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176 tured in relief a plain cross within a circle. This cross is thus alluded to in the ancient Life of St. Fechin, translated from the Irish, and published by Colgan in his Acta Sanctorum, at the 22nd January, cap. 23, p. 135.

"'Dum S. Fechinus rediret Fouariam, ibique consisteret, venit ad eum ante, quidam à talo vsque ad verticem lepra percussus.'

"Though this doorway, like hundreds of the same kind in Ireland, has attracted no attention in modern times, the singularity of its massive structure was a matter of surprise to an intelligent writer of the seventeenth century. Sir Henry Piers, p. 172.

"I have next to speak of the windows. In these features, which are always of a single light, the same simple forms are found, which characterize the doorways, namely, the inclined sides, and the horizontal and semi- circular heads; the horizontal head, however, so common in the doorways, is but of comparatively rare occurrence in the windows; while, on the other hand, the pointed head formed by the meeting of two right lines, which is so rare, if not unknown, in the most ancient doorways, is of very frequent