The ruins of this church, which stand in the rich plain of Port Murvey, near Mr. O'Flaherty's house, are in fine preservation, and present a beautiful specimen of the cyclopean masonry of the sixth century. Some of the stones are ten feet long, and about 1 foot 8 inches in thickness. There are windows of extreme antiquity, with lintels formed of two leaning stones; and although the beautiful semicircular eastern window is of a more recent date, there is a stone leaning against the east gable, with a rudely cut opening which seems to have been the head of the more ancient window. The small narrow doorway, shaped like the entrance to an Egyptian tomb, is a remarkable feature in the building, which was described in Dr. O'Kealy's list, a little more than two hundred years ago, as a ‘handsome church’ dedicated to St. Colman Mac Duach, the same saint who founded the diocese of Kilmacduagh. Near it are a holy well and several remains of antiquity.
The Vestal having now resumed her freight, returned to her anchorage off Kilronan.