles, of which only part of 

 that on the de.xter side remains. "What has been beneath the pediment has 

 been removed, leaving a gash in the waU ; the apex of the moiddiug round 

 the pediment is also imperfect, an incongruous stone with a nondescript 

 pattern on it being inserted in its place. This intruder is of sandstone, while 

 the monument is entirely composed of limestone. 



At the east end of the church is an altar, with a crude cai-ving of the 

 Crucifixion, flanked with stiflf floral panels. Over this has been erected an 

 extraordinary jumble of odds and ends to make a reredos — a considerable 

 portion of the stones of Teampnll rui hhFear ngmita, with the characteristic 

 corner pilaster ; two round stones, that have every appearance of being 

 fragments of the pinnacles of the monument that has just been mentioned ; 

 a fifteenth-century window-liead, upside down ; a section of a Eomanesque 

 string-course with billets, resembling, but not identical with, the string-course 

 on the chancel of St. Caimin's ; a corbel, probably from St. Caimm's, with a 

 head sculptured on it ; a late fragment (about 1550-1600), with a rope 

 pattern upon it : and perhaps one or two other fragments, no less incongruous. 

 The story that I heard about this erection was to the effect that this was the 

 old altar of the church ; that it had been taken away, about a hundred years 

 ago, to do duty as an altar in a chapel at Whitegate, on the mainland ; that 

 iu the year after the restoration a local priest had been filled with the desire 



