under Lords Dungarvan and Broghil.

A few yards to north of the Round Tower stands "The Cathedral"
illustrating almost every phase of ecclesiastical architecture which
flourished in Ireland from St. Patrick to the Reformation--Cyclopean,
Celtic-Romanesque, Transitional and Pointed. The chancel arch is
possibly the most remarkable and beautiful illustration of the
Transitional that we have. An extraordinary feature of the church is
the wonderful series of Celtic arcades and panels filled with archaic
sculptures in relief which occupy the whole external face of the west
gable.

St. Declan's foundation at Ardmore seems (teste Moran's Archdall)
to have been one of the Irish religious houses which accepted the
reform of Pope Innocent at the Lateran Council and to have
transformed itself into a Regular Canonry. It would however be
possible to hold, on the evidence, that it degenerated into a mere
parochial church. We hear indeed of two or three episcopal
successors of the saint, scil.:--Ultan who immediately followed him,
Eugene who witnessed a charter to the abbey of Cork in 1174, and
Moelettrim O Duibhe-rathre who died in 1303 after he had, according
to the annals of Inisfallen, "erected and finished the Church" of
Ardmore. The "Wars of the Gaedhil and Gall" have reference, circa
824 or 825, to plunder by the Northmen of Disert Tipraite which is
almost certainly the church of Dysert by the Holy Well at Ardmore.
The same fleet, on the same expedition, plundered Dunderrow (near
Kinsale), Inisshannon (Bandon River), Lismore, and Kilmolash.

Regarding the age of our "Life" it is difficult with the data at
hand to say anything very definite. While dogmatism however is