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^0. 91. — -Window from the south side wall of Louth Abbey, which 

 was probably erected in the fifteenth century. 



1^0. 92. — Yiew, looking J^'.W., of a small stone-roofed building, close 

 to the Abbey of Louth, county of Louth. I am disposed to regard this 

 as the granary of the abbey, and therefore a feature quite unusual in the 

 monastic remains in this country. 



JSTo. 93. — Plan of the basement and upper floor of the granary of the 

 Abbey of Louth, county of Louth. The lower room is arched, having 

 the doorway in the west gable, and a wide splayed window in the east. 

 In the 1^. E. angle there is a flight of winding steps, leading to the 

 room under the roof. A small loop in the east gable lighted the upper 

 portion of these stairs. 



Ko. 94. — East window of Kilronan old church, near Clonmel, 

 county of Tipperary. Its date may be the fifteenth century. 



'No. 95. — East window ofDerrylorm old church, county of Derry, 

 of the most debased style of the latter part of the fifteenth or the begin- 

 ing of the sixteenth century. 



The Eev. William Eeeyes, D.D., read a paper — 



On some Ecclesiastical Eells m the Collection of the Loed Peimate. 



About thirty years ago, the Eev. Marcus Gervais Beresford, then Yicar of 

 Drung and Larah, in the county of Cavan, purchased from a man called 

 Keleher two articles of great antiquarian interest, which conjointly 

 bore the name of the Clo(/ Ilogue, or Eell of St. Mogue. One of them was 

 the principal surviving fragment of an extremely ancient Irish bell 

 which had been disintegrated by the dint of corrosion ; and the other, 

 the mutilated and partly dismantled cover or shrine which at an early 

 period had been made for the same bell. 



The man Keleher had to wife the daughter of a Magoveran,^'' the 

 last in the male line of a long succession of hereditary keepers of this 

 bell, whose abode was among the Slieve-an-Eirin mountains, to the 

 north-east, between Templeport and Eenagh. 



"While this line of the Magoverans were to the fore, they kept the bell 

 carefully rolled up in rags, and only exposed it when it was required in 

 the parish of Templeport or the neighbourhood for the purpose of admin- 

 istering oaths upon, or of giving additional sanction to social compacts ; 

 but when the Magoverans died out, and it passed into new hands, it ac- 

 quired a marketable character, of which the collector availed himself, and 

 obtained it at a price. 



The local tradition regarding the bell and its origin was to the fol- 

 lowing efi'ect, as narrated by an intelligent schoolmaster, who lived 



* The name Magoveran, or Magauran, as it is sometimes written, is in Irish ITIao 

 Sharhpa&ain, " Son of Samhradhan." It was a patronymic derived from Samhradhan, 

 twelfth in descent from Eochaidh, whose posterity, Ceallach Gach&acTi, " Family of 

 Eochaidh," occupied and gave name to the district now known as the barony of Tuily haw, 

 in the county of Cayin. From the year 1220 out, the Mac Samhradhains, or Magaurans, 

 often appear in the " Annals of the Four Masters" as chieftains of Tullyhaw. 



