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margin of the lake. The botanists and geologists did fair 

 work during the day. Leonnrus cardiaca, a rare labiate 

 plant, was found growing spontaneously in a hedge and field at 

 Cranfield. Potomogeton heterophyllus, a rather rare pondweed, 

 was found somewhat plentiful in the lough ; and Galium 

 boreale, one of the less common species of the bedstraw family, 

 was abundant amongst the rocks on the shore. Here also 

 grows Hieracrium auratum, with Rosa mollis, Circiaea alpina, 

 and several other plants of note. The shell collectors found 

 the Marsh snail, Limncea palustr is, the Coil shell, Planorbis 

 Carinatus, and the little freshwater limpet, Ancylus fluviatilis* 

 was found in all stages of growth, covering the rocks along the 

 shores of the lake, whilst a colony of the rarer Limncea stagnalis 

 flourished in a little pond at Rabbit Point. 1 ne beautiful 

 albino variety of Bythinia tentaculaia occurred in several places 

 in flood material, quite fresh, though dead, with masses of the 

 young shells of the Wandering snail, Limncea per -egr a ,and a few 

 Pisidium pusillum. The old church at Cranfield Point maybe 

 said to occupy the "point" itself, as the graveyard in which it 

 stands forms a small cape on the north-west end of Lough 

 Neagh. The church is a small, rectangular ruin, measuring 

 42ft. 6in. by 21ft. 5in., the height of the site being about 10ft. 

 6in. on the inside, but nearly 3ft. less on the outside, owing to 

 the gradual heightening of the graveyard. The formation of 

 the west door seems to indicate a low step into the church. 

 The door in the west gable retains its old stone dressings of a 

 rudely-formed early English arch. There was formerly a 

 chancel window, and a window in the north and south walls 

 near the chancel end, but all their cut stone dressings have 

 disappeared. The internal jambs show careful and even 

 construction, the side ones having well defined circular splayed 

 heads, which would indicate that the exterior arches were also 

 circular. The chancel window has suffered very much and 

 possesses little to guide one to any very accurate conclusions. 

 Close beside the chancel window on each side, slightly lower 

 than its sill, is a rudely-formed aumbry. The gable walls of the 



