The first-half ended on a sour note when Andrew Johnson - making his Palace debut - was stretchered off after receiving treatment for 10 minutes for a head injury.
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The rest of the first half only rarely threatened to excite and de Graaf's powerful shot from 25 yards that was held by Enckelman was the only other chance of note before half-time.
Barkley added all four conversions and the one sour note for Bath was scrum-half Michael Claassens's sin-binning for cynically killing the ball at a ruck right on the hosts' tryline.
On a brighter note for the Irish, scrum-half Tomas O'Leary may come back into the equation for the Wales game having missed the victory over Scotland with a back problem.
Swinging arms aside, there was little of note to get the 28, 643 spectators excited about in a slow-paced first half until Irish lock and match-day captain Paul O'Connell lunged over the line for the first try of the Lions tour.