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is quite correct, as Dunmore Head, which is close to it, stretching into 

 the Blasket Sound, is the most westerly point in Ireland. One of the 

 stones exhibits the Greek cross enclosed in a circle ; and the upright mo- 

 nolith has a single straight-armed cross, with divergent ends deeply cut 

 on it. 



l^^o. 6. Sketch of the tall and rude cross standing in the grave-yard 

 of Adamstown, county of "Wexford ; it is cut out of a single slab of 

 trappean ash, and is ten feet high. 



No. 7. View looking west of the rude and small granite cross and 

 large square plinth on the road side, close to the old church of Kill-o'- 

 the-Grange, county of Dublin. The cross is of the simplest form, and 

 the only ornamentation on it is a small circle deeply cut at the centre of 

 the intersecting arms. This may be the embryotic form of the circle as 

 connected with the cross, and, if so, it is of some interest. 



Nos. 8, 9. Sketches of St. Gobbonet's Stone, preserved in a field 

 close to the Eoman Catholic chapel of Ballyvourney, county of Cork. 

 The rude incised carving on this monolith is exceedingly curious. 

 It represents a cross of the Greek form, enclosed in a narrow double 

 circle, the whole being surmounted by a diminutive figure in mere 

 outline of the saintly female, St. Gobbonet. The hair is divided on 

 the forehead, and falls over the back of the neck, to the waist ; the 

 dress is long, and reaches to the ankles ; and one hand carries the cam- 

 butta or short pastoral staff, of the same type as those in our Museum. 

 The opposite face of the stone exhibits merely the same form of cross as 

 the other. St. Gobbonet lived in the 6th century, and this carving is 

 undoubtedly of contemporaneous age. 



No. 10. On the rise of ground to the west of, and close to the old 

 church of Ballyvourney, I discovered the remains of a large circular 

 cloghaun or stone hut, measuring 26 feet in diameter, internally, the 

 wall at the doorway being 3 feet thick, but increasing to 5 feet at the 

 opposite part of the circle. This is erroneously marked on the Ordnance 

 Survey Map as the base of a round tower. Local tradition calls this St. 

 Gobbonet's house, and we have every reason to believe that it is so. I 

 give a plan of this building in the sketch No. 10, 



No. 11. Yiew of what remains of St. Gobbonet's cloghaun, showing 

 the two upright flags which formed the sides of its doorway. 



No. 12. This represents a small rude carving on the top stone of the 

 window, in the south wall of the nave of Ballyvourney old church ; it is 

 popularly known as the effigy of St. Gobbonet, and its date may be 

 about the fourteenth century. 



No. 13. Yiew of the doorway of the old church of Mungret, county 

 of Limerick. The massive cyclopean character of this work stamps it of 

 considerable antiquity, though its proportions are not slender enough to 

 induce me to class it with the earliest doorwa^^s of this type. 



No. 14. Yiew, looking east, of the croft of St. Columbkill's house, 

 at Kells, county of Meath, showing the two partition walls which divide 

 it into three chambers, and the square opening in the floor affording 

 access to, or from, the body of the building beneath ; St. Columb died 



