doorway of a Christian
building may be traced back to the sixth century in Palestine, where the
Chi-Rho monogram occurs on the lintels of the doorways of the houses.
The meaning of the symbolism is explained by the blood of the lamb, which
was struck upon the lintels of the doors of the houses of the Israelites
in Egypt at the Passover (Gen. xii., 21-23), and our Lord's words--'I am
the door, by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved,' (John x.,
9)."--(J. Romilly Allen's _Christian Symbolism_, p. 238).

A good example of such a cross is on the lintel of the doorway of a 7th
century church at Fore, Co. West Meath; and another, equally good, is on
the doorway of one of the oldest churches in Ireland, on High Island, off
the coast of Connemara. In connection with the Round Towers at Antrim
and at Brechin there are similar crosses.

[7] See _Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland_ (Vol.
xxvi., p. 438.) Dr Wilson, in his _Dunning: its Parochial History_,
states that the large figure with the sword "is said to be a
representation of Alexander the First, who died in the year 1124" (p. 3.)

[8] Sir Herbert Maxwell, in his _Scottish Land-Names: their Origin and
Meaning_, gives as the derivation of Duncrub, the old Gaelic dun
craeb=hill of the trees.

[9] Otherwise spelt _Mormaer_. Except that the constituent elements are
inverted, it is the same word as _Maormor_ (Gael. _maer, maor_, a
steward, and _mor_, great), and was the ancient name for a royal steward
of high dignity, placed by a Scottish king over a province, and acting as
a royal deputy.

[10] Robertson's _Early Kings_ (Vol. I., p. 77).

[11] Sir Herbert Maxwell states that dun in its original and restricted
sense means "Enclosure or fortress, being closely related to A.S. tun,
Eng. town.... The diminutive, or noun plural, yields innumerable names,
like _Dinnans_ and _Dinnance_, in Ayrshire and Galloway; _Duning_ and
_Dinnings_ in Dumfriesshire; and _Downan_, near Ballantrae." Ought not
Sir Herbert to have added _Dunnin_ or _Dunning_, in Perthshire?

[12] See _Dunning: its Parochial History_, p. 4.

[13] The marks of a gable of a former nave with a very highly-pitched
roof are still distinctly seen on the Tower.

[14] The word here used, occasionally spelt _ferm_, sometimes means not
so much a piece of land turned to agricultural use and cultivated by
owner or tenant, as _an account, a reckoning_: It is akin to _farm_ from
the A.S. fearm