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No. 38. — Plan of Bannow church, showing the Porches to the north 

 and south doorways, which, however^ are less ancient than the church 

 itself, and may have been added to give greater security to the eccle- 

 siastics or others who may have used the church as a place of refuge in 

 troublesome times. 



JSTo. 39. — The lid of a stone-coffin, or perhaps a tombstone only, from 

 the abbey of Gowran, in the county of Kilkenny ; this is ornamented 

 with the full-length figure of an ecclesiastic, carved in high relief ; along 

 the bevelled edge of the slab there is an inscription in the Anglo-!N'orman 

 character, which commences with an invocation in the name of God 

 to pray for the soul of Julianus," somebody whose name commenced 

 with the letters DYC; the remainder of the inscription is too faint to be 

 deciphered. 



^To. 40. — The tombstone of Elenor, daughter of Pierce, the 8th Earl 

 of Ormond, and wife of the Earl of Thomond, from the Cathedral of 

 St. Canice, Kilkenny. I give this sketch as illustrating the practice of 

 representing the emblems of the Passion on tombstones, in the 14th and 

 15th centuries. 



ISTo. 41. — The stone seat called St. Kieran's Chair, from the interior 

 of the Cathedral of St. Canice, Kilkenny. 



^0. 42. — Coat of arms of Edward the 4th, carved on a stone which 

 is inserted into the gable-wall of a house, close to the entrance of the 

 graveyard of St. Canice, Kilkenny. The supporters to the shield, which 

 is charged with three lions passant and three fleur de lis quartered, are 

 a winged griffin and a greyhound, those of the Tudor family : the date 

 of this carving must be between the years 1546 and 1553. 



'No. 43. — This sketch represents a covered well in the yard of an old 

 house, called Wolf's-arch in the town of Kilkenny. In the entablature 

 is the date 1604, with the following inscription in black letter: — 

 Orate pro animabus Johannis RotJie mereatoris et uxor ejus Rolce Archer 



qui puteum hunc et heredificia fieri fecit. 

 In the wall adjoining the well on its right-hand side, is a stone bearing 

 the arms of Eothe and Archer, with the date 1610. It would appear 

 that the immortality to be acquired by the construction of a draw-well 

 or drinking-fountain was known to and appreciated by the worthies of 

 the 16th and 17th centuries. 



The following nine illustrations from ^^"0. 44 to 52, inclusive, are of 

 windows and loops from buildings of various ages. 



]N"o. 44. — One of the side-wall windows of the old church of Donagh- 

 more, between Clonmel and Eethard, in the county of Tipperary. Twelfth 

 century. 



JS'o. 45. — Window from the W. gable of the old church of Ownig, 

 county of Kilkenny. 



ISTo. 46. — Window from the S. gable of the sacristy of Mallagh 

 Abbey, county of Tipperary. Eifteenth century. 



^"0. 47. — Loop from Ballycloughy Castle, county of Tipperary. 



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