Kilinaboy has a sheila-na-gig, above the door, beside the ivy, below the crows.

A sheila-na-gig is a fertility goddess.  One finds them here and there, where they haven't been smashed up by Christians or Cromwellians. picture from a guide book

From Kilnaboy Church, across the road, past the school, through a field and deep into a dark grove of trees, lies Tobar Inine Bhaoithe. "Tobar" means well. Audrey fills a bottle with well water.  Later she drew this picture.  This well cures eyes, while other wells are for the treatment of back aches, delicate children, warts, headaches, fertility, rheumatism, diabetes, toothache, and for dyeing cloth.

As we parked and climbed the small hill to this church, we saw a couple walking up the road, she carrying flowers.  While we waited in the ruined shell of the church, the couple  made devotions at a recent grave close by the door,  IN LOVING MEMORY OF...  see them through the arched window. On the inner wall of Kilnaboy Church, the carving between the arches reads... 1644 UNDER THESE CARVED MARBLE STONE LIE THE BONES OF CONNOR OF (unreadable) WHICH MONUMENT WAS MADE BY ANABEL HIS WIFE   Grave markers from this period, and on into last century, contain increasing amounts of information about those who put up the marker, and decreasing amounts of information about those beneath it.

  next stop a hidden meadow with an 8th century church