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character of their design. The stones have suffered somewhat since 

 1870, and the cuttings on the side of the broken one are not now so 

 evident as they were, and his drawings are, therefore, all the mpre 

 valuable. One of the curvilinear swastikas has also much scaled 

 since, but the other is quite distinct in the rubbing. The crosses, as 

 is apparent, are not of the earliest type of design, and may probably 

 be assigned to the later half of the ninth or early tenth century. 

 The curvilinear swastika is so rare, no other case of it, so far as I 

 know, having been found in Ireland, that it is to be hoped that 

 these crosses will be permanently preserved. 



