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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NOTICES OF ECCLESIASTICAL RUINS. (BY THE REV. WILLIAM HBALY.) I.-GR AXE VI I Itl.l V.l 0!:i In the present paper I pretend merely to give as accurate an account as possible of the present state of the Old Churches of the United Parishes of Grane and Urlingford. Those of the neighbouring parishes, to some extent, will be noticed by the Very Rev. Canon Moore, P.P., Johnstown, better than if I myself had given them space, inasmuch as he has gone far and deep into the history of ecclesiastical ruins, whereas I have by his generous and prompting assistance only just turned me to its first pages. 1. Urmnqford Old Church is situate on a rising ground some three hundred paces north of the town, beside the public way leading to Bawnmore. It consists of a nave and chancel. The nave measures exteriorly GO feet in length by 29 feet in breadth. The chancel arch has a smaller one, 8 feet in height on either side of it, and within the nave. They are 4 feet wide, and about 7 feet in depth or thickness. The north door of nave is 2 feet wide, 4 feet high, and its jambs are blocks of rudely- faced limestone. The south side opposite shows overhead an arch-way of considerable dimensions, but as the masonry under it is totally and irregularly broken away, I don't know whether this arch turned the south door-way or was only for strength over it. The sides are about 10 feet high, and 3 feet in thickness. On the outer they are faced with largo blocks, seemingly smooth, and are well grouted. The arched chambers already alluded to were evidently intended for altars, and there is the semblance of a rude loft over them. The chancel measures from the outside 30 feet long and 20 feet wide. It is accordingly narrower than the nave by 9 feet. Within tho chancel, close by the middle gable, there is a rec...