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THIS :M(OXTiLE)NT W{AS ERECTED) BY THE LADY S(i<i7i<>M) 

 BRIEX' {mothjER TO (SR TER)LAGH (MC I BRIEX) 



HERE • LYE . THE • BODLES OF THE NOBLE EINIGHT SR 



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 T(ERL)AGH M I BRIEX ARA BAROXETT WHO DIED THE 28 



OF :^LkRCH AXXO DXI 1626 AN'D HIS LADY (eZ;/s) BYTLER 



DATGHTER TO THE RIGHT HONNORABLE WALTER EARLE 



OF OR]MO^^) WHO DIED THE X ■ OF FEB : 1625 PRAY FOR 



THEIR SOYLES MEMENTO MORI 



The letters are well aud regularly cut, in good block capitals. It is curious 

 that there ai-e word-dividing dots between the first four words of the lower 

 inscription, but not elsewhere. There, is a little crowding at the end of the 

 second line of the lower inscription, the cutter having miscalculated his space, 

 and being obliged to resort to monograms to save it. Oa the other hand, 

 the dates ai-e spaced out widely, as though they had not been filled in from 

 the beginning, but were left to be inserted afterwards. A curious mistake was 

 perpetrated in the sacred monogram at the head of the inscription ; instead of 

 IHS the engraver cut SHS, and was obliged to turn tlie wrong S into an 

 imitation of a script I. 



In the middle of the pediment is a circular depression containing the 

 arms : three lions passant, in front a hand issuing from the dexter side of 

 the field holding a dagger. 



Total height of the complete monument, 8 feet 6 inches ; maximum 

 breadth, 7 feet 4 inches. Projection of the altar from the wall, 2 feet 

 8 J inches. 



An abstract of the wUl of Sir Terlagh mac ui Brien Arais given by Dwyer, 

 op. cit., p. 480. O'Conor- notes, " To the left of this monument, a stone is 

 placed in the side of the wall, on which, a human face Ls rudely expressed." 

 This may be the corbel-stone now appropriated for the reredos. 



(89). Plate XXYIII. A slab, measuriug 2 feet 65 inches by 2 feet, high up 

 on the south wall of St. Caimin's. It bears three lions passant surrounded 

 by a mantling in the form of floral scrolls: crest, a grifiin's head erased. In 

 the two upper comers is the date, 1 703 ; and below is the inscription — 



VULNEPtATUS XOX VICTUS 



lA • GEADY • EEPAIEED : THOS • CHTECHES • AND • MOWMEXT • 



(sic) TO THE GEACEC {sic) ■ AND ■ GLOEIE OF GOD 



' Dwyer gives here Mac IBrien, which can hardly be right, the reference being to 

 a woman. - O. S. Letters, p. 556, 



