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projecting corbel, curved beneath. This singular ornament is never 

 found, except on some of our oldest churches of lime and stone. For 

 example, at the Church of the Trinity at Glendalough — a building 

 ascribed to the seventh century by Dr. Petrie in his essay on the Round 

 Towers. 



No. 53. Plan of Fennor old church, showing the position of the more 

 recent sacristy erected against the south wall of the choir, and covered 

 by a lean-to roof of stone. At the 3ST. E. angle of the nave, close to the 

 choir arch, a pulpit was erected on the exterior of the wall. 



No. 54. Plan of Castle Dexter, or De Exeter, on the Boyne, opposite 

 Beaupark. 



No. 55. Yiew of Baronstown cross, near Slane. North face. 

 No. 56. Same. West face. 

 No. 57. Same. South face. . 

 No. 58. Same. East face. 



No. 59. Plan of Gormanstown old church, near Slane. 



No. 60. Anglo-Norman coffin-shaped tomb slab, bearing a foliated 

 cross, rising from a plinth of three steps, and the outline of a double- 

 edged sword, with large pommel and small cross-guard. Eound the edge 

 of the slab is the following singular inscription in the Latin, French, 

 and English languages, and in the Anglo-Norman character : — " pater, 

 xostes. p (prend ) chaeite pee (pour) laehes (Pame) see (sir) edward 

 deece, decesecd (deceased)." 



Tradition, and such history as we possess, attribute the erection of 

 the Castle of Dunmore, on the Boyne, to one of the Darcys ; and 

 I have little doubt that the tomb, which may date to the end of the 

 14th, or beginning of the 15th century, commemorates the death of 

 the builder of the castle in question. This slab had lain partially 

 buried in the graveyard of Staekallen church, where it had remained 

 unnoticed till I exhumed it in the month of June, 1866. 



No. 61. Coflin-shaped tomb slab from the graveyard of Staekallen 

 church. While digging up the Darcy tomb, I came upon the slab now 

 figured. It is ornamented with a standard cross, rising from a semi- 

 circular base, enclosing an ornament like a scallop. The cross partakes 

 of the Greek form, ending in eight points. The upper enclosed spaces 

 over the cross are filled with a carving in low relief, resembling 

 an heraldic rose of many petals ; and the quadrangular space at the 

 intersection of the arms of the cross is filled with an ornament resem- 

 bling five laurel leaves. The general style of this cross is neither Irish 

 nor English. I have seen nothing like it in my rambles over the 

 southern half of Ireland, and I believe it to be of foreign design, and, 

 possibly, unfinished. 



No. 62. Plan of Dunmoe Castle, on the Boyne. This edifice is rectan- 

 gular, with circular towers at each of the remaining angles, in which re- 

 spect it resembles some of our 12th and 13th century castles. Its loop- 

 holes are, however, too small, and its walls too thin for their height, 

 and its flanking towers too insignificant for a building of so early a 

 period. A joggled arch over one of the chimneypieces in the upper 



