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No. 28. East window of the abbey at Abbey Shrule, in the county 

 of Longford. The masonry is exceedingly rude; and the design of the 

 window, which is broad lancet, of two lights, is clearly late thirteenth 

 century. 



No. 29. Exterior view of the same window. 



No. 30. Carved stone from the graveyard of the abbey church at 

 Abbey Shrule. This relic is cruciform above, where it is ornamented by 

 deeply cut lines, resembling a rude reaping-hook, with the handle up- 

 right. The shaft is decorated by a broad interlacing of four bands, 

 extending down its entire length. This stone no doubt dates to a period 

 long prior to the construction of the abbey adjoining, and may be a rem- 

 nant of the original church, which rendered the locality sacred. 



No. 31. Two views of the same stone. 



No. 32. Yiew of the square keep of the old castle of Newcastle, 

 county of Westweath, near Castlepollard, showing the entrance gateway 

 to the outworks. 



No. 33. Plans of the same old castle, showing the construction 

 of the basement floor, and that above it. There are small angular 

 turrets at the northern and western angles of the tower, formed by the 

 prolongation of the side walls, and the platform of the parapet is conti- 

 nued through them. From the fact of the window loops and doorway 

 in the interior of this tower being narrowed at the head by projecting 

 bevelled stones, on which the flat head of each opening rests, I feel dis- 

 posed to regard this tower as the work of the fourteenth century, pro- 

 bably during the reign of Edward III. 



No. 34. Yiew of the tower of Coolamber Castle, county of Longford, 

 showing the postern gate on its western side. The remaining portion 

 of the castle must have resembled a substantial house, the walls of 

 which were about five feet thick, and the basement formed by a series 

 of arches. This castle was erected by some of the Nugents of the family 

 of the Barons of Westmeath. 



35. Plan of the same castle. 



No. 36. Plan of the old church of Coolamber. In a small grove, on 

 the north side of the old road which passes by the castle of Coolamber, 

 and close to the castle, on the east, there is a mutilated cross, on which 

 is the^f olio wing inscription, in raised Roman capitals : — 



"IHS. Pray for the Souls of Thomas Nugent deced 12 ian 1688 and of Kose Tyrell 

 his wife." 



In the graveyard of Coolamber old church there is a tombstone of the 

 family of Earrell, or Earrall, the earliest date on which is 1799. The 

 crest is a greyhound courant, with an earl's coronet beneath; then there 

 is a lion courant, though, according to another tombstone of the same 

 family, this animal should be rampant ; and below all is the following 

 Irish motto, deeply cut in Eoman letters : — " coobrei bederb," which 

 Mr, Hennessy translates, " the rushing or tearing hound." 



