. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. 4, when three tombs, formitlike little chapels, bore inscriptions on their gables, stating that thenorthern one was the tomb of the JSorse, the central of the Scottish, andthe southern of the Irish kings. These tombs were probably sepulchralmonuments of the bee-hive class, like those at Kilmalkedar and many PROCEEDINGS. 183 other ancient Irish churches. All vestige of them has disappeared, and certain slight remains, arched within, were all of them that Pennantconld discover in 1772, at a part of the cemetery then called TheEidge of the
. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. 4, when three tombs, formitlike little chapels, bore inscriptions on their gables, stating that thenorthern one was the tomb of the JSorse, the central of the Scottish, andthe southern of the Irish kings. These tombs were probably sepulchralmonuments of the bee-hive class, like those at Kilmalkedar and many PROCEEDINGS. 183 other ancient Irish churches. All vestige of them has disappeared, and certain slight remains, arched within, were all of them that Pennantconld discover in 1772, at a part of the cemetery then called TheEidge of the Kings, which probably is identical with the railedenclosure between Temple Oran and the roadway, that contains theso-called tombs of the kings. The monuments of this cemetery gener-ally seem to have been removed from their original positions, and sub-jected to a species of sorting process, by which tombs of the samecharacter were gathered into groups. Another railed enclosure, southof Temple Oran, contains a number of mediaeval slabs, bearing floriated. fcjt. Uraus Chapel. Muminuut. ornament or effigies of mail-clad warriors, that are alleged to be tombsof the Macleans ; the McKinnons and McQuarries, who also weredescended from the House of Lorn, and buried in the cemetery, beingignored. Of the multitude of sepulchral monuments dating from the Columbanera which the lielig Oran must have contained, but few remain. Oneof these bears, in Irish characters, the inscription, >^ Op t)0 Tllail-pacapic—Pray for Maelpatrick ; an inscription now imperfectthrough exfoliation, in the winter of 1852-53, of that part of the stonebearing the latter portion of the inscription, and which probably com-memorates Maolpatrick OBanin, Bishop of Conor, a man to be 184 KOYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF IRELAND. venerated, full of sanctity of life, mildness and purity of heart, who,as tlie Four Masters say, died at a good old age inHy of slab is inscribed Or ar anmin Eogain •
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