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doorway in the west gable. Each angle of the church is decorated by an 

 engaged" circular pillar, springing from the ground, and terminating in 

 a massive capital, decorated at each of the three angles by small human 

 masks, from which in one instance depends some drapery after the 

 Bomanesque manner. Just below the string course of the roof a small 

 raised tablet of masonry extends from each of the pillars on to the surface 

 of the gable wall, giving the building a most quaint appearance. The 

 string course is broadly chamfered, and ornamented by a row of large 

 beads, which on the south side and the adjoining part of the east gable 

 are carved in the form of octagonal pyramids ; the beads on the other 

 side of the building are semi-globular. 



1^0.48. — Doorway of Temple-na-hue old church. This is of small 

 proportions, and semicircular-headed, formed of an outer and inner arch, 

 with a heavy drip moulding, ornamented with massive beads, and spring- 

 ing from grotesque heads of nondescript animals, one of which is want- 

 ing. If the drip moulding was absent, this doorway would have a de- 

 cided Romanesque look. 



No. 49. — Enlarged view of the grotesque head supporting the drip 

 moulding of the doorway just described. 



ISTo. 50. — Yiew of a remarkably quaint window from the old church 

 of Killeshin, in the county of Carlow. The absolute ope is rather nar- 

 row for its height ; it is semicircular-headed, and very deeply recessed 

 around its outer margin ; this recessing is, however, triangular at top, 

 and the whole is surmounted by a massive and raised syphon-shaped 

 drip moulding. I believe that the supposed age of Killeshin church is 

 the 10th or 11th century. 



JSTo. 51. — View of the cluster columns supporting the north side 

 aisle arches at Jerpoint Abbey, in the county of Kilkenny. 



IS'o. 52. — Yiew of the 12th century sedilia and piscina from Jer- 

 point Abbey. This and the former sketch should have been included in 

 the illustrations of Jerpoint Abbey comprised in the 4th volume of my ■ 

 sketches. 



]^o. 53. — Interior view of the window in the south side wall of the 

 old church of Clonee, in the county of "Waterford. The proportions of 

 this window, and the broad cavetto moulding surrounding it, indicate 

 the date of the church to be the 13th century. 



1^0. 54. — Plan of the old church of Clonee, in the county of "Water- 

 ford. In churches of this age the doorways are most usually placed 

 either in the north or south side wall, and not in the west gable, and the 

 walls are battered at their bases. This church had a chancel, which is 

 now nearly obliterated. 



JSTo. 55. — External view of the east window of Eaughanachold 

 church, county of Derry. This window is apparently of the early part 

 of the thirteenth century, and is somewhat singular in being flush with 

 the external masonry; it is surmounted with a raised, flat, drip mould- 

 ing- 



1^0. 56. — ^External view of the window in the south side wall of 

 Dunkitt old church, county of Kilkenny, near the city of Waterford. It 



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