At Roserick, the transept is connected with the nave by a single pointed arch, as at Buttevant. At Dromahaire, they are connected by two arches resting on a central pillar; at Kilcrea and Sligo, there is a small aisle at the south side of the nave having arches resting on piers, and opening also into the transept; and at Kilconnell, there is an aisle both to nave and transept, connected with both by arches and clustered piers.

I would here remark that the varieties of plan and arrangement adopted by the various monastic orders in this country; and the styles of architecture and modes of decoration, as well as the choice of sites peculiar to each, are interesting subjects for investigation, and which I hope to bring before the Society when I have completed my collection of examples.

The walls of this edifice are built of rubble lime-stone masonry, the quoins, dressings of doors and windows, and the ornamental portions are generally of dressed lime-stone, with which this part of the country abounds; but it would appear, that most of the dressings and decorative parts of the original church were executed in red sandstone brought from the Ballyhowra mountains. These features will be alluded to in their appropriate places.

The whole of the interior is encumbered with graves and tombstones; until lately the ruins of the tower, which fell in 1819, blocked up the centre.

The nave is 74 feet 4 inches in length, by 24 feet 7 inches in breadth; the tower occupied nearly the breadth of the church, and was 18 feet from out to out of walls; the other way, that is from east to west, the chancel is 57 feet 6 inches in length. The entire length of the church from west to east is 149 feet 10 inches. It will be seen that the site of the tower divided the length unequally. The transept is 38 feet from N. to S. and 25 feet 4 inches from E. to W. The small chapel of the transept is 13 feet 6 inches from E. to W. and 11 feet from N. to S. The walls, as at present remaining, range from 20 to 24 feet in height, and portions of the exterior exhibit plain unornamented gurgoiles. Their general thickness is 3 feet 9 inches.

The entrance is by a pointed door-way in the west gable, with moulded jambs and label, over which, resting on a string now almost worn away, are two lancet windows of Early English character, portions of the dressings of which are of red sand-stone; these lancets have been partially built up, and a plain narrow-mullioned window inserted in each; the latter are of debased Tudor character.

On the left, as you enter, is an altar-tomb inserted in the north wall of the nave (see plate 4), which I consider to be of the Early Decorated period; it exhibits a foiled and moulded arch, having a label decorated with the tooth ornament; the jambs have clustered shafts, with plainly sculptured caps and moulded bases; the label was terminated by carved heads, very beautifully executed, one of which

has been abstracted by an officer of the Buttevant garrison, as I was informed. The slab has a plain chamfer, with the following inscrip

tion:

"Hic jacet Edmondus Maghery et Joana Ny Murughue et Heredes Eorum, Anno Dni. 1625."

This was not the original slab of the tomb, it having been substituted from some other part of the church. The back of this tomb exhibits a portion of a rudely painted crucifixion which has no pretension to art. This, and some other traces of colour on the back of another tomb, led O'Halloran and others to speak so floridly of the remains of frescoes at Buttevant. These were in all probability executed by some of the brotherhood in the commencement of the last century, when a few of them had possession of the place.

To the right, near the arch of transept, is a similar tomb, which in form, dimensions, and mouldings is identical with the former, with the exception of the caps, which have no foliage; and the bases of the shafts exhibit the nail-headed ornament; there are no ornamental terminations to the label; the slab projects a foot from the wall, and has no inscription.

At each side of the tower, and inserted in the tower piers facing the entrance, were very elaborate altar-tombs, as appears by a drawing of Grogan's, in the possession of Dr. Denny, of Cork; and on clearing away the rubbish of the tower, we found the slabs of two of these tombs in their original position; they were about six inches thick, and had a roll and chamfer moulding on their edges; the bases of the jamb-shafts were worked on the corners of the slab.

On the right hand side, close to where stood the tower, is a small piscina with a cinque-foiled basin; it was originally ornamented with slender jamb-shafts and mouldings, the bases of which alone remain, showing their Early English character; about two yards from the left of the transept arch was a small side-door leading into the transept.

The nave was lighted by the Early English couplet before mentioned, and two Early Decorated windows, each of two lights, with quartre-foils in the heads; they were considerably splayed internally, and enriched with banded jamb-shafts, having moulded caps and bases. One of these windows alone remains. A stone, bearing the following inscription, in raised black letter character, was inserted in the bottom of the nave wall at the north side :

"Hic jacet Johes. O'Dulying carpentarius frim. mior. Bothoie. cu. sua progenie et Donaldus O'Bryn cu sua semine."

"Here lies John O'Doolan, the carpenter of the friars minors of Buttevant, with his progeny, and Donald O'Brien with his descend

ants."

I exhibit a rubbing of this stone. Near the above was another, cut into very graceful tracery, and bearing also an inscription in black letter, but much injured; these stones being from their former position difficult of access, were removed and built into a portion of the new