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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1864. 



The Very Rev. Charles Graves, D. D., President, in the Chair. 



George Y. Dtj Noyer, M. E.I. A., E. G. S. I., presented to the Li 

 brary of the Eoyal Irish Academy, 99 Drawings from Original Sketches 

 of Antiquities, in the counties of Westmeath, Longford, Meath, and 

 King's County, to form Yol. VI. of similar donations ; of these the fol- 

 lowing is the Catalogue : — 



No. 1 . Doorway of the church erected by St. Fechin at Fore, county 

 of Westmeath ; interior view. St. Fechin died A. D. 664. 



No. 2. East window in the chancel of St. Fechin's church at Fore, 

 showing thirteenth and probably sixteenth century work. 



No. 3. Plan of the same church, showing the modern chancel, the 

 date of which may be the thirteenth century, though modified in the 

 sixteenth century, as is evident from the reconstruction of the east 

 window. 



No. 4. Proposed main doorway to the chapel of the Abbey of Fore. 

 It would appear that this doorway, which is constructed in the west 

 wall of a massive square tower placed at the west end of the chancel, 

 was never completed, probably owing to some change of design in the 

 construction of the abbey. There is no trace of its exterior semicircular 

 arch in the interior portion of the doorway, while the simple roll- 

 moulding which surrounds the doorway is left unfinished in the arch. 

 The form of the doorway and that of the moulding is clearly of the thir- 

 teenth century. 



No. 5. Capitals of cloister columns from the abbey at Fore. The 

 style of the mouldings and the presence of a slender rib in the lower 

 hollowed portion of the capital are all characteristic of the early English 

 style, or that prevalent in the thirteenth century. 



No. 6. Tntercolumnation of some of the cloister arches from the ab- 

 bey at Fore. 



No. 7. View of the west gate of Fore, looking eastward. 

 No. 8. View of the same from the opposite direction. 

 No. 9. View of the east gate at Fore. 



No. 10. Old font, built into the exterior of the wall of the Eoman 

 Catholic chapel at Fore. 



No. 1 1 . Monumental cross from the graveyard of St. Mary's church at 

 Fore. 



No. 12. Heraldic carving from a stone which appears to have formed 

 the springing of one of the cloister arches at Fore Abbey ; but now used as 

 a headstone in the graveyard of St. Fechin's church. The device is a kite- 

 shaped shield, on which is carved, in relief, two human arms, crossed, 

 coupe at the shoulder, and clothed with a short " manche," which de- 

 scends from the elbows ; the right hand grasps the handle of a large 

 cross-hilted dagger, the point of which extends beyond the top of the 



