their venerated and more famous neighbour, were all wrenched
originally by a glacier from their home in the Comeragh Mountains
twenty miles away.

"St. Declan's Well," beside some remains of a rather large and
apparently twelfth century church on the cliff, in the townland of
Dysert is diverted into a shallow basin in which pilgrims bathe feet
and hands. Set in some comparatively modern masonry over the well
are a carved crucifixion and other figures of apparently late
mediaeval character. Some malicious interference with this well led,
nearly a hundred years since, to much popular indignation and
excitement.

The second "St. Declan's Stone" was a small, cross-inscribed
jet-black piece of slate or marble, approximately--2" or 3" x 1 1/2".
Formerly it seems to have had a small silver cross inset and was in
great demand locally as an amulet for cattle curing. It disappeared
however, some fifty years or so since, but very probably it could
still be recovered in Dungarvan.

Far the most striking of all the monuments at Ardmore is, of
course, the Round Tower which, in an excellent state of preservation,
stands with its conical cap of stone nearly a hundred feet high. Two
remarkable, if not unique, features of the tower are the series of
sculptured corbels which project between the floors on the inside,
and the four projecting belts or zones of masonry which divide the
tower into storeys externally. The tower's architectural anomalies
are paralleled by its history which is correspondingly unique: it
stood a regular siege in 1642, when ordnance was brought to bear on
it and it was defended by forty confederates against the English