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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