. A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century. hat a singlecluireli alone occupies its garth, suggests that some early chieftaingave his caher, which had the advantage of a well in its enclosure,to the CMiurch. The best preserved portion of the ancient wall liesto the south-west of the cliuicli. along a slight ridge, but furze-grown mounds indicate its line to the south and north east of thegraveyard. At a point about one liiindred and forty-two feet fromthe eastern gable of the cliureh, and a little to the
. A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century. hat a singlecluireli alone occupies its garth, suggests that some early chieftaingave his caher, which had the advantage of a well in its enclosure,to the CMiurch. The best preserved portion of the ancient wall liesto the south-west of the cliuicli. along a slight ridge, but furze-grown mounds indicate its line to the south and north east of thegraveyard. At a point about one liiindred and forty-two feet fromthe eastern gable of the cliureh, and a little to the south, are twolarge stones in line, evidently the foot blocks of the northern jambof the ]n-ineipal gateway, which faces east-south-east. More to thenorth, where the ancient laneway passes round the cashcl, we findin the natural rock a small bullaun or basin. The foundations ofnumerous enclosures and houses lie between the modern wall ofthe graveyard and the cashel, but the houses were evidently com-paratively modern erections. The inflow of water from under theridge to the north-west and from the well already mentioned, fill a. ^ Itf:^.^- ---?^??r^mWM ?(V.^ i
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