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230 230 ARCHITECTURE OF IRELAND. Part U. was consecrated in the year 1134. It is a small building, 55 ft. long over all externally. The chancel is 12 ft. square internally, covered with an intersecting vault ; the nave is 18 ft. by 29, and covered by a tunnel-vault with transverse ribs, very like those found in the South of France. Extei-nally, as shown in the view, it has two square towers attached to it at the juncture of the nave and chancel, while the church itself is richly ornamented by a panelling of small arches. 603. Oratory, Iniiisfalleii, Killaniey. C(4. Cormac's Chapel, Casliel. In almost all cases the principal entrance to these churches is from the east, opposite to the altar. The chapel at Cashel is, how^ever, an exception, since it has both a north and a south entrance. That on the north is the ])rincipal, and very richly ornamented. The same is the case at Ardmore, where the whole of the west end is taken up by a bas-relief rudely representing scenes from the Bible, and the entrance