. A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century . wild boars that grunted about him, and the largestboar he had killed with a javelin-stroke. A presage verifiedexactly, for that boar signified Irgalach, and the rest of the herdhis retinue of sinners; and with a single javelin-cast Irgalachthere and then was destroyed by that warrior.^ In the later part 1 Four Masters, under Gle ; cf. Chronicum Scotorum, p. 0Gradys Silva Gadelica, Trans, and Notes, p. 443; Adamnans Life ofSt. Columba, ed. Wni. Reeves, p.
. A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century . wild boars that grunted about him, and the largestboar he had killed with a javelin-stroke. A presage verifiedexactly, for that boar signified Irgalach, and the rest of the herdhis retinue of sinners; and with a single javelin-cast Irgalachthere and then was destroyed by that warrior.^ In the later part 1 Four Masters, under Gle ; cf. Chronicum Scotorum, p. 0Gradys Silva Gadelica, Trans, and Notes, p. 443; Adamnans Life ofSt. Columba, ed. Wni. Reeves, p. liii, and authorities cited by them. C 18 HOWTH AND ITS OWNEliS. of the last century a cist containing human remains was discoveredon Irelands Eye, and it was suggested that these might have beenthe remains of Irgalach. It was argued that, although indicatinga Christian mode of burial, the circumstances of the intermenttended to prove that the body was not that of a cleric, and that apiece of iron, which was found in the grave, and which was thoughtto resemble part of a sword, pointed to the body having been thatof a ;. Ruins ox Irelands Eyk hefoke Eestoration. The only church on Irelands Eye of which anything is knowncannot have been the oratory of the sons of Nessan, and has beenassigned to so late a date as the twelfth century. It consisted ofa nave and chancel, with an arch and a round-headed doorway,and was unique in its design, inasmuch as over its chancel, whichwas vaulted, there rose a small round tower. Its ruins existedon Irelands Eye in the early part of the last century, and anattempted reproduction now occupies their site. According to aground-plan in Lord Dunravens Notes on Irish Architecture,^the nave and chancel were rectangular buildings, the nave being 1 Proc. , X, 332. - Ed. Margaret Stokes, i, 68. m EARLY TIMES. 19 thirty-four feet long externally by ten feet three inches wideinternally, with walls two feet eight inches thick, and thechancel
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