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next above it is the figure of a short-tailed dog. We may suppose this 

 portrait to be that of the court jester, the local Yorick of his day, and 

 possibly the master of the hounds. 



No. 49. Interior view of the same doorway, showing the presence of 

 a relieving arch at the inner surface of the gable. 



No. 50. Sketch of a smooth block of finely porphyritic Diorite, 

 lying on the rise of ground close to the old church of Clone. This block 

 bears in delicately incised lines the cross of eight points formed by the 

 intersection of four parts of circles, and inclosed in a circle. The pre- 

 sence of such a cross as this on a smoothed boulder proves the fact, 

 that the site of Clone church was selected for a religious establishment 

 many centuries before the present structure was erected — indeed, most 

 probably during the life time of St. Edan, who died in the seventh cen- 

 tury.* 



No. 51. The ancient font at Clone church, which is undoubtedly of 

 equal age with the cross just described. This rude vessel is cut out of 

 a block of greenish trappean ash, and resembles in general character 

 those frequently found attached to some of our oldest churches, and 

 called Bullaims by the peasantry of the South and West of Ireland. 



ANGLO -If OEM AN ANTIQUITIES AND ARCHTTECTTJEE. 



No. 52. Effigy in chain mail from the nave of Christ Church Cathe- 

 dral, Dublin. Till lately this knightly effigy was supposed to be that 

 of De Clare, Earl Strongbow, who died at the close of the twelfth cen- 

 tury ; but, as I have long ere this stated, the occurrence here of the 

 rowelled spur is strong evidence against its being a work of the twelfth 

 century, the earliest example of a spur of this form, according to 

 Planche, being first observed on the seal of Henry III., 1216.f 



The Rev. James Graves, in a most admirable memoir on this effigy, 

 lately "published in "The Gentleman's Magazine," has shown con- 

 clusively that the coat of arms displayed on the shield of this effigy, 

 viz., in chief, three crosses, pattee, fitchee, are not those of the De Clare 

 family, Earls of Pembroke, their arms being either three chevrons, or 

 chevronee. Which of the Norman knights is here pourtrayed has 

 therefore yet to be determined. I need not describe the armour further 

 than to remark that the knee caps of plate — genouilitieres — with the 

 close-fitting "chapeau de fer," indicate a change from the pure or un- 

 mixed mail, to the plate armour of Italy. 



No. 53. Side view of this effigy, showing the armorial bearings on 

 the shield. 



No. 54. Carving on a small slab of sandstone, sixteen to eighteen 

 inches square, from the old church of Annagh, county of Kerry, repre- 



* For a notice'and illustration of the old church and Round Tower of St. Edan, see 

 ! Vol. VI. of this series. 



f See " Journal of the Archaeological Institute" for June, 1845, memoir by the writer 

 ; on the cross-legged effigies at Cashel, county of Tipperary. 



