. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. 362 KOYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF IRELAND. evidence of having been carried at least for one story above the roof ofthe four arms of the crux. Probably there was a low lantern towerhere -which was finished with a parapet. The west doorway is a good specimen of early English work; it hasno portico or narthex. This doorway, which had gone to ruin, wasrepaired, in 1842, by Mr. Montgomery, who had the fragments collectedand rebuilt, as far as possible, in their original position, though thecentre is now somewhat West Doorway of
. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. 362 KOYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF IRELAND. evidence of having been carried at least for one story above the roof ofthe four arms of the crux. Probably there was a low lantern towerhere -which was finished with a parapet. The west doorway is a good specimen of early English work; it hasno portico or narthex. This doorway, which had gone to ruin, wasrepaired, in 1842, by Mr. Montgomery, who had the fragments collectedand rebuilt, as far as possible, in their original position, though thecentre is now somewhat West Doorway of Grey Abbey. Formerly a rood screen was drawn across the nave, about half wayup, from one side-wall to the other, on each side of which, in the partcut off towards the west, was an altar. The piscina for the altar on thesouth side of the door is still to be seen in the south side-wall of thenave. The choir arch, or that at the junction of the nave and transepts, isperfect, because the arch had been walled up in 1626, when the navewas used as a church, and the walling was only removed in 1842. All PROCEEDINGS. 363 trace of tlie high altar is gone, but on the south side there are frng-mentary remains of the sedilia and piscina, and on the north, or gosi)elside, there are the remains of an arch in the position usually found overthe wall-tomb of the founder of the Abbey ; this is the spot, it is said,which the recumbent figure of Lady de Courcy originally cloister door in the south transept is of early English characterexteinally, but internally it is covered b
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