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 A TAXATION OF THOSE DIOCESES, 
 
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INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Among the various taxes to which the clergy of these kingdoms were 
 subject in the thirteenth and following centuries was one called the 
 Decimce Saladince or Saladinides. This impost had its origin in the 
 sensation which was experienced tliroughout Europe when the intel- 
 ligence arrived that the Holy City was captured by Saladin''. In the 
 year 1 188 the Kings of England and France, the one in a convention 
 held at Le Mans^, the acts of which Avere in the following month 
 ratified at the Council of Gaintington^ and the other in a council 
 assembled at Paris'*, imposed upon their respective subjects a tax of 
 one-tenth of their moveables and annual income, for the relief of the 
 Holy Land^ This assessment, however, underwent an early limita- 
 tion, 
 
 * Van Espen, Jus. Eccl. Univ., p. ii. 
 sec. iv. tit. iv. cap. 3, No. II. (Scripta Om- 
 nia, vol.iii. p. 647.) Johnson, Eccles. LaAv, 
 A. D. 1 188, 1298. Dansey, Horse Decan. 
 Rural., vol. i. p. 419. (Lond. 1844.) Hal- 
 lam, Middle Ages, vol. ii. p. 14. (Lond. 
 1841.) 
 
 '' Called Cenomanum by Latin writers. 
 
 ■^ Now Geddington, in Northampton- 
 shire. See Roger de Hoveden, Annal. 1188. 
 Baronius, Annal. Eccles. torn, xii, cols. 8 1 6, 
 
 817. (Col. Agrip. 1613.) Wilkins, Concilia, 
 vol. i. p. 491. Collier, Eccles. Hist., vol. ii. 
 p. 380. (Lond. 1840.) 
 
 ^ Harduinus, Acta Conciliorum, torn. vi. 
 p. ii. col. 1 899. Spelman, and Du Cange, 
 Glossar. in voc. Decimce. 
 
 ^ Gervasius Dorobornesis, Chron., col. 
 1522. Gul. Neubrigensis, de Reb. Anglic, 
 lib. iii. cc. 23, 24. Prynne's Records, vol. i. 
 pp. 921-930. Lyttleton, Hist, of Hen. II. 
 vol, iii. p. 469. 
 
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 tion, and in the following century became a tax to which the clergy 
 alone were subject. Tlie first memorable instance of its exaction in 
 England, under its modified character, was in 1254, when Henry III., 
 agreeably to a grant w^hich Pope Innocent IV.*" had made him the 
 preceding year, instituted a general valuation of all ecclesiastical 
 benefices in England, in order that he might, with the greater preci- 
 sion, levy the Tenths of the clerical incomes during the three years 
 to which his grant extended. The rural dean, assisted by three prin- 
 cipal rectors or vicars of his deanry, was required to make a return 
 of all the ecclesiastical revenues mthin his deanry, certified, as to its 
 accuracy, upon oath. The whole valuation thus compiled received, 
 from the grantor, the name of " Pope Innocent's Valor", or, from the 
 agent, Walter de Suthfield, bishop of Norwich, " the Norwich Taxa- 
 tion", and continued, until the close of the century, to be the key to 
 all clerical subsidies and assessments^. In virtue of the same grant a 
 collection was made in Ireland, but whether a regular scrutiny was 
 instituted, or how it was conducted, is not recorded**. By this Valor 
 was regulated the levy which was commenced in the year 1274, 
 
 agreeably 
 
 *^ Mr, Caley, in his Introduction to the s Annal. Burton, 1254. Chron. Th. 
 
 English Taxation of Pope Nicholas, calls Wikes, 1269. Kennet, Paroch. Antiqq., 
 
 this Pontiff Innocent the Tiventy-second. vol. i. p. 440 ; and Glossary, in voc. Tenths. 
 
 He also errs in stating that the Tenths of Collier, Eccles. Hist., vol. ii. pp. 546, 547. 
 
 all ecclesiastical benefices had, for a long Dansey, Hor. Dec, Rur., vol. i. p. 419. 
 
 time, been paid to the Popes; for hitherto ^ In 1270 the Tenths in Ireland, which 
 
 the tax had been only an occasional one, had been granted to Henry III. for three 
 
 and of rare occurrence. This Introduc- years, were assigned to his queen Eleanor, 
 
 tion, which is exceedingly meagre, con- Eymer, Feed., 54 Hen, III. (vol, i. p. 485.) 
 
 sidering the importance of the record it There had also been a levy in Ireland for 
 
 accompanies, owes any value it possesses the service of the Holy Land in 1251 — 
 
 to the articles on "Tenths" in Kennet's See Eymer, Feed., 34 Hen. III. (voLi. pp. 
 
 Glossary and Cowel's Interpreter. 274, 276.) Prynne, Records, vol. ii. p. 768. 
 
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 agreeably to the resolution entered into during the Second Council 
 of Lyons, whereby Pope Gregory X. obtained a general grant of the 
 ecclesiastical Tenths for a term of six years'. This amount was all 
 collected for England in 1282, and was on the point of being remitted 
 to Rome when Edward I. peremptorily forbade the removal of any 
 portion of it\ and soon after took forcible possession of the whole*". 
 A negociation was then opened by the King of England with the 
 Pontiffs, who, in rapid succession, filled the papal chair, and the politic 
 sovereign found means to secure the favour of Martin IV., Hono- 
 rius IV., and Nicholas IV., by promising to undertake an expedition 
 to the Holy Land'. So successful was he that in 1288 he obtained 
 from the last-named Pope not only a grant of the six years' Tenths 
 of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, which were in hand, but 
 also of those which were to accrue in the same countries, during the 
 six succeeding years. With a view to enhance the value of the pro- 
 spective grant, a new taxation, ad verum valorem^ was, by the King's 
 precept, undertaken, and completed for Canterbury in 1291, and for 
 York in the following year™. The returns of this taxation became a 
 national record, and served as the standard by which all the clerical 
 taxes paid to the King or Pope were regulated, until the ecclesiastical 
 siu-vey made in the 26th of Henry VIII." ^^ 
 
 ' Labbei Concilia, torn, xi, p. i, col. 398. 
 Harduinus Acta Concilior., torn. vii. col. 
 688. Bzovius, Contin. Baronii Annal., 
 vol. xiii. col. 81 9. (Col. Agrip. 1 6 1 6.) Ca- 
 nisius, Antiq. Lect., torn. i. p. 311. 
 
 J Prynne, Records, vol. iii. p. 277. Ry- 
 mer, Foed., vol. ii. p. 608. 
 
 ^ Rymer, Feed., vol. ii. p. 631. 
 
 ' Edward went so far as to ask from the 
 Pope the Tenths which were collected in 
 
 the other States of Europe. See the 
 Pope's reply in Rymer, Fojd., ii. p. 743 ; 
 and Bzovius' comment upon the request, 
 Contin. Annal. Baron., tom. xiii. cols. 985, 
 986. See also Acta Regia, vol. i. p. 93. 
 (Lond. 1726.) 
 
 ™ Kennet, Paroch. Antiqq. ; Cowel, In- 
 terpreter, in voc. Tenths. 
 
 o Pope Nicholas IV.'s Valor of England 
 was published under the Record Commis- 
 
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 As the Tenths of Ireland were included in the grant, a new valua- 
 tion for that country was also deemed expedient, and, accordingly, 
 Pope Nicholas IV., in March, 1291, addressed a letter to Thomas 
 St. Leger, bishop of Meath, and Thomas de Chaddesworth, dean of 
 Dubhn, the collectors for Ii^eland, instructing them how to proceed". 
 It directed that the valuation should be struck " juxta veram extima- 
 tionem"; that the tax was to continue for six yeai's, commencing with 
 the ensuing feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist ; that all eccle- 
 siastical ranks and conditions were to be subject to it, excepting the 
 Templars and Hospitallers, whose services and losses in Palestine en- 
 titled them to such an exemption" ; that the prelates of Ireland were 
 to give all diligence to secure an equitable assessment, and promote 
 a speedy collection of the proceeds. In the February following the 
 King issued a writ to all his bailiffs and faithful subjects in Ireland, 
 informing them of the agency of the bishops of Meath and Ivildare, 
 and requiring them to facilitate the undertaking by all the means in 
 their power''. - ^pi 
 
 sion, in London, 1802. It extends to 346 vol. ii. p. 732. 
 
 folio pages, and is enriched with a large ** Prynne's Records, vol. iii. p. 474. The 
 
 collection of various readings, as well as various bulls and writs relative to the 
 
 with a copious index. contemplated taxation were sent over to 
 
 " Rymer, Feed., vol. ii. p. 751. Ireland by a messenger of the Chancellor, 
 
 P The Council of Paris had exempted who also had writs to levy a Fifteenth 
 
 the Cistercian, Carthusian, and Fonte- from the laity. These were lost in a storm 
 
 vraud Orders, as also Leper-houses. Pope on the passage from Bristol. The messen- 
 
 Alexander IV. had excepted the English ger, in a letter written in December, 1292, 
 
 Cistercians in 1255. Eymer, vol. i. p. 323. states that the Magnates of Ireland, and 
 
 Nicholas IV., himself, in 1290, excuses most of the lower classes, declared that 
 
 the hospitals of lepers and poor; Nuns, they were so harassed by wars, and, con- 
 
 and such other Regulars as were poor ; sequently, so burdened with debt, that, 
 
 and secular clergy whose income did not unless their liabilities were taken into 
 
 amount to six marks a year — Rymer, account, and they were so far relieved 
 
IX 
 
 The taxation of the churches connected with the Cathedral of 
 St. Patrick and the Priory of the Holy Trinity, in the diocese of 
 Dublin, was completed in 1294', and remains of record'; but con- 
 cerning the rest of Ireland there is little known further than that in 
 July, 1300, Pope Boniface VIII. addressed a bull to the collectors 
 appointed by Nicholas IV., instructing them to hand, within two 
 months, to the Florentine merchants of the company of Spini, or 
 their order, any balance which remained unpaid' . This sum, what- 
 ever it amounted to, was detained by the king's Justiciaries, and though 
 the Pope wrote to complain of the violence", he appears to have been 
 easily appeased, for, in February following, he granted the King a 
 full acquittance of all the Tenths which he had obtained from Ireland", 
 amounting to nearly three years' proceeds, and, in the next month, a 
 full release of all the sums which he had received " in Terr^ Sanctse 
 subsidium", notwithstanding his having failed to fulfil his promise, 
 in consideration of the expenses, labours, and difficulties, with which 
 he had been oppressed by the severity of the times". 
 
 The Church of Ireland appears to have been greatly impoverished 
 at the period when Pope Nicholas imposed this tax upon it. The 
 King had addressed the archbishops a short time previously, requir- 
 ing of them to convene their respective suffragans and clergy, and 
 obtain from them a grant of the tenth of their spiritualities for the 
 
 ransom 
 
 of their liabilities, they would not con- TaxatioDioc. Dublin", which is preserved 
 
 sent to the tax ; but that otherwise they among the records of Christ Church Ca- 
 
 would agree, and allow a fifteenth even of thedral. — Mason, Hist, of St. Patrick's, 
 
 the money due to them.. — Prynne, Rec, App., pp. Ixiv. Ixix. 
 vol. iii. p. 483. ' Prynne's Eecords, vol. iii. p. 868. 
 
 "■ See Pembridge's Annals at the year " Eymer, Foedera, vol. ii. p. 926. 
 
 1294 (Cough's Camden, vol iv. p. 477). " Rymer, Foedera, vol. ii. p. 928, 
 
 5 It is entered on a roll, intituled " Nova " Rymer, Foedera, vol. ii. p. 93 1 . 
 
 b 
 
ransom of his nephew Charles, and other purposes. To this the 
 archbishops of Tuam and Cashel, and the bishop of Kildare, severally 
 replied, that they and their clergy were so reduced by war, rebellion, 
 and depredation, as to be in the extreme of poverty'' : and it is pro- 
 bable that the meeting of the Irish prelates, which took place at Trim 
 in September, 1291, and the resolutions there entered into, arose out 
 of their inability or unwillingness to comply with this and similar 
 demands''. 
 
 It appears that in 1302 a fresh assessment of the Tenths was im- 
 posed upon the Irish clergy for three years. The Pope at the time 
 required a subsidy for the war with the King of Arragon'', and that 
 he might receive a contribution from these countries the more readily, 
 he granted to the sovereign of England half the annual proceeds". 
 The King, in his writs for its collection, styles it " Decima Papalis ", 
 and appoints Richard de Bereford, treasurer of Ireland, sub-collec- 
 tor under the bishop of London and Bartholomew de Ferentino, the 
 Pope's agents in the undertaking^ rpi 
 
 ^ See their statements at full length in * Prynne, Records, vol. iii. pp. 998, 999. 
 
 Prynne's Records, vol. iii. pp. 440-443. In '' Among the rolls of the Irisli Taxation 
 
 the roll of the Taxation of Dublin, 1294, preserved in Carlton Ride, London, is one 
 
 there are thirty-seven entries, and to four- of a considerable portion of the province 
 
 teen of these is the note attached: " nil of Cashel, in which the diocese of Emly is 
 
 propter guerram ", or "nil quiavasta", thus headed: " Taxatio omnium bono- 
 
 or " non sufficit ad onera ". — See Mason, rum Episcopi Himlacensis facta pro deci- 
 
 History of St. Patrick's, Appendix, pp. nia papali apud Imlacen. die Sabbati prox. 
 
 Ixiv. Ixvi. ante festum Sti. Gregorii, Anno Gratia; 
 
 y The acts of this synod are preserved M° CCCII." This roll is the one which 
 
 in the Registrum Swayne, lib. ii. fol. 52 ; is printed in the Supplement to the 
 
 and an abstract is given by Harris, in his Eighth Report of the Irish Record Com- 
 
 edition of Ware's Works, vol. i. p. 70. missioners, as a specimen of Pope Nicholas 
 
 ' Pembridge and Grace, Annals, under the Fourth's Taxation of 1291 (Vol. ii. 
 
 the year 1302. pp. 61, 70.) 
 
XI 
 
 The term Crusade had by this time lost its original import, and 
 the subventio Terrce Sanctce was now nothing more than a state fiction 
 for securing the frequent recurrence of a tax which was destined for 
 home, or, at most, European purposes. In 1306, therefore, the King 
 had again recourse to this expedient for levying money, and procured 
 from Pope Clement V. a grant for two years of the ecclesiastical 
 Tenths within his dominions'^. The bishops of Lincoln and London 
 were appointed collectors, and the only persons in whose favour an 
 exemption was made were the Cardinals'^, and the Templars and Hos- 
 pitallers^ of all ranks and houses. 
 
 This grant was in the same month extended to four, and, finally, 
 to seven years ; with the proviso that Queen Margaret should receive 
 two thousand pounds annually for five years ; that the Prince of Wales 
 should receive half the amount for a certain term ; and that a fourth 
 of the proceeds of the last four years should be reserved " pro neces- 
 sitatibus et oneribus Ecclesi^e Romance"/ 
 
 Kichard de Berefford, treasurer of Ireland, and William de Ry vere, 
 canon of Sarum, were nominated sub-collectors for Ireland, and the 
 King directed Thomas Cantock, the Chancellor, to administer to them 
 tlie oath to execute their commission " postpositis favore, odio, timore, 
 amore, et quacunque occasione alia, diligenter et fideliter".^ Their 
 agents, as in the svstem of the Norwich Taxation, were the rural deans", 
 
 and 
 
 •^ Rymer, Feed., vol. ii. pp. 991, 992. ^ A sviccession of bulls on this subject, 
 
 ^ "Qui nobiscum labores mundi par- bearing date August, 1306, are printed in 
 
 tiuntur, et curas" — Bulla Clem. V., Ry- Eymer, Feed., vol. ii. pp. 991-994. 
 
 mer, tit supra., p. 992. s Prynne, Records, vol. iii. p. 1150. 
 
 ® The Templars had no revenues in ^ See Dansey, Hor. Decan. Rural., vol. i. 
 
 these dioceses. Instances where the Hos- p. 417, sqq. There were, however, some 
 
 pitallers were exempted from taxation of exceptions. The return concerning the 
 
 their property, may be seen in the follow- episcopal revenue of Meath was " juxta 
 
 ing work at pp. 8, 24, 32, 60, 66. conscientiam ipsius episcopi". In the 
 
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 and each deanry returned its own account, concluded with the sum 
 of the incomes and tenths therein'. 
 
 The details of this taxation have fortunately been preserved, and 
 are the most ancient collection of ecclesiastical statistics, connected 
 with Ireland, now remaining. The rolls, on which they are entered, 
 were discovered in 1807 by Mr. Vanderzee, a sub-commissioner of 
 English Records, in the office of the Remembrancer of His Majesty's 
 Exchequer at Westminster", whither they had been removed in the 
 year 1323'. They were deposited in a leathern pouch marked with 
 the name " Hibernia", the contents of which are stated to have been 
 " fourteen long rolls"." At present they are grouped together in pro- 
 vinces, and the four rotulets, which comprise the taxation of Armagh 
 and Tuam, are stitched together at the top, and are distinguished by 
 the title " Provincie Armacana Thuamen ". The first rotulet is occu- 
 pied in facie, with the diocese of Armagh, and part of Down ; in dorso 
 with the rest of Down and the whole of Connor. The dioceses of 
 Clogher, Tirbrune or Kilmore, Raphoe, Dromore, Ardagh, and part 
 of Derry, appear in facie of the second, and the rest of Derry, with 
 Cluania or Clonmacnois, in dorso. The other two rotulets are devoted 
 
 to 
 
 archdeaconry of Agiiadoe, the prioi- of 
 Ballynascelligs, or St. Michael's Mount, 
 was the sub-collector. 
 
 ' See pp. 8, 16, 26, 44, 48, &c. 
 
 ^ Appen. to I st Report of Eng. Record 
 Commiss., vol. i. pp. 148, 302 ; Sup. to 8th 
 Report of Irish Rec. Com., vol. ii. p. 61. 
 
 ' This appears from the memorandum 
 entered on the outside of all the rolls; 
 and which is printed at p. 1 20 of the fol- 
 lowing work. Returns of the earlier taxa- 
 tions had also been conveyed to England, 
 
 and even to Rome. The copy of the first 
 taxation of the diocese of Ossory, which is 
 entered in the Red Book of Kilkenny, 
 bears the following title: " Taxacio ec- 
 clesiarum et beneficiorum, fructuum et 
 reddituum Episcopatus Ossoriensis, se- 
 cundum Registrum curite, prout Episco- 
 pus frater Ricardus [Ledred] invenit in 
 Curia Romana, et in Registro clericorum 
 prope London, et in Registro apud Eccle- 
 siam S. Pauli ibidem". — (fol. 17.) 
 
 ™ Reports Eng. Rec. Com., vol. i. p. 302. 
 
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 to the province of Tuam. There is no date to any of the dioceses in 
 the province of Armagh ; but from the marginal note " vacant pro 
 utroque anno", appended to the churches of Arglass, Droneyll, and 
 Ros°, in Down, it would appear that the taxation of that diocese was 
 conducted in virtue of a grant of the Tenths for two years. In the 
 province of Tuam, liowever, there is a date which serves as a key to 
 the whole: it is prefixed to the taxation of Killala, and runs thus: 
 " Taxacio ecclesiarum civitatis et diocesis Aladensis facta per juratos 
 die proxima post festum S. Bartholomei, Anno Domini Millesimo 
 ccc° sexto". It may, therefore, be reasonably concluded that the 
 taxation of Down, Connor, and Dromore, as set out in this roll, and 
 printed in the following pages, represents the fiscal condition of the 
 Church in those dioceses during the years 1306 and 1307°. 
 
 It appears that the smallest income derived from any denomina- 
 tion was 40c?. a year, as in the case of the chapels of Enacha, Thanelagh, 
 and Acheli, in the diocese of Down, and Rosrelick in the diocese of 
 Connor ; while £30, at which the church of Bile was rated, was the 
 maximum of aimual amount^. The reader will be enabled to form 
 some estimate of the value of money in Ireland at the commencement 
 of the fourteenth century, from the following account, which was 
 furnished in the year 1301 by John Colyr and John Bowet, citizens 
 of Dublin, who were appointed to provide corn, wine, and other pro- 
 visions, to be sent to the Kin2r to Scotland'' : — 
 
 ° i27crannocs, 
 
 ° See p. 34 of the present work. Mr. Hunter correctly states that this Tenth 
 
 ° The compiler had been led by the was " to be levied for two years at the 
 
 statements of the English Record Commis- close of the reign of Edward /., or early in 
 
 sioners (Reports, vol. i. pp. 148, 302,) and the reign of his successor.'''' Fifth Report of 
 
 of the Irish, (Reports, vol i. p. 485 ; ii. p. the Dep. Keeper of Public Records, (Lend. 
 
 61,) to suppose that this was the Taxation 1844,) P- 3°^- 
 made under Pope Nicholas IV.; and so it ^ See pp. 48, 74, 76. 
 
 was stated in the Prospectus of this work. ** The original is entered on a Pipe Roll 
 
XIV 
 
 £ s. 
 
 127 crannocs (or barrels), 7 bushels of corn, .... 38 9 
 
 295 crannocs of beans and pease, 49 1 3 
 
 164 crannocs of wheaten flour, 49 5 
 
 24 crannocs of oats, 60 
 
 119 crannocs, 13 bushels, of oats, 37 ^^ 
 
 70 tuns of red wme, 2100 
 
 ^^ carcasses, i q', of salt beef, 51 bacons, 17 muttons, . 18 18 
 
 1 00 crannocs of salt, 710 
 
 39 empty hogsheads, for flour, ^ ly 
 
 259 hundreds of salt fish, 3 ^8 
 
 Freight of same to Scotland, 1878 
 
 To Coopers, &c., ^33 
 
 d. 
 
 3 
 4 
 6 
 
 o 
 
 n 
 J) 
 
 o 
 
 4i 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 o 
 
 9 
 
 "£627 14 si 
 The distribution of the three dioceses into parishes and smaller 
 denominations, at this date, may be illustrated by the following tables 
 compiled from the Taxation: — 
 
 Diocese of Down. 
 
 DEANUV. 
 
 RECTORIES. 
 10 
 
 16 
 
 20 
 
 9 
 
 VICARAGES. 
 
 CHAPEL9. SUM. 
 
 Clondermod, 
 
 Blaethwyc, 
 
 Ards, 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 7 
 2 
 
 1 
 
 5 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 22 
 
 5 
 
 18 
 
 22 
 27 
 
 44 
 15 
 
 Lechayll, 
 
 Dalbovn, 
 
 J ' 
 
 Total 
 
 72 
 
 14 
 
 40 
 
 126 
 
 Diocese 
 
 in the Bermingham Tower, from which an through whose kindness it is here pre- 
 abstract was made by Sir William Betham, sen ted to the reader. 
 
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 Diocese of Connor. 
 
 DEANRY. 
 
 RECTORIES. 
 
 VICARAGES. 
 
 CHAPELS. 
 
 SUM. 
 
 (Mourne), 
 
 Maulyne, 
 
 Twescard, 
 
 Turtrye, 
 
 21 
 
 21 
 13 
 
 9 
 
 4 
 
 3 
 
 33 
 21 
 
 21 
 
 13 
 
 Total, 
 
 72 
 
 13 
 
 3 
 
 88 
 
 Diocese of Dromore. — Twelve churches and tAvo prebends. 
 
 The handwriting of the rolls is similar to that which appears in 
 other public records of the same date, and the contractions which are 
 employed in them are conformable to the established usage of the day. 
 The following table, explanatory of such abbreviations as occur in the 
 Taxation of these three dioceses, may prove not unacceptable to the 
 general reader^ 
 
 a an ; as Bugore, Bangor e ; vacut, vacant. 
 
 a" anno. 
 
 b hei' ; as libantis, liherantis ; Robti, Roherti. 
 
 bb hha ; as abbtis, ahhatis. 
 
 bn bene ; as bnficiorum, heneficiorum. 
 
 c cesis, cialis, cima, ict ; as dioc, diocesis ; offic, officialis ; dec, 
 
 decima ; dco, dicto. 
 
 cois clonis ; taxacois, taxacionis. 
 
 d da., 
 
 ' The subject is very fully treated of Duffus Hardy, Esq., pp. xix.-xxii. See 
 in tlie General Introduction to the Close also " Court-Hand Restored", by Andrew 
 Rolls of the Tower of London, by Thomas Wright, 6th Ed. (Lond. 1 822.) 
 
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 d da, de, deni, diaconi, domi ; as prebend, prehenda ; eiusdm, 
 eiiisd, ejusdem ; archid, archidiaconi ; dni, domini. As a 
 monetary expression, d stands for denarius ; hence d for 
 jyenny in modern usage. 
 
 e en ; valet, valent. 
 
 g* gra^ gran ; as Corng^n, Corngran ; g'ge, grange. 
 
 \i hann^ holce ; as Johes, Johannes ; Nich, Nichola\ 
 
 1 im ; as decia, decima. 
 
 \ le, les, lias, Hi, lis, Hum, lyn ; as vatt, valet, ecctiasticorum, 
 ecclesiasticorum, at, alias ; fit, JiUi ; total, totalis ; temporal, 
 temporalium ; Lismol, Lismolj/n. 
 
 li libra. Hence the modern £ for pound. 
 
 H lla, lliehni ; as capett, ca/?fZ/rt ; WiHi, Wdlidnii. Sometimes 
 it is only a terminal flourish, as at pp. 26, 30, 32, 42. 
 
 m mne ; as ofns, omnes. 
 m*r marca. That is, 13s. 4^/. 
 
 m'^ mar ; as Ealim'^gehan, Balimacgehan ; ^Pdalene, Macdalene. 
 
 fi natus, iide, ne, nia, niensis, nsis, num ; as decan, decanatus ; 
 \x\\, wide; Neuton, Neutone ; Hibern, Ilihernia; Exon, Exo- 
 niensis ; Coneren, Duneii, Conerensis., Dunensis ; baroii, ha- 
 ronum. 
 
 o on; as Hugois, Hugonis. 
 
 o ob, obolus. 
 
 p par, per, por ; as i)te, parte ; 1^, per ; teminiYium, temporaliun/. 
 
 \) piscop ; as epi, episcojyi. 
 
 p? pre; us pibend'd, prebenda. 
 
 p pi'O ; as pventuum, proventuuru. 
 
 p', pri ; 
 
 * The rationale of this contraction is p, with an inferior small 0, denoting that 
 shewn in some parts of the Taxation Roll, r is suppressed, as a superior small letter 
 where the character is written <,p, that is, would do M'ith one above the line. 
 
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 p' pri ; as p'or, prior ; p'mo, primo. 
 
 c^ quadrans. 
 
 {|5 que ; as utroqj, utroque. 
 
 f re, rensis, ria, rici, ris ; as Miiginor, Mugmore ; Coner, Cone- 
 
 rensis ; vicar, vicaria ; Henr, Henrici ; prior, prioris. 
 ^ rum ; as capitulo^, capitulorum ; Glena^, Glenarum. 
 s saurarius, sis, sita ; as Thes, Thesaurarius ; Drumorens, Dru- 
 
 morensis ; perquis, perquisita. As a monetary symbol it 
 
 denotes solidus, or shilling. 
 sc sand ; as see, sancte ; sci, sancti. 
 
 sce^m scaccariam. 
 sm* summa. 
 
 o 
 
 talarii, tiurn, iro, tu ; as Hospit, Hospitalarii ; hospit, hospi- 
 tium ; utque, utroque ; capitlum, capitulum. 
 t ter, tri ; as Walti, Walteri ; Pa?cii, Patricii 
 \ et, the conjunction*. 
 
 / er, ir, re, ri ; as WaSantone, Wauerantone ; CoSia, Coneria ; 
 gvicium, servicium ; infJmorum, infirmorum ; p?dictus, pre- 
 dictus ; Patcius, Patricius. Most commonly, however, in 
 the first acceptation. 
 
 f ^5, is ; 
 
 ' This is the origin of the contraction -], way to establish his argument concerning 
 
 which stands for aju pin abbreviated Irish. the origin of the Irish letters. — {Critical 
 
 It is a curious fact that the contractions Essay on the Inhabitants of N.Britain, citedi 
 
 found in Irish manuscripts are similar to, in O Donovan's Irish Grammar, Introduc- 
 
 and are borrowed from, the Latin. Thus tion, p. xxxviii.) Thus the Latins bor- 
 
 -], or the abbreviated et, is used for ajup; rowed IHS or IH20T2, and XPS or XPI2- 
 
 t, or the abbreviated vel, for no ; 8, or the T02, from the Greeks, appropriating them 
 
 abbreviated vero, for imoppo; f, or s, the to their own use, and even subjecting the 
 
 abbreviated sed, for acr. — (See Dono- latter to inflexions, as Xpus, Xpi, Xpo, 
 
 van's Irish Gram., p. 429.) This point, for Ch7'istus, Christi,Christo, &c., the Greek 
 
 which Innes did not observe, goes a great P being made a Roman P. 
 
 C 
 
XVlll 
 
 f es, is ; as Lerkf , Lerkes ; Regf, Eegis. Sometimes it is only 
 
 a terminal flourish, as at pp. 2, 6, 10, 28, 48, 52, 58, 74. 
 ^ us ; as decanat^, decanatus ; ei^dem, ejusdem. 
 
 It will save the reader the trouble of reference if he will bear in 
 mind that the circumflex ^ placed over or through a letter most 
 generally denotes the omission of two or more letters", and that the 
 ellipse is to be supplied from the context, by a knowledge of the 
 language. That the straight mark ~ over a vowel, or the consonants 
 m and n, denotes the suppression of an m or n. That a superior small 
 vowel (as in g'n, gran) generally implies that the letter /• is to be sup- 
 plied immediately before \V. 
 
 In the compilation of the Notes and Appendix, the writer has 
 endeavoured to consult for their accuracy by a personal examination 
 of the existing antiquarian remains in the three dioceses. The mo- 
 dern names of the parishes and townlands are given according to the 
 orthography adopted by the Ordnance Survey, from which bound- 
 less store of modern topography the writer has liberally drawn, as 
 the frequency of the reference Ord. Survey^ in the following pages, 
 will prove"'. Much that is curious and valuable has been borrowed 
 from the printed works of Colgan, Doctor Charles O Conor, Ussher, 
 Ware, the Irish Record Commission'', and others, whose names are 
 
 familiar 
 
 " Over a final n it often implies the 
 omission of e only — See above, p. xvi. 
 
 ^ So in Irisli 5 for jpa, &c. — (0 Dono- 
 van, Irish Gram,, p. 430. 
 
 " Several changes have been made in 
 the parochial distribution since the Ord. 
 Survey appeared, as in Kilclief, and other 
 parishes of Lecale : in such case the Sur- 
 vey serves as a historical record. 
 
 ^ Namely, the Ulster Inquisitions and 
 the Calendar of Chancery llolls. The 
 Pat. Rolls of James I., which were partly 
 printed, but not published, are quoted 
 in the present work as the second volume 
 of the Calend. Cancell. Hlh. It extends 
 to 372 folio pages, but stops abruptly 
 in the middle of a roll of the 16th of 
 James I. A unique copy, containing ad- 
 
XIX 
 
 familiar to every student of genuine Irish liistory. But the sources 
 whence the most essential aid has been derived are the manuscript 
 collections in public depositories, concerning which, as the reader 
 may not otherwise have the means to inform himself, a few obser- 
 vations may here be made. 
 
 The Primatial Registries, forming an inestimable collection of 
 diocesan and provincial records, are preserved in the Registry Office 
 of Armagh, where, through the kind permission of his Grace the Lord 
 Primate, and the obliging attention of George Scott, Esq., the Regis- 
 trar, the present writer was enabled to make a careful examination of 
 their contents, and extract what was to his purpose. The documents 
 anterior to the Reformation form a series of folio volumes, which are 
 named after the Primates to whose acts they severally refer. Their 
 titles and description are as follow : 
 
 1. Registrum Milonis Sweteman, partly on parchment and partly 
 on paper, consisting of fifty-three folios. Its contents range from the 
 year 1361 to 1380. Prefixed is a commission from Primate OHir- 
 aghty, of about the year 1337, and the acts of the Dean and Chapter 
 during the interval between the death of Richard Fitz Ralph and the 
 consecration of Miles Sweteman. 
 
 2. A Visitation of the diocese of Berry, A. D. 1397, by Primate 
 Colton, transcribed in a beautiful hand, thirty-six pages, folio. 
 
 3. Registrum Fleming, on parchment and paper, dating from 1404 
 to 1416, and consisting of sixty-eight folios. This Register, and that 
 of Sweteman, are bound up in the same volume. 
 
 4. Registrum Swayne, from the year 1418 to 1439, on paper, and 
 in four Books. Lib. i. fols. jG ; Lib. ii. fols. s^ ; Lib. iii. fols. 154 ; 
 Lib. iv. fols. 34. There is also a transcript of this work ^vritten in 
 
 extenso 
 
 ditional printed leaves is preserved in the 1846) goes over the same ground as far 
 Rolls' Office. Erck's Repertory (Dublin, as the 4th James I., where it stops. 
 
 C 2 
 
XX 
 
 extenso in an admirable hand, 2 vols, folio ; vol. i. 684 pp. ; vol. ii. 696 
 pp. From this copy Harris quotes^. 
 
 5. Registrum Prene^ 286 folios, on paper of various sizes, and con- 
 taining documents disposed without regard to chronological order, 
 dating from the year 1430 to 1471. A transcript in the same hand 
 as that of Nos. 2, 4, occupies a folio volume of 1225 pages. 
 
 6. Registrum Meg, on paper, in four books. — Lib. i. fols. 52; lib. ii. 
 fols. 109 ; lib. iii. fols. 22 ; lib. iv. fols. 68. 
 
 7. Registrum Octaviani, containing records of Primates Bole and 
 Swayne, but chiefly those of Octavian de Palatio. It is Avritten in a 
 very neat hand, extending over 362 folios, and dating from 1460 to 
 1 5 13. Another volume of fourteen folios, (with a transcript of seventy- 
 six pages,) containing wills, acquittances, and inventories, is written 
 in the same hand, and belongs to the same collection. 
 
 8. Registrum Cromer, from the year 1 5 1 8 to 1 535, on paper, neither 
 indexed nor paged. A transcript, in the same hand and style as Nos. 
 2, 4, 5, extends over 790 pages folio. 
 
 9. Registrum Dowdall, or Liber Niger, irom 1540 to 1584, a trans- 
 script, on paper, in an earlier hand than the others. 
 
 [A folio volume containing many valuable extracts from the above, 
 and occasionally quoted by Harris in his edition of Ware's Works, 
 is preserved in Primate Marsh's Library, under the title " Precedents 
 of the Diocess of Armagh". — CI. v. Tab. i. No. 13.] 
 
 In the Registry of Armagh there are also several Triennial Visi- 
 tation Books of Down and Connor, and Dromore, dating from the 
 Restoration down. 
 
 The diocesan records of Down and Connor and Dromore, which 
 are deposited in the Registry Offices, are, it is to be regretted, very 
 scanty and unsatisfactory. Inadequate provision for their safety, and 
 
 the 
 ^ "Ware's Works, vol. i. pp. 70, 85, 86, 202, 222. 
 
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 the indifference wliicli unhappily prevailed, during the last centuiy, 
 concerning ancient documents, have resulted in this barrenness, 
 There are, however, a few disjecta membra of the diocesan muniments 
 still remaining. Of these the most valuable is 
 
 A Terrier or Ledger Book of Doivn and Connor. It purports to be 
 " An Abstract of the several Parishes and Chapels, impropriate and 
 not impropriate, Errinagh and Bishop's Lands, Mensals, Proxies, 
 Refections, Synodals, 20th Parts, Rectories, Vicarages, Curacies, 
 Gleabs, &c., within the several Rural Deanries, in the Bishopricks 
 of Down and Connor". Whether, or where, the original of this now 
 exists is unknown to the writer ; the transcript, however, which he 
 has made use of is one which was taken from an attested copy, certified 
 by Francis Wotton, and procured by the late Dean Dobbs. For this, 
 as well as for other assistance, the writer is indebted to the Rev. 
 Edward Cupples, Vicar General of Down and Connor. This document 
 was originally made out in the year 161 5'', and is of great value as a 
 connecting link between the records before and after the Reforma- 
 tion, shewing the condition of the dioceses in their transition state. 
 
 The Ulster Visitation Book contains, at p. 22,"]., sqq., a return made 
 by Bishop Echlin, in 1622, entitled " The state of the Bishopricke of 
 Downe and Connor".* It is a paper manuscript in folio, and preserved 
 
 in 
 
 '' Dean Dobbs conjectured that it was torsliip of Down, in which dignity the 
 
 compiled betAveen the years 1604 and Regal Visitation of 1633 states that he 
 
 1609; and the former date is assigned in was installed 4th May, 1614, and that it 
 
 some local publications. (M*^ Skimin's His- was not later than 1 616 is proved by its 
 
 tory of Carrickfergus, p. 175 ; [Benn's] mention of iV. T[odd'] as Archdeacon of 
 
 History of the Town of Belfast, p. 249 ; Connor, whereas the Regal Visitation of 
 
 " Belfast and its Environs," p. 38.) That 1633 states that Andrew Monypenny was 
 
 it was not written earlier than 1614 ap- collated to the Archdeaconry of Connor, 
 
 pears from its mention oi David FaitjfitU, i8th March, 161 6. 
 
 assigning to him the corps of the Precen- ^ This and the other returns were made 
 
xxu 
 
 in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, MSS. CI. E. Tab. 3. 
 No. 6. 
 
 The diocese of Dromore is wanting in this collection, but the de- 
 ficiency may be supplied from a MS. in Primate Marsh's Library, 
 CI. V. 3, Tab. I, No. 2. The same volume contains a return of the 
 temporalities of Down and Connor, with a list of the churches, much 
 more accurate than that in the larger manuscript. 
 
 Visitatio Regalis Diocesium Dunmsis et Connorensis, A. D. 1633. 
 In the compilation of this valuable record John Bramhall, afterwards 
 bishop and archbishop, was a commissioner, or, at least, a prime 
 mover^. The original is preserved among the records of the Prero- 
 gative Court, Dublin"^. It is in two parts, one of which gives the 
 names of the churches, Avith their ministers, and the other, the dates 
 of the ordination, collation, and institution of each clergyman in the 
 diocese. 
 
 The Clarendon Manuscr'qAs in the British Museum arc, in a great 
 
 measure, composed of Sir James Ware's compilations and collections. 
 
 They embrace an immense mass of historical treasure not to be found 
 
 elsewhere. Among other matters they contain the extracts from 
 
 the rolls and the various authorities which form.ed the basis of Ware's 
 
 History of the Irish Bishops. Lord Clarendon took them to England ; 
 
 after whose death they were purchased by the Duke of Chandos, and 
 
 at his sale they passed to Dean Milles, who bequeathed them to the 
 
 Museum'*. _. ^ 
 
 I he 
 
 agreeably to a Royal Precept, dated July, ^ Bp. Nicholson refers to these volumes 
 
 I, 1622. See Bp, Maut's History of the under the title i>W. Chandois. Thus the 
 
 Church of Ireland, vol i. p. 395, sqq. MS. cited in the Irish Historical Library, 
 
 ''See Bramhall's Works, voL i. p. vi. p. 43 (Ed. Lend. 1776,) as in " Bibl. Chan- 
 
 (Lond. 1842,) and Bp. Mant's History, dois. Fol. Hist. n. 36", is now " Cod. Cla- 
 
 vol. i. p. 444. rendon. Tom. xxxvi.. Additional Numb. 
 
 *= Ir. Rec. Com. Reports, vol. ii. p. 637. 4787", in the British Museum, 
 
XXlll 
 
 The manuscript which is cited in the following pages under the 
 title Codex Kilkenniensis, is a collection of lives of the principal Irish 
 saints, in Latin. It is written in a hand which observes a style 
 midway between the court-hand and that which characterizes Irish 
 manuscripts ; leaning, however, to the practice of the Irish scribes, 
 in having a dot placed over the aspiratable consonants in names of 
 persons and places. It is in folio, on vellum, and preserved in Marsh's 
 Library, where, for convenience sake, it is styled as above*. 
 
 From the Book of Lecan^ and especially from Mac Firbis' Genea- 
 logical Manuscript, both in the collection of the Royal Irish Academy, 
 those valuable extracts have been derived, which the reader will find 
 in the Appendix, in the articles from FF to KK. For these, as well 
 as for other contributions, the Editor is indebted to Mr. Eugene Curry, 
 an Irish scholar, Avhose judgment and acuteness fall very little short 
 of his excellence as a scribe, — what that is the Royal Irish Academy 
 can testify*^. 
 
 Such are some of the principal stores whence the matter of the 
 following work has been derived. It has been put together under 
 great disadvantaires, — a hundred miles from Dublin, and in the midst 
 of parochial engagements, which allowed of only occasional snatches 
 for making the necessary inquiries. But the kindness of friends 
 enabled the compiler to turn his time to the best account; and to 
 
 those 
 
 *■ The name Codex Kilkenniensis was lection he used, 
 given to it, not from any authority that ^ Mr. Curry's transcript of the Book 
 
 it ever belonged to Kilkenny, but from of Lismore, in the Academy's collection, 
 
 the conjecture that it was the collection is a beautiful specimen of caligraphy ; but 
 
 which Colgan cites under that name. It his fac-simile of that most elaborate nia- 
 
 does indeed contain several of the Lives nuscript, the Speckled Book of Mac Egan, 
 
 published in the Acta Sanctorum of Col- is a work which none but a first-rate Irish 
 
 gan, but there is abundance of internal scholar dare undertake, and none but a 
 
 evidence to prove that this is not the col- most accomplished scribe could execute. 
 
XXIV 
 
 those friends his warmest thanks are due : — To the Rev. Joseph 
 Hunter, Deputy-keeper of the Records at Carlton Ride, for the faci- 
 lities of transcription which he afforded; to Walter Nelson, Esq., 
 Assistant in the same office, for the most polite attention, as well as 
 valuable information ; to Thomas Duffus Hardy, Esq., Deputy-keeper 
 (^f the Tower Rolls, for his very obliging services; to John O'Donovan, 
 Esq., for the generous bestowal of, much valuable time and thought; 
 to Mr. J. W. Hanna, for the benefit of his intimate acquaintance with 
 tlie history and topography of Lecale ; and to the Rev. James Henthorn 
 Todd, D. D., F. T. C. D., for manifold favours, both in the library of 
 which he is the guardian, and in that of which he is the possessor. 
 
 Parsonage, Ballymena, 
 
 May 2Sf/i, 1847. 
 
 Uuille peapa ap 6ipinn 015. 
 
^iDo i3i(Eceg;ium, in l^otulo Caxationi^ lEccUgiasiticac 
 
 cut tttulus 
 
 ''PROVINCIA ARDMACANA:" 
 
 1. ^^Dyoces Ardmac. 
 
 2. '^Dunens Dyoces. 
 
 3. ^Conerens Dyoces. 
 
 4. ^ Clocherens Dyoces. 
 
 5. <^ Dyoces Tirbrunens. 
 
 6. ^^Dyoces Ratlibotens. 
 
 7. ^Drumorens Dyoces. 
 
 8. '^Dyoces Ardachadefi. 
 
 9. ^^Dyoces Derens. 
 10. ^Cliianens Dyoces. 
 
 B 
 
TAXATIO ECCLESIASTICA 
 
 Dia^CESIUM DUNENSIS, CONERENSIS, ET DRUMORENSIS. 
 
 «^DUNENS DYOCES. 
 
 Clonder- ^Eccia de Milocf xl-s- decla-iiij-s. 
 
 mod. <^Eccia de Balayncan cu ca- 
 
 pella de Talanoskf ilij • m^r — decla • v • s • iilj • (t. 
 
 ^^ Vicar 
 
 * Down — The diocese of Down, until innnediately following were situate. It 
 a comparatively recent period, embraced appears from the Terrier of Down and Con- 
 nearly all that part of the modern county nor, that so lately as 1615, the '■'•Deanery 
 of Antrim, Avhich lies to the east of Lough of Clandermoixt^'' formed part of the diocese 
 Neagh. The King's Books, compiled for of Down, and contained the parishes of 
 Down and Connor in the year 1616, were Shankill or Belfast, Coole or Carnmony, 
 the earliest authority which assimilated Molusk, Umgall, Camlin, Lenavy, and a 
 the ecclesiastical to the civil distribution : portion of Killead ; thus comprehending a 
 and even they did not effect a permanent narrow tract of the county of Antrim, ex- 
 alteration, for in many subsequent docu- tending from Belfast, westwards, to Lough 
 ments the ancient division was retained. Neagh. 
 
 During the last century, however, usage The name Clandermod (clann tDiap- 
 
 has confined the diocese of Down within the maoa, 'the clan of Dermod') was pri- 
 
 limits of the county bearing the same name. marily used in a civil sense, and was ap- 
 
 '' Clondermod. — This was the name of plied, at the commencement of the Seven- 
 
 the rural deanry in which the churches teenth century, to a small district, styled a 
 
ECCLESIASTICAL TAXATION 
 
 OF 
 
 THE DIOCESES OF DOWN, CONNOR, AND DROMORE. 
 
 DIOCESE OF DOWN^ 
 
 Clonder- The church of Miloc*" 405. Tenth, 45. 
 
 mod}'. The church of Balayncan'*, with 
 
 the chapel of Talanosk^ 4 marks. Tenth, 55. ^d. 
 
 The 
 
 c/n«?new?, consisting of the eight townlands possessions of the see, including '■^Miloc 
 
 which form the N. E. portion of the Ba- juxta Antrum'''' Rot. Pat. i6, Ed. III. pt. 
 
 rony of Upper Masserine — See Appendix. 2, m. 17, Tur. Lond. And, in 161 5, Sir 
 *^ Miloc. — A document, copied by Sir Foulke Conway, of whose estates the cina- 
 James Ware from the archives of Down, ment of Clondermod formed a part, was re- 
 states, that ^ngus M'Mailraba, King of turned in the Terrier, as holding one plow- 
 Clandermod, in the year 1034, bestow- land in Meellicke, nndiei: ihe see of Down, 
 ed Mileac, with one carucate of land, Malachi, Bishop of Down, granted (about 
 upon the see of Down, and that this dona- the year 11 80), to the Abbey of Mucka- 
 tion was confirmed successively, by John more, canonical possession of the church of 
 de Courcy (about the year 11 78), by Myloc: and Thomas (who presided over 
 Hugo de Lacy, and by King John during the same diocese from 1213 till 1237), 
 his stay at Downpatrick (July, 12 10). granted to the same Abbey, \kie vicarage 
 Subsequently, Edward the Third, in the of the church of Miloc. Regist. of Mucka- 
 year 1343, confirmed to Ralph of Kil- more. In the King's Books, the Caj»e^^a (/e 
 messan, the then Bishop of Down, all the Mylock follows Killead : and in the Ulster 
 
 B2 
 
(Dunens Dyoces.) 
 
 '^Vicar eiusdem 
 ^Eccia de Indel 
 ^^ Vicar eiusdm - 
 
 ij.m r- 
 xl s — 
 
 XX -s — 
 
 ^^Eccia de Dalnach cu capella 
 Ville Rot:)ti xl-s 
 
 decla-lj -s-viij -d. 
 decla-iiij -s. 
 decla-ij -s. 
 
 ^^Eccia de Camelyn - 
 ^Eccia de Deserto — 
 
 Visit. Book, the " Capella de Meleeke^^ is 
 similarly placed. 
 
 All these varieties of the name are but 
 so many forms of the Irish word miliuc — 
 meelick, — which, in some parts of the west 
 of Ireland, is applied to lands that lie on 
 the margin of a lake or river, and seems 
 to be nearly synonymous with ypor, and 
 imleac ; like our English word holme. 
 
 As an ecclesiastical denomination, the 
 name is now lost in the county of Antrim: 
 there is, however, a small tract of land, in 
 the parish of Camlin, lying along the Crum- 
 lin side of the Camlin River, called the 
 Meleeg land, on which is a well said to be 
 endowed with sanative properties, which 
 bears the name oithe Meleeg well, and near 
 which the subject of this note probably 
 stood. 
 
 ^ Balapican In Ballykennedy, a town- 
 land on the S. E. border of Killead parish, 
 are remembered the roofless walls of an 
 ancient church. The tradition respecting 
 them is given in Dubourdieu's Statistical 
 Survey of Antrim, p. 594. Their site and 
 cemetery are now under tillage. 
 
 In 1348, Edward the Third confirmed 
 
 dec'ia • iiij • s. 
 
 — ij-m"r decla • Ij • s • viij • d. 
 
 — xiij siiij -tt decia-xvj-d, 
 
 ^Eccia 
 
 to Robert Savage the lands o( Balencan. — 
 Rot. Pat. 21, Ed. III. m. i ; and Calendar 
 of Pat. Rolls, p. 154, b. Tur. Lond. 
 
 ^ Talanosk. — Unknown, unless it be 
 another name for the Grange of Carma- 
 vy, which is also situate in the parish of 
 Killead, not far north of Ballykennedy, 
 and has an ancient churchyard. Carmavy, 
 or Carnmeave (capn metoBe, ' Meava's 
 earn'), was appropriate to Muckamore 
 Abbey. 
 
 ^ Indel. — Now Umgall, a grange con- 
 taining 750 acres ; separated from Killead 
 by the stream now called the Clady River, 
 but more correctly, in the Ul. Inquis., 
 Owen Clary. The churchyard is still used 
 as a burial place, and the foundations of 
 the church remain overground, measuring 
 59 by 23 feet — Ord. Sur., s. ^6. Antrim. 
 
 The name, which is properly uim-^all 
 — 'the foreigner's dam', or ' fence', — is 
 variously spelled in the Inquisitions and 
 Visitation Books, Umgall, Emgall, and 
 Amogalle ; and is now vulgarly called 
 Drumgall. 
 
 The rectory was appropriate to Mucka- 
 more; and the tithes, after the Dissolution, 
 
(Diocese of Down.) 
 
 The vicarage of the same 
 The church of Inder — 
 The vicarage of the same 
 
 2 marks. — 
 
 405. 
 
 205. 
 
 Tenth, 25. 
 Tenth, 46'. 
 Tenth, 2s. 
 
 Sd. 
 
 The church of Dalnach^, with 
 
 the chapel of Robert's-town'' 405. 
 
 The churcli of Camelyn* 2 marks. 
 
 The church of theDesert*" — 
 
 135. 4.(1. 
 
 Tenth, 4s. 
 Tenth, 25. Sd. 
 Tenth, i6d. 
 
 The 
 
 having passed through variuus hands, were 
 purchased by the late Board of First Fruits, 
 and annexed to the benefice of Temple- 
 patrick. 
 
 8 Dalnach. — Unknown. The Registry 
 of Muckamore recites a grant of one ca- 
 rucate of land in Dalnach, which was called 
 Karnrey, made to the Abbey by Galfridus 
 de Croft. 
 
 ^ Roberfs-town. — Now Ballyrobert, a 
 grange consisting of 883 acres, which for- 
 merly belonged to Muckamore. The tithes 
 were purchased by the late Board of First 
 Fruits, and granted, as an augmentation. 
 
 the river winds, about a quarter of a mile to 
 the N. E. of Crumlin. It measures 72 feet, 
 by 2 2 feet, 4 inches, in the clear; and indi- 
 cates, in its construction, a very remote 
 date of building. The parish is now com- 
 monly called Crumlin (cpu im-jleann, ' the 
 crooked glen'). The Ord. Survey (s. 59) 
 places Camlin Church in the townland Bal- 
 lydunaghy ; but Lendrick's map preserves 
 the old name ' Bally-camlin ', which was 
 a small townland, anciently the property 
 of the See of Down. 
 
 ^ Desert The townland Dun-desert 
 
 (Dun Difipc, 'the fort of the desert'), 
 
 to the benefice of Templepatrick, with now in the parish of Killead, is separated 
 
 which parish Ballyrobert has been incor- 
 porated. — Ord. Survey, s. 51. Antrim. 
 
 The Antrim Inquis. of 1605, speaks of 
 " veteres ruin« lapidosse vocatae Bally I'o- 
 bert " ; but no trace of church or yard now 
 remains. , 
 
 ' Camelyn. — A parish in the union of 
 Gleuavy, which still bears the same name. 
 It is so called from a tortuous stream (caim- 
 line, ' the crooked line'), which bounds 
 it on the north. The venerable ruin of its 
 church stands on a high bank, round which 
 
 from Camlin by the Camlin River. — Ord. 
 Survey, s. 55. Antrim. The site of the 
 ancient church is called ' the Kirkfield ', 
 and though there is nut a vestige of the 
 building now to be seen, its features are 
 still fresh in the memory of the farmer who 
 holds the ground, and who cleared away 
 the walls and enclosures about fifty years 
 ago. A particular description of this inte- 
 resting church, which stood within a 
 double casket, will be found in the Ap- 
 pendix. 
 
(Dunens Dyoces.) 
 
 ^Eccia de Talaruskf- 
 ^^Eccia de Kenles 
 
 xl 
 
 decla' 
 
 I'U 
 
 '^Eccia de Karrvn cu 
 pella de Kiltrodan 
 
 ca--| 
 
 ^Eccia Alba cu capett de [■ 
 Vado de Villa Henf \ 
 de Weston 
 
 iiij •m^'rdi- decla -vj-s. 
 
 1 
 
 ' Talarusk — Now Tullyrusk, a parish 
 
 in the union of Glenavy Ord. Survey, 
 
 s. 59. Antrim. The churchyard contains 
 the foundations of the old church, which 
 measure about 63 by 19 feet. It occupies 
 the summit of a hill, which rises from 
 swampy ground : hence the name, from 
 culac, ' a gentle hill', and pupc orpiapj, 
 'a moor' or 'fen'. Colgan spells it 
 ' Tulach-ruisc', and assigns it to the 
 Deanry of 'Dalmunia'; but he errs in 
 identifying it with the ' Ecclesia Tula- 
 censis', which the Tripartite Life of St. 
 Patrick places in the vicinity of ' Rath- 
 mudain', or Ramoan. See Trias Thaum. 
 p. 182, col. 2, note 199. The parish con- 
 sists, at present, of four townlands, two 
 of which were, at the date of the Taxa- 
 tion, respectively possessed of churches. 
 At the Reformation, the entire of Tully- 
 rusk was a Capella of Shankill or Bel- 
 fast parish, which joins it on the east 
 
 Ul. Inq.; Terrier; Ul. Vis. 
 
 ™ Kettles A common form, in which 
 
 oiiis iste 
 
 valet 
 xij • m^r 
 
 decla -xvj -s. 
 
 ^Vicaria 
 
 many miles distant, and in another diocese, 
 could not be introduced in this part of 
 the Taxation. It is difficult to pronounce 
 what church is here intended. 
 
 ^ Karryn. — Now Knock-cairn, a town- 
 land in the parish of Tullyrusk. — Ord. 
 Survey, s. 59. Antrim. The writer of 
 the Statistical Account of Glenavy, &c., 
 in the Parochial Survey (vol. ii. p. 250), 
 states that the foundations of an ancient 
 building were to be seen in Knock-cairn, 
 at the time he wrote (18 15) : but they 
 have since been removed. 
 
 ° Kiltrodan Now Dundrod, a town- 
 land, also in Tullyrusk parish Ord. Sur- 
 vey, s. 59. Antrim. In 1 62 1 it was called 
 
 'Bally-kiltrodan' Ul. Inq. No. 7, Jac. I. 
 
 Antrim. In Petty's map of the county of 
 Antrim, it is marked ' Doon-killtroddan '. 
 ' Dunkiltrod ', the transition name from 
 the last mentioned to that now in use, ap- 
 pears on a map drawn in 1729. Paroch. 
 Surv., vol. ii. p. 216. There are no traces 
 of either a chapel or burial ground exist- 
 
 the modern name Kells is found, and by ing in the townland. 
 
 which the Abbey near Connor was some- p White-church — Now Shankill (pean- 
 
 times called. This house, however, being ciU, 'old church'), the parish which 
 
(Diocese of Down.) 
 
 The church of Talarusk' 
 The church of Kenles"" - 
 
 405. Tenth, 4s. 
 
 4^ marks. Tentli, 6s. 
 
 The church of Karryn", with the 
 chapel of Kiltrodan" ^ — 
 
 The White-church^ with the cha- 
 pels of the Ford'', of Henry's- 
 town% and of Westone* 
 
 all these 1 
 . are worth ^ Tenth, 165. 
 1 2 marks, j 
 
 The 
 
 contains the town of Belfast. By the 
 charter of James I. it was annexed to the 
 Deanry of Connor, under the name ' Ec- 
 clesia Alba de Vado'. In the Terrier it is 
 called ' Ecclesia de Sti. Patricii de vado 
 albo'; and in the Ul. Visit. Book, ' Ec- 
 clesia de Albovaddo alias Belfast '. Shan- 
 kill graveyard lies about a mile N. W. 
 of Belfast. In 1621, the original parish 
 church was in ruins. — Ul. Inquis. No. 7, 
 Jac I. Antrim. At the Dissolution, the 
 rectory of the parish was appropriate to 
 the Abbey of St. Patrick of Down, and 
 was, with the other possessions of that 
 religious house, leased to the Earl of Kil- 
 dare, from whom the rectory of Shankill 
 passed to Sir Arthur Chichester, the an- 
 cestor of the present possessor. 
 
 ^ Ford The name Belfast, or Bealfarst 
 
 — as it is found in some old documents, — 
 is compounded of the two words bel, ' a 
 mouth', and Peipfce or Peippoe, the 
 plural of Peappac or Peappao, which, 
 according to O'Brien and O'Reilly, sig- 
 nifies ' a pool of water remaining on the 
 strand at low tide' (Irish Diet, sub voce) ; 
 and, in a secondary sense, seems to cor- 
 respond to the Latin Vadicm, and the 
 
 Saxon Ford. St. George's Church, in 
 Belfast, occupies the site of an earlier re- 
 ligious edifice, which is represented in an 
 old map of the town, preserved in the 
 Library of Lambeth. Near this was one 
 of the fords by which the Lagan was com- 
 monly crossed, which, being the lowest 
 down on the river, and therefore the most 
 convenient for the inhabitants on either 
 side of Belfast Lough, was called, par 
 excellence, the Ford. Thus, "William de 
 Burgo, Earl of Ulster, who was assassina- 
 ted at this spot, June 6th, 1333, held, at 
 the time of his death, " apud le Ford, ma- 
 nium in quo est unum castrum prostra- 
 tum per guerram Johannis de Logan ". — 
 Inquis. P. M., 7 Ed. UL No. 39. Tur. 
 Lond. Another ford lay higher up on the 
 river, at Stranmillis (ppuran-milip), and 
 near to it was one of the six chapels of 
 Belfast, called ' Killpatrick de Maloane'. — 
 Terrier. 
 
 ^ Henry'' s-town There is no part of 
 
 Shankill parish so called at present : the 
 nearest place which bears this name, is 
 the townland of Ballyhenry, inCarnmoney 
 parish Ord. Survey, s. 51. 
 
 s Westone Probably Bally-vaston, or, 
 
8 
 (Dunens Dvoces.) 
 
 ^Vicariade Maynblossce — xl-s decia-iiij -s. 
 
 ^ Sm^ taxacols — xxviij • ti — Inde decla • Ivj - s. 
 
 Decanat^ de Blaethvvyco. 
 
 ^Eccia de Dramcro iiij-m^'r decia-v-s-iiij -d. 
 
 ^Eccia de Rencady xl-s decia-iiij -s. 
 
 ^^Eccia 
 
 as it is locally called, ' Ballyveston ' ; a and continued to enjoy the rectory till 
 
 townland lying at the northern extremity the Dissolution : " Ecclesia Sti. Johanis 
 
 of the parish of Shankill Ord. Survey, de Moyvelusk ; the Prior of St. John's of 
 
 s. 56, In several Inquisitions and Visi- Jerusalem is rector". — Terrier. 
 tation Books, the ' Capella de Ballivaston' The name seems to be derived from muj 
 is mentioned as a sub-denomination of 6hlopji;ai6, 'the plain of Blosgaidh ' : the 
 Shankill. It might have been attached latter word being a surname of one of the 
 to the old castle which stood in High- O'Kanes of Keenaght, in the county of 
 Town, and was described in 1621, as "do- Derry, and the origin of the family name 
 mus lapidosa ruinosa, vocata Bally vas- M'Closkey. — See Annals of the Four Mas- 
 tony". — Ul. Inq., No. 7, Jac. I. Antrim. ters, A. D. 1 196. The churchyard of Mo- 
 The site is now unknown. lusk is a favourite burying-place ; but, a 
 ' Maynblossce — Now the grange of Mo- portion of the foundations, and the font, 
 lusk, containing 928 acres — Ord. Survey, are all that remain of its ancient edifice. 
 s. ^6. Antrim. The Rectory of ' Moy- ^ Bktethicyc — This deanry is called in 
 vliske' was found, in 1605, to extend to the Terrier, "the Deanry of Balla\'ico " ; 
 seven townlands. — Antrim Inquis. MS. and in the Ul. Vis. Book, " Decanatus de 
 By the charter of James I., it was made a Ballivico" ; and corresponds to the modern 
 member of the corps of the Deanry of rural deanry of Newtownards. The ear- 
 Connor, under the name ' Mablayske '. liest examples of the name, which the Edi- 
 In the present case, the vicarage only is tor has met with, are in the Eecords of the 
 taxed, inasmuch as the rectory, which was first English settlers in Down. 
 
 appropriate to the Knights of St. John, A. D. 1226-7 " Recepit Robertus de 
 
 Avas exempt, agreeably with the instruc- Vallibus in Hibernia, per inquisitionem 
 
 tions contained in Pope Nicholas IV.'s factam per G. de Mariscis, Justic. Hiber- 
 
 Bull of 1 291. In 1231, that fraternity nige, — de Balliva de 5/«^/^eir2C, cxxxv. lib. 
 
 was confirmed in its possessions of ' Many- x. s." — Rot. CI. 1 1 Hen. HI. m. 24, dors. ; 
 
 bios' (Maynblos ?), by Pope Innocent HI, Tur. Lond. 
 
9 
 (Diocese of Down.) 
 
 The vicarage of Maynblossce'- 405. Tenth, 4s. 
 
 Sum of the Taxation, £28. — Tenth thereof, ^6s. 
 
 Dcanry of Blaethvvyc''. 
 
 The church of Dramcro^ 4 marks. — Tenth, 55. 4^. 
 
 The church of Rencady^ 40s. Tenth, 4s. 
 
 The 
 
 A. D. 1279. 'Willielmus de Blathe- conjecture that the name under conside- 
 
 wico ' was a juror at an Inquisition held on ration was derived from the Irish ' Bla;th ', 
 
 the death of John Byset. — Inq. P. M., which is a contraction of baile ara 'the 
 
 7 Ed. I., No. 28 (6 Ed. I. in Calendar), town of the ford ', and is at this day used 
 
 Tur. Lond. by the natives, who, for instance, call 
 
 A. D. 13 34 An Inquisition was held Athboy and Athlone by the names ' Bl^th- 
 
 on the estates which William de Burgo, boy' and ' Blaathlone'. 
 
 Earl of Ulster, was possessed of, in the " Drawcra.— Now Drumreagh (t)puim 
 
 'Comitatus Nove ViUe de Blathewyc in r'ti^ac 'the grey ridge'), a large town- 
 
 Ultonia': and from the recital of them, it land in the west of Killinchy parish. — 
 
 may be gathered that that county em- Ord. Survey, s. 1 6, Down. ' Drumcreagh ', 
 
 braced that portion of the county of Down Ul. Inq. Nos. 75, 104, 109, Car. I. Down, 
 
 comprehended in the modern baronies of It contains an ancient burial-place, called 
 
 Lower Castlereagh, Ards, and part of Duf- ' KHlkeeran ', almost exclusively used by 
 
 ferin Inq. P. M., 7 Ed. III. No. 39. Tur. Koman Catholics of the district, and prin- 
 
 Lond. cipally by the Murrys, an ancient family, 
 
 A. D. 1345. Edward III. appointed whose habitant is the adjacent townlands 
 
 'Robertus de Halywode' to be sheriff of Carrickmannon, Magherascouse, Money- 
 
 the 'Comitatus Nove Villede£/aa7?co' — greer, and Eavarra. All traces of the 
 
 Cal. Cane. Hib., p. 48 b. church have disappeared. 
 
 From these authorities it appears that "= Rencady. — Now Ringhaddy, a portion 
 
 Blathewic was the name of the district of Killinchy parish, lying in Strangford 
 
 around Newtownards ; and the position Lough. — Ord. Survey, s. 17. It was origi- 
 
 of that town, at the head of Strangford nally an island, but having been from time 
 
 Lough, which formerly flowed up to the immemorial united to the mainland by a 
 
 walls, yet was fordable, at low water, for causeway, it presents on the map the ap- 
 
 a considerable distance down, favours the pearance of an elongated neck of land, 
 
 c 
 
lO 
 
 (Dunens Dyoces.) 
 
 ^Eccia de Kilvvvinchi — 
 
 ^^Eccia de Nedrum 
 
 ^Eccia de Kilmode 
 
 ^Capella de Rogereston— 
 ^ Capella de Castelbegf — 
 ^Eccia de Dondafiiald — 
 ^Eccia de Corgrippe 
 
 XX -s 
 
 m^r- 
 
 - decla-ij-s. 
 
 - decla-ix-s-iiij 
 
 - decia-ij -s. 
 
 - dec'ia-iiij-s. 
 
 ij • m^rd decla • iij • s • iiij 
 
 vj • m^r — 
 
 XX -s 
 
 xl-s 
 
 running 
 
 northwards into the Lough. 
 Hence, probably, the name pinn-paoa 
 ' the long point'. On it remain the 
 walls of the church, measuring 45 by 
 24 feet. 
 
 ^ Kilwyinchi. — Now Killinchy (ciU 
 inpe, ' the church of the island'), a parish 
 church. — Ord. Survey, s. 17. It was oc- 
 casionally called ' Killinchenemaghery' 
 (ciU inpe an macaipe, 'island-church of 
 the plain '), to distinguish it from Killin- and whose death is thus recorded by the 
 chinekille (ciU inpe nci coiUe, 'island- faithful Tigernach : — 
 
 — decia- vilj -s. 
 
 — XX -s decia -ij-s. 
 
 ^Capella 
 
 ' Nedrum Now Mahee Island, a por- 
 tion of TuUynakill parish, which lies in 
 Strangford Lough. — Ord. Survey, s. 17. 
 It is the 'nOenopnim' of the Irish An- 
 nals ; the ' Ncndrum ' of the Acta Sancto- 
 rum ; and the ' Neddrum ' of the Monasti- 
 con. The name now in use is a corruption 
 of imp TTlocaoi (Inis-Mochee), and is de- 
 rived from St, Mochaoi, who was the 
 founder and patron saint of the church, 
 
 church of the wood'), which is now called 
 ' Killinchy in the woods ', and is a town- 
 land belonging to Killyleagh parish — 
 Ord. Survey, s. 23. The parish church 
 stands in the old churchyard, " seated on a 
 high Hill, and therefore by some called, in 
 
 A. C. 497, mochae nOenopoma quieuir. 
 ' !Mochae of Nendruin rested '. 
 
 The remains of a Round Tower, and, to 
 the S. E., the foundations of the church, 
 measuring 54 feet 4 inches by 22 feet 
 
 jest, the Visible Church''\ — Harris, Down, 4 inches, encompassed by the traces of a 
 p. 76. The present inaptitude of the triple cas^e/, are to be seen at the western 
 name ' island-church ' may be accounted extremity of the island. For further de- 
 
 fer, either by supposing that the sur- 
 rounding lands were formerly covered 
 with water ; or, by taking the word imp 
 in the extended sense, which the Latin 
 ' insula', and its English derivative 
 sulate', admit of. 
 
 in- 
 
 tails, the reader is referred to the ' Pa- 
 pers of the Do^vn, Connor, and Dromore 
 Church Architecture Society' (Belfast, 
 1845), ^^ which, for the first time, the 
 site of this ancient church is accurately 
 determined — See Appendix. 
 
1 1 
 
 (Diocese of Down.) 
 
 The church of Kilvvyinchi'* — 
 
 The church of Nedrunf 
 
 The church of Kilmode^ 
 
 The chapel of Rogerestone^ - 
 The chapel of Castelbeg" — 
 The church of Dondafnald' - 
 The church of Corgrippe" — 
 
 •" Kilmode. — Now Kilmood parish. — 
 Ord. Survey, s. 1 6. At the Dissolution, 
 the rectory of this parish Avas appropriate 
 to the Abbey of Comber, and was called 
 ' Kilniode-managh', — Ul. Inq., No. 2. 
 Jac. I., and 75 Car. I. DoAvn. The pre- 
 sent church was erected on the site of the 
 old, about twenty-five years ago. 
 
 8 Rogerestone. — The exact spot where 
 this chapel stood is unknown. In the 
 Terrier, the " Monasterium de Cumber " 
 is succeeded by the " Ecclesia Villce Ro- 
 gerV\ with the observation, — "i. e. the 
 Parish Church". In the Ul. Vis. Book, 
 under the head " Capella de Villa Ro- 
 geri", is the note "people repayre to the reagh. — Ord. Survey, s. 5. " Capella de 
 
 206'. Tenth, 2s. 
 
 7 marks — Tenth, 95. ^d. 
 
 20s. Tenth, 2S. 
 
 405. Tenth, 45. 
 
 22 marks — Tenth, 35. 4d. 
 6 marks — Tenth, 85. 
 2CS. Tenth, 2s. 
 
 The 
 
 Irish, is cairlean beaj, 'little castle', 
 and is sometimes written ' Ballecaslan- 
 bege'. — Ul. Inq., No. 2, Jac. I., and 
 104, Car. I., Down. 
 
 '^Dondafnald. — Now Dundonald (oun 
 tDorhnaiU, 'the fortress of Donald'), a 
 parish which derives its name from a 
 large earthen fort which stands beside 
 the church. In the modern parish of 
 Dundonald have merged the ancient cha- 
 pelries of Castlebeg and Ballyoran. — Ord. 
 Survey, s. 5. 
 
 ^ Corgrippe. — Now Gortgrib, a small 
 townland in that part of Knock-Breda 
 union, which is situate in Lower Castle- 
 
 next which is Cumber". As the name 
 Cumber does not occur in the Taxation, 
 the chapelry of Ballyroger or Rogerstown, 
 may be supposed to represent a part, at 
 least, of that parish. — See Apjiendix. 
 
 ^ Castelbeg. — Now Castlebeg, a small 
 townland, in a tongue of Dundonald pa- 
 rish, which comes within about half a 
 mile of the town of Comber.— Ord. Sur- 
 
 Corcrib, a mensal, hath two townlands' 
 
 Terrier. " The great and small Tithes, 
 
 and the Ecclesiastical Book-money for 
 Christenings (Burials, Marriages, and 
 Easterings excepted) belonging to the 
 Lands of Gortgrill [-gribb], in the pa- 
 rish of Knock and barony of Castle- 
 reagh", held under the See of Down by 
 the Vicars of Armagh, at fifteen shil- 
 
 vey, s. 10. "Capella de Castlebege is the lings per annum. — Report of Eccl. Com- 
 
 Archdeacon's" Terrier. The name, in miss., 1833, p. 1 10. There are no remains 
 
 C2 
 
12 
 
 (Dunens Dyoces.) 
 
 ^Capella de Dundela xl-s dec'ia-iiij -s. 
 
 ^^Eccia de Balymichgan iiij • m^r decia- v • s • iiij • ct, 
 
 ^Eccia de Halivvode vj-m^r decla-viij-s. 
 
 ^Eccia de Cragger x-m^r detia-j -m^r. 
 
 ^^Eccia de Bangowre xxviij • ni^r ij • m^r • x • s • viij • d. 
 
 ^^Eccia de Neuton xiiij-m^r — decla-xviij-s-viij-d. 
 
 ^ Vicaria eiusdem iiij • m^r — decla • v • s • iiij • d. 
 
 ^ Eccia 
 
 of ii church; but in a portion of a field, atownland in the south of Hollywood pa- 
 
 calied 'the Graveyard', some human re- rish. — Ord. Survey, s. 5. There are no 
 
 mains have been found. remains of the church or churchyard now 
 
 ' Dundela. — This name is now obsolete, to be seen, but it is known that they oc- 
 l)ut its position in the Taxation cor- cupied the ground at present under the or- 
 responds exactly to that of the A'wocA;- chard which belongs to ' the Moat House'. 
 church in more modern documents. In At the building of this house, several of 
 the seventeenth century, this parish was the ancient toml)stones were employed for 
 known by the name of ' Knock-collum- architectural purposes ; and one, which 
 kill', and was a distinct benefice; but it was set in the wall of an adjacent office- 
 is now incorporated with Breda, and the house, is still exposed to view. At the 
 exact boundary between the two has been Dissolution, the rectory of Ballymeaghan, 
 forgotten. The ruins of the church, mea- extending to three townlands, was appro- 
 suring 44 feet 4 inches by 18^ feet, are priate to the abbey of Bangor — Ul. Incj., 
 pleasingly situated on an eminence which No. 2, Jac. I. Down. 
 
 commands an extensive view of Belfast, " Haliicode. — Now Hollywood parish. — 
 
 and the surrounding country. At a short Ord. Survey, s. i . The ancient church, 
 
 distance stands a fine earthen fort, from which is a building of great age, measur- 
 
 whicb, it is likely, the parish took the ing 78 by 24 feet, was used, till lately, for 
 
 name 'Dun-dela'. Near to it is also the divine worship. Instead of the English 
 
 site of Castle-reagh ( caiplean piuBac name, the iorva Sanctus Boscus is some- 
 
 'grey castle'), which was a residence of times met with. A. D. 1210, July 29, King 
 
 a branch of the O'Neills, and gave name John halted ' apud Sanctum Boscum ', 
 
 to the barony. when on his way from Carrickfergus to 
 
 "^Balymichgan. — Called in the Terrier Downpatrick. — Rot.de Prestito, 12 Jo- 
 
 ' Bailie OMeachan' (baile Ui niiODCum ban. Tur. Lond. A. D. 12 17, Jordanus 
 
 ' O'Meehan's-town'); now Ballymaghan, de Saukevill was confirmed by Henry HI. 
 
13 
 
 (Diocese of Down.) 
 
 The chapel of Dunclela' 
 
 The church of Balymichgan^ 
 The church of Halivvode" — 
 
 The church of Cragger^ 
 
 The church of Bangovvre'' — 
 The church of Neutone'* — 
 The vicarage of the same — 
 
 405. 
 
 4 marks — 
 6 marks — 
 1 o marks - 
 28 marks - 
 14 marks - 
 4 marks — 
 
 Tenth, 4s. 
 Tenth, 5s. 4d. 
 Tenth, 8s. 
 Tenth, i mark. 
 2 marks, los.Sd. 
 Tenth, 185. Sd. 
 Tenth, 56-. 4f/. 
 
 The 
 
 in the possession of his lands ' de Sancto 
 Bosco'. — Hardy's Rot. Claus., vol. i. p. 
 304 b. At the Dissolution, a small reli- 
 gious house of the Third Order of St. 
 Francis existed here : it was dependent 
 on the Franciscan abbey of Bangor, and 
 
 was endowed with five towulands Mo- 
 
 nast. Hib., p. 121. Terrier. 
 
 ° Cragger — Now Craigavad (cpaij a 
 BaiD 'the rock of the boat'), a townland 
 in the north part of Hollywood parish, 
 
 and bordering on Belfast Lough Ord. 
 
 Survey, s. i. At the Dissolution, this 
 church, with the tithes of five adjacent 
 townlands, was appropriate to the abbey 
 of Bangor. The foundations of the church, 
 measuring about 48 by 18 feet, still re- 
 main in a rocky field, which lies between 
 Craigavad House and the Lough ; and 
 beside them stands a solitary tombstone, 
 sacred to the memory of James M'Gee, 
 who died in 17 14. 
 
 P Bangowre. — Now Bangor parish 
 
 Ord. Survey, s. 2. On the present site 
 stood the ancient church of Beanchuir or 
 Banchor, the foundation of which is thus 
 
 recorded by the Four Masters, at the year 
 
 Gacclup 6enDchaip 00 pocuj. la 
 Cornwall 6enGchaip. 
 
 ' Ecclesia Bennchorensis fundata per 
 Comgallum Benchorensem '. 
 
 Rer- Hib. Script., vol. iii. p. 157. 
 
 Though Bangor is placed by the Taxation 
 in the rural deanry of Blaethwyc, it has 
 been, from the earliest pei'iod, regarded as 
 belonging to the civil territory of the 
 Ards. Thus, the Book of Armagh re- 
 lates that " Comgallus constituit mag- 
 num monasterium quod vocatur Benn- 
 chor, in regione, quae dicitur Altitudo Ulto- 
 
 ram'''' Fleming, Collectan., p. 305, col. 2. 
 
 ^Newtone. — Now Newtownards parish. 
 — Ord. Survey, ss. 5 and 6. The name is 
 sometimes met with in the Latin form. 
 Villa Nova ; and sometimes in the Irish, 
 Ballynoe ( baile nua) : and Ballylisne- 
 van also is found as an ' alias' for it. — Ul. 
 Inq., No. 109, Car. I., Down.-De Bur- 
 go, Hib. Domin,, p. 241. The rectory 
 was appropriate to the Dominican priory 
 
ij • m^rdi — decla • iij • s • iiij • d. 
 
 14 
 (Dunens Dyoces.) 
 
 ^Eccla de Moneketofi — 
 
 ^Eccia de Waiilantoii vj-m^r decia- viij -s. 
 
 ^ Capella de Thalascheagh - ij • m^rdi — decla • iij • s • iij • d. 
 
 <^Eccia de Bradach xx-s decia -ij-s. 
 
 Hospii. ^Eccia de Haytona iiij-m*r decia-v-s-iiij -d. 
 
 ^Eccia 
 
 which was founded in this town, in the 
 year 1 244, by Walter de Burgo, Earl of 
 Ulster. This house is styled by the Au- 
 thor of the Hibernia Dominica " Coeno- 
 bium Sancti Columbse". — p. 241. The 
 present court-house is supposed to oc- 
 cupy its site. 
 
 ^ Moneketone. — In Irish, 6aile na ma- 
 nac, ' Monks-town'. About a mile N. E. 
 of the town of Newtownards stood the ab- 
 bey church of Moville (TTIaj bile), which, 
 though founded so early as the sixth cen- 
 tury, and occupying a prominent place in 
 the Irish Annals, is not noticed, at least 
 under its usual name, in the Taxation. Its 
 ruins are 107 feet in length, and its ceme- 
 tery is the parish burial-ground of New- 
 townards. — Ord. Survey, s. 6. Again, 
 about a mile to the N. W. of the town, is 
 the toAvnland Milecross, wherein is a very 
 ancient burying-ground, called ' Killy- 
 suggan', which formerly contained a small 
 chapel. Further on, in the same direction, 
 are the townlands Ballyrogan and Kil- 
 larn, which are returned in the Inqui- 
 sitions as belonging to a chapel called 
 'Killtonga'. — Ul. Inq., No. 2, Jac. I., 
 75, 109, Car. I. Montgom. MS., p. 318. 
 
 This chapel is called ' Killarneid ' in the 
 Terrier, and Uh Vis. Book. Again, still 
 more to the N. W., but in the same pa- 
 rish, is the townland Craigogantlet, which 
 formerly belonged to a chapel called ' Car- 
 
 rigogantelan ' Ul. Inq., No. 2, Jac. I. 
 
 Ord. Survey, ss. i and 5. The name 
 ' Monkstown' being now lost, it is hard 
 to say to which of these churches it be- 
 longed. 
 
 * Waueraiitone. — Now Ballyoran, a 
 townland in the parish of Dundonald. — 
 Ord. Survey, s. 5. At the Dissolution, 
 the rectory of ' Ballyoran ', extending 
 over the four townlands, which lie in the 
 S. E. part of Dundonald parish, was ap- 
 propriate to the abbey of Inch. — Ul. Inq., 
 No. 2, Jac. I., Down. — Terrier. In the 
 year 1334, it was found by Inquisition 
 that William de Burgo possessed certain 
 lands in thecounty of Newtown ofBleeth- 
 wyc, called ' Wauerantone'' , producing the 
 annual sum of iio shillings. This name 
 is partly an English form of the Irish 
 baile an uapain, which signifies ' the 
 town of the cold spring'. '■'■Huaran enim, 
 sive Fuaran, idem Hibernis sonat quod 
 fons vivus, sive viva vel frigida aqua e 
 
'5 
 
 (Diocese of Down.) 
 
 The church of Moneketone"^ — 21 marks - Tenth, 3s. 4d. 
 
 The church of Wauerantone^ - 6 marks — Tenth, 85. 
 
 The chapel of Thalascheagh' — 2^ marks — Tenth, 35. yl. 
 
 The church of Bradach" 205. Tenth, 2s. 
 
 Hospit{ The church of Haytona'' 4 marks — Tenth, 55. ^d. 
 
 The 
 
 terra scaturiens". — Vita Trip. S. Patr. II., and to call in the assistance of Odo Fla- 
 
 cap. 51, Trias Thaum., p. 136, col. 2, vus ONeyll [i. e. Aodh Buidhe II., Chief 
 
 ^ Thalascheagh. — This name, which has of Clanneboy, who was subsequently slain 
 been changed from culac pjeacac ('the in 1444], in case the secular arm should 
 hill of the brier') to ' Ballyskeagh ', is be required — Reg. Prene, p. 41. 
 borne by two townlands called High " Hayiona. — Now Ballyhay, a townland 
 and Low Ballyskeagh, which lie in the in the west of the parish of Donaghadee, 
 N. W. part of Newtownards parish. — where it joins Bangor. — Ord. Survey, 
 Ord. Survey, s. 5. In 1622, the ' Capel- s. 6. "Ballyhayes lyeinge in the Pa- 
 la de Ballenaskey' was returned as in rish of Donaghdee, in spiritualities and 
 ruin. — Ul. Vis. The tithes of these two temporalities, parcell of the late dis- 
 townlands belong to the See of Down, solved Priorye of St. John's of Jerusa- 
 and were reported, in 1833, to be leased lem". — Inquis., 13 Oct. 1623, MS. " Bal- 
 by the Bishop to Lord Londonderry, at lyheyes, noe church knowne". — UL Vis., 
 a reserved rent of £2 8s. 2d.:, and re- 1622. 
 
 newal fine of £6 6s Report, Eccles. A. D. 1337. — Edward III. confirmed 
 
 Commiss., p. 108. to the Hospital of St. John the Baptist, 
 
 " Bradach. — Now Newtown-Breda. A of Down, certain possessions which had 
 
 portion of the walls of the old church re- been granted, about the year 1290, to 
 
 mains within the original cemetery, which John the Prior ; and among them, " unam 
 
 is enclosed by Belvoir Park. — Ord. Sur- acram terrge in le Garthe cum advoca- 
 
 vey, s. 9. clone Ecclesije beatge Marias del Hay- 
 
 A. D. 1442. — A dispute having arisen ton". — Rot. Pat., 10 Ed. III., m. 35, pt. 2. 
 
 between Nellanus M'^Malawg and Thomas Tur. Lond. This record, and the fact 
 
 O Meaig, respecting the right to the rec- that the church is charged with a Tenth, 
 
 tory of Breadac, the Primate decided in shew that the marginal note 'Hospital' 
 
 favour of the former, and directed Patri- has reference to the Hospital of St. John 
 
 cius Pallidus Ogallmyrre, a principal pa- of Do^vn, which was a house of Crouched 
 
 rishioner, to secure him in the possession, Friars, rather than to the military frater- 
 
(Dunens Dyoces.) 
 
 ^ Eccia de Balim'^gehan 
 
 ^ Sm* taxaconis — 
 
 i6 
 
 xx-s 
 
 — decla-ij-s. 
 
 [cla • vij • ti • X • s • viij • d. 
 Ixxv-ti-vj-s-viij-d Uiide de- 
 
 Decanat^ de Ardo. 
 
 X • m r 
 
 '^ Eccia de Dofnachti 
 
 ^Vicaria eiusdem cu capella 
 
 Sci Kolmani vij-m^r- 
 
 nity of the Hospitallers, whose posses- 
 sions were exempt from charge. 
 
 "' Balimacgehan Now Ballymagauhy, 
 
 or, as it is marked on Williamson's map, 
 Ballymageehan, a townland in the pa- 
 rish of Comber Ord. Survey, s. lo. At 
 
 the Dissolution, the rectory of Ballyma- 
 keaghan, embracing the nine townlands 
 which form the S. E. portion of the mo- 
 dern parish of Comber, was appropriate to 
 
 the abbey of Comber Ul. Inq. Nos. 75, 
 
 109, Car. I., Down. All traces of the 
 church have disaj)peared. 
 
 * Ard. — This deanry was founded on 
 the ancient civil territory, called by the 
 Irish Qipo Ulao, or, as the name is La- 
 tinized in the Books of Armagh and Kil- 
 kenny, Altitudo Ultoruni. — Fleming, Col- 
 lectan., p. 305, col. 2. Lib. Kilkennige, 
 fol. 91, col. 2. In Anglo-Norman records, 
 it appears in the form Art or Li' Arte. — 
 Monast. Angl., vol. ii. pp. 1019-1021. In 
 early times, the Ards of Ulster formed a 
 petty principality : thus, A. D. 642, Fer- 
 doman, son of Imoman, was styled — 
 
 - decla-j-m^r. 
 
 - decia-ix-s-iiij-d. 
 
 ^Ecc'ia 
 
 T?i^ ciipm-Depj QipD Ulab, 
 
 ' The red-weaponed king of the Ards of 
 
 Ulidia' Battle of Magh Rath, pp. 230, 
 
 231. 
 
 An ancient record of the diocese of Down 
 states, that in the year 1034, " Cathalan 
 M'^Muriedaig regnavit in Ardo ". — Cod. 
 Clarend., vol, xlvi. p. 97, No. 4793. Brit. 
 Mus. Soon after the English invasion, 
 the Ardes were placed under a new juris- 
 diction : A. D. 1226-7, Robert de Val- 
 libus received " de Balliva del Art, — 
 cxvii . lib. & XX . d'\— Rot. CI. 2 Hen. III. 
 m. 24, dors. Tur. Lond. And this, to- 
 gether with the ' Balliva de Blathewic', 
 formed the shire sometimes called ' Comi- 
 tatus de Arde', and sometimes ' Comita- 
 
 tus Novae Villae' Cal. Cane. Hib., pp. 
 
 144, 155 b, 237. The territory of the 
 Ards (which was somewhat more exten- 
 sive than the rurcd deanry so called, as it 
 contained Bangor and Newtown,) is ex- 
 actly represented by the modern baronies 
 of Upper and Lower Ards. 
 
(Diocese of Down.) 
 
 17 
 
 The church of Ballmacgehan" 20s. 
 
 Tenth, 2s. 
 
 [£7 I OS. Sd. 
 Sum of the Taxation — £y^ 6s. Sd. — Tenth whereof, 
 
 Deanry of Ard^. 
 
 The church of Dofnachti"- 
 
 10 marks - Tenth, 1 mark. 
 
 The vicarage*^ of the same, with 
 
 the chapel of St. Kohnan'' — 7 marks — 
 
 Tenth, gs. 4^/. 
 The 
 
 *• Dofnackli. — Now Donaghadee. — Ord. 
 Survey, s. 3. The parish church occupies 
 the ancient site. It stands near a large 
 earthen fort, from which some say the 
 name is derived. The spelling in the 
 Taxation looks as if the word was formed 
 from Domnac bir, 'the church of loss'. 
 In a record of the year 1524, it is called 
 ' Donaghdy th '. — Reg. Crom., p. 452. In 
 the seventeenth century, it was generally 
 written ' Donaghdee'. In a graveyard, at 
 the sea side, about a mile south of the 
 town, were " the ruins of a small church, 
 called Templepatrick, where it is said St. 
 Patrick first landed in Ireland; there is 
 his well also, and other traditions among 
 the Irish concerning it". — Montgomery 
 MSS., p. 311. Ord. Survey, s. 7. 
 
 ' Vicarage The rectory was appro- 
 priate to the Black Abbey in the Ards. 
 In 1356, it was purchased by Primate 
 Richard Fitz-Ralph, and appended to the 
 See of Armagh, with which it continued 
 to be connected, till the present Lord 
 Primate munificently endowed the vica- 
 
 rage of Donaghadee with the rectorial 
 tithes, and thereout formed two distinct 
 benefices. 
 
 ^ Kolman Colgan observes that the 
 
 names Colman and Colmoc are diminu- 
 tives of Colum, 'a dove'; and that the 
 latter, Avith the prefix mo, 'my', denot- 
 ing affection or respect, becomes ' Mo- 
 cholmoc' — Act. SS., p. 155, col. i, n. 3. 
 These three names are indifferently ap- 
 plied by the Irish to the same individual ; 
 and hence this chapel, here called after 
 St. Kolman, is in other documents styled 
 Killcolmock (ctll Cholmoc, 'the church 
 of Colmoc'). At the Dissolution, it was 
 appropriate to the Cistercian nunnery of 
 Downpatrick. In 1622, the chapel was in 
 
 ruins Ul. Vis. There is not a vestige 
 
 of the building or cemetery remaining to 
 mark its site ; and the name is completely 
 forgotten in the neighbourhood. Judging, 
 however, from the names of the townlands 
 which constituted this chapelry, viz. : Bal- 
 lybutler, Ballyfrenish, Ballyuttagee, Bal- 
 lygrangagh, and Carrowchalleduff ; and 
 
i8 
 
 (Dunens Dyoces.) 
 
 ^^Eccia de Ralfetona 
 
 ^Vicaria elusdem 
 
 ^Eccia Sci Andree - 
 ^Eccia Sci Korean y- 
 ^Eccia de Inyseargi- 
 
 a. <C> 
 
 '^ Vicar eiusdm 
 
 ^"^Eccia Sci Medumy 
 
 vj-m*r - 
 ij -m^r — 
 iiij -m^r- 
 ij • m^r — 
 viij -m^r 
 xl-s — 
 
 iiij-m^r- 
 
 vuj.s. 
 ij.s-viij.d. 
 decla-v-s-iiij-d. 
 ij • s • viij • d. 
 dee'ia-x-s-viij -d. 
 deela'iilj -s. 
 V • s • iiij • d. 
 
 ^Eccia 
 
 from tlie circumstance that, in one enu- 
 meration of them, Killchalmoc is substi- 
 tuted for Ballygrangagh, it may be pre- 
 sumed that the chapel stood in the modern 
 ' Grangee ', and that in situation and ex- 
 tent the chapelry nearly corresponded to 
 
 the modern parish of Carrowdore Ul. 
 
 Inq., No. 2, Jac. I.; 75, 104, Car. I Inq. 
 
 1623, MS. — Ord. Survey, ss. 6, 7. 
 
 ^ Ralfetona. — Probably Ballyrolly, a 
 townland in the S. E. part of Donaghadee 
 
 parish Ord. Survey, s. 7. " Ecclesia 
 
 de Ballyerollie. Rectoria, Nuns of Downe, 
 hath a Towne". — Terrier. In 1622 the 
 church was in ruins. — Ul. Vis. The ad- 
 vowson was granted, in 1571, by Queen 
 Elizabeth, to Sir Thomas Smith. — Ul. 
 Inq., No. 2, Jac. I. — Inq. 1623, MS. Some 
 sepulchral remains have been found on 
 the supposed site. 
 
 f St. Andrew. — Now Black Abbey, a 
 townland at the S. E. of the parish of Grey 
 Abbey. — Ord. Survey, s. 12. Black Ab- 
 bey was anciently styled ' the Priory of 
 St. Andrew in the Ardes'. — Mon. Angl., 
 vol. ii. p. 10 19. Its site is correctly 
 marked on the Ordnance map; but the 
 
 last remains of the building have lately 
 been cleared away, and the place they 
 occupied assimilated to the surrounding 
 land. The only surviving relique of the 
 establishment is an ancient tombstone 
 which has been removed to Grey Abbey. 
 — See Appendix. 
 
 ^ Korcany. — It is as uncertain what 
 saint as what church is here intended. 
 In the Irish Calendar, at the 7th of Ja- 
 nuary, there is a St. Curcneus or Corcanus 
 of Kill-feacle in Muscrighe Breogan (the 
 modern barony of Clanwilliam, in the 
 county of Tipperary) ; and, at the 3rd of 
 November, a St. Corcanus of Dorena- 
 bflann (now Derryniflyn, a small parish, 
 about two mUes N. W. of Killenaule, in 
 the same county). — Trias Thaum., pp. 
 •156,0. I ; 186, c. I. 
 
 There is an island of twenty-five acres, 
 in Strangford Lough, accessible on foot at 
 low tide, opposite to and in the parish of 
 Grey Abbey; it is called ' Chapel Island', 
 and at the southern extremity of it are 
 the ruins of a small church Ord. Sur- 
 vey, s. 1 1 . It lies about two miles due 
 west of Black Abbey. Its ancient name 
 
^9 
 (Diocese of Down.) 
 
 The church of Ralfetona^ 6 marks — 85. 
 
 ^ The vicarage of the same 2 marks — is. Sd. 
 
 The church of St. Andrew^ — 4 marks — Tenth, 55. 4.d. 
 
 The church of St. Korcany^ — 2 marks — 2S. Sd. 
 
 The church of Inyscargi" 8 marks — Tenth, los.Sd. 
 
 The vicarage of the same 4.0s. Tenth, 4s. 
 
 The church of St. Medumy' — 4 marks — 55. 4d. 
 
 The 
 
 is long lost, as the spot is marked ' Church unknown. St. Dunnius, whom Jocelin 
 Island' inPetty's map. Also, in the same (cap. 32) represents as placed by St. Pa- 
 parish, at the eastern edge of Mount trick over the abbey of Saul, is called 
 Stewart demesne, are the ruins of an an- ' Moduinus' in one of the Martyrologies. — 
 
 cient church, measuring 51 by 247 feet Mar. Gorman in Colgan, Tr. Th., p. 100, 
 
 Ord. Survey, s. 11. This building was c. 2. The name of St. Modomnocus occurs 
 
 called ' Templecrone'. in the Calendar at the 1 3 th of February. — 
 
 •* Inyscargi Now Inishargy parish Act. SS., p. 326. About a furlong east 
 
 Ord. Survey, s. 18. A. D. 1213. — 'In- of the village of Kircubbin, in a place 
 chemekargi'. — Epist. Innoc. III., vol. ii. called ' the Chapel-field', formerly stood 
 p. 655. ' Iniskarrek '. — Reg. Crom., p. a small church which gave its name to 
 452. The original name seems to have the village. To it belonged the town- 
 been inif caippaije ' the island of the lands Killcooby alias Kilcubyn, and Bal- 
 rock'. The ruins of the church stand on lymullen: the latter of which, though still 
 high ground, surrounded, not by water, so called, is not noticed by the Ord. Sur- 
 but by cultivated fields. It appears, how- vey, but included in the townland Inis- 
 ever, that within the last two centuries hargy. — s. 1 8. These lands were granted, 
 human industry has converted the morass about the year 1 300, by William de Maun- 
 into arable land, and the island into a deville, to the prior of the Hospital of St. 
 hill; for in a roll of the reign of James I., John the Baptist in Down, under the de- 
 mention is made of "an island or lough signation " Cubynhillis in tenemento de 
 
 called Inischargy, and eight townlands Ynchemkargy" Rot. Pat., 10 Ed. III., 
 
 about or near said island". — Cal. Cane. p. 2, m. 35. Tur. Lond. To which religious 
 
 Hib., vol. ii. p. 39. The rectory was ap- house the chapelry of Killcubin continued 
 
 propriate to Black Abbey. to be appropriate until the Dissolution. — 
 
 ' Medumy — Church and patron saint Ul. Inq. ; Terrier ; &c. 
 
 D 2 
 
20 
 
 (Dunens Dyoces.) 
 
 ^Eccia de Talbetona 
 
 ^ Vicarla eiusdem 
 
 ^Eccia de Rone 
 
 ^Vicaria eiusdem 
 
 ^Capella de Grangia 
 
 ^ Eccia de Ardkene cu ca- 
 pella de Moyndele 
 
 viij • mh' — 
 
 xl-s 
 
 ij • m^r 
 
 ij • m^r 
 
 ij • m^r 
 
 X • m^r 
 
 X • s • viij • d. 
 decla • iiij • s. 
 decia • ij • s • viij • d. 
 decla-ij-s-viij -d. 
 decla -ij • s -viij-d. 
 
 ^Eccia de Ardquienne vj-m^r 
 
 j-m^r. 
 viij-s. 
 
 ^Ecc'ia 
 
 " Talbetona. — Now Ballyhalbert parish. 
 — Ord. Survey, s. i8. " Ballyhalbert o/ms 
 Talbotstown". — Ul. Inq., No. 104, Car. I., 
 Down. The name in the text is derived 
 from the family of Talbot, Avhich settled 
 in the counties of Do\vn and Antrim 
 soon after the invasion. In the Inquisi- 
 tion held in 1334, on the death of Wil- 
 liam deBurgo, mention is made of certain 
 lands held by " Johannes Talbot in Tal- 
 botyston". The church, measuring 83^ 
 by 22^ feet, stands on the eastern shore 
 of the Ards; it is in ruins now, but ap- 
 pears from the Ul. Visitation Book to have 
 been used for divine service in 1622. This 
 parish, with Inishargy and two others, was 
 constituted by the charter of James I., the 
 corps of the second prebend in the Cathe- 
 dral of Down, under the name of ' Talpes- 
 tone'. Harris, unaware of the identity of 
 Talbotstown and Ballyhalbert, remarks, 
 concerning the prebend of Talbotstown, 
 " The Tithes and Lands now entirely lost" ! 
 — Down, p. 8. The rectory was appro- 
 priate to Black Abbey. 
 
 ^ Rone Probably from puaban 'red- 
 ness', in reference to the soil. In later docu- 
 ments the word Drom ('a ridge') is pre- 
 fixed to the name. In 1 605, it was found 
 that the impropriate rectory of ' Drom- 
 rowan alias Drumfyn', extending over the 
 townlands Dromroan and Ballihiggin, be- 
 longed to the Abbot of Movilla, who was 
 bound to maintain thereon a competent 
 
 curate Ul. Inq., No. 2, Jac. I. The name 
 
 Dromrone is now forgotten, as is also 
 Drumfyn, but ' Bally obekin ', which is 
 found by another Inquisition to be an 
 ' alias' for them, is still in use; and the 
 townland so called, together with the ad- 
 joining one ' Balliggan', lies at the N. E. 
 extremity of Inishargy parish. — Ord. Sur- 
 vey, ss. 12, 18. The modern church of 
 Inishargy stands in the townland Ballig- 
 gan ; about quarter of a mile from which, 
 towards the S. E., is a spot called ' the 
 Chapel-field', whence the present occu- 
 pant cleared away, some years ago, the 
 foundations and other remains of a small 
 church. 
 
21 
 
 (Diocese of Down.) 
 
 The church of Talbetona" 8 marks — 105. Sd. 
 
 The vicarage of the same 405. Tenth, 45. 
 
 The church of Rone' 2 marks — Tenth, 2S. Sd. 
 
 The vicarage of the same 2 marks — Tenth, 2s. Sd. 
 
 The chapel of Grangia"* 2 marks — Tenth, 2s. Sd. 
 
 The churcli of Ardkene", with 
 
 the chapel of Moyndele° 10 marks - i mark. 
 
 The church of Ardquienne'' — 6 marks — 8*. 
 
 The 
 
 "" Grangia Now Gran sha ( jpampeac Angl., vol. ii. p. 1019. The advoAvson of 
 
 '■ a grange'), a townland at the south end the parish descended to William de Burgo 
 
 of Inishargy parish. — Ord. Survey, s. 18. in right of his Earldom of Ulster. In the 
 
 " Coolegrange aliis Grange, in le Great Inquisition taken after his death, the 
 
 Ardes prope BlackstafFe ". — Ul. Inq., No. church is called ' Arwoghun' ; and the 
 
 104, Car. I. The River Blackstaffe, which profits thereof, which, by an old extent, 
 
 bounds this townland on the south, was were valued at £20 a year, are returned 
 
 formerly regarded as the main division be- as reduced to loos., in consequence of the 
 
 tween the Great and Little Ards. Avar of the Logans. After this, owing to 
 
 About a mile to the east was another the minority of his daughter, his estates, 
 
 chapel, called ' Row alias Grange-row ' : including his patronage, became seized 
 
 it stood in a field at the modern Echlin- into the King's hands : accordingly, A. D. 
 
 ville, and the tithes of the four townlands 1347, Thomas de Bredon was presented 
 
 belonging to it were appropriate to the by the Crown to the church of Ardkeen. 
 
 abbey of Moville. It seems to be the place Cal. Cane. Hib., p. 48 b. A. D. 1386, 
 
 anciently called Ruba (Rue) — Vide Ca- Thomas Cutbert, in like manner. — lb., 
 
 lendar in the Appendix. p. 124 A. D. 1609, it was annexed, by 
 
 " Ardkene. — Now Ardkeen parish ; pro- the charter of James I., to the prebend of 
 
 bably so called from apo caoin (' the plea- St. Andrew's, under the name ' Earchin'. 
 
 sant height'). — Ord. Survey, s. 25. The ° Moyndele. — Unknown, 
 
 church was formerly styled ' Ecclesia "^ Ardquienne. — A Norman form of the 
 
 Sanctae Marige de Ardkene' Cal. Cane Irish Ardquin(apb Cumn 'Con's height'). 
 
 Hib., p. 1 3 1 b. In John de Courcey's The greater part of the parish, Avhich re- 
 charter to Black Abbey, he specifies his tains its old name, is held under the See 
 castle of ' Arch en', and excepts from his of Down ; and the Bishop is rector, 
 grant the tithes belonging to it. — Monast. A. D. 1225 — " Dominus Rex commisit 
 
22 
 
 (Dunens Dyoces.) 
 
 ^Eccia de Sithe xl-s iiij'S. 
 
 ^Eccia de Ardmacossce xl-s iiij'S. 
 
 ^Eccia de Dere ij-m^r ij-s-viij.d. 
 
 ^Eccia 
 
 T[homae] Dunensi Episcopo, pro dampnis described in the Tripart. Life of St. Pa- 
 
 quse sustinuit pro servicio domini Regis trick as a ' collis amoenus ' Pt. ii. c. 113, 
 
 in guerra cum Hugone de Lascy; duas Tr. Th., 144, c. 2. Mr. O'Donovan ren- 
 
 carucatas terras de dominico Regis in Arte, ders pic-6u6a into 'hill of Budli'. — 
 
 ad se sustentandum quamdiu domino Regi Trib. and Cust. of Hy-Fiachrach, pp. 7, 
 
 placuerit, quae quidcm carucata? jacent 410. — Sec Taxation under 'Rassci'. It 
 
 propinquiores manerio ipsius Episcopi de was found by Inquisition in 1334, that 
 
 Archiwhyn circa lacvtm ejusdem villae". certain lands 'in/e Sytk\ in the county of 
 
 Rot. CI., 9 Hen. III., Tur, Lond. The Newtown of Blsethwic, were held under 
 
 lake here alluded to is called Lough William de Burgo by ' Nicholas Galgyl ' : 
 
 Cowey, and beside it is a place called and these lands are elsewhere called, pro- 
 
 ' the Abbacy', where Bishop Echlin built bably from him, ' Ballygalgell ' Cal. 
 
 a manor-house in the early part of the Cane. Hib., i. p. 144. Which latter name 
 seventeenth century. Harris (Hist. Down, has been changed to ' Ballygalget'. The 
 p. 47), and after him Archdall (Monast. three townlands, Ballygalget, Ballyfin- 
 Hib., p. 120), conjectured that this ' Ab- ragh, and BallywhoUart, constitute that 
 bacy' was the site of the alien priory of detached portion of Witter parish, which 
 ' Eynes in the Ardes', of which mention is laid down in the Ord. Survey, s. 25. 
 is made in a patent roll, 1 2 Hen. IV. At the period of the Dissolution, these 
 (see Cal. Cane. Hib., p. 197 ; Harris MSS., formed a distinct rectory, which was ap- 
 vol. iv., p. 178): but erroneously; for the propriate to the abbey of St. Patrick, in 
 priory in question was none other than Down, and was at one time called ' Bally- 
 the Black Abbey, which was a cell of St. funeragh' (as in Inquis., 3 Ed. VI.; and 
 Mary's of Lonley in Normandy, and was Extent of St. Patrick's in Down, temp, 
 the only alien priory in the diocese. The Ed. VL), and at another ' Ballygalget' (as 
 name 'Eynes' was probably borrowed in Ul. Inq., No. 104, Car. L; Terrier; Ul. 
 from the neighbouring church of Inis- Vis.) In the townland Ballygalget, on 
 chargy, of which Black Abbey was par- a high ground at Knockdoo, otherwise 
 son. Rock-Savage, and about a furlong north 
 '* Sithe. — This name appears to be the of the Roman Catholic chapel, is a spot 
 Irish word fir, taken in the sense of 'a called 'Shankill', where traces of a build- 
 hill'. 'Sith-aodha' near Ballyshannon, is ing, measuring 36 by 16 feet, exist in a 
 
(Diocese of Down.) 
 
 The church of Sithe"- 
 
 23 
 
 405. 45. 
 
 The church of Ardmacossce' — 405. 4s. 
 
 The church of Dere'' 2 marks — 2s. 
 
 U. 
 
 The 
 
 long-disused burying ground, which was 
 once enclosed by a circular cashel, of 
 about forty yards diameter. The name 
 ' Sithe' occurs among the members of the 
 corps of the Prebend of St. Andrew's, in 
 the charter of James I. ; it is also men- 
 tioned in the Ul. Visitation Book (fols. 
 244, 261), but these are the latest instan- 
 ces in which the Editor has met with the 
 name. 
 
 ^ Ardmacossce. — This name is now ob- 
 solete, but its position in the Taxation 
 corresponds to that of Slanes parish on 
 the map. — Ord, Survey, S. 25. A. D. 
 1320, two carucates of land in '■ Ardma- 
 caisse\ which had been forfeited by John 
 Fitz-Nicholas of Slane, on account of his 
 having joined Edward Bruce, were grant- 
 ed by the King to the prior of St. John's 
 
 of Jerusalem Cal. Cane. Hib., vol. i. 
 
 p. 28. It is probable that, at that period, 
 ' Ardmacaisse' was the name of the pa- 
 rish, while ' Slane' was the name of some 
 sub-denomination in it. The latter is now 
 applied to the townland wherein is the 
 churchyard, with the remains of the an- 
 cient church. A. D. 1386, JohnHore was 
 presented by the Crown to the church of 
 Ardm'kasse in the diocese of Down. — Cal. 
 Cane. Hib., vol. i. p. 124. Same year, 
 William Nangle was parson of the church 
 of Ardmacasse Cal. Cane. Hib., vol. i. 
 
 p. 126. A. D. 1397, Robert Notyngham, 
 rector of the parish church of Ardma- 
 casch, in the diocese of Down, was ' cru- 
 ciferarius ' of the Primate. — Visitation of 
 Derry, 1397; in Regist. Armac. A. D. 
 1524, John M'^gyan Avas rector of the 
 church of Ardmocasse. — Reg. Cromer, 
 p. 452. The Editor has not found the 
 name in any subsequent document. 
 
 The word ' Slane' comes from the Irish 
 plan, which Colgan interprets by ' sanus ' ; 
 and was formerly applied to holy wells, 
 on account of their supposed sanative vir- 
 tues. Thus the ancient Scholiast, com- 
 menting on the word ' S6QN' in the 
 fifteenth verse of St. Fiech's Hymn, ob- 
 serves : " Slan dictus est eo quod omnes 
 sani revertebantur ab eo". — Trias Th., 
 p. 5, col. 2. 
 
 * Dere Now Derry ( ooipe ' an oak 
 
 Avood '), a townland in the parish of Bal- 
 lyphilip, about a mile and a-half N. E. of 
 Portaferry. — Ord. Survey, s. 32. At its 
 north end stand the ruins of two roofless 
 chapels, side by side, the space between 
 them being but 225^ feet. They both bear 
 the marks of great antiquity, and are 
 constructed with an adhesive kind of clay 
 instead of mortar. The building on the 
 north, which is the more dilapidated, is 
 26 feet long, and i6i feet broad. The 
 other is 24 feet long, and 1 6^ feet broad ; 
 
(Dunens Dyoces.) 
 
 ^Eccia de Feliptofi- 
 
 24 
 
 vj • m^r 
 
 Hospil ^Eccia de Thurstayniston - hospit. 
 
 ^Vicaria eiusdem xl-s — 
 
 ^Capella de Tener 
 
 — XX -s 
 
 VllJ . s. 
 
 iiij-s. 
 ij.s. 
 
 h.- 
 
 ■ «^Alba 
 
 the side walls are 5^ feet high, and the 
 east wall 15 feet. The festival of St. 
 Cumain was anciently observed in this 
 church on the 29th of May, as is sta- 
 ted in the gloss on the Martyrology of 
 ^ngus at that day : and if, as Colgan 
 conjectured, that gloss was written by 
 T^ngus himself, the founding of this 
 church must be referred to a date ante- 
 rior to the year of our Lord 800. — See 
 the Calendar in the Appendix. The Ca- 
 lendar of the O Clerys has the following 
 entry at the 29th of May: — 
 
 Cummain 05 o Ooipe injine QiUen a 
 n-Qipo Ula6 — 
 
 ' Cummian a virgin, of Derry-Ingene- 
 Aillen in the Ard of Ulidia'. 
 
 At the Dissolution, the rectory, embrac- 
 ing the townlands Derry and Ballycam, 
 was appropriate to the abbey of Moville. 
 — Ter. ; Ul. Vis. ; Ul. Inq., No. 75, Car. I., 
 Down. 
 
 ^ Feliptone. — Now Ballyphilip parish 
 
 Ord. Survey, s. 32. The original church 
 stood within the glebe; and the glebe- 
 house is built upon a portion of the an- 
 cient graveyard. There are persons still 
 living who remember the old edifice, which 
 was described by Harris in 1774, as " a 
 
 course Building of an odd Contrivance, 
 being a Room of 37 Feet in length, 16 
 Feet broad, and 20 Feet high, covered 
 with a coved Arch of Stone, so close and 
 firmly cemented, that it does not appear 
 to admit any "Water ; to which Cause it 
 probably owes it's Security hitherto from 
 Ruin. On the South Side of the Wall 
 are 3 Niches, covered like the Heads of 
 so many Stalls in some antient Choirs. 
 Close adjoining to it is another Building 
 likewise covered with a coved Arch of 
 Stone, and consisting of two Appart- 
 ments ; appearing to have been lofted, 
 and from whence is a Passage by a Door 
 into the Church". — Down, p. 46. This 
 church probably proving inconvenient to 
 the inhabitants of Portaferry, another, on 
 a larger scale, was erected in the town ; 
 and the ruins of it, called 'Templecra- 
 ney ', stand in the parish churchyard. The 
 present church, which serves for the union 
 of Ballyphilip, Ballytrustan, Slanes, and 
 Witter, — being the corps of the Chancel- 
 lorship of Down — is quite a modern build- 
 ing. A. D. 1430, William Somerwell, a 
 deacon, was presented by the Primate to 
 the rectory of the church ' Sti Nicholai 
 de Phelpeston in le Arde'. — Reg. Swayne, 
 p. 22. A. D. 1482, Walter Raynoke a/e'as 
 
6 marks — 85. 
 
 25 
 (Diocese of Down.) 
 
 The church of Feliptone' 
 
 Hospit? The church of Thurstaynistone" — Hospitallers. 
 
 The vicarage of the same 405. 4s. 
 
 The chapel of Teuer' 20s. 2s. 
 
 h. White-church 
 
 Dany was rector of the church ' S. Nichol 
 de Philipton'. — Eeg. Octav., fol. 903. 
 
 " Thurstaynistone. — Now Bally trustan 
 parish. — Ord. Survey, s. 32. A. D. 1343, 
 it was found that Matilda Countess of 
 Ulster held certain lands in the county 
 of Newtown, called Tkurstanton. — Inq. 
 P. M., 16 Ed. III., 3, sec. nu^m., Tur. Lond. 
 — A. D. 1397, the King committed to 
 Eichard Russell the custody of the lands 
 of Thrustayntone. — Cal. Cane. Hib., vol. i. 
 p. 144. All these names seem to be va- 
 rieties of baile, or its English form Town, 
 and cpopcan 'a staff'. ' Trossnan' or 
 ' Bally-trosnan ' was another variety of 
 the name. — Ul. Inq., No. 2, Jac. I., Down. 
 — Hamilton Pat., 3, Jac. 1. Upopnan 
 
 ' a crutch' 0''Reilly. The rectory of 
 
 the parish is not rated in the Taxation, 
 because, as is stated, it belonged to the 
 Hospitallers; in whose possession it con- 
 tinued till the Dissolution Ul. Inq., 
 
 No. 2, Jac. I., Down. The rectory of Bal- 
 lytrustan formerly included the eight 
 townlands of Castleboy or Johnstown, 
 which lay around ' the Preceptory of the 
 Ards' (which may account for the omis- 
 sion of the name in the Taxation) : while, 
 on the other hand, Ballytrustan was in- 
 cluded in the ma/zor of Castleboy Ul. Inq. 
 
 No. 2, Jac. I. The ruins of the very ancient 
 church of Ballytrustan stand in the church- 
 yard, about a mile S. E. of Portaferry. 
 
 ' Tener Now Witter, a parish at the 
 
 extreme end of the Ards Ord. Survey, 
 
 s. 32. The modern name is a corruption 
 of the Irish uaccaip ' of the upper part'; 
 and is an abbreviation of the compound 
 ' Grange-oughter ', by which the parish 
 was generally called. At the Dissolution, 
 the rectory was appropriate to the abbey 
 of Inch, and was afterwards leased to the 
 Earl of Kildare, under the name of ' Tem- 
 ple-Kenny'. Close by the shore, on Tara 
 Bay, is the long-disused cemetery contain- 
 ing the faint outline of the foundations of 
 a church, about 54 feet long, and 18 feet 
 broad. The spot is called ' Templecowey '. 
 That name, as also ' Cruachan Cowey ', 
 which was borne by a neighbouring hil- 
 lock, and ' Lough Cowey', which belongs 
 to the lake in Ardquin parish, is, accord- 
 ing to local tradition, commemorative of 
 a St. Quintin, from whom Quintin's Bay 
 and Ballyquintin in this parish are said 
 to be named. The Irish name Cooey (Cu- 
 TTiaije, see Annals of Ulster, A. D. 1102, 
 and Four Masters, M. C. 1102, 1176) is 
 always anglicised, in the Ards and else- 
 where, by ' Quintin'. 
 
 E 
 
26 
 
 (Dunens Dyoces.) 
 b. ^ Alba eccia 
 
 X • m*r 
 
 xiij • s • liij • d. 
 
 ^^ Vicar ia eiusdem 
 
 iiij • m^r — v • s • iilj • d. 
 
 [cia- vij-ti-viij -s-viij -d. 
 ^ Sm* taxacois Ixxiiij • ti • vj • s- viij • d — Inde De- 
 
 Decafi de LechayH. 
 
 ^ Eccia de Mocorne 
 ^ Eccia de Rath 
 
 x-nr^r 
 
 XX- s- 
 
 ^ White-church. — Now the parish of 
 Ballywalter, so called from a village of 
 
 that name Ord. Survey, s. 12. This 
 
 church was occasionally called by its Irish 
 name Temple-jinn (ceampuU pion ' white 
 church '). — Ul. Inq. In the charter of 
 
 James I. it is styled 'Ecclesia Alba' 
 
 A. D. 1437, ' Johannes Oheran, perpetuus 
 Vicarius de White-kirk'. — Reg. Octav., 
 fol. 70. A. D. 1442, ' Jacobus OBiedran, 
 
 Vicarius de Wliytekirk' Reg. Prene, 
 
 fol. 66. The rectory was appropriate to 
 Black Abbey. In the Townland ' White- 
 church', about a quarter of a mile N. W. 
 of the village of Ballywalter, is the church- 
 yard, and within it, the ruins of the an- 
 cient church, 90 feet long, and 19 broad, 
 having a transept on the north side, mea- 
 suring 17 by 20 feet. The name occurs 
 out of course in the Taxation, probably 
 through a clerical error: but the letter b 
 in the margin seems intended as a reference 
 to the letter a, between the names ' Ral- 
 fetona ' and ' S. Andree ', where White- 
 church ought, in due order, to appear. 
 
 * Lechai/ll. — This rural deanry compre- 
 
 — dec-j-m*r. 
 
 — decla-ij-s. 
 
 ^Capella 
 hended, at the date of the Taxation, the 
 civil territories of Mourne, Kinelarty, 
 and Lecale: but subsequently it was di- 
 vided into the deanries of Lecale and 
 Mourne, the former being confined to 
 the district so called : and this distribu- 
 tion continues to the present day. The 
 name ' Lecale' is derived from the Irish 
 words ler Carail, signifying ' the por- 
 tion of Cathal ' ; and came into use about 
 the ninth century, after that Cathal had 
 been lord of this territory. In the civil 
 apportionment of the county of Down, 
 Lecale is the name of the barony in which 
 the town of Downpatrick is situate. — See 
 Appendix. 
 
 ^Mocorne ITIuj&opna, now Kilkeel 
 
 parish, situate in, and commensurate with, 
 the barony of Mourne — Ord. Survey, ss. 
 52, 53, ^^, 56. ' Ecclesia parochialis de 
 Kylkeyl in le Mourne'. — Reg. Sweteman, 
 fol. 5. ' Ecclesia parochialis de Killchil 
 alias de Morun'. — Reg. Mey., lib. i., fol. 
 35, rev. A. D. 1387, Jo. Eheene was 
 presented by the King to the church of 
 ' St. Colman del Morne' Cal.Canc. Hib., 
 
(Diocese of Down.) 
 b. White-church 
 
 27 
 
 The vicarage of the same 
 
 10 marks - 
 4 marks — 
 
 135. 40?. 
 5,!*. ^.d. 
 
 [£7 Ss. M. 
 Sum of the Taxation, £74 6s. Sd. — Tenth thereof, 
 
 Deanry of Lechayll*. 
 
 The church of Mocorne^— 
 The church of Rath'^ 
 
 10 marks - 
 
 205. 
 
 Tenth, I mark. 
 Tenth, 2s. 
 
 The 
 
 vol. i. p. 1 3 1 . A.D.I 406, Patrick Oweyn 
 presented by the King to the church of 
 'St. Cohnan of Kylkele'. — Cal. Cane. 
 Hib., p. 183. From these authorities, it 
 appears that the names Morne and Kil- 
 keel were used indifferently to denote the 
 same parish. In 1526, Kilcayll was de- 
 scribed as a ' Plebania' or Mother-church, 
 having under it several tributary chapels. 
 — Reg. Cromer, fol. 473. Of these, the 
 names of five are preserved, viz., Kilcoo, 
 Kilmegan, Ballochaneir, Tamlaght (in the 
 townland Lisnacree), and Greencastle. — 
 See Appendix. 
 
 ' Eatk Now Maghera parish. — Ord. 
 
 Survey, s. 43. The name of this parish 
 was originally Rath-murbhuilg : after- 
 wards, as in the Taxation, simply Rath ; 
 and subsequently with a prefix, Machaire- 
 Ratha. Thus Colgan : " Ecclesia, priscis 
 Rath-murbhuilg, hodie Machaire-Ratha 
 appellata". — Act. SS., p. 743, col. 2. 
 A. D. 1 610, ' Magheryragh alias Rathra'. 
 
 — Rot. Pat., 8, Jac. I. ' Matherira' 
 
 Terrier. ' Magherera '. — Ul. Vis. The 
 name now appears in the contracted form 
 
 'Maghera'. Thus the name Rathlury 
 ( Ruc-^-.upai^), in the diocese of Derry, 
 has lost its characteristic component, and, 
 by a similar process, also become Maghe- 
 ra. The word Murbulg (mup-bolj 'a 
 sea-inlet') is now changed to ' Murlough', 
 and is applied to two townlands on Dun- 
 drum Bay, one in this, and the other in 
 Kilmegan parish. — Ord. Survey, ss. 43, 
 44, 49. A. D. 1438, Donat OLaghnan 
 was collated to the rectory ' Parochialis 
 Ecclesise Sti. Dongardi de Rath, Dunen. 
 Dioc.', vacant by the resignation of Henry 
 M'^Cressulane. — Reg. Swayne, Hb. ii. fol. 
 69. The appellation here given, was de- 
 rived from St. Domangart or Donard, who 
 was the founder and patron saint of the 
 church, and who also gave name to the 
 neighbouring mountain Slieve Donard. 
 To this Giraldus Cambrensis (who visi- 
 ted Ireland in 1 1 85,) alludes in the fol- 
 lowing passage: " A secundo [filio Bar- 
 tholani, sc. Salano], mons altissimus, qui 
 illi imminet mari, quod Hiberniam inter- 
 fluit atque Brytanniam, Salanga momina- 
 tur. Cujus ad radices, quia longis post 
 
 E 2 
 
28 
 
 (Dunens D voces.) 
 
 o^'Capella de Villa Rlli- 
 ^Capella de Lismochan 
 
 o^Ecciade KUbulkf 
 
 ^ Vicaria eiusdm 
 
 ^ Capella de Kenles 
 
 ^Eccia de Drucath cu 
 pella de Rathcath — 
 
 temporibus S.Dominicus [^ rectiusBoman.- 
 gardus'. — Colg.'] nobile monasterium con- 
 struxerat: mons Dominici jam usitatius 
 nomen habet". — Topog. Hib., Dist. iii. 
 cap. 2. Colgau, at the 24th of March, 
 has collected a number of particulars re- 
 specting St. Donard, and states that two 
 churches were consecrated to him (which 
 Colgan incorrectly places in the diocese of 
 Dromore), one, ' in vertice ejusdem altis- 
 simi montis, longe ab omni humana habi- 
 tatione posita', of which some remains ex- 
 ist at this day; and the other, the subject 
 of this note, wherein " asservatur [A. D. 
 1645.] una nola in magna veneratione, 
 quEe fuit olim hujus sancti, Glunan vulgo 
 dicta, et unus e calceis pretioso tegumento 
 ex auro, et argento coelatus". — Act. SS., 
 p. 743, col. 2. The ruins of the ancient 
 church, 45 feet 9 inches in length, and 
 2 1 feet 6 inches in breadth, stand in the 
 parish churchyard, outside which, on the 
 N. W., is the stump of a Round Tower, 
 being all that remains of the original 
 structure which suffered in a storm about 
 130 years ago. — Harris, Down, p. 82. See 
 the Calendar in Appendix, at 24th March. 
 
 XX -s 
 
 inj- 
 
 m^r- 
 
 ~ decia • ij • s. 
 — V • s • iiij • d. 
 
 — ij • m^r • di - decla • iij • s. 
 xvj-s decla-xx-d. 
 
 — j . m^j. decla • xvj • d. 
 
 ca- 
 
 — XX -s decia -ij-s. 
 
 ^ Capella 
 
 ^Rili-town. — Now Ballyrolly, a town- 
 land in the west of Down parish. — Ord. 
 Survey, s. 37. Here, on a hill about a 
 furlong to the left of the road leading from 
 Downpatrick to Clough, is the old grave- 
 yard, containing the remains of a church 
 40 feet 10 inches in length, and 16 feet in 
 breadth. 
 
 ® Lismochan. — This name is still pre- 
 served in the parish of Ballykinlar, as ap- 
 plied to a townland which the Ord. Sur- 
 vey calls 'Lower Ballykinlar' s. 44. 
 
 Here, about 100 yards S. W, of ' Lisma- 
 hon Fort', formerly stood a little chapel 
 which was familiarly called ' Killy woolpa ' : 
 it had a cemetery attached to it, the last 
 interment wherein took place about seven- 
 ty years ago. The site of both has been 
 under tillage for the last thirty years. 
 Thomas Ketel, who was raised to the see 
 of Down in 1305, had previously been 
 
 parson of ' Lesmoghan' Prynne, Rec, 
 
 vol. iii. p. 1 1 18. A. D. 1427, it was found 
 that Jauico Dartas had been seised of two 
 and a-half carucates of land in Lysmog- 
 han, with the advowson of the church. — 
 Cal. Cane. Hib., vol. i. p. 242. The tithes 
 
29 
 
 (Diocese of Down.) 
 
 The chapel of Rih-town'* - 
 The chapel of Lismochan^ 
 
 The church of Kilbulk' 
 
 The vicarage of the same - 
 
 206'. Tenth, 25. 
 
 4 marks — 55. 4c?. 
 22 marks — Tenth, 35. 
 165. 
 
 The chapel of Kenles^ 
 
 The church of Drumcath", with 
 the chapel of Rathcath' 
 
 mark 
 
 205. 
 
 Tenth, lod. 
 Tenth, i6d. 
 
 Tenth, 2s. 
 
 The 
 
 See Appendix. 
 
 of Ballykinlar parish are appropriate to ric name Lougliinisland. 
 
 Christ Church in Dublin, under which also *> Drumcath. — Now Drumcaw ( Opu ini 
 
 the lands are held ^ee. Appendix. cara ' the battle ridge'), a townland in 
 
 f Kilbulk. — Exact position unknown to Loughinisland parish, about a mile west 
 
 the Editor : probably in or near the mo- 
 dern parish of Loughinisland. A. D. 1334, 
 it was found that Milo Swerd held six ca- 
 rucates of land in 'Kylbulk', under the 
 Earl of Ulster. — Inquis. P. M. The rec- 
 tory of ' Kylbulke', an. val. 53s. 40?., was 
 appropriate to the priory of Regular Ca- 
 nons of Down. — Inq., 3 Ed, VI. The 
 rector of ' Killbulke' paid six shilHngs 
 proxies to the Bishop — Ul. Vis. 
 
 of Seaforde. — Ord. Survey, s. 36. The 
 north and east walls of the old church are 
 yet standing ; the former about 10 feet, 
 the latter about 24 feet high. Length, 
 45 feet; breadth, 17^ feet. The rectory 
 of 'Dromcath' with the chapel of [Eath- 
 cath], an. val. £6, was appropriate to the 
 abbey of St. Patrick's of Down. — Inq. 3, 
 Ed. VI. A. D. 1 583, the tithes of ' Drum- 
 cath' and ' Rathkehatt', in 'M'^Cartan's 
 
 s Kenles. — The rectory of ' Kenlys in countrie', were leased by the Crown to 
 M^Carthan's country', an. val. £8, was Gerald Earl of Kildare. A. D. 1609, 
 appropriate to the priory of Regular Ca- 'Drumcadd' and ' Racatt' were annexed to 
 nons of Down. — Inquis., 3 Ed. VI. The the Precentorship of Down. A. D. 1 640, 
 Terrier, however, assigns it to the priory tithes valued at £40 per an. — Inq. Downp., 
 of Cross-bearers; — " Capella de Kenlis is 1657. A.D. 1651, ' Dromca' parish found 
 the Prior's of St. John in Down". By the to contain eight townlands ; the tithes, pro- 
 charter of James L, ' Kinles' was attached ducing £30 per an., possessed by the Com- 
 
 to the Precentorship of Down, and, though 
 the name is now obsolete, it may be pre- 
 sumed to have been one of the eight de- 
 nominations which formed the corps of that 
 dignity, and are now known by the gene- 
 
 monwealth. — Inq. Downp., 1657. A. D. 
 1 7 18, by Act of Council, Drumca was 
 made part and parcel of Loughan-island 
 
 parish Enrolment, Reg. Down. 
 
 ' Rathcath. — Now Clough, a townland 
 
30 
 (Dunens Dyoces.) 
 
 ^Capella de Wytlketona- 
 
 ^Capella de Balidugan — 
 
 fl^Capella de Lerkf 
 
 XX -s — 
 j • m^r - 
 xx-s— 
 
 ^Capella de GrencasteH — vj 
 
 m*r 
 
 decla-ij -s. 
 decla • xvj • d. 
 decla-ij-s. 
 decla -viij -s. 
 
 ^Eccia 
 
 and village in the southern part of Lough- 
 inisland Ord. Survey, s. 37. The pre- 
 sent is an abbreviation of the old name, 
 ' Clogh-magh-rechat'. — Ul. Inq. In the 
 Down Survey it is marked ' Clough-mari- 
 catt'. The name Rathcath (par cara, 
 ' the fort of the battle') is borrowed from 
 the'far-seen 'Rath', which stands beside 
 the village, " surrounded by a broad deep 
 Fosse, and (which is something singular) 
 on the top of it a plain strong Castle of 
 
 Stone" Harris, Down, pp. 78, 270. The 
 
 chapel, of which no trace remains, is sup- 
 posed to have stood near this fort. A. D. 
 1 6 1 8, by patent passed to Sir Francis An- 
 nesley, his estates in the county of Down 
 were erected into a manor, which was 
 called, from this \-illage, ' Cloghmagheri- 
 
 catt' Lodge's Peerage, vol. iv. p. no. 
 
 Ed. Archdall. The same work (vol. v. 
 p. 299) incorrectly identifies this name 
 with Castle- Wellan. 
 
 •^ Wytiketona Now Ballykillbeg, a 
 
 towiiland in the parish of Down. — Ord. 
 Survey, s. 37. In 1512, called " Prajbenda 
 de Ballenagallbee". — Reg. Dowd., p. 63. 
 
 In 16 1 8, ' Ballynagalbeke' Ul. Inq., 
 
 No. 8, Jac. I. ' Prebenda de Whytynton 
 alias BaUenagallinebeg, Dunen. Dioc' — 
 Regist. Octavian, p. 288. No part of the 
 
 ancient chapel remains ; but in a spot a 
 little north of the R. C. chapel, near the 
 junction of Bally kilbeg and Lough-Falcon, 
 is a small earthen fort, at the south side oi' 
 which traces of a burial-place have been 
 observed. 
 
 ' Balidugan. — This name is still pre- 
 served in a townland and village of Down 
 parish, situate about two miles S. W. of 
 DoAvnpatrick. — Ord. Survey, s. 37. The 
 site of the chapel forms part of the garden 
 of Ballydugan House. The priory of Re- 
 gular Canons of Down was possessed of a 
 carucate of land in Ballydogan. — Inq. 
 3 Ed. VI. — Monast. Hib., p. 117. Certain 
 lands, with a mill in Ballydougan, were 
 held under William de Burgo in 1333. — 
 Inq. P. M. The name is probably called 
 from the family of O'Dubhagain, which 
 was sprung from Sodan, the son of Fiacha 
 Araidh, King of Ulster, about the year 
 
 240 See O Donovan's Tribes, &c., of Hy- 
 
 Many, p. 28. 
 
 •" Lerkes In the barony of Kinelarty, 
 
 and, most probably, in the modern parish 
 of Loughinisland. The name, though now 
 unknown, was formerly in common use. 
 A. D. 1334, Thomas le Taillour held, un- 
 der William de Burgo, one carucate of 
 land ' in le Lerkes', in the county of Down. 
 
3' 
 (Diocese of Down.) 
 
 The chapel of Wytiketona" 
 
 The chapel of Balidugan' - 
 
 The chapel of Lerkes" 
 
 - 205. Tenth, 2S. 
 
 - I mark Tenth, i6d. 
 
 - 20S. Tenth, 2s. 
 
 The chapel of Grencastell" 6 marks — Tenth, 85. 
 
 — Inq, P. M. A. D. 1 343, it was found 
 that Matilda Countess of Ulster received 
 sixty shillings per an. from one carucate 
 of land in ' Lerckes'. — Inq. P. M. By an 
 extent in the Surveyor General's office, it 
 appears that the rectory of ' Lyrge', con- 
 taining the townland of Lyrge — the quar- 
 ter land of Bolloes alias Crevysse — and 
 Branye in Patria de M'^Cartan, was ap- 
 propriate to the abbey of St. Patrick of 
 Down.— Temp. Ed. VI. Among the rec- 
 tories leased in 1583 to the Earl of Kil- 
 dare, was " Leirge comenlie called Kyna- 
 leorty, in the country of M"^Cartan". 
 
 ° Grencastell. — In the parish of Bright 
 are two townlands, Castlescreen and Ery- 
 nagh (Qipeanac. — See O'Donovan's Hy- 
 Many, p. 5), together forming a tongue 
 which runs in a N. W. direction into Down 
 parish. — Ord. Survey, s. 37. In the latter 
 of these, Magnellus Makenlef [Niall mc 
 tDuinpleBe uiGocaoa, — IV. Mast., 1127], 
 Kingof Ulidia, founded a religious house, 
 in the year 1 127, near the well of St. Fi- 
 nian, and called it the abbey of Carryke. 
 Within sixty years it was demolished by 
 J ohn de Courcy, in consequence of it hav- 
 ing been fortified against him Ware's 
 
 MSS., Cod. Clar. xxxvi., p. 204 — Monast. 
 Hib., p. 1 20. The chapel, however, was 
 
 The 
 
 either continued or restored ; and being 
 afterwards attached to the castle, the ruins 
 of which still remain in the next town- 
 land of Castlescreen, it probably received 
 the name given in the Taxation. In the 
 year 1408, mention is made of it under the 
 name of ' Capella Sti. Finiani deViridi Cas- 
 tro' Regist. Flem., fol. 12. In 1427, it 
 
 was designated ' Grenecastel in comitatu 
 de Lecale', as distinguished from Green- 
 castle in Mourne. — Cal. Cane. Hib., vol. i. 
 p. 242. At the Dissolution, it was found 
 to be appropriate to the abbey of Saul, 
 under the name ' Castlecryn', and to be 
 of the annual value of 106s. 80?. — Inq. 
 3 Ed. VI. By the charter of James I., 
 it was annexed to the deanry of Down, by 
 the name ' Viride Castrum': and, being 
 at that time a distinct denomination, it 
 was not, as now, included in Bright. — Ul. 
 Inq., No. 8, Jac. I. The church stood in a 
 little valley, near the rivulet which di- 
 vides the townlands Erynagh and Castle- 
 screen, about 200 yards to the right of 
 the road from Corbally to Grangecam ; and 
 the field which contains its site is still 
 called ' the church park '. The ruins, mea- 
 suring about 40 by 15 feet, are remem- 
 bered by many ; and the west wall was 
 standing 9 feet high within the last twenty 
 
(Dunens D voces.) 
 
 ^Eccla de Kilschaelyn 
 ^Eccia de StaghreeW - 
 Hospit. ^Eccia de Rathmolyn 
 '^Porcio vicarii 
 
 ij-m'r 
 
 vij -m^r- 
 Hospit. 
 xl-s — 
 
 ^Eccia de Rosglassce 
 Capella de Styoun — 
 
 or 
 
 ij -m r- 
 iij -m^r 
 
 years. The spot was familiarly called 
 ' Templenageerah' (ceampuU na 5-cae- 
 pac 'church of the sheep'), and was oc- 
 casionally used as a burial-place : but 
 about ten years ago, all the foundations 
 were cleared away, and the whole space 
 ploughed up. St. Finian's well, which 
 is formed by a natural hollow in the rock, 
 is still to be seen as Harris relates (Down, 
 p. 24) ; and, a little above it, the print of 
 the saint's knees and feet! 
 
 ° Kilschaelyn. — This appears to be the 
 same as the 'Capella de Kylsaghlyn' which 
 was appropriate to the abbey of St. Pa- 
 trick of Down. — Inq., 3 Ed. VI. A. D. 
 
 1427, 'Kylsaghlyn' Cal. Cane. Hib., 
 
 vol. i. p. 242. A. D. 1 61 8, ' Killskeagh- 
 ly ' was returned as a townland in the pa- 
 rish of Bright. — Ul. Inq., No. 8, Jac. I. 
 The name is now disused, and has proba- 
 bly been exchanged for ' Carrowdressagh ', 
 which belongs to a small townland of Kil- 
 clief parish, though situate in the very 
 heart of Bright. — Ord. Survey, s. 45. By 
 the charter of James I., ' Kilseaclon' was 
 included in the corps of the Prebend of 
 St. Andrew's, being probably the church 
 under consideration. 
 
 - decia-ij -s- vlij -d. 
 
 - decla-lx-s-iiij-d. 
 
 - decla • iiij • s. 
 
 - decla • ij • s • vilj • d. 
 
 - decla- iiij -s. 
 
 «^ Capella 
 
 P Staghreel. — Now Tyrella parish. — Ord. 
 Survey, s. 44. In other documents, the 
 name assumes the several forms ' Tafjh- 
 roily', 'Techrula', ' Teighriola'. It sig- 
 nifies ' the house of Ryal ', being so called 
 from a saint whose festival was observed 
 on the 17 th of September. Thus, the Ca- 
 lendar of the Four Masters : — 
 
 " T^iajailoUhij Riajla 1 Ceic Caril". 
 " Ryal of Ty-reela in Le-cale" 17 Sep. 
 
 In the taxation, the letter s is prefixed, 
 agreeably to an usage which prevailed in 
 the English districts of the country ; and 
 of which numerous instances are to be 
 found in names beginning with the sylla- 
 ble 'Sta' or 'Sti'. Thus StackaUen is 
 formed from ' Ci^-Callain' ; Stillorgan 
 from Ui j-Copcain ; and Styoun, the third 
 name following in the Taxation, from Ci j- 
 Goin. By the same process, 'Laght' (leacc 
 ' a monument'), as in the parishes of Do- 
 naghmore in Donegal, and Longfield in 
 Tyrone, becomes 'Slaght', as in the pa- 
 rish of Connor. It is a curious analogy to 
 the change in the word ci^, that the cog- 
 nate Latin word ' tego' should be ' c-riyu ' 
 in Greek. In a confirmation of certain 
 
2^ 
 
 (Diocese of Down.) 
 
 The church of Kilschaelyn' 
 The church of StaghreelP- 
 
 Hospiti The church of Rathmolyn'^ 
 The vicar's portion 
 
 The church of Rosjjlassce"^ 
 The chapel of Styoun^ — 
 
 - 2 marks — Tenth, 2S. 8d. 
 
 - 7 marks — Tenth, gs. ^d. 
 
 - Hospitallers. 
 
 - 405. Tenth, 46*. 
 
 - 2 marks — Tenth, 2s. Sd. 
 
 - 3 marks — Tenth, 45. 
 
 The 
 
 grants, made by John de Conrcy to the see been alternately enjoyed by the Lords Car- 
 rick and Bangor, the representatives of the 
 original patentee. 
 
 ^ Eosglassce. — Now Rossglass ( pop-jlap 
 'the green point'), a detached townland 
 of Kilclief parish, lying along the western 
 side of St. John's Point headland, and 
 forming the eastern margin of Dundrum 
 bay. — Ord. Survey, s. 45. About quarter 
 of a mile S. E. of the present R. C. chapel, 
 stood the ancient church of Eossglass. In 
 1834 the walls were razed, and the site 
 and cemetery submitted to the plough. By 
 the charter of James I., this chapel was 
 annexed to the Archdeaconry. 
 
 ^ Sti/oun. — Now St. John's Point, a de- 
 tached townland of Rathmullan parish 
 
 Ord. Survey, s. 45. The name seems to 
 
 ceptory of St. John in the Ards. — Ul. Inq., be derived, by the process mentioned in a 
 
 of Down, this church is called, as in the 
 Taxation, Stegrel. — Rot. Pat. 1 6, Ed. III. m. 
 1 7, 2nd pt., Tur. Lond. ' Starely alias Ter- 
 
 rely ' Ul. Inq., No. 8, Car. I. The modern 
 
 parish church occupies the ancient site. 
 
 •> Eathmolyn Now Rathmullan parish. 
 
 — Ord. Survey, s. 44. The rectory, being 
 appropriate to the Hospitallers, was ex- 
 empt i'rom taxation, according to the terms 
 of Pope Nicholas IV.'s Bull. In the year 
 1 2 1 3, Pope Innocent III. confirmed to that 
 society their possessions in ' Rathmulin'. 
 — Epist. Innoc. III., vol. ii. p. 6^^. John 
 Rawson, the last prior of the Order of St. 
 John of Jerusalem in Ireland, was seised 
 of the rectory of ' RathmulUn in LecaUe ', 
 being parcel of the possessions of the Pre- 
 
 No. 2, Jac. I. In 1609, the vicarage of 
 Rathmullin was included, by the charter 
 of James I., in the corps of the Chancellor- 
 ship of Down, and made collative by the 
 Bishop, who exercised this privilege for 
 
 sometime Inq. Downp., 1657, MS. But 
 
 the advowson of the vicarage has accompa- 
 nied the rectorial tithes, which were grant- 
 ed in 1 6 1 2 to Sir James Hamilton, and has 
 
 former note, from cij-Goin' John' s-house'; 
 in which form it is mentioned in the Ca- 
 lendar at the 1 7th of August — ^^^ Appen- 
 dix. This seems to be the church oi Ste- 
 chian, Avhich was granted, about the year 
 1 183, by Malachi bishop of Down, to the 
 abbey of St. Patrick. — Inspex. in Rot. 
 Pat.42, Ed. III., m. II, 2ndpt., Tur.Lond. 
 As also the Stion, which was annexed, 
 
34 
 (Dunens D voces.) 
 
 ^Capella de Kilbride 
 
 Hospit «^Capella de Baliconyngh^m- xvj -s 
 
 Infmo'h ^Eccia de Brich > viij 
 
 xvij -s-uij 
 
 m^r 
 
 d- decla-xxj-d. 
 
 — decla-xix-d-q! 
 
 — decia-x-s-viij-d. 
 
 Vacdt 
 
 <^Eccia de Ardglassce- iiij -m^r decla-v-s-iiij-d. 
 
 ^Eccia de Dronevll — ij -m^r- di — decla-iij-s-iiij-d. 
 ^Capella de Ros xvij -s-iiij-d- decla-xxj-d. 
 
 vacat 
 ^Eccia 
 
 by the charter of James I., to the Pre- ^Kilbride. — Now Kilbride (ciU 6pi50e 
 
 centorship of Down. At the Dissolution, ' Bridget's church'), a townland of Bright 
 
 the tithes of this chapelry, under the name parish. — Ord. Survey, s. 45. The church 
 
 of 'St. JohnstoAvn', were appropriate to of'Kylbride',an.val. 53s. 4//., having three 
 
 the Preceptory of St, John in the Ards. — townlands, was appropriate to the priory of 
 
 Ul. Inq., No. 104, Car. I. ' Capella de Regular Canons of Down. — Inq. 3Ed,VI. ; 
 
 Sancto Johanne Jerusalemitano'. — Ter- Terrier. By the charter of James I. it 
 
 rier. The chapel, measuring 20 by 1 3 feet was annexed to the deanry of Down, by the 
 
 in the clear, belongs to a very ancient class name ' Kilbriditche'. The church stood 
 
 of ecclesiastical buildings. A century ago, in a field, now called ' the Church Park', 
 
 the walls were 'yet in tire' (Harris, Down, about three-quarters of a mile S. W. of 
 
 p. 271); but it is to be lamented that the Killough. It was razed in 1830, and no- 
 
 east wall has .been demolished to the foun- 
 dation. The east window, Avhich is remem- 
 bered by many, is described as having been 
 small and narrow, terminating above in an 
 acute angle, formed by the incHnation of 
 
 thing of it remains except an ancient tomb- 
 stone, having a cross traced on it, which is 
 now built into a neighbouring stile. 
 
 " Baliconyngham. — Now Couiamstown, 
 a townland in the parish of Bright Ord. 
 
 two flags, like those represented in Pe- Survey, s. 45. The chapel has long since 
 
 trie's Round Towers, p. 1 80. In the west disappeared, but its position is stated to 
 
 wall is a doorway, 5 feet 6 inches high ; have been at the end of the avenue leading 
 
 2 feet I inch wide at the top, and gradual- to Coniamsto^vn House. At the Dissolu- 
 ly dilating to the threshold, where it is tion, the tithes of ' Bally qiiony am ', an. 
 
 3 feet in breadth. In the south wall, near val. £8, were appropriate to the priory of 
 
 the S. E. angle, is a window 2 feet 5^ inches 
 high; I foot 4 inches wide at top, and i 
 foot 9 inches at bottom. In both instances, 
 the aperture is surmounted by a single flag, 
 instead of an arch. 
 
 Regular Canons of Down. — Inq. 3, Ed. VI. 
 Terrier. The marginal note, Hospital of 
 Infirm^ is borne out by the fact that to 
 this day a place in the townland is called 
 ' Straney's Sjntal \ John de Baliconing- 
 
35 
 (Diocese of Down.) 
 
 The chapel of Kilbride' 175. 4c?. - Tenth, 2 id. 
 
 ospia I rpi^g chapel of Baliconyno-ham"- 165. Tenth, igld. 
 
 of liijirvi.) *■ "" ^ 
 
 The church of Brich" 8 marks - Tenth, los.m. 
 
 They f The church of Ardglassce"- 4 marks- Tenth, 55. 46/. 
 are \ The church of Droneyll'' — i\ marks Tentli, 35. 4^. 
 
 vacant. 
 
 The chapel of Ros^ 
 
 175.4^.- Tenth, 2id. 
 
 vacant 
 
 both 
 years. 
 
 The 
 
 ham, who was elected to the see of Down in 
 1328, and was consecrated bishop of Cork 
 in 1330, probably derived his name from 
 this place. 
 
 ' Brich Now Bright parish. — Ord. 
 
 Survey, s. 45. The Tripartite Life of St. 
 Patrick calls this church ' Brettan', and 
 places it beside the fort ' Derlus': it also 
 represents ' Loam ' as bishop of it, and a 
 contemporary of St. Patrick. — ^ee Appen- 
 dix. The modern church occupies the ori- 
 ginal site, and close to it are the ruins of 
 an ancient castle. About the year 11 78, 
 John de Courcy granted the church of 
 
 ' Brict ' to the see of Down Inspex. in 
 
 Rot. Pat. 16, Ed. IIL, sup. cit. Shortly 
 after, Malachi, bishop of Down, annexed 
 it, under the name ' Brichten', to the ab- 
 bey of St. Patrick. — Inspex. in Rot. Pat., 
 42, Ed. IIL, Slip. cit. In the year 1 3 1 6, 
 the church of ' Bright in Ultonia', fuU of 
 men and women, was burned by the Scots 
 and Irish. — Grace, Annals, p. 76. At the 
 Dissolution, the church of ' Brett', of the 
 an. val. of £6 1 3s. 4c/., was appropriate to 
 
 the abbey of St. Patrick Extent. Inquis., 
 
 3, Ed. VI. In 1583, the tithes of Brighte 
 otherwise Bratten' were leased to the Earl 
 
 ofKildare. In 1609, ' Bright a/msBraten' 
 was annexed, by charter, to the Deanry of 
 Down. 
 
 ^ Ardglassce — Now Ardglass parish. — 
 Ord. Survey, s. 45. Qpb jlap 'the green 
 height'. — See Annals of Four Mast., A.D. 
 1433, 1453. The church was styled 'Ca- 
 pella Beatte Marias de Ardglas '. — Reg. 
 Mey, lib. ii. pp. 167, 197. Ardglass be- 
 came a place of considerable importance 
 soon after the Invasion, and the ruins of 
 several Anglo-Norman castles, which re- 
 main, are an evidence of its former great- 
 ness. Jordan de Saukevill, an adventurer 
 in the time of John de Courcy, settled here, 
 and was, in the year 1217, confirmed by 
 Henry III. in his possessions ' de Ardglas'. 
 — Rot. Claus. a Hardy, p. 304 b. A. D. 
 1 43 1 , Marcus Omulynga resigned the rec- 
 tory, and Henry M'^Kathmayll [Campbell] 
 was appointed to it.' — Reg. Octav., fol. 70. 
 
 A. D. 1440, Edward White, rector Reg. 
 
 Mey, lib. i. p. 100. A. D. 1609, ' Arglas' 
 annexed, by charter, to the Chancellorship 
 of Down. 
 
 ^ Droneyll. — Now Ardtole, a townland 
 of Ardglass parish, on the N. E. side of 
 
 Ord. Survey, s. 45. 
 
 Ardglass harbour. 
 
 F 2 
 
(Duiiens Dyoces.) 
 
 ^Eccia de Dunesford - 
 ^^Capella de Lismot — 
 ^Capella de Baliurgan 
 
 36 
 
 V 
 
 m^'r- 
 
 m^r 
 
 U 
 
 m*r 
 
 - decla • V • s • iiij • d. 
 
 - vj • s • viij • d. 
 
 - decia • ij • s • viij • d. 
 
 «^Capella 
 
 Here, about half a mile from the town, are and John Scrope, parson of the ' free cha- 
 a burial-ground, and the ruins of a very pel of Rosse, in the diocese of Down ', was 
 ancient church measuring 63 by 2 1 feet in confirmed by the Cro^vn as patron of the 
 
 the clear. It appears to have been origi- 
 nally the parish church of Ardglass ; and 
 its name is frequently found as an 'alias' 
 for Ardglass. " Ecclesia de Ardglass alias 
 Artnell. It was changed, for that the wood- 
 kern of M'^Cartenes country upon a time 
 when the inhabitants of Ardglass were at 
 Mass, killed them all; thereupon it was 
 brought within the towne ". — Terrier ; 
 Harris, Down, p. 23. A. D. 141 3, Richard 
 Canlan, from the diocese of Meath, was 
 presented to the rectory ' Sancti Nicholai 
 
 former. — Cal. Cane. Hib., vol. i. p. 125. 
 
 A. D. 15 1 2, 'Pra^benda de Ross' Reg. 
 
 Dowd. p. 63. A. D. 1 615, "Chapel of 
 Rose, it hath only three-quarters of a 
 Towne". — Terrier. The site of the chapel 
 is now under tillage. This chapel and the 
 two preceding churches were united at the 
 date of the Taxation ; and it is observable, 
 that, even in civil documents, the three 
 names 'Ardglass', 'Ardwell', and 'Rosse', 
 
 are found associated Cal. Cane. Hib., 
 
 vol. i. pp. 204, 242. From the marginal 
 
 de Ardtnele, Dunen. Dioc.', vacant by the note, vacant pro utroque anno ' they are va- 
 
 death of Thomas, the last incumbent. — 
 Reg. Flem., fol. 63. A. D. 1441, "Wil- 
 liam Kettyl de Ardglas alias Ardtwele". 
 Reg. Mey., lib. ii. fol. 213. A. D. 1442, 
 Thomas Ferneys, D. D., vicar of Mora in 
 Meath, presented to the rectory of ' Ard- 
 twele alias Ardglas' — Reg. Prene, fol. 76. 
 In 1 609 it was annexed to the Chancellor- 
 ship of Down, under the name ' Ardth- 
 nayle'. 
 
 y Ros. — Now Ross ( pop ' a wood'), a 
 townland belonging to Kilclief parish, but 
 detached from it, and joining Ardtole on rectory, of the an. val. of £4, was appro- 
 
 the N. W. Ord. Survey, s. 45. A. D. priate to the abbey of St. Patrick — Inq. 
 
 1386, an exchange of benefices between 3 Ed. IV. In 1583 it was leased to the 
 John Stiward, vicar of Athirde [ Ardee], Earl of Kildare. In 1 609 it became the 
 
 cant during either year', it would seem 
 that this Taxation was made upon a grant 
 of the papal Tenths for a term of two 
 years. — See Introduction. 
 
 ^Dunesford. — Now Dunsfort parish 
 
 Ord. Survey, s. 38. In the year 11 94, 
 one of the followers of John de Courcy, 
 called ' Rogerus de Dunesford ', endowed 
 the priory of Neddrum with the profits 
 of all the churches on his estates, except- 
 ing the church of ' Dunseford ' Mon. 
 
 Angl., ii. p. 1023. At the Dissolution, the 
 
(Diocese of Down.) 
 
 The church of Dunesford^ 
 The chapel of Lismolyn^ — 
 The chapel of Baliurgan'' - 
 
 4 marks 
 
 5 marks 
 2 marks 
 
 Tenth, 55. 4^/. 
 55. 8fl?. 
 
 Tenth, 25. 8^/. 
 The 
 
 head of the corps of the ' Prebend of Duns- 
 port', the third in the Cathedral of Down. 
 — Charter. The modern church occupies 
 the ancient site. 
 
 * Lismolyn. — Now Bishop's-Court, a 
 townland in Dunsfort parish. — Ord. Sur- 
 vey, s. 38. 6iop maolain ' Moelan's fort'. 
 In tliis townland, which is still the pro- 
 perty of the see of Down, the bishop had 
 anciently a residence. In the year 1441, 
 William Ketyl was ordained priest by 
 John bishop of Down, in the chapel ' sua? 
 curiae episcopalis de Lesmolyn'. — Reg. 
 Prene, p. 238. Shortly after the union of 
 Down and Coimor in 144 1, a complaint 
 was laid before Sir William Coldhall, the 
 Chamberlain of Richard Duke of York, 
 and Seneschal of Ulster, by " John, as by 
 virtewe of unyoune of our holy fader the 
 pope, Bysshope of Down & Conneresse", 
 stating that "• Master Thomas Pollard pre- 
 tending him through the Appostell provi- 
 syon for Bysshop of Down, undewly and 
 with vyolence through help and power of 
 his adherents in that parte entred hys 
 plaais of Lesmolyn and noght only his 
 a;odes there but of his rentes and divers 
 others his pertynaments hath spoyled and 
 witholdes, &c." — Reg. Mey, lib. ii. p. 167. 
 A. D. 1 410, " Radulphus Fourneys, rector 
 liberae capellse de Lasmolyn, Dun. Dice." 
 Cal. Cane. Hib., vol. i. p. 195. A. D. 1440, 
 
 ' Edvardus White, Prebendarius de Les- 
 molyn' Reg. Mey, lib. i. p. 100. A. D. 
 
 1456, ' Jac. Leche, Prebendarius de Lis- 
 molyn'. — Reg. Prene, p. 32. — Reg. Mey, 
 lib. iv. p. 63. About this time, Henry Fox, 
 Archdeacon of Down, procured the annex- 
 ation of the ' praebenda sive libera capella 
 Sancti Malachite de Lismolyn ' to the church 
 
 of Kylcleth Reg. Prene, p. 98. There is 
 
 no trace of this chapel now to be seen. 
 
 ^ Baliurgan. — Now Ballyorgan, a de- 
 tached townland of Rathmullan parish, 
 adjoining Dunsfort on the north. — Ord. 
 Survey, s. 38. The tithes of ' Ballyurce- 
 gan', an. val. 53s. 4/., were appropriate to 
 the abbey of Bangor. — Inq. 3 Ed. VL 
 ■■' Capella de Ballyverdgan, fit to be uni- 
 ted to the next, which is LismuUin". — 
 Ul. Vis., p. 247. The impropriate rectory 
 of ' Ballelvighan alias Balleurkegan in Le- 
 caile' extended to the townlands ' Balleur- 
 cegan' and 'Corbally'. — Inq. Downp., 
 1623. MS. In 1693, the rectory of ' Bally- 
 urkegan ' was held by Henry Leslie, A. M. 
 Of the church the only remaining portion 
 is the west gable, from 3 to 8 feet high, 
 25 feet wide, and 3 feet thick. It has es- 
 caped by happening to coincide with a 
 ditch which was made between two fields. 
 It stands on the slope of a hill, overlooking 
 a spacious plain, and is commonly called 
 Cappel na Coole. 
 
3S 
 (Dunens Dyoces.) 
 
 «^ Capella de Burcestona — xvij .i-iiij.d- decia • xxj • d. 
 ^Capella de Balibodan t 
 
 Abbot g^ge xvj-s decla-xlx-d-q! 
 
 ^Eccia de Kirkelcth xij-m^r decla- xvj-s. 
 
 «^Eccia de Renles iiij-m"r decla-v-s-iiij -3. 
 
 ^Eccia de Rathcolpe iiij-m"r decla • v • s • iiij • d. 
 
 ^Eccia de Cnokengarrc - iij-mV-di — decia-iiij -s- viij-d. 
 
 ^Eccia 
 
 '^ Burcestona — Now Ballynarry, a de- chapel of Bally woodan, 
 
 tached portion of Saul parish, and adjoin- « Abbot-grange. Probably included 
 
 ing Ballyorgan on the N. E.— Ord. Sur- now in the townland BaUywoodan. The 
 
 vey, s. 38. The rectory of ' Barreston name is obsolete. 
 
 alias Ballinary', an. val. £i 6s. Sd., was f Kirkeleth. — Now Kilclief parish. 
 
 appropriate to the abbey of St. Patrick. — Ord. Survey, s. 39. By the country peo- 
 
 Extent. Inq., 3 Ed. VI. " Capcllade Bal- pie it is generally called ' Killeeth'. Col- 
 
 lenerrie, it is the Prior's of Do-\\Tie". — gan reckons this church to be one of those 
 
 Terrier. This was, probably, the ' Boris- founded by St. Patrick ; and, on the au- 
 
 ton' which, by the charter of James I., Avas thority of the Sanctilogium Genealogi- 
 
 annexed to the Precentorship of Down. cum, represents Eugenius and Niellus as 
 
 All traces of the church and burying- its first ministers Trias Thaum., pp. 
 
 ground have disappeared. no, 265, 270. Act. SS., p. 62. In the 
 
 ^ Balibodan. — Now BaUywoodan, a Annals of Tigernach at the year 1002, and 
 
 townland in the same detached portion of of the Four Masters at looi, it is called 
 
 Saul parish as the last, and adjoining it on ' CiU-cleiche'. In 10^^, Cillcliatk vf as 
 
 the S. E.— Ord. Survey, s. 38. The rec- annexed to the see lands of Down. About 
 
 tory of ' Ballyoudan', an. val. £4 os. 6d., the year 1 178, John de Courcy confirmed 
 
 and two balliboes in the townlands of the possession of Kilcleth to the Bishop. 
 
 ' Wodanystono/ms Bally woddan', an. val. About the year 1183, Bishop Malachi 
 
 535. 4^, belonged to the Priory of Cross- granted the church oi Killecleth to the ab- 
 
 bearers of St. John in Down. — Inq. 3 bey of St. Patrick. In the fifteenth cen- 
 
 Ed. VI. About half a mile south of Kil- tury, this parish was the corps of the Arch- 
 
 clief R. C. chapel, at the ' Three Lone- deaconry of Down ; and when the chapter 
 
 ends', is a field called Z%ar9rm, in which, Avas remodelled in 1609, it continued in 
 
 at the distance of about ten perches from connexion with the same dignity. The 
 
 the Downpatrick road, formerly stood the name Kill-clethe signifies ' the church of 
 
39 
 (Diocese of Down.) 
 
 The chapel of Burcestona*^ 
 
 The chapel of Balibodan" and 
 
 Abbot-grange^ 
 
 175. 4c?. — Tenth, iid. 
 
 16s. 
 
 Tenth, 19}^. 
 Tenth, 1 66'. 
 Tenth, 55. 4c?. 
 Tenth, 55. 4c?. 
 
 The churcli of Cnokengarre' — 31 marks - Tenth, 45. Sd. 
 
 The 
 
 The church of Kirkeletl/ - 
 The church of Renles^ — 
 The church of Rathcolpe" 
 
 1 2 marks - 
 4 marks — 
 4 marks — 
 
 the hurdles ', probably in reference to its 
 origmal construction : " more Scotorum, 
 non delapide, sed de robore secto, atque ha- 
 rundinetecta". (Bede, H.E.,iii. 25). The 
 parish church was styled 'Ecclesia Sti. 
 Kelani de Kylcleth'.— Reg. Prene, p. 398. 
 Reg. Mey, lib. ii. p. 214. See Appendix. 
 
 s Renlis Now Killard, a double town- 
 land, lying at the extreme east of Le- 
 cale, and belonging to Ballyculter parish, 
 
 though detached from it Ord. Survey, 
 
 s. 39. " Capella de Killernard in Lekaile, 
 near the sea, it is St. John's" — Terriei: 
 In the Inq. 3 Ed. VI. it was found, un- 
 der the name Kenl//s, to be a chapel of 
 Ballyculter, and appropriate to the ab- 
 bey of Saul. The Ul. Visit. Book in one 
 place (p. 246) calls it Killerneede ; and in 
 another (p. 262) Kells. The site of the 
 church is called Cargy: it is in a field of 
 Upper Killard, aboHt a gunshot distant 
 from the shore, and 50 yards from the 
 rivulet which bounds the townland.- It is 
 a little plot about 18 yards long, and 6 
 broad, lying east and west ; and it remains 
 uncultivated in the very centre of a highly 
 productive field. 
 
 ^ Ratkcolpe — Now Raholp, a townland 
 in the west angle of Ballyculter parish. — 
 Ord. Survey, s. 31. In a sub-denomina- 
 tion called 'Banaghen' or ' Benagh', about 
 100 yards to the right of the road leading 
 from Downpatrick to Ballyculter, stand 
 the ruins of the church, called Chiirch- 
 moyley. They are 33 feet 4 inches long, 
 and 21 feet 4 inches wide. The south- 
 wall is overturned ; the east and west walls 
 are about 1 2 feet high. The east window 
 is 4 feet 6 inches high, and i o inches wide, 
 splayed inside to the width of 3 feet 2 
 inches ; and ends, not in an arch, but in a 
 large flag. In building the walls, yellow 
 clay has been used instead of mortar. The 
 plot of ground which the ruins and ceme- 
 tery occupy, is about half a rood in ex- 
 tent; and seems, from its elevation above 
 the surrounding field, to have been at one 
 time a 'rath'. The voice of antiquity 
 ascribes the foundation of the church of 
 Rar-colpa to St. Patrick ; and at the hand 
 of St. Tassach, its bishop, according to the 
 hymn of St. Fiech, he received the commu- 
 nion shortly before he died — ^ee Appendix. 
 
 ' Cnokengarre Cnocan geapp (' the 
 
40 
 (Dunens Dyoces.) 
 
 ^Eccia de Balibren ij • m^r • di - decla • iij • s • illj • d. 
 
 <^Eccia de Saule cu capella 
 
 de Balicultre xxv-m^r — decia-xxxiij-s-ilij-d. 
 
 ^EcciaSci Patcii iiiDuno- v-mV decla -vj -s-viij-d, 
 
 ^Capella de Baliath xx-m*r decla -xxvj -s-viij-d. 
 
 ^Capella 
 
 short hillock'), nowWalshestown, a town- by the place where probably it once stood, 
 
 land in the northern extremity of Saul pa- ' Saule. — Now Saul parish — Ord. Sur- 
 
 rish Ord, Survey, s. 3 1 . The rectory of vey, s. 31. This church was the first 
 
 ' Knockazar alias Bally walsh ', extending founded by St. Patrick ; its ground the 
 
 to the three townlands bearing the same first offering ; and its donor, Dichu, the 
 
 name, an. val. £4, was appropriate to the first convert to Christianity in Ulster. — 
 
 abbey of St. Patrick. — Extent. Inq. 3 Vit. Tripart., i. cap. 47. Trias Thaum., 
 
 Ed. VI. " Capella de Knockgar, it is the p. 124, col, i. The date, under Avhich 
 
 Prior of Downe's" Terrier. "Cnock- Archbishop Ussher notices the origin of 
 
 aneguarre alias Welshestown". — Ul. Inq., this church, is the year 432. — Index Chro- 
 
 No, 63, Car, I. The chapel, traditionally nol. The name in Irish is Sabhall, which 
 
 called ' St. Mary's', stood near the Anglo- signifies ' a barn', being probably applied 
 
 Norman castle of Walshestown : its ceme- to the original church, on account of some 
 
 tery was ploughed up several years ago, peculiarity in its position See Appen- 
 
 and the only trace now remaining to mark dix. In a subsequent part of the Taxation, 
 its site, is a small portion of one of the where the religious houses of the diocese 
 walls standing in a ditch, and covered with are mentioned, the name of Saul does not 
 thorns. occur, although it was an abbey of conside- 
 •^ Balibren. — Now Ballintogher (bnile rable antiquity and importance. The rea- 
 ancocaip 'town ofthe causeway'), a town- son seems to be, that at this period its 
 land in Saul parish, lying to the S.AV. of temporalities were greatly impoverished: 
 last. — Ord. Survey, s. 31. The rectory for, in the year 1296, the Abbot and Con- 
 of'Ballybreuert7/«s Ballintogher', an. val. vent of ' Saballum', represented to the 
 £9 7s. 2d., was appropriate to the Cister- King, that divers lands, tenements, and 
 cian Nunnery of Down. — Inq., 3 Ed. VI. rents of the abbey had been alienated by 
 " Ecclesia de Ballenitother, the land of successive Abbots, ' in diminutionem ele- 
 the Nuns of Downe, 9 Towns". — Terrier, mosinarum & dispersionem Canonicorum''; 
 There is not a vestige of the church to be and succeeded in procuring a license to re- 
 seen ; but the name ' Church Hill' is borne purchase them, notwithstanding the Sta- 
 
41 
 (Diocese of Down.) 
 
 The church of Balibren" 2^ marks- Tenth, 35. 4d. 
 
 The church of Saule', with the 
 
 chapel of Balicultre" — 25 marks - Tenth, 335. ^.d. 
 
 The church of St. Patrick in 
 
 Down" 5 marks — Tenth, 6s. Sd. 
 
 The chapel of Baliath^ 20 marks - Tenth, 26s. 8d. 
 
 The 
 
 tute of Mortmain. — Prjoine, Eecords, vol. tion is made of the Cell mop t)un-ler- 
 
 iii. p. 688. glaippe ('great church at Dxmlethglass'). 
 
 '^Balicultre. — Now Ballyculter parish. — St. Fiech's Hymn,versexxii. 1. 3. Wliat 
 
 — Ord. Survey, s. 31. Strangford Lough the material of this structure was, at that 
 
 derives its modern name from the town early period, is uncertain: but that a church 
 
 Strangford in this parish. The rectory of of stone existed here, long before the time 
 
 Ballyculter, with the chapel of Kenlys, an. of Malachi OMorgair, appears from the 
 
 val. £29 13s. 4«^., was appropriate to the following entry in the Annals of the Four 
 
 abbey of Saul Inq., 3 Ed. VI. " Rect. Masters, at the year 1015 : 
 
 de Saull cum capellis de Balliculter et " Dunbalecglapp 00 lopcc uile con a 
 
 Kells".— Ul. Vis. Book, p. 262. t)aimliacc agup con a cloiccech do che- 
 
 "^ Down.— Now the Cathedral of Down. "^ be aic". 
 When John de Courcy, in 1177, invaded " Dunum combustum totum cum sua 
 
 Ulster, he found this church attached to a Ecclesia lapidea, et cum suo campanile, ful- 
 
 house of Secular Canons, and under the in- mine".— i?er. Hib. SS., vol. iii. p. 559. 
 vocation of the Holy Trinity. In 1 183, he The ' campanile' or belfry here spoken 
 
 altered its constitution, and being, as Jo- of, was the Round Tower ; a portion of 
 
 celin states, " S. Patricii specialissimus which, about 66 feet high, is remembered 
 
 dilector et venerator", he changed its name to have stood at the distance of about 40 
 
 to ' Ecclesia Sti. Patricii', which it re- feet S. W. of the church, till about half 
 
 tained till 1609, when the charter of James a century ago, when it was so completely 
 
 I. revived the original title. The words overthrown that not a vestige of it was left 
 
 Dunum and Down are formed from the remaining. The abbey church, which was 
 
 Irish tDuri ' a fort' ; and are an abbrevia- burned in 1538, lay in ruin till 1790, when 
 
 tion of the original name tDunoalerjlap, effectual measures were adopted for its re- 
 
 by which the place is generally known storation See Appendix. 
 
 in Irish records. In a poem written ° Baliath 6uile ara (' the town of 
 
 previously to the seventh century, men- the Ford '), now Bailee parish. — Ord. Sur- 
 
 G 
 
42 
 (Dunens Dyoces.) 
 
 ^Capella de StrohuH ij-m^r ij-s-viij-d. 
 
 ^Capella Sci Malachie viij-5 decia • ix • d • ot3 
 
 «^Capella See Marie M'da- 
 
 lene xx-s dec'ia-ij-s. 
 
 «^Eccia de Kilmeleyt ij-m='r ij-s-viij.ct. 
 
 ^ Capella 
 
 vey, s. 38, " Ecclesia Parochialis of Bal- latterly have, like other places of the same 
 
 lee. The Prior of Down had it always, and nature, ceased to be objects of such great 
 
 lie was Deacon, as the Bishop was Ab- attraction. Harris, in 1 744, thus writes : 
 
 bot" Terrier. About the year 1183, Hither " vast Throngs of Rich and Poor 
 
 ' Belgach ' Avas granted by bishop INIalachi resort on Midsumvier-Eve, and the Friday 
 
 to the abbey of St. Patrick. At the Dis- before Lammas, some in hopes of obtain- 
 
 solution, the rectory of ' Bealgach alias ing Health, and others to perform Pe- 
 
 Bealy', an. val. £26 13s. 4^., was appro- nances enjoined them by the Popish Priests 
 
 priate to the abbey of St. Patrick — \\v\., from the Water blessed by St. Patrick. 
 
 3 Ed. VI. A. D. 1630, Henry Lesle, rec- They are four in Number, each covered 
 
 tor of 'Bealyath alias Bealy'. — Lib. Mu- with a Vault of Stone, and the Water 
 
 nerum. In the King's Books, the ' Vica- is conveyed by subterraneous Aqueducts 
 
 rage of Bally' is taxed at £4, and is the from one to the other; but the largest of 
 
 only benefice of the diocese of Down which these Vaults is the most celebrated, being 
 
 is specified therein. iii Dimensions sixteen Feet and half by 
 
 I' Strohidl. — Now Struell, a townland eleven, and is more particularly said to 
 
 in the N. E. corner of the parish of Down, have received St. Patrick's Benediction. 
 
 Ord. Survey, s. 38. It is a curious fact In this they bathe the whole Body, there 
 
 that the Irish name Srpucaip (Struher, being a commodious Chamber fitted up for 
 
 ' a stream') has, in several parts of Ireland, dressing and undressing; and the Water 
 
 been changed to ' Struel' or ' Shrule'. In of this Well maybe raised to what heigh th 
 
 the present case, the change took place you please, by means of a Sluice. The 
 
 before the year 1 300 ; but in the case of other Wells are applied for washing par- 
 
 Shrule in the county of Mayo, the origi- ticular Parts of the Body, as the Eyes, 
 
 nal name ' Struthir' was still in use at Head, Limbs, &c. All these Vaults seem 
 
 that date. — Taxation of Tuam Diocese. to be very Antient, and near one of them 
 
 Here are the celebrated wells of St. Pa- are the Ruins of a small Chappel, dedica- 
 
 trick, which, in former times, were fre- ted to St. Patrick ''. — Down, p. 25 — See 
 
 quented by persons from all quarters ; but Appendix, under the name Saul, 
 
(Diocese of Down.) 
 
 The chapel of Strohull 
 
 43 
 
 2 marks — 2s. Sd. 
 
 The chapel of St. Malachi" — Ss. Tenth, gz^d. 
 
 The chapel of St. Mary Macda- 
 
 lene'' 
 
 20S. 
 
 Tenth, 2s. 
 
 The church of Kilmeleyt^ 
 
 2 marks — 2S. Sd. 
 
 The 
 
 "^ St. MalacM. — The situation of this 
 chapel not being mentioned, its identifica- 
 tion must be matter of conjecture. St. 
 Bernard, in the Life of Malachi [TTIael- 
 mae&oc ua niopjaip], having related his 
 retirement from the Primacy, goes on to 
 say; "Malachias factus Dunensis Episco- 
 pus confestim more suo curavit asciscere 
 ad solatium sibi de filiis suis couentum 
 regularium clericorum". — Messingham, 
 Florileg, p. 362, col. 2. Accordingly, the 
 foundation of this house is referred by 
 Ware to the year 1138. Its position is 
 thus given in the Terrier : " Monasterium 
 Hibernorum, hard by the Cathedral, is 
 the Church of Channons ". In John de 
 Courcy's grant to the Bishop of Down, 
 one item is 'tota terra Sancti Malachie'; 
 which may have reference to the chapel in 
 question. The parish church of Down oc- 
 cupies the site of an older religious build- 
 ing, which possibly may be here intended. 
 Two other chapels in this diocese were 
 named from the same prelate, viz., Crum- 
 lin and Lismullen. 
 
 ^ Macdalene. — Now Ringreagh (Rinn 
 piac ' the grey point'), a townland of Kil- 
 clief, although in the heart of Down pa- 
 rish : it lies a short distance S. W. of Down- 
 
 patrick, — Ord. Survey, s. 37. " Capella 
 Sanctae Marine Magdalen de Rinriath^ it is 
 
 the Archdeacon's of Downe" Terrier. 
 
 A. D. 1449, the ' libera capella Beatse Ma- 
 riae Magdalene', vacant by the death of 
 Stephen Trystry, was conferred upon 
 William M*^connocha — Reg. Mey, lib. ii. 
 p. 223. A. D. 1487, Robert Ball was ap- 
 pointed to the ' capella Sanctse Marian Mag- 
 dalene de Duno'. — Reg. Octavian., fol. 
 288. A. D. 15 1 2, the ' capella Sanctas Ma- 
 rine Magdalene' was annexed by Tiberius, 
 Bishop of Down and Connor, to the abbey 
 of St. Patrick. — Reg. Dowd., p. 63. At 
 the Dissolution, the Prior of St. Patrick's 
 was seized of ' a void piece of land, and the 
 walls of an ancient chapel of St. Mary 
 
 Magdalen, of no value' Inq. 3 Ed. VI. 
 
 These walls have long since been demo- 
 lished, but traces of a burial-ground have 
 been observed in Ringreagh, at a spot 
 about 100 yards distant from the new road 
 between Downpatrick and Ballydugan. 
 
 ^ KUnielet/t The name sounds like ' Kil- 
 
 lyleagh', for which it may be intended, 
 although the parish of Killyleagh is nei- 
 ther in Lecale, nor contiguous to Down. 
 Or, if the word be read ' Kilineleyt', which 
 the original admits of, it might refer to 
 
 G 2 
 
44 
 (Dunens Dyoces.) 
 
 «^Capella de Ines j-m'r xvj-d. 
 
 [x\j -s-ix-d-ot). 
 j[ Sm' taxacois cviij-ti-viij-s. — Un decla-x-ti- 
 
 Decanat^ de Dalboyn. 
 
 ^Eccia de Drum boo cu ca- 
 
 peH iij-m^r decla-ilij -s. 
 
 ^Porcio 
 
 Loughinisland, which lies a little to the 
 N. W., where is a small lake, having an 
 island whereon are the ruins of three 
 churches. — Ord. Survey, s. 37. 
 
 t Ines Now the parish of Inch. — Ord. 
 
 Survey, ss. 30, 37. It derives its name from 
 a peninsula whereon the ancient church 
 stood, which was in old times called Imp 
 CuiTipcpaiD (Inis-Cooscry). " In the said 
 Island, immediately after the Entrance into 
 it by a Causeway, is an old Church, which 
 perhaps was a Chappel to the great Abby, 
 over the South Door of which is a piece of 
 Sculpture representing the image of Christ 
 on the Cross, and a Person on his Knees, 
 witlihis Hands elevated praying to him". 
 Harris, Down, p. 37- This chapel stood 
 in the parish burying-ground, and was 
 lately removed to make way for a mauso- 
 leum. The Abbey of Ines is taxed among 
 the other religious houses, at the end of 
 the diocese of Connor. 
 
 '^Dalboyn. — This deanry is called Dal- 
 vanie in the Terrier ; and Deluin in the 
 Ulster Visitation. The name occurs also 
 in the Trias Thaumaturga, where Colgan, 
 speaking of ' Tulach-ruisc ' [Tullyrusk], 
 
 states it to be in the diocese of Connor and 
 ' in decanatu Dalmunensi '. — p. 182, col. 2, 
 n. 1 99. Also, where he describes ' Lann- 
 Abhaich ' [Glenavy], as a parish church of 
 the same diocese, ' in regione Del-muni£e 
 in Dalaradia' — p. 183, col. 1, n. 209. And 
 again, when treating of 'Mag-Commuir' 
 [Muckamore], he places it 'in regione 
 Delmuniaj' — p. 183, col. i, n. 211. This 
 ecclesiastical district, which embraced a 
 tract of country lying on either side of the 
 river Lagan, from Spencer's Bridge, near 
 Moira, to the Drum Bridge, near Belfast, 
 borrowed its name and boundaries from 
 t)al m6uinne ('the portion of Buinn'), 
 an ancient civil sub-territory of Dal- Ara- 
 dia, which was so called from Buinn, whose 
 father, Fergus MacRoigh, King of Ulster, 
 was dethroned in the year B. C. 12. It is 
 represented by the modern rural deanries of 
 Hillsborough and Lisburn — ^qq Appendix. 
 ^ Drumboo. — Now the parish of Drum- 
 bo. — Ord. Survey, ss. 9, 15. In the Life 
 of St. Patrick, which is contained in the 
 Book of Armagh, as also in that written 
 by Probus, this name is expressed by the 
 Latin words Collum bovis. The old church- 
 
45 
 (Diocese of Down.) 
 
 The chapel of Ines' i mark \6d. 
 
 [£io i6s. gld. 
 Sum of the Taxation — £io8 85. — Tenth whereof, 
 
 The Deanry of Dalboyn^ 
 
 The church of Drumboo", with 
 
 the chapeF 3 marks — Tenth, 45. 
 
 The 
 
 yard of Drumbo contains the Ruin of a See Appendix. 
 
 Round Tower; but it is to be regretted <= C//apel. — Yormerly called St. Mala- 
 that, owing to the frequency of interments, chi's of Crumlin (cpuim ^leann 'crooked 
 no part of the old church remains. Har- glen'); now the parish of Hillsborough — 
 ris, however, has preserved the following Ord. Survey, ss. 14, 21. Down. " Crum- 
 details: '■'■ On the Hill oi Driwiboe, are the lin, membrum Archidiaconatus, parcella 
 Ruins of a Church, 45 Feet in length, and de Drumbo". — Reg. Vis., 1633. " The 
 20 broad; and at the N. W. Corner of the Chappell of St. Malachias (situate on the 
 Church, 24 Feet distant from it, stands Church-land of Crumlin, near Hillsbo- 
 an old round Tower, about 35 Feet high, rough, and being really no distinct parish) 
 47 [5° ^] ^^ Circumference, and 9 in the was a part and parcel of Drumbo". — Let- 
 Diameter in the clear, the Entrance into ter of Archdeacon Mathews to the Bp. of 
 which is on the East, 6 Feet from the Derry, 1703. The old building occupied 
 Ground". — Hist, of Down, p. 73. The part of the present pleasure ground of 
 doorway is 5 feet 6 inches high, i foot Hillsborough Demesne, and the place of 
 10 inches wide at the bottom, and gradu- the cemetery was pointed out by an aged 
 ally contracts to the top, where it is i foot willow-tree which was blown down in the 
 7 inches wide. A drawing of it is given storm of the night of Jan. 6, 1839, and ex- 
 in Mr. Petrie's Round Towers, p. 396. A posed in its roots several human bones, 
 religious house existed here at a very early among which the fibres had insinuated 
 perk)d ; St. Mochumma, Abbot of Drum- themselves. The site had been changed in 
 bo, was, according to ^ngus the Culdee, 1662 (not in 1636, as is stated in Archdall's 
 brother of St. Domangart, whose death is Lodge, vol. ii. p. 325), and the new church 
 placed by the Calendar of the Four Mas- was consecrated the same year.— Harris's 
 ters at the year 506. In the same Calen- Down, pp. 96, 270. The present church, 
 dar, the names of Luighbe and Cumin which is a monument of the munificence 
 occur at the 24th of July and loth of Au- of its founder, was built in 1773, at the 
 crust, in connexion with this church.— sole cost of Wills Earl of Hillsborough. 
 
(Dunens Dyoces.) 
 
 <^Porcio vicarii 
 
 46 
 
 XX -s 
 
 ^Eccia de Drum 
 
 ^Eccia de Cloncolmoc 
 ^Eccia de Ardrachi — 
 ^Eccia de Blaiis 
 
 <^Eccia de Drucale 
 
 ^ Eccia de Lennevvy cii 
 pclla 
 
 — decla-ij-s. 
 
 — decia-xvj-d. 
 
 — decia • xvj • d. 
 
 di • ni=*r decia • viij • d. 
 
 j • m^r decia • xvj • d. 
 
 viij • s decia • ix • d q! 
 
 j.m^r 
 j • m^'r 
 
 ca- 
 
 * Vicar's portion By the charter of 
 
 James I. the rectory and \'icarage of Drum- 
 bo, with Hillsborough, were placed in the 
 corps of the Archdeaconry of Down. It is 
 probable that the rectory was at the date 
 of the Taxation appropriate to that dig- 
 nity. 
 
 * Drum. — Now Drumbeg parish. — Ord. 
 Survey, s. 9, Down ; s. 64, Antrim. The 
 church occupies the ancient site, on a hill 
 in the county of Down, commonly called 
 the Drum. The parish is intersected by the 
 river Lagan, and Avas sometimes styled 
 Drom in the Lagan. The Irish word Ha- 
 jari signifies, according to ^Ir. Donovan, 
 "a hollow, or hollow district between hills 
 or mountains" ( Hy-Fiachrach, p. 223), 
 and is applied to tracts in the counties of 
 Mayo and Donegal. At the Dissolution, 
 the rectory of this parish was appropriate 
 to the abbey of Moville. 
 
 ^ Cloncolmoc. — Cluam Colmoc ' the 
 plain of Colman'. In Old-forge, a town- 
 land of Drumbeg, near the village of Dun- 
 murry, formerly stood a church, the site 
 of which, though nowunder tillage, is well 
 known. The name is lost, but its position 
 
 — x-s decia -xij-d. 
 
 ^ Eccia 
 
 between Drumbeg and Derryaghy renders 
 it most likely to have been the church 
 mentioned in the text. Hill-Hall, which 
 is a townland of Drumbeg parish, where 
 it meets Blaris, was formerly called, as it 
 is marked in Williamson's map, Down Kil- 
 muck. This name bears some resemblance 
 to that in the Taxation, but no traces of a 
 church or cemetery have been discovered 
 in the townland so called. 
 
 i Ardrachi. — Now Derryaghy parish — 
 Ord. Survey, s. 64. Antrim. " Dirrera- 
 ghie in le cinament Dirrevolagie alias Fea- 
 
 loagh" Inq. Antrim, 1605. The parish 
 
 church occupies the ancient site. A. D. 
 1444, the chapel or grange of Aireara- 
 chaid in the diocese of Down, formerly be- 
 longing to the Black Priory of St. Andrew 
 in the Ards, was let by the Primate to John 
 M"^gynd, Official of Dromore, at 3s. 4^. per 
 an. — Reg. Prene, fol. 32, dors. The Lord 
 Primate, in right of Richard Fitz Ralph's 
 purchase in 1356, is rector and patron of 
 the vicarage. In this parish, near Stoney- 
 ford, is the townland Bovolcan, which Col- 
 gan, in a note on the Life of St. Olcan, 
 calls " Boith Bolcain prope Connere in Ba- 
 
(Diocese of Down.) 
 
 The vicar's portion'* - 
 The church of Drum' 
 
 47 
 
 20S. 
 
 The church of Cloncohnoc^ 
 The church of Ardrachi^ — 
 The church of Blaris" 
 
 j • m r 
 J 
 
 m^'r 
 
 h mark 
 I mark 
 
 The church of Drumcale' 
 
 The church of Lennevvy", with 
 the chapeP 
 
 85. 
 
 Tenth, 2S. 
 Tenth, i6d. 
 Tenth, \6d. 
 Tenth, Sd. 
 Tenth, i6d. 
 Tenth, gld. 
 
 los. Tenth, 12c/. 
 
 The 
 
 ronia de Coill Ultach". — Act. SS., p. 378, chaile alias Mathrenegall" — Terrier. The 
 
 col. I. There is no memory of any eccle- present parish church was erected in 1830 
 
 siastical remains existing there, although upon the site of one more ancient, Avhich 
 
 Archdall, making too free an use of Col- was probably built early in the seven- 
 
 gan's words, introduces Boithbolcain in- teenth century. The original church stood 
 
 to the Monasticon, and describes it as a 
 " church near Connor( !), founded by St. 
 Bolcain, a disciple of St. Patrick". — p. 3. 
 
 ^ Blaris. — Now Blaris, otherwise Lis- 
 burn. This parish being intersected by 
 the Lagan, is partly in Down and partly 
 in Antrim. — Ord. Survey, s. 14, Down; 
 s. 68, Antrim. In the former portion is 
 the townland Blaris, where is the old 
 churchyard, but with very little of the 
 church remaining. In some Inquisitions 
 it is called Bally-templeblarisse. The pre- 
 sent parish church, which, according to 
 the charter of Charles II., is also the Ca- 
 thedral of the united diocese of Down and 
 Connor, stands in the town of Lisburn, 
 formerly Lisnegarvie. Close to the town, 
 on the Lagan side, is an ancient burial- 
 ground, called Kilrush. 
 
 ' Drumcale. — Now Magheragall parish. 
 — Ord. Survey, s. 63. Antrim. " Drum- 
 
 in the townland Ballyellough, about half 
 a mile west of the modern one : its site is 
 now occupied by a farmer's barn and sta- 
 ble, a few fragments of the old walls being 
 built into these offices, while the adjoin- 
 ing ground has frequently afforded evi- 
 dence that it was a depository of the dead. 
 
 ^ Lennewy. — Now Glenavy parish 
 
 Ord. Survey, s. 59. Antrim. In early 
 documents the name is called, with slight 
 variation, Lenavy, Lunavy, Lynavy. A 
 triennial Visitation Book of 1661, which 
 calls the parish Glanawy, is the earliest 
 authority in which the Editor has found 
 the letter O prefixed. At the Dissolution, 
 the rectory of Clenough alias Linawey, in 
 the territory of Kilultagh, was appropriate 
 to the Abbot of Bangor. — Ul. Inq., No. 2, 
 Jac. I. Down. — Cal. Cane. Hib., vol. ii. 
 p. 146 b. This church is mentioned in 
 the Calendar under the name 6ann abaic. 
 
48 
 
 (Dunens D voces.) 
 
 ^Eccia de Rathmeskf — 
 ^Capella de Enacha — 
 *^Capella de Thanelagh 
 
 «^Capella de Acheli 
 
 '^Eccia de Dcrbi 
 
 - di • m'r decla • vlij • d. 
 
 - xl-d decia-iiij -d. 
 
 - xl-d decla -iiij-d. 
 
 - xl-d decia-iiij -d. 
 
 - viij-s decia • ix • d qt 
 
 Decanat^ in Klenbef va!t p totu in anno- j-rn'r- decla -xvi-d. 
 
 [cla-xvj -s-iij-d q! 
 
 ^ Sni* taxaconis viij - ti - ij - s • viij • d. — Inde De- 
 
 Sm* 
 
 wliich signifies ' the church of the dwarf, 
 being so called from the low stature of its 
 first minister. — ^q& Appendix, and Calen- 
 dar therein at Jan. 22, and November 6. It 
 is said that the present church does not 
 occupy the original site, but that the old 
 Glenavy churchyard was at some distance, 
 in an angle formed by the Glenavy and Pi- 
 geontown roads. — Par. Sur., vol. ii. p. 236. 
 ' Chapel. — Probably Ram's Island. — 
 Ord. Survey, s. 58. Antrim. This island, 
 which forms part of Glenavy parish, lies 
 in Lough Neagh, and contains nearly seven 
 acres. In Speed's INIap of Ulster, and in 
 Bleau's Geography (vol. vi.), it is called 
 Enis Garden, and is accompanied by the 
 symbol of a church and circular tower. At 
 present, the only remains of antiquity on 
 the island is the Round Tower, " 43 feet 
 high, 30 feet 5 inches in circumference, the 
 walls being 2 feet 8^ inches in thickness", 
 Paroc. Survey, vol. ii. p. 238. Several 
 skeletons and fragments of coffins, indica- 
 tive of a burial ground, have at various 
 times been turned up in the neighbour- 
 hood of the tower ; and it is not a century 
 
 since the island was described as having 
 " the ruins of a church, with a round Tow- 
 er". — Barton's Lectures on Lough Neagh, 
 Frontispiece. 
 
 •" Bathmesk Now Magheramesk, a pa- 
 rish in the union of Aghalee. — Ord. Sur- 
 vey, s. 67. Antrim. The Terrier gives the 
 name in the form oi Ramisq, without the 
 modern prefix. In the townland Trum- 
 mery is the churchyard, with the ruins 
 of the ancient church, measuring 5 1 by 
 14 feet. This spot was formerly attractive 
 by reason of the Round Tower which be- 
 longed to this church. It stood close to 
 the N. E. angle, and is stated, when com- 
 plete, to have been about 60 feet high. 
 The greater part of it fell in 1828, and all 
 that remains is the base, inside which are 
 a few spiral steps. 
 
 ^Enacha Now Aghagallon, a parish 
 
 in the same union with last. — Ord. Sur- 
 vey, s. 62. Antrim. The Terrier calls it 
 Anachegaldanagh ; and the King's Books 
 Annaghgaldanagh. At the Dissolution, 
 the rectory of Agallanach, in the Wood of 
 Ulster [Kilultagh], extending over seven 
 
49 
 (Diocese of Down.) 
 
 The church of Rathmesk'" | mark Tenth, ScL 
 
 The chapel of Enacha" ^od. Tenth, 4^/. 
 
 The chapel of Thanelagh 40^/. Tenth, ^d. 
 
 The chapel of Acheli'' 4od. Tenth, ^d. 
 
 The cliurch of Derbi"^ 8s. Tenth, 9!^^. 
 
 [Tenth, i6d. 
 
 The deanry in Klenber'"" is altogether worth, in the year — 1 mark — 
 
 Sum of the Taxation, £8 2S. Sd. — Tenth thereof, 165. 35^/. 
 
 Sum 
 
 townlands, was appropriate to the Abbot church remain in the churchyard. The 
 
 of Moville — Ul. Inq., No. 2, Jac. I. Down, east wall is entirely removed; the breadth 
 
 Cal. Cane. Hib., vol. ii. p. 146 b. The of the building is 20 feet. Aghaleeisnow 
 
 ruins of the church, 61^ feet in length, and in the diocese of Dromore, having been 
 
 23!^ in breadth, remain in the churchyard. transferred to it before 1546; for at that 
 
 ° Tlianelagh — Probably an error for Tarn- date Primate Dowdall's Registry reckons 
 
 laght. In Derrymore, a townland on the the Rec. and Vic. o/Ackalead among the 
 
 west side of Aghagallon parish, in a boggy benefices of that diocese p. 214. 
 
 tract called the Moyntaghs, beside Lough '^ Derbi. — Now Ballinderry (baile an 
 
 Neagh, is an ancient burying-ground, ooipe ' the town of the oak wood'), a pa- 
 
 which is exclusively iised by the Roman rish. In a townland of the same name, on 
 
 Catholics of the district, wherein are the the S. E. margin of Portmore Lough, is 
 
 ruins of an old church called Magherna- an eminence which is insulated in winter 
 
 gaw. — Ord. Survey, s. 62. Antrim. They by the overflowing of the lake, whereon is 
 
 measure 491 by 20 feet in the clear. It a graveyard with the ruins of an ancient 
 
 appears by several Inquisitions that the church. — Ord. Survey, s. 62. Antrim. 
 
 two townlands of Agallanach and Mager- This is the spot intended by Bp. Heber, 
 
 negath, in the Wood of Ulster, belonged to when, in his life of Jeremy Taylor, he 
 
 the abbey of Moville Cal, Cane. Hib., states that " he often preached to a small 
 
 vol. ii. pp. 72, 146 b. King's Collection. congregation in the half-ruined church of 
 ^Acheli. — Now Aghalee parish. — Ord. Kilulta" — p. 83. In the centre of this pa- 
 Survey, ss. 62, 67. Antrim. At the Disso- rish is another churchyard, having slight 
 lution, the rectory of ' Anahely alias Agha- remains of a church, called Templecormac, 
 ley' was appropriate to the Abbot of Bangor. and situate in a townland of the same name. 
 
 Ul. Inq., No. 2, Jac. I. Down Cal. Cane. Ord. Survey, s. 63. Antrim. 
 
 Hib., vol. ii. p. 146 b. The ruins of the old ^ Klenber. — The meaning of this entry 
 
 H 
 
50 
 (Diinens Dyoces.) 
 
 Sm* totalis taxaconis Dyoc Duneii — 
 
 iij-d-o. — Unde decima xlij-ti 
 
 cccc-xxliij -ti-ilj -s 
 viij -s-iiij -d. 
 
 CONERENS DYOCES. 
 
 ^^Eccia See Marie de 
 na^ 
 
 is obscure. The most probable conjec- 
 ture is that Klenber'' is a clerical error for 
 Klenter''^ which in extenso might be read 
 Klenterib. From an ancient recital of the 
 see property of Down, it appears that Clun- 
 tairib was an item therein. Tlie Terrier 
 also returns " in Cleanterfe, one towne, in 
 Temporals and Spirituals", as belonging 
 to the Bishop of Down. This is now called 
 Cluntirriffe, and is a townland in the south 
 of Ballinderry parish. — Ord. Survey, s. 63. 
 Antrim. The passage would thus mean 
 that the part of the rural deanry, which 
 was comprised in this denomination, was 
 valued at the annual sum specified in the 
 text. 
 
 * Down. — With the single exception of 
 Connor, this diocese is valued in the Taxa- 
 tion at a higher sum than any other in the 
 pi'ovince. Being both under English rule, 
 church preferment was more lucrative, and 
 the agents of the Crown had greater faci- 
 lities for ascertaining the real value of be- 
 nefices. It is a curious fact that the tem- 
 poralities of the see of DoAvn are not taxed 
 in this document ; and that the religious 
 houses of the diocese are placed at the foot 
 
 Gle- 
 
 iij-m T 
 
 decia-iiij -s. 
 
 ^ Rector 
 
 of the Connor Taxation. Nicholas, Bishop 
 of Down, died on the 4th of March, 1 305 ; 
 whereupon the temporalities of the see 
 were seised into the hands of the King, 
 and were not restored to his successor, 
 Thomas Ketel, till the ist of July, 1305. 
 Meanwhile this Taxation was probably 
 made, in which it would be unnecessary 
 to assess the see property, as the Crown 
 was at the time seised of it. A computus 
 of the see property during this interval^ 
 copied from the Escheator's account, will 
 be given in the Appendix. In the King's 
 Books, the diocese of Down, including 
 the property of the bishop, is rated at the 
 small sum of £99 1 3s. 
 
 " Connor. — As the diocese of Down was 
 anciently of greater, so the diocese of Con- 
 nor was of less extent than it at present 
 is. The entire county of Antrim is now 
 comprehended in the latter, whereas, up 
 to the seventeenth century, its southern 
 part, namely, the baronies of Upper Bel- 
 fast, Upper Massereene, and part of Lower 
 Massereene, belonged to the former. A 
 line drawn from Ardmore Point on Lough 
 Neagh, in the parish of Killead, to the nor- 
 
•51 
 (Diocese of Down.) 
 
 Sum total of the Taxation of the Diocese of Dovvn^ — 
 
 £424 35. T^id. — Tenth whereof, £42 86'. 40?. 
 
 DIOCESE OF CONNOR^ 
 
 The church of St. Mary of Gle- 
 
 naruni'' 3 marks — Tenth, 45. 
 
 The 
 
 them extremity of the Grange of Molusk, the south of Lame. Formerly the terri- 
 
 and thence to Greencastle in Belfast pa- tory was of much greater extent, for the 
 
 rish, would define the ancient boundary Tripartite Life of St. Patrick, treating of 
 
 between the two dioceses with sufficient the church of Rath Sithe [Rashee], which 
 
 exactness for general purposes. The other lies about seven miles to the west, places 
 
 limits of Connor are, as before the Taxa- it " in agro de Mag-damoma" — Part ii. 
 
 tion, the sea on the north and east, and c. 133, Trias Th. 147, col. i. 
 
 the river Bann with Lough Neagh on the ^ Glenarum The modern benefice of 
 
 west. See Appendix. Glenarm is an union of the parishes Tick- 
 
 The name of the rural deanry contain- macrevan and Templeoughter ; and each 
 
 ing the churches with which the Taxation incumbent is under the necessity, ere his 
 
 opens this diocese, is not given in the ori- induction, of procuring an act of Council 
 
 ginal, but it may be presumed to have to authorize the continuance of the union, 
 
 been the same as that set forth in later althoiigh the boundaries between the two 
 
 documents. Primate Dowdall's Registry, are so completely forgotten, that no inge- 
 
 of the year 1 546, slightly departing from nuity could restore them. In consequence 
 
 the Irish mooaipn or Modhorna, calls it of this uncertainty, the Ordnance Survey 
 
 Marine. p. 267. Colgan styles it " decana- was compelled to represent both under the 
 
 tus deMachaire-Morna" Trias Thaum., single name Tickmacrevan. Templeough- 
 
 p. 177, col. I. The Terrier also has the ter (CeampuU uaccaip ' upper church '), 
 
 " Deanery ofMauchrimorne", but it divides here called ;S'^. Mary's, was, at the Disso- 
 
 the churches, here placed in one group, lution, appropriate to the abbey of the 
 
 between it and the deanry of Moyghlinny. Blessed Mary of Kells, and was described 
 
 The name Magheramorne is now confined in Inquisitions, as being "in vel juxta 
 
 to a portion of the parish of Glynn, com- Glenarm". The spot formerly occupied 
 
 prised in the townland Ballylig, a little to by the church is now enclosed in Glenarm 
 
 H 2 
 
52 
 (Conerens Dyoces.) 
 
 '^Rector Eccie de Salower- xlv-s 
 
 ^^ Vicar eius(tm 
 
 <^ Vicar de KarkasteH 
 
 Prior de ^Rector de Kilglan 
 
 Mugmof ^^ Vicar eiusdm 
 
 v-m r 
 
 decla-iiij-s-vj -d. 
 decla -vj-s- viij -d. 
 
 V • m^r 
 
 v-m r- 
 
 ^Eccia de Balycunpan 
 ^Eccia de Killochre — 
 ^Eccia de Rathlungt - 
 
 demesne, and lies near the brink of a stream, 
 ii little south of the castle, where some 
 slight irregularity of the ground marks 
 the traces of the foundations, and a small 
 portion of the cemetery, Avhich is sur- 
 rounded by a wall, is claimed as the bury- 
 ing place of one or two families. The Ord. 
 
 — decia -vj-s 
 
 — decia- vj -s 
 iiij -m^r-di - decla • vj • s. 
 xs 
 
 •viij 'd. 
 viij-d. 
 
 decia • xij • d. 
 
 — v-m"r decia- vj -s- viij- d. 
 
 — vj-m^r decia -viij -5. 
 
 ^Eccia 
 
 lands of Psallor, with the castle of Glen- 
 harm, and one carucatc in the town of 
 Glenharma, at ten marks and one hawk, 
 paid to Robert, Bishop of Connor, in right 
 of his church. — Inq, P. M., 6 Ed. I. Tur. 
 Lond. By a strange oversight, the Ord. 
 Survey has omitted to specify this parish. 
 
 Survey distinguishes the spot by the words and has disposed of its townlands among 
 
 Church Ruins — s. 29. Tickmacrevan is call- 
 ed in the Taxation " St. Patrick's Church 
 of Glenarm", and is, by a capricious dis- 
 tribution, placed in the deanry of Turtrye. 
 In like manner, Templeoughter, under the 
 name Glinarrm, was annexed by the char- 
 ter of James I. to the Prebend of Rashar- 
 kan, while Tacmacremye was appended to 
 the Chancellorship of Connor. 
 
 those of Carncastle. The parish of Solar, 
 containing 2029 statute acres, consists of 
 the toAvnlands Drunuiagreagh with Slieve- 
 bane ; INIinniss, N. and S. ; Lisnahay, N. and 
 S. ; and Solar. 
 
 ^ Karkastell. — Now Carncastle (Carn- 
 chaislen. — Colg. Act. SS., p. 377) parish. 
 Ord. Survey, s. 35. The vicarage only is 
 taxed in the present instance, as the rec- 
 
 ' Salower. — Now Solar parish. — Ord. tory belonged to the Hospitallers. — See 
 
 Survey, s. 30. The Bishop is rector, and 
 the Prebendary of Connor is vicar. The 
 small townland Solar is held, as the rec- 
 tor's glebe, under the See of Connor. In it 
 are the foundations of the ancient church, 
 measuring 48 by 20 feet. A. D. 1278, it 
 was found that John Byset held, in capite, 
 of the Bishop of Connor, two parts of the 
 
 Taxation under ' Cragfergus '. It was 
 found by Inquisition in 1605, that the 
 Prior of St. John of Jerusalem was seised, 
 at the Dissolution, of the rectory of the 
 church of Carnecaslane, in the barony of 
 Larne in the Rowte, consisting of seven 
 townlands, with the advowson of the vi- 
 carage: an. val. 55. — Ing. Ant. MS. The 
 
53 
 (Diocese of Connor.) 
 
 The rector of the church of Sa- 
 
 lower*^ 
 
 The vicarage of the same 
 
 The vicarao-e of Karkastell'' — 
 
 Prior of The rector of Kilglan^ 
 
 Mugmore. The vicarage of the same 
 
 The cluirch of Balycunpan*^ — 
 
 The church of Killochre^ 
 
 The church of llathlung;'' 
 
 455. 
 
 5 marks — 
 5 marks — 
 5 marks — 
 4^ marks — 
 
 \os. 
 
 name is derived from a small castellated 
 rock, which stands close to the shore, on 
 the north of Ballygalley Head. The church 
 is a modern building ; but beside it, in the 
 churchyard, are some remains of the origi- 
 nal edifice. In this parish has merged a 
 chapelry, called St. Cunning., which was 
 united by the charter of James I., not to huupane is the Bishop's mensall, both in 
 
 Tenth, 46\ 6d. 
 Tenth, 6s. ScL 
 Tenth, 6s. Sd. 
 Tenth, 6s. Sd. 
 Tenth, 6s. 
 Tenth, i2d. 
 Tenth, 6s. 8d. 
 Tenth, Ss. 
 
 The 
 
 of the old church, measuring about 66 by 
 24 feet. 
 
 ^ Bali/cunpan. — Now Ballyhampton, a 
 townland in the parish of Kilwaughter, 
 about a mile west of Larne Ord. Sur- 
 vey, s. 40. It contains 222 acres, and is 
 held uuder the see of Connor. " Bally- 
 
 5 marks 
 
 6 marks 
 
 the Prebend of Carncastle, bu.t to that of 
 Rasharkan, under the name Sancti Conic. 
 The foundations, measuring 48 by 20 feet, 
 remain in the townland St. Cunning. 
 
 ^ Kilglcm. — Now the Grange of Killy- 
 glen. — Ord. Survey, s. 35. The rectory, 
 as the margin states, was appropriate to 
 the Prior of Muckamore. A. D. circ. 1 25 1 , 
 the church of St. John o/KUglan was con- 
 firmed to Muckamore, by Isaac, Bishop of 
 Connor. — Regist. Much. " Graunge de 
 Killglynne, the 2^ part of all tithes im- 
 propriate to the Abbey of Muckmore" 
 
 Spiritual and Temporal, and is a towne, 
 but it is brink ed by evil neighbours". — 
 Terrier. At the cross-roads, in this town- 
 land, is a field called the Kirkland., which 
 has a most copious water-head of several 
 springs, and, beside it, a sunny slope, where 
 human bones, pieces of coffins, and traces 
 of a building were seen within the memo- 
 ry of some old people yet alive. 
 
 •5 Killochre. — Now Kilwaughter ( ciU 
 
 uaccaip 'upper church') parish Ord. 
 
 Survey, s. 40. The churchyard is still used, 
 though enclosed in Kilwaughter demesne, 
 
 Ul. Vis. The almost disused cemetery lies and close by the out-offices of the castle, 
 unenclosed, in a field near the middle of the ^ Rathlung. — Now Ealoo parish — Ord. 
 
 parish, and within it are the foundations Survey, s. 46. A. D. 1333, one messuage 
 
54 
 (Conorens Dyoces. ) 
 
 ^Eccia de Dunales ij-m^r-di— decia-iij- s-iilj-d. 
 
 <^Capella See Marie de 
 
 Ynuer xx-s 
 
 Bdirore ^Rector See Cedme de 
 
 eactm 
 
 ^ Vicar eiusdm 
 
 - iiij-m^rdi- 
 — xx-s 
 
 decia-ij -s. 
 
 dccla- vj -s. 
 decia-ij-s. 
 
 ^Rector 
 
 and twenty acres were hold under Wil- 
 liam de Burgo, in Rathelang — Inq. P. M., 
 7 Ed. III. The parish churchyard is in 
 the townland Tureagh. 
 
 ' Dunales. — Now Drumaliss, which, with 
 the Curran of Larne, forms a townland in 
 the parish of Larne — Ord. Survey, s. 40. 
 William de Burgo held land in Dnnmal- 
 /ys._Iuq. P. M., 7 Ed. III. " Ecclesia de 
 Dunmalyn".— Reg. Dowd., p. 267. "Ca- 
 pella de Downemallis of Wodburne, it 
 hath but three quarters of land in all ". — 
 Terrier. " The castle of Olderflete, hav- 
 ing 3 quarters of land, which, by Inquis. 
 I St Sept. 1 59 1, contained 180 acres, Eng- 
 lish measure, and the lands adjoining and 
 belonging to the church of the friars, call- 
 ed Clondunmales or Cloghdunmales, con- 
 taining, as by said Inquisition, 15 acres, 
 Englishmeasure, lying near the lands of Ol- 
 derflete on the north, and the lands of the 
 town of Learne on the other side, with the 
 tithes of Olderfleet, Blackave, and Gril- 
 lamhiU, belonging to the said church, rent 
 £1 6s. 8f/., demised by the Queen to Moy- 
 ses Hill, 15th Feb. 34 Eliz., for a term of 
 20 years". — Cal. Cane. Hib., vol. ii. p. 7. 
 
 Both church and graveyard have disap- 
 peared; but their place is marked by an 
 oblong depression in a field at the ' root of 
 the Curran ', on the left-hand side of the 
 road. 
 
 ^ Ynver. — The present perpetual curacy 
 of Larne comprises, in addition to Dunales 
 last mentioned, the parish of Invcrbeg, and 
 part of Invermore. Inverbeg was found 
 by Inquisition in 1605, to be a rectory 
 consisting of three townlands, appropriate 
 to the Bishop of Connor. The Terrier also 
 represents it as " the Bishop's mensall, 
 having three townlands, whereof the Spiri- 
 tual belongs to the Bishop ". It comprised 
 part of the town of Larne, and its church 
 is supposed to have stood somewhere near 
 the court-house, for the back-yard of an 
 adjoining house occupies a space which 
 appears, from the quantities of human 
 bones some years ago found in it, to have 
 been once a burial place. The name Inver 
 (Inbeap 'the mouth of a river') was an 
 old name of Larne, and refers to the posi- 
 tion of the town at the mouth of the Larne 
 Water, anciently called the Ollarba. The 
 name Larne, as a parochial denomination, 
 
55 
 (Diocese of Connor.) 
 
 The church of Dunales' 24 marks Tenth, 3.9. 4(1. 
 
 The chapel of St. Mary of 
 
 Ynver"— 
 
 205. Tenth, 2S. 
 
 Barigore. The rector of St. Cedma' of 
 
 the same 45 marks Tenth, 6s. 
 
 The vicarage of the same — 205. Tenth, 25. 
 
 is but of modern date, being originally ap- 
 plied to a civil territory, called Latharna 
 by the Tripartite Life and other early au- 
 thorities, and being borne by a Tuogh, 
 which, in the seventeenth century, merged 
 in the barony of Upper Glenarm. In the 
 Antrim Patents of 162 1, 1630, the town 
 is called Inverr-in-Laherne. In the Down 
 Survey, it is marked Inver alias Learne, 
 In 1622, the union, consisting of the next 
 named parish and this, was styled " Unio 
 de Invermore etinverbeg". — Ul. Vis. 
 
 ' Cednia This designation is locally 
 
 unknown, and the Editor has in vain 
 searched the Calendar to find a name an- 
 swering to it. The rectory of Invermore 
 was found, by Inquisition in 1605, to con- 
 sist of the four townlands Avhich form the 
 present parish of Inver, together with two 
 townlands on the Larne side of the river. 
 At the Dissolution, it was appropriate to 
 a house of the Third Order of St. Francis, 
 which was established here in the fifteenth 
 century. The parish church of Larne, 
 which is an ancient structure, is generally 
 supposed to have been buUt for, or adopted 
 by, this house. At the date of the Taxa- 
 
 The 
 
 tion, the rectory of the parish, as may be 
 inferred from the marginal note, was ap- 
 propriate to Bangor ; although it does not 
 appear that at the Dissolution this abbey 
 had any possessions here, its old rights 
 having probably been transferred to the 
 comparatively modern Franciscan house. 
 
 The famous St. Comgall was a native of 
 this district : according to Tigernach, he 
 was born in the year 517, and founded the 
 church of Bangor in 558. The following 
 passage from that Annalist serves to illus- 
 trate the early connexion which existed 
 between Inver and Bangor : — 
 
 A. C. 565. — " In hoc anno capca epc 
 an ITIujpjelc pop rpachr OUapba illin 
 6eoain mc Inole 1. lapcaipe ComjaiU 
 6ennchaip pop jab". 
 
 " In hoc anno capta est Siren ad littus 
 Ollarbce, in retibus Beoani filii Indlani, i. e. 
 ■^iscdAor CoragBMiBenchorensis cepit earn". 
 Rer. Hib. SS., vol. ii. p. 149. 
 
 The shore of Ollarba was that part of 
 Larne Lough, into which the Larne water 
 empties itself, and its ancient name was 
 long preserved in the corrupted form 01- 
 derfleet Haven. — See Appendix. 
 
(Conerens Dyoces.) 
 
 ^ Rector de Glyne 
 ^ Vicar eiusctm 
 
 56 
 
 V 
 
 x-s 
 
 m^r 
 
 decla-vj-s-viij -d. 
 decia-xij -d. 
 
 ^Eccia ville Othewercu ca- 
 pella 
 
 ^Eccia de Irve cu capella 
 de Brokenbury 
 
 iiij-m'r decla-v-s-iiij -d. 
 
 ^Eccia de Loghlat 
 
 j.m^r 
 v-m*r 
 
 dec'ia-xxj -d. 
 decla-vj- s -viij -d. 
 ^Eccia 
 
 m 
 
 Glyne. — Now the parish of Glynn. — 
 Ord. Survey, s. 40. At the Dissolution, 
 the rectory was appropriate to the abbey 
 of Kells. To the foundation of the church 
 of Glynn by St, Patrick, the Tripartite 
 Life adverts in these words : " ^dificavit 
 Ecclesiam in vallcde Gleannindeachta". — 
 part ii. c. 133, Tr.Th., p. 147, col. i. This 
 name is written ^leann Pineacca in an 
 old Irish verse preserved by Abp. Ussher. 
 Brit. Eccl. Antiq., cap. 15, Works, vol. vi. 
 p. 146. Colgan states that the valley re- 
 tained the name to his day, and describes 
 it as situate in that part of Trian Conguill 
 called Machaire-Morna or Modhorna. — 
 Trias Th., p. 183, col. i. The ruins of 
 the church occupy a picturesque spot on a 
 bank at the river side in a shady glen, and 
 are interesting as they present an instance, 
 almost solitary in the architectural remains 
 of the diocese, of a church having a dis- 
 tinct nave and chancel. The former mea- 
 sures 44 feet 6 inches, by 1 7 feet 5 inches 
 in the clear ; and the latter, 32 feet 2 inches 
 by 14 feet 4 inches. The two compart- 
 ments are characterized by totally different 
 
 styles of architecture ; each window in the 
 nave being square, and surmounted by a 
 slab instead of an arch ; while the east win- 
 dow in the chancel is pointed. It is evi- 
 dent that the chancel was superadded to 
 the original building, which was the nave, 
 though, perhaps, at a very remote period. 
 
 ^ Othewer-toicn. — Ballyedward, a town- 
 land at the south end of Glynn parish, had 
 once a church and ten acres of glebe, al- 
 though no trace of either is now to be dis- 
 covered. In the charter of James I., Balle 
 Edurard was appended to the corps of the 
 Deanry of Connor. In 1622, the church 
 was returned as in ruin. — Ul. Vis. The 
 position, as well as the name ol the chapel 
 mentioned in the text, is unknown. The 
 article " Unio de Balleedward", in the Ap- 
 pendix of the Ul. Visitation, probably de- 
 notes the church with its chapel. 
 
 ° True. — " Ecclesia de Irwo " Beg. 
 
 Bowd. A. D. 1 2 1 5, the King directed the 
 Justiciary of Ireland to reinstate Robert 
 Talebot in his land oi Ireice, which had 
 been seized into the King's hand, because 
 the said Robert was among his opponents 
 
(Diocese of Connor.) 
 
 The rector of Glyne" 
 
 S7 
 
 The vicarage of the same 
 
 The church of Othevver-tovvn", 
 with the chapel 
 
 5 marks 
 
 los. 
 
 Tenth, 6s. Sd. 
 Tenth, lad. 
 
 4 marks — Tenth, 55. 4^. 
 
 The church of Irue°, with the 
 
 chapel of Brokenbury^ 
 
 The church of Loghlat"^ 
 
 I mark - 
 5 marks 
 
 Tenth, i6d. 
 Tenth, 6s. Sd. 
 The 
 
 in the castle of Crakfergus — Hardy's Rot. 
 Claus., vol. i. p. 2 2 3 ; Rot. Pat., vol. i. p. 1 9 1 . 
 This name, which seems to have been 
 formed from the Irish word aipeam (er- 
 rew), denoting ' arable land', is now lost, 
 having been, in all probability, exchanged 
 for Eed Hall. In this toA\Tiland, which 
 belongs to Templecorran parish, formerly 
 existed a church and cemetery : their place 
 is now occupied by the stable-yard of Red 
 Hall House. 
 
 '^ Brokenbury. — A. D. 12 15, the Justi- 
 ciary of Ireland received an order to re- 
 store to Robert Talebot his land of Bra- 
 kenberghe, which Hugh de Lascy gave him, 
 but whereof he was disseised because he 
 was taken in Cracfergus ; and which had 
 passed into the hands of William of Bra- 
 kenberg, who had joined the King's ene- 
 mies. — Hardy's Rot. CL, pp. 226, 241, and 
 Rot. Pat., p. 1 9 1 b. A. D. 1 2 1 9, the charge 
 preferred against William of Brakenberg 
 having proved false, the Justiciary was di- 
 rected to restore him his land, notwith- 
 standing that seisin had been granted to 
 
 Robert Talebot Hardy's Rot. CL, p. 398. 
 
 This name also is now obsolete. It proba- 
 
 bly belonged to a tract near BaUycarry, 
 which is in the same parish as the last ; for 
 at about the distance of 200 yards to the 
 Avest of that village is a spot Avhere large 
 quantities of human remains have been 
 turned up, and where existed the founda- 
 tions of a building which tradition pro- 
 nounced to be a church. 
 
 '^Loyklat This church, which also was 
 
 in Templecorran parish, and was common- 
 ly called LignaliUei\ stood in the low 
 ground, a little to the left of the road lead- 
 ing from Ballycarry to Island Magee, and 
 close upon the end of Larne Lough. The 
 burial-ground, which contained the foun- 
 dations of the church, was cleared out some 
 years ago, and is now under tillage. One 
 tomb-stone, which was removed from it, re- 
 mains in Templecorran churchyard. " Ec- 
 clesia de Lagnolottyn''\ — Reg. Dowd., 
 p. 267. At the Dissolution, the Prior of 
 Inch was seised of the church or chapel of 
 Langualattin, with the tithes of two town- 
 lands in the Tuogh of Braden Island. — 
 Inq. Ant. 1605. "■ Ecclesia de Laghnagh- 
 litten, noe church nor walles, but a small 
 thing belonging to Temple- I-corran". — 
 
58 
 
 (Conerens Dyoces.) 
 
 ^Eccla de Laslavnan — 
 ^Rector de Portmuckf- 
 
 '^ Vicar eiusdm 
 
 ^Rector eccic de Ran- 
 
 ij • m r 
 xx-s — 
 
 J 
 
 seuvn 
 
 m^r 
 
 m^r 
 
 decia-ij -s 
 decia-ij -s. 
 decia • xvj • 
 
 viij • d. 
 
 ^ Vicar eiusdm 
 
 ^Eccia de Kilkenan 
 
 ^Eccia Sci Joftis de Ran- 
 
 sevvn 
 
 ^Rector eccie de Kil- 
 
 rothe 
 
 ^ Vicar eiusdm 
 
 decla-vj -s- viij-d. 
 
 xxiiij-s-viij-d- decia-ij -s-v-d oh q! 
 xx-s 
 
 u 
 
 m*r 
 
 m*i' 
 
 decia -ij-s 
 decia • ij 
 
 S- VI 
 
 y 
 
 V 
 
 xx-s 
 
 Ul. Vis. " Temple-corran cum Lagnalit- 
 ton". — Trien. Vis. 1661. 
 
 ^ Laslaynan. — Now Forthill, a town- 
 land, a little south of Ballycarry, in which 
 are the yard and ruins of Templecorran 
 
 church Ord. Survey, s. 47. The name 
 
 Lislanan is now obsolete, but it is pre- 
 served in the Ulster Inquisitions as be- 
 lonsrinc: to a townland in Broad Island or 
 
 decia • vj • s • viij - d. 
 
 decia -ij-s. 
 
 ^^ Rector 
 
 townlands, was appropriate to the abbey 
 of Inch. — Inq. Ant. 1605. Terrier. In 
 1 589, the rectory of Kincheven, alias Port- 
 mucke, was leased to the Earl of Kildare, 
 as an appurtenance of Inch. — Enrolment. 
 At the foot of a rock, close to the shore, 
 yet sheltered from the eastern blast, stood 
 the church of Portmuck, of which the only 
 remaining part is a portion of the east 
 wall. The graveyard was ploughed up 
 
 Templecorran parish Nos. 3, 131, Cai\ I. 
 
 Antrim. A. D. 1333, John Gernoun held some years ago by the holder of the sur- 
 
 tive carucates of land in Lysli/nan, under rounding farm, and at the same time the 
 
 William de Burgo. — Inq. P. M. A. D. foundations were cleared away : they are 
 
 1380, Francis de Bruyn released to Ed- 
 mund de Mortuo Mari, Earl of March, all 
 right, &c., in the manor of Lysleynan in 
 Ultonia. — Cal. Cane. Hib., vol. i. p. 108 b. 
 * Portmuck. — Now Portmuck, a town- 
 land at the N. E. of Island Magee Ord. 
 
 Survey, s. 41. At the Dissolution, the 
 rectory of Portmuck, extending over five 
 
 stated to have been about 60 feet long, and 
 20 wide. 
 
 ^ Eansevyn. — This is the name by which 
 the peninsula, now called Island Magee, is 
 mentioned in records prior to the seven- 
 teenth century : and it is sometimes found 
 with the word insula prefixed. The church 
 here called, par excellence, ' the church of 
 
59 
 
 (Diocese of Connor.) 
 
 The church of Laslaynan"^- 
 The rector of Portmuck^ - 
 The vicarao-e of the same - 
 
 2 marks 
 
 205. 
 
 I mark- 
 
 The rector of the church of 
 
 Ransevyn' 
 
 The vicarao-e of the same 
 
 The church of Kilkenan" 
 
 The church of St. John"" of Ran- 
 
 5 marks 
 245. %d. 
 20s. 
 
 Tenth, 2S. Sd. 
 Tenth, 2s. 
 Tenth, i6f/. 
 
 Tenth, 6s. Sd. 
 Tenth, 2S. ^^d. 
 Tenth, 25. 
 
 sevyn 
 
 The rector of the church of Kil- 
 
 rothe^' 
 
 The vicarage of the same 
 
 2 marks — Tenth, 25. Sd. 
 
 5 marks 
 
 20^. 
 
 Ransevyn', seems to be that whicli, in 
 later documents, is termed " Bally prior 
 
 a/ms Ilamagee" Trien. Vis. 1661. Bal- 
 
 lyprior More and Beg are two townlands 
 of the peninsula, in the former of which 
 is a graveyard, but without any ruins, 
 situated in a most picturesque spot, and 
 much resorted to as a burying-place. — 
 Ord. Survey, s. 41. At the Dissolution, 
 the rectory of " Ballyprioragh in Insula de 
 Maghy ", extending to ten townlands, with 
 the advowson of the vicarage, belonged to 
 the priory of Woodburn. — ■ Inq. Antrim, 
 1605. A. D. 1633, Eichard Hedd was in- 
 stituted, on the presentation of the Crown, 
 to the vicarage of Ballyprior alias Kil- 
 prioragh, together with the churches or 
 chapels of Portmucke, Kilkenan, and Tem- 
 plenelafin in Island Magee, which churches 
 the King united to the said vicarage by 
 letters patent Reg. Vis. 1633. 
 
 Tenth, 6s. Sd. 
 Tenth, 2s. 
 
 The 
 
 " Kilkenan. — A little north of the pa- 
 rish church of Island Magee is the double 
 townland Kilcoan, which contains a spot 
 called the Kirkland, where it is believed 
 a church once stood. — Ord. Survey, s. 41. 
 At the Dissolution, the rectory of Kilke- 
 nane in Island Magee was appropriate to 
 the abbey of Kells. The name is occasion- 
 ally met with in early records, and in 1 3 1 5 
 is introduced into the history of Bruce's 
 invasion, through " Schyr NychoU of Kyl- 
 kenane". — See Appendix. 
 
 " St. John. — About the year 1 25 1, the 
 church of /St. John of Rensevin was con- 
 firmed by Isaac, Bishop of Connor, to the 
 priory of Muckamore. — Reg. Miick. At 
 the Dissolution, it was found that the rec- 
 tory of Whitkirk in Island Maghy was ap- 
 propriate to the same house. — Inq. Ant. 
 1605. In the townland Ballykeel is a 
 graveyard, containing the ruins of a very 
 
 I 2 
 
6o 
 (Conerens Dyoces.) 
 
 ^Rector See Marie de 
 
 Cragferg^ iilj-m^r-(ti-x\^-(l- dec- vj-s-j-d-o^. 
 
 ^Vicaf ei^d viij-d dec-xvij-d ot3 q* 
 
 Hospit ^Rectores eccia^ de Car- 
 lecastcl 1: Sci Jo!i de 
 Cragferg^ sut Hospit. 
 
 ^Eccia Sci NichdeCrag- 
 
 feriius 
 
 XX • m r 
 
 dec • ij • m*r. 
 
 Sm* taxaconis 
 
 ancient church, 52 feet in length and 18 
 
 in breadth Ord. Survey, s. 47. In the 
 
 same townland, to the S. E., at the Eughs, 
 is a spot called the Chapel-field, where it 
 is supposed a church formerly stood. 
 
 ^ Kilrothe. — Now Kilroot parish. — Ord. 
 Survey, s. 53. At the Dissolution, the 
 rectory was appropriate to the abbey of 
 Kells. The original name was CiU puaio, 
 which is variously called, in English re- 
 cords, Kilroigh, Kilruaigh, Kilroe. The 
 church was founded by St. Colman, a dis- 
 ciple of St. Ailbe of Emly, who, in the 
 year 41 2, landed here, and, at the desire of 
 his master, built a cell called Chell-ruaid. 
 Ussher, Ind. Chron., Works, vol. vi.p. s^$. 
 Ogygia, par. iii. cap. 87. The Feilire of 
 iEnsrus makes mention of this chvxrch in 
 connexion with the name of Colman, at 
 the 1 6th of October; and the Calendar of 
 the Four Masters, at the same day, in these 
 words : Colman eppcop ChiUe puaib 1 
 nt)al QpaiD pop bpu Coca Lao\ 1 nUll- 
 
 [ cia • vij • ti • vij • s • ij • d 0I3 q! 
 Ixxiijti-xij -s-iiij -d. — Inde de- 
 
 ^^Decanat^ 
 
 caib. " Colman bishop of Cill-ruaidli in 
 Dalaradia on Lough Lee in Ultonia". This 
 Lough Lee, which Adamnan latinizes by 
 Locus Vituli, is now called Belfast Lough ; 
 close upon the margin of which, in the 
 townland Kilroot, is the churchyard, with 
 some remains of the ancient church. A. D. 
 1380, William Proketour, Vicar of An- 
 trim, for certain lands which he held un- 
 der the see of Connor, was bound to pay a 
 pound of wax annually to the church of »S'i<. 
 Colman ofKilroth — Rot, Claus., 4 Ric. 11. 
 See Appendix. 
 
 * St. Mary''s John de Courcy founded 
 
 at Carrickfergus a house for Canons of the 
 Order of Premontre, which he dedicated 
 to the Blessed Mary, and endowed with 
 the rectories of St. Nicholas, and other 
 churches. These particulars are gathered 
 from a letter written by Reginald, Bishop 
 of Connor [circ. 1220], to Henry IIL, 
 which is preserved among the ' Royal and 
 other Letters', in the Tower of London, 
 
6i 
 
 (Diocese of Connor.) 
 
 The rector of St. Mary's^' 
 
 ofCragfergus 4I marks 1 66/.- Tenth, 6s. i^d. 
 
 The vicarage of the same- Sd. Tenth, ly^d. 
 
 Hospif? The rectors of the churches 
 of CarlecasteF and St. 
 
 John^ of Cragfergus — they are the Hospitallers. 
 The church of St. Nicholas^ 
 
 of Cragfergus 20 marks Tenth, 2 marks. 
 
 [thereof, £7 js. 2^d. 
 
 Sum of the Taxation £73 1 25. 4c/. — Tenth 
 
 Deanry 
 No. 799. From tliis document it appears per place and the rectory is merely intro- 
 that the property of the house was then ducedhere as being a joint-possession with 
 so reduced, as scarcely to suffice for the St. John's in Carrickfergvis, of the Knights' 
 maintenance of three Canons ; and though Hospitallers. — See above at note **. 
 redress was sought by the bishop, it does ^ St. John. — In 12 13, Pope Innocent III. 
 
 not seem to have recovered its importance, confirmed to the Hospitallers the enjoy- 
 as it appears in the Taxation in the capa- ment of the church oi St. John the Evcinge- 
 city of a parish church, and its rectory of list in Crafferg. — Epist., vol. ii. p. 6^^. 
 St. Nicholas had passed into other hands. The site is unknown. 
 At Goodborn or Woodborn, which lies a ^ aS*^. Nicholas — Now the parish church 
 
 little to the west of Carrickfergus, was a of Carrickfergus. It still bears this name, 
 priory of Premontre Canons, dedicated to and is probably the identical building here 
 the Holy Cross, and founded, according to mentioned, with the exception of a tower 
 Ware, in the thirteenth century. Tradi- and transepts which have been added at 
 tion says, that it was also called Mary''s comparatively recent periods. The origi- 
 
 Abbey M'^Skimin's Carrickfergus, p. 125. nal part of the church possesses this pecu- 
 
 The discrepancy which exists between the liarity, that it is unequal in breadth, being 
 Valuation and Tenth of the vicarage of this 25 feet wide at the west end, and only 21 
 church is shewn by the Sum of the deanry feet at the chancel. A very good drawing 
 to arise from a clerical error, which put and description of the church are given in 
 8(/. instead of 14s. 80^. in the former. M'^Skimin's Carrickfergus, p, 137. 2nd 
 
 ^ Carlecastel. — The vicarage of Carncas- Edit. The following record of the year 
 tie has been already mentioned in its pro- 1 303 will shew that this church was not 
 
62 
 
 (Conerens Dyoces.) 
 
 Decanat^ de Maulyne. 
 
 ^Rector de Antrum 
 ^ Vicar eiusdem 
 
 V • mi 
 
 m^r- 
 
 decla • vj -S'viij 'ct. 
 xvj • s. 
 
 ^Rector 
 
 overrated in the Taxation. " Jolm Can- 
 tock, rector of the church of the Blessed 
 Nicholas of Cragfergm, assigned and to 
 farm let to Robert le Mercer the aforesaid 
 church, for the term of three years, at 
 45 marks per annum : the said Robert to 
 pay all charges, as well ordinary as extra- 
 ordinary, 2,\i(i papal tenths, and to complete 
 the chancel of said church, as he has com- 
 menced It".— Rot. P. 31 Ed. I. Cal.Canc, 
 p. 6. A. D. 1 305, an inquisition ad quod 
 damnum was sped this year, concerning 
 the granting to Richard de Burgo certain 
 lands and advowsons, and among them, 
 the advowson of the church of the Blessed 
 Nicholas of Knockfergus. — ^Z Ed. I., No. 
 1 77. As the name Carrickfergus is often, 
 for brevity's sake, called Carrick ( Cap- 
 paicc 'a rock'), so that word was occa- 
 sionally used in a Latin form ; thus, in 
 the year 1527, Donald M'^Kenny was rec- 
 tor de Pe^m.— Reg. Crom., p. 51 1. 
 
 * Maulyne. — This rural deanry derived 
 its name from TTIajline (^^loylinny), a tract 
 of the modern county of Antrim, of which 
 frequent mention is made in the Irish An- 
 nals from the year of our Lord 161, down- 
 wards. Sometimes it is found Latinized 
 by Campus Linice, as in the ancient Life 
 of St. Comgall ; and sometimes it appears 
 
 in the simple form 6ine. — Four Mast, 
 JE. C. 285. Circ. of Muircheart, vs. 27. 
 In mixed records of the thirteenth centu- 
 ry, it is called Maghaline, Magelin, Mau- 
 lin. The State Papers, at 15 15, make 
 mention of it as the barony ofMawlyn, and 
 describe "Rowland Savage and his ken- 
 nesmen" as the leaders therein. — Vol. ii. 
 p. 127. In an Inquisition sped in 1605, 
 Moylinny is styled a Tuogh or Territory, 
 and the boundaries which are set out for 
 it are identical with those of the modern 
 barony of Upper Antrim. — Inq. Antrim 
 MS. ; also Ul. Inq., No. 7, Jac. I. The name 
 is now preserved as the title of one of Lord 
 Donegal's manors, the court of which is 
 held at Antrim ; as also by a small town- 
 land of the parish of Antrim, beautifully 
 situated in a ctirve of the Six Mile Water. 
 The rural deanry was of greater extent 
 than the territory, as it comprehended 
 most of the parishes in Ballylinny, a dis- 
 trict now represented by the S. W. portion 
 of the barony of Lower Belfast. Primate 
 Dowdall's Registry styles it " Decanatus 
 de Antroye", from Antrim, the principal 
 parish therein. — p. 267. The Terrier 
 confines the deanry of Moyghlinny to the 
 neighbourhood of Lame; while the deanry 
 which answers to that in the Taxation it 
 
63 
 
 (Diocese of Connor.) 
 
 Deanry of Maulyne^. 
 
 The rector of Antrum'' — 
 The vicaraffe of the same 
 
 calls Maglennie Vodburne, or Moylinny of 
 Woodburn, from the circumstance that 
 Antrim, its head quarters, was appropriate 
 to that priory. In modern times, this 
 deanry has been revived under the desig- 
 nation Antrim. The name of one rural 
 dean before the Reformation is recorded : 
 A. D. 1 44 1, Adam M"^Lyrynan, Vicar of 
 Antrim, " decanus de Maluna". — Reg. 
 Prene, pp. 235, 241. 
 
 ^Antrum. — So the town of Antrim is 
 called in Anglo-Norman Records of the 
 years 1215, 1226, 1327, &c. TheFour Mas- 
 ters, at the year 1 490, make mention of it 
 by the name QeiiGpuim (' the one ridge') ; 
 and from this, Colgan and O Flaherty form 
 the Latin appellatives ^udromia, iEndro- 
 mensis. It is to be observed that in the 
 earlier Irish Annals, two distinct -names 
 occur, nOenopuim and Oencpaib ; the 
 former between the years 496 and 975, 
 and the latter between 612 and 1147. By 
 writers, such as Dr. O Conor, they have 
 been generally confounded, and both re- 
 ferred to this church of Antrim. It ap- 
 pears, however, that within the dates men- 
 tioned, nOenopuim is always intended for 
 the Nendrum of Strangford Lough (see 
 Taxation under Nedrum), and Oencpaib 
 for the place under consideration. In St. 
 
 5 marks — 
 1 2 marks - 
 
 Tenth, 6s. Sd. 
 16s. 
 
 The 
 
 Bernard's Life of Malachi Omorgair, men- 
 tion is made of his visiting a certain rich 
 
 man " in civitate cui nomen Oentreb^'' 
 
 Messingham, Florileg, p. 367, col. ii. In 
 many Latin documents also, the word An- 
 trim is expressed by a corrupted form of 
 OencpaiB: thus, in 1435, JohnOgillamyr, 
 a clerk of Connor, was presented by the 
 Primate to the " Vicaria parochialis eccle- 
 sia3 Omnium Sanctorum de Introia''\ va- 
 cant by the death of Florentine M'^gilly- 
 
 rynan Reg. Prene, p. 303. Dowdall's 
 
 Registry calls it Antroye ; and in several 
 ecclesiastical and civil records of the seven- 
 teenth century, it is written Introya, En- 
 troia, Entroyia. 
 
 The parish church is in the town, and 
 its style of architecture corresponds to the 
 date 1 596, which is inscribed upon it. The 
 original church, it is supposed, stood near 
 the noble Round Tower, commonly called 
 the Steeple, which is situated towards the 
 centre of the parish, about half a mile 
 north of the town. This monument of an- 
 tiquity, to a stranger, would appear, from 
 the smoothness of the sward which sur- 
 rounds it, and the total absence of any 
 kindred building, to have been a solitary 
 erection : but the testimony of those who 
 removed the foundations of adjacent walls, 
 
64 
 (Conerens Dyoces.) 
 
 ^Rector See Briglde x-m^- decla • j • m'r. 
 
 ^ Vicar eiusdm x-m^r decla-j-m*r. 
 
 ^Eccia de Duncurri xv-m^r decla-xx-s. 
 
 ^Eccia de Driinedergal — xij-m^r decla-xvj -s. 
 
 ^Eccla de Maudone ij • ni^r ij • s • viij • d. 
 
 <^Eccia ville Hugois de Lo- 
 
 oran ij • m^'r vj • s • viij • d. 
 
 & 
 
 cr 
 
 and who cleared away vast quantities of hu- giuncula de Hy Tuirtre(?) in ditione fa- 
 man remains from the surrounding space, milae de Dal-fiatach, &c." — Colgan, Act. 
 and especially of the mason, who, about SS., p. 503, col. 2. Trias Th., p. 625, col. i. 
 twenty years ago, repaired the cap of the In 1605, it was found by Inquisition that 
 tower, and built into it a sculptured archi- Kilbride was a parish in the Tuogh of 
 trave of freestone, which he found among ]\Ioylinny, consisting of thirteen town- 
 the ruins, goes to prove that this Tower, lands ; that two- thirds of the tithes be- 
 like all its fellows, has had, in its day, a longed to the rectory, the advowson of 
 church beside it. On the stone imme- which was in the Crown ; and one-third 
 diately over the lintel of the doorway, is to the vicarage, which was in the bishop's 
 "a pierced cross within a circle, sculp- collation — Inq.Ant.MS. The old church- 
 tured in relievo'". Of this, an accurate re- yard is in the townland Kilbride, 
 presentation is given by Mr. Petrie in his ^ Duncurri. — Noav Donegore parish — 
 EoundTowers, p.398. A coarse draAving, Ord. Survey, s. 50. Colgan calls it Z)m- 
 accompanied by a notice, had previously noffcurra, and refers it to the district Ily- 
 been published by Dr. Adam Clarke.— Tuirtre— Trias Thaum.,p. 184,001. i. In 
 Works, vol. xi. p. 80. At the Dissolution, the townland Donegore, at a short dis- 
 the rectory, extending to sixteen town- tance N. W. of the church, is a very large 
 lands, of which Ballyantrim and Bally- mound called Donegore Moat. The parish 
 gallantrim were two, was appropriate to church occupies the old site, and a stone 
 the abbey of Woodburn. The Down Sur- over the inner door bears the date 1659. 
 vey calls the parish Gall Antrim, and the ^ Drumnedergal. — Isaac, Bishop of Con- 
 Eound Tower Steeple. nor, confirmed [circ. A. D. 1 25 1] the " Ec- 
 
 '^St.Brigid. — Noav Kilbride parish clesia See. Marie de Dunedergel"' to the 
 
 Ord. Survey, s. 45. " Ecclesia parochialis priory of Muckamore. — Reg. Muck. An 
 
 de Kill-Brighde Dioecesis Connerensis, non Inquisition taken at Antrim in 1 333, found 
 
 procul ab oppido ^ndruima, jacet in re- that William de Burgo, among his pos- 
 
65 
 
 (Diocese of Connor.) 
 
 The rector of St. Brigid's'^ 
 The vicarao-e of the same - 
 The church of Duncurri'^ - 
 
 - lo marks - 
 
 - lo marks - 
 
 - 15 marks - 
 The church of DrumnedergaP- 12 marks - 
 
 - 2 marks — 
 
 The church of Maudone^ 
 
 The church of Hu«[h-de-Lo- 
 
 Tenth, 1 mark. 
 Tenth, i mark. 
 Tenth, 205. 
 Tenth, i6s. 
 IS. Sd. 
 
 gan's-tovvn^- 
 
 — 2 marks — 6s. Sd. 
 
 sessions in the ' Comitatiis Antrum ' was 
 seised of the manor of Dumnedergcdle, 
 wherein were no buildings, save one old 
 castle which was overthrown since the 
 war of the Scotch. This name, of which 
 no other instance has been observed by 
 the Editor, may have passed into the pre- 
 sent Dunadry, which belongs to a town- 
 land and village of the Grange of Nilteen, 
 situate on the Six Mile "Water. — Ord. Sur- 
 vey, s. 50. Here, a little to the left of 
 the new road from Antrim to Belfast, 
 stood a large earn Avhich was removed a 
 few years ago : and between it and the 
 road, on a site now converted to a garden, 
 the ruins of a small chapel. It was found 
 in 1605, that the ' Capella de Neeltin' was 
 appropriate to Muckamore Priory — Inq. 
 Ant. MS. 
 
 f Maudone. — It is uncertain what church 
 is here intended. The Inquisitions of 1 605, 
 and 1621, find a Bally-mauden or Bally- 
 moyden among the townlands of theTuogh 
 Moylinny, but the name has become ob- 
 solete, unless it be supposed to have passed 
 into the form Moyadam, which belongs 
 to a townland at the eastern end of the 
 
 The 
 
 Grange of Nilteen (Ord. Survey, s. 51); 
 or Dunamoy, a townland at the S. W. of 
 
 Rashee parish Ord. Survey, s. 45. Isaac, 
 
 Bishop of Connor [circ. A. D. 1251], con- 
 firmed the " Ecclesia Sti. Laurentii de 
 Maudon " to the priory of Muckamore — 
 Reg. Muck. The Inquisition on William 
 de Burgo's estates in the county of New- 
 town of Blathewyc, was taken at Maudone 
 in Ultonia, and ' Robert Clericus de Mok- 
 more' was a juror. 
 
 8 Logan'' s-iown. — The name Temple-Pa- 
 trick does not occur in the Taxation, bvit 
 was probably adopted at a subsequent 
 period, instead of that in the text, which 
 is now disused. In the parish of Temple- 
 patrick is a townland called Killmakee, 
 which is explained ' the church of the son 
 of Hugh'. A.D. 1222, Pope Honorious III. 
 confirmed to the abbey of St. Mary's of 
 York, possession of the " cella de Ned- 
 drum cum capella de Villa Hugonis de Lo- 
 gan''\ — Charter Roll in Cotton Collection, 
 xiii. 21. Brit. Mus. The error, which 
 obviously exists either in the Valuation or 
 Tenth of this church, is shewn by ih.QSum to 
 be in the latter, which has 6s. instead of 2s. 
 
 K 
 
66 
 
 (Conerens Dyoces.) 
 
 «^Eccia de Corng^n v-m^'r vj -s-viij-d. 
 
 ^ Eccia de Vet'i villa xxiiij-s-iiij-d- ij-s-v-dq? 
 
 ^Rector de Coule x-m^'r decla-j-m^r. 
 
 ^ Vicar eiusdm iiij-m"r v-s-iiij-d. 
 
 ^Eccia de Douac!i ij • m^r- di iij • s • iiij • d. 
 
 «^ Rector ville Wal?i de 
 
 Logan Hospit sunt rector. 
 
 ^Vicar eiusdm xl-s decla-iiij -s. 
 
 ^Eccia de Lynne ix-m^r xij-s. 
 
 ^Eccia 
 
 ^ Corngran. — At the Dissolution, the on side supporters, like a series of crom- 
 
 rectory of the parish of Carngrany, ex- lechs, forming steps commencing with the 
 
 tending to the townlands Ballicarngraney, lowest at the N. E., and ascending gra- 
 
 Ballikillgrill, and Ballebarnes, was ap- dually, for the length of 40 feet, towards 
 
 propriate to the priory of Muckamore. — the S. W. The largest stone is raised about 
 
 Ul. Inq., No. 4, Jac. I. These three de- seven or eight feet ; it is 6 feet 9 inches 
 
 nominations are now called Craigarogan, long, 5 feet broad, and 2 feet thick. The 
 
 Killgreel, and Ballynabarnish, and form a smallest, which is on the ground, is 5 feet 
 
 portion of the modern parish of Temple- long, and 3 feet 3 inches broad. The pro- 
 
 patrick. In Craigarogan, at the west of prietor states that formerly it was encom- 
 
 the hamlet, called, from the Eath which passed by a circle of upright stones. The 
 
 is beside it, the Eough Fort, is the old pile is commonly called Granny's Grave, 
 
 graveyard of Carngrany, which had been from the idea that some giant lies buried 
 
 long disused until the Dissection-room beneath it ; and by this name it is marked 
 
 panic caused many to resort to this place, on the Ord. Map s. 51. A. D. 1 2 1 6, the 
 
 which, from its contiguity to human jus patronatus of the church of Corgrane 
 
 abodes, was supposed safe from distur- was claimed by William de Serland 
 
 bance. A portion of the foundation of Hardy's Close Rolls, vol. i. p. 278 b. 
 
 the church remains in it, but not enough ' Old- town. — There is no place in the 
 
 to form an estimate of the original dimen- neighbourhood which now bears this name, 
 
 sions. The name Carngrany (Cupnjpeine, either in the English form, or in the Irish 
 
 'the earn of the sun'), is derived from a Sean baile (Shanbally). The parish of 
 
 pagan monument, which remains in a field Ballymartin, which lies on the south bank 
 
 about forty perches north of the Rough of the Six Mile Water, answers to it in 
 
 Fort. It consists of ten large slabs raised position. The graveyard is situate in a 
 
67 
 
 (Diocese of Connor.) 
 
 The church of Corngran''- 
 The church of Old-town' - 
 The rector of Coule'' 
 
 The vicarage of the same 
 
 The church of Douach' 
 
 The rector of Walter-de-Lo- 
 gan's-tovvn"" 
 
 5 marks — 
 245. 4cL — 
 10 marks - 
 4 marks — 
 
 6s. Sd. 
 2S. K,\d. 
 
 Tenth, I mark. 
 55. 4,d. 
 
 The vicarage of the same 
 The church of Lynne" — 
 
 2^ marks - 36". 4^/. 
 
 The Hospitallers are rectors. 
 
 405. Tenth, 45. 
 
 9 marks — 1 25. 
 
 The 
 
 little glen on the north side of the Bally- Isaac, Bishop of Connor, confirmed to the 
 martin Water, not far from the eighth priory of Muckamore possession of the 
 mile-stone, on the new road from Belfast. " Ecclesia Ste. Marie de Douach ". — Reg. 
 In it are the foundations of the church. Muck. At the Dissolution it was a chapel 
 measuring 54 feet by 18; and in the ad- of Muckamore, and the prior was bound to 
 joining ground are the seeming vestiges maintain a curate therein. — Inq. Ant. 1605. 
 
 of very ancient buildings, Avhere tradition "^ Logan' s-town Now Ballywalter, a 
 
 says a town once existed. Grange of 3 20 acres, separated from Doagh 
 
 k Coule. Now Carnmoney parish, the by the Six Mile Water. — Ord. Survey, 
 
 church of which is marked ' Coole Church ' s. 5 1 . For civil purposes it is included in 
 on the Ord. Map, s. 57, and occupies the Ballylinny parish. The Hospitallers had 
 ancient site. In the seventeenth century, property here at an early date ; for in 1 2 1 3 
 
 Pope Innocent III. confirmed them in pos- 
 session of the " Terra Walteride Logan". 
 Epist. Innoc. III. The parish may have 
 derived its name from Walter de Loga, an 
 adherent of John de Courcy, who appears 
 as a subscribing witness to a charter of St. 
 Patrick's of Down, A. D. 1 1 83.— Eot. Pat., 
 
 Coole was the name of the parish, while 
 Carnmoney was the name of the territory 
 in which it was situate — Inq. Ant. 1 605, 
 In 1333 it was called ' Le Coul', from the 
 Irish Cuil, 'the corner'; and in subse- 
 quent documents was variously spelled 
 Cuill, Cueill, Cuolill. At the Dissolution, 
 the rectory was appropriate to Woodburn 42 Ed. III. m. 1 1, 2nd pt. Tur. Lond. The 
 
 Priory. 
 
 • Douach. — Now the Grange of Doagh. 
 Ord. Survey, ss. 45, 51. A portion of the 
 west gable, about seven feet high, remains 
 in the churchyard. About the year 1251, 
 
 site of the church is unknown. 
 
 ° Lynm. — Now Ballylinny parish. — 
 Ord. Siirvey, s. 51. The churchyard is 
 still used, and a small portion of one of 
 the side walls, which is standing, serves 
 
 K 2 
 
68 
 
 (Conerens Dyoces.) 
 
 ^^Eccia de Ywes- 
 ^^Eccia de Rassci 
 
 — xlij • m^r — xvij • s • iiij . d. 
 
 ^Eccie ville Auo-ustini 't 
 
 vj • m r 
 
 VllJ 
 
 ^ 
 
 Ade Corry 
 
 ^Eccla de Monketone 
 '^Eccia de Rathmore — 
 
 vij • m'^r ix • s • iiij • d. 
 
 X • ni'^r j • m^r. 
 
 ^Sm^ taxacoiiis 
 
 to mark the ancient site. At the Dissolu- 
 tion, the rectory was appropriate to the 
 priory of Woodburn. The tuogh or ter- 
 ritory of Ballylinny, which was a civil di- 
 vision of Antrim before the seventeenth 
 century, borrowed its name from this pa- 
 rish, having a common origin with tliat of 
 Moylinny at the other side of the Six- 
 Mile Water. 
 
 ° Ywes Probably the parish of Bally- 
 
 mure (baile an lubaip 'the town of the 
 Yew'). — Ord. Survey, ss. 45, 46. The 
 church, which serves for the union of the 
 prebend of Kilroot, is an old building, 
 situate, with the churchyard, in the town- 
 land Toberdowney. The Registry of Muck- 
 amore recites a grant, made by Robert de 
 Sandal to that house, of one carucate of 
 land " in tento de Ywes". 
 
 P Rassci Now Rashee parish Ord. 
 
 Survey, s. 45. The original name was 
 Rathsithe, as appears from the Tripartite 
 Life, where it relates the foundation of 
 
 this church by St. Patrick Pt. ii. cap. 
 
 133. Colgan, in his note on the passage, 
 correctly describes it as " Ecclesia Par- 
 
 — ij • m*r ij • s • vilj • d. 
 
 [decia-ix-ti- viij-ti-v-d q! 
 
 — iiij • xiiij • li • iiij • s • iiij • d. — Inde 
 
 Decanat^ 
 
 rochialis agri ^ndromensis, et Dicecesis 
 Connerensis". — Trias Thaum., p. 183, 
 col. 1. Archdall, who introduces into the 
 Monasticon almost every church that is 
 mentioned by Colgan, includes this one in 
 his enumeration, with the additional re- 
 mark : " Now unknown" ! — Monast. Hib., 
 p. 1 4. The name occurs once in each set 
 of the Annals in Dr. O Conor's collection, 
 and is then mentioned in connexion witli 
 a bishop. Thus Tigernach, A. C. 618 : — 
 
 ' Comjall Gpp. 7 Gojan G|^p. Racha 
 piche quieuepunc'. 
 
 ' Comgall, a bishop, and Eogan, bishop 
 of Rath-sithe rested'. 
 So also the Annals of Ulster, and of the 
 Four Masters, at the year 617. Dr. O Co- 
 nor interprets the name ^ai pire by 
 
 Munimentum Lemurum Rer. Hib. SS., 
 
 vol. ii. p. 1 84. Fir-sidhe or Fir-shithe, the 
 Irish for fairies, is rendered ' Viri Sidhe ' 
 in the Third Life of St. Patrick in Col- 
 gan's Collection. — Cap. xlviii. Jocelin La- 
 tinizes it by 'Phantasmata'. — Cap. Iviii. 
 Colgan thus explain the term: "Viri Sidhe 
 ab Hibernis spiritus phantastici vocantur, 
 
(Diocese of Connor.) 
 
 The church of Ywes" - 
 The church of Rassci^ 
 
 69 
 
 13 marks - 
 6 marks — 
 
 175. 4c?. 
 Ss. 
 
 The churches of Austin's-town 
 
 and of Adam Corry'' 
 
 The church of Monketone^ 
 
 The church of Rathmore' 
 
 7 marks — 
 10 marks - 
 2 marks — 
 
 Sum of the Taxation' 
 
 95, 4f/. 
 
 I mark. 
 
 IS. 8c/. 
 
 [thereof, £9 Ss. ^\d. 
 
 £94 4.S. 4(1. — Tenth 
 
 Deanry 
 
 by its Irish name Ballynamanagh (6aile 
 nu manac 'monk's-town'). At the Dis- 
 solution, there were two chapels in the 
 county of Antrim bearing this name, one 
 of them belonging to Kells, and the other 
 to Grey Abbey. The latter is mentioned 
 next to Carrickfergus in the Terrier, and 
 is thus described: " Ecclesia de Bally ma- 
 nagh, hath 3 townes in Spiritual and Tem- 
 annexed this parish to the Prebend of poral, and belongs to Gray abby". It is 
 Carncastle, it is correctly called Rathsith. now incorporated with Coole, and, con- 
 The churchyard is much used, but no jointly with it, forms the benefice of Carn- 
 traces of the church remain. money. The west wall of the church is 
 
 1 Carri/. — Now Ballyeaston, a townland the only part which is standing : but the 
 and village; and Bally cor, the parish which area of the whole building is defined by 
 contains them Ord. Survey, s. 45. In the foundations, measviring 63 feet by 17. 
 
 ex eo quod ex amosnis collibus, quasi pro- 
 dire conspiciantur ad homines infestandos : 
 et hinc vulgus credat eos quasi in quibus- 
 dam subterraneis habitaculis intra istos 
 colles habitare, hjec autem habitacula, et 
 aliquando ipsi colles ab Hibernis Sidhe 
 vel Siodha vocantur". — Trias Th., p. 32, 
 col. I, n. 49. Also Acta SS., p. ^6, col. 2, 
 n. 6. In the charter of James I., which 
 
 records of the seventeenth century, the 
 latter name is generally s^eit Ballycorra. 
 The modern parish church stands in the 
 village of Ballyeaston ; and the churchyard 
 
 The graveyard has been by degrees con- 
 verted into meadow, and the few interments 
 which take place here are confined within 
 the bounds of the church. The Ord. Sur- 
 
 of Ballycor, with the foundations of the vey marks the spot " Abbey Ruins, Grave 
 
 old church, which measure about 48 feet 
 by 1 8, lies a little to the east. 
 
 ^ Monketone Now Monkstown, a town- 
 land of Carmoney parish, at theN. E. It 
 the Inquisitions of 1605, &c., it is called 
 
 Yard" s. 52. 
 
 5 Rathmore Now Rathmore, a townland 
 
 partly in the parish of Donegore, and partly 
 in the Grange of Nilteen. — Ord. Survey, 
 s. 50. In the former portion is a large 
 
70 
 (Conerens Dyoces.) 
 
 Decanat^ de Twescard. 
 
 ^Eccla de Donaci viij-ti-x-s-viij-tt- dec xvlj-s- ot) q! 
 
 ^Eccia de Queur v-ti decla-x-s. 
 
 '^Eccia 
 
 Rath of an irregularly oval shape, measur- 93, dors. col. 2. Even so lately as 13 15, it 
 inf, inside, 1 38 feet in the long diameter, seems to have been a habitation and a place 
 and 108 in the short. It was formerly of importance ; for in that year, the An- 
 surrounded by a deep and wide fosse, which nals of Connaught relate of Edward Bruce 
 time and agriculture have in part filled that po loipc Raich mop \W\i\p Ime 'he 
 up. On the Ord, Map it is called "Rath- burned Rathmor of Moylinny'; and Ma- 
 more Trench". In olden times it was geoghegan's Translation of the Annals of 
 knownbythenameRaic mop TTIuij^e line Clonmacnoise states that "he burnt the 
 'Eathmore of Moylinny'. In the sixth townes of Downedealgan [Dundalk], Ath- 
 century, it was a residence of the Dalara- firdia [Ardee], and Rathmore, and harried 
 dian princes, as appears from the follow- and spoyled all Ulster". Adjoining the 
 ing passage which is taken from a very trench on theS.E. is a garden in which hu- 
 ancient Life of St. Comgall, and which pos- man remains have been found ; and one of 
 sesses two chronological notes ; first, being the fences of it is a portion of a very ancient 
 connected with an incident in the Life of wall, which, judging from its position and 
 St. Comgall, who died in 601 ; and second- masonry, appears to have been part of the 
 ly, the mention of Fiachna (piachna muc north wall of a religious edifice. Colgan 
 6aeccam), who succeeded to the throne is the only authority of later days, who 
 of Ulidia in 592. — See Four Mast., and mentions the name of this church ; but his 
 O Conor's note, at that year. — " Eegina notice of it seems very inaccurate, as in 
 regis Fiachna qui regnavit in castro, quod one place (Trias Thaum., p. 183, col. i) 
 dicitur latine Atrium magnum, Scotice he describes it a parish church in the dis- 
 &viiem. Rath-mor, 'ui campo Linice T^ositViva, trict of Magheramorne ; and in another 
 quique erat de gente Ultorum, scilicet de (ibid. col. 2) refers it to the barony of 
 regioneDailnaray,venenumbibebat,etgra- Antrim and the Valley of Braige-Dercan. 
 vissimis doloribus torquebatur, et ilia cum The "Capella de Rathmore" was con- 
 amicis suis uesciebat a quo traditum est ei firmed to the priory of Muckamore about 
 venenum. Ipsa jam regina Can tigernavo- the year 125 1 — Reg. Muck. ^QQAppen- 
 cabatur, quse erat fidehs et pudica foemina ". dix. 
 
 Liber Armacan. in Fleming's Collectan., ^Taxation. — This mode of notation by 
 
 p. 310, col. I ; and Liber Kilkenniensis, fol. scores is frequently employed in early re- 
 
(Diocese of Connor.) 
 
 Deanry of Tvvescard\ 
 
 The church of Donaci'- 
 The church of Queur^ - 
 
 71 
 
 cords, and is found so lately as 1622 in the 
 Ulster Vis. Book. It seems to be borrowed 
 from the French, who would read these 
 numerals Q^uatre-vingt-quatorze. 
 
 ^ Twescard. — This deanry is called in 
 the Terrier Tuscardie ; and by Colgan 
 Tuasckeart. — Act. SS., p. 455, col. 2. On 
 the 3rd of July, 1547, "the oath of al- 
 leadgeance was taken by Donatus OMurry 
 Deane of Tuskard in M'= Guillen's country " 
 [Mac QuiUin's country, i. e. the Route]. — 
 Cod. Clarend., vol. xxxvi. p. S5- B''^*- 
 Mus. It comprised those parishes of the 
 ancient principality of Dalriada or the 
 Route which constitute the modern ba- 
 ronies of Gary, Dunluce, N. E. Liberties 
 of Coleraine, and most of Kilconway : thus 
 extending from Rathlin Island on the 
 north, to the river Ravel on the south. 
 The ancient name of this ecclesiastical dis- 
 trict is now obsolete, and is represented 
 by the rural deanries of BaUymoney and 
 Dunluce. 
 
 The word Twescard is an anglicism of 
 the Irish Uuaipceapc 'the North', and 
 Avas borrowed from the natives by the 
 English settlers, to denote the territory 
 around Goleraine. In a marginal gloss on 
 the Feilire of j^ngus, at the 1 1 th of Novem- 
 ber, is the observation: i cuaipcepcDal 
 nQpaioe aca Cul paicin ' in the north 
 
 — £8 los. 8c/.- Tenth, 175. Id. 
 
 — £5 Tenth, i o6'. 
 
 The 
 
 of Dal-Aradia Gulraithin is'. In the An- 
 nals of the Four Masters, at the year 
 1 1 7 1 , the same word occurs, but in a dif- 
 ferent combination: Cpeacmopla TTIaj- 
 nup mctDuinnpleibe ui Gocaoa iccuilon 
 Uuaipceipc, aguppo aipjpecCuilpacam, 
 ajup Cealla oile, &c. ' A great prey by 
 Manus mac Dunlevy OHaughey in Guil- 
 an-tuaisceirt, and they plundered Guilra- 
 thain, and other churches'. In 12 10, 
 John de Grey, Bishop of Norwich, being 
 at Garrickfergus, assigned the territory of 
 Twescard to the deputies of Alanus de 
 Galweia, reserving to the Crown the cas- 
 tle of Kilsantan, with ten Knights' fees on 
 either side of the Bann, and all ecclesias- 
 tical rights. — Hardy's Rot. Pat., vol. i. 
 p. 98. In 1 2 1 5, King John confirmed to 
 the said Alanus Fitz Robert the enjoy- 
 ment of " tota Toschart, subject to the same 
 reservations". — Hardy, Rot. Chart., p. 2 10. 
 In 1220, Henry III. confirmed to said Ala- 
 nus de Galweia the possession oitota Thos- 
 kart, under the same conditions as before. 
 Hardy, Rot, Claus., p. 420 b. Between 
 the years 1240 and 1247, the lands of Coul- 
 rath, in Toscard, were exchanged by the 
 
 Primate for other lands Harris' Ware's 
 
 Bps., p. 66. In 1262, a 'computus del 
 Twescard'' was returned, containing the 
 following names which occur in the Taxa- 
 
72 
 
 (Conerens Dyoces.) 
 
 ^Eccia de Dundermot • vatt 
 
 ult* gviciu 
 
 ^Eccia de LoghkeH 
 
 '^T'Eccia de Kellrethi 
 
 ^Eccia de Loghkan • vatt 
 vlt* s'viciu 
 
 (li-ni*r — 
 xxviij -li — 
 di-m'r — 
 
 ij-iifr 
 
 decla-viij -d. 
 decla-lvj -s, 
 decla • viij • d. 
 
 decia-ij-s-viij-d. 
 ^ Eccia 
 
 tion of thisdeanry: Portcamman, Portros, 
 Erthermoy, Culrath, Lochkele, Ohathran ; 
 together with Drumtarsy(the modern Kil- 
 lowen), in Avhich, according to the An- 
 nals of Ulster and of the Four Masters, a 
 castle was built by the English in 1 248. — 
 Cod. Clarend., vol. xliii. p. 207. Brit. Mus. 
 The Four Masters, at the year 1247, use 
 the old name Dalriada ; but from 1357 
 forward, they employ the word Rucu ' the 
 Route', when treating of this territory. 
 At the year 141 8, they call it Mac Uidhe- 
 lin's country : and in the State Papers 
 [circ. 1 5 15], Fitzhowlyn [another form of 
 the Welsh name Mac Quillin] is described 
 as Lord of Tiiscard, which is styled a ba- 
 ronye. — Vol. ii. pp. 7, 27 : where, in- 
 stead of the incorrect note which places 
 Tuscard in " that part of the county of 
 Down, between the Loughs of Belfast and 
 Strangford", read " that part of the coun- 
 ty of Antrim, between the Bann and the 
 Glynns". 
 
 '' Donaci. — Now Dunaghy parish. It 
 derived its name from an inconsiderable 
 earthern fort, which stood on the town- 
 land Ballycregagh, a little N. E. of the 
 village of Clough. It is marked on the 
 
 Ord. Map (s. 27), but has been levelled 
 since the Survey was made. Mr. Dono- 
 van supposes this place to be the t)un 
 Gachbach mentioned in the twenty-ninth 
 verse of the Circuit of ]\Iuircheartach, and 
 interprets it ' the fort of Eochaidh'. — 
 p. 31. In 1435, Mauritius M'^Umcaidhau 
 was rector of the parish church ofDuna- 
 chaidh, in the Diocese of Connor. — Reg. 
 Prene, p. 303. 
 
 '^ Queur Now, probably, Cargan(caip- 
 
 jin or cfippaigin ' a small rock'), a town- 
 land in the Glenravel district of Dunaghy 
 parish. — Ord. Survey, s. 24. It contains 
 an ancient burying ground, Avhich the 
 country people call Deshcart : it is seated 
 in a sequestered spot, on a bank beside the 
 river Ravel. Cargan, and the adjoining 
 townland Dungonnell, are held under the 
 see of Connor. These lands, under the de- 
 signation of" the half townland of Diserta 
 vera''\ having been seised by Randal Mar- 
 quis of Antrim, were claimed by Bishop 
 Jeremy Taylor, as his episcopal property ; 
 and the matter being left to the arbitra- 
 tion of Primate Boyle, an award was made 
 that Lord Antrim should surrender them, 
 and take out a lease for sixty years under 
 
73 
 (Diocese of Connor.) 
 
 The church of Dundermot'' is 
 worth, over and above ser- 
 vice 
 
 The church of Loghkell^ 
 
 The church of Kellrethi^ 
 
 The church of Loghkan^ is 
 worth, over and above ser- 
 vice 
 
 h mark 
 £28 — 
 ^ mark 
 
 2 marks — 
 
 Tenth, Sd. 
 Tenth, ^6s. 
 Tenth, 8f/. 
 
 Tenth, 2S. Sd. 
 The 
 
 Dated 12th March, 1665. — advowson of the church oi Loghkel Avas 
 
 the -bishop. 
 Enrolment. 
 
 ^ Dundermot Now the Grange of Dun- 
 
 dermot. — Ord. Survey, s. 27. The name 
 (OunOiapmaoa 'the fort of Dermod',) 
 is derived from a large earthern fort which 
 overhangs the Clough Water, near Glarey- 
 ford Bridge. A plan and description of 
 it are to be found in the Parochial Sur- 
 vey, vol. i. p. 251. There are no traces of 
 a church or cemetery remaining: even so 
 long ago as 1622, the Ulster Visitation 
 made the report: " Grangiade Downeder- 
 mond, noe walls ever knowne to be there". 
 At the Dissolution, this parish was ap- 
 propriate to the abbey of Kells ; and this 
 tributary relation seems to have existed 
 at the time of the Taxation, and to have 
 been expressed by the word servicium in 
 the text ; which is explained by Du Cange 
 as 'redditvis', 'tributum', ' quaevis pr^e- 
 statio'. — Glossar., vol. vi. col. 435. See 
 also under the head Set'vitiumNicmmoi-um. 
 Ibid., fols. 442, 443. 
 
 * Loghkell. — Now the parish of Lough- 
 guile. — Ord. Survey, s. 18. In 1 305, the 
 
 granted to Richard de Burgo, Earl of 
 Ulster. — Inq. ad quod dam. 33 Ed. I., 
 No. 177. In 1333, William de Burgo was 
 seised of the advowson of the church of 
 Loghkel., which, according to an early ex- 
 tent, was worth, in time of peace, lOOs., 
 
 but nothing then Inq. P. M. The parish 
 
 takes its name from a lake, on the east 
 edge of which, in the townland Lavin 
 Lower, is the churchyard, containing the 
 site of the original church. In other re- 
 cords the name assumes the various forms 
 'Loghgeile', 'Loghgoyle', ' Loughgill'. 
 
 ^ Kellrethi. — Now the parish of Kil- 
 i-aghts. — Ord. Sur., ss. 17, 18. "Graunge 
 de Killraghtis, the 2d. part of all tithes are 
 impropriate to the Abbey of Downe". — 
 UL Vis., p. 258 ; Ul. Inq., No. 8, Jac. L 
 Down. In old records, the name is gene- 
 rally written Killraghtis. The church- 
 yard is much used, and part of the west 
 gable of the old church is standing. 
 
 s Loghkan. — Now the Grange of Kil- 
 dollagh. — Ord. Survey, ss. 7, 8, London- 
 derry; s. II, Antrim. " Killdillock, noe 
 
74 
 (Conerens Dyoces.) 
 
 ^Ecciade Coulfade viij-ti-xj-s-iiij-d- dec-xvij-s-j-d otj. 
 
 '^Eccia de Coulrath xj-ti-v-s-iiij-d — dec-xxij-s-vj-d ol3. 
 
 ^Ecciade Hathranton- iiij-ti-xi-s-iiij-d - dec-ix-s-j -doB. 
 ^ Eccia de Rosrelickf • 
 
 vatt ule §viciu xl-d dec-iiij -d. 
 
 <^ Eccia 
 
 church nor walls: the 2d part of all tithes Survey, s. 8), and partly in Antrim (Ord. 
 are impropriate to the Abbey of Wood- Survey, s. 6). The church is in the for- 
 burneandpossestbytheEarleofAntrym". mer. In Dowdall's Registry, the King's 
 Ul. Vis. The two townlands Fishloughan Books, and almost all records of that date, 
 and Milloughan, which are separated by a the parish is called Singingtone, or St. 
 rivulet, are jointly called by the country John's-town. In 1524 Mauritius Oheyle 
 people the Loughans. In the former of Avas presented by Primate Cromer, "jure 
 these is the old burial ground, but without devoluto propter absentiam Ordinarii in 
 any traces of a building. In the sanu- Dioecesi Connerensi", to the parish church 
 townland, at the other side of the old Bal- of the Blessed Mary of Singaynton alias 
 lymoney and Coleraine road, on a high Kathsyne, now vacant by the death of Cor- 
 bank overhanging the river Bann, is a part mac O Colcan : and the letters of collation 
 of the foundations of a very strong castle, add " per Pilei tui capiti tuo impositionem 
 which, in some places, were seven feet auctorizabiliter investimus decernentes te 
 thick. From its position on this side the per Archidiaconum loci aut ejus vices &c." 
 Bann, and its proximity to the Salmon Keg. Crom., p. 467. In 1 605, it was found 
 Leap, it may be concluded to have been that the rectory of the church of St. John 
 the castle of /u7/*S'a?2c^aw, which, according the Baptist of Singeston alias Ballyrasin, 
 to the Four Masters, was built by John de in the barony of Duuluce, extending to ten 
 Courcy and the English of Ulidia, at Gap townlands, was appropriate to the Prior of 
 Cpaoibe ( As Creeve, or the Cutsof Cole- St. John's. — Inq.Ant. The Terrier adds 
 raine), in the year 1 197. — ^qq Aj^pendix. that the "church of Sengenstowne hath 
 The word servitium in the text seems to a plowland of St. John's whereon it stand- 
 denote the subjection of this church to a eth, and the Prior had of old the presen- 
 religious house, probably, as at the Disso- tation of the Parson". The present pa- 
 lution, the Priory of Woodburn, rish church is a modern building, but the 
 
 ^ Coulfade Cuil paoa 'the long cor- ruins of the old church, measuring 63 feet 
 
 ner'. Now Ballyrashane parish, situate 8 inches by 21 feet, stand in the church- 
 partly in the county of Londonderry (Ord. yard. 
 
75 
 
 (Diocese of Connor.) 
 
 The church of Coulfade**- 
 The church of Couh'ath'- 
 
 - £8 1 IS. 4.d.- 
 ■ £ 1 1 55. 4^/.- 
 
 The church of Hathrantone'' £4 115. 40?.- 
 
 The church of Rosrellck is 
 worth, over and above 
 
 Tenth, 175. ild. 
 Tenth, 22s. Ghd. 
 Tenth, 95. izid. 
 
 service 
 
 40^/. 
 
 Tenth, 4^/. 
 
 lie 
 
 ' Coulrath. — The town now called Cole- 
 raine is written Culrath or Coulrath in 
 most early English records. The original 
 name was Cuil parain, signif}dng ' the 
 ferny corner'. — O Brien, in voce Cu il. For 
 this etymology there is the authority of 
 the Tripartite Life, which relates that St. 
 Patrick, ha\'ing arrived in this neighbour- 
 hood, was hospitably entertained, and re- 
 ceived an offer of a tract of grou.nd where- 
 on to build a church, which was pointed 
 out to him as on the northern hank of the 
 river Bann, in a spot overgro-\vn with ferns, 
 where some boys were at the moment set- 
 ing fire to the ferns : that Bishop Car- 
 breus, subsequently [circ. A. D. 540], chose 
 for his abode this place, which from that 
 day and occurrence Avas called Cuil-rathen, 
 i. e. 'the ferny retirement' — ^eQ Appen- 
 dix. Adamnan, who was Abbot of Hy in 
 679, relates of St. Columbkille that on one 
 occasion he visited Conallus Bishop of Cu- 
 lerathin, by Avhom, as well as by the neigh- 
 bouring people, hewas greeted " in platea 
 monasterii strata". This occurred about 
 the year 591. St. Bernard relates that 
 Malachi Omorgair on one occasion visited 
 the Civitas Culratim. In 1337, the King, 
 
 in the minority of the Countess of Ulster, 
 presented William Wolley to the church of 
 
 St. Patrick of Coulrath Cal. Cane. Hib., 
 
 vol. i. p. 42 b. In 1 35 1, Richard Fitz- 
 Ealph, the celebrated Primate, preached 
 a sermon to the people, in English, at 
 Cowlrath. — Cal. Clarend., vol. xlvi., fol. 
 loi, dors. In 1609, Culrathan Avas an- 
 nexed to the Treasurership of Connor. 
 
 " St. Patrick's Church ofColeraine" 
 
 Terrier. " Temple-Patrick alias Cole- 
 rain". — Trien. Vis., 1661. 
 
 ^ Hathrantone Now Ballyaghran pa- 
 rish Ord. Survey, s. 3. Londonderry. In 
 
 ecclesiastical documents, it is generally 
 called Agherton. The Compotus of Twes- 
 card in 1262 calls it Ohathran. It seems 
 also to be the Hochageran which Ed- 
 ward IL granted to Robert de Benmays, 
 reserving the advowson of the church — 
 Cal. Cane. Hib., vol. ii. p. 354. This pa- 
 rish noAv forms the corps of the Treasur- 
 ship of Connor. The modern parish church 
 has been built at Port Stewart, but the 
 original one stood in the churchyard, 
 which lies at some distance from that vil- 
 lage. 
 
 ^Rosrelick. — Now Rosrelick More, and 
 
 L 2 
 
76 
 (Conerens Dyoces.) 
 
 ^Eccia de Portrossce- xxv-ti-iiij-s-viij-d_ dec-1-s-v-d ot3. 
 
 ^Eccia de Dunkelisp- xlvij -s-iiij -d dec-iilj-s-viij-d oh. 
 
 <^Ecciade Portkaman- viij-li-x-s-vilj-d — dec-xvij -s-ob q! 
 
 ^EcciadeBile xxxvj-ti dec-lxxij-s. 
 
 •^Eccia 
 
 Beg, tAVo townlauds in Ballyagliran pa- has only been disused since the new church 
 rish, about a mile S. E. of Purtstewart — at Portrush was erected. The town of 
 Ord. Survey, s. 3, L.Derry. In the latter Portrush ( pope puip' port of the promon- 
 of these townlands, there is a spot where tory '), which gives to the parish the name 
 large quantities of human bones have been in the Taxation, is so called from the har- 
 found, and where tradition says a church hour, which is situate on the S. W. side 
 once existed. The name, which appears to of the long narrow basaltic promontory 
 be Irish l^op poilje ' point of the ceme- running into the sea, which is locally 
 tery', is written in the various forms: Ros- called Kamore or Rathmore. At the root 
 roylocke,Rosrelige, Rosrolicke, Rosrollick. of this tongue of land, about midway be- 
 " Agherton cum Roserollique". — Reg. tweeen the Baths and the Police Barracks, 
 Vis. 1633. The servitium of the text is stood the church. The writer happened 
 thus explained by the Ulster Visitation to bi- here in October 1 845, when exca- 
 Book : " Grange de Rossrollike church, vations were being made for the founda- 
 noe walls nor knowne to be : the 2 partes ticms of some houses, and, from the num- 
 tliereof impropriate to the Abbey of Kells". ber of human bones turned up, had ocular 
 ■" Portrnssce. — Now the parish of Bal- proof of the correctness of the tradition, 
 lywillin, or, as it is familiarly called, Poi't- In 1262, this place Avas called Portros — 
 rush. Two-thirds of this parish are in Computus. In 1305, the advowson of the 
 the county of Londonderry (Ord. Survey, church of Portros was granted to Richard 
 ss. 3, 4), and the remainder in Antrim de Burgo. — Inq. ad Q. D. 33 Ed. I. A 
 (Ord. Survey, ss. 2, 6). Instead of the memoir of the ancient church of Bally- 
 Irish name Bally willin (6a)le rhinUinn willin, accompanied by some sketches, is 
 ' town of the mill') the English jyyto>2 or printed in the Transactions of the Down 
 Miltone is to be found in DoAvdalPs Re- and Connor Church Architecture Society 
 gistry, the King's Books, and other eccle- (p. 25, Belfast, 1844), wherein the writer 
 siastical authorities. The boundary line (the Lord Bishop) refers the date of its 
 between the two counties, till lately, ran erection to the eleventh or tAvelfth century, 
 through the churchyard, leaving on the " Bunkell&p. — Now part of Dunluce pa- 
 Londonderry side the old church, which rish. In 1 609 it was annexed to the corps 
 
77 
 (Diocese of Connor.) 
 
 The church of Portrossce"- 
 
 The church of Dunkelisp"- 
 
 The church of Portkaman'' 
 
 The church of Bile^ 
 
 — £25 4.9. 8f/.- Tenth, 505. ^Id. 
 
 - 475. 40?. Tenth, 45. S^d. 
 
 - £8 105. Sd.- Tenth, 175. ojd. 
 
 — £36 Tenth, 725. 
 
 The 
 
 of the Freceutorship of Cunuor, under the 
 name of '' Ecclesia de Sancto Ciithberto 
 Dunlups ". — Charter. " Ecclesia Sti. Cuth- 
 berti de Dunlippis". — Terrier. In the 
 townland Dunluce, a short distance south 
 of Dunluce Castle, is the old churchyard, 
 containing the ruins of a church which 
 occupy the site of a more ancient build- 
 ing. — Ord. Survy, s. 2. The Four Mas- 
 ters, at the years 15 13, 1584, call this spot 
 Dunlis. In an Irish MS. account of the 
 troubles of 1641, it is written Oun libpi. 
 Colgan spells it Dunliffsia. — Acta SS., 
 p. 377, col. 2. The present parish of Dun- 
 luce is an union of Dunluce and Portca- 
 man. — See next note. 
 
 ° Portcaman, — The river Bush (an 
 6uaf ) divides the town of Bushmills into 
 two portions : of these, the larger, Avhich 
 lies on the east side, is in the parish of 
 Billy; the other, at the west side, is in 
 the parish of Dvmluce, and contains the 
 parish church. On the Ord. Map it is 
 marked Ballaghmore or Bushmills — ss. 3, 
 7. That part of Dunluce parish, which 
 lies next the Bush, was regarded, at the 
 date of the Taxation, and until the seven- 
 teenth century, as a distinct parish ; and 
 its church occupied the site where the 
 modern church of the union stands. In 
 
 the charter of James I. Portcaman and 
 Dunluce were separately placed in the 
 corps of the Precentorship of Connor. In 
 1622 they were reported of distinctly, 
 but as served by the same curate. — Ul. Vis. 
 In 1633, they had grown into an union 
 styled " Portcommon cum Dunluce" — 
 Reg. Vis. " Portcamon cum capella Sci. 
 Cuthberti de Dunluce ". — Trien. Vis. 
 "Ecclesia dePortcamman it hath a town- 
 land of St. John's whereupon the Church 
 standeth, and one quarter in Gleabe. In 
 old time the Prior of St. John's had the 
 presentation". — Terrier. The local fea- 
 tures, from which Bushmills took its name, 
 are thus mentioned, in connexion with 
 this church : " Sir Randall M'^Donell did 
 demise unto Mathew Logan his whole Mill 
 lyeing upon the river of the Boish, under 
 the church of Portcamon". — UL Inquis., 
 No. 23, Car. I. Antrim. The name Port- 
 caman occurs as early as 1 262, in the Com- 
 putus of Twescard. 
 
 p Bile. — NoAv Billy parish, forming the 
 corps of the Archdeaconry of Connor. — 
 Ord. Survey, s. 7. The name in Irish is 
 6de, signifying ' an aged tree', there 
 having probably been, in pagan times, near 
 the site chosen for the church, some sacred 
 oak, which was an object of religious ve- 
 
78 
 (Conerens Dyoces.) 
 
 ^Eccia de Darkehan xx-ti-viij-s dec-xl-s-ix-d o15. 
 
 ^Eccia de Rathmohan - x-li dec«xx«s. 
 
 ^Ecciade Kllfeutre ix-ti-iiij-s-viij-ct- dec-xviij-s-v-d o15. 
 
 ^^Eccia 
 
 neration. Thus Moville, in the Dioceses rish — Ord. Survey, s. 12. This church 
 
 of Down and Derry, is derived from rPlaj must have been founded soon after the 
 
 bile, which is rendered ' Campus arboris spread of Christianity in Ireland, inasmuch 
 
 sacri'. — See Dr. O Conor's Eer. Hib. SS. as its first minister was brother of St. 
 
 Prolegom. i. p. 26. A. D. 1487, Bernard Mochay, who died in the year 497. In a 
 
 Ohele was rector ofBili, in the Diocese of tract of ^ngus theCuldee, on the Mothers 
 
 Connor. — Reg. Octav., foh 289, dors. The of the Saints of Ireland, written before the 
 
 parish of Ballintoy, of which the island year 800, mention is thus made of Der- 
 
 Rathlin formed a part until 1722, when rykeighan : " 6ponac in^ion TTIilcon co 
 
 Bishop Hutchinson procured an Act of m-bae parpaic 1 n-oaipi maraipniochae 
 
 Council to sever it, was formerly annexed to nQenopoma loca Cuan — ajjup Colmain 
 
 Billy; and this may account, as well for the niuilmn o Duipe Chaechain 1 nt)al Rici- 
 
 omission of the names Ballintoy and Rath- on" Book of Lecan, fol. 43. Which 
 
 lin,intheTaxation, as for the large amount Colgan thus translates: " Bronachia filia 
 at which Billy is here valued ; being a Milchonis filii Buanii, apud quern S. Pa- 
 higher estimate than is laid upon any other tricius in servitute tencbatur, mater fuit 
 church in the province, and considerably S. Mochay iEndromensis de Loch-Cuan, — 
 more than that of many bishoprics and reli- S. Columbani Mulinn deDoire Chaochain 
 gious houses. The parish may have also in Dalrieda" — Acta SS., p. 95, col. 2. — 
 derived some consequence from the cas- See Calendar in ^yy^ewrf/a;, at January ist. 
 ties of Ballylough [6aile an loca], and The first word of the compound t)oipe 
 Loughlynch [Imp loca leirinnpi], which Chaocam signifies 'an oak wood'; the 
 are mentioned by the Four Masters, at the other is a proper name, signifying ' pur- 
 year 1544, as belonging to Mac Uidhelin of blind'. The Ul. Vis. states that the rec- 
 the Route. The wall which separates the tory was appropriate to Kells or Wood- 
 modern church of Billy from the church- burne : but according to the Antrim In- 
 yard is, in part, the north wall of the old quis. of 1 605, the Prior of Down was 
 church, which, judging from its remains, seised, at the Dissolution, of the "rectory 
 must have been a building of large dimen- of Derrichigan in the tuogh of Ballinlagh 
 sions. in the Rowte". The modern parish church 
 "J Darkehan Now Derrykeighan pa- stands at Dervock, but the foundations of 
 
79 
 (Diocese of Connor.) 
 
 The church of Darkehan''— 
 
 The church of Rathmohan' 
 
 The church of Kilfeutre' £9 46-. 8d. - 
 
 £20 Ss. — 
 £10 
 
 Tenth, 40s. gid. 
 Tenth, 20s. 
 Tenth, 185. 5^0?. 
 
 The 
 
 the original one remain in the old church- 
 yard, and within them stand the roofless 
 walls of a later building. A few years 
 since, a hoard of silver coins, 280 in num- 
 ber, was found in a field outside the church- 
 yard. With the exception of a Trajan, they 
 were all Saxon, of Athelstan, Eadmund, 
 Eadred, Eadwig, and Eadgar ; the last 
 being the most numerous. A list of the 
 rarest specimens in the collection may be 
 seen in the Numismatic Chronicle, p. 213. 
 ■" Ratkmohan. — Now the parish of Ka- 
 moan Ord. Survey, s. 8. In the Tri- 
 partite Life the name is written Rath-mu- 
 dain, and the foundation of the church 
 ascribed to St. Patrick. — Pt. ii. cap. 130. 
 Colgan states that the vulgar name is a 
 corruption of Rar moouin, which he in- 
 terprets Arx Muadain, and derives from 
 Muadain, who was the father of Enan, the 
 minister of the neighbouring church of 
 Druim-indich. — Trias Th., p. 182, col. 2. 
 The error which this author falls into of 
 placing Ramoan in the deanry of Hy- 
 Turtre {Ibid.), he elsewhere corrects by 
 describing it as " in regione Dalriedise 
 Cathrugia dicta, et in Deconatu de Tuash- 
 ceart". This observation occurs in his no- 
 tice of St. Ereclacius at the 3rd of March. 
 Acta SS., p. 455. See Calendar in the 
 Appendix at that day. The modern pa- 
 
 rish church occupies the ancient site. 
 
 ^ Kilfeutre. — Now the parish of Cul- 
 feightrin ( Cuil eaccpann ' the corner of 
 the strangers '). This church was founded 
 by St. Patrick, as the Tripartite Life thus 
 testifies: "Moreover, in the territory of 
 Cathrigia [now the barony of Cary], he 
 built the church of Cuil-Ectranri, over 
 which he appointed Fiachrius bishop ". — 
 Pt. ii. cap. 1 30. The present parish church 
 is in the townland Ballynaglogh, about 
 half a mile north of the townland Church- 
 field (called Magheratemple in the Down 
 Survey), where the old church formerly 
 stood. This building, with the exception 
 of the east gable, which is nearly entire, 
 has been demolished ; but sufficient traces 
 of the foundations remain to shew that it 
 was of very large dimensions. The area 
 of the old church, and the cemetery, are 
 now in pasturage. — Ord. Survey, s. 9. In 
 1524, Bernard Oneyle, a clerk of Connor 
 diocese, was presented by the Primate to 
 the rectory of the parish church of St. 
 Fechtany of Cowlofeghraine, in the Dio- 
 cese of Connor, vacant by the promotion 
 of Magonius Ocoyne ". — Reg. Cromer, 
 p. 453. Colgan states that the festival of 
 St. Fiachrius, bishop of this place, was ob- 
 served on the 28th of September — Trias 
 Th., p. 182, col. 2. 
 
8o 
 (Conerens Dyoces.) 
 
 ^Eccia de Ethirmoy — iiij-li-xj-s-iiij-d- dec-ix -s-j-ct oh. 
 
 ^Eccla de Balibony ^xj-ti dec-xlij-s. 
 
 ^Eccla de Kilbritoune- xj-ti-xvj-d dec-xxij-s-j-dobq! 
 
 ^Eccia de Talacorre — j-m^'r dec-xvj-d. 
 
 [xxj -ti-xiiij -s-iiij -d. 
 
 Sm^ taxaconis cc • xvij • li • iij • s • iiij • d. — Inde dec • 
 
 Decanat^ 
 
 " Ethirmoy. — Now Armoy parish. — Ord. was built in 1 820, stands upon tlie founda- 
 Survey, s. 13. The foundation of this tions of the old one, except at the east end, 
 church is recorded by Abp. Ussher at the where it is 23^ feet shorter. It measures 
 year 474. — Index Chronol. The Tripar- 50 by 27 feet; so that 732 feet in length, 
 tite Life relates that St. Patrick ha\'ing and 27 feet in breadth, may be regarded 
 baptized Olcan, on the subsequent evi- as the ancient dimensions. At the dis- 
 dence of his great advance in piety and tance of 28 feet from the N. W. angle are 
 learning, placed him as bishop over the the remains of a Round Tower, 35 feet 
 church of Rath-mugia or Artkir-mngia., high, and 47^^ feet in circumference. The 
 the chief town of the Dalredini. — Pt. ii. door- way, which is six feet high, is semi- 
 cap. 128. Jocelin calls this church Der- circular-headed, and the arch, which is or- 
 can, and is followed by Abp. Ussher, who namented with an architrave in good relief, 
 styles St. Olcan " ecclesia? Derkanensis is hollowed from the single stone which 
 episcopus", adding "quae [ecclesia] in serves as the lintel. This church is not 
 Eoutauo Antriumiensium territorio Clon- to be confounded with l^uc ITIcii je hQo- 
 derkan nomen adhuc retinet ". — Ant. Brit, nai^ or Hathenaich, in Tirenna, a district 
 
 EccL, cap. 17; Works, vol. vi. p. 518 of Donegal, Avhich is mentioned in the Ca- 
 
 The Four Masters, at the years 1 177 and lendar at the ist of November ; nor with 
 
 1247, make mention of this place, accord- Qipcep Hlai^e of Cuuir l^uca or Toora, 
 
 ing to the original form of the name, as one of the three territories which consti- 
 
 Qiprep mui^e ('eastern plain') in Dal- tute the barony of Mageraboy in Ferma- 
 
 piaba. Which mode of writing the name nagh, which is also noticed in the Calendar 
 
 was kept up in early Anglo-Norman re- at the 1 6th of January — See Appendix. 
 
 cords: thus, the Computus ofTwescard ^ Bidlhony — Now Ballymoney parish 
 
 \\2& Erthermoy; the Inquisition post mort. Ord. Survey, s. 17. In early records, the 
 
 of William de Burgo specifies the water- third syllable of the name always begins 
 
 mill oi Athermoy, and the lands oi Erther- with a b. In 1305, the advowson of the 
 
 moy. The present parish church, which church of Balybony was granted to Ri- 
 
8i 
 (Diocese of Connor.) 
 
 The church of Ethirmoy' £4 1 is.4d.- Tenth, gs, ild. 
 
 The church of Balihony" £2 1 
 
 The church of Kilbritoune''- £1 1 o,*^. i6d 
 The church of Talacorre"" — i mark 
 
 Sum of the Taxation 
 
 Tenth, 425. 
 Tenth, 2 2i. I'ld. 
 Ten til, i6d. 
 [of, £21 14s. 4d. 
 £217 35. 4f/. — Tenth there- 
 Dean ry 
 
 chard de Burgo, Earl of Ulster — Inq. ad "^ Talacorre — Now Tullaghgore, a town- 
 quod dam., 33 Ed. I. In 1334, Richard land in the N. W. part of Ballymoney pa- 
 rish Ord. Survey, s. 12. In 1633, the 
 
 benefice of Ballymoney was styled " Bel- 
 lamony cum Tullagurr" — Reg. Vis. In 
 the Ecclesiastical Returns of 1806 Tul- 
 loghore was reported to be a member of the 
 same union, and to consist of 1 006 acres, 
 p. 96. The four townlands Tulloghore, 
 
 de Castro was presented to the church of 
 Bali/horii/, in the diocese of Connor ; it 
 being in the gift of the Crown by reason 
 of the minority of the heir to the Earldom 
 of Ulster.— Com. Placit., 8 Ed. III., Cod. 
 Clar., vol. xliii. p. 38. In 1488, Bernard 
 ^PCloscaid was rector oiBcdleboni. — Reg. 
 
 Octav., fol. 289, dors. In 1550, Eugenius Forttown, Kilmoyle, Upper, and Lower, 
 
 ^PBloske was rector of the church o^Ba- lie contiguous to one another, and contain 
 
 lebonacl. Reo-. Dowd., p. 22. " Ecclesia about that amount of land. In the middle 
 
 de Ballymuny ". Ibid., p. 265. This pa- of a field of Upper Kilmoyle is the church- 
 
 rish, which now forms the corps of the yard, twenty perches in extent, and con- 
 
 Precentorship of Connor, was annexed to taining the foundations of the old church, 
 
 that dignity by the charter of 1 609, under which measure 42 by 1 5 feet. The name 
 
 the name Balihony. The site of the origi- Kill-moyle (CiU maol ) signifies the ' bald 
 
 nal church, in the churchyard, is marked 
 by a square tower which bears the date 
 1637. 
 
 ^ Kilbritoune A name now unknown 
 
 in the country. Possibly the parish of 
 Finvoy, which joins Ballymoney on the 
 south, and which has not been mentioned 
 in the Taxation, is here intended. — Ord. 
 Survey, s. 22. An account of this parish 
 is to be found in the Parochial Survey, 
 vol. i. p. 377. 
 
 chiirch', and is translated into its Latin 
 synomym, in several records. " Ecclesia 
 Calm de TuUothgarra hath half a town- 
 land in gleabe. It is united to Ballymo- 
 nie". — Terrier. " Ecclesia Calva de Tal- 
 laghor, noe church nor walls. Rectory 
 possest by the Earle of Antrym as impro- 
 priate to the Priory of Colerane" UL 
 
 Vis. The Irish word maol (pronounced 
 ??2oye) signifies ' bald', 'shorn', 'blunt', 
 'unhorned'. In a religious sense it de- 
 
 M 
 
82 
 
 (Concrens Dyoces.) 
 
 Decanat^ de Turtrye. 
 
 '^Eccia de Lede vatt xxs dec'ia-ij-s. 
 
 <^Eccia de Schirich xx-s decla-ij-s. 
 
 ^Eccia 
 
 notes one that is tonsured ; and in the sense deanry was modelled after the civil terri- 
 
 of a devotee or servant (in like manner as tory of Hi-Tuirtre, -which is early spoken 
 
 jioUa), was often assumed, prefixed to a of in Irish history, and continued to be 
 
 saint's name, to denote ' the minister' of governed by a petty prince, of the family 
 
 fiuch an one. Applied to hills and forts it of O Flin, for a considerable time after the 
 
 implied a flatness of top, and in this sense, English invasion. Its name, which Col- 
 
 when appended to the words CiU and gan states to have been in use in his day 
 
 UeampuU, forming the compound Kill- (Trias Th., p. 377, col. 2), was derived 
 
 moyle and Templemoyle, so common in from Fiachrius Tort, son of Colla Iluaish, 
 
 these dioceses, it conveyed the idea either one of the three brothers Avho subverted 
 
 of flatness, or of dilapidation, or of incom- the Ulster dynasty, at the battle of Carn- 
 
 pletion. eachalethderg, in the year 332. The pre- 
 
 a Turtrye. This deanry retains the flx Hi, so common in Irish names, is the 
 
 name TuHria in Dowdall's Registry, and plural o\Hua or 0, ' a grandson ', and de- 
 
 Turtere in the Terrier ; and its extent, ac- notes not only the posterity but the country 
 
 cording to these later documents, agrees occupied by them.— See O Flaherty's Ogy- 
 
 with that assigned to it in the Taxation. gia, pt. iii. c. 76. In many early authori- 
 
 Colgan calls it the deanry o\Hi-Turtre, ties, the word is latinized by iVey^o^es ; thus 
 
 and\istances Rathcobain [Rathcavan] as Adamnan speaks oi the Nepotes Turtrei 
 
 •a parish belongingto it.— Trias Th., p. 182, (Vit. S. Columb., pt. i. cap. 22) ; the Books 
 
 col. I. He also refers the parish of Rath- of Armagh and Kilkenny, of the Nejjotes 
 
 mudain[Ramoan] to it; but this seems Turtaraidhe (Fleming, Collect, p. 307, 
 
 to have been an oversight in the learned col. 1.) In the Annals of Tigernach, at 
 
 writer.— Ibid., p. 182, col. 2, n. 197. In the year 669, mention is thus made of the 
 
 the region of Hi-Tuirtre he also places territory : " ITIopp ITIailporapacni^ mc 
 
 the parishes of Schire-Phadruic[ Skerry], Suibne Ri nepocum Cmpcpi ". "The 
 
 Creamchoill [Cranfield], and Connor (lb., death of Maelfothartagh, son of Suibhne, 
 
 p. 1 83, col. i) ; but he intrudes upon Moy- King of the Nepotes Tuirtri ". The An- 
 
 linny when he extends it to Dunogcurra nals of Ulster, at the year 668, use the 
 
 [Donegore].— Ibid., p. 184, col. i. The same expression, which the Four Masters, 
 
(Diocese of Connor.) 
 Deanry of Turtrye*. 
 
 S3 
 
 The churcli of Lede^ is worth 
 The church of Schirich'' 
 
 205. 
 20s. 
 
 Tenth, 29. 
 Tenth, 2s. 
 
 Ih 
 
 e 
 
 at the same date, change to Cenel Cuip- 
 cpi, " Clientela Tuirtri ". Jocelin, on the 
 other hand, interprets the word Hi in the 
 secondary sense, and calls the same terri- 
 tory "Fines Turturinorum ". — cap. 91. 
 In Anglo-Norman records, Henry III. is 
 found, at the year 1244, applying to the 
 Princes of Ireland for aid against the 
 Scotch, and, among others, names "Gfflen 
 [^)-ecte O Flen] Rex de Turteri ". — Rymer 
 Feed., vol. i., p. 256. Again, in 13 14, 
 when Edward II. required the Irish chiefs 
 to infest the Scotch, he named " Eth Offlyn 
 Dux (or, as in the Annals, Ci jepna ' lord') 
 Hibernicorum deTurtery ". — Ibid., vol. ii. 
 pp. 245, 262. The deanry contained the 
 parishes which constitute the modern ba- 
 ronies of Lower Antrim and Lower Toome, 
 and part of Kilconway, with — Avhat is an 
 anomaly — the barony of Lower Glenarm. 
 ^ee Appendix. 
 
 ^ Lede. — Now the parish of Layd. The 
 name seems to be the Irish word leireab, 
 which is sometimes written leab, and sis- 
 nifies 'breadth'. The churchyard, con- 
 taining the ruins of the old church, is 
 situate on a slope which overhangs the 
 sea, about a mile N. E. of the village of 
 Cushendall. The Ord. Survey, (s. 15) 
 places it in the townland Moneyvart ; but 
 
 it more properly belongs to the townland 
 Layd, or Lede, as it is marked on Len- 
 drick's Map. Cushendall (Cop-abann- 
 Dhalla), or, as it is sometimes called Bu- 
 nandhalla (6un-abann-t)haUa), signifies 
 'the foot' or 'root of the river Dall', 
 being situate at its opening; in like man- 
 ner as Cushendun, a neighbouring bay, is 
 called by the Four Masters (A. D. 1567) 
 6nn-aBunn-t)uir.e ' the root of the river 
 Dun', 
 
 *= Schirich. — Now the parish of Skerry, 
 so called from Scipic, ' rocky', in reference 
 to the basaltic hill which was chosen as 
 the site of its ancient church Ord. Sur- 
 vey, ss. 28, 33. Tradition ascribes the 
 foimdation of this church to St. Patrick, 
 and in so doing is borne out by very 
 ancient written authority. The scho- 
 liast on St. Fiech's Hymn, whose date Col- 
 gan assigns to the year 580 (Trias Th., 
 p. 7), but Lanigan to a much later period 
 (Eccl. Hist., vol. i. p. 8 1 ) notices the spot 
 in the following words : " In forma avis 
 Angelus veniebat ad Patricium, quando 
 custodiebat porcos Milchonis filii Hua 
 Buani in Arcuil \_noi0 the valley of the 
 Braid] ; quod est nomen vallis magnte in 
 Aquilonari parte Dal-aradiaj juxta montem 
 Mis [i. e. pliab Dlip, Slemish]; etin loco 
 
 M 2 
 
(Conerens Dyoces.) 
 
 <^Eccia de Rathcona 
 <^Eccia de Baliluo;d - 
 <^Eccia de Conia — 
 
 84 
 
 m*r 
 
 
 •xl-tt — dec-xx-d. 
 xl-d — dec-xx-d. 
 dec-xvj-d. 
 
 ^Eccia 
 
 Schiric dicto veniebat ad ipsum, ubi est 
 Ecclesia hodie in valle ilia, et manent im- 
 pressa saxo ejus vestigia ibi". — Trias Th., 
 p. 4, col. 2. See also Abp. Ussher's Brit. 
 Eccl. Ant. cap. 17 (Works, vol. vi. p. 389). 
 The Tripartite Life employs nearly the 
 same words, and calls the hill Schirec Ar- 
 r.haile. — Pt. i. cap. 22. The ruins of the 
 church, which measure 64 feet by 1 8 feet 
 10 inches, are not characterized by the 
 marks of any great antiquity : but close 
 beside them, on the north, are some traces 
 of a smaller building, which was probably 
 erected at an earlier date. At a few yards 
 distance from the N. E. angle of the church 
 is a patch of rock, on the edge of which is 
 a depression having a iaint resemblance to 
 the print of a shoe, which the Ord. Sur- 
 vey, agreeably to the ancient tradition, 
 notices as "St. Patrick's footmark". — 
 s. 33. This spot, which is now regarded 
 with little more than the curiosity of a 
 stray visiter, or the veneration of an occa- 
 sional funeral company, was formerly a 
 famous place of pilgrimage. Thus Colgan, 
 writing in 1 647, states that " hodie hie 
 locus Schire-Padruic appellatur, — et in 
 hunc usque diem plurima peregrinatione, 
 magnoque popvili concursu et devotione 
 frequentatur" — Trias Th., p. 171, col. 2. 
 A little south of the hill of Skerry, at the 
 
 other side of the Glonarm road, is " Tub- 
 bernacool Holy Well" (Ord. Survey, s. 33), 
 which Colgan styled " fons miraculosus ". 
 Ibid., p. 183, col. I. 
 
 ^ Rathcona Now the parish of Rath- 
 
 cavan (Rar cuBain 'fort of the hollow'). 
 Ord. Survey, s. 33. It is separated from 
 Skerry by the Braid River, which takes 
 its rise in the hills over Cleggan. The 
 townland Carnstroan is occupied by the 
 famous hill, anciently called SliaB ITIip or 
 Mons Mis, and now Slemish ; which was 
 considered the northern limit of Dalaradia, 
 as Newry was its southern — Trias Th., 
 p. 8, coL 2. About a mile and a quarter 
 to the west, in the townland Kacavan, is 
 the ancient churchyard, but without any 
 remains of the church. In the valley of 
 the Braid, and lying in a straight line be- 
 tween Slemish and Skerry, is the town- 
 land Ballyligpatrick, a memento of St. 
 Patrick's seven years' captivity in this dis- 
 trict. 
 
 ^ Balilugd. — Now the parish of Bally- 
 clug ( 6aile an cluij ' town of the bell'). 
 Ord. Survey, s. 38. The present parish 
 church, which stands in the townland Bal- 
 lymarlagh, was consecrated in 1 844, under 
 the name of ' St. Patrick's of Ballyclug '. 
 The churchyard, which is in the townland 
 Ballylesson, contains the foundations of 
 
^5 
 (Diocese of Connor.) 
 
 The church of Rathcona''— 
 
 The church of Balilugd^ — 
 
 The church of Coneria*^ — 
 
 I mark, 4od. 
 1 mark, 40^/. 
 I mark 
 
 the old church, measuring 50 feet by 28. 
 In 1435, Thomas Maccrcmheavid was pre- 
 sented by the Primate to the perpetual 
 vicarage oi Ballydyic. — Reg. Prene,p. 168. 
 In 1458, John ^Pninkyan was perpetual 
 
 vicar oi Baliclug Ibid., p. 4. In Dow- 
 
 dall's Registry (p. 265), Bcdaclog is stated, 
 at the year 1546, to belong to the Arch- 
 deacon of Connor ; and this connexion con- 
 tinued to subsist, in virtue of the charter 
 of 1609, till the dismemberment of the 
 corps of the Archdeaconry in 1832, under 
 Act 5 Geo. IV. cap. 80. 
 
 f Coneria Now the parish of Connor. 
 
 Ord. Survey, s. 38. The original church, 
 which gave name to the see, was founded 
 in the fifth century ; andaEngus MacNisse, 
 its founder and first bishop, died in the 
 year 514. In Irish records, the name 
 Connor generally appears in the forms 
 ConDepe, Conoipe, Conoeipe, Conbaipe, 
 which Colgan occasionally latinizes by Con- 
 
 doria Trias Th., pp. 146, col. 2 ; 272, c. i ; 
 
 502, c. I. The no in the middle of the 
 word subsequently passed into nn, as Mr. 
 O Donovan observes : " In the ancient Irish 
 manuscripts we find no almost invariably 
 written for nn of the modern Irish ortho- 
 graphy" Grammar, p. 34. The origin 
 
 of the name is thus explained in a margi- 
 nal gloss on the word ChonDepib (Con- 
 
 Tenth, 2 Of/. 
 
 Tenth, lod. 
 Tenth, i6d. 
 
 The 
 
 nor), in the Martyrology of ^ngus, at 
 the 3rd of September: .1. tDaipe na con .1. 
 tDaipe ambicip coin allca ppu ip ec m eo 
 lupe ha[bicabanc], "1. e. Daire-na-con, 
 i. e. the oak wood in which were wild doss 
 formerly, and she-wolves used to dwell 
 therein". This etymology joer metathesim 
 was common with the Irish, as Colgan ob- 
 serves, who conjectvires that Dercon, the 
 church of St. Olcan, was identical with 
 Connor, adding " Derechon, seu rectius 
 Dorechon, per transpositionem nostrati- 
 bus frequentem, idem sit quod Condere 
 seu Condore" — Act. SS., p. 377, col. 2, 
 n. 9. By the country people the name is 
 pronounced as if it was written Con-yer. 
 The present parish church was built, in 
 1 81 8, on the site of the old cathedral of 
 St. Saviour's, which had been partly de- 
 stroyed in the rebellion of 1641, and a 
 portion of which, having been re-roofed, 
 and thatched with straw, was used for di- 
 vine service, till it was superseded by the 
 modern chvirch. This portion was proba- 
 bly the southern transept of a larger build- 
 ing, for it is described, by those who have 
 attended it, as having stood north and 
 south. — Eccles. Report of 1806, p. 97. In 
 1458, Patrick Olynnan was vicar of the 
 cathedral church of Connor. — Reg. Prene, 
 fol. 4. The rectory of the parish was ap- 
 
86 
 
 (Conerens Dyoces.) 
 
 <^Eccia de DroiTiaule- 
 
 ^Eccia de Dovan 
 
 ^Eccia de Ardglanys 
 
 '^Eccia 8ci Patcii de 
 
 na^ 
 
 xl 
 
 Gle- 
 
 xx-s- 
 XX -s 
 
 dec'iiij 
 dec • ij • i 
 
 ^Eccia de Crewitt 
 
 xs 
 
 di 
 
 - de 
 
 c-ij 
 
 m*r 
 
 - decla • xij • d. 
 
 — decia • vlij • d. 
 
 ^Eccia 
 
 propria te, at tlie Dissolution, to the abbey — Ord. Survey, ss. 42, 48. The parish 
 of Kells, the lands of which constitute the church, which measures 54 by 26 feet, is 
 
 chief part of the western half of the pa- 
 rish See Taxation, at Desertion Conerice. 
 
 « Drommaule. — Now the parish of Drum- 
 maul Ord. Survey, s. 43. The old pa- 
 rish church stood in the townland Drum- 
 matd, on the west side of the Main water; 
 
 an ancient building : it stands Avithin the 
 churchyard in the townland Lismacloskey. 
 At the Dissolution, the rectory Avas appro- 
 priate to the abbey of Kells. In a marginal 
 gloss on the Martyrology of vEngus, at the 
 30th of October, this church is called t)un- 
 
 a portion of the east gable, which stands Da-en hi Piftbaio tDoil Qpcuoe, ' Dundaen 
 in the churchyard, is all that remains of 
 the building. This situation proving in- 
 convenient to the principal parishioners, 
 an Act Av as obtained in 1703, constituting 
 the new church, which was built in the 
 townland Dunmore, the parish church — 
 Irish Stat., vol. iv, p. 40. At the Disso- 
 lution, the rectory was appropriate to the 
 
 in Feevah of Dalaradia'. This word pio6- 
 bao, which signifies ' a Avood'or ' thicket', 
 (OReilly in voce), is called in the Inqui- 
 sitions " Tuogh na Fuiffk''\ and is now lo- 
 cally pronounced Feevah. In this parish 
 is the famous pass of the Bann, called in 
 the Tripartite Life Fersait Tuama (Pt. ii. 
 cap. 138. Trias Th., p. 148, col. i); and 
 
 abbey of Kells. In 1458, Patrick M'ere- by the Annalists Cuaim (An. Ul. and F. 
 
 wyn was vicar of the church of Drumaule. 
 Reg. Prene, p. 4. In 1488, Michael M'gre- 
 mayn was vicar of the church " Sanctse 
 Brigidse de Druimaula". — Reg. Octav., 
 fol. 289 rev. In this parish is the resi- 
 dence of the ONeill, anciently called Eden- 
 duffcarrick (Sban oub caipje 'the dark 
 face of the rock'. Four Masters, A. D. 
 1490). and now Shane's Castle. 
 
 " Dovan Now the parish of Duneane. 
 
 Mast., A. D. 1 099, 1 1 97). It is now called 
 Toome Bridge, and gives name to a barony. 
 See Appendix. 
 
 ^Ardglanys Now Ardclinis parish. — 
 
 Ord. Survey, ss. 20, 25. The name is 
 sometimes written Ardcleneise. The parish 
 churchyard, containing the ruins of the 
 old church, is in the townland Ardclinis, 
 at the foot of Ardclinis mountain, and 
 near the sea. Besides this burial ground 
 
87 
 (Diocese of Connor.) 
 
 The church of Drommaule^ — 405. 
 
 The church of Dovan" 
 
 The church of Ardghmys' 
 
 The church of St. Patrick of 
 
 Glenarum" 
 
 The church of Crewill* 
 
 205. 
 
 2CS. 
 lOS. 
 
 I mark — 
 
 Tenth, 4s. 
 Tenth, 2s. 
 Tenth, 26'. 
 
 Tenth, 1 2d. 
 Tenth, Sd. 
 
 The 
 
 there is another in the parish, considered 
 by the country a very ancient one, in the 
 townland Nappan South, commonly called 
 Killi/crappin. The introduction of this 
 parish and the following, as also of Layd, 
 into the deanry of Hy Tuirtre, is a geo- 
 graphical violence not easily accounted 
 for. 
 
 ■^ Glenarum. — The parish of Tickma- 
 crevan, as has been already observed, is 
 properly an union of Tickmacrevan and 
 Templeoughter ; and the component parts 
 of it are placed by the Taxation and Dow- 
 dall's Registry in different deanries. Tick- 
 macrevan, which appears to be the church 
 here intended, is found written in the va- 
 rious forms Tachmackerewan, Tacmacre- 
 mye, Temaghcremaye, and Teckmacrea- 
 van. There are three small denominations, 
 called Glore, Glebe, and Oldchurch, join- 
 ing each other, which are set out on the 
 Ord. Map as townlands, but which seem 
 to be, properly, subdivisions of the town- 
 land Glore. On the Glebe is the church- 
 yard, with the foundations of the ancient 
 church which measure 45 by 15 feet. The 
 spot is generally called ' the Glore' from 
 jluaip, the Irish for 'pure', and seems 
 
 to be the Gluaire where the Tripartite 
 Life states that St. Patrick founded a 
 church, while in the region oi Latharna. 
 
 ^ Crewill Now the parish of Cranfield. 
 
 Ord. Survey, s. 49. The real name is, as 
 Colgan writes it, Creamchoill(cpearh coill 
 ' a wild garlic wood '), and appears in a va- 
 riety of forms. In a lease, bearing date 
 1683, it is called ' Croghill alias Cran- 
 field' (Registry Office): and it is a cu- 
 rious coincidence that the townland at the 
 southern extremity of Mourne, which is 
 now called Cranfield Point, was formerly 
 called Cravighill — Ul. Inq., No. 1 5, Jac. I. 
 " Crawmkill hath four towns in Erinoth 
 land, and but one towne more in the pa- 
 rish ". — Terrier. The whole parish, con- 
 sisting of 833 acres of land, is laid down 
 in the Ord. Survey as but one townland, 
 and called Cranfield ; and no notice is taken 
 of the usual designation "the four towns of 
 Cranfield". The names of these town- 
 lands, as enumerated to the Editor by a 
 respectable inhabitant, are Ballykeel, Bal- 
 lyharvine, Ballynarny, and Tamnaderry. 
 The fifth townland, which is alluded to in 
 the Terrier, was probably Creeve, which 
 now belongs to Duneane parish. " Cram- 
 
88 
 
 (Conerens Dyoces.) 
 
 <^Eccia de AchochiH- 
 ^Eccla de Clemlv — 
 ^Eccia de Rosserkan 
 
 xx-s- 
 
 XX -s- 
 xx-s- 
 
 Sm* taxaconis 
 
 chill : The 2d parte of all tithes belong 
 to St. [John of] Jerusalem". — Ul. Vis., 
 p. 261. In Ballykeel is a large and much 
 frequented burying-ground, wherein are 
 the ruins of the old church, in a very per- 
 fect condition, measuring 37 feet 4 inches 
 by 15 feet 9 inches, in the clear. About 
 half a mile to the north stands the shaft 
 of an ancient black oak cross, which Avas 
 probably set up as a termon mark. Also, 
 about 100 yards to the west, is a well long 
 famed among the natives for its supposed 
 virtues, and which Colgan characterizes as 
 " fons ille miraculosus qui est juxta Ec- 
 clesiam de Crecnnchoill ". — Act. SS. p., 378, 
 col. I. Trias Th., p. 183, col. i. A writer 
 in 1727 gives the following account of it: 
 " At Cranfield, in the county of Antrim, 
 there is a south running spring of com- 
 mon water, said to be consecrated by St. 
 Colman, a famous Irish Saint. Pilgrims 
 go to it on May eve. They empty and 
 clear the well in the twilight, stay all night 
 about it, saying a certain number of Pa- 
 ter's, Ave's, and Credo's. In the morning 
 they find small transparent stones of an 
 amber colour in the bottom of the well, 
 which (if you believe them) grew there the 
 night before, and will preserve those that 
 
 — decia-ij s. 
 
 — decla-ij-s. 
 
 — decla-ij-s. 
 [cia-xxiiij -s-iiij -d. 
 
 xij • ti - ilj -s - iiij -d. — Inde de- 
 
 carry one of them about them from any 
 loss by fire or water. These stones are to 
 be found there at any time, yet the natives 
 thereabouts will not be convinced of it ". 
 Kichardson's Great Folly of Pilgrimages, 
 p. 65. These amber stones, which the 
 writer mentions, are crystals of gypsum 
 or sulphate of lime, a salt sparingly solu- 
 ble in water, and were chiefiy sought by 
 those who intended to emigrate. Stations 
 also were held here on the 29th and 30th 
 of June, which were attended by a large 
 concourse; but, since the year 1828, they 
 have been discontinued. 
 
 ■" Achochill Now the parish of Aho- 
 
 ghill — Ord. Survey, s. 37. By the country 
 people it is frequently called INIagheraho- 
 ghill. This seems to be the " church of 
 St. Coknanellus of Atholrill" [or, as it 
 may have been written, Acho/till'], from the 
 rectory of which Paul was elevated, about 
 
 the year 1376, to the see of Connor 
 
 Harris' Ware's Bps., p. 222. A. D. 1376, 
 Adam Naas was presented by the Crown 
 to the church of Ohorhill in Turtria, in the 
 diocese of Connor. — Cal. Cane. Hib., vol. i. 
 p. 91b. In the same year, William Wyne 
 was presented to the same church, the in- 
 strument of his appointment being di- 
 
89 
 (Diocese of Connor.) 
 
 The church of Achochiir- 
 
 The church of Clemly" — 
 
 The church of Rosserkan"^ 
 
 205. 
 
 20S. 
 
 2 OS, 
 
 Sum of the Taxation 
 
 Tenth, 2s. 
 
 Tenth, 2s. 
 
 Tenth, 2s. 
 
 [thereof, 24s. 40?. 
 £t2 36-. 4d. — Tenth 
 
 Sum 
 
 rected to Paul, Bishop of Connor — Ibid., of these is a very ancient burying-place, 
 p. 91 b. In the same year John Oneill Avhich is marked on the Ord. Map (s. 32), 
 also was presented to the church of ^co- though without its name Aughnakeely . 
 
 chill, in the diocese of Connor Ibid., This is the site of the " Ecclesia hodie 
 
 p. 93 b. In 1 44 1, Patrick Okylt, perpetual vulgo Ackadhna cille'", which Colgan de- 
 vicar of Achioghill, was directed by the scribes as situate " in finibus Dal-riedi«" 
 Primate to induct Thomas M'Kerny into (Trias Th., p. 182, col. i, n. 195); and its 
 the rectory of the same ; and the principal position answers to this description, as 
 parishioners, namely, Mauritius RuiFus 
 Oneyll, Odo Flavus, Charolus filius Do- 
 naldi Gracilis, and Terentius Clericus 
 Oneyll, were admonished to render him 
 due respect. — Keg. Prene,p. 141. In 1458, 
 John M^Molyn was rector of Gaghowill; 
 
 Dalriada or the Route ends at the southern 
 boundary of Kilconway, which is but a 
 short distance from this place. Colgan 
 also conjectures that this spot maybe the 
 Qchub-Cinn mentioned by Tigernachand 
 the Four Masters at the year 554. — Ibid. 
 and Patrick Olyzlt [Okylt] was confirmed Archdall converts into a certainty what 
 
 by the Primate in the perpetual vicarage, 
 in opposition to the claims of John M'^Ly- 
 renan, who was svipported by the bishop. 
 ^Qg. Prene, fol. 4. The parish church oc- 
 cupies the ancient site. 
 
 ° Clemly — On the road from Ahoghill 
 to Rasharkin, in the barony of Kilconway, 
 is the townland Craigs, consisting of 2801 
 acres, as laid down on the Ord. Map. This 
 large tract is, however, properly speaking, 
 an aggregate of four townlands, which are 
 locally styled ' the four towns of Craigs ', 
 and are called Aughnakeely, Groogagh, 
 Carhunny, and Grannagh. In the first 
 
 Colgan here merely stated as a speculation. 
 Monast. Hib., p. i. The townlands of 
 Craigs, until lately, belonged to the pa- 
 rish of Ahoghill ; but in 1 840 they, and 
 twenty-one townlands more, were, by Act 
 of Council, severed from it, and formed 
 into a new parish called Craigs, which may 
 be considered as the modern representa- 
 tive of the Clemly of the Taxation. The 
 parish of Kilconriola, which at the Disso- 
 lution was an appropriation of Muckamore 
 Priory, is not mentioned in the Taxation ; 
 which may be accounted for either by sup- 
 posing it to be rated, inter alia, with the 
 
 N 
 
90 
 
 (Conerens Dyoces.) 
 
 ^Sm^ Reddituu \ pven- 
 tuu Tempat Coneren 
 Epi 1-ti 
 
 ^Tempalia Abbtisse de 
 Deulacressce 
 
 dec-v-ti. 
 
 xlj-ti-v-s-v-d — dec-iiij-li'ij-s-vi-d. 
 
 ^^Tempalia 
 
 liouse to which it was attached ; or that * Connor. — On the death of Peter de 
 
 at the date of the Taxation it formed part Dounach, Bishop of Connor, in 1292, the 
 
 of Ahoghill ; which is very likely, from the temporalities were seised into the King's 
 
 indistinct boundary between the two, and hands, and Walter de la Hay, Escheator of 
 
 the shape of Kilconriola, which resembles 
 a strip cut off the east side of Ahogliill. 
 
 ° Rosserkan Now the parish of Rashar- 
 
 kin Ord. Survey, s. 26. The name is 
 
 found written in the several forms Rasar- 
 kan, Rosercan, Magherasharkan, The rec- 
 tory of " Magherisergan in the Rowte" 
 was, at the Dissolution, appropriate to the 
 Priory of Muckamore. — Inq. Ant. 1605. 
 About a furlong N. E. of the church is a 
 ridge of rock, about 60 feet high and 1 00 
 long, called Drumbulcan. The top of it is 
 covered with a dark mould, in which have 
 been found fragments of bones ; and the 
 edge of the platform seems to have been 
 formerly protected by an earthen ram- 
 part. This is the spot which Colgan calls 
 Dunbolcain, and describes as " locus sine 
 Ecclesia prope Airthermuige [Armoy], 
 
 ubi forte [S. Olcanvis] natus est" Acta when Randal Earl of Chester was laying 
 
 SS. p. 378, coL I. The name, which sig- the foundation stone of the church, hepro- 
 nifies ' the ridge of Bolcan', is derived from nounced the French words Deux encres; to 
 St. Olcan, who is called Bolcan by some which the surrounding company responded 
 writers, and in vulgar parlance. The pa- Amen: whereupon the Earl said: " This 
 rish church occupies the old site. monastery shall be called Deulacres, that 
 
 Ireland, returned an account into the Ex- 
 chequer of £12 5s. lorf., arising from the 
 see lands from the 24th of November to 
 the 27 th of April following. — Cod. Clar., 
 vol. xlv. p. 236 rev. In the King's Books, 
 tlie temporalities of Connor are taxed at 
 the small sum of £25. — See Appendix. 
 
 ^ Deulacressce The abbey of St. Pa- 
 trick of Down is manifestly here intended, 
 although it is not so evident how this name 
 happened to be applied to it. The abbey 
 of Dieulacres or Deulacresse, in the parish 
 of Leek in Staffordshire, on the borders of 
 Cheshire, was founded by Randal the Third, 
 surnamed de Blundeville, Earl of Chester, 
 in 1 2 14; who, having translated hither 
 the monks from Pulton in Cheshire, dedi- 
 cated it to the Virgin Mary and St. Bene- 
 dict. The origin of the name was this : 
 
91 
 (Diocese of Connor.) 
 
 Sum of the temporal reve- 
 nues and profits of the 
 Bishop of Connor^ £50 Tenth, £5. 
 
 Temporalities of the Ab- 
 bot of Deulacressce^ — £41 SS. 5c?. — Tenth, £4 2s. 6d. 
 
 Temporalities 
 
 the name of God maybe invoked upon than 1257, as Isaac died in that year, 
 
 it".— Dugdale, Monast. Angl., vol. v. pp. Nicholas, who had been Prior of Down 
 
 626-630. (Lond. 1825). It is likely that, and Treasurer of Ulster, was raised to the 
 
 for some time after the Invasion, an inti- see of Down in 1 276 : and in the same year 
 
 macy subsisted between the churches of " Frater Jo. Abbas de Deuleucres became 
 
 Chester and of Down, arising from the Treasurer of Ulster". — (Cod. Clarend., 
 
 English connexion of John de Courcy's vol. xlii. fol. 17). In 1279, Nicholas, Bi- 
 
 retinue, among whom we find a Roger of shop of Down, and Jo. Abbas de Deulacres, 
 
 Chester; and especiaUy from the relation delivered their accounts for the time they 
 
 which John deCourcy established between were Receivers of Ulster — Ibid., fol. 22. 
 
 the two when he brought over a prior and This John may have resigned his charge 
 
 monks from St. Werburgh's, on the occa- in England for that of Down in Ireland; 
 
 sion of his remodelling the abbey of Down. or, what is more likely, may have presided 
 
 In 1220, the prior and convent of St. Pa- over both houses, retaining his English 
 
 trick's of DoAvn wrote to Henry III. com- title among the English colonists. And 
 
 plaining of the injuries which their houses at the date of the Taxation, the Abbot of 
 
 and church had suffered by war, and pray- Deulacres may have been Prior of Down 
 
 ino- of him to grant them " aliquam man- also, and been taxed, under his former ti- 
 
 siunculam in Anglia, ubi cum opus fuerit, tie, in this record, which rates the reli- 
 
 poterimus hospitari". — Rymer's Foed., gious houses in the persons of their heads, 
 
 vol. i. p. 164, and Prynne's Records, vol. iii. At the Dissolution, the lands of this ab- 
 
 p. 49. How this application was received bey were valued at £60 los. per an., and 
 
 is not mentioned; probably it led to the its appropriations at £6$ 13s. 4^. — Inq., 
 
 establishment of some relation between 3 Ed. VI. The word Abbtisse, which ac- 
 
 the abbeys of Deulacres and Down. The companies the name in the text, is the 
 
 Registry of Muckamore contains a grant genitive of Abbatissa, 'an Abbess', but 
 
 of Isaac, Bishop of Connor, to that priory, as it is evidently a clerical error for ' Ab- 
 
 which is witnessed by "Johannes Abbas batis', it has been rendered Abbot in the 
 
 de Deulacres''\ and cannot have been later translation. 
 
 N 2 
 
92 
 (Conerens D voces.) 
 
 ^Tempalia At^tis 
 
 de Jiigo Dei — xxxv-tl-vj-s-viij-d — dec-iij*tI'X-s-viij-d. 
 
 ^Tempalia AlTtjtis 
 
 cr 
 
 de Ines 
 
 Tempalla AtJbtis 
 de Bangovre — 
 
 X'li' xix • s • iiij -d — dec • xxj • s • xj • d • q^ 
 
 Iviij -s-j -d 
 
 «^ Juffo Dei. — Now Grey Abbey. A. D. 
 1 193, " Conditur monasterium de Jugo 
 
 dec-v-s-ix-d ob q* 
 
 '^Tempalia 
 
 ecclesiastical remains in the diocese, and 
 have been secured against further injury. 
 
 Dei, Whit Abbey, HiberniceMonesterlech" except that of time, by the laudable care 
 
 [mainipnpliac 'Grey Abbey'] Grace's of their distinguished proprietor. A few 
 
 Annals. " Johannes quidem de Cursi ha- years since, when the floor of the abbey 
 
 buit filiam Godredi [regis Mannia?], no- 
 mine Affrecam, in matrimonium, qua3 fun- 
 davit Abbatiam Sancta? Maria? de Jugo 
 
 Dei, quas ibidem sepulta est" Chroni- 
 
 con Mannia;, A. D. 1 204. This abbey Avas 
 sometimes called simply Leigh, from 6iar, 
 ' grey '. It was a cell of Holm Cultram 
 in Cumberland, and its connexion with that 
 
 was cleared of the rubbish which had col- 
 lected upon it, a leaden seal was found 
 bearing the following legend: " RADVL- 
 PIIVS : DEI GRACIA KARLEOLEN- 
 SIS EPISCIIOP". This Bishop of Car- 
 lisle was Radulphus de Ireton, who was 
 appointed to that see in 1280. — (Godwin 
 de Praesul., p. 765). At the Dissolution, 
 
 house is thus illustrated by the Chronicle this abbey was seised of sixteen townlands 
 of Mailros: " 1222, Dominus Adam Abbas in the neighbourhood, and of the rectories 
 
 de Holmcultram suo cessit ofiicio ^ cui suc- 
 cessit Dominus Radulfus Abbas de Jugo 
 Dei in Hibernia; loco cujus substitutus 
 est in Hibernia Dominus Johannes Celle- 
 rarius de Glenlus". " 1237, Obiit Domi- 
 nus Gillebertus Abbas de Holmcultram 
 apud Cantuariam, dum rediret de capitulo 
 generali. Cui successit Dominus Johan- 
 nes Abbas de Jugo Dei. Et de Jugo Dei 
 pastor alem curam suscepit Nicholaus ejus- 
 
 of two parishes. 
 
 ^ Ines NoAv Inch Abbey, from the 
 
 Irish Imp, ' an island'. It was sometimes 
 
 styled ' de Insula' Reg. Mey, lib. ii. 
 
 p. 206. It has been generally supposed 
 that the abbey, the ruins of which yet re- 
 main, was the first religious foundation in 
 this place, and that it took the name Inis- 
 courcy in commemoration of its founder, 
 John de Courcy. But Mr, O Donovan, 
 
 dem domus Prior" (Rer. Angl. Script, the most acute as well accomplished Irish 
 
 vol. i. and Bannatyne Club Papers). The scholar of modern days, has shewn that a 
 ruins of the abbey are the most extensive church existed here two centuries before 
 
93 
 (Diocese of Connor.) 
 
 Temporalities of the Ab- 
 bot de Jugo Dei*^ £35 6s. Sd. — Tenth, £3 105. 8c?. 
 
 Temporalities of the Ab- 
 bot of Ines" £10 195. 4(1- Tenth, 21s. 1 i\d. 
 
 Temporalities of the Ab- 
 bot of Bangoure'' 585. 10?. Tenth, 5.9. 9|<^. 
 
 Temporalities 
 
 John de Courcy's time, and that its real (Ibid., p. 619). JE. C. 1149, t)o oeacac- 
 
 name was Imp Curiipcpaio, pronounced cap poipeann Dib pop innpib loca Cuan, 
 
 'Inis-cooscry'. — Dub. Penny Jour., vol. i. Ro aipcc peac oan Imp Curhfcpaio," 
 
 p. 104. The origin of the name is proba- &c. "Ivit tvirma eorum [i. e. exercitus 
 
 bly to be found inCumpcpaiD, one of the ducti a filio Nialli OLochlann,] contra 
 
 sons of Connor Mac Nessa, King of Ulster, Insulas Lacus Cuan. Vastaverunt prs- 
 
 who succeeded his father on the throne of terea Insulas Cumscragice, &c.". — (Ibid., 
 
 Ulster, and was slain, after a three years' p. 765). The charter of Maurice Mac 
 
 reign in Emania, in the year of our Lord Lochlain to the abbey of Newry, which 
 
 33._Tigernach, A. C.33 ; Battle of Moira, was granted about the year 1 153, is wit- 
 
 pp. 208, 210 ; Ogygia, p. 137. The fol- nessed, among others, by " -^da Maglan- 
 
 lowing extracts from the Annals of the ha, Erenanus de Insecumscrai/'\ — Cod. 
 
 Four Masters, Avho again copy from Tiger- Clar., vol. xlv. p. 179. Brit. Mus. The 
 
 nach and the Annals of Ulster, refer to ancient church, however, was eclipsed, and 
 
 this place: — M. C. looi, " Sicpiocc mc became but a chapel, when John deCour- 
 
 Qmlaoib cijepna ^all. do doI pop cpeic cy founded the Cistercian abbey beside it, 
 
 mo Ulraib in a lon^aibcopo oipcc CiU- which was built on a much larger scale, 
 
 Cleire7 InipCuriipcpaiD, 7D0 bepcbpac- and, being made a cell of Furness in Lan- 
 
 jabail moip eipcib uile". " Sithricus cashire, became an English establishment, 
 
 tilius Amlafi Princeps Alienigenarum [i. e. The year of the latter foundation is placed 
 
 Danorum],ivitadvastanduminUltoniam, by Ware at 11 80: but Grace and Penj- 
 
 in suis navibus, et vastavit Cill-clettiam, bridge refer the foundation of Ines to the 
 
 et Insulam Cumscradii et abstulit captivos year 1 1 87 — Annals. The ' capella de Ines' 
 
 multos ex istis omnibus".— (Rer. Hib. SS., has been already taxed.— See page 44. 
 vol. iii. p. 533). M. C. 1061, "Ocean ^ ^a^^o^m-The c^wrc/^ of Bangor has 
 
 ua Coppmacan aipcinoeac Inpi Cump- already (p. 12), been taxed at 28 marks, 
 
 cpaiD— becc ". " Occanus O'Corpmacan while the abbot is here valued at a less than 
 
 Propositus Imul(e Cumscradi(e—ohnV\ a sixth of that sum. This appears strange 
 
(Conerens Dyoces.) 
 
 ^Tempalia ABt)tis 
 de Deserto Co- 
 
 94 
 
 nie 
 
 viij • ti • vj • s • vlij • d — dec • xvj • s • viij • d. 
 
 ^ Tempalia 
 
 when the condition of this abbey, in its in- patroni et defensores a clero constituti, 
 
 fancy and at its dissolution, is taken into postea processu teniporis aucta cupi- 
 
 account. It was founded in the year 558, dine totum sibi jus usurparent, et terras 
 
 and before half a century had passed was omnes cum exteriore possessione sibi im- 
 
 in such celebrity that " maxima multitudo pudenter appropriarent ; solum altaria ; 
 
 monachorum illuc venit ad S. Comgallum, cum decimis et ohceyitmiibus clero relin- 
 
 ut non potuissent esse in uno loco; et inde quentes". — Itinerar. Cambrige. St. Ber- 
 
 pluriinas cellas et multa monasteria non nard having, in his Life of Malachi, related 
 
 solum in regione Ultorum sed per alias the oiFer, which was made to religion, of 
 
 HiberniEB provincias; et in diversis cellis the possessions of Be7ickor, by the layman 
 
 et monasteriis tria millia monachorum sub into whose hands they had devolved, pro- 
 
 cura sancti patris Comgelli erant. Sed ceeds to draw this melancholy contrast be- 
 
 major et nominatior cajteris locis prajdic- tween its earlier and latter condition: — 
 
 turn monasterium Benchor est, ubi clara " Aiunt tam magnam fuisse, ut succeden- 
 
 civitas in honorcS. Comgelli asdificata est", tibus sibi \-icissim choris continuarentur 
 
 Vita S. Comgalli, cap. 13. It was justly, solemnia divinorum, ita ut ne momentum 
 
 therefore, entitled to the name 6enncaip quidem diei ac noctis vacaret a laudibus 
 
 mop, ' Great Bangor', by which the early [as with the 'AKot/*nTu'i, or 'watchers', of 
 
 annalists distinguish it from Bangor in the Greek church]. Haec de antiqua dicta 
 
 Wales, which tkey style 5etincaip 6pi- sint Be7ickorensis mouastern gloria,. Hoc 
 
 conum, ' Bangor of the Britons'. — Tiger- olim destructum a piratis [the Danes. An. 
 
 nach, 672, 756; An. Ul., 671, 755. And Ul. 823], ob insigne dignitatis antiquse, 
 
 even at the Dissolution it was found to Malachias veluti quendam replantaturus 
 
 be possessed of the temporalities and spiri- paradisum amplexus est, et quia multa 
 
 tualities of thirty-four townlands, together corpora Sanctorum ibi dormirent. Nam 
 
 with the tithes of nine rectories or chapels. ut taceam ilia quae in pace sepulta sunt. 
 
 Its financial condition at the date of the ferunt nongentos simul una die a piratis 
 
 Taxation serves, however, to illustrate occisos. Erat quidem ingens loci illius 
 
 what Giraldus Cambrensis complained of possessio, sed Malachias solo contentus lo- 
 
 as very prevalent in Ireland and Wales, co sancto, totas possessiones et terras alteri 
 
 " ut viri, in parochia potentes, primo tan- cessit. Siquidem a tempore, quo destruc- 
 
 quam oeconomi seu potius ecclesiarum tum est Monasterium, non defuit, qui il- 
 
95 
 (Diocese of Connor.) 
 
 Temporalities of the Ab- 
 bot of the Desert of 
 Connor*^ 
 
 lud teneret cu possessionibus suis. Nam 
 et constituebantvir per electionem etiam, et 
 Abbates appellabantur, servantes nomine quisite map of Hy Many, and is so called 
 
 £8 6s. Sd. Tenth, 165. Sd. 
 
 Temporalities 
 
 diocese of Kilmacduach, which is marked 
 Oipepc Celluij on Mr. O Donovan's ex- 
 
 (etsi non re) quod olim extiterat. Itaque 
 ex mandate patris Imarii assumptis decern 
 circiter fratribus, veniens ad locum coepit 
 asdificare". — Messing. Floril., p. 356. In 
 1469, the abbey having again fallen to 
 ruin, Paul 11. directed the Franciscans of 
 the Third Order to take possession of it, 
 which was accordingly done by Father 
 Nicholas. — "Wadding ap. Archdall. p. no. 
 See Appendix. 
 
 f Desert of Connor — Now Kells, in the 
 parish, and about half a mile west of the 
 
 church of Connor Ord. Survey, s. 38. 
 
 " The Abbey of Kellis, it is called Ecclesia 
 Beat» Marise deDesarto". — Terrier. Ac- 
 cording to Ware, a house of regular Au- 
 gustin Canons, called Kells or Disert-Kel- 
 lach, was founded here, before the year 
 828, by Kellach, an anchorite. — Harris' 
 Ware's Works, vol. ii. p. 265. This state- 
 ment is gathered from the following entry 
 in the Annals of the Four Masters, at the 
 year 828 : " Ceallach mc Conomai^ anj- 
 coipe t)ipipr Ceallaij". " Kellachus 
 Conmagii filius anachoreta de Disert Kel- 
 laigh obiit". — Colgan, Act. SS., p. 252, 
 col. I. It may be objected, however, that 
 
 by the Four Masters at the years 1179, 
 1598. There is some foundation for the 
 supposition, that this abbey, not Connor 
 church, is the representative of the church 
 founded by St. Mac Nissi, the first Bishop 
 of Connor. At the Dissolution, Connor 
 benefice was but a vicarage, the rectory 
 and advowson being vested in the Abbot of 
 Kells. St. Mac Nissi's church was a con- 
 ventual one, like most of the early episco- 
 pal seats of the primitive Irish church ; and 
 it is a very curious fact, which cannot be 
 easily accounted for, otherwise than by 
 supposing the episcopal and abbatial offi- 
 ces to have been early combined in the 
 persons of St. Mac Nissi's successors, that 
 the rectories and advowsons of the princi- 
 pal parishes of Connor diocese, wherein 
 the bishop had property, belonged, at the 
 Dissolution, to the Abbot of Kells. Such 
 an arrangement would naturally follow 
 from a partition of the two functions, and 
 the appointment of two officers to discharge 
 the duties and enjoy the privileges hitherto 
 combined in one. Thus while the Bishop 
 of Connor was seised of the temporalities 
 of the sixteen towns of Connor, the eight 
 
 this passage refers, not to this place, but towns of Glynn, the four towns of Du- 
 to Isertkelly, in the county of Galway and neane, the four towns of Drummaul, the 
 
96 
 (Conerens D voces.) 
 
 ^Temyalia P'or de 
 
 Mugmore xxiij -ti-xv-s-x-d — dec • xlvij • s • vij • d. 
 
 [xvij -ti-v-s-ij -d q! 
 
 ^Sm" taxacois clxxij-ti-xlj-s. — Inde decia- 
 
 ^Procuracoes 
 
 four towns of Kilroote, and the manor of 
 Kilkenan, the Abbot of Kells enjoyed the 
 advowsons of the churches built on these 
 lands, and the rectorial tithes of the pa- 
 rishes which contained them. To the same 
 origin may also be traced the economy of the 
 Cathedral of Down, where the bishop was 
 Abbot, and the dean was Prior. That the 
 foundation of the abbey of Desert-Connor 
 took place at a much early date than that 
 assigned by Ware, will appear from the 
 following passage, which is taken from the 
 ancient Life of St. Mac Nissi, published by 
 the Bollandists : " Fluvio nomine Curi, 
 monasterio ejus [i. e. of St. Mac Nissi, who 
 died A. D. 514] quodLatine DESERTUM 
 dicitur, prseterfluenti, ne sonitus ejus tam 
 prope transevmtis infirmos loci molesta- 
 ret, per ulteriorem viam currere pr^cepit : 
 quod continuo, ut ei imperatum est, fecit". 
 Acta Sanctor., Septemb., vol. i. p. 665, 
 col. I . Rej ecting the miracle, the rationale 
 of which may have been that he shifted 
 his monastery — no difficult matter for a 
 house built more Scotorum, — or deepened 
 the bed of the river, it is to be observed 
 that the river Curi here spoken of, is the 
 "rivus G^/o«-ran;y" of the Ulster Inqui- 
 sitions, which, flowing through the valley, 
 now called from it Glenwherry (Ord. Sur- 
 
 vey, ss. 38, 39), enters the parish of Con- 
 nor, and, leaving its church on the south, 
 winds round the abbey of Kells on the 
 north, and, under the name of Kells Water, 
 falls into the river Main at a place called 
 Ballyandraid. The next instance in which 
 the Editor has met the ancient name of this 
 abbey is in a deed of confirmation from 
 the Primate to the Prior of Neddrum 
 [circ. A. D. 1 190], which is attested by 
 " F. Abbas de DiserV. — Cotton Charters, 
 No. 40. Brit. Mus. Murtogh Mac Annul- 
 lowe, the last abbot, was seised, in 1542, 
 of eight adjacent townlands in temporals 
 and spirituals, of the tithes of ten other 
 townlands, and the rectories and advow- 
 sons of nine churches. In 1808 a bill 
 was filed by Lord Mountcashell for the re- 
 covery of the impropriate tithes of Kells, 
 in which was the deposition of Daniel Mo- 
 naghan, who declared that he recollected 
 to have heard his maternal grandfather 
 Murtogh Dillon say, that he was eleven 
 years old at the wars of Ireland, namely, 
 the Rebellion of 1641, and that he had 
 seen the Monastery of Kells, after its disso- 
 lution, and before it was entirely unroofed. 
 Enrolment. The west gable is the only 
 part of the building which remains ; it 
 stands at the entrance of the burial-ground, 
 
97 
 (Diocese of Connor.) 
 
 Temporalities of the Prior 
 
 of Mugmore^ £23 155. lod. — Tenth, 475. yd. 
 
 [of, £17 55. 2\d. 
 Sum of the Taxation £172 125. — Tenth there- 
 Procurations 
 
 ■which is entirely used by the Eoman Ca- 
 tholics of the neighbourhood, and is com- 
 monly called Templemurry or Templeinoyle. 
 s Mugmore. — Now Muckamore. — Ord. 
 Survey, s. 50. This priory derived its 
 name from the fertile plain on which it 
 stood, called maj-comaip, ' the plain of 
 the confluence'; being situate where the 
 Six Mile Water falls into Lough Neagh. — 
 See IV. Masters, A. M. 3529. It is gene- 
 rally supposed that Colman-Eala, a con- 
 temporary of St. Columkille, whom Adam- 
 nan (Vit. S. Columb., pt. i. cap. 5), styles 
 " S. Colmanus, Episcopus, Moc-u-Sailni " 
 [or, mc hui Selli, as in IV. Mast. A. D. 
 610], founded a monastery here. His 
 death is placed by Tigernach and the An- 
 nals of Ulster, at 611, 610, respectively: 
 to which the former and the IV. Masters 
 add, that he died in his fifty-sixth year. 
 On these grounds the foundation of this 
 house may be referred to the year 585. 
 Jocelin represents this occurrence as the 
 subject of one of St. Patrick's predic- 
 tions : " Quadam vice visitans S. Patri- 
 cius illam plagam Vltorum, quK Dalnar- 
 dia [Dalaradia] dicitur, per loctim quen- 
 dam Mucoomuir vocatum transiens pro- 
 
 grediebatur Dixit coram prsesentibus ; 
 
 Scitote, filioli charissimi, quod in illo loco. 
 
 quidam filius vitse, nomine Colmanellus, 
 Ecclesiam a;dificabit, multosque filios lu- 
 cis aut concives Angelorum futuros ibidem 
 
 adunibit" cap. 96. The church of which 
 
 this saint was special patron was Lann- 
 Eala, now Lynally, in the King's County ; 
 but, previously to its foundation, he had 
 spent a considerable time at Connor, (which 
 is only seven miles north of Muckamore,) 
 as appears by an extract from his Life, pub- 
 lished by Abp. Ussher : " Venit ipse ad 
 civitatem Conner e in provincia Ultorum, 
 in qua jacet beatissimus Episcopus Mac- 
 nisi ; et habitavit sanctus Colmanus in ilia 
 civitate mviltis diebus et plurimas virtutes 
 ibi fecit : et ipse est secimdus patronus ejus- 
 dem civitatis. Et benedicens populo illius 
 civitatis, venit inde ad patriam suam, id 
 est, ad regionem Midi". — Brit. Eccl. An- 
 tiq., cap. 1 7 (Works, vol. vi., p. 530). The 
 words here printed in italics will account 
 for a form of expression which occurs in 
 the Annals, namely, "Abbot of Connor 
 and Lan-Eala", as at the years 777, 866, 
 896, 917; or, what is to the same effect, 
 " Comharba of Mac Nissi and Colman- 
 Eala", as at 953, 955, 975, 1038. In these 
 instances the latter name is interpreted of 
 Dromore, by Dr. O Conor, who thus con- 
 founds the dates and names of two persons 
 
98 
 (Conerens Dyoces.) 
 
 ^Procuracoes Epi Co- 
 ne? l-m^r decia • V • m^r. 
 
 ^Pquis capitlo^ Epi It 
 
 Archld XXV -m^r dec • xxxiij • s • iiij • d. 
 
 ^Sinodalia 
 
 not contemporaries; in the same manner tins, who was Prior in 1356, was extant 
 as Bishop Nicholson represents " Much- in the time of Sir James Ware, who made 
 more, 07i the Locha, a small town in the some extracts from it, 25th Feb. 1624; 
 county of Antrim", to be "founded by which are preserved among his MSS. in 
 St. Colmanel, Bishop of Dromore" (Irish theBritishMuseum(Cod. Clar., voLxxxvi. 
 Hist. Lib., p. 43); thus confounding it N0.4787, Plut. 1 13, C, fol. 92). They are 
 withDromore on theio^'o or Lagan. Arch- headed: " Ex Registro S. Colmanelli de 
 dall, on the other hand, makes Lan-Eala Muckmore in agro Antrimensi ", and con- 
 to be Muckamore, when he is treating of tain several grants of land and churches 
 this house (Monast., p. 10) ; but negatives from diifereut donors. Among others, Lio- 
 the statement by setting forth Linally as a nel, Duke of Clarence, and Earl of Ulster, 
 distinct place, in the county of Antrim confirmed, in 1363, the possessions of the 
 (Ibid., p. 9) ; and by again quoting the Prior and Convent " B. Mariae de Muk- 
 same authorities to illustrate the history more in Ultonia quse est de fundatione 
 ofLynally in the King's County — (Ibid., R. (?) progenitoris Elizabethse consortis 
 p. 402). The truth is, these writers, in nostra; charissimas". From this passage it 
 their desire to bring Lan-Eala within a would seem that the house was remodel- 
 reasonable distance of Connor, forgot that, led by the English, after the Invasion, 
 in ancient times, it was no uncommon oc- Bryan Boy OMaghallon, the last Prior, 
 currence, for two or more communities, was seised of nine adjacent townlands, in 
 though far removed from one another, to temporals and spirituals, with the tithes 
 be subject to a common superior, provided and advowsons of fourteen churches. The 
 they observed the same rule, or o^Tned a churchyard is still used ; but the greater 
 common founder. Little more is known part of the site of the priory is under the 
 concerning Muckamore, until about the garden of Muckamore House, and all that 
 year 1 183, when " P. Prior de Mucmor" remains of the building is a portion which 
 appears as subscribing witness to a grant stands in the range of the garden wall, 
 of John de Courcy — Inspex. in Rot. Pat. ^ Procuratiom. — From early times, until 
 42 Ed. HI. pt. 2, m. II. The ancient Re- the tenth century, it was the custom for 
 gistry of this house, written by Lauren- the bishop personally to visit each parish 
 
99 
 (Diocese of Connor.) 
 
 Procurations^ of the Bishop of 
 
 Connor 50 marks — Tenth, 5 marks. 
 
 Perquisites of the chapters of 
 
 the Bishop and Archdeacon''- 25 marks — Tenth, 335. 4d. 
 
 Synodals 
 
 under his jurisdiction, once a year, unless " Nutrices pueros infantes minutulos 
 where the diocese was of too great an ex- Domi ut pi'ocurent, &c." 
 tent, in which case the indulgence of a (Plant. Poenul. ProL, 28). 
 biennial, or, at furthest, a triennial, visita- In after times, when a considerable por- 
 tion, was allowed him. — Dopping, Tract. tion of the visitatorial duties of the bi- 
 de Visitat. Episc, p. 8. A revival of this shop were delegated to his archdeacons, the 
 custom was contemplated by the seven- right of procuration was extended to them, 
 teenth Irish Canon, which prescribes that and to all other inferior prelates " quibus 
 "The Bishop, in his own person, every competebat jus visitationis". This impost 
 third year (at least) in the time of his Visi- presently became very oppressive, and, to 
 tation, shall perform the duty of confirma- prevent further abuses, it was decreed by 
 tion, &c." Thezealof Malachi OMorgair, the Third Lateran Council, in 11 79, that 
 in discharging this duty of his office, after Archbishops, in their visitations, were not 
 his appointment to the see of Connor in to exceed a retinue of forty or fifty horses 
 1 1 24, is thus panegyrized by his biogra- (evectiones) ; bishops, tAventy or thirty ; 
 pher St. Bernard : "Sedetforisrura et op- cardinals, twenty; archdeacons, five or 
 pida nihilominus saepius percurrebat cum seven ; and rural deans, two horses. An 
 sancto illo comitatu discipulorum suorum, estimate of the style in which visitations 
 qui nunquam deerant lateri ejus. Ibat et were anciently conducted in England, may 
 erogabat vel ingratis coelestis tritici men- beformedfromaBullof Pope Innocent III. 
 suram. Nee vehebatur equo, sed pedes which was elicited by a complaint pre- 
 ibat". — Messing. Floril., p. 358, col. i. ferred by the prior and convent ofBrid- 
 On the Scripture principle nemo cogitur lington against the Archdeacon of Eich- 
 sine stipendiis wii/2tare was founded the rule mond, who, when visiting one of their de- 
 that the bishop should be entertained at pendent churches, brought in his train 
 each church by the parish priest : which ninety-seven horses, twenty-one dogs, and 
 entertainment was styled Procwm^/o, from three falcons, and consumed more in one 
 procurare ' to refresh' ; as in the verses day than would have svifficed their commu- 
 
 " Iseti bene gestis corpora rebus i^ity for an age. — Monast. Angl., vol. ii. 
 
 Procurate viri". P- ^^5- -^^ '^o*^^ ^^ *^^^ bishops ceased to 
 
 {Virg. JEn., ix. 158). hold their itinerant visitations, and their 
 
 2 
 
100 
 
 (Conerens Dyoces.) 
 
 ^SinodaliaEpit Archid vlj-ti-xvi-s — dec-xv-s-v-d q! 
 
 [ XV • s • vij • d q? 
 Sm* taxacols Ivij-ti-xvj -s. — Inde dec'la•v•ti• 
 ^ Sm* totat taxacois Dioc Conef — dc • xxvij • ti • xj • s • iiij • d. 
 ^Inde dec'ia — Ixij -tLxv-s-j-d o15. 
 
 <^ Porcio 
 
 clergy were convened to their cathedrals, proxies, in Down, Connor, and Dromore, 
 the word ' procuratio ' came to signify (as varied from twenty to two shillings. Ta- 
 proxy or procuration still does,) " a pecu- bles of these are given in the Terrier ; Ul- 
 niary sum or composition paid to an ordi- ster Visitation, p. 261, &c. ; and more cor- 
 nary or other ecclesiastical judge, to com- rectly than the latter, in a MS. of Primate 
 mute for the provision or entertainment Marsh's Library, CI. v. 3, Tab. i, No. 2; 
 which was otherwise to have been pro- also in a MS. in Trinity College, E. 4. 1 5. 
 cured for him" (Kennet, Paroch. Ant. The fees now payable at Visitations in 
 Glossary). According to Lindewode, it Down and Connor are. Procurations to 
 was the practice, in England, for an arch- the Ordinary, and Exhibits to the Regis- 
 deacon, in his visitation, to receive as trar. 
 
 proxy, in money, 75. 6rf. ; that is, iSrf. for ""Archdeacon. — In the Provinciale of Lin- 
 
 himself and horse, and for each other horse dewode there is an enactment of Stephen 
 
 and rider (evectio), \2d. — (Gibson, Codex, [A. D. 1222J, " Prohibemus ne Archidia- 
 
 Tit. 42, cap. 9). In Ireland, it was an- coni die visitationis sua? apud ecclesiam 
 
 ciently the custom for the Archdeacon to quam visitant capitulum celebrent, nisi 
 
 receive procurations as well as the bishop : forte in burgo vel civitate ecclesia sit 
 
 thus in the Taxation of Cashel, Ardagh, constituta". Upon which Lindewode ob- 
 
 Kildare, Ardfert, and Annadown, the serves :" Capitulum. In quo congregan- 
 
 " Procurationes Archidiaconi" form an tur rectores et vicarii ipsius archidiacona- 
 
 item. In Ossory " the archdeacon exer- tus ad communes tractatus et alia inibi 
 
 ciseth a prescriptive Jurisdiction over the facienda" — (Lib. iii. fol. 159, Lond. 1525). 
 
 whole Diocese from the thirtieth of Sep- Perquisitum, from Avhich comes the old 
 
 tember to the third of February every year ; French word pourchas and our English pur- 
 
 in which time he visits the whole Diocese, chase, denotes, primarily, anything gained 
 
 Decanatim, and hath the Moiety of Pro- by one's own industry, as contra-distin- 
 
 curations paid to the Bishop in his ordi- guished from that which descends to one 
 
 nary Visitations". (Harris' Ware's Bps., from a father or other ancestor. (Spelman, 
 
 p. 398). At the Eeformation, the rate of andCowel in voce.) Hence, Perquisita Cu- 
 
lOI 
 
 (Diocese of Connor.) 
 
 Synodals*^ of the Bishop and 
 
 Archdeacon £7 165. Tenth, i^s.^^d, 
 
 [of, £5 155.71^. 
 Sum of the Taxation £^y i6s. — Tenth there- 
 Sum total of the Taxation of Connor Diocese, £627 1 16-. 4c?. 
 
 Tenth thereof, £62 155. 13d 
 
 The 
 
 rice are those profits which arise to the lord expected to provide for the bishop and 
 of a manor, by Aartueofhis Court-Baron, archdeacon, when they presided at their 
 over and above the certain and yearly pro- rural chapters. This was probably the 
 fits of the land, as fines of Copyholds, He- origin of the duty called Refections, which 
 riots, &c. (Blount in voce). In the Taxa- was payable, at the beginning of the seven- 
 tion of the diocese of Annadown [now in- teenth century, to the bishops of certain 
 eluded in Tuam] mention is made of the dioceses in Ireland. Re/ectio is interpreted 
 " procuraciones etperquisita visitationis et ' a dinner' or ' supper' ; hence the ' duty 
 caj»?<Mfon<mArchidiaconiAnagdunensis": to provide such' — (Blount). Thus the 
 in that ofCashel, " perquisita placitorum" Greek word KciTcl>^vficc m St. Mark, xiv. 14, 
 are taxed to the bishop, and "perquisita which is translated 'guest-chamber' in the 
 hundredorum" to the priory of Athis- authorized version, is rendered "refectio 
 sell; while the " perqviisita visitationis " mea" in the vulgate. This meaning is 
 and "perquisita capitulorum" are rated, further illustrated by the Terrier : "The 
 separately, for the archbishop and arch- Priory of Down owes no Refections, for 
 deacon, undereach deanry. This renders it the Prior's house is the Bishop's". And 
 probable that these perquisites were fees or again : " Dominicani de Villa Nova [New- 
 other emoluments arising to the bishop and townards] debebant Refectionem Episco- 
 archdeacons from the ruri-decanal chap- po, viz., escalenta etpotulenta". The Ter- 
 ters, or other conventions, held decanatim. rier also gives the amount in Refections, 
 Again, in the diocese of Cloyne, the " per- payable by each benefice, in 1615 ; from 
 quisita curiarum capitulorum" of the bi- which it appears that, in Down and Con- 
 shop are taxed : while in that diocese, as nor, it was the same as that of the Proxies, 
 well as in Ardfert, an emolument of the " Synodals. — " The ancient episcopal 
 archeacon, called "jurisdictio", is specified synods (which were held about Easter) 
 instead of his " perquisita". These fees were composed of the bishop, as presi- 
 were, it would seem, a commutation for dent ; the dean cathedral, as representa- 
 ihe entertainment which the clergy were tive of the collegiate body; the archdea- 
 
I02 
 
 DRUMORENS DYOCES. 
 
 ^ Porcio Epi Drumorens — xx • m*r dec'ia • ij • m*r. 
 
 ^Eccia de Drumore iij-m^r decia • ij • s • viij • d. 
 
 ^Eccia 
 
 cons, as at first only deputies or proctors thedratici nomine duos solidos " — Hono- 
 of that inferior order of deacons ; and the rius III., (in Du Cange, sub voce). Occa- 
 urban and rural deans, who represented sionally the sum was less : thus, in Eng- 
 all the parochial priests within their di- land, it was ordained in 1256 for the 
 vision". — (Kennet, Par. Ant. Glossary), diocese of Sarum : " Capellani, Personae, 
 Hence the name Synodalia, called in Eng- vel Vicarii ecclesiarum debent Synodalia, 
 lish, Spiodals or Spiodies, which denoted scilicet xv. denarios" — (Du Cange). In 
 the duty usually paid by the clergy when Ireland, also, the ancient rolls of the dio- 
 they came to these synods. — (Gibson, Co- cese of Meath laid down, as the scale of 
 dex, Tit. 42. c. 9). They were also called payments in Synodals, for each church 
 Denarii Pasckales, from the season when one shilling, and for each chapel sixpence, 
 they were paid. — (Du Cange). The sum (Dopping. Tract, dc Visit. Episc, p. 76). 
 generally payable was two shillings, which In Down and Connor, two shillings was 
 was fixed so early as A. D. 572, when the the invariable sum paid for Synodals on 
 Second Council of Bracara enacted " ut each benefice — Terrier. As to the reci- 
 nuUus episcoporum per suas diocceses am- pients of Synodals, Bishop Gibson states : 
 bulans prseter honorem cathedra; suae, id " Synodals and Pentecostals are due, de jure 
 est, solidos duos, aliquid aliud per ecclesias communi, to the bishop only, so that when 
 toUat". Can. 2. — (Concilia, v. 896). From claimed by the archdeacon, or other per- 
 this canon arose the term Cathedraticum, son, except the bishop, it must be upon 
 to denote the sum paid to the bishop 'in the foot oi composition or prescription'''' — 
 honorem cathedrae suae'; which was after- (Codex, Tit. 42, c. 9). Abroad, however, 
 wards changed to Synodale, when the bi- the practice agreed with that of the dio- 
 shop ceased to hold ambulatory visitations. cese of Connor : thus the church of Char- 
 Lindewode, indeed, enumerates the Syno- tres declares : " Nos vero Synodalia per- 
 daticumeiCathedraticum among the "one- solvemus Archidiacono et Episcopo, qui 
 ra Ecclesiae episcopalia" ; but Bishop Gib- pro tempore erunt". — Tabular. Eccl. Car- 
 son is disposed to think that they were notensis. (Du Cange, vol. vi. col. 935.) 
 
 identical in England, (Codex, ut supra,) ^ Dromore The diocese of Dromore 
 
 as they were abroad: " Synodatici seu Ca- embraces the western half of the county of 
 
I03 
 
 DIOCESE OF DROMORE^ 
 
 The Bishop of Drummore's 
 
 portion'' 20 marks — Tenth, 2 marks. 
 
 The church of Drummore*"- 3 marks Tenth, 2s. Sd. 
 
 The 
 
 Down, — the portion of the county of Ar- cised, Jure devolutionis, by the Primate, 
 magh which lies to the east of the River After the Reformation, Bishop Todd (A. D. 
 Bann, — and the parish of Aghalee in the 1606), received it, in commendam, with 
 county of Antrim. Although the boun- that of Down and Connor ; which tempo- 
 dary between it and the diocese of Down rary union was renewed, in 1661, under 
 is, in many places, little more than an Bishop Jeremy Taylor. On the death of 
 imaginary line, yet it appears that very Bishop Saurin, in 1 842, the temporalities 
 slight alteration has taken place in its ex- of the see were, by virtue of the Church 
 tent during the last six centuries. Aff/ia- Temporalities Act, transferred to the Ec- 
 lee parish, which has been in Dromore clesiastical Commissioners, while, in spiri- 
 diocese since the year 1 546, was, at the tuals, the see was annexed to Down and 
 date of the Taxation, in the diocese of Connor ; and thus stands this extensive 
 Down (see p. 49) ; and Magheratimpany, union, pretty much as the Synod of Rath- 
 a townland in the S. E. of Magheradrool breasil left it in the year 1 1 18. 
 parish, which, in the year 1609, appears ^Drummore's portion. — The income of 
 to have been a distinct chapelry, and to the see of Dromore appears to have been, 
 have been annexed to the Precentorship of in early times, very small. In the fifteenth 
 Down, under the name BaUintampany, is century, a great many bishops of this see 
 now a constituent part of a parish which lived, for the most part, in England, and 
 has always belonged to Dromore. The spent little or none of their time in the 
 Lordship of Newry, also, which is now an government of their flock, on account, as 
 exempt jurisdiction, was, previously to the Ware suggests, of the poverty of the see. 
 Dissolution, for all ecclesiastical pvirposes, (Harris' Ware's Bps., p. 258). Harris, in 
 included in the diocese of Dromore. In his additions, gives an extract from a let- 
 other respects, the limits of the diocese ter of Octavian de Palatio, the Primate, to 
 remain unaltered. The jurisdiction of this Henry the Seventh, in which it is stated, 
 see, during the frequent and protracted va- concerning the see of Dromore, that " the 
 cancies which occurred in the fourteenth frutes, rents, and provenues, as well spiri- 
 and fifteenth centuries, was always exer- tual as temporal, extend not above the sum 
 
(Drumorens Dyoces.) 
 
 ^Eccia de Driiberra — 
 ^Eccla de Drulyn 
 
 of £40 [40 marks, p. 258] of the coin this 
 land of Ireland, which is less in the third 
 part than the coin sterling, and that for 
 the expence and poverty of the same, the 
 see is void and desolate, and almost ex- 
 tincted, these 20 winters last past and 
 more, insomuch as none will own the said 
 Bishoprick, or abide thereupon". This 
 was Avritten about the year 1487 — (Har- 
 ris' Ware's Bps., p. 263). In the King's 
 Books, the lands, chiefries, rectories, and 
 mensal of the bishop are rated, in total, 
 at £50. According to Bishop Buck worth's 
 return, in 1622, the sum total of spirituals 
 and temporals amounted to £374 3s. 8^/. 
 (MS. in Primate Marsh's Library, CI. v. 3, 
 Tab. 1, No. 2, p. 120). In 1833, the re- 
 served rent of 18,422 acres, belonging to 
 the see, amounted to £ 1 5 1 8 7s. 6d., and the 
 renewal fines of the same to £2705 75. 6(/., 
 making a total of £4223 15s. — (Eccles. 
 Report, 1833, p. 155). 
 
 •^ Drummore. — Now the parish of Dro- 
 more. — Ord. Survey, ss. 20, 21. The 
 church of the parish, which is also the ca- 
 thedral of the diocese, was anciently styled 
 " Ecclesia SanctiColmani" or "Colmoci" ; 
 but, under the charter of James I., in 1609, 
 " Ecclesia Christi Redemptoris de Dru- 
 more ". It was originally attached to a 
 monastic institution, and was founded by 
 St. Colman or Colmoc, its first bishop and 
 abbot ; whose name is thus recorded in the 
 
 104 
 
 XX s 
 
 j.m^r- 
 
 decia • ij • s. 
 decla • xvj • d. 
 
 ^Eccia 
 
 gloss on the Peil Colaim in the Martyro- 
 logy of -^ngus, at the 7th of June: " ITIo- 
 colmoj Opomamoip 1 nLliBGcacUlao". 
 Mocholmog of Drummor in Iveagh of Uli- 
 dia". In the Calendar of the Four Mas- 
 ters, he is mentioned at the same day, but 
 his church is called t)puim mocoLmoj 
 'the ridge' or 'hill of Mocholmog', in- 
 stead of Opuim mop ' the great ridge' or 
 'hill'. The word tDpuim is cognate to the 
 Latin dorsum ; thus Adamnan latinizes 
 Druimcheat by Dorsum Cete : in the pre- 
 sent instance it refers either to the rising 
 ground over the town, or to the " Great 
 Fort", which is near the town on the east. 
 Archbishop Ussher refers the foundation 
 of the church to the year 550 ; but in 
 doing so has fallen into the prevalent er- 
 ror of confounding Colman-Eala, of Ly nal- 
 ly and Muckamore, Avith Colman of Dro- 
 
 more (Chronol. Index, Works, vol. vi.) 
 
 In the Life of St. Colman, published by 
 the Bollandists at the 7th of June, several 
 clues are given to the discovery of the real 
 date, for which the year 500 may be as- 
 signed. That it took place before 513 the 
 following passage proves, because St. Mac 
 Nissi died in that year: " Deinde S£epe ve- 
 nerabilem Macnyseum Conderensem Epis- 
 copum petit. — Illuc perveniens, in omni 
 hilaritate susceptus est : ibique paucis die- 
 bus niansit. Deinde, inito consilio, vene- 
 rabilem senem, ubi locum serviendi Deo 
 
105 
 (Diocese of Dromore.) 
 
 The church of Drumberra''- 
 
 The church of Drumlyn*" — 
 
 — 20S. Tenth, 2s. 
 
 — I mark Tenth, i6d. 
 
 The 
 
 fun dare deberet, consulit. Qui respondit ; the townland Dromara. A portion of this 
 Voluntas Dei est, ut in finibus campi Coba parish, in the barony of Kinelarty, marked 
 tibi construas monasterium. Beatus igitur Magherekowlett on the Down Survey, and 
 Colmanus secundum verbum sancti Ponti- commonly called Magherakamlet, has been 
 ficis, fines illos adiit : ibique in valle, sancto formed into a perpetual curacy. In a pa- 
 Patricio quondam prajostensa, super flu- tent of the 8th of James I. to Bishop Todd, 
 vium vocabulo Locha, sedem sibi consti- it is called the " rectory of Magherham- 
 tuit, in qua sibi discipulorum multitudo 
 
 in brevi excrevit" (Acta Sanctor. Junii, 
 
 torn. ii. p, 26, col. i). The campus Coba 
 here mentioned is called rPaj Co^a in the 
 Irish Annals, and belonged to a district of 
 Iveagh, which extended to the neighbour- 
 hood of Newry. — (See Taxation under 
 Donnachamo)-e). The river Locha, which 
 was also called Capan-line, is the modern 
 Lagan, upon which Dromore is built. 
 
 ^ Drumberra. — Now the parish of Dro- 
 mara, joining Dromore on the S. E Ord. 
 
 Survey, ss. 28, 29. A. D. 1427-1440, Gil- 
 bert M'^yneryny perpetual vicar o^Drum- 
 meragh. — Reg.Swayne, Iib.ii.fols.9 rev. 83. 
 A. D. 1 44 1, John Oumstega, rector of 
 Drummerragh, ordained Deacon by Abp. 
 
 Prene, Feb. 4; and Priest, Feb. 17 
 
 Ibid., fol. 32. A. D. 1546, the Prebend of 
 Drummerrach taxed at seven marks, and 
 
 the Vicarage at three Reg. Dowd., p. 2 14. 
 
 In 1 609 it was constituted the head of a 
 
 laghV (Cal. Cane. Hib., vol. ii. p. 190); 
 and seems to have been included, in the 
 fifteenth century, in the denomination 
 " Drumerach cum Capellis''''. — (See ^j»- 
 pendix). The ruins of the old church, 
 called Templemoyle., within the ancient 
 churchyard, in the townland Dunmore, 
 remain, measuring 42 by 24 feet. 
 
 ^ Drumlyn There is a townland in the 
 
 parish of Magheralin, and a hill in the 
 parish of Seago, called by this name, but 
 neither is admissible here. This being the 
 only instance in which the Editor has met 
 a parish of Dromore bearing this name, 
 he is unable to determine its application. 
 Possibly it may answer to the modern 
 DrumhaUyroney, which was sometimes 
 called Drom, and seems to have taken the 
 latter part of its name from a townland in 
 the parish, called Ballyroney Ord. Sur- 
 vey, s. 42. Or it may be that Drumgooland 
 parish is here intended ; in the southern 
 
 prebend, called from it the " prebenda de extremity of which, in an angle between 
 
 Drumarach''\ which stUl continues the the last mentioned parish and Kilcoo, is 
 
 sole prebend in the cathedral of Dromore. the townland Drumlee, in which there is 
 
 The church occupies the ancient site, in a graveyard. — Ord. Survey, s. 42. 
 
io6 
 (Drumorens Dyoces.) 
 
 ^Eccia de Disertunde j-m''r decla-x\j-d. 
 
 ^Eccia de Analle di-mh' decia • viij • d. 
 
 ^Eccia de Ardagaualle di-m'*r decia • viij • d. 
 
 ^PbendArchid iij-m*r decia- iiij -s. 
 
 5, 
 
 -rPbend 
 
 ^Disertunde. — A. D. 1422, " Ecclesia and yard are in the townland Kilpike 
 
 <[q Dysertmoygh pertinet ad mensam Epis- — Ord. Survey, s. 27, 
 
 copi" Reg. Dowd., p. 267. A. D. 1428, ^Analle. — Probably the modern parish 
 
 Gyllabrony ^Pkewyn received a grant of ofMagherally Ord. Survey, s. 27. In 
 
 the m^inov oi Dysertmoy Reg. Swayne, the King's Books, and in the returns of 
 
 fol. 59. A. D. 1431, Philip M'^kevvyn was 1622, it is cdXl^di Magherawly. In the 
 
 appointed to collect the rents and tithes of Taxation, as in the following instances, 
 
 the manor of Dysertmoy. — (Ibid.) A. D. the name appears without the prefix Ma- 
 
 1433, the church of Z)j/se?-/;«o^j^ let to John chaire : A. D. 1442, "Ecclesia de-4wy/^". 
 
 M*=gillaboy. — (Reg. Prene, p. 332). A.D. Reg. DoAvd., p. 267. A. D. 1428, the per- 
 
 1442, the rectory of Dissertdubunnngi, petual vicarage of Anvall, vacant by the 
 
 being the bishop's portion, was let to death of Philip M"^gwyryn, was conferred 
 
 John ^Pgillaboy, canon of Dromore, for on Magonius I\Pny rgynid, chaplain of Dro- 
 
 live years, at 20s. per an Reg. Prene, more — Reg. Swayne, ii. 547. A.D. 1546, 
 
 p. 69. The Taxation of 1422, from which " Rector dieAwall, et vicarius ibidem". — 
 
 the first of the foregoing extracts is taken, Reg. Dowd., p. 214. The church and 
 
 enumerates all the parishes of the diocese yard are in the townland ]\Iagherally. 
 
 except Drumgath, Seapatrick, Seagoe, and ^ Ardagaualle. — Now the parish of 
 
 Shankill, so that Dysertmoygh must be Magheradrool. — Ord. Survey, ss. 22, 29. 
 
 referred to one of these, or be supposed to A. D. 1422, " Ecclesia de Meacarne-de- 
 
 have merged, since that date, in some other Odargulla''\ — Reg. Dowd., p. 267. A. D, 
 
 parish. Seapatrick (Suibe paDpuic, L e. 1444, "Johannes Obyrnd, rector de Mar- 
 
 Sessio Patricii, Trias Th., p. 164, col. 2) chairyedargawalV Reg. Prene, p. 73. 
 
 is the most likely, as it contains several A.D. 1546, ^^ Rector de If acckaredruall". 
 
 townlands which were formerly held by a Reg. Dowd., p. 214. The modern parish 
 
 Herenach, and have been, since the time church is at the town of Ballynahinch,but 
 
 of James I., held in perpetuity at a head- the ancient graveyard, with the remains of 
 
 rent of thirteen guineas. The modern the old church, lies about a mile to the 
 
 church is built in the town Banbridge, on S. E. of it. About two miles to the N. W. 
 
 the townland Ballyvally. The old church of the town is another graveyard, in the 
 
I07 
 (Diocese of Dromore.) 
 
 The church of Disertunde^- 
 The church of Analle^ 
 
 I mark 
 i mark 
 
 The church of Ardagaualle" — 
 The prebend of the Archdea- 
 con' 
 
 h mark 
 
 Tenth, i6d. 
 Tenth, Sd. 
 Tenth, Sd. 
 
 3 marks Tenth, 45. 
 
 The 
 
 townland Glassdrumman. 
 
 '^Archdeacon. — In 1609, the King ap- 
 pointed " omnes illas rectorias et vicarias 
 de Donacliglonie cvim reliquis de antique 
 Archidiaconatui spectantibus" to be the 
 corps of the Archdeaconry, under the new 
 capitular arrangement of the diocese. What 
 the ancient members of the Archdeaconry 
 were, may be gathered from the King's 
 Books, in which Donaclona, rectory and 
 vicarage ; Seigo, rectory and vicarage ; 
 Magherawlt/, rectory and vicarage ; are va- 
 lued as the corps of that dignity. The 
 last of these appears, at the date of the 
 Taxation, to have been an independent 
 benefice, and has been already mentioned. 
 The first, which is now the parish of Do- 
 uaghcloney (Ord. Survey, s. 20), is men- 
 tioned, under the following dates, in the 
 Primatial Kegistries: A, D. 1427, Philip 
 M^agoyne, perpetual vicar of Dompnach- 
 duana (Dorhnac cluana ' church of the 
 plain '). — Reg. Swayne, lib. iv. Concern- 
 ing Domnach in composition, it may be 
 observed that, like most Irish ecclesiastical 
 terms, it is derived from the Latin, and 
 just as Dominica may be understood of 
 cedes or dies, in the sense of ' a church' or 
 ' Sunday'; so the Irish iDoriinac signifies 
 
 either ' Lord's house' or ' Lord's day'. In 
 the Tripartite Life of St. Patrick, there is 
 this early explanation of the word : " In 
 regione Kennactse [Keenaght, co. L. Der- 
 ry] septem diebus Dominicis commoratus, 
 septem Domino sacrarum medium jecit fun- 
 damenta : quas proinde Domitiicas appella- 
 vit": then follow their names, each bear- 
 ing the word Domnach in composition. — 
 Pt. ii. cap. 125, (Trias Th., p. 146, col. i). 
 So our word Church, originally pronounced 
 Kirk, is the Saxon Cijice, which is formed 
 from the Greek Kv^ixKvt [«;«/«], 'Lord's 
 [house]'. But, to return, in 1526 Cor- 
 mac O Shieghell [O Shiel] was advanced 
 to the 'Prebend oi Domnachclone''. — Eeg. 
 Crom., p. 473. And in 1528, John M'il- 
 lekenny became vicar, on the death of 
 Henry M'gin. — Ibid., p. 554. In 1681, the 
 site of the church was changed from Do- 
 naghcloney Bridge to Waring's-town, in 
 the townland Magherana. — Harris' Down, 
 p. 105. 
 
 The parish now called Seagoe, from Su loe 
 ^oBa ' Sessio Gobhje', was anciently call- 
 ed Teg-da-goba (Ueac ' tectum'), from St. 
 Gobhan, of whom the Calendar ofCashel, 
 as cited by Colgan, thus speaks : " S. Go- 
 banus de Kill-lamruidhe [now Killamery 
 
 P 2 
 
io8 
 (Drumorens Dyoces.) 
 
 ^Pbend Bricii Offic xx-i decia-ij-s. 
 
 ^Eccia 
 
 in the county of Kilkenny], juxta montem cellor, Commissary, and Official. Upon 
 
 Sliabh-na-nbhan-bfionn dictum : vel Go- the first of these, as occurring in the 127th 
 
 h&mxs ^cTeg-da-goba ad ripamBannii flu- Canon (English, or 76th Irish), Bishop 
 
 minis in Ibh-echach [theBann in Iveagh], Gibson thus comments: " This name, be- 
 
 regione Ultoniaj. Quisquis horum est, sides its own original import, hath been 
 
 fuit pater mille monachorum" Acta made by usage to comprehend two other 
 
 SS., p. 750, col. 2. The parish of Seagoe is offices, viz., Vicar General, and Official 
 
 bounded on the west by the Bann, and ex- Principal ; the difference of which two is 
 
 tends along it for the length of four miles thus expressed by Lyndwood : OJftciales 
 
 and a half: though formerly in Iveagh, dicuntur, quibus Causarum Cognitio ge- 
 
 and, according to the natural boundary, in neraliter per habentes jurisdictionem ec- 
 
 the county of Down, it is now included in clesiasticam committitur, et in tales trans- 
 
 the barony of Oneilland East, and county fuuditur Cognitio Causarum totius DicE- 
 
 of Armagh. In 1406 the perpetual vicar- ceseos, non lamen Inquisitio, nee Correctio 
 
 age of the church of Teackgowo, vacant by sive Punitio crimiuum ; nee possunt ali- 
 
 the death of Patrick Odubayn, was con- quos amovere a bencficiis, nee conferre 
 
 ferred upon John M'eogayn. — Eegist. beneficia, nisi specialiter fuerint talia eis 
 
 Flem., fol. 2 rev. In 1444, the perpetual commissa. Sed Vicarii Generales omnia 
 
 vicarages of Teachaghawa and JEnacldoisgy^ prsdicta facere possunt, virtute officii, 
 
 being at a moderate distance from one excepta Collatione beneficii". — Codex, 
 
 another, and insufficient for the support Tit. 43, cap. 2. " By the ancient Civil 
 
 of two ministers, were united by the Pri- Law Officialis signifieth him that is the 
 
 mate, with consent of the Chapter of Dro- minister or apparitor of a magistrate or 
 
 more Eeg. Prene, p. 75. The rectory judge. lu the Canon Law it is especially 
 
 and vicarage of Seagoe are now the corps taken for him to whom any bishop doth 
 
 of the Archdeaconry of Dromore. The generally commit the charge of his spiri- 
 
 foundation- stone of the present church tual jurisdiction, and in this sense one 
 
 was laid, on the old site, in 18 14. The in every diocese is Officialis Principalis, 
 
 glebe consists of the two denominations, whom the statutes and laws of this king- 
 
 Seagoe Lower, and Kilvergan — Parochial dom call Chancellor. The rest, if they be 
 
 Survey, vol. ii. p. 531. more, are by the Canon Law called Offi- 
 
 ^ Official. — In both the English and dales Foranei, but with us termed Com- 
 
 Irish Canons frequent mention is made of missaries. But this word Official in our 
 
 the several ecclesiastical officers — Chan- Statutes and Common Law signifies him 
 
I09 
 (Diocese of Dromore.) 
 
 The prebend of Bricius the 
 
 Official" 205. Tenth, 25. 
 
 The 
 
 whom the Archdeacon substituteth in the the same commission Gibson, Cod. In- 
 executing of his jurisdiction". — Cowel. trod. Discourse, p. 23. In the Irish Church 
 In Ireland, the functions of the Official it is uncertain whether every diocese or 
 have, for the most part, merged in those bishop had anciently its own official. In 
 of the Vicar-General, who was an officer the Taxation, Dromore is the only diocese 
 originally instituted as an occasional re- in which the name occurs. In the Annals 
 presentative of the bishop, when the lat- of the Four Masters, the Irish Avord Op- 
 ter was called out of his diocese, or by any picel, evidently borrowed from the Latin 
 cause incapacitated from discharging, in Officialis, is occasionally to be met with, 
 person, his judicial duties; and being the Thus ^. C. 1328, Maurice O Gibellain, 
 representative of the bishop for the time, his head master of Ireland in ancient and mo- 
 commission contained in it all the power dern Canon and Civil Law, a Canon of the 
 and jurisdiction which still rested in the chapter of Tuam, Elphin, Achonry, Kil- 
 bishop over and above his appointment of lala, Enaghdune, and Clonfert ; Official 
 an official ; that is, the whole administra- and General Brehon of the irchbishoprick 
 tion, except tho, hearing of causes in the (Oippicel ajup 6peicerh coiccionn na 
 Consistory Court. And the bishops, be- ^laipoeappuiccoioe), died. From this en- 
 fore the Ileformation, being freqitently em- try it may be inferred that in Tuam the 
 ployed in public affairs, and many, who jurisdiction of the Official was provincial 
 were not so employed, being aged and in- not diocesan. The same Annalists, at the 
 firm, the Vicar-General came to be a fixed years 1347, 143 1, H*^?' record the deaths 
 and standing officer, who should be ready, of successive Officials of Lough Erne, and, 
 without the trouble of a special commis- at 1458, the books of the Official are de- 
 sion, to execute the episcopal power, when scribed as being burned in the church of 
 the bishop himself was hindered by avo- Aghavea (a little east of Lough Erne, in 
 cations, infirmities, or other impediments, the county of Fermanagh). In theTaxa- 
 And the officials being usually resident tion, the church of Aghavea is called ^^a- 
 within the diocese, and being persons in dynheythi, and is placed in the rural deanry 
 Holy Orders, they were frequently em- ol Logherny; so that it is probable that 
 ployed as Vicars-General of the bishops, this officer was called Official of Lough 
 till by degrees the two powers came to be Erne, from his church or prebend being 
 united in the same person, and mixed in in that deanry : in 1 509, he is styled Offi- 
 
I lO 
 
 (Drumorens Dyoces.) 
 
 ^Eccia de Lan 
 
 ^Eccia de Donnachmore 
 
 xx-s- 
 xx-s- 
 
 decia'ij s. 
 decia-ij-s. 
 
 ^Eccia 
 
 cial of Clogher. In the case of Dromore, 
 the two offices of Vicar-General and Offi- 
 cial were early combined. In 1408, the 
 Primate addressed a letter to one Mark, a 
 bishop, who was sojourning in Dromore, 
 empowering him to take the necessary 
 steps to restrain the occupation of church 
 revenues by laymen, and to recover the 
 ecclesiastical property which had been 
 seised inconsequence of the non-residence 
 of the bishop, and the supineness of the 
 
 Vicarius Genercdis Reg. Flem., fol. 33. 
 
 In 1440-1442, John M'^Gynd, Canon and 
 Official of Dromore, was subcustos and 
 commissioner of that diocese, and resident 
 at Magheralin. — (See under Lan). The 
 name Bricius was a common pra;nomen : 
 thus, in 1428 we find a Bricius O Kerawo- 
 
 len at Newry Reg. Swayne, ii. 593. 
 
 ' Lan. — Now the parish of Magheralin. 
 Ord. Survey, ss. 1 3, 20. The chu.rch was 
 founded by St. Colman or Mocholmoc, 
 whose death Tigcrnach records at the year 
 700: "Colman CmDuacaiU obic". "Col- 
 man of Lin-duacall died". Or, as the Four 
 Masters, a year earlier: " Colman 6mne 
 UacaiUe oecc. an ;:;:;: Dlapca". "Col- 
 man of Linn-uachaill died on the 30th of 
 March". Hence it is sometimes called 
 Lann-Da-Cholmoc, or Lann- Mocholmoc, 
 which both signify ' the church of Col- 
 man'; for the syllables Z)a or Do, in the 
 
 sense 'your', and Mo, in the sense 'my', 
 were prefixed to saints' names, as Colgan 
 observes, " honoris et singularis observan- 
 tise causa". — (Trias Th., p. 175, col. 2, 
 n. 54). See Taxation, p. 17. The name of 
 Colman occurs in the Martyrology of -^n- 
 gus, at the 30th of March, and the follow- 
 ing is the gloss upon it: " Colman .1. o 
 6amD mic 6uacan a TlliDe, uel o ^aint) 
 Dacolmoc a lie Chopain Cine 1 nUUcaib. 
 o C<s\r\X) uel o C\r\ty .1, Uacaill .1. nomen 
 oemonip i Cappan Cinne qui nocebac 
 mulcipanre Colmanum". " S.Colmanus 
 de Lann-mic-Luachain in Media (Meath), 
 vel de Lan-Dacholmoc [ad ripam Cassain- 
 linne. — 3Iar. Gorman'] in Ultonia. Voca- 
 tur de Lann [vel de Linn] i. e. de Linn- 
 huachuille, quod est nomen da^monis in 
 Cassan-Linne, qui nocebat multis ante Col- 
 manum". — Maguir. — (Acta SS. p. 793, 
 col. 2). The Cassan-Linne is the River 
 Lagan, as it flows by Magheralin. The 
 following entries in the Annals of the 
 Four Masters, chiefly copied from Tiger- 
 nach and the Annals of Ulster, relate to 
 this spot: M. C. 752, Siabail Cmneoua- 
 cail oecc. " Siadalus (Shiel) Linduacha- 
 lensis obiit ". M. C. 758, " anpaoan Qbb. 
 6inDe-t)uacail oecc". " Anfadanus, Ab- 
 bas Linduachalensis, obiit". M. C. 770, 
 Suaipleac Qbb. Cinne. " Suairleachus 
 Abbas Linnensis obiit ". M. C. 840, Conj- 
 
II I 
 
 (Diocese of Dromore.) 
 
 The church of Lan' 205. Tenth, 2s. 
 
 The church of Donnachmore"^ - 205. Tenth, 25. 
 
 The 
 
 pope ace CinnouacaiU la ^allaiB ap po Canon and Official of Dromore, to hold to 
 
 h-upca 7 ap po h-aipjce Cuaca 7 Ceal- him and his heirs, free from all disturbance 
 
 la Uecba". " Munimentum apud Linn- by rectors or other persons, the stone tower 
 
 duachall per Alienigenas [i. e. Danos], which the latter had newly built within 
 
 unde vastaverunt et occiderunt Saecula- the cemetery of the parish church of ia/ic/, 
 
 ria et Ecclesiastica Teffia? ". M. C. 841, " parte in Ecclesia et parte in cemeterio", 
 
 " Caoman Qbb. 6inneDuacaill 00 mapb. for the safe preservation of his books and 
 
 7 lopcc. la ^ull." " Caomhanus Abbas other valuables.— Reg. Prene, p. 69. A.D. 
 
 Linnduachalensis occisus et combustus ab 1443^ ^he " Prsebenda de Land " was en- 
 
 Alienigenis ". — " ^onjup oile oiob occ joyed by Patrick Oronaga. — Eeg. Prene, 
 
 ^mnouacail". " Classis alia eorum [i. e. p. 1 73- A- ^' ^526, the Prebend ofLanne 
 
 Normannorum] apud Linnduachal ". — was granted to Arthur the Archdeacon, 
 
 M. C. 849, " Slacc oile do Dubjall. pop " propter exUitatem Archidiaconatus".— 
 
 Pionnjall. occ ^mnouacaiU, 7 po cuip- Reg. Cromer, p. 475. In 1609 the church 
 
 pec ap mop poppa ". " Spoliatio alia facta o^Lann was annexed to the Precentorship 
 
 per Nigros Alienigenas (i. e. Danos) de of Dromore; and Magheralin now conti- 
 
 albis AUenigenis (i. e. Nortmannis) apud nues the corps of that dignity. The old 
 
 Linduachal, et fecerunt stragem mag- church remains in the churchyard, and, 
 
 nam eorum". M. C. 850, " Qpomaca at the distance of forty feet, on the north 
 
 00 par^S ^a ^allaib ^inneouacaille side, is the wall of some earlier building, 
 
 an Oomnac lap Ccaipcc". " Ardma- which now serves as a fence to the church- 
 
 cha vastata per Alienigenas Linduachalen- yard. 
 
 ses Dominica post Pascha". tE. C. 925, ^ Donnachmore. — Now the parish of 
 
 "^oill 6inneDuacail do Deipje .1. Pace- Donaghmore.— Ord. Survey, ss. 40, 41. 
 
 bail". " Alienigense [i. e. Dani] Linn- It was anciently termed, by way of dis- 
 
 duachalenses derelinquunt Hiberniam". tinction, Oomnac-mop Tnuije Coba, 
 
 Thus we learn that Magheralin was not ' Donaghmore of Moy-Coba'. So the gloss 
 
 only a monastery at a very early date, but on the Martyrology of ^ngus, at the 1 6th 
 
 that it was also head-quarters of a party of November. The church was founded 
 
 of Danes. A long interval occurs till the about the middle of the fifth century ; for 
 
 name is again heard of; and then, as in the St. Mac-Erc, its founder and first bishop, 
 
 text, it belongs to a parish church. In was brother ofSt.Mochay of Nendrum, who 
 
 1 442 the Primate secured to John M"=gynd, died at an advanced age in 497. "Bronachia 
 
I 12 
 
 (Drumorens Dyoces.) 
 
 ^Eccia de Hacyglid- 
 ^Eccia de Clondalan 
 
 xxs 
 
 iiij-m r- 
 
 decla-ij-s. 
 V -s -iiij -d. 
 
 ^Eccia 
 
 filia Milchonis filii Buani, apud quern S. 
 Patricius in servitutetenebatur, mater fuit 
 S. Mochay ^ndromensis de Locli Cuan, S. 
 Columbani Mulinn de Doire Chaochain in 
 Dalrieda, et S. Macercii Episcopi de Dom- 
 nachmor muige-Cobha''\ — vEngus ap. Col- 
 gan, Act. SS., p. 95, 2 ; Trias Th., p. 176, 
 col. 2. A. D. 1408, John O INPcrela was 
 presented by the Primate to the parish 
 church of Donnachmore. — Reg. Flem., 
 fol. 19. A. D. 1440, John OM'kerrell rector 
 of Donaghraore died, and Gelacius O ^rke- 
 
 rell was appointed in his stead Reg. 
 
 Swayne, lib. ii. p. 90. A. D. 1487, John 
 O Makrell rector of Dompnachmor — Reg. 
 Oct., fol. 288. A. D. 1534, Donald Omak- 
 rell vicar, of Donaghmore, died, and Peter 
 
 Omakrell succeeded him Reg. Crom., 
 
 p. 755, It is observable that the same 
 name prevails in all these appointments : 
 this was owing to the position which this 
 family occupied as hereditary Ilerenachs 
 of the manor of Donaghmore. In 1622 
 Sir Edward Trevor held the twelve towns 
 and the rectory, which constituted the 
 manor of Donaghmore, under the see of 
 Armagh. At present the same are held 
 in the form of nine townlands, containing 
 2045 ^■cres, under His Grace the Lord Pri- 
 mate. The modern parish church is built 
 about sixty feet north of the ancient site ; 
 and on its south side stands an ancient 
 stone cross, about seven feet high. From 
 
 this the townland Tullynacross, which is 
 the glebe, probably derives its name. The 
 territory of Hla^ Coba or ' Campus Coba', 
 as it is latinized, embraced a considerable 
 portion of Iveagh, extending from this 
 parish to Dromore. — (See under i)r?/m- 
 more). According to Keating Hla^ Cobai 
 1 n-Qoib-eacuc, ' Moy-Coba in Iveagh', 
 was cleared of wood in A. M. 2756 [3529, 
 Four Mast.] during the reign of Irial the 
 prophet. — (Vol. i. p. 318.) The Four 
 Masters record the names of several Lords 
 of Coba, as at the years 683, 732, 734, 
 771, 796, 879, 965: and the territory is 
 also mentioned by them as the scene of 
 various exploits, at the years 1 102, 1 103, 
 1 104, 1109, 1 1 13, 1 128. In 1188 the 
 English are said to have had a castle there. 
 In 1 252 the castle of Moy Coba was erected 
 by the son of Maurice Fitzgerald. In 1 2 5 3 
 it was destroyed by Brian ONeill. 
 
 ^ Haci/glid. — Probably a clerical error 
 iovAchyderigy or some such ancient form of 
 the modern name Aghaderg. — Ord. Sur- 
 vey, ss. 33, 34. In this parish is the town 
 Loughbrickland, which takes its name 
 from the lake beside which it is built. — 
 This lake is noticed by the Four Masters, 
 under the name loc 6picpen, at the years 
 832, 1004. At 1424 they relate that the 
 Earl of Ormond demolished Magenis' cas- 
 tle oi Lough Bricren. The ancient church 
 of the parish, which stood in the town- 
 
"3 
 
 (Diocese of Dromore.) 
 
 The church of Hacyglid" — 
 The church of Clondalan" - 
 
 205. 
 
 4 marks — 
 
 Tenth, 2^. 
 55. 4d. 
 
 The 
 
 land Drumsallagh, a little to the west of 
 the lake, is thus noticed by the ancient 
 gloss on the names Nasad, Beoan and Mel- 
 dan, in the Martyrology of ^ngus, at the 
 26th of October: .1. cpep pancci do 6pec- 
 naib in una ecclepia punc.i. hi Camlac- 
 ca TTlenano hic 6oc 6picpenG i nUuib 
 Gcac Ula6. " i. e. three saints from Bri- 
 tain, and are [interred] in one church, i. e. 
 Tamlacht Menand at Loch Bricrend in 
 Iveagh in Ulidia". The Calendar of the 
 Four IVIasters mentions only two names : 
 "6eoan eppoj ec ITIeaUan oUnmlacca 
 TTIenainn 05 6oc 6picpenn ". "Beoan, 
 bishop, and Mellan of Tamlacht Menan 
 on Loch Bricrenn". These two persons 
 are mentioned in the Life of St. Fursaeus 
 (Acta SS., p. 79, col. 2) as concerned in 
 an occurrence which the Annals of Ulster 
 refer to the year 626; and are noticed by 
 Bede as "olim sacerdotali gradu potiti." — 
 (H. E., iii. 19.) A trace of the name Tam- 
 laght Menan is preserved in the townland 
 Meenan, which is situated in the southern 
 part of the parish. The church is also 
 noticed by the Martyrology of Tamlaght, 
 which differs from the gloss on ^ngus 
 only in calling the spot Tamlacht VmhuiL 
 (Trias Th., p. 378; Acta SS., pp. 90, 271.) 
 During the time that Bishop Percy pre- 
 sided over this see, the discovery of an an- 
 tique golden ornament, (which, from M. 
 Dubourdieu's description, appears to have 
 
 been a torque,) in the townland Drumsal- 
 lagh, gave rise to an examination into the 
 ecclesiastical history of the neighbourhood ; 
 and it was found by Dr. Shiel, the Vicar- 
 General, that in the same townland " there 
 had formerly been a monastery of the or- 
 der of St. Francis ; that after the dissolu- 
 tion of the religious houses in Ireland 
 there remained several mendicant friars, 
 who still housed round the ruins of their 
 monastery, which was situated about two 
 hundred yards from the old church of 
 Aghaderig, in the same townland ; the 
 ruins of the church remain until this day, 
 but most of the ruins of the monastery, 
 with its choicest stones, were removed 
 about an English mile, to the place where 
 the church now stands. Dr. Shiel found, 
 upon further inquiry, from an old man, 
 whose name was Fegan, and above ninety 
 years of age, that he remembered the walls 
 of this building standing, to the height of 
 three or four feet, and about ninety feet 
 in length, but that above forty years ago 
 they had been removed to make room for a 
 bleach green". — Dubourdieu, Stat. Surv. 
 of Down, pp. 303, 304. Dub. 1802. A.D. 
 141 3, Magnellus M*=gylmor vicar of ^c^- 
 
 di/rg Eeg.Flem., fol.49, rev. A.D. 1427, 
 
 Macgonius M'^hyrnore perpetual vicar of 
 Aghudyrke. — Eeg. Swayne, lib. ii. fol. 84. 
 A. D. 1440, Donald OKernyvicar of 4c/^^- 
 di/rke (Ibid., fol. 90.) Several townlands 
 
 Q 
 
114 
 (Drmnorens Dyoces.) 
 
 ^Eccia de Clondyme ij-m*r dec-ij -s- viij -d. 
 
 ^Eccia de Glentegys at de 
 
 Nister j m^r dec-xvj-d. 
 
 «^ Abbas 
 
 of this parish have been held, from early 1 252, in which it is recorded that a castle 
 
 times, under the see of Dromore: in 1427 was built here by the English. The origin 
 
 Primate Swayne, in the vacancy of the of the name of the parish is thus traced by 
 
 bishopric, granted the lands of Lack- Colgan: "Est ecclesia parochialis in re- 
 
 reachtdyrke to Mauritius Mac bryn the gione orientali Ultonia% quae luechia dici- 
 
 Herenach Reg. Swayne, lib. i. (cited in tur, Cluain-Dallain appcUata: quam Doc- 
 
 Ussher's Works, vol. xi. p. 437.) These tor Ketinus in Hystoria Regum Hibernian, 
 lands are held in perpetuity, subject to loquens de Rege Aido, indicat ab hoc sanc- 
 the nominal rent of £13 3s. lorf. to Z)a^no nomensumpsisse". — (ActaSS,, 
 ^Clondalan. — Now the parish of Clonal- }). 205, col. 2.) This derivation seems a 
 Ian.— Ord. Survey, ss. 47,51. This church natural one, but the Editor has in vain 
 was first presided over by St. Conall, who referred to Keating's History of Ireland, 
 succeeded St. Carbreus, as Bishop of Cole- to discover the passage alluded to. This 
 raine, about the year 570. His name is Dalian (so called from oaU ' blind') who 
 mentioned, in connexion with this church, flourished about the year 580, was a fa- 
 in the Calendar of the Four Masters at the mous poet, and a contemporary of St. Co- 
 2nd of April, in these words : " Conall lumbkille. His own name was Eochaidk, 
 mac Qo6a 6 Clviain Oallain a b-pail to which was added the sumiame jFor^a//, 
 Snama Gac .1. an cuan lairii pip 1 nChaol from his mother Forchella. Keating styles 
 1 nUiB eacuc Ula6". " S. Conallus (Mag- him eocaio eijeap ' Eochaidh the learn- 
 nus) filius Aidi de Cluain-Dallain, juxta ed'. He composed a panegyric, in verse, 
 Snamh-each, qui est sinus maris juxta on St. ColumbkilL, called Qmpa Choluim 
 Coel in Hivechia" [UlidiiE]. — Marian Chille "laudes Columbae-a-cellis", copies 
 
 Gorman. (Trias Th., p. 381, col. i.) This of which are preserved among the inesti- 
 
 cuan Snama Buc is evidently the bay mable Irish MSS. of the Royal Irish Aca- 
 
 now called Carlingford Lough, which be- demy, written in the dialect called Bearlu 
 
 comes contracted at Caol (' narrow', in J^eme, and in an idiom which Colgan cha- 
 
 the same sense in Avhich the Scotch use racterizes as " seclusis fusis, quos habet 
 
 the word Kyles), now called Narrow Wa- annexos Commentariis, hodie paucis, iisque 
 
 ter which is only a version of the Irish peritissimis, penetrabile". — (Acta SS., 
 
 name Caol Uipje, as it appears in the p. 204, col. 2.) He was buried in Inis- 
 
 Annals of the Four Masters at the year coel in Tirconnell (the modern Iniskeel in 
 
115 
 (Diocese of Dromore.) 
 
 The church of Clondyme'' 2 marks - Tenth, 2S. 8c/. 
 
 The church of Glentegys, other- 
 wise of Nister'^ i mark — Tenth, 1 6d. 
 
 The 
 
 Donegal) ; and from him the churches of Down.) about three miles N. E. of Hill- 
 
 Disert-Dallain, Tullach-Dallain (in diocese town, was an ancient cemetery, which is 
 
 of Raphoe), Kill-Dallain, in east Breffny, now under cultivation. The name in the 
 
 (now Killadallon, in diocese of Kilmore,) text is correctly spelled, according to the 
 
 as well as this, derive their names. His etymology of it, as appears from the Ca- 
 
 Life is given by Colgan in his Acta Sane- lendar of the Four Masters, at the 26th 
 
 torum (p. 203), at the 29th of January. of December : " Naoihca mocumog o 
 
 A. D, 1437, John Oronaga, clerk, was ap- Chluain-t)anTi". " Mochoemogus abbas 
 
 pointed to the vicarage of Clonallon, va- de Cluain-daimh in regione Luechi^ {rede 
 
 cant by the death of Patrick M-'donegan.— Hivechia, as in Index), 26 Dec."— (Acta 
 
 Eeg. Swayne, lib. iv. p. 547. A. D. 1526, SS., pp. 598, 874.) The name is elsewhere 
 
 Karulus Caan was presented to the Pre- explained by Colgan 'Pratumboum', when 
 
 bend of ClondaUan Reg. Crom., p. 474. he treats of " Cluain-daimh ad ripam Lif- 
 
 A.D. 1609, Clandallan was constituted the fa?i" — (Ibid., p. 748, col. i.) A. D. 1461, 
 
 corps of the Chancellorship in the chapter Mauritus OHagan presented by the Pri- 
 
 of Dromore. mate to the perpetual vicarage of Clon- 
 
 p Clondyme Now the parish of Clon- diiffi, vacant by the death of Mauritius 
 
 duff. — Ord. Survey, s. 48. The modern M^gilmore. John Omolstaygh directed to 
 
 parish church is at Hilltown, in the town- induct him. — Reg. Prene, p. 345. At the 
 
 land Carcullion; but the parish burying- Dissolution the rectory and advowson of 
 
 ground, with the ruins of the old church, the parish of Clonduff, extending to twen- 
 
 which measure 60 feet by 40, lies about ty-one townlands, in Evagh alias Magenis' 
 
 half a mile to the east of Hilltown, in the country, belonged to the abbey of Bangor, 
 
 townland Ballyaughian. There is no town- Ul. Inq., No. 2, Jac I., Down. 
 
 land caUed Clonduff, but Ballyaughian, *5 iV^«ster.— Now the parish of Kilbroney. 
 
 Ballynanny, Ballymaghery, and Leitrim, Ord. Survey, ss. 51. 54. A. D. 1422, " Ec- 
 
 are called " the four towns of Clonduff", clesia de Clonfeys pertinet ad mensam Epis- 
 
 are see lands, and of them the incumbent copi " — Reg. Dowd., p. 267. This parish 
 
 is rector, while of the rest of the parish he was, of old, a mensal of the Bishop of Dro- 
 
 isbut vicar. In the townland Kinghill, more: in 1622 the rectorial tithes were 
 
 locally called Keehill, and written Bally- leased to Anthony Howse, at £5 per an. 
 
 kawkiU, (Ulster Inquisitions, No. 2, Jac. I. A. D. circ. 1427, "Agholy M'dermydan 
 
 Q 2 
 
(Drumorens Dyoces.) 
 
 Ill 
 
 ^^Abbas de Viridi Ligno 
 
 custos Baculi Sanctce Bromance, Drumo- 
 
 rensis Dioc Reg. Swayne, lib. iii. A. D. 
 
 1428, Jan. 14, Master John M^gerywey, 
 Canon of Dromore, was presented to the 
 parish church '■'•Sanctce Bromance virgi- 
 nis". — Reg. Swayne, ii. 607. Same year, 
 Aug. 6, the Primate granted to Gyllahrony 
 M^kewyn the "portionesSolita? cum officio 
 Baculiin ^ccfes/a Saivctce Bromance virgi- 
 nis, mensae Episcopi Dromorensis". — Reg. 
 Swayne, lib. i. fol. 59. A. D. 1431, the 
 Primate appointed Philip RPkewyn to col- 
 lect the revenues and tithes of the lands of 
 the parish church " Sanctce Broinance vir- 
 ginis" — Reg. Swayne, lib. iii. A. D. 1433, 
 the church of Kilhrony granted to John 
 M''gillaboy. — Reg. Prene, p. 332. A. D. 
 1442, Nov. 16, Clemens M'donnogan vicar 
 of CUlbronaid. — Reg. Prene, p. 48. Same 
 year, Nov. 17, the rectories oi Kyllbronca 
 and Dissertdubunnugi Avere let to farm to 
 John M'gillaboy, Canon of Dromore, for a 
 term of five years, at 20s. a year. — Reg. 
 Prene, p. 69. A. D. 1526, the bishop's 
 mensal o^ Kilhrony, held by Arthur M^ga- 
 nyse, son of Gelacius, for two years, at four 
 marks per annum — Reg. Crom., p. 487. 
 A. D. 1534, the vicarage oi Kilhrony va- 
 cant by the death of Patrick M'brun 
 
 Reg. Crom., p. 766. The modern parish 
 church is in the village of Rosstrevor; and 
 about half a mile to the N. E. are the pa- 
 rish churchyard, with the venerable ruins 
 of the old church, and an ancient stone 
 
 — xx-m*r dec-ij-m*r. 
 
 cross, and, to the west, St. Bridget's well. 
 The parish is sometimes called Killowen, 
 from a district of that name which lies in 
 its southern part. 
 
 ■" Viride Lignum The town of Newry 
 
 derives its name from the Irish nlubap 
 (iVea-er), 'the Yew', and is, to this day, 
 called by the country people, ' the Newry '. 
 Sometimes it is latinized by Ivoriian, and 
 Nevoracum, but most commonly by Viride 
 Lignum. Cormac's Glossary, a work of the 
 ninth century (as quoted in Mr. Dono- 
 van's admirable article, Dub. Pen. Jour., 
 vol. i. p. 103), derives the word luBup, 
 quasi Gobap, from Go ' ever', and bapp 
 ' top', because it never loses its top, i. e. 
 is Ever-green : hence the propriety of the 
 monastic name in the text. In an Irish 
 stanza quoted in Keating's History, under 
 the year 558, the place is called lobap 
 cinn-rpucca ' the Yew at the head of the 
 strand '. An Irish historical novel, written 
 about the time of the Invasion, introduces 
 certain persons at the year 637 as using 
 these words: "h-lobap Cinn Coice ttiic 
 Neciccaui, ppip a paicep JoBap cinn 
 cpaja an can pa". " lobhar Chinn Choi- 
 che mhic Neachtain, which is now called 
 lobhar Chinn Tragha". — (O Donovan's 
 Battle of Magh-Rath, pp. 276, 277.) The 
 foundation of a religious house, here, is 
 ascribed by Keating to the famous Malachi 
 OMorgair, in these words : "t)o cojaib 
 Malachias naomru (eappog t)hum) mai- 
 
117 
 (Diocese of Dromore.) 
 
 The Abbot of Viride Lig- 
 num'" 20 marks Tenth, 2 marks. 
 
 Sum 
 
 nipcip loBajp Chinn Cpa^aa j-Connrae et puram eleeraosmara Terram OCormaic, 
 
 an Dum", Qoip an Ci^eapna an can ubifundatuinestinonasterium;j4^/ic>-a^i^m 
 
 poin 1 144". " The holy Malachias, bishop [now included in Sheeptown], cum terris 
 
 of Down, erected the monastery of lobhair suis, silvis, et aquis ; Enacratha [rtow Carn- 
 
 Cinn Tragh, in the county of Down, in mean], cum terris suis, silvis, et aquis ; 
 
 1 1 44 of the Christian era ". About four- Cromglean, cum terris suis, et aquis ; Casel- 
 
 teen years after, Maurice Loughlin, King lanagan [_now Castle Enigan], cum terris 
 
 of all Ireland, liberally endowed this newly suis, et aquis ; Lissinelle [now included in 
 
 formed community, and the instrument Sheeptown], cum terris suis, et aquis ; 
 
 recording his donation is commonly, but Croa, Druimfornact [now Crobane, and 
 
 erroneously, regarded as a Foundation Croreagh] ; Letir ; Corcragh [now Cor- 
 
 Charter. A copy of this document, made creeghy] ; Fidglassayn [now Conlea, and 
 
 by Sir James Ware, is preserved among (^vQ&a.&n\\Tirmorgonnean[now1vii:TLiovQ]-^ 
 
 his MSS (Cod.Clar., Vol. xlv.No. 4792, Cimocul [wozo Carnacally] ; Nadromana 
 
 p. i79,Brit. Mus.) It has been carelessly Vi?,<i{\XQ Athnarap, cum terris suis, silvis, 
 
 printed in the first edition of the Monasti- et aquis; Cromcaill ; Ballenatin usque ad 
 
 con Anglicanum, and copied, without col- Athniscail ; Saolcean [noio Ballyholland], 
 
 lation, into the second edition ; it is also usque ad amnem Athadoniayn ; Bile in 
 
 partially and inaccurately printed by Dr. Ledengan [now Derryleckagh], cum terra 
 
 OConor (Rer. Hib. SS., Prol.ii. p. 158.) sua; Terram Lisdorca [now LisdufF]; Ca- 
 
 The following extract recites the lands racteaw [wo^o Ryan], cum terris suis, etmo- 
 
 which were granted; and to each the mo- lendino ; i5e//<eac [now Benagh], cum terra 
 
 dern name is attached, as far as the Editor sua ". A chronological list of the Cister- 
 
 could identify the names by the half-way cian abbeys of Ireland refers the founda- 
 
 help of an Inquisition of the 3rd Ed. VI. : tion of this house to the year 1 153 (But- 
 
 they all belong to townlands in the Lord- ler's Grace's Annals, p. 169:) but this 
 
 ship of Newry : " Mauritius Mag Lachlain, date is too late for the foundation, and too 
 
 Rex totius Hibernise universis, &c. Sciatis early for the endowment. The year as- 
 
 quod ego, &c. condonavi et confirmavi in signed, by Ware, for the foundation, name- 
 
 honore Beatse Marise, et Sancti Patricii, ly, 1 157, (Harris' Ware's Wks., ii. p. 257,) 
 
 et Sancti Benedicti, patris et fundatoris more properly belongs to the endowment, 
 
 ordinis Cisterciensis, monachis Deo servien- which could not have been earlier than 
 
 tibus in Nyvorcyntracta, in perpetuam 1 156, because Maurice Loughlin ascend- 
 
ii8 
 (Drumorens Dyoces.) 
 
 j[ Sm^ taxacois dioc Drumorefi — xlij • ti • vj • s • viij • d. 
 
 Inde decia — iiij • ti • iiij • s • viij • d. 
 
 ed the throne in that year. — See Four Down, p. 90. In 1237 Hugh de Lacy 
 
 Masters, M. C. 1 156. In 1 160 died Finn confirmed and enlarged the grant made by 
 
 Mac Gorman, Bishop of Kildare and Abbot Maurice O Loughlin. In 1543 this house 
 
 oi liibhar Cinntrachta Four Mast. In was converted into a collegiate church con- 
 
 1162 a severe calamity befel the monas- sisting of a warden and vicars choral. — 
 ter; TTIainifrep manacocc lubaip Cmn- Monast. Hib., p. 127, "This abbey", 
 cpecca 00 lopcao co n-a h-uile aibmiB writes Dr. Stuart, in 18 15, "was situated 
 aj^up leabpcub ujgup Beep L\n rlubap po in Castle-street, at the head of the street 
 cuip pacpaic Peipin". "Monasterium which is opposite the new church. Part 
 monachorum apud Taxum - Cinntrechta of the building still remains, and is at pre- 
 combustum cum suis omnibus suppellec- sent occupied as two dwelling-houses. The 
 tilibus et libris ; et prseterea Taxus quam walls are extremely thick and strong ; and 
 plantavit Patricius ipse ". Harris relates the alterations which have been made in 
 (A. D. 1744) that "it is still fresh in the the building, in modern times, were at- 
 Memories of some anticnt Inhabitants of tended with difficulty and labour". This 
 the Town, that in the year 1688, certain pile, which promises to last long, is sup- 
 English Soldiers, in burying their Dead, posed by the writer to be what is called 
 discovered on the S. E. Quarter of the in the patent the castle of Arthur Bag- 
 Abby the Stumps of some Trees of fine nal, in which the Abbot had formerly re- 
 Wood, and without regard to the Place, sided. He proceeds : " Large quantities of 
 rooted up and converted them to several human bones, some of them of very un- 
 domestick Utensils, the Wood being red, common size, have been dug up at diffe- 
 and bearing a fine Polish" Hist, of rent times, both in front and rear of this 
 
119 
 (Diocese of Dromore.) 
 
 Sum of the Taxation of the Diocese of Dromore 
 
 Tenth thereof — £4 45. Sd. 
 
 £42 6s. 8cL 
 
 edifice, a circumstance which proves that 
 the ground contiguous to the abbey had 
 been appropriated to the burying of the 
 
 dead" Newry Magazine, No. i, p. ii. 
 
 Again, " About twenty-seven years ago, 
 the remaining ruins of the abbey, which 
 had, for a long time, afforded shelter only 
 to vagrants, were levelled and enclosed, 
 for the purpose of building. The founda- 
 tions, like those of other ancient edifices, 
 were found to be of inmaense thickness ". 
 Ibid., No. 2, p. 1 1 3. This site, which is now 
 built upon, is called Abbei/ Yard: the pro- 
 prietor of which states that, in sinking the 
 foundations, vast quantities of human bones 
 were exposed ; that the old font is in his 
 possession ; and that in his garden is an old 
 yew-tree, which has survived the general 
 destruction. Harris also relates that " some 
 Remains of the Chappel of this Religious 
 House were standing till very lately" (A. D. 
 I']]'])- — Down, p. 90. According to Dr. 
 
 Stuart, this building stood in "Boat- 
 street, at the place now occupied by a 
 potato market " : and " on opening the 
 street and levelling the ground at this 
 place, great heaps of human remains were 
 displaced, of which large quantities were 
 carried away and deposited in the present 
 Catholic burying-ground " — Ibid., p. 1 7. 
 In the rural parts of the parish there 
 were, at the Reformation, two chapels of 
 ease called Templeigerin and Castcdanagan 
 (Ul. Inq., No. 1 5, Jac. I., Down) ; the 
 former of which, with its cemetery, re- 
 mains in the townland Derryleckagh, and 
 is marked Templegowran on the Ord. Map 
 (s. 47.) Besides these, Harris mentions 
 the ruin of a nameless chapel in the town- 
 land Creeve (Down, p. 88); and the Ord. 
 Survey lays down small grave-yards, at 
 the extremities of the parish, in the town- 
 lands of Lisserboy, Ouley, and Greenan 
 (ss. 40, 41,51). 
 
Hos 
 
 Rotulos si- 
 
 mul cu aliis rotulis 
 
 de Taxatione bono^ t 
 
 tjnficioa ecctiastlco^ tocius Hibii 
 
 recepit hie ad scc^m Walt us Exon 
 
 Epus tunc Thes p'mo die Octobr anno regni 
 
 Regf • E • fit Regis • E • xvj""" in quadam Baga sigillo 
 
 SccHi Dublin consignata p manusWitti de Lughteburgh 
 
 nunc dni Regf eandem bagam sub sigillo pfdco deferentis 
 
 \ earn dco Thes ex pte Thes \ Baron dci Scc^ii Dublin libantis. 
 
 ®t)ese <CloUs, together toitlb oil)cr rolls of tfjc tlTaxation of tt)C ecclesiastical gootis 
 antJ profits of all Erclanti, tocrc rcccibcti !)crc into tbc ©icijcqucr, bg SiiSlalter, 
 53is|)op of ©xttcr, treasurer for tljc time being, on t|)e ist ban of 
 (October in tl)C i6tl) gear of tjbe reign of Iting ©litoarti, son of 
 Bing ©titoarU; in a ^oucb stampeb toitf) tf)e seal of tlje 
 (Sxcbequer of Bublin ; bn tf)e f)antis of ^"^ tie Uuglb- 
 teburgf), messenger of t|)e1Lorlitf)eming, tobo con- 
 bejietj tbe saili ^ouct, unber t^e saiti seal, 
 anti, on behalf of tf)e treasurer 
 anti 53arons of tf)e sailJ dBx-- 
 el)equer of Bublin, 
 lielibereK it to tbe 
 saiti -S^rea-- 
 surer. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 DIOCESE OF DOWN. 
 
 The diocese of Down, in its present extent, is a collection of smaller sees, which have 
 been reduced to the condition of parishes, and of districts, Avhich, in primitive times, 
 were not assigned to any diocese. The same remark applies to Connor, and most of 
 the larger dioceses of Ireland. A moderate acquaintance with the ancient ecclesiastical 
 records of the island is sufficient to impress the mind with the conviction that episcopal 
 ordination was very frequent in the primitive Church of Ireland, and that in raising 
 ministers to the office of bishop, respect was rather had to their qualifications in piety, 
 learning, and zeal, than to the claims of the district over which they were placed : it 
 being more the object to secure to the Church the perpetuity of orders, than to parcel 
 it out into accurately defined dioceses. Hence Avhen Nennius^, writing in the ninth 
 century, sums up the labours of St. Patrick, by ascribing to him the foundation of 
 365 churches, the consecration of above 365 bishops, and the ordination of 3000 presby- 
 ters, he must, after making all due deductions on account of the exaggerating spirit 
 of the age, be understood as recording a prevalent impression that bishops were very 
 numerous in Ireland during the life- time of her apostle, and that the numerical propor- 
 tion'' which they bore to the presbyters was much greater than in after times. The 
 
 Tripartite 
 
 » See this, and other authorities, cited bj- Abp. shops and ten priests in his household. St. Mochta 
 
 Ussher, Brit. Ec. Ant., cap. 17. (Works, vi. pp. 517, of Lowth, who died in 534, is described, in a poetical 
 
 518.) legend, as having 100 bishops and 300 priests in his 
 
 •> This large proportion runs through all the old monastery. — (Colgan, Acta SS., p. 734 ; Dr. Todd's 
 
 Irish compositions. Thus it is stated by Keatmg, Introduction to Obits of C C. D., p. 69.) Dalian 
 
 out of the Red Book of MacEgan, that Aongus, Forgail represents St. Columbkill as attended to 
 
 King of Munster, in St. Patrick's time, had two hi- Dromceatt hy forty priests and twenty bishops. 
 
 R 2 
 
124 
 
 Tripartite Life of St. Patrick% which was probably written in the ninth or tenth cen- 
 tury, increases the number of bishops ordained by St. Patrick to 370; of priests to 
 5000 ; and of sacred edifices, founded by him, to 700. On the estimate given by Nennius, 
 the learned Author of the "Defence of Diocesan Episcopacy" places but little depen- 
 dence : yet he observes, " supposing these holy Bishops had been all of Ireland ; yet there 
 is no need of so many Cathedrals for them ; for they lasted four Reigns which make up a 
 hundred years. And though all the Bishops Seats in Ireland had not been above fifty, 
 they might easily have afforded 350 saints in the compass of a hundred years<^". Bishop 
 Lloyd suggests : " Perhaps the meaning might be, that beside those thirty Bishops 
 which Patrick ordain'd for the Bishops Sees, he also ordain'd as many Suffragans as 
 there were Rural Deanries, in each of which there were eight or nine Parish-Priests, 
 taking one Deanry with another^". With this sentiment agrees the view taken by 
 Keating, who, having quoted St. Bernard's statement concerning the multiplication 
 of bishops in Ireland, proceeds to say : — 
 
 " Qp na bpiarpmb pi S. 6eapnapD ay " From these words of St. Bernard it is 
 
 loncuijre, nap cuipre a n-ionj^ancup m to be inferred that the number of bishops 
 
 leap eajpoj bo luaioiomop oobeic a we have mentioned, in Ireland, in the time 
 
 nGipinn pe Imn phoopuij apm-beiroon of St. Patrick, is not to be wondered at, 
 
 eajluip pa Blac an zax^ pom. Qp lu- the church being in a flourishing condition 
 
 jaibe op loncuipre a n-ionjjanrap m r- at that time. The number of bishops we 
 
 aipiom eappo^ do luaioiomop ruap, map have above stated is less to be wondered 
 
 leaj^rap linn a pein-leabpuib 50 paibe at, as it is read in ancient books that 
 
 eappoj a n-Gipinn a n-a^aio jjac oea- there was a hisliop for every deanry in Ire- 
 
 ^ancacca oa b-puil innce". land^^\ 
 
 But the most ancient and valuable authority on the subject is the " Catalogus Sanc- 
 torum Hibernia?", which Archbishop Ussher first published^, as he found it in two 
 manuscript copies. It commences thus : " Primus ordo Catholicorum sanctorum erat 
 in tempore Patricii. Et tunc erant episcopi omnes clari et sancti et spiritu sancto pleni 
 CCCL. numero, ecclesiarum fuudatores. Unum caput Christum, et unum ducem 
 Patricium habebant : unam missam, unam celebrationem, unam tonsuram ab aure usque 
 
 ad 
 
 '^ Pt. iii. cap. 97. (Trias Th., p. 167.) 477-179.) It is also published, with some imma- 
 
 •1 Dr. H. Maurice, Defence of Diocesan Episco- terial variations, from another ancient MS., in that 
 
 pacv, p. 155. (Lond. 1691.) exceedingly rare book, FZe/nm^r's Co/Zectowea, p. 430: 
 
 t Hist. Account of Church Government, &c., p. 92. and both versions are printed, with some valuable 
 
 f History of Ireland. notes, in Dr. Conor's Rer. Hib. Script., vol. ii. 
 
 s Brit. Ec. Ant., cap. xvii. (Works, vol. \i. pp. pp. 162-165. 
 
ad aurem, sufFerebant. Uiuim Pasclia, quarta decima luna post sequinoctiuni vernale, 
 celebrabant : et quod excommiinicatum esset ab una ecclesia omnes excommunicabant. 
 Mulierv;m administrationem et consoi'tia non respuebant : quia super petram Christum 
 tundati, ventum tentationis non timebant. Hie ordo sanctorum per quaterna duravit 
 regna, hoc est, pro tempore Lseogarii, et Aila Muilt, et Lugada filio Laeogarii, et Tua- 
 thail''. Hi omnes episcopi de Romauis, et Francis, et Britonibus, et Scotis exorti 
 sunt". 
 
 The following ancient Irish stanza, as quoted by Keating, in further illustration of 
 the subject, is curious: — 
 
 " Q cui^ le caoja ppuic eappoj " Five and fifty learned bishops 
 Ro oipniD in caib, The holy man ordained, 
 
 Um cpi ceouib cpuc apnuio And three hundred approved praying-men 
 
 popp a c-ropmui^ jpaio". On whom he conferred orders'". 
 
 Tirechan, who is supposed to be the Author of the catalogue given by Archbishop 
 Ussher, enumerates the names of forty-two of these bishops, adding " et alii quam- 
 plurimi ^''\ 
 
 The great frequency of bishops in the system of Church government introduced by 
 St. Patrick is attributable to various causes. Christianity made rapid progress in 
 Ireland under the labours of that missionary, and it is well remarked by Dr. Lanigan, 
 " that although Christianity was not propagated in Ireland by the blood of martyrs', 
 there is no instance of any other nation, that universally received it in as short a space 
 of time as the Irish did™ ". This sudden accession of great numbers to Christianity, 
 and the prospect of their increase, would naturally suggest the advantage of supplying 
 abundant means to answer the demands which were likely to be made upon the ministry. 
 Further, the civil condition of the country might have contributed to this large pro- 
 portion of the higher order of the clergy. The island was subdivided into a great 
 number of petty principalities, which were grouped into two great confederacies, called 
 Leth Cuin, which was the northern half, and Leth Mogha, which was the southern''. 
 And thus, while these two primary divisions led to the establishment of the two original 
 archbishoprics of Armagh and Cashel° — Emania, near Armagh, having been the seat 
 
 of 
 
 I' That is, from A. D. 433 to 54-i — Conor, ii. by Giraldus Cambrensis, Topog. Hib. Dist. iii. cap. 
 
 p. 163. 32. 
 
 * See Petrie's History, &c., of Tara's Hill, p. 100. "' Eccl. Hist., vol. iv. p. 287. 
 
 ^ Ussher, ut sup., p. 518. Betham's Ant. Res., ° On the origin of these names see Keating, p. 124. 
 
 vol. ii. p. 352. (Ed. Haliday, Dub. 1811.) 
 
 ' See the happy remark on this subject, recorded " Keating, 2nd Book, A. D. 427. 
 
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 of the northern dynasty ; and Cashel the seat of the southern, — the suifragan bishops 
 were regulated by the tributary principalities, and had jurisdiction equal in extent to 
 the temporal sway of the ruler. The same principle prevailed in England, in the 
 seventh century, although it led to very different results ; for it appears by the account 
 given in Bede of the Council of Herutford (Hertford or Hereford) that there were not 
 above seven bishops in all the Heptarchy, or seven Saxon kingdoms : so that, in that 
 age and country, a kingdom and a diocese were almost commensurateP. At that synod 
 it was ordained, in the ninth canon, " ut plures episcopi, crescente numero fidelium, 
 augerentur:" and it has been the carrying out of this principle which has caused the 
 diocesan distribution of England to run in the opposite course to that of Ireland, so 
 that while the sees of the latter have been continually on the numerical decrease, those 
 of the former have been on the increase ; and while Ireland's hundred"* have been 
 reduced by laAV to twelve, those in the sister country have multiplied four-foW. It 
 was, as Bingham observes, the distinguishing feature between countries early con- 
 verted, and those at a later period, that the dioceses of the former were much more 
 numerous and circumscribed. Thus, in Asia Minor, which extended 630 miles in 
 breadth, and 2 10 in length, there were four hundred dioceses ; while, in Germany, which 
 was of greater extent, there were but forty bishoprics, because Christianized at a much 
 later period. In Poland there were only thirty, and in Russia but twenty-one*. In 
 Palestine, again, whither, as to the lirst field of Christianity, one would naturally look 
 for the earliest specimen of diocesan distribution, there were, within the bounds of 
 160 miles, forty-eight bishoprics'. Among these was partitioned a country, which 
 shortly before the lioman Invasion possessed 240 cities and villages", the smallest of 
 them containing a population of 15000 souls^. In Italy, also, within the territory of 
 Latium, which was not above sixty miles in extent, there were between twenty and 
 thirty bishoprics, many of them not above five or six miles asunder'*. Even in Ire- 
 land, until comparatively recent times, there have been some independent bishoprics 
 so small, that were the whole island distributed into sees of similar extent, their 
 
 number 
 
 p Bingham, Antiq., Book ix. c. 6, (Works, vol. iii. ibid., p. 68 ; Labbe, Concil., vol. v. cols. 283-286. 
 
 p. 181.) " Josephus, Vita, § 45. 
 
 'I The Aiinals of the Foiir Masters furnish the »' Id., Bell. Jud., lib. iii. c. 3, § 2. 
 
 names of above 100 churches, which, at one tune or "Bingham, ibid., p. 145. "There are now a 
 
 other, were governed by bishops.. great many such dioceses in Italy, in the realm of 
 
 '' See Bingham, ut supra, p, 223. Naples, where the whole number is 147 ; 20 of which 
 
 ' Ibid., pp. 42, 43. are archbishoprics, and some of them so small as not 
 
 ' The Acts of the Council of Jerusalem, A. D. 536, to have any diocese beyond the walls of the citj- " 
 
 are subscribed by forty-five bishops. — Bingham. Bingham, iii. p. 224. 
 
127 
 
 number would approach to that which prevailed in early ages. The diocese of Kil- 
 macduagh, which had a distinct bishop in 1523, contains an area of no more than 1 30,000 
 .statute acres. Kilfenora, which was governed by a bishop of its own until 1642, con- 
 tains but 136,000 statute acres. The diocese of Waterford, which is only thirteen 
 miles by nine, was founded, in 1096, for the sake of the town of Waterford, and was 
 governed by its own bishop till 1362. If Kilmacduagh, then, were taken as the 
 standard of extent, Ireland would be divisible into 1 60 dioceses ; or if Kilfenora, into 
 147 such; or if Waterford, into 250 such. Eoss had a bishop exclusively so lately as 
 1542, and Ireland would admit of 94 sees like Ross. And, to come down to our times, 
 Dromore diocese, which was an independent see, and governed by its own bishop, until 
 1842, possessed no town with a population of more than 4677 souls'^, yet it extended 
 over but three baronies, or less than a ninetieth of the area of Ireland. 
 
 It is the opinion of some, and has been put forward with great force by Dr. Lani- 
 gany, that to the early existence, in Ireland, of the order called chorepiscopi, or country 
 bishops, is to be attributed the great number of bishops which characterized the 
 church of St. Patrick. The chorepiscopi differed from the cathedral bishops in this, 
 that whereas the Council of Nice required the attendance of, at least, three bishops at 
 the consecration of the latter% the Council of Antioch declared that the chorepiscopus 
 is ordained by the bishop of the city within the jurisdiction of which his district lay*. 
 It is argued that the decrees of the First General Council could not have been unknown 
 in Ireland, or departed from in common practice. This principle is recognised in the 
 Tripartite Life of St. Patrick, where it is stated " Ecclesias Tamnacensi prsefecit 
 Episcopum Carellum, quem juxta Ecdesice consuetudinem in Episcopum ordinarunt 
 Patricius, Bronus, et Bitmis^'". So also, in the following age, when Finan, bishop of 
 Lindisfarn, who was a native of Ireland, having found that the work of the Gospel was 
 prospering under the preaching of Cedd, "fecit eum episcopum in genteni Orientalium 
 Saxonum, vocatis ad se in ministerium ordinationis aliis diiobics Episcopis''''\ Hence, 
 therefore, Dr. Lanigan argues that, when Lanfranc, in 1074, complained of the Irish 
 practice, "Quod episcopi ab uno episcopo consecrantur^ " ; and Anselm, in 11 00, 
 
 " Episcopi 
 
 " Lurgan, its largest town, has this population in were conferred by two bishops.— Pt. ii. c. 123. (Tr. 
 the Census of 1841, p. 278. Th., p. 145.) The so called Apostolical Constitu- 
 
 y Ec. Hist., voL i. p. 336 ; ii. 14, 128, 318, 463 ; tions and Canons allow the ordination by three or 
 iii. 477 ; iv. 35. ^wo.— See Coteler. Pat. Apost., vol. i. pp. 415, 442 
 
 ^ Can. 4, Labbe, Concil., vol. ii. p. 29. (Ed. Amst. 1724). 
 
 a Can. 10, Labbe, Concil., vol. ii. p. 565. <= Bede, H. E., lib. iii. c. 22 (p. 127, Ed. Smith). 
 
 b Pt. ii. c. 43. (Trias Th., p. 135, col. 1.) The "' Ussher's Vet. Epist. Hib. Sylloge, Epist. 27, 
 
 same work relates also a case where episcopal orders (Works, iv. p. 493.) 
 
128 
 
 " Episcopi quoque, qui debent esse forma et exemplum aliis canonicse religiouis, inor- 
 dinate, sicut audimus, aut a solis episcopis, aut in locis ubi ordiuari uon debent, conse- 
 crantur*^ ", these prelates were not aware of the existence of the order of chorepiscopi 
 in Ireland, where they remained to a later date than in any other part of Christendom ; 
 and that the ordination of these was mistaken for that of cathedral bishops'". Among 
 other effects produced by papal influence in Ireland was the suppression of this order, 
 and the substitution of rural deans for it. The best authorities are of opinion that 
 the latter office was unknown in this country till the year 1152^, when the Synod of 
 Kells, under Paparo the Pope's Legate, enacted " Ut decedentibus chorepiscopis, et 
 exiliorum sedium episcopis in Ilibernia, in eorum locum eligerentur et succederent 
 archipresbyteri a dioecesanis constituendi, qui cleri et plebis solicitudinem gerant infra 
 suos limites, et ut eorum sedes in totidem capita decanatuum ruralium erigerentur ". 
 Accordingly in a constitution of Simon Rochfort, Bishop of Meath, in 1216, after reciting 
 the above decree, it was enacted: " Ut in ecclesiis Athrumensi [Trim], Kenauunensi 
 [Kells], Slanensi [Slane], Skrynensi [Skreen], Donnaclsacheling [Dunshaughlin], olim 
 sedibus episcopalibus in Midia, nunc vero capitibus ruralium decanatuum, archipres- 
 byteri de futuro instituendi, non solum perpetuam et personalem resideutiam faciant in 
 iisdem ecclesiis, verum etiam cleri et populi inlra limites eorum decanatuum solicitudi- 
 nem gerant*"'. It is also worthy of being mentioned, as illustrative of the frequency 
 of bishops' sees in early times, that, besides these five heads of rural deanries, there are 
 within the jurisdiction of the modern see of Meath sixteen churches which are recorded 
 as having been the seats of bishops. 
 
 In Down and Connor the introduction of the office of rural dean was reserved 
 till a later period, and was probably effected by English instrumentality ; but not 
 until the memory of the minor sees and chorepiscopi had died away. Hence the 
 names given to the rural deanries of these dioceses are not of ecclesiastical but civil 
 origin ; and instead of Moville, Bangor, Nendrttm, Colerane, Armoy, &c., which might 
 have been expected had the transaction been immediate, as in Meath ; ^te^//M.^c, Ards, 
 Dalboyn, Tuscard, &c., are employed, which had been the names of civil territo- 
 ries, and were continued by the English as the names of counties'. In fact, the rural 
 dean in these dioceses borrowed his designation from the sheriff, rather than the cho- 
 repiscopus. But, to resume the subject immediately under consideration, the increase 
 
 of 
 
 •- Ibid., Epist. 35, (p. 521) ; Epist. 36, (p. 524). Tract, de Vis. Episc, p. 9. See also in Dansey's 
 
 ' Ec. Hist., vol. iii. p. 477. Horse Decanicae Kurales, vol. ii. p. 513. 
 ff " Distributio in Hibernia facta est sub adventum '' Wilkin's Concilia, vol. i. p. 547. 
 
 Paparonis legati circa annum 1152 " Dopping, ' See above, pp. 2, 8, 16, 26, 44, 62, 71, 82. 
 
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 of bishops in Ireland was further owing to the custom, which prevailed from the com- 
 mencement, of combining the episcopal and abbatial offices in the founders or superiors 
 of religious houses ; or, of associating a bishop in the brotherhood, where the rector w^as 
 only a priest. In a canon of an early Synod, purporting to have been held by St. 
 Patrick, is this description of the monastic life : " Monachi sunt, qui solitarii sine ter- 
 renis opibus habitant sub potestate episcopi vel abbatis^ ". Of the class who combined 
 the two offices were the greater number of St. Patrick's contemporaries or disciples, as 
 Mac Nissi, the founder of Connor, Olcan of Armoy, Mochay of Nendrum. Such also 
 were, occasionally, to be found on the Continent, as appears from the following cases 
 instanced by Du Cange: "A. D. 790, Andegarius Episcopus Monasterii S. Martini 
 obiit". — " Magnulfus Episcopus et Abbas Monasterii Gorziensis' ", The abbey of Lobia 
 or Lobbes in Hainault, was founded by S. Ursmarus, who was called bishop, although 
 Lobia Avas not a see: " a quo etiam locus Lobiensis tantam dignitatem est adeptus, ut 
 nulli committeretur, nisi primum ordinatus esset Episcopus. Quae dignitas perduravit 
 etiam in multos successores, qui leguntur fuisse Episcopi et Abbates^ ". Such also 
 were the "■ Abbates Episcopi ''\ of later days, in Sicily". 
 
 A century having passed away after the commencement of St. Patrick's labours, a 
 diversity of rules began to creep into the Church, and thereupon commenced the " Se- 
 cundus ordo Catholicorum presbyterorum. In hoc enim ordine pauci erant episcopi, 
 et multi presbyteri, numero CCC. Unum caput Dominum nostrum habebant, diversas 
 missas celebrabant et diversas regulas — Hie ordo per quaterna adhuc regna duravit, 
 hoc est, ab extremis Tuathail, et per totum Diarmata regis regnum, et duorum 
 Muredaig nepotum, et ^do filii Ainmerech°". The catalogue then recites the 
 names of twenty-five saints belonging to this class, and, among them, those of Com- 
 gallus and Columba. Comgallus, who was a presbyter, founded, about the middle of 
 the sixth century, the famous monastery of Bangor, which St. Bernard eloquently 
 describes as " multa millia monachorum generans, multorum monasteriorum caput"". 
 From this abbey proceeded Columbanus, who founded the abbeys of Luxieu in Bur- 
 gundy, and Bobbio among the Appennines ; and Gallus, who founded St. Gall in 
 Switzerland. The heads of this house were, during a long succession, presbyters, 
 
 and 
 
 " Cap. 16. It is intituled " SjTiodus alia S. Pa- ' Du Cange, Glossar., vol. iii. cols. 108, 109. 
 
 tricii". It has been printed, in Spelman's and Wil- "> Du Cange, ibid, 
 
 kin's Concilia, from the transcript of a MS. in the " Ibid., i. col. 26. 
 
 Library of Angers, which Sirmondus sent to Da\id <> That is, from 544 to .599. Conor, ii. p. 163. 
 
 Roth, and he gave to Archbishop Ussher, and he to Ussher, Works, vi. p. 478. 
 Spelman, April 1, 1628. P Vita S. Malachi (Messingham, p. 356.) 
 
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 and in this respect it resembled the constitution of Hy or lona. Concerning the latter, 
 there is this early testimony of Venerable Bede: "Habere enim solet ipsa insula rectorem 
 semper Abbatem Presbyterum, cujus juri et omnis provincia, et ipsi etiam Episcopi 
 ordine inusitato, debeant esse subject!, juxta exemplum primi Doctoris illius, quinon 
 Episcopus, sed Presbyter extitit et Monachus'^". The founder was S. Columbkille, a 
 native of Gartan in Donegal, who, like Comgall of Bangor, Columbanus of Luxieu, and 
 Gallus of St. Gall, although the president of several monastic institutions, never re- 
 ceived higher orders than those of priest. It would seem that the great devotedness 
 of these men to the monastic life, and the peculiar cares which, under their rules, it 
 entailed, as manual labour and other secular occupation, led them to adopt a course 
 which lessened the obligations of their office, and left them more at liberty to follow 
 their favourite pursuits. Bishop Lloyd was of opinion that a political cause obstructed 
 the advancement of St. Columbkille to the episcopate"": but this hypothesis is opposed 
 to the influential position which that saint held, and the means, which were abundantly 
 within his reach, of attaining to the highest ecclesiastical dignity^ The legend con- 
 cerning his ordination, as it is found in the gloss on the Martyrology of iEngus, is very 
 curious ; it relates that Etchen, the bishop to whom he was sent for ordination, by mis- 
 take conferred upon him the order of the priesthood, when that of bishop was what 
 had been applied for ; and that, on the discovery of the error, Columbkille resolved to 
 remain a priest aU his days'. Dr. Lanigan, who deals with the story with his usual 
 good judgment, supposes that it was the order of chorepiscopus which was sought, 
 and the conferring of priest's orders was not the fruit of inadvertence, but of a hesi- 
 tation, on the part of the bishop, to admit per saltuin to the highest ecclesiastical rank". 
 But, supposing the real cause to have been St. Columbkille's unwillingness to become 
 a bishop, it Avas nothing strange : ancient church history abounds with instances of 
 holy men who refused to take upon themselves the responsibilities and labours of the 
 episcopate. For this reason it is that we find such frequent mention of forced ordina- 
 tions, and the remedies which were contrived to correct the abuse ; as, for instance, the 
 canon which prescribed that those who took an oath that they would not accept the 
 
 office, 
 
 1 Hist. Ec, lib. iii. c. 4 (p. 107, Ed. Smith). Leinster] who was " carus Coluniba? amicus" (lb., 
 
 "■ Histor. Account, &c., pp. 99, 100. c. 8); "Conallus episcopus Culeratliin " [Coleraine] 
 
 ' His monasterj' was the continual resort of bishops paid him marked respect — (lb., i. c. 50.) 
 
 and eminent ecclesiastics from Ireland See Adam- ' See Dr. Todd's Introduct. to Book of Obits of 
 
 nan, lib. i. chaps. 4, 44, 48, 49 ; iii. 12. He was C. C. D.. p. 54. 
 
 educated by" Episcopus Fimiio" (Adam, lib.ii. c. 1; " Vol. ii.pp. 129, 130. Compare Bingham's Christ. 
 
 iii. c. 2); " Colmnbanus Episcopus Laginensis" [of Antiq., B. ii. ch. 10. (Works, vol. L pp. 142-148). 
 
office, should not be forcibly ordained, and thus compelled to forswear themselves^ 
 When St. Gall was urged to receive episcopal ordination, he refused on the score of 
 monastic subjection: " Vivente Domino et patre meo Columbano, interdictum altaris 
 officium non usurpabo, nisi ab illo permissus. Quare hujus regiminis pondus quod 
 offers, subire non possum"". On a subsequent occasion, when invited to become bishop 
 of Constance, he declined the offer, alleging a different reason for his refusal : " in cano- 
 nibus esse prohibitum, ne aliqui de locis suis commigrantes, aliis facile ordinentur in 
 locis'' ". But he recommended John, a deacon, his companion, as a fit person to under- 
 take the charge, who was chosen ; but much against his will, for he fled and hid himself, 
 and it was not till after diligent search that he was found, and then conducted by force 
 to the place of his ordination''. On this occasion Gallus w^as requested to preach, and 
 the sermon which he delivered is preserved and has been printed^ 
 
 But Avhatever may have been St. Columbkille's motive for remaining a priest, it is 
 certain that he regarded the episcopal office as conferring higher privileges than he 
 possessed. The following incident, as related by his biographer and successor in office, 
 Adamnan, establishes this : " Alio in tempore quidam ex Mumuniensium provincia 
 [Munster] proselytus^* ad Sanctum venit : qui se in quantum potuit occultabat humi- 
 liter, ut nullus sciret quod esset Episcopus : Sed tamen Sanctum hoc non potuit 
 latere; nam alia die Dominica a Sancto jussus Christi corpus ex more conficere. Sanc- 
 tum advocat ut simul quasi duo Presbyteri Dominicum panem frangerent. Sanctus 
 proinde ad altarium accedens, repente intuitus faciem ejus, sic eum compeUat ; Bene- 
 dicat te Christus, frater hunc solus Episcopal! ritu frange panem : nunc scimus quod 
 sis Episcopus : quare hue usque te occultare conatus es, ut tibi a nobis debita non red- 
 deretur veneratio ? " *> By the same author it is also related that Findchanus, a presbyter 
 of the same community, and the superior of a kindred monastery, having been applied 
 to for ordination by a wicked prince from Ireland, imprudently consented, and granted 
 him what he required, " accito episcopo*=". In fact, it seems only reasonable to suppose 
 that one or more bishops were constantly resident at Hy, or that they were sent for 
 from the neighbouring coast, when it Avas required to confer the orders of the ministry : 
 othermse a forced interpretation must be put upon Bede's words, when he says " Ab 
 
 hac 
 
 * See Bingham, vol. i. pp. 528, 530. * Perhaps a Grecism, from irpoaiiXv-og, ' a 
 
 " Messingham, p. 366 [recte, 266]. stranger'. There are many Grecisms in the Anti- 
 
 '^ Messingham, p. 269. Thus when John, his phonary of Bangor, and other Irish compositions. 
 
 deacon, was about to be ordained, the prince asked •> Vita S. Columbaj, hb. i. cap. 44 ; (Trias Th., 
 
 him " Unde ducis propaginem generis?" p. 348, col. 2). 
 
 y Messingham, ibid. = Vita S. Cokmibte, lib. i. cap. 36 ; (Trias Th., 
 
 ^ Messingham, p. 269, col. 2 ; pp. 415-422. p. 346). 
 
 S 2 
 
132 
 
 hac insula, ab liorum coUegio Monacliorum, ad provinciam Anglorum instituendam in 
 Christo, missus est Aedan, accepto gradu Episcopatus. Quo tempore [A. D. 635] eidem 
 monasterio Segeni Abbas et Presbyter praefuif^ ". Under this Aedan, who was a native 
 of Ireland, was founded the church of Lindisfarne, which was a copy of its parent Hy, 
 and hence again Cedd, a presbyter, about the year 655, " accepto gradu Episcopatus 
 rediit ad provinciam, et majore authoritate coeptum opus implens, fecit per locaEcclesias, 
 Presbyteros et Diaconos ordinavit, qui se in verbo fidei et ministerii baptizandi adju- 
 varent^". In another place, speaking of Aedan, he says: " Aidan quippe qui primus 
 loci Episcopus fuit, Monachus erat et ad Monachicam cum suis omnibus vitam semper 
 agere solebat. Unde ab illo onines loci ipsius Antistites usque hodie sic episcopale 
 exercent officium, ut regente Monasterium Abbate, quem ipsi cum consilio fratrum 
 elegerint, omnes Presbyteri, Diaconi, Cantores, Lectores, cffiterique gradus Ecclesiastici 
 Monachicam per omnia cum ipso Episcopo regulam servent' ". In the Irish monastery 
 of Bobbio, it was among the pi'ivileges of the house, "• ut Episcopus quem Pater monas- 
 terii, vel tota congregatio mutaverit ad Missarum solemnia celebranda, aut cousecra- 
 tiones Presbyterorum seu Diaconorum , ipse habeat facultatem in idem Monaste- 
 rium ingrediendi tantum ad pii opus ^lonasterii peragendumS ". 
 
 In 784, according to the Four Masters, died Fergil, or Virgilius, as he is called 
 abroad, who, from Abbot of Aghaboe, in the Queen's County, became Bishop of Saltz- 
 burg, in Lower Bavaria. Before leaving home he had been ordained a bishop, but on 
 the occasion of his appointment to the see of Saltzburg, he undertook the monastic 
 duties, but " dissimulata ordinatione ferme duorum annorum spatiis, habuit secum 
 laboris et coronae participem Episcopum coniitautem de patria, nomine Dobda (or Dub- 
 tach, in Irish), ad persolvendum Episcopale officium** ". 
 
 In the year 590 was convened a council at Drumcheatt, on the river Koe, one great 
 object of which was to arbitrate between the respective claims of Aldus, King of 
 Ireland, and Aidan, King of the British Scots, to the kingdom of Dalriada, in Ireland. 
 And hither Columbkill also came from his monastery at Hy, attended by a company 
 which is thus described by his contemporary Dalian Forgaill: — 
 
 " t)a pcic Sagopc a lion, " Two score priests was their number, 
 
 pice Sappo^ uapol bpioji^ Twenty bishops of excellence and worth, 
 
 Ppi jabail PI aim clu jan ace For singing psalms, a practice without blame, 
 
 Caojac Deocan, cpiocac mac". Fifty deacons, and thirty students". 
 
 These 
 
 '' H. E., lib. iii. c. 5 (p. 107, Ed. Smith). s Messingham, p. 2-48. 
 
 ' H. E., lib. iii. c. 22. '• Vita, Messingham, p. 331 See Dr! O Conor's 
 
 f Vita S. Cudberti, cap. 16 (Ed. Smith, p. 241). Ker. Hib. Script., vol. iv. pp. 172-176. 
 
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 These lines, though written with great poetical license, are of undoubted antiquity', 
 and not only illustrate the ancient frequency of bishops, but confirm what Bede said 
 of the subjection of the bishops of the neighbouring provinces to the Abbot of Hy. 
 This subjection is satisfactorily accounted for, to use the words of Bishop Lloyd, by 
 the consideration that " Wliereas in almost all other places there were Bishops before 
 there were Monasteries, and then it was not lawful to build any Monastery without 
 the leave of the Bishop"^ ; here at H^, on the contrary, there Avas no Christian before 
 Columba came thither. And when he was come, and had converted both King and 
 People, they gave him the Island in possession for the building of a Monastery ; and 
 withal, for the maintenance of it, they gave him the Royalty of the Neighbouring Isles; 
 six of which are mentioned by Buchanan, as belonging to the Monastery. And there- 
 fore, tho Columba found it necessary to have a Bishop, and was pleased to give him a 
 Seat in his Island, and perhaps to put the other Isles under his jurisdiction ; yet it is 
 not strange that he thought fit to keep the Royalty still to himself and his Successors. 
 It is no more strange that it should be so there, than that it is so now in many places ; 
 and at Oxford particularly, where a Bishop now lives, and is as well known to be a 
 Prelate of the English Church as any other ; the Government in the University exclu- 
 sively of him ; and not only the Chancellor and his Deputy have precedence of the 
 Bishop, but every private Scholar is exempt from his cognisance and jurisdiction'". 
 The power of order and jurisdiction, it is to be borne in mind, are quite distinct. " A 
 person may be consecrated bishop, to aU intents and purposes as to the power of order, 
 without possessing any jurisdiction. Vice versa, a person of the clerical order may, 
 although not actually a bishop, be invested with episcopal jurisdiction. Thus, if he 
 be elected to a see and regularly confirmed, he becomes, prior to his consecration, 
 possessed of the jurisdiction appertaining to said see, and if it be metropolitical, the 
 suffragan bishops subject to him as if he had been actually consecrated™". 
 
 That Columbkille associated a bishop with his brotherhood is not expressly men- 
 tioned ; but that bishops from Ireland occasionally visited lona is directly stated in 
 Adamnan's life of that saint. And through their instrumentality it probably was 
 that the foundation was laid for a succession of this order in the island. That sta- 
 tionary 
 
 • They are cited by Keating from the Amhra Clio- ' ' Monasterium novum, nisi episcopo aut permittente, 
 
 luiincille of Dalian. For the age of this composition aut probante, nullus incipere, autfundareprsesumaf. 
 
 see Colgan, Acta SS., p. 203 ; Ware's Irish Writers, Can. 27 ; (Labbe, Concilia, Tom. iv. p. 1387). 
 
 Works, vol. ii. p. 20 (Ed. Harris) ; OReilly's Irish ' Church Government, chap. i. pp. 179, 180. 
 
 Writers, p. 39. "• Lanigan, vol. ii. p. 255. In many cathedrals 
 
 '' Thus the Council of Agatha, in oOG, enacted : the Dean has jurisdiction superior to the Bishop. 
 
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 tionary bishops were not unknown there, the following extracts from the Irish Annals 
 will prove: — 
 
 M. C. 622, " S. Pepgna 6picnac, abb lae 7 eppop:; oecc an oapa la do niupca". 
 
 " St. Fergna'*, a Briton, Abbot of Hy, and bishop, died on the second of 
 March". 
 JE. C. 710, " CoeoDi eppcop lae oecc". 
 
 " Coeddi, bishop of Hy, died". 
 JE, C. 964, " pm^uianjcoipe 7 eppcop la oecc". 
 
 " Finghin, anchorite, aud bishop of Hy, died". 
 JE. C. 968, " 6ppcop lae do mapbaD Doib". 
 
 " The bishop of Hy Avas killed by them [the Danes]o". 
 JE. C. 978, " ITIuccpoin abb lae pcpibneoip 7 eppcop paoi na ccpi panD". 
 
 " Mugroin, Abbot of Hy, scribe, and bishop, skilled in the three [kinds 
 of] verses, [died]". 
 
 By this custom of introducing bishops into the Irish monasteries, it may be well 
 conceived, the episcopal numbers were greatly augmented, and their ties to a stationary 
 life rendered not so strong as where they had the charge of a see, and were supreme in 
 authority. And to this part of the discipline of the Irish Church may be attributed 
 the number of unbenificed bishops who visited England and the Continent in the early 
 ages of Christianity. In the canons of the early ages of the Church occasional mention 
 of 'ETTis-KOTTct (rx,o\cil^ovTii, OY (rx,oXx7oi ; who Avere styled, in Latin, '■'■ Episcopi vacantcs", or 
 " vagantes''\ and signified bishops who were ordained without a charge, or, having been 
 ordained, were not allowed to enter upon it, or, having undertaken it, afterwards retired 
 from it. And though instances of the first class, who were technically said to be ordained 
 uTFoMXvfiivui;, ' at large', were very rare, so much so that Bingham'' could discover but the 
 single example of Barses and Eulogius who were ordained bishops, not of any city, but 
 as an honorary station, in regard to their eminent services, being appointed in their own 
 monasteries; yet in Ireland'* it was freqvient, and conduced, as has been just observed, 
 to the increase of the Vacantes "unbenificed" bishops, whose condition frequently 
 caused them to be also Vagantes or ' itinerants '. To restrain this tendency of Irish 
 bishops to travel abroad and to perform the functions of their office in other dioceses, 
 
 the 
 
 " He is called Virgnous by Adamnan ; and was the p Vol. i. pp. 510-512. 
 
 fourth abbot. 1 The Four Masters record the death of many 
 
 "This entiy is from the Annals of Inisfallen; the bishops without any mention of place. For example, 
 
 rest are from the Four Masters. at 662, 676, 691, 787, 8.65, 872, 907. 
 
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 the Council of Cabillonum [Chalons sur Saone] came to the following resolution, in 
 the year 813 : "Sunt in quibusdam locis Scoti, qui se dicunt episcopos esse, et multos 
 negligentes, absque licentia dominorum suorum, sive magistrorum, presbyteros et dia- 
 conos ordinant, quorum ordinationem, quia plerumque in Simonaicam incidit hseresim 
 et multis erroribus subjacet, modis omnibus irritam fieri debere omnes uno consensu 
 decrevimus^ ". Three years after, a similar resolution was formed in England, at the 
 second Council of Celcyth, where it was enacted: "Interdictum est ut nullus permit- 
 tatur de genere Scotorum in alicujus dioecesi sacrum sibi ministerium usurpare, neque 
 ei consentire liceat ex sacro ordine aliquod attingere, vel ab eis accipere in baptismo, 
 aut in celebratione missarimi, vel etiam eucharistiam populo prsebere, quia incertum 
 est nobis, unde et an ab aliqiio ordinentur. Scimus quomodo in canonibus prsecipitur, 
 ut nullus episcoporum [vel] presbyterorum invadere tentaverit alius parochiam, nisi 
 cum consensu proprii episcopi. Tanto magis respuendum est ab alienis nationibus 
 sacra ministeria percipere, cum quibus nullus ordo metropolitanis, nee honor aliquis 
 habeatur^". It had been already decreed by the Council of Vermeria [Verberie], in 
 753, " Ut ab episcopis ambulantibus per patrias ordinatio presbyterorum non fiat: si 
 autem boni sunt illi presbyteri iterum consecrentur*". And the inconvenience arising 
 from this irregularity became so great that the Council of Worms, in 868, in dealing 
 with this case — " de episcopis et de presbyteris vagantibus, qui parochias non habent, 
 nee scimus ordinationem eorum qualiter fuit", decreed that whoever would receive or 
 countenance them should be excommunicated". Yet this missionary spirit was at first 
 very beneficial to the countries which were visited, and Mabillon declares it " plurimum 
 Ecclesiee tum Gallicanse tum Germanicaj profuisse" ". And in 845, at the Council of 
 Meldse [Meaux], honourable mention was made of the "hospitalia Scotorum quae sancti 
 homines gentis illius in hoc regno construxerunt, et rebus pro sanctitate sua acqui- 
 sitis ampliaverunt, at eodem hospitalitatis officio funditus sunt alienata""'. 
 
 This anomalous practice seems to have continued in the Irish Church, from the 
 date of which we are speaking, until the Synod of Kells: for in the year 1 100, Anselm, 
 writing to Muriardach, King of Ireland, concerning certain ecclesiastical abuses which 
 prevailed in the country, complains : " Item dicitur, episcopos in terra vestra passim 
 eligi, et sine certo episcopatus loco constitui : atque ab uno episcopo episcopum, sicut 
 quemlibet presbyterum, ordinari. Quod nimirum sacris canonibus omnino contrarium 
 
 est: 
 
 "■ Can. 43. Labbe, Concil., torn. vii. cols. 1281, " Can. 62. Labbe, Concil., torn. viii. p. 956. 
 
 1282. " Cited by Dr. Conor, Eer. H. SS., vol. i. Epist. 
 
 ' Cap. 5. Wilkins, Concil., vol. i. p. 170. Nunc, p. 131. 
 
 • Can. 14. Labbe, Concil., torn. vi. p. 1659. "Can. 40. Labbe, Concil., torn. vii. p. 1832. 
 
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 est: qui eos, qui taliter instituti sunt aut ordinati, cum suis ordinatoribus ab episco- 
 patus officio deponi pra^cipiunt. Episcopus namque nisi certain parochiam et populum, 
 cui superintendat, habeat, constitui secundum Deum non potest: quia nee in ssecula- 
 ribus nomen vel officium pastoris habere valet, qui gregem, quem pascat, non habet. 
 Honor quoque episcopalis non parum vilescit, dum is ad potificatum assumitur, qui 
 ordinatus, quo divertat, vel cui per episcopale ministerium certo praesideat, nescit^ ". 
 This exception to the general usage of the Church is also noticed, in strong terms, in 
 Bernard's Life of Malachi: "Nam quod inauditum est ab ipso Christianitatis initio, 
 sine ordine, sine ratione, mutabantur et multiplicabantur Episcopi pro libitu Metro- 
 politani, ita ut unus Episcopatu uno non esset contentus, sed singulse peue Ecclesiae 
 singulos haberent Episcopos'". 
 
 There are two other questions which concern the ecclesiastical antiquities of these 
 dioceses, namely, when their bounds were defined, and whether they enjoyed an unbroken 
 succession of bishops from the commencement. In the absence of any express historical 
 determination of the inquiry, the following considerations may help to throw light 
 upon it. Most of the ancient sees of Ireland appear to have had a monastic origin, the 
 founders being either bishops, or presbyters who associated bishops with them in the 
 government of their houses. But in such cases the memory of the founder was revered 
 more as the father or first abbot than as bishop, and hence it was that the term Co- 
 rn apba, Coworba, which was applied to a successor in the government of the institution, 
 had reference to his abbatial, not episcopal, office. Of these successors some were only 
 superiors, and others, according to their inclination or qualifications, were advanced 
 to the episcopal rank. Hence, while the abbatial succession was carefully maintained, 
 there were occasional breaks in the episcopal line. Not that it is likely that the com- 
 pass of a modern bishopric was ever without some one monastic establishment which 
 had a bishop, but that the succession was not uninterruptedly preserved in any one 
 monastery, not even in that one which, by some accident, came to be the cathedral of 
 the diocese. It is, therefore, reasonable to suppose that the diocesan arrangement, if 
 any existed, was very fluctuating, according as one religious establishment started into 
 existence, enjoying the superintendence of a distinguished head, or another sunk into 
 obscurity, or was governed by a presbyter, or lay abbot. " Such an interruption", 
 observes Dr. Lanigan, " might have occurred in less distinguished sees or places, owing 
 to the singular practice in Ireland of raising persons to the episcopacy, here and there, 
 without confining such promotions to old established sees or places, where there had 
 
 been 
 " Ussher, Sylloge, Epist. 36 ; (Works, vol. iv. v Messingh. Floril., p. 359, col. 1 — See the case 
 
 p. 524). of Celsus, Four Masters, M. C. 1106. 
 
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 been bishops in former days. The appointment of a bishop in a new spot might have 
 prevented the regular continuation o^ others in a contiguous place, which had bishops 
 before^". 
 
 It is true, indeed, that a canon, which bears the name of St. Patrick*, ordains: 
 " Episcopus quislibet, qui de sua in alteram progreditur parochiam, nee ordinare prse- 
 sumat, nisi permissionem acceperit ab eo, qui in suo principatu est". Yet this rule 
 seems to have reference to towns, and to have been framed rather in anticipation than 
 as the result of any diocesan arrangement in the island. Or, perhaps, it was the echo 
 of an earlier enactment, as the twenty-second canon of the Council of Antioch, which 
 decreed: " KTirta-xoTtov /*» iTrtlixmtv o^XKor^iix, TToXu Tjif (*'» vTroKUfAivvi uvrS, — j^n^l fcaSia-Tciv ttdio- 
 /ivTi^ov,, » o<«xavov?, £<? TOTTOVi Irspo) iTrta-KOTTCf) v7roKiif/,'ivovi, ii (Ml etpaf f^iru yvuf^ni rov oIkiioi, 
 
 tU? x'^fcii e7r«rx.<)Vov". "A bishop must not intrude upon a strange city which is not 
 subject to him; nor ordain presbyters or deacons for districts withia the jurisdiction 
 of another bishop, unless with the consent of the proper bishop of the place*"'. 
 
 Adamnan, in his Life of Columba, uses the word diocoesis in reference to Ireland, 
 but without any help to understand his application of the term*^. From a passage in 
 the Tripartite Life of St. Patrick, it would. seem that the extent of episcopal juris- 
 diction was regulated by accidental circumstances: " S. Cethecus Episcopus, cum 
 
 haberet plura dissita loca sibi subjecta, et, inter alia, duo; unum in paterno; alterum 
 Ath-dalaarg, in materno solo situm*^". 
 
 The following list of bishops, whose names are recorded, in connexion with churches 
 within the limits of the present union of Down, Connor, and Dromore, is chiefly com- 
 piled from the Annals of the Four Masters, and serves to shew not only the ambulatory 
 nature of episcopacy in the early Church of Ireland, but also the maintenance of the 
 order in these dioceses, when, from incidental obits, so full a catalogue can be derived : — 
 
 M. C. 493, 
 
 ^ Eccl. Hist., vol. iii. p. 235. of Kis Rer. Hib. Script., vol. i. p. 229, and an ac- 
 
 * It is the thirtieth in a collection intituled " SjTio- count at p. 235. D'Acherj' has printed it in vol. ix. 
 
 dus S. Patricii, Auxilli, et Isserini Episcoporum ". It of his Spicilegium, from two MSS. , one from the 
 
 was edited by Ware in his " Opuscula S. Patricii", Library of Corbie, and the other of Paris. He calls 
 
 p. 43. (Lond. 1656.) Spelman also has published them " vetustissimi ". Martene, also, from another 
 
 it, in his Concilia ; from which work Wilkins has MS., has printed the same in vol. iv. of his Thesaur. 
 
 transferred it to his Concilia. The original was a MS. Novus Anecdotorum. 
 
 in the Librarj- of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. •> Concil., tom. ii. p. 572. So also the twenty- 
 
 Another MS., which Spelman designated " vetustissi- eighth Apostolical Canon, in Cotelerius Pat. Apostol., 
 
 mus", was also preserved in another library of the tom. i. p. 447. (Amst. 1724.) 
 
 same University. Of the former Dr. Conor has <= Lib. i. cap. 35. 
 
 published a specimen in the Epistola Nuncupatoria <» Part ii. c. 48. (Trias Th., p. 136, col. 1.) 
 
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 JEj. C. 493, St. Patrick died, having spent his latter days at Saul. St. Thas- 
 
 sach remained after him, as Bishop of Eath-colpa [Kaholp]. 
 M. C. 496, Mochay, of Nendrum. 
 M. C. 513, Mac Nissi, of Connor. 
 M. C. 537, Lughadh, of Connor. 
 M. C. 540, Colman, of Dromore. 
 M. C. 560, Carbreus, of Cuilrathen [Coleraine]. 
 M. C. 572, Finnian, of Maghbile [Moville]. 
 M. C. 583, Fergus, of Drumlethglas [Down]. 
 yE. C. 590, Conallus, of Cuilrathen [Coleraine]. 
 M. C. 602, Sinell, of Maghbile. 
 M. C. 617, Eogan, of Rath Sithe [Rashee]. 
 ^. C. 618, Sillan, of Maghbile. 
 iE. C. 638, Critan, of Nendrum. 
 jE. C. 642, Cronan Beg, of Nendrum. 
 M. C. 658, Dima Duff, of Connor. 
 M. C. 658, Cummine, of Nendrum. 
 M. C. 673, Morand, of Nendrum. 
 jE. C. 691, O'Dreini, of Maghbile. 
 jE. C. 725, Dochonna, of Connor. 
 M. C. 730, Oegetchar, of Nendrum. 
 M. C. 734, Flann Mac Cellach, of Rechrann [Rathlin]. 
 M. C. 803, Tomas, of Linduachail [Magheralin]. 
 M. C. 810, Bishop of Bangor slain. 
 M. C. 823, Subhne Mac Fergus, of Dunlethglas [Down]. 
 M. C. 865, Oegetchair, of Connor. 
 ^. C. 871, Colman, of Nendrum. 
 ^. C. 927, Celedabhall, of Bangor. 
 ^. C. 951, Duibhinnsi, of Bangor. 
 ^. C. 954, Gaeitheine, of Dunlethglas [Down]. 
 M. C. 962, Finghin, of Dunlethglas [Down]. 
 M. C. 972, Maolbrigid Mac Cathasaigh, of Dromore. 
 M. C. 1016, Dermot Maoiltealcha, of Bangor. 
 ^. C. 1038, Cuinden, of Connor. 
 M. C. 1043, Flaithbertach, of Dunlethglas [Down]. 
 M. C. 1086, Maolcevin, of Ulidia [Down]. 
 
 ^. C. I loi, Rigan, of Dromore. 
 
 tE. C. 1117, 
 
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 ^. C 1 1 17> Maolmaire, of Dundalethglas [Down]. 
 
 JEi.C. 1 1 17, Flann OScula, of Connor. 
 
 M.C. 1124, Malachi, ordained to Connor. 
 
 M. C. 1 136, Malaclii retires to Down, (died 1 148). 
 
 JE.C. 1 152, Maol losa Mac-an-Clerigli-Cuir, of Ulidia [Down], (died 1175). 
 
 JE.C. 1 152, Maol Patrick OBanain, of Dalaradia [Connor], (died 1174). 
 
 JE. C. 1 175, Giolla Donall Mac Cormaic, of Ulidia [Down]. 
 
 JE.. C. 1 200, Malachi, of Down. 
 
 About the commencement of the twelfth century the Irish Church was brought 
 into a closer connexion with the Church of Eome than had previously existed, and to 
 this it is probable that the intimacy of Gillebert, Bishop of Limerick, with Anselm, 
 the English Primate, largely contributed. Gillebert appears to have been very studious 
 of effecting, throughout Ireland, an entire uniformity of religion, moulded after the 
 model of the papal Church*. In consideration of his zeal he was appointed papal Legate 
 in Ireland, being the first who bore the office, and in that capacity presided at the 
 Synod of Rath-Breasail. This council, which was convened in 1 1 1 8, was attended by 
 the two archbishops of Ireland, by bishops, and clerics of various ranks, as also by 
 distinguished laics. The great object in hand seems to have been the distribution of 
 Ireland into regularly defined dioceses, and the endowment of the higher order of the 
 clergy. It was decreed that, exclusive of Dublin, which was left subject to Canterbury, 
 there should be twenty- four dioceses, twelve in Leth-cuin — the northern half, subject 
 to the Archbishop of Armagh, and twelve in Leth-mogha — the southern half, subject 
 to the Archbishop of Cashel. Of the former, Connor and Dundalethglas were to be 
 two. Dromore is not mentioned, it being contemplated to include it in Dundalethglas 
 or Down. But it is remarkable that when the bounds of the several dioceses are laid 
 down, no notice is taken of Down, so that Keating, who has preserved the particulars, 
 observes: *' Paipce eappuijtDuin-oa-leacjlap, ni pojcop pan pein-leabop a copan- 
 cacc". " The diocese of the Bishop of Dun-da-leathglas is not set out in the journal 
 of this convention ". But the truth is, that though its proper boundaries were not set 
 out, it was included within the limits of Connor, and the boundaries which were assigned 
 to Connor, embraced it and Dromore as well as Connor, following the north-eastern 
 coast from Benyevenagh in the county of Derry, to Newry, in the county of Down; 
 as will be shewn when the diocese of Connor comes under consideration. Thus one 
 extreme begat another, and the numerous little sees of ancient times were swallowed 
 
 up 
 
 * See his letter De Usu Ecclesiastieo in Ussher, Syll. Epist. 30. 
 
 T 2 
 
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 up in one great diocese, which even exceeded, in extent, the overgrown unions of 
 modern days. To this union of the sees St. Bernard alludes, in his Life of Malachi, 
 where, having related his resignation of the primacy, he proceeds to say, in reference 
 to his former charge at Connor : — " ad suam paroecian/ redit. Non tamen Connereth, et 
 audi causam dlgnam relatu. Dioecesis ilia duas fertur habuisse antiquitus Episcopales 
 sedes, et duos extitisse Eplscopatus. Id visum melius Malachiai. Itaque quos ambitio 
 conilavit in unum, Malachias revocavit in duas, partem alteri Episcopo cedens, partem 
 retinens sibi, et propterea non venit Cvnneretk quod in ea jam Episcopum ordinasset, 
 sed Dunum se contulit, disterminans parcecias, sicut in diebus antiquis^". This 
 statement, which is true to a certain extent, must be taken with some limitations, and 
 the " antiquitus" of the writer be confined to a term of tw^enty years, ten of which 
 were passed l)y Malachi himself in the occupation of these two united sees. In the 
 year 1117, according to the Four Masters, died Maolmaire, Bishop of Dundalethglas, 
 and Flann O Scula, Bishop of Connor : and on their decease, the new Bishop of Connor 
 held both sees; but this was only until 1 124, wlien Malachi was elected to Connor. 
 Ill 1 1 34 he was appointed to Armagh, and his successor at Connor continued to hold 
 both sees till 1 137, when Malachi retired from the primacy, and, as he could not dis- 
 possess the Bishop of Connor of his proper see, took from him the see of Down, or 
 rather placed himself in the unoccupied seat. To the move which was made, about 
 the beginning of this century, it is that we are to attribute the change of names in the 
 ancient sees of Ireland, whereby, instead of the old cathedral names, they assumed 
 territorial appellations. Thus the Bishop oi' Dundalethglas became Bishop of Ulidia ; 
 the Bishop of Co?z«or became Bishop oi Dcdaradia ; and the Bishop ofDromore, Bishop 
 of Iveaqh. And this new nomenclature continued, for some ages, among the natives, 
 until by degrees it died away, and all the dioceses of Ireland resumed their old cathe- 
 dral 
 
 ' Hence the English word ' Parish '. But the ap- intra se coniprehendebat provincias ecclesiasticas, uni 
 
 pHcation of the term has undergone a change, for Exarcho vel Patriarchai subjectas". — Suicer, The=' 
 
 "the ancient name of an episcopal diocese for thi-ee saur. Eccl., torn. ii. col. 598 (Ed. Amst. 1728). Bedc 
 
 hundred years, i.s commonly TrajOoiKia ". — Bingham, frequently uses ^jaroc/aVz for ' diocese'. And so in 
 
 vol iii. p. 38. " Ubicunque in Canonibus Gra^cis .\nselm's letter of 1100, above cited; and elsewhere 
 
 quatuor Concilionim oecumeniconim et aliorum ro- in S. Bernard. Ailredus, in his Life of Ninian, 
 
 TTi/cwv vox ■KapotKia occurrit, et apud Patres etiam, (cap. 6.) uses " totara terram per certas Parrochias 
 
 nunquam fere alio sensu accipi debet, quam pro Ec- dividere " in the same sense. (Pinkerton's Vitae An- 
 
 c/r'sia ciOT<a<is, qua; uni Episcopo attriba est regenda. tiq., p. 11.) See also the examples in Du Cange, 
 
 Vox oioiKijfftc [unde 'diocese'] eo tempore apud voce ParocAia, Glossar., torn. v. cols. 199, 200. 
 Grsecos longe ampliores fines designabat : plures enim ^ Messingham, p. 362, col. 2. 
 
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 dral names, with the exception of Meath and Ossory'', which still retain their territorial 
 designations. 
 
 As the Synod of Rath-Breasail appears to have been the earliest systematic attempt 
 to mark out the dioceses of Ireland with precision, so it is natural to expect that its 
 urrangements would be modified by time ; which accordingly came to pass: Connor and 
 Down, and Dromore, became independent sees, with their proper bovmdaries, and the 
 river Bann, instead of the Roe, was made the western boundary of Connor. Some of 
 these changes took place, in all probability, before the Synod of Kells in 1152, for the 
 acts of that council' evince various departures from the regulations of Rath-Breasail. 
 In the thirteenth century the diocese of Down had assumed that form which, with 
 very few exceptions, it presented in the seventeenth: and the Taxation of 1291 agrees 
 very nearly with the Terrier of 1615J. In fact, the fifth sheet-line from the foot of the 
 Index Map of the Ordnance Survey of the county of Antrim is very nearly the true 
 boundary line between Down and Connor, as it stood for five centuries previously to the 
 year 1 700. From about this time the dioceses have been made to correspond (except 
 where the coupty marches run through a parish) with the counties of Down and Antrim. 
 It might be still subject of curious inquiry whether the ujiper baronies of the county 
 of Antrim are legally in the diocese of Connor. 
 
 Having thus given a general outline of the process through which the diocese of 
 Down passed in arriving at its present form, it may help to illustrate what has been 
 advanced if the constituent parts be separately considered. Of these, five are noticed 
 in the records which have reached us, namely, Dunlethglas, Nendrum, Maghbile, 
 Beanuchuir, and Rathmurbhuilg. 
 
 I. Dunlethglas — The name Down-patrick, which belongs to the cathedral of the 
 diocese, accords with the prevalent opinion that it was founded by St. Patrick. Mention 
 is made of the place in the biographies of the saint, but there is no express account 
 that the church owes its origin to him. If the story of St. Patrick's burial here be 
 
 true, 
 
 '• A bishop of Ossory is mentioned so early as 971. et Columbse Cille, datum est pallium Ecclesite Dub- 
 See Foiu- Mast. liniensi, vel etiam Tuamensi ". — Conor, Prol. ii. 
 
 ' It was at this Council that the four palliiuns, sent p. 159. 
 by Pope Eugenius III., were distributed to the four J Aghalee, which the Tax. places in Down, the 
 
 metropolitans. Many of the clergy were displeased Ter. leaves to Dromore. Coule, which the Tax. 
 
 at the addition of two archbishops to the old nimi- places in Coimor, the Ter. assigns to Down. £al- 
 
 ber ; and the Book of Clonenagh, as quoted by Keat- lyrobert, which the foimer places in Down, the lat- 
 
 ing, expressly mentions those of Armagh, and Dun- ter places in Connor. These, with some slight va- 
 
 dalethc/las, as the chief dissentients. The Book of nations in the ruri-decanal distribution, are the chief 
 
 Flann Mac Eogan says " contra jura Cleri Patricii difference between these two records. 
 
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 true'', it may be reasonably inferred that the church was founded before the close of 
 the fifth century: and if credence is to be given to the ancient Sanctology' which 
 represents Rossius or Rus, son of Trichem, and brother of Dichu the first convert to 
 Christianity in Ulidia, as presiding over the church of Dundalethglas, the foundation 
 may be referred to even an earlier date. In the Second'" and Seventh" Lives of St. 
 Patrick, in Colgan's Collection, Loarn, a contemporary of that saint, is styled a bishop, 
 and his church is placed at Brettan, which is now called Bright, and lies about three 
 miles S. E. of Downpatrick. St. Thassach, who administered the communion to St. 
 Patrick in his last illness, is also styled a bishop, and his church is said to have been 
 Ralh-colpa, which is now called Raholp, and is about equidistant, on the N. E., from 
 Downpatrick. The name of the latter is thus commemorated in the Martyrology of 
 ./Engus, at the 14th of April: — 
 
 " Inpij eppoc Cappach "The royal bishop Tassach 
 
 Oobepc oDonanic Gave, when he came, 
 
 Copp Cpipc inpij pipbailc Thebodyof Christ, the King truly powerful, 
 
 La comainn do pacpaic". As communion, to Patrick". 
 
 Upon which an interlinear gloss observes: — 
 
 ".1. I Rttid) Cholpa 1 6eir Cacctil 1 "i. e. at RathcolpinLecale of Ulidia: i.e. 
 nUUcaib .1. cepo 7 eppoc pacpic Cap- an artificer and bishop to Patrick was Tas- 
 pach ocup peil aecpecca po". sach, and this is the festival of his death". 
 
 Of these two churches no further notice is taken in early records ; and as there 
 does not appear to have been any succession of bishops in them, it may be presumed 
 that they gave way to the neighbouring church oi Dunlethglas, which possessed local 
 advantages that afterwards raised it to the condition of a cathedral. 
 
 From a very early period Downpatrick appears to have been the capital of the 
 surrounding territory, and the seat of the princes who governed it. About the com- 
 mencement of the Christian ajra, a warrior called Celccaip na 5-cac, ' Celtchar of the 
 battles" ' one of the heroes of the Red Branch, and a companion of Connor Mac Ness, 
 King of Ulster, resided here; and his abode is supposed to have been within the large 
 earthen fort, which, with its extensive intrenchments, lies close to the cathedral, on the 
 north. From him the spot was called Qpap Cealcaip, 'the habitation of Celtchar', 
 and sometimes T?ac Chealcaip, 'the Fort of Celtchar', or Dun Celccaip, 'the hold 
 
 of 
 
 k See further 011 in the AppendLx. " Pt. i. cap. 52 (Ibid., p. 125, col. 1). 
 
 ' Cap. 19. (Trias Th., p. 110, col. 1, No. 45.) ° See Donovan, Bat of Magh Rath, pp. 206, 
 
 ■"Cap. 31. (Trias Th., p. 14, col. 2.) 207; Flaherty, Ogj-gia, p. 273. 
 
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 of Celtchar'. Thus the Life of St. Brigid by AnimosusP describes Down as " Civitas 
 posita in Regione Ultorum prope mare, nomine Dun-da-lethghlas : quse priscis tempo- 
 ribus Aras Kealtuir filii Cuitheachyr, comitis regis Ultorum Conchubhair F. Nessa 
 vocabaturi". And this old name \vas not entirely abandoned at the time of the Inva- 
 sion, for in a charter of John de Courcy mention is made of the " Ecclesia sanctse 
 Trinitatis in Rathkelter''\ But the name by which the place is ecclesiastically known 
 is Dun-ler-jlap^ or Opuim-ler-jlap, which is latinized by Castrum Lethglasse^ or 
 Arx Lethglasse^. In later times the syllable ba was inserted, and for the compound, 
 thus formed, Jocelin gives the following derivation : — Having related that the sons of 
 Dichu, who were left as hostages with King Laoghaire, were, by miraculous agency, 
 removed from the place of confinement to Down, he adds " unum illorum, in loco ubi 
 nunc in Dun sedificata est Ecclesia sancti Patricii, alterum in monticulo vicino, cir- 
 cumcluso palude pelagi", dimisit, et catenas quibus vinculati erant, separatim confregit : 
 uterque vero locus usque in pr?esens a catenis confractis vocabulum scilicet Dun-da-^ 
 leathghs^ est sortitus*". It is likely, however, that the place bore the name Letkglais 
 before St. Patrick's time'', and that it had reference to some local peculiarity rather 
 than any supposed occurrence on the spot. Afterwards, for brevity's sake, the latter 
 part of this long name Avas dropped, and the -simple word Oun retained, which has 
 passed into the Latin Dunum, and into the English Doivn. At the time of the Inva- 
 sion this city was the capital of Ulidia; and it is likely that, having been, for- a long 
 period, the chief town in the surrounding territory, its church rose above the rest in 
 importance, so as to become the cathedral of the diocese. The first bishop, and, indeed, 
 the first minister of Down, of whom we have any certain account, is Fergus, whose 
 death is recorded in the various collections of Annals, and is placed at the year 583. 
 Ware opens his list of the bishops of this see with St. Cailan, of whom he states that 
 from Abbot of Nendrum he was made Bishop of Down, about the close of the fifth 
 century''. His authority was a work called the Acts of St, Cailan, to which Archbishop 
 
 Ussher 
 
 P ' ' Authore (ut videtur) Aninioso seu Animchado ". " An arm of Lough Cuan formerly flowed up nearly 
 Colgan. to the cathedral, and the earthen fort, which is here 
 
 1 Pt. ii. c. 99 (Trias Thaum., p. 563, col. i.) ; called monticulus. 
 
 Ussher, Works, vol. vi. p. 451. ' " t)un arx, Da duo, lech medhis, and jlar 
 
 "■ So it is in the earliest writings, as St. Fiech's cathena. "Arx duarum mediamm cathenarum " — 
 
 Hymn ; in Tigemach; the Annals of Ulster to lOOG; Colgan, Trias Th., p. 110, No. 39. 
 
 and the Book of Armagh. * Cap. 38. 
 
 ' Quarta Vita S. Patricii, c. 91. (Tr. Th., p. 47). ^ It bore this name in the time of Celtchair — See 
 
 « Tertia Vit. S. Brigid.T, c. GO. (Tr. Th., p. 533, O Donovan's Battle of Magh Kath, p. 207. 
 
 cd. 2.) y Harris' Ware's Bishops, p. 194. 
 
144 
 
 Ussher refers in the passage, " quern actorum ipsius descriptor Kelanum et Coelanum 
 nominat ; atque ex abbate Dunensem postea in Ultonia factum fuisse episcopum signi- 
 ficat^". Of him also Ussher speaks, when, at the year 520, he writes: " Coalanus sive 
 Kelanus abbas Noendruraensis, postea Dunensis ordinatus episcopus, in Hibernia flo- 
 ruit* "• To this Dr. Lanigan objects, on chronological grounds, arguing that Cailan 
 died while Abbot of Nendrum, and therefore places Fergus first on the list of the 
 bishops of Down**. His objection gains further weight, or rather, is established, by 
 the fact, which has not hitherto been noticed, in reference to the question, that Cailan 
 was only another name of St. Mochay, the founder and first Abbot and Bishop of 
 Nendrum, who continued to govern that Church till 496, when he died. The Calendar 
 of the Four Masters, following some earlier authority, has these words, at the 23rd of 
 June: " mocnoi abb nQonopoma, Caolun a ceb ainm". " Mochay, Abbot of Nen- 
 drum, whose first name was Caylan'^". Tu which may be added the statement of 
 Colgan: " Mochai sive Mochaius, qui et Cailanus, proprio nomine, dicebatur"* ". 
 
 A\'Tiether there was any bishop before St. Fergus, and whether there was an unin- 
 terrupted succession after him, are questions which, in the absence of record, must be 
 judged by general reasoning. The following catalogue, which has been principally 
 collected from the Four Masters, is to be considered rather as an obituary of distin- 
 guished persons than as a professed recital of all the clerics who presided over the 
 church of Down : — 
 
 M. C. 583, " S. P6R5US eppcop Opoma-lerjlaipe 00 ecc. an ;c;c;c do niapca, 7 
 a pe an Pepjup pm po poch. CiU m-6ian". 
 " St. Fergus, Bishop of Drumlethglas, died on the 30th day of March ; and 
 it was this Fergus who founded Kill-Bian^ ". 
 M. C. 748, "Scannlan Ouinlerjlaifi beg". 
 " Scanlan, of Dunlethglas, died". 
 M. C. 775, " maicniab mc Ceallac abb Dhuinlerjluippi oecc". 
 
 " Macniadh, son of Kellach, Abbot of Dunlethglass, died". 
 M. C. 785, " Ounjal mc Caejaipe abb. Duinlecjlaipj". 
 
 " Dungal, son of Laeghaire, Abbot of Dunlethglas [died] ". 
 
 ^. C. 795, 
 
 ^Brit Ec. AnL, cap. 17 (Works, vol. \\. p. 529). << Trias Th.. p. 100 (recte 110), col. 1. 
 
 * Chronol. Index (Works, voL vi. p. 585). ' This bishop appears to have been a distinguished 
 
 '' Eccles. Hist., vols. i. p. 422; ii. p. 183. person, for, his death, and the fact of his having 
 
 •^ This name, which is derived from caol, ' nar- founded Cill-Bian, are mentioned in the Annals of 
 
 row', is stated by Colgan to have been a common ap- Tigemach (at 584); in the Annals of Ulster (at 
 
 pellation, denoting ' slendemess of figure' Trias 583); and in the Annals of Boyle (at 557). The 
 
 Th., pp. 379, 597 ; Acta SS., pp. 709, 711. situation of Cill-Bian is unluiown. 
 
H5 
 
 JE. C, 795, *' Coinjpec mac Piachpa abb t)uin-ler5laipi ", 
 
 " Longsec, son of Fiachra, Abbot of Dunlethglas, [died]". 
 JE. C. 823, "SU16hNe mac peR^asa abb. Dumlersla.p, anscoipi, 7 ep- 
 pcop". 
 
 " SuiBHNE, son of Fergus, Abbot of Dunlethglas, anchorite, and bishop, 
 [died] ". 
 M. C. 881, " Scannlan ppincepp tDuinlerjlaippi lujulacup epc o LlUcaib ". 
 
 " Scanlann, Superior^ of Dvmlethglas, was strangled by theUlidians". {An. 
 Ulst.) 
 JE. C. 939, " Oenacan poccapc tDuinlecjlaipi oecc ". 
 
 " Oenacan, Priest of Dunlethglas, [died] ". 
 JE. C. 951, " maolmapcan mac ITIaenaij paccapc tDuinlerjlaipi ". 
 
 " Maolmartan, son of Maenaigh, Priest of Dunlethglas, [died] ". 
 JE. C. 954, "^aeiUheiWe pui eppcoptDumlerjlaipe,— ". 
 
 " Gaeithene, the learned. Bishop of Dunlethglas, [died] ". 
 JE. C. 962, " piN^hlM pui eppcop (Duinlecjlaipi — ". 
 
 " FiNGHiN, the learned. Bishop of Dunlethglas, [died] ". 
 JE. C. 970, " Cacapac mac Peapccupa comapba Duin, — ". 
 
 " Catasach, son of Fergus, Cowarbs of Down, [died] ". 
 JE. C. 992, " macleijino mac tDunjalam aipcinoech Ouinleacjlaipi ". 
 
 " Macleigind, son of Dunghalan, Superior of Dunlethglas, [died] ". 
 
 " tDunchaoh pepleijmt)'' Duin, — ". 
 
 " Dunchadh, Lecturer of Down, [died] ". 
 
 JE. C. 1009, 
 
 ^ The word Princeps is frequently met with in the trictus. Quia autem iinus Abbas vel Prrelatus re- 
 sense of Abbot or Superior. The parallel passage of ligiosus succedebat alteri, non solum in dignitate 
 theFourMast. (at 879) has the synonym abb, 'ab- Ecclesiastica, verumetiam m agris, prsediis, aliisque 
 bot'. Sometimes, also, the -word aipcinbeac, temporalibus possessionibus : hinc apud nostrates vo- 
 from which comes Herenach, is used in the same can coepit illius successor Comhorbanus ; non tamen 
 sense — See Spelman's Glossary mider Corba ; and cujuscmique cui sic succedebat, sed solius prirai fim- 
 Colgan, Trias Th., pp. 292, 293. datoris illius loci vocabatur Comhorbanus''^ Col- 
 
 ? The word Comharba, like vicarius, primarily de- gan, Trias Th., p. 630, col. 1. 
 notes the successor or deputy of a person, and is ge- ^ This word is derived from peap, vir, and 
 
 nerally employed in this sense ; but occasionally, as leijinn, eruditionis, and is explained by Colgan 
 
 in the present instance, it signifies the mmister of a Pralector, vel potius Scholasticus. He supposes that 
 
 place. " Comopba vel radicitus compopba, about the end of the tenth century the old term 
 
 derivata^•ideturaCOm, 'con', 'simul', et popba, pcpiBneoip ' scriba', was exchanged for this. He 
 
 1- e. 'terra', 'ager', ' districtus '. Comorbanus idem adduces an example where the two tenns are predi- 
 
 quod conterraneus, ejusdem terra, vel ejusdem dis- cated of the same man at the j'ears 876, 889, of the 
 
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146 
 
 JE. C. 1009, "Scannlanhuat)unj5alain, ppinceprtJuinleeslairri, rapujOum paip, 
 
 7 acabapr a mac, 7 a oall. a Pinabaip la Hiall mac Duibcumne". 
 
 " Scanlan O Dungalan, Superior of Duiiletliglas, forced from bis fortress, 
 
 and carried away, and bis eyes put out at Finabar, by Niall, son of 
 
 Dubtuinne". (An. Ulst.) 
 
 JE. C. 1015, " Cepnac mac Cacupai^, aipcinoeac tDuinlerjlaippi — ". 
 
 " Cernach, son of Catbusagb, Superior of Dunletbglas, [died]". (An. Ulst.) 
 ^. C. 1026, " maolpacqiaicc iia Qilecam pepleijbinc Oumleicjlaippe — ". 
 
 " Maolpatrick Alecan, Lecturer of Dunletbglas, [died] ". 
 M. C. 1043, " pCaiUb^eRUaCh eppcop Dinnlerjlaippi do ecc". 
 
 "Flaithbertacii, Bisbop of Dunletbglas, died". 
 M. C. 1057, "ecmapcac mc Cepnai^ aipcinoeac Ouinlerjlaipe do Duloia ailicpi". 
 " Ecmarcacb, son of Cernaigb, Superior of Dunletbglas, went on a pil- 
 grimage". (An. Ulst.) 
 ^. C. 1067, "Scolaije mac InDpeccac aipcmDeac TTIucnama, 7 aipcinneac Ouin- 
 lecjlaipi oecc". 
 " Scolaige, son of Indrecbtacb, Superior of Mucknoe', and Superior of 
 Dunletbglas, died". 
 JE. C. 1068, " t)omnaU ua Cacupaiccb aipcinneac Ouin — ". 
 
 " Dombnall OCatbusaicb, Superior of Down, [died]". 
 
 JE. C. 1078, 
 
 Four Masters. Alcuin, writing to Colcus, an Irish the year 837, observes : — "6aDOp Umoppo jup 
 
 monk, addresses hhn as " Lector in Scotia". (Ussh. an am po ceirpe ppiom-pjgola a n6ipinn, 
 
 Syllog., Epist. 18.) This letter is also published .,, S50I a nQpo-maca — Sjjolu ^Caipiol, 
 
 among Alcuin's Works by DuChesne, and is one gj-ol ) nOun-oa-lear^lap, 7 S50I ^>iop- 
 
 instance, among many, of the confirmation afforded ^^p 55_ u There were, moreover, till this time, four 
 
 by external testimony to the accuracy of the Irish j^rincipal schools in Ireland, viz., a school at Ar- 
 
 amials, Alcum became preceptor to Chariemagne ^^^^^^ ^ g^jj^^j ^^ (.^^j^^j^ ^ ^^^^^^ .^^ Dundaleath- 
 
 about the year 780, and the Four Masters record the ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^ ^^j^^,,,, ^^ Lismore ". 
 
 death of this Colcus, to whom lie wrote, at the year i ^jg pj^^jsj, ^^ Muckno is in the barony of Cre- 
 
 789; calling him C0I5U uuOuineacDa pep- mome, and county of Monaghan. "The parish 
 
 f>ei jinD Cluana-mac-noip, " Colgu ODono- chmch is translated to Castle Blaney, but not yet 
 
 ghoe. Lecturer of Clonmacnois '. Many of the an- dedicated, and now masse is said in the old church, 
 
 cient monasteries had schools of instruction attached the other side of the lough". — Ul. Vist. 1C22. See 
 
 to them. Dr. O Conor mentions a MS. of the four- Archdall, Monast., p. 586, where it is confoimded 
 
 teenth centurj', in the Stowe Library, which recites Monaghan, although it is correctly said that " acas- 
 
 twenty-one of these, and among them Bennchuir tie has been erected on the site by Lord Blayney ". 
 
 Uladh [Bangor], Dun-da-lethglas, and Dal-Araide- On the plurality of reli^oas houses under one head, 
 
 Olchau [Ai-moy]. — Vol. iii. Dissert. Prelim., p. 23. see above, p. 98. Thus the Abbot of lona presided 
 
 Keating, speaking of the incursions of the Danes, at over all the monasteries of Columbkille in Ireland. 
 
147 
 
 M. C. 1078, "Senoip mc mail-TTlolua ppim ancapa hGpenb uicam pelicirep pinic 
 in tDunoalerjlap". 
 " Senior, son of Mal-Moliia, chief Anchorite of Ireland, ended his days in 
 peace, at Dundalethglas", {An. Inisf.) 
 M. C. 1083, " rriuipchepcac ua CaipiU aipcmneac Duin, paoi bpeireriinaip, 7 pen- 
 cappa Gpen&, — ". 
 " Muircertach OCarrill, Superior of Down, lawyer, and historian of Ire- 
 land, [died]". 
 M. C. 1086, "maOf^CaOim^l-ilN uapal eppcop Ula6,_". 
 
 " Maolcevin, venerable Bishop of Ulidia, [died]". 
 M. C. 1089, "llua Cepnaij comapba Duinbalecglaip quieuic in 3tpo". 
 
 " OKernaig, cowarb of Dundalethglas, rested in Christ''". {An. Inisf.) 
 M. C. 1099, "t)iapmaicc ua niaolacjen aipcinneac Duin oecc. oioce Capcc". 
 
 " Dermot O Maolathgen\ Superior of Down, died on Easter-night". 
 M. C. 1 102, " Curhaije uaCaipiU aipcinoeac tDuin oecc". 
 
 " Cooey OCarrill, Superior of Down, died". 
 ^. C. 1117, "maor.man^e eppcop DuinDalec?;laip,_". 
 " Maolmaire, Bishop of Dundalethglas, [died] ". 
 M. C. 1 136, "ma06maet)0CC ua mOI^^aiR do Ui^en Coniopbup par- 
 cpaic oeapDia™ ". 
 "Maelmedog [Malachi] OMorgair retired from the Cowarbanate of 
 Patrick [Primacy] to serve God". (He died in 1 148). 
 M. C. 1 152, "TTiaO^lOSa mac aw ChCeiRl^h ChUIl^R eappoj Ulao". 
 " Maoliosa Mac-an-Clerigh-chuir'>, Bishop of Ulidia". (He died in 
 
 ^'75-) ^. C.I 158, 
 
 '' The computation in the Annals of Inisfallen is editors of the English Concilia, aware that Durham 
 
 seventeen years behind the Four Masters, so that was inadmissible, changed it to Dunensis, whence 
 
 this would be 1106 of the latter. Harris (Bps., pp. 195, 383) reads the name as if of 
 
 ' Harris introduces one Samuel as Bishop of Down Down, 
 
 in 109 6, but is misled by Spebnan's and Wilkin's Con- '" " Ad inserviendum Deo." — OConor. TheFour 
 
 cilia. In that year the people of Waterford wrote to Masters omit to mention the place of his retirement ; 
 
 Anselm, the English Primate, and the letter is sub- but St. Bernard supplies the information, and states 
 
 scribed, among others, by " Samuel Duuelinensis it to have been Down. " Videns omnia in pace esse 
 
 Episcopus " [Bishop of Duvelin or Dublin]. An Eng- coepit cogitare et de sua pace. — Dunura se contulit." 
 
 lishman would be disposed to read it Dunelmensis Vita S. Malachiae. (MessLngham, p. 362.) 
 
 (the minims or strokes in either word being the " This prelate probably succeeded Malaclii imme- 
 
 same), i. e. of Durham : and so Eadmer has it. The diately on his death. His name, as here given, ap- 
 
 U 2 
 
148 
 
 M. C. 1 158, "^loUa uaoaip ua Cacupaich aipcmneac Ounoulerjlaip ". 
 
 " Gilla Odar O Casey, Superior of Dundalethglas" ". 
 
 M. c. 1175, "5iofxat)omhMai66maccoi^muiCeppcobuia6Doecc". 
 
 " Gilla Donal Mac Cormac, Bishop of Ulidia, died'' ". 
 This date closes the notices of the Bishops of Down, in the Annals of the Four 
 Masters : two years afterwards the English obtained a footing in Ulidia, and thence- 
 forward the government of the diocese assumed an Anglican complexion. 
 
 II. Nendrum. — Now called Mahee Island, situate in Strangford Lough, and distant 
 about thirteen miles, N. N. E. from Downpatrick. That it was early chosen as an 
 episcopal seat the following extracts from the Four Masters will shew: — 
 
 M. C. 496, " S. niocaoi abb. nQonopoma Decc an cpeap la picec do mi lum". 
 
 "S. Mochay, Abbot of Nendrum, died on the 23rd of the month of June". 
 The Annals of Tigernach, which record his death at 497 ; the Annals 
 of Ulster, at 496; and of Inisfallen, at 490; call him simply " Mochay 
 of Nendrum". That he combined the episcopal with the abbatial office 
 is affirmed by the Tripartite Life of St. Patrick, which designates him 
 " primus Antistes Aendrumice'^". Or, as Jocelin expresses it, " tandem 
 ilium in Episcopum prasfato baculo sibi collate [S. Patricius] conse- 
 cravit, et Edrumensi Ecclesia^ prajfecit' ". 
 JE. C. 638, " S. Cpican i nQonopuim Decc. an peacrm. oecc do ITIaii". 
 
 " S. Critan, in Nendrum, died on the 17th of May". The Calendar of the 
 OClerys calls him eppcop, 'bishop'. 
 JE. C. 642, " S. Cponan becc Bppoj nQonopoma oecc an vii. lanuapii". 
 
 "S. Cronan, the Little, Bishop of Nendrum, died on the 7th of January ". 
 Both Tigernach and the Annals of Ulster call him bishop. Dr. O Conor 
 adduces this as another instance of the fidelity of the Irish annals; for 
 the name of this Cronan appears among those of certain bishops, in the 
 
 superscription 
 
 pears among the acts of the Synod of Kells m 1152. v He was succeeded byMalachias, who was bishop 
 
 (Keating,from the Book of Clonenagh; and Conor, when John de Courcy invaded Ulidia in 1177. The 
 
 from the Book of Flann IM^ Eogain, — Rer. Hib. SS., Irish form of his name is uiikno^vn to the Editor, as 
 
 Prol. ii. p. 159). His name is subscribed Mo/issa Malachj' OMorgair was Maol-Maodog, or the ' ser- 
 
 mac-incleriff-cuir to the charter of Newrj', circ. 1158. vant of Maidoc' ; while Malachi II. was Maol-Iosa, 
 
 His death is placed, by the Four Masters, at 1175. or the 'servant of Jesus', quite a different name, 
 
 " GiUaodar Cathasag, Herhennanus Dunda- though similarly rendered in English. 
 
 hthglas. is a subscribing witness to the charter of 1 Parsi., cap. 53. (Trias Th.. p. 125, col. 2.) 
 
 Newry about this year. ■■ Chap. 37. 
 
149 
 
 superscription of a letter Avritten from Eome in the year 640, on the 
 subject of the Paschal controversy^ ". 
 M. C. 644, " niochua nOenopoma in Xpo. quieuir". 
 
 " Mochua of Nendrum rested in Christ" (^Tigernaclt.) There is a 
 
 curiovis tradition of St. Mochay, the founder of Nendrum, that he was 
 charmed by a bird for 150 years, and that, at the expiration of that 
 time, he revisited the church which he had founded, but the new gene- 
 ration did not know him. Could the rationale of this legend be that 
 this Mochua, who died 147 years later, was mistaken for his predeces- 
 sor, and thus the absurd story be forged? Jocelin calls Mochaoi, the 
 founder of this church, Mochua. 
 M. C. 659, " Cummine eppcop nQenopoma mopcuup epc". 
 
 " Cummine, Bishop of Nendrum, died" {Tigernach). The text of the 
 
 Four Masters, at 658, as printed by O Conor, is faulty. 
 M. C. 673, " Quiep mopaino eppcop nOenopoma". 
 
 " The rest of Moraind, Bishop of Nendrum ". — {Annal. Inisf.) This date 
 is 680 of the common aera. 
 ^. C. 682, " rriaine abb nQonopoma oecc", 
 
 "Maine, Abbot of Nendrum, died ". 
 JEi. C. 730, " S. Oejeccaip eppcop nQonbpoma Decc ". 
 
 " S. Oegetchair, Bishop of Nendrum, died". 
 JEt. C. 750, " Sneirceipc abb nQonopoma oej", 
 
 " Snethcest, Abbot of Nendrum, died ". 
 M. C. 871, " Colman eppcop, pcpibneoip, 7 abb nQonopomu oecc". 
 
 " Colman, Bishop, ScribeS and Abbot of Nendrum, died". 
 
 ^.C. 917, 
 
 * The letter is addi-essed " Doctissiniis et sanctissi- Belfast Lough], and flourished about the same time ; 
 
 mis, Tomiano, Columbano, Cromano, Dimao, et the fifth was Abbot of Bangor, and died in 662 ; the 
 
 Baithano episcopis; Cromano, Emiano, Laisriano, sixth died in 661. This letter was designed only for 
 
 Stellano, et Segiano presbyteris ; Sarano, cseterisque the clergy in the northern part of Ireland, for thej^ 
 
 doctoribus seu abbatibus Scotis ". The first of these held out for the old obsei-vance of Easter long after 
 
 was Bishop of Armagh, and died in 660 ; the second those of the south had acquiesced in the Roman mode 
 
 was Bishop of Clonard, and died in 652 ; the third of computation — See Colgan, Acta SS., pp. 16, 17. 
 
 was the Bishop of Nendrum, mentioned in the text ; This letter, it should be observed, is presei-ved by 
 
 the fourth was Bishop of Connor, and died in 658. Bede, in his Hist. Eccl., hb. ii. c. 19, and is copied 
 
 Of the presbyters, the first was Abbot of Moville, and into Ussher's Sylloge, Epist. ix. 
 died in 649 ; the second is supposed to have been ' That the ofllice of Scribe was no mean one in a 
 
 Abbot of Torj', who flourished about 650 ; the third monastery, the following canon of an Irish council, 
 
 was Abbot of Ard-mac-Nasca, on Loch Laodh [now iJiinted by D'Acherj- (Spicileg., torn, ix.) from a MS. 
 
50 
 
 M. C. 917, " maelcoe abb. nOenDpoma — '". 
 
 " Mac-Icon, Abbot of Nendrum, [died] ''. 
 M. C. 974, "Seona ua tDemain abb nQenopoma do lofccao in a cijp^'""- 
 
 " Sedna ODeman, Abbot of Xendrum, was consumed in his own house ". 
 
 This is the last that we hear of this church in the Annals. Probably it was pil- 
 laged and demolished soon after by the Danes, whose ships were continually floating 
 in Strangford Lough. When next the name occurs, it is as belonging to property of 
 the see of Down, with which John de Courcy, in 1 178, takes the liberty of making it 
 over to the monks of an English abbey. It would seem, however, that long ere this it 
 held some tributary relation to the see of Down, for in the Tripartite Life of St. Patrick 
 it is stated " Quia S. Patricius hunc sanctissimum virum [S. Mochaium], primo a 
 subulci officio ad pastoralem dignitatem evexit, hinc prajdicta ejus Ecclesia porcum 
 
 annuatim 
 
 of the eighth century, vnW shew : — " Sanguis Epis- 
 copi, vel excelsi Principis [abbot, see above, p. 145], 
 vel Scribec qui ad terram effunditur, si coUirio indi- 
 guerit, eum qui effuderit, Sapientes crucifigi judicant, 
 vel \ii. ancillas reddat, &c." So Martene, Thes. 
 Anecd., torn. iv. p. G, cited by Conor, Rer. Hib. 
 SS., vol. iv. p. 130. That the Irish excelled in ca- 
 Ugraphy is proved by many MSS., which are pre- 
 served at home and abroad: the Book of Kells, 
 especially, is a moniuTient of earlj- art no less admi- 
 rable for its execution than its age. It is preserved 
 in Trinity College, Dublin, among the many inesti- 
 mable treasures of its first scliolar. Giraldus Cam- 
 brensis, who visited Ireland towards the close of the 
 twelfth century, having described the exqiusite fea- 
 tures of the MS. of the gospels which he saw at 
 Kildare, winds up his glowing description in these 
 words : " Hsec equidem quanto frequentius et dili- 
 gentius intueor : semper quasi novis obstupeo, sem- 
 
 perque magis ac magis admiranda conspicio" To- 
 
 pog. Hib. Dist. ii. c. 38. Some idea of the great 
 value anciently placed upon these works of skill may 
 be formed from the circmustance that a family called 
 MacMoyre [mac riTaop na Ccanon], or 'the 
 son of the Keeper', were the hereditary custodees of 
 the Book of Armagh, and held the eight townlands 
 of Bally- MojTe on the tenure of its safe preserva- 
 
 tion. These eight townlands constitute a small pa- 
 rish in the union of Armagh, and about eight miles 
 S. E. of that city, which is called BuUymijre. Reilly 
 states that the Book of Balhmote, now in the Roj'al 
 Irish Academy, was sold, in 1522, for 140 milch 
 cows — Irish Diet., p. 27. The nature of the oflSce 
 is thus explained by Colgan : " (^uia \vn qui id 
 munus [scribendi] priscis saecuhs obibant, erant sin- 
 gulariter eruditi, — ea vox successu temporis usurpata 
 est ad denotandam personam quamliljet Ecclesiasti- 
 cam, cui ex officio incmubebat, non solum transcri- 
 bere antiqua monumenta, sed insuper eadem apprime 
 callere, et profiteri publice, docendo, et nova opera in 
 lucem edendo. Solebat enim m quolibet monasterio 
 celebri et Cathedrahbus Ecdesiis esse aliquis ex mo- 
 nachis aut clericis, singularis eruditionis, cui non 
 solum incumbebat munus publicae lectionis susti- 
 nendw, verum etiam penitius rimandi, observandi, et 
 aliis elucidandi patrias antiquitates, eisque hysterias, 
 aut annales sui temporis subtexere. Et hinc tempore 
 primitive nostrte Ecclesia; et poene usque ad medium 
 noni sa>cuU vocabatur Scrihhnidh vel Scribhneoir, id 
 est, Scriba vel scriptor. Sed in Ecclesiis cathedrah- 
 bus nomen illud videtur a medio decimi sajculi et dein- 
 ceps transiisse in aliud nomen nempe Fearlec/inn, i. e. 
 pr (elector vel potius Scholasticus, &c." — Trias Th., 
 pp. G31, 632. 
 
atmuatim Ecclesise Patriciana?, hoc est, Dunensi pendere consuevit". — Part i. cap. 53. 
 (Trias Th., p. 125). 
 
 III. Magh-Bile This church, which stood a short way from the head of Strang- 
 
 ford Lough, and about an English mile to the N. E. of Newtownards, was founded by 
 Finian, or Findbarr [pionn bapp ' white top'], as he was sometimes called, — " a llavis 
 
 capillis " {Maguir). The ancient Life of St. Comgall, in the Books of Armagh and 
 
 Kilkenny, speak of him as " Vir vitse venerabilis S. Finbarrus Episcopus, qui jacetin 
 miraculis multis in sua civitate Maghbile" ". Marian Gorman styles him " Findianus 
 corde devotus, Episcopus de Mag-bile' ". He was one of St. Columbkille's preceptors, 
 and as such is spoken of with respect by Adamnan, where he says " Alio in tempore 
 vir sanctus [S. Columba] venerandum Episcopum Finnionem suum videlicet magistrum 
 adiit"' ". The Calendar of Cashel, as cited by Colgan, relates this curious legend con- 
 cerning the founder of Maghbile: " Finnianus Fionn, de Magbile; ipse est qiii primo 
 Legem Moysaicam et totum Evangelium in Hiberniam portavit'' ". Some Avriters, as 
 Colgan and O Conor, suppose that this Finian was the same as Frigidian, who was 
 Bishop of Lucca in Italy, about the year 570, and of whom it is recorded that he was 
 son of a king of Ultoniay. But there are many objections to their. identity ^ although 
 they were born in the same province, and flourished about the same time. The Annals 
 of Inisfallen refer the death of St. Finian to the year 572. It is calculated that his church 
 was founded about the year 540"*. The memory of this Finian was so much revered 
 in the diocese of Down, that he was regarded as the patron saint of that part of Ulster. 
 This appears from the Saltair na Rann of ^ngus, as quoted by Keating^ and translated 
 by Colgan*^ : — 
 
 "Ui MeiU ap f^ac ChoLaim, "Posteri Nielli sub patrocinio Columbas 
 
 Ml ap pjar muine, Non sub rubo, 
 
 Qpcul phinnein moije-bile Sub patrocinio Finniani Magbilensis 
 
 U la 1 6 u 1 le . Ultonii universi. 
 
 t)al nCTpuibe uapol imjpinn Dal-Aradii nobiles et inclyti, 
 
 Qp cul ComjoiU". Sub patrocinio Comgalli". 
 
 His 
 
 " Fleming, CoUectau., p. 303, col. 2. Lib. Kil- pp. 124, 125. 
 
 ken., fol. 92 6, col. 1. ^ See Dr. Lanigan, Eccl. Hist., vol. ii., pp. 25, 27. 
 
 V Colgan, Acta SS., p. 643, col. 1. * Ibid., p. 25. 
 
 « Vit. S. Columb., lib. iii. cap. 4. See lib. ii. cap. 1 . " History of Ireland, under the reign of Aodh. son 
 
 " Acta SS., ut supra. of Ainmirech. 
 
 y Acta SS., pp. 634, &c. Rer. Hib. SS., vol. iv. <= Acta SS., p. 646, col. i. 
 
His cowarbas or successors are noticed by the Four Masters, as follows : — 
 M. C. 602, " S. Sinell epfcop TTluije-bile oecc an ceo la oOccob ". 
 
 " S. Sinell, Bishop of Moville, died on the ist day of October ". Tigernach, 
 at 603, calls him, "rPuije eppcop": The Chronicon Scotorum, 
 " mai^\bile eppcop ": The Annals of Ulster (at 602), "Gpipcopup 
 Campi 61I1". 
 M. C. 618, " S. SioUun eppcop 7 abb TDaij^e-bile Dec. an xxv. CIujupc". 
 
 " S. Sillan, bishop, and Abbot of Moville, died, on the 25th of August". 
 Tigernach, at 619; and the Annals of Ulster, at 618, simply style him 
 abbot. The Annals of Inisfallen, however, at 613, agree with the state- 
 ment of the Four ^Masters. 
 M. C. 649, "S. Cponan TTIaijebile oecc. an peaccm. la do mi Qiijupc". 
 
 "S. Cronan, of Moville, died on the 7th day of the month of August ". 
 This is the " Cromanus presbyter " whose name appears in the super- 
 scription of the letter written from Rome in the year 640, above re- 
 ferred to. 
 M. C. 682, " Quiep Uopine eppcop TTlaijebile ". 
 
 "The rest of ODrene, Bishop Moville". {An. Inisfallen). The Four 
 Masters, at 691; and the Annals of Ulster, at 693, record his death, 
 but omit his rank. 
 JE. C. 731, " Colman mc niuipcon abb ITlai^ebile oecc". 
 
 " Colman, son of Murcon, Abbot of Moville, died ". 
 
 Besides the Bishops of Moville mentioned above, the names of three others are pre- 
 served, but without any year. They are to be found in the Calendar at the end of 
 this work, under these days : Apr. 29; May 3; Sept. 9. From the year 731 forward, 
 Moville is noticed in the Annals, only, as governed by abbots. 
 
 IV. Beannchair. — The abbey of Bangor was founded in the year 559, by Comgall"^, 
 a native of Magheramorne, in the county of Antrim, He was a contemporary of St. 
 Columbkill, and their respective monasteries bore a great resemblance to each other, 
 both in their discipline, being seminaries of learning as well as receptacles of piety ; 
 and in their economy, being governed by a presbyter abbot, and attended by a resident 
 bishop. The titles borne by the superior of this house were Qbb 6enncaip, ' Abbot 
 of Bangor ', and Comapba Comjaill, ' Successor of Comgall '. The succession of the 
 
 abbots 
 
 <• *' Comgellus, Latine Fausti nomine illustrem". ^itae, Comhgallus nomine, quod interpretatur pul- 
 Xotkei- Balbulus (0 Conor, iv. 35). " Quidam filius chnim pignus" (Jocelin, cap. 98.) 
 
'53 
 
 abbots is very accurately registered in the Annals, and the names of fifteen are recorded 
 previously to the year 691. At the close of the ancient service-book of this abbey, called 
 the Antip/ionarmm Benchorense, is a hymn entitled " Memoria Abbatum nostrorum", 
 in Avhich the names of these fifteen abbots are recited in the same order as in the Annals ; 
 and this undesigned coincidence is the more interesting, because the testimonies are 
 perfectly independent, the one being afforded by Irish records which never left the 
 kingdom, and the other by a Latin composition, Avhich has been a thousand years 
 absent from the country where it was written. 
 
 The earliest record of the residence of a bishop at Bangor is in the Annals of Inis- 
 fallen, at the year 810, which answers to 824 of the common sera; but the manner in 
 Avhich it is expressed implies that the presence of a bishop was no novelty there. 
 
 J£i. C. 810, " Inopet) 6enncoip o^encib, 7 pcpm Chomjaill do bpipiuD ooib, 7 a 
 puib, 7 a eppcoip do recc po gin claicib". 
 " Bangor wasted by the Danes, and the shrine of Comgall broken open 
 by them, and its learned men and bishops were smitten with the 
 sword®". The same occurrence is thus related by Keating: — " t)o 
 h-oipgioD 6eanncop Ulao, 7 do mapbao a h-eappoj, 7 a oaoine 
 
 pojlamra leo, amaiUe pe Sjpm Chomjaill do bpipoo ooib" 
 
 " Bangor of Ulidia was plundered by them, they slew its bishop and 
 learned men, and they also broke open the shrine of Comgall". 
 
 iE. C. 927, " Celeoabaill mac ScanDcnl comapba Comgail GeanDcaip po 6pinn, 
 eappcop, pcpibneoip, ppoicepceiop, 7 Doccop epjna, oecc. ina ailicpe 
 ipin l^oimh an xiv. Do Sepcemb. 7 ipm naorhao bliaoam ap caogacc 
 a aoipi". 
 " Celedabhall, son of Scanlan, successor of Comghall of Bangor in Ireland, 
 bishop, scribe, preacher, and wise doctor, died on his pilgrimage in 
 Eome, on the 14th day of September, in the fifty-ninth year of his 
 age ". 
 
 JEi. C. 951, "t)uibmnpi, paoi, 7 eppcop muincipe^ 6enncaip ". 
 
 " Dubhinnsi, scholar, and bishop of the fraternity of Bangor ". In the 
 
 same 
 
 « This probably is the occasion to which St. Ber- the second stanza runs thus : — 
 nard adverts when he relates the destruction of Ban- " Munther Benchuir beata, 
 
 gor " a piratis" — See above, p. 94. Fide fundata eerta, 
 
 f The word muincip, like the Latin familia, in Spe salutis ornata, 
 
 an ecclesiastical sense, denotes a congregation or fra- Caritate perfecta ". 
 
 ternity. In the Antiphonarium Benchorense is a — (Mivratori Opere, torn. xi. par. 3, p. 248.) 
 
 hymn, intituled, " Versiculi /awi7tcE Benchiur ", and See OConor, R. H. SS., Epist Nuncup., p. 172. 
 
154 
 
 same year died Maolcothaigh, son of Lachtnain, Cowarb of Comgall and 
 Mocliolmoc. 
 M. C. 1016. "t>iapmaiD ua ITIaoilcealca comapba Corh^aill, eaccnach poTc^^e, 
 pccpibneoip, 7 eappcop, oecc ". 
 " Dermot OMaoiltealclia, Successor of Comgall, learned scholar, scribe, and 
 bishop, died ". 
 From this date out Bangor was on the decline, and in a century more was reduced 
 to the lamentable condition which St. Bernard pictures in his Life of Malachis. 
 
 V, Rath-Murbulg This church is now called Maghera (as has been shewn above 
 
 at p. 27), and lies about nine miles S. W. of Downpatrick. The only bishop of this 
 church whose name is recorded is St. Domangart, its founder, who was born at the 
 close of the fifth century"*. The Calendar of the Four Masters considerably anticipates 
 the year of his death, when it states': — 
 
 " tDomanjopr mac Gachac eppcop o " Domangart, son of Eachach'', Bishop 
 
 Rajc-mupbuilj 1 nOalpiaoa agup 1 nDa- of Rathmurbulg, in Dalriada and in Dala- 
 lapaib. a° 0:506". radia. A. D. 506'". 
 
 Another compilation of the OClerys states expressly, " ajup puuip bap pan m- 
 bliajuin 506", — "and he died in the year 506". Dalriada, which is in all the 
 Calendars, as the territory in which this saint's church stood, Colgan properly changes 
 to Dalaradia. The error probably crept into them from an early transcriber's con- 
 founding this Murbhulg, now Murlough, mth Murbhulg, now also Murlough, on 
 the N. E. coast of the county of Antrim. That the Murlough of the county of Down 
 is intended, is proved by the following passages : — 
 
 " Ooniongopc o Raic-mupbuil^ in- "Donard,from Rath-murbulg, in Dalria- 
 
 Dail-piaoa o pliab Slanja"^ ". da [recte Dalaradia], fromSliabh-Slanga". 
 
 " S. Domangartus de Sliebh-Slanga" ". Sliabh-Slanga 
 
 ? See above, p. 94. rects the en-or thus :— " 6app tDomanjaipc mc 
 
 h '•Sajculoqiiinto ad finemdecUiiante" — Colgan, Mippi Rij Qlban ". 505 "The death of Uo- 
 
 AcU SS., p. 742. mangart Mac Nissi, King of Albany". Or, as the 
 
 ' At March 24th. Annals of Inisfallen, at 495, quiep Ooman- 
 
 ^ The Four Masters place his death at 503. 5^'P^ Cinocipe. " The repose of Domangart of 
 
 ' The An. Ul., at 506, record the death of Do- CantjTC ". 
 
 mangart Mac Nisse, Bishop of Connor; but this is ni cierii, Reges etSancti Hib., vol. ii. p. 126. (MS. 
 
 evidently incompatible with what is stated at 513. T. C D.) 
 
 They have confounded two persons. Tigemach cor- " Calend. Cashel, in Colgan, Acta SS., p- 744, 2. 
 
^55 
 
 Sliabh-Slanga was the ancient name of Slieve-Donard, at the foot of which moun- 
 tain is the church in question°. 
 
 All these churches, eventually, becoming united, were grouped into one diocese, 
 and placed under the superintendence of one bishop, whose cathedral was fixed at 
 Down, the capital of the district, and gave its title to the whole. The names of the 
 bishops, prior to the Invasion, of whom there is any record, having been noticed, it 
 remains to give the succession which filled up the interval between that event and the 
 Reformation. The names, and other particulars, have been collected by the industry 
 of Sir James "Ware, principally from writs and other law records, the accuracy of 
 which is unquestionable ; and the little which has been added by Harris is employed, 
 where available ; to which the Editor has subjoined some particulars not hitherto 
 noticed : — 
 
 NAMES. PREVIOUS STATION. SUCCESSION. VACANCY. 
 MaLACHI, I 1 76 1 201 
 
 Ralph, Abbot of Melross, 1202 1213 
 
 Thomas, 1213 .. after 1237 
 
 RandalP, before 1251 1253 
 
 Reginald*', Archdeacon of DoAvn, 1258 1265 
 
 Thomas Liddell"", 1266 1276 
 
 Nicholas, PriorofDoAvn, and Trea- 
 surer of Ulster', 1276 1304 
 
 Thomas Kittel, Parson of Lesmoghan', 1305 13 13 
 
 Thomas Bright, Prior of Down, 1314 1327 
 
 John of Baliconingham", . Rector of Arwhyn'', 1328 ^329 
 
 Ralph 
 
 "^ See above, p. 27. ^ See above, p. 91. 
 
 P He attended a chapter in the Abbey of Bangor, • See above, pp. 28, 50. 
 
 in 1251. (Royal Letters, No. 812, Tur. Lond.) « Ware does not include him in the list, because 
 
 1 According to "Ware the see was vacant for some he received no pro\nsion fi-om Eome. The Pope 
 
 years : and yet the Ucense for a new election, which granted this favour to Ralph, and caused him to be 
 
 was granted November 21, 1258, is expressed — consecrated by Bertram, Cardinal Bishop of Tuscu- 
 
 " sede vacante per mortem Radulphi " [Ralph] not lum. Yet John, after his election, received his writ 
 
 " Ranulplii" [Randal]. of restitution, Aug. 21, 1328, which he enjoyed till 
 
 "" An imdated letter of his, in which he styles him- May 28, 1329. Meanwhile, it is probable, he was 
 
 self Bishop of Down, is preserved among the Letters consecrated, and the matter was compromised by his 
 
 in the Tower of London, (No. 801) : it has been translation to Cork, which see he held from 1330 
 
 printed, by Prynne (Records, vol. iii. p. 113 6), but to 1347. 
 
 antedated by, at least, eight years. ^ See pp. 21, 34. 
 
 X 2 
 
156 
 
 NAMES. PREVIOUS STATION. SUCCESSION. VACANCY. 
 
 Ralph of Kilmessan"', . . . Franciscan Friar, 1329 1353 
 
 Richard Calf, Prior of Down, 1353 1365 
 
 William, A Friar, 1365 1368 
 
 John Logan, Archdeacon of Down, 1368 1368 
 
 Richard Calf, Prior of Down, 1369 1386 
 
 John Ross, Prior of Down, 1387 1394 
 
 John Dongan, Bishop of Derry, 1395 1412 
 
 John Cely, Prior of Down", 1413 deprived 144 1 
 
 In the latter part of the year 1441, the dioceses of Down and Connor were united 
 and incorporated under one bishop. Tlie circumstances which led to this occurrence 
 were as follows: — John Cely, Bishop of Down, and John, Bishop of Connor, having, 
 by joint consent, represented to the King the inadequacy of the see properties of Down 
 and Connor to the support of their respective bishops, prayed of His Majesty that he 
 would sanction the union of the dioceses on the next avoidance of either see, and grant 
 them license to sue for an actual incorporation, at the Court of Rome ; whereupon the 
 following letters passed patent under the King's hand, July 29, 1438: — 
 
 " Rex, &c. Omnibus ad quos, &c., Salutem. Sciatis quod cum subditorum nos- 
 trorum invigilare quieti tradita nobis desuper gubernacula nos invitent, et ad hoc 
 mentis nostrae oculos dirigimus, ut hos presertim nullum vexet injucunde tedium 
 quos intercessores pro nobis apud suppremum judicem indubie arbitramus. Unde 
 attente consideramus quod ecclesiae in terra nostra Iliberniaj constituta^, et presertim 
 Cathedrales'', adeo in facultatum redditibus et proventibus sunt tenues et exiles, quod 
 ob defectum proventuum earundem ecclcsiarum videlicet, auctoritas et qua? debetur 
 reverentia prelatis retrahitur, ne presules ipsi debite venerantur, cum ad tenendum 
 statum decentem et familiam oportunam sufficientes redditus non habeant, et in suorum 
 defensionem jurium redduntur plurimum impotentes; quorum paupertas ad divini 
 cultus diminucionem et regalium nostrorum neclectum noscitur redundare ; ad quorum 
 defensionem et augmentum, et ad regendum in pace provinciam multum profecto, non 
 
 solum 
 
 " Kilmessan is a parish iii Meath. bernici tenues et exiles, quorum valor animus \-iginti, 
 
 '^ This appears from a Pat. lloll of 2 Henry V., in cjuadraginta, vel sexagiuta libras uou excedit, et qui 
 
 which the King pardons John Sely, Bishop of Dowti, reguntur per mere Hibemicos, qui, per se et parentes 
 
 late Prior of tlie cathedi-al church of St. Patrick of suos, contentiones et discordias in dicta terra nos- 
 
 Down, for his treasonable acts (Cal. Cane. Hib., cimtur seminasse, sedibus archiepiscopalibus, etepis- 
 
 p. 204.) copalibus, ci\-itatum et locorum insignium, unian- 
 
 In 1324 it was ordained " quod episcopatus Hi- tur" — Rymer, Feed., vol. ii. p. .554. 
 
^S7 
 
 solum circumspectionis operatur industria, quinetiam sufficientia facultatum, et Deo 
 amahilium potentia prelatorum. Quamobrem, nobis, ac dominico terras nostrse Hiber- 
 nife pra3dicta3, necnon pacifico statui populi nostri ibidem, afFectantes succurrere, et ut 
 status ecclesiasticus inibi in melius reformetur quo presules vivant decencius, suffi- 
 ciencius resistant persecutorum iusultibus, Episcopaliaque jura commodius defendant, 
 et commissum sibi gregem dominicum potencius tueantur. Et idcirco venerabiles in 
 Christo patres Johannes, et Johannes, Dunensis, et Connerensis ecclesiarum Episcopi, 
 infra dominium nostrum Hibernise, quorum ecclesige, uti fidedigna relacione suscepi- 
 mus, adeo tenues sunt et exiles ut ipsarum neutra in suis fructibus et proventibus 
 decenciffi sufficiat Episcopali, ut unioni ac annexioni ecclesiarum prsedictarum nostro- 
 rum assensum daremus et consensum, humiliter supplicarunt. Nosque attendentes 
 quod, sub unius et ejusdem presulis moderamine, ipsartim ecclesiarum unita cura com- 
 modius et decentius poterit gubernari, necnon ob alias causas nos monentes in hac 
 parte, dictorum Episcoporum precibus inclinati, incorporacioni ecclesiarum Dunensis 
 et Connerensis praedictarum fiends, regium nostrum consensum damus et assensum ; 
 eisque Johanni et Johanni, ad prosequendum in Curia Romana, seu extra, in corpora- 
 cionem et unionem prsedictas pro nobis et heredibus nostris, quantum in nobis est, 
 licentiam specialem impartimus, statutis sive ordinationibus regni nostri Anglic ac 
 dominii Hiberniaj nou obstantibus quibuscunque. In cujus, &c., T. Rege apud Castrum 
 suum do Odiam xxix. die Julii ".^ 
 
 It is supposed that, this license having been granted, no time was lost in laying the 
 matter before Eugenius the Fourth, who then filled the papal chair. The plea for the 
 union which was urged with him was the same as that which had been presented to 
 the King, and it appears to have had the desired efiect ; for, on the avoidance of the see 
 of Down, by the deprivation of John Cely, towards the close of 1441, the Bishop of 
 Connor became, by a provision of Eugenius IV., Bishop also of Down, and the year 
 following procured a real union of the two sees, from the same Pope^ The Archbishop 
 of Armagh was very much opposed to the union as well when it was projected as when 
 it was effected; for on the 9th of May, 1441, he wrote to the Pope, stating the likeli- 
 hood of an approaching vacancy in Down, by the expected deprivation of John Cely, 
 and recommending to him William Basset, a Benedictine monk and priest, as a fit person 
 to undertake the government of the diocese of Down*". On the 30th of May he wrote 
 to the Bishop of Bath, Chancellor of England, stating that he had heard of the con- 
 templated annexation, and begging of him to use his influence for its prevention, inas- 
 much 
 
 ■'■ Rot. Pat, 16 Hen. VI., No. 8. Tur. Lond. "Pro « Ware's Bishops, p. 203. (Ed. Harris.) 
 
 ecclesiis incorjjorandis et uniendis". •> Reg. Prene, p. 207. 
 
.58 
 
 much as the assent of the respective clergy of Down and Connor had neither been 
 souo-ht nor obtained, and great prejudice would accrue to the Crown and the Earldom 
 of Ulster through the power of the disaffected Irish of that quarter^ On the same day- 
 he also addressed the King, in the like strain, and recommending AVilliam Basset to 
 him, as he had done to the Pope'^. He also addressed a letter, bearing the same date, 
 and couched in the same terms, to the Duke of York^ These letters do not appear to 
 have produced any change in the minds either of the Pope or King ; and we subse- 
 quently find the Primate addressing a letter, dated January 24, 1442^ to " Johannes 
 Venerabilis frater noster, Dunensis et Connerensis episcopus^ ;" and another on the 9th 
 of August, in the same terms^. However, on the 1 6th of November, he appointed 
 William Stanley, Prior of Down, John M' Kasshen, Abbot of Moyboll (Moville), John 
 Leach, Rector of Morna, and John W Kasshen, Clerk of Down, subcustodes of the spiri- 
 tualities of the diocese, sede vacante^ ; and on the 2 1 st of same month, caused the bishop 
 to be serA^ed with a citation to this effect : " Johannes, &c. Gustos spiritualitatis et spiri- 
 tualis jurisdictionis Episcopatus Dunensis nobis suffraganei, ipsius sede vacante, Vene- 
 rabili fratri nostro Johanni EpiscopoConnerensi nostro suffraganeo, Salutem et fraterna; 
 charitatis augmentum. Accepto quidem per inspectionem literarum vestrarum quod 
 realem et corporalem possessionem episcopatus Dunensis accepistis, et omnia ornamenta 
 Episcopalia penes vos retinuistis, supplicand. de supportatione nostra in compescendo 
 
 ajmulos vestros Quocirca vos tenore prsesentium peremptorie citamus quod per- 
 
 sonaliter compareatis coram nobis in manerio nostro de Termonfeghen die Jovis proxime 
 post Epiphaniam Domini proxime futuram post datum prajsentium, cum omnibus 
 Uteris, scriptis, et juribus tunc nobis ut Metropolitano vestro plenius exhibendis, &c."' 
 A citation bearing the same date, and to the same effect, was also addressed to the 
 Prior and Chapter of Down''. Pending these proceedings, in 1442, the custody of the 
 temporals of the see was committed to Patrick Lawless of Drogheda". The bishop, 
 however, retained the title of the joint sees, and was addressed in 1444, as " Bishop of 
 Down and Connor ", by Primate Mey"". Apprehensive of an invasion of his rights, he 
 subsequently appealed to the Pope for his interference towards the maintenance of his 
 authority, in the following strain: "Ego Johannes, Dei, et Apostolicse sedis gratia, 
 Dunensis et Conerensis episcopus, dico et aUego quod licet sim et fuerim vir bonse fi^mse, 
 
 et 
 
 '^ Reg. Prene, p. 208. * Ibid., p. 42. 
 
 rt lUd., p. 219. kiyj.^p. 42. 
 
 e ivikI., p. 219. ' On the 16th Sept., Cod. Clar., vol. xlvi. p. 160, 
 
 f iijid.^ p. 41. No. 4793, Brit. Mus. 
 
 g Ibid., p. 76. "* " Johanni, Dei, et Apostolicte sedis gratia, Du- 
 
 h Ibid., pp. 65, 66. nensi et Conerensi episcopo" — Reg. Mey, lib. i. p. 74. 
 
159 
 
 et conversationis honestse, et uuUo crimine notabili irretitus . Cumque felicis re- 
 
 cordationisEugeniusPapalV. attendens ad exilitatem fructuum, reddituum,et proven- 
 tuum Ecclesiarum Dunensis et Connerensis, quominus Episcopi in eisdem condecentem 
 statum tenere, jura Episcopalia preeservare, et alia possent incumbentia onera suppor- 
 tare, ex his et aliis causis ipsum moventibus, motu proprio, Ecclesias ipsas adeo insi- 
 mul anoexuit et univit, sua et Apostolica authoritate, ut extunc uno Antistiti Ecclesiee 
 ipsse regi possint, et etiam gubernari sub certis modo et forma, prout in Uteris suis Bullis 
 Apostolicis desuper confectis et directis plenius continetur : et quamvis, vigore BuUa- 
 rum hujusmodi, et unionis supradictJE, Ecclesias ipsas ut earum Antistes cum omnibus 
 Iructibus et pertinentiis universis fuerim et sim canonice assequutus ut Episcopus 
 utriusque, — per nonnulla annos ac tempora tenuerim, — prout in prgssenti teneo et 
 possideo canonice, pacifice, et quiete; metuens tamen ex quibusdam verisimilibus et 
 probabilibus conjecturis circa personam, in jus mei ac statum juris mei injuriam sive 
 
 prsejudicium generari, ad sacrosanctam sedem apostolicam et ipsius audientiam 
 
 directe in bis scriptis provoco et appello, et Apostolos, eatenus, quatenus de jure vel 
 consuetudine in casu sunt petendi, peto, et iterum ac iterum peto, instanter instantius 
 ac instantissime, mihi dari, fieri, ac assiguari cum effectu, &c. Pr^sentibus Magistris 
 Richardo Eowe et Henrico Paton juris-peritis, nee non domino Jolianne M'^ Gean capel- 
 lano, et multis aliis Ardmachans, Midensis, Conerensis, et Dunensis, Diocesium testibus 
 in prajmissis vocatis specialiter et rogatis"°. These his apprehensions were soon realized, 
 for Thomas Pollard, pretending that he had a provision from the Pope°, entered upon, 
 and forcibly took possession of the manors of Lismullen and Kilclief, being abetted 
 and assisted by the Prior of Down, and others of the clergyP. In 1449 the aggrieved 
 bishop sought redress also from the temporal authorities, and addressed to the Seneschal 
 of Ulster a letter which has been already noticed in this work''. Thomas Pollard was 
 in possession of a portion of this property in 1450''; and on the death of the Bishop 
 of Down and Connor, which occurred early in 1451*, was appointed, by the Crown, 
 custos of the temporalities of the sees of DoAvn and Connor. From this time foward 
 no further attempt was made to disturb the union of the two sees. The Bishops of 
 Down and Connor were as follows: — names. 
 
 n Regist. Prene, p. 125. pp. 167-262. 
 
 " He probably availed himself of the inexperience •) See above, p. 37. 
 
 of the new Pope who succeeded on the death of Eu- "" He held Kylcleth in this year — Reg. Mey, lib. ii. 
 
 genius in 1447. p. 206. 
 
 P A full and interesting collection of documents ^ This is according to Ware. The wit appointing 
 
 relating to the disputes between the Bishop and Pol- Pollard custos is dated May 1,28 Hen. VI (Rot. 
 
 lard, is entered in Primate Mey's Registrj', lib. ii. Pat. Cal. Cane. Hib. i. p. 265 a.) 
 
i6o 
 
 NAMES. PREVIOUS STATION. SUCCESSION. VACANCY. 
 
 John, Bishop of Connor, 1441 1451 
 
 Robert Rochfort', Dominican Friar, and 
 
 Lector in Theology, 1451 . . unknown. 
 
 Thomas, Prior of St. Catharine's 
 
 of Waterford, 1456 1468 
 
 Thady, 1469 h86 
 
 Richard Wolsey, unknown. . about 1502 
 
 Tiberius", before 1512 1519 
 
 Robert Blyth Benedictine Monk, and 
 
 Abbot of Thorney in 
 
 Cambridgeshire, . . . before 1526 . about 1540 
 Eugene Magenis, Prebendary of Agha- 
 
 derk*, 1541 1560 
 
 This catalogue closes at the Reformation, but may be continued to the present 
 time, from the " History of the Church of Ireland ", by the Lord Bishop of Down and 
 Connor, and Dromore. 
 
 See Property. — In the primitive state of the Irish Church, the monastic disci- 
 pline was so intimately interwoven with all the orders of the sacred office as naturally 
 to produce a contempt for secular possessions ; and it is probable that the endowment 
 of the ordinary bishops principally arose from the oblations of their churches, or the 
 produce of their farms. In after-times, when dioceses came to be defined, and the juris- 
 diction of bishops better marked, their increased importance was attended by a corres- 
 ponding improvement in their means, and extensive grants were made to their sees by 
 the proprietors of secular property. The following curious sample of evidence on this 
 subject was given in an Inquisition taken at Lymmavaddy in 1609: — 
 
 certain benefices of Down and Connor, " ratione ab- 
 sentia; Episcopi, in remotis agentis, sine licentia sum- 
 mi Pontificis, aut Metropolitani sui" — Reg. Crom., 
 p. 483. In 1527 the Bishop appointed Bernard 
 M^'Cura, Abbot of Wodbnme, and Donald M'^ Ken- 
 ny, Rector of Krakfergiish alias de Petra, the Vicars 
 General of Connor, Commissaries in his absence — 
 Reg. Crom., pp. 507, 511, 51-1. 
 
 " In 1526 he received this preferment in Dromore, 
 from the Primate, who, m 1528, added to it the rec- 
 tory- of Anaghlowan — Reg. Crom., pp. 473, 563. 
 
 ' He was recommended to Pope Nicholas V., bj' the 
 Primate, as "lingua AngUcana et Hibernica facun- 
 dus ". Ware does not assert that he was consecrated. 
 
 " In 1512 he augmented the cathedral revenues. 
 Reg. Dowd., p. 63. Ware is in error in supposing 
 that a vacancy in the see was caused in 1526 by his 
 death; for, in 1519, April 16, Gelasius aPganyse, 
 Prior of the Cathedral of Down, was appointed cus- 
 tos spiritualitatis, sede vacante ; whereas, in 1526, 
 Robert Bljth was bishop, and li\-ing in England. 
 
 * In 1526 the Primate exercised the patronage of 
 
i6i 
 
 " The said jurors doe, uppon their oathes, finde and say, that Donell Mc, Hugh 
 O'Neale'^, kinge of Ireland, did, longe before any bushopps were made in the said 
 kingdome of Ireland^, give unto certaine holy men, whom they call sancti patres, 
 severall portions of land and a third part of all the tiethes, to thend they should say 
 praiers and beare a third parte of the chardge of repairinge and mainteyning the 
 parishe church, thother twoe third parts beinge borne by the parson and viccar to 
 whom the rest of the tiethes is yerely paied, and alsoe for their owne honor and sus- 
 tentation; and that afterwards the said holy men did give unto severall septs^ severall 
 proportions of the said lands, and placed one or more of them in everie parish, and 
 withall gave unto him a third parte of the tiethes of that parishe, to hould both the 
 said land and the third parte of the tiethes, for ever, accordinge to the course of tanis- 
 trie, free from all exactions, and that for that cause the land was called termon or free, 
 and the tennant thereof some tymes called corbe and sometymes herenagh, and that the 
 said corbe or herenagh was to beare a third parte of the chardge in repairinge and 
 maynteyinge the parishe church, and that the said portion of land, and the third parte 
 of the tiethes soe contynued free unto the corbe or herenagh, for many yeres, untill 
 the church of Rome established bushopps in this kingdome, and decreed^ that everie 
 corbe or herenagh should give unto the bushopp (within whose dioces he lived) a yerely 
 pension, more or less, accordinge to his proportion out of his entire erenachie, consist- 
 inge of the said land and the said third parte of the tiethes, and that thereunto the said 
 corbes and herenaghes submitted themselves'', but hold their herenaghie free for ever, 
 and could not be removed by any of the temporall or spirituall lords, or other person 
 
 whatsoever : 
 
 ^' He is called, by the Four jNIasters, tDoriinall constitute severall herenaghes to manure and occupie 
 mac Qooa mac Qmmipeac, and, according those landes, &c." — Ibid. 
 
 to them, reigned from the year of our Lord 624 till * " Of the said sainctes some were confessors, some 
 
 639, or from 628 till 643 of the vidgar lera. He is deacons, and some virgins; — And the said septes or 
 mentioned by Adamnan in his Life of St. Colmnbkill, the saintes before them, desirous to maLntaine the 
 lib. i. c. 9, and iii. c. 5. church and the liberties thereof which they enjoyed, 
 
 y So the jury, at the Inquisition of -L/^erinDone- did voluntariUe give unto the bushopp within whose 
 gal, in the same year, foimd that certain lands in dioces they lived, certame pencions and other duties, 
 Clandowaddoge [Clondevaddock] " were, longe before &c." — Inquis. at EniskiUine, same year. — Ibid., 
 the tjone of any busshop, given to the saint Wod- No. 6. 
 dog" — Ul. Inq., Appendix, No. V. ^ " There were certen religious men, in nature of 
 
 z " In auncient time there weare divers landes hermittes, whoe, sequestringe themselves from all 
 given by temporal! lords to saintes or hoUe men, for worldly busines, did severallie retire themselves into 
 celebratinge divine service and prayinge for their several private places, where they severally betooke 
 soules healthes, and that the said saintes or holy men, themselves to praier, and to other godlie actes for 
 dedicatinge themselves onely to praier and the ser- tlieir soules health ; and in testimony of their zeale 
 vice of God, did, for their better ease, ordaine and and devocion, every of them for the most parte 
 
whatsover: and further, the said jurors doe, uppon their oathes, fiude that the diffe- 
 rence of termon, corbe, and herenagh, consisteth onlie in this, that the termon is the 
 name of the land, and all termon land is herenagh land, and hath all the priviledges 
 of herenagh land, but all herenagh land hath not alwaies as ample privileges as the 
 termon lands ". This finding of the jury for the county of Coleraine, which agrees, in 
 the main, with the several returns at the Inquisitions held for Donegal, Fermanagh, 
 and Cavan, cannot be understood as asserting that the Irish Church Avas originally with- 
 out bishops, for this would be that twelve men in the seventeenth century should array 
 their traditionary information against the whole voice of antiquity, written as Avell as 
 oral : but it declares that in its early condition there was not that territorial Jurisdic- 
 tion or that prcedial endowment, of which the diocesans afterwards became possessed. 
 The interference of the Church of Rome, in introducing bishops, which is spoken of, 
 has reference, most probably, to the proceedings of the Synod of Rathbreasil, in 1 1 1 8, 
 when, for the first time, a Papal Legate presided in an Irish council. The first object 
 of this assembly was, as has been already observed, to define the dioceses of Ireland by 
 regular bounds ; and the other to settle an endowment for the bishops. Keating recites 
 the act of the convention, whereby the revenues of the clergy, and the churchlands, were 
 confirmed to the several bishops of Ireland for their maintenance, and support of the 
 episcopal character; which lands were to be exempted from tribute and chief rents, and 
 other public contributions, and so remain, in that state of freedom and independency, 
 for ever*^. It took some time, however, before all the episcopal incomes attained to the 
 desired amount, for in 1 1 79 the following striking exception is recorded by Fleury : — 
 "En ce concile [troisieme de Latran] le pape sacra deux eveques Anglois et deux 
 Ecossois ; dont Pun etoit venu a Rome avec un seul cheval, I'autre a pied avec un seul 
 compagnon. II si trouva aussi un eveque Irlandois, qui n'avoit autre revenu que le lait 
 de trois vaches ; et quand elles manquoient de lait ses diocesains lui en fournissoient 
 trois autres".'' St. Bernard, describing the simplicity of Malachi's life, while he pre- 
 sided over the see of Down, relates " Non servos, non ancillas, non villas, non viculos, 
 
 non 
 erected a church, and that to every of the said reU^ous which time the bushopp had never aiiy thing to doe 
 persons the temporall lordes gave a severall porcion either with tlie landes or with the tcnnantes there ". 
 of land, free for ever ; — and that afterwardes, when Inquis. taken at Cavan, same year — Ibid., No. 7. 
 the temporall lords in their severall warres, began to <^ History. His authority was the Book of Clone- 
 
 charge and tax the said termon landes, the said corbes nagh — a MS. now, unhappily, not known to exist, 
 and herenaghes fledd imto the bushopp of the dio- <• Vol. xv. pp. 477, 478. In Cough's Camden, 
 
 ces wherin they lived, and besought his protection (vol. iii. p. 604,) this account is put forward on the 
 against the wronges and injiu-ies of the temporall authority of Adam of Bremen, but erroneously, for 
 lordes, and therefore gave voluntarily unto the bu- he flourished A. D. 1080. It is to be found, how- 
 .shopp a rent or pencion out of their landes ; — untill ever, in the Historia Archiepisc, Bremen, p. 64. 
 
163 
 
 non denique quicquam reddituum Ecclesiasticorum seciilariumve vel in ipso liabuit 
 Episcopatu. Mensje Episcopali nihil prorsus constitutum vel assignatum iinde Epis- 
 copus viveret. Nee enim vel domum propriam liabuit. Erat autem pene incessanter 
 circumiens paroBcias omnes Evangelic serviens, et de Evangelic vivens, sicut constituit 
 ei Dominus, dignus est, inquiens, cperarius mercede sua "^. "What is here said", 
 observes Dr. Lanigan, " of St. Malachy not having any fixed mensal income, cannot 
 mean, that there Avas no property really belonging to the see of Down, but that St. 
 Malachy, who delighted in poverty, did not choose to exact the mensal portion from 
 the erenachs or corbes, who had got the church lands into their possession and manage- 
 ment ".^ The see was, certainly, sufficiently endowed before the close of the twelfth 
 century ; for Malachi, who was bishop at the time of the Invasion, was able to part 
 with, and consented to the alienation of, certain portions of his possessions, to two reli- 
 gious houses. In 1178 John de Courcy granted the island of Neddrum, Avith its 
 appurtenances, to the priory of St. Bega of Coupland, reserving a third portion of all 
 the profits to the bishop. He might have granted all, for he had already taken the 
 bishop prisoner, and had it in his power to make any terms he chose. The instrument 
 recording this grants was accompanied by one from Malachi, to the same effect, with 
 
 the same reservation: " Tertiam autem partem omnium possessionum et beneficicrum 
 
 memoratse ecclesi^ in manu mea retineo". Shortly after, when John de Courcy had 
 remodelled the abbey of Down, he caused Malachi to make the following grant to it:— 
 " Sciant futuri tanquam prsesentes, quod ego Malachias, Dunensis episcopus, concessi 
 ad honorem Dei et sanct^ religionis, ecclesiam Sti. Patricii de Dune, cum omnibus 
 pertinentiis suis, ad opus prioris et nigrorum monachorum ; quorum ipse episcopus ero, 
 custos, et abbas, sicut sit in Ecclesia Wyntoniensi vel Coventrensi. Concessi itaque eis 
 et successoribus suis, et confirmavi villas ad ecclesiam suam pertinentes ; scil. Lochmonne 
 [Loughmoney, in Bailee], Messesarech, Ferrochen [Bally-frooke, in Bailee], Balinscan- 
 lan, Arthgothin, Balinrothan, Telagnocrossi [TuUynacross, in Bailee], Balienbreth- 
 naghe [Ballybrannagh, in Bailee], Belgach [Bailee, in same parish], Delen [Dillin, in 
 Bailee], Tipermeni [Tobermoney, in Down], Balimechethe, Dumouere, Balienlemach, 
 Balienlirnoni, Telaghmethan, Balinbothan, Molrath cum pertinentiis, Kno [Ballyno, 
 in Bright], Chengar, Monenmor, Nochenduf, Chemard, Tirgore, Tirestruther [Struell, 
 in Down], Balioconewi, Cremse [near Downpatrick, in Down], Croch, Balindethdume 
 cum pertinentiis, Balima, Celendre [Ballyclander, in Down], Balmangatha, BaHnculter 
 
 [Ballyculter], 
 
 - Messing, p. 366, col. 1. the Cotton charters (No. 40), in the Brit. Mus. Part 
 
 f Eccl. Hist., vol. iv. p. 116. of it, containing J. de Courcy's grant, is printed in 
 
 g It is preserved in a roll, written in the hand of the the Monasticon AngUcanum, but Malachi's grant is 
 early part of the thirteenth century, deposited, among omitted. 
 
 Y 2 
 
164 
 
 [Ballyculter], Balimackelli [Ballykeel, in Down], Kloker [Cloglier, in Down], Balien- 
 struthi [Ballystrew, in Down], Balinrimurgam [BaUyorgan( ?), in Ratlimullen], Kel- 
 leiolian [St. Jolin's( ?), in RathmuUan], Baliowosan [Bally vaston( ?), in Rathmiillan], 
 Lesconan, Kortef, Cronocli, Lanne, Karenlatheri, Feed cum pertinentiis, Balimagereg 
 [Cargagh, in Down], Karennesche [CarroAvnacow, in Down], Cliellemiuien [Killavees, 
 in Down], Eathoop [Raholp, in Ballyculter]. Et ecclesias de Killecletli [Kilclief], et 
 de Brichten [Bright], et Stechian [see p. 33], cum pertinentiis suis, in Dalebinu [see 
 p. 44] Latrach, Douenach, Kellagkinere. Praterea, ad honorem et reverentiam Epis- 
 copatus mei, retinui in nianu mea medietatem oblationis in hiis quinque festis anni, et 
 non amplius ; scilt. in Natali Domini, in Purilicatione Sex. Mariaj, in festo Sancti 
 Patricii, in Pascha, et Pentecosten. Hujus concessionis isti sunt Testes, L. Duve- 
 linensis Archiepiscopus ; T. Ardmachauus, et multi alii".'' The possessions of the see, 
 as they stood at the end of the twelfth and commencement of the thirteenth century, 
 are recited in a Patent Roll' of the Tower of London, to the following effect: " Inspexi- 
 mus cartam Hugonis de Lascy, dudum comitis Ultonias, in hajc verba ; — Universis, &c. 
 Hugo de Lascy, Comes Ultoniaj, Salutem in Domino. Sciatis nos dedisse et concessisse 
 et hac praisenti carta nostra contirmasse venerabili patri nostro in Christo Thomae'', 
 Dunensi episcopo, et ejus successoribus, in purani et perpetuam elemosinam, pro salute 
 animse nostras ot antecessorum nostrorum, quatuor carucatas terra3 de Dominico nostro 
 in Arte^ jacentes, ex una parte, inter terram praedicti Episcopi de Arvshum"^ et terram 
 Hospitalariorum^ in Arte, ex altera. Et ex parte alia inter terram qua2 fuit quondam 
 
 Kadulphi 
 
 '" Inspeximus in Rot. Pat. -12 Ed. III. j)t. ii. in. 11. t<jugue which runs iu between the parish of Ardquin 
 
 Tur. Lond. and Castleboy : they are probably intended by this 
 
 ' Rot. Pat. Itj Ed. 111., pt. ii. ni. 17; "Pro description, although not at present see property. 
 Episcopo Dunensi, de confinnacione ". — In 1192 "The lands of Castleboy, otherwise Johnstown, 
 
 Cencius Camerarius compiled his "Census Romana- which formerly belonged to the Hospitallers, consist 
 
 Ecclesiw" (Baronius, Annal., vol. xii. col. 873), in of nine towTilands, containing 1.358 acres. In the 
 
 which work the diocese of l)o\ni is thus noticed : townland Castleboy there remains a small portion of 
 
 " In episcopatu de Dundaleghlas. Ecclesia Sancti the castle standing; and, a few lurches to the N. W., 
 
 Patricii de Duno, dimitlium uucise auri " (Cod. the ruins of the chapel, measuring sixty-three by 
 
 Clar., vol. XV. p. 59, No. 4783, Brit. Mus.) twenty-one feet. The east \vindow was a triplet of 
 
 ^ He governed the see from the year 1213 to 1237. lancet compartments. On the north and S(juth sides 
 
 In 1227, Henry III. granted him £20 a year "pro were lancet windows, about six feet removed from 
 
 magnis dampnis qua; passus est in guerra inter nos the west angles. There were entrances on the north 
 
 et Hug. de Lacy. 26 Mart." — Rot. CI. 11 Hen. III. and south sides, about twenty-six feet from the west 
 
 (Cod. Clar., vol. xlii. p. 249 a, No. 4789, Brit. Mus.) end. A small lancet wmdow was in the west wall, 
 
 ' Now Ards — See above, p. 16. about six feet from the floor. A cemetery surrounded 
 
 "' Now Ardquin — See p. 21. The townlands of the building; but the ground is now cultivated up to 
 
 Ballyward and Dunevly, of Ardkeen parish, form a the verj- walls. 
 
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 Eadulphi filii Willielmi deLunwahr°, et ex alia parte terram nostram deArhen^. Conces- 
 simus eciam eidem Episcopo et ejus successoribus, in puram et perpetuam elemosinam, 
 terram quae fuit Johannis de Lennes, in Arte, cum homagio et servicio heredum suorum. 
 Et unam carucatam terras qiiam Robertus filius Serlonis tenuit de nobis in Arte juxta 
 Stranford'^ cum homagio et servicio heredum suorum. Prjeterea concessimus eidem 
 Episcopo et ejus successoribus decem carucatas terrse in Oveti!^, in loco competent!, 
 secundum visum tarn amicorum nostrorum quam suorum, tenendas et habendas ei et 
 successoribus suis in omnibus libertatibus sicvit aliqua elemosina liberius potest con- 
 ferri et quiecius possideri. Nos vero et heredes nostri omnes dictas terras dicto 
 Episcopo et ejus successoribus contra homines warantizabimus. In testimonium autem 
 hujus rei prsesenti scripto sigillum nostrum apposuimus. Hiis testibus Galfrido de 
 Mariscis, Gilberto de Lascy, Waltero de Bidlesford, Nichola Parvo, Waltero de Mariscis, 
 Johanue Parvo, Adam de Alneto, Johanne Flandrensi, et multis aliis". 
 
 " Nos autem donacionem, concessiones, et confirmaciones prsedictas, necnon donacio- 
 nem, concessionem, et confirmacionem, quas Johannes de Curcy dudum per cartam suam 
 fecit domino Radulpho^, tunc Episcopo loci prsedicti, Abbati*^ de Sancto Patricio, et suc- 
 cessoribus suis, de omnibus terris et possessionibus de novo aut antiquo jure ad Episco- 
 patum prsedictum pertinentibus, sicut aliquis antecessorum ejusdem Johannis melius 
 et inconcucius tenuit et possedit autpossidere debuisset, videlicet in Lethcapel^ ecclesiam 
 sanctae Trinitatis^ in Eatkkelter'" , cum territorio ei adjacente; de tota terra Sti. Mala- 
 chie, cum diversis perambulatis ; et de quanto aliquis predecessorum ejusdem Episcopi 
 plus habuit infra civitatem de Dun et extra ; Rathmurvul^ cum Rathscillan et omnibus 
 aliis pertinentiis suis ; StegrieP, in Kielle, Roisghas"^, Ardglasse'^, Britte^, cum omnibus 
 pertinentiis suis ; et in Lethcapel", Lesmidin, Lesnehone, Karendunan, Bungonen, Cren- 
 noc'^. Nines, Coneragh, Kirdeth^, et Rathcolp^ , cum omnibus pertinenciis suis. In Ard, 
 
 Arecum 
 
 "Thisseems to be the placecalled Sithe. — See p. '22. ^ The old name of Maghera. — See Rath, p. 27. 
 
 P Now Ardkeen See p. 21. J See Staghreel, p. 32. 
 
 ") Strangford. Strangfiord, Chron. Man. A. D. 1205. ^ See Rosglassce, p. 33. 
 
 ■■ Now Iveagh. The bishop's manor of Maghera is * See Ardglassce, p. 35. 
 
 his only property ui this barony. ^ See Brich, p. 35. 
 
 * Hesat from 1202 till 1213. <-• See Lismolyn, p. 37. 
 
 ' This union of the abbatial and episcopal functions d The Irish word Crannog signities a fortilied ha- 
 
 was covenanted forin the charter of 1183 (see p. 163), bitation on a lake. The bishop possessed, near Dowi 
 
 and was maintained tiU the Reformation. certain lands called the " Bishop's island, and both 
 
 " See Lechayll, p. 26. the Crannochs, one plowland" Terrier. 
 
 " See at Down, p. 41. e See Kirkeleth, p. 38. 
 
 " The old name of Down — See above, p. 143. f See Rathcolpe, p. 39. 
 
1 66 
 
 Arecum^ cum omnibus pertinentiis suis; et Kiel Bodan''; mDufren, de utraque Kielle- 
 Wiiixi\ cum omnibus pertinenciis suis. Et similiter de quanto aliquis predecessorum 
 ejusdem episcopi plus habuit seu melius tenuit aut tenere debuisset in Nieddrum^ ; in 
 Dalebingu\ in omnibus, Miloc juxta Antrum^ cum pertinentiis suis; et de servitio 
 Roceri de Cestria et heredum suorum in augment© Episcopatus predicti ; de tribus 
 burgagiis in Dun, de duobus juxta terram domini Episcopi in occidente contingentibus 
 a vico usque ad aquam centum et viginti pedes et octo in fronte, de tercio burgagio 
 quod fuit Hucaschini ; et de omnibus terris et possessionibus domino M. nuper 
 episcopo loci prajdicti", et successoribus suis per cartam prefati Johannis concessis; et 
 eciam de omnibus terris, juribus, et possessionibus quas aliquis predecessorum ejusdem 
 Episcopi infra Ulidiam° liabuit aut tenuit aut de jure tenere debuit, necnon de omni 
 jure quod idem Johannes in terris et possessionibus prenominatis habuit, prenominato 
 Radulpho et successoribus suis de prefato Johanne et heredibus suis in liberam puram 
 et perpetuam elemosinam; et eciam de omnibus libertatibus et liberis consuetudinibus 
 quae in prenotatis possessionibus tunc fuerunt aut esse potuerunt, in ecclesiis et capellis, 
 in moris et mussis^, in bosco" et piano, in pratis et pascuis et pasturis% in stagnis et 
 molendinis, in viis et semitis, in aquis salsis et dulcibus, in wrec^ maris, in salinis, in 
 foris et nundinis, in forestis, in nativis, in aeriis' accipitrum, falconum, et ca^terarum 
 volucrum, in warennis", in turbariis" et vivariis, in piscaturis et piscariis, in burgis" 
 faciendis ubi competencius viderit, ut apud Kirleth\ Rathmurwl\ juxta leges et consue- 
 
 tudines 
 
 g Ardquin See p. 21. nium i. (foL 141 b.) 
 
 h There is a liaUy^-odan in Ardquiii. Or, see « Property washed on shore v-ithout a claimant, 
 
 Balibodan, p. 38. fi^oi" ^"^^ Saxon ppxc, ' cast away ', which falls to 
 
 ' See Kilwj-inchi, p. 10. Dufferin is the name of the Crown, unless where granted as a royalty. Hence 
 
 the barony in which both the Killinchys are situate. the EngHsh ' wreck' and ' sea-wreck'. 
 
 k See Nedrum, pp. 1 1, 146. ' Anglicd Aerie. 
 
 1 Forte Dalbuign—See Dalboyn, p. 44. " Warenna, ' warren', is a franchise either to fol- 
 
 >" See mioc, p. 3. low or to preserve game. 
 
 n Malachi died in the year 1201. " Right to raise turf on the ground of others. 
 
 The true form of the Irish UlaD ; this being ^ AngUce ' borough ', from the Greek TrvpyoQ, ' a 
 the name of the district of which Do^x-npatrick was tower ' ; bemg originaUy appUed to a fortified place, 
 capital, and of the territory whence the title Earl of r The Bishop of Down had a manor and a baro- 
 
 Tjjgfgf nial residence at Kilclief. A memorial fonvarded to 
 
 P Moors and mosses. Henrj- IV., about 1410, from the clergy, &c., of 
 
 1 Gallice bois. Down, bears, among others, the seal " Villie de Kil- 
 «• " Pastura omne genus pascendi significat — Sed cheth ".—(Records, Chapter House, Westminster.) 
 
 pascua est locus principahs deputatus pecoribus pas- ^ The bishop was lord of the manor of Maghera.— 
 
 cendis ".— Lindewode, Provinciale, Ub. iu. cap. Quo- See preceding page. 
 
167 
 
 tudines quas elegerit, in soke% et sake^ et thioP, et thiem'', et infangentlinif^, et iitfan- 
 o-enthniff , in fossis et furcis, in ferro et duello, et in omnibus aliis libertatibus et liberis 
 consuetudinibus et adjacenciis, adeo libere et honorifice, quiete Integra et plenarie, 
 absque omni seculari servicio et exactione, sicut aliquis episcoporum in Francia aut in 
 Anglia liberius et quiecius tenuit aut tenere debuit, in omnibus et per omnia ratas 
 habentes, et gratas eas, pro nobis, &c." 
 
 The next record we have concerning the see estates is a computus or account of the 
 receipts from the see lands of Down during the interval between March 4, 1305, and 
 July I St of the same year, rendered into the Exchequer by the Escheator, Walterus 
 de la Hay«. It is as follows : " Idem Escaetor reddit compotum de xxiii .s.ix.d.ob. 
 de redditu burgagiorum cuniculorum, cum exitibus molendinorum, placitis et perqui- 
 sitis'^ curia villaj Dunensis, in episcopatu Dunensi in Ultonia, in manus domini Regis 
 existentibus per mortem Nicolai nuper Episcopi ibidem ; a quarto die Martii, anno 
 xxxiiitio usque ad Octavum Sancti Johannis Baptistaj, quo die temporalia deliberen- 
 tur sicut continetur in brevi, anno eodem, per septemdecem septimanas antequam 
 liberentur temporalia ejusdem episcopatus Thomas Kyttell electo ibidem per breve 
 domini Regis, quod est sub dato xxx" die Septembris anno xxxiiitio, vidz. de termino 
 Paschffi sicut patet per extentam inde factam, et liberatam in scaccario. Et de xv . lib . 
 x . s . de redditu quinque carucatarum et decem acrarum terra;, dominicorum, burga- 
 o-iorum, molendinorum, perquisitorum, curias de Kylcleth, de eodem termino, per eandem 
 extentam : De messione autumpni ibidem, qua extenditur per annum ad iii . s . iiii . d ., 
 Escaetor nil respondet, quia tota in autumpno. Et de xxx . ,s . vi . rf . de redditibus, 
 pasturis, cottagiis, molendinis, manerii de Lysmolyn, de eodem termino, per eandem 
 extentam : De dominicis pratorum, turbariarum, et servicio cottagiorum ibidem nil 
 
 respondet 
 
 * Soke, from the Saxon j-ocn, 'liberty', ' fran- ^e«eracio«emvillanorumcumearumbomsetcatallis". 
 
 chise', signifies the liberty to minister justice. ^ From the Saxon in, ' in', jian^in, ' to take ', and 
 
 I* Sake, from the Saxon jac, 'a cause", (whence t^eop, 'a thief. It denotes the liberty to try a 
 our EngUsh ' sake ') denotes the pri^•ilege which the thief for an offence within one's fee ; it is sometimes 
 lord of a manor claims to have in his court, of hold- translated, in charters, " infra capto fiire". 
 ing pleas in causes of debate between his tenants and ' From the Saxon uC-jranj-Jjeop, ' fur extra cap- 
 vassals, and of imposing fines accordingly. tus ', and denotes the right of the lord of a manor to 
 
 •^^ Thiol or Tholl, a Saxon word, now ' toll ', is li- trj- and pmiish a thief who has committed an offence 
 
 berty to take custom, and to be exempt from it. outside Iiis liberty, if caught within it. 
 
 ••Thiem, orTheame, or Tern, comes from the Saxon s It Is here printed from two transcripts, among 
 
 ryman ' to brmg forth', ' to team\ and is a royalty Ware's MSS. in the Brit. Mus. — Cod. Clar., vol. 
 
 granted to the lord of a manor for the having, re- xxxvi. No. 4787, p. 288 h, and vol. xlv. No. 4792, 
 
 straimng, and judgmg bondmen and neifes, with their p. 238 6. It is headed " Compotus Dunensis ". 
 
 children, goods, and chattels, in his court. " Habere ^ See p. 101. 
 
i68 
 
 respondet, qiiia qusedam pars dominicorum seminabatur ante obitum praedicti episcopi, 
 et residua jacet vasta pro defectu tenentium ; et servicium cottagiorum totum in 
 autumpno; et de tributis nihil receptum fuit. Et de iiii. lib .v .s.i.d. de redditi- 
 bus firmarum mentis de Byscopille^, terrse de Ballyheghys^ , unius domus Ricardi filii 
 Alani, prisarum, serviti, cum perquisitis curiae ibidem, de eodem termino, sicut patet 
 per eandem extentara. De servitio tenentium de Britte nihil respondet, quia totum in 
 autumpno. Et de iii . /eA . xvi . s . vi . rf . de redditibus firmarum, unius molendini, prisis, 
 serviciis, piscinis, et perquisitis curia; de Rosglasse de predicto termino, per eandem 
 extentam. Et de vi . lib . ij . s . iij . rf . de redditu dominicorum, prisis, serviciis, per- 
 quisitis curse Novce Villce\ de predicto termino, per eandem extentam. Et de iiii . lib . 
 XX . d. de redditu dominicorum, prisarum, serviciorum, et carucata una, cum perquisitis 
 curige de Ratkcolppe, de predicto termino, per eandem extentam. De redditu molendi- 
 norum, et operibus tenentium ibidem, nihil respondet, quia opera tota in autumpno: et 
 redditus primi termini de molendino solutus ad Purificationem beataj Maria?, et secundi 
 ad festum Sti. Petri ad Vincula. Et de xviii . s . iiii .d. de redditibus libera tenen- 
 tium apud Balbjbodcm'^ et Grenocke, de eodem termino. De redditu gallinarum, et 
 operibus tenentium ibidem nihil respondet, quia opus in autumpno : et gallina; sol- 
 vuntur ad Circumcisionem. Et de xxiiii . s . ij . rf . oi . de redditu xlviii. acrarum terr« 
 dominici iii . xvi . acrarum, post apud Ardwyn, de eodem termino. De redditu xviii. 
 acrarum dominicorum, gardinorum, prati, et molendini, nil respondet de eodem ter- 
 mino, pro eo quod dominici seminabantur ante obitum dicti Episcopi: de gardinis 
 et prato nihil receptum fuit. Et de xv . lib . vii . s . viii .d.ob.q". de redditu firma- 
 rum de Ardwyn, de predicto termino. Et de xvi . s . viii . f/ . de redditu libere tenen- 
 tium de Bcdlycarijne, de predicto termino. Et de :fS. .lib .\\ .8 .\\.d . de redditu domi- 
 nicorum de Edroxim^, firmariorum, prisarum, serviciorum, et de Castro Spinarum^, et 
 Villce Hibernicorum^, de predicto termino. Et de xxix . s . de redditu libere tenentium 
 ibidem, de eodem termino. Sm" iii . vii . lib Ax.s.q" ". g^^ 
 
 ' Probablj' Uulac na n-eppcop, 'bishops' wiensis ecclesia " — Jocel., cap. 37. 
 
 hiir, now TnUynespick, a townland of Bright pa- " A Latin form of 6aile Opaijin, ' town of the 
 
 rish, still held under the see. blackthorn', pronounced Bally drain, which is the 
 
 " Ballybeg in Dunsfort ? name of a townland in TullynakiU parish. The pa- 
 
 1 Newtown and Crockglass are two subdenomma- rish itself is called " BalUndrean alias Magheoe^ in 
 
 tions of the to^Tiland Sheepland More, in the parish the Ul. Vis. (p. 251) ; and the manor, which extends 
 
 of Dunsfort, and are still held under the see. over the parish, is caUed " Bally dreene alias lland- 
 
 <" Seep. 38. Maghie'\ in the Ul. Inq. (No. 6, Jac. I. Down.) 
 
 " Another form of the name Neddnun, the initial p In Irish 6aile na n^aeoal. There is no 
 
 N. of the latter not being a radical letter. " Edru- name resembUng this in TulljTiakill, but there is a 
 
169 
 
 But the fullest record which concerns the see estates is a document which professes 
 to have been drawn up in 12 10, from earlier authorities; but is proved by internal 
 evidence to have been of a much later date. It was probably compiled in the fifteenth 
 century, partly from previous records, and partly, where these failed, from conjec- 
 ture: so that the anachronisms which exist in it are to be dealt with as the evidence 
 of an attempt to invest it with a higher degree of authority than it was entitled to. 
 It is now, however, stamped with the impress of age, which recommends it as, at least, 
 a curious document. The original was formerly preserved among the muniments of 
 the see of Down, and a copy'' of it was furnished, December 2, 1635, to Sir James 
 "Ware, by Bishop Lesley, of Down and Connor. In the margin of Sir James Ware's 
 copy, mention is made of another copy from the records of Drogheda, to which Bishop 
 Echlin also alludes in his return made to the Ulster Commissioners in 1622. "There 
 is an ancyent record in the bookes of Tredagh wherein is meuconed divers grauntes 
 and confirmacions made to the Bp"''' of Downe, confirmed by John Coursey and William 
 Codelecie [Hugh de Lacy], afterward read and confirmed by King John in presence 
 of Patrick ArchbP of Armagh, and Florentyne B^ of Downe, & divers other. This 
 was exemplified by at open Assizes at Carrigfergus by warrant from the Lo. Deputie 
 for the Tynie being, w"^ exemplification is readie to be scene under the handes of the 
 Judges of Assize for the Tyme being, the Maior of the Corporacion and the rest of the 
 Bench. The B^^ humble suite unto y' lo''^ is that yo"' lo""^ w** be pleased to read and 
 consider of it, humblie submitting myselfe unto y'' lo""' directions whether you should 
 thinke fitt that he should seeke the benefit of that record, for the weale of the Churche 
 and his successors, or otherwise to surcease and not to trouble himselfe and his Neieh- 
 bors, both if y'' lo''' shall not thiuke it sufficient authentike or to be trusted unto".'" 
 
 "In Dei nomine, amen. Cum justi sermones defacili vento teneantur, et recta col- 
 loquia ex Christi fidelium mentibus per oblivionem raperentur si in scriptis non collo- 
 centur ; quia, propter sequelam peccati primi parentis, mens naturalis diversis defectibus 
 graviter corrumpitur, et cadibilis a sua memoria esse creditur : ad nostram ergo memo- 
 riam, et successorum nostrorum, hsec infra scripta sunt extracta ex Archive ecclesige 
 Dunensis, pernos Johannem* episcopum Dunensem, anno Domini Millesimo ducente- 
 
 simo 
 
 Ballygealagh, alias Irish-town, at the opposite side Dunensem la. [recte Hen.] Leslseum" Cod. Clar., 
 
 of the lough, in the parish of Ardkeen See Ul. vol. xlvi , No. 4793, p. 97. 
 
 Inq. No. 102, Car. I. Down. "• Ul. Vis., p. 240. The particulars of the present 
 
 1 From this it is here printed, the original not see property are set out in Report of 1833,' p. 108. 
 
 being forthcoming. It is headed " Ex rotulis anti- ' Eadulphus, not Johannes, was bishop from 1202 
 
 quis Ecclesi* Dunensis penes hodierniun Episcopimi till 1213. 
 
170 
 
 simo decinio^, in prcesentia serenissimi Domini Johannis Regis Angliae, qui eodem anno 
 Hiberniam intravit, lecta, et per ipsum approbata et confirmata, ut facilius inspiciatur, 
 et regali consilio, et parliamento. Sub fide occulata in antiquis libris vidimus legi, in 
 antedicti Regis, et nostra prsesentia, — Quod Episcopus Dunensis est Abbas conventus 
 monachorum ecclesise Dunensis, et preeminentiam habet super Priorem et Conventum 
 monasterii Sti. Patricii sicut quilibet alius abbas super suum conventum". Et in 
 ecclesia Dunensi ipse Episcopus habet dimidietatem omnium oblationum ipsius ecclesia; 
 et capellarum, in festis Pascliaj; Assumptionis beata) Marioe; et Nativitatis ejusdem; et 
 in Sci. Patricii ; et in Nativitate Domini. Item in eadem ecclesia aulara, et coquinam, 
 cum cameris subtus et supra existentibus in parte septentrionali, cum parvo atrio ante 
 portam claustri qua; transit ad inferiores cameras, et, post dictam aulam, cameras ex 
 parte aquilonali, versus ecclesiam parochialem' dicta; civitatis. Item, in eadem civitate, 
 Insulam Episcopi^, cum una carucata in temporalibus, et cum capella in spiritualibus, 
 donatam Renaldo'' Episcopo Dunensi perdcjminum temporal em Zeywa^Ve', viz., Flathri 
 M'Cumasaig, anno Domini 1034. Item in Rat/ica/pa"' tres carucatas in temporalibus, 
 et capellam in spiritualibus, donatas per eundem Flathri. Item in CUkliath^ quin- 
 que carucatas in temporalibus, cum capella in spiritualibus, donatas per eundem 
 
 Flathri, 
 
 ' This date is correct. King John landed at Crook, 
 near Waterford, June 20. July 11, he was at Car- 
 lingford ; July 12, at " Castrum Jordan! dc Sauke- 
 ville", accompanied by IMariadac, King of Limerick ; 
 on the 14th, he was at " Rath " [Maghera] ; on the 
 1 6th, at " Pratum subtus Dun" [meadows of Down] ; 
 from the 19th to the 28th, at " Karcfergus " [Car- 
 rickfergus] ; on the 29th, " apud Sanctum Boscum " 
 [Holywood] ; on the 31st, at " Balimoran " [Bally- 
 morran, a townland in Killinchy parish, on the shore 
 road to Downpatrick, and near the castle ofScatrick, 
 which is one of the largest of the Anglo-Norman 
 castles that remain] ; on the 2nd and 3rd of August, 
 at "Dun" [Down]; on the 4th, "apud Bannum" 
 [the Bami, probably, in some part of Clonduff or 
 Drumbalyroney parish] ; on the 5th, at Kerlingford 
 again. These particulars are gathered from a " Ro- 
 tulus de Prestito, 12 Johan.", preserved in the Tower 
 of London, from which Mr. T. D. Hardy has taken 
 part of the materials of his Itinerarium of King John, 
 as published in the Introduction to his Patent Rolls 
 
 of the Tower of London, ful., and separately, in 8vo. 
 
 " This, and what immediately follows, agrees with 
 
 Malachi's charter to Down Cathedral in 1183 See 
 
 above, pp. 1G3, 105. 
 
 ' The present parish church, supposed to occupy 
 the site of the old, stands N. E. of the cathedral. 
 
 '^ Tliirty acres, called the " Bishop's island", were 
 
 afterwards posses.setl by the Lord Cromwell TJl. 
 
 lw\., No. 22, Car. II. " Some landes neere unto 
 Downe, togither with an Hand, called the Bf* Hand, 
 possessed by the Lord Cromwell, albeit expressly 
 contaj-ned in the Bp* old rolles and Recordes as be- 
 longing unto him". — Ul. Vis., p. 239. 
 
 1 Flaithbertach, Bishop of Down, died in 1043 ; 
 Reginald was bishop from 1258 to 1265. 
 
 * Lecale. The Annals record the names of many 
 lords of this territory. This date is an anachronism. 
 See below, note f, p. 172. 
 
 " The two townlands of Raholp are still held under 
 the see of Down See p. 39. 
 
 '' The townland of Kilclief, on which the ancient 
 
171 
 
 Flathri. Item iu Vep7'o\?) duas carucatas cum dimidio in temporalibus, sine aliqua 
 capella, donatas per eundem Flathri. Item in Villa Nova^ tria quarteria cum tempo- 
 ralibus donata per eundem Flathri. Item in Lismollin^ tres carucatas in temporalibus ; et 
 capellam in spiritualibus, donatas per eundem Flatri. Item in Rosglas^ , unam carucatam 
 cum dimidio, in temporalibus, sine capella, donata, per ipsum. lt&ca.'va.Brite^ quatuor 
 carucatas in temporalibus. Item in Ratra^ quatuor carucatas in temporalibus. Capellse 
 supradictee, qugedam sunt fundatae authoritate nostrorum predecessorum, qutedam 
 fuere fundatje authoritate Sanctorum'. Et tunc temporis regnavit in Ardo Cathalan 
 M'^ Muriedaig, qui donavit Episcopo et ecclesiis Dunensi octodecem carucatas in Ard- 
 gune^, cum capella in spiritualibus. Et tunc temporis in Blawico^ regnavit Indrasaig 
 Mac Cahuil, et donavit episcopo et ecclesiae Dunensi insulam de Nedron^, cum quatuor 
 aliis insulis" sibi adjacentibus, in temporalibus, cum capella, in spiritualibus, donatis 
 per ipsum Indrasa[ig]. Item et donavit Balledrun^ cum quatuordecim carucatis in 
 temporalibus, et capellam Insidce^, in spiritualibus. Et tunc temporis in Clandermad'^ 
 et Dalbuine' regnavit Engusa Mac Mailraba. Et predictus Engusa in Clanndermad 
 [donavit] villam de Camlin^ cum una carucata. Item donavit Disei'f cum una caru- 
 
 cata 
 
 castle, once a residence of the bishops, stands, is held 
 under the see. Four townlands, in the same parish, 
 are the glebe of the Archdeacon, ha^■^ng formerly 
 become his (as the Terrier says) through the gift of 
 the bishop. 
 
 ••■ The name is obscurely written in Ware's copy. 
 
 ■* Now Newtown (not marked on the Ordnance 
 Map) in Sheepland-more, a townland of Dunsfort 
 parish, still held imder the see. 
 
 * Now Bishop's Court, held under the see — Vid., 
 p. 37. 
 
 f See p. 33. It is mentioned in the Ter. and UL 
 Vis. as see land, but is not specified in the return of 
 1833. 
 
 ? Tullynespic, in Bright, is now held under the 
 bishop — See p. 168. 
 
 ^ See pp. 27, 165. The four townlands, making 
 the manor of Maghera, held under the see. 
 
 ' As St. Tassach, at Raholp ; St. Colman, at Kil- 
 clief ; St. Donard, at Maghera. 
 
 " The manor and lands of Ardquin, comprising 
 the greater part of the parish, are held under the 
 bishop — See p. 2 1. 
 
 ' See p. 8. 
 
 ■" See Nedrum, p. 10. It is still see land. 
 
 " Namely, Scatrick, Ranish, Trasnagh, and Reagh. 
 The first three, although close to the Dufferin side of 
 the Lough (so much so that Scatrick is connected by 
 a causeway to Ballydorn in the parish of Killinchy), 
 are esteemed to be in the parish of Ardkeen, in the 
 Ards. The part of the lough which runs between 
 Scatrick and Mahee is now called the Dom ; formerly 
 
 it was called the " foord of Annaghgleeny " (UI. 
 
 Inq., No. 2, Jac. I.) The tithes of "the thirteen 
 islands of Scatrick" belong to the see. 
 
 <• Now Ballydrain or Ardmillan, a manor em- 
 bracing the principal part of the parish of Tullyna- 
 kill, and held imder the see. The bishop is rector 
 of the parish. 
 
 P That is, of Nedrum or Island Mahee. 
 
 1 See p. 2. 
 
 ■■ See p. 44. 
 
 * See p. 5. 
 
 • In Ware's copy it is written Dister, but is mani- 
 festly a clerical error. The half townland of Dunde- 
 sert is still see property — See p. 5. 
 
 Z 2 
 
172 
 
 cata. Item donavit Mileac^ cum una carucata, in temporalibus. In Dalbidn, \^Lande- 
 beqe'' cum tribus carucatis. Item"] Drelvga*- cum quatuor carucatis, in temporalibus. 
 Item ClurdairiW cum una carucata. Item AcaviUy^ cum una carucata. Item Rath- 
 mesge^ cum duabus carucatis in temporalibus. Item DrumcaiP', cum duabus caru- 
 catis, in temporalibus. Item Dirar-achaid'^ cum una carucata. Item Drumbo'^ cum 
 duodecim carucatis. Item Blarus^ cum quatuor carucatis. Et quod donaverunt illas 
 terras libere et sine aliquo onere, in puram et perpetuam eleemosinam, episcopo Du- 
 nensi et successoribus suis. Et per tunc in tota Ilibernia regnavit Brian Boroma 
 Mac Cynedigh^ illustrissimus, et potentissimus, in fide Catholica ferventissimus, qui 
 fecit istos regulos dotare ecclesiam Dunensem et episcopum; qui etiam ob honorem 
 Dei omnipotentis, et Sci. Patricii, omnes illas terras, liberas, sine aliquo onere ordi- 
 nario, ita quod tenentes illas terras non tenerentur Episcopo ad parliamenta, vel ad 
 castra Regis, vel alterius laici cujuscunque status vel conditionis, constituit. Et ipse 
 Brian omnes illas donationes confirmavit, et modo prajmisso, ecclesia; Dunensi et epis- 
 copo Dunensi, et suis successoribus, in pura et perpetua elemosina concessit. Et ipsi 
 Brian postmodo, in bollo inito inter ipsum et filios regis Daciae^, in Cluntarb'', perempto, 
 
 successit 
 
 " See p. 3. 
 
 * Now Lambefi;. Tli«' Ijisliop formerly held four 
 townlaiids in this small iiarisji. iiainely, Lumheg, 
 alias Tullynusagyurt, Cloiiiiio/e [ now Gleinnore ], 
 Tulli/nacross, the half-towns of Skeagldattifeagh, 
 alias Ballylisneskeagh [now Ballyskeagh], and Cro- 
 wanlii:—\n(\. IVJac. I. MS. : \'\. \n(\. 15 Car. I. 
 
 " The wprd-s enclosed in brackets arc acconipanied, 
 in Ware's copy, by the note " In the Inspeximus 
 under the scale of Drogheda, but not in the Originall ". 
 
 ^ Probably Dernjvolgk, the name of one of Lord 
 Hertford's manors, the court of which is hchl in the 
 parish of Lanibeg. It wa.s loiincrly the name of a 
 einament. 
 
 y See p. 50. 
 
 '■ See Acheli, p. 4it. 
 
 "' See Rathmesk, ji. 48. 
 
 •> See p. 47. The bishop is rector of the parish. 
 
 •^ See Ardrachi, p. 46. 
 
 "J The Inquis. 17 Jae. 1., above cited, finds that 
 "the twelve towns of Droniboe are not, neither have 
 been, in the possession of the Bishop of Down, within 
 tlie memory of man. Jurors say that the twelve 
 
 towns are spiritual lands". 
 
 e Same Inquis. finds that the four towns of Blaris, 
 namely, Blaris, Shiane [now Ballintinc], Ballema- 
 nelishenj alias Taghfhrack [now Taghnabrick], anil 
 Downeagh [now Duneight], are parcel of the pos- 
 sessions of the see. All these lands in Clandermot 
 and Dallioyn, with the exception of Dundesert, Mi- 
 hac, and Dnimho, were set in fee-farm by Bishop 
 Todd, and are the property of Lord Hertford, for 
 which he pays to the bishop the annual sum of 
 £44 Cs. 2rV.— (Itoport of 1833, pp 112, 113.) 
 
 ' 6piun mac Cmneoi^ came to the throne 
 in 101)4, and was slain in 1014. He was called 
 ?>opoiTTie ' of the tributes', on account of the pay- 
 ments which he exacted from the inferior princes. 
 
 ? Tliis is either a clerical error for Dunke; or Du- 
 ci(B, a contraction for Conaciae. Brian was first married 
 to Dubcollagia, daughter of the King of Connaught. 
 (Four Mast. 1008.) Ilis second wife was Gornilaith, 
 sister of Maolmora, King of Leinster, and widow of 
 Aulaf, and mother of Sitric, Danish Kings in Ireland. 
 (Four Masters, 1030.) 
 
 '' Cluain-capb, Clontarf. 
 
^JZ 
 
 successit Malacliias filius Donaldi Imailseachlain' in regno Hibernise, et omnes illas 
 terras, modo praemisso, donavit et confirmavit Olivero'', per tunc episcopo Dunensi, et 
 ecclesise Dunensi, per ut ipse Brian et illi reguli donaverunt et confirmaverunt. Post 
 cujus obitum nullus erat rex in Hibernia nominatus'. Eeges Anglise ex donatione 
 summi Pontificis dominium Hiberniae obtinuere™. Et postmodum cum potestate Regis 
 Anglise Johannes Cursy Hiberniam intravif^ et ad Lecaliam venit, et omnes illas dona- 
 tiones, per illos reges et regulos factas, ecclesise Dunensi et episcopis confirmavit modo 
 antedicto. Postmodum Hugo Lasci cum potestate Regis ad Hiberniam veniens prae- 
 missa confirmavit; et anno quo supra, antefatus Johannes Rex Angliae Hiberniam 
 
 intravit et omnia pra;raissa fuere coram episcopo lecta et sua confirmata : Prs- 
 
 sentibus 
 
 ' maolpeclamn mop mac tDomnail mic 
 t[)onnca6a mic plamn mic maoileclainn. 
 Four Mast. He came to the throne in 981, was 
 deposed by Brian, in 1004, and, on Brian's death in 
 1014, reassumed the kingdom. He died in 1022. 
 
 ^ This appears to be a fictitious name. 
 
 I So Giolla Modhuda, Abbot of Ardbraccan, in his 
 Catalogue of the Kings of Ireland, written A D. 1 1 43 : 
 
 " Uap eip rriaoilpeclainn pona 
 rriic tDorhnaiU mic Oonocaoa 
 l?o pcap paoip bpij^ pe jac opeim 
 Noc ap jab aom pij Gipmn". 
 
 " Post Maolsechlanum Prosperum, 
 Filium Donaldi fiUi Donnchadi, 
 Diseessit legitima potestas a quavis faniilia. 
 Qu« obtinuit Monarchiani Hiberuiaj "". 
 — Stn)pha.j4. (OConor, R. H. S., Proleg. i. pp. 158, 
 17.5.) 
 
 From the death of ^lalaehi II., in 1022, there was 
 an inten-egnum of seventy-two years, i. e. till 1094, 
 when iluircertach O Brian, reigning at Kencora, and 
 Donald 11*^ Louglilin Neil, at Ailech, each claimed 
 the supremacy. But the claim which the latter pos- 
 sessed liy blood, the former estabhshed by force, and, 
 as a mark of superiority, received presents from his 
 rival, and took it upon himself, unopposed, to order 
 live Jews, who had landed in Ireland witli presents 
 to him. to depart from tlie wliole island (OConor, 
 
 Prol. i. p. 183.) Donald ONeil survived and reigned 
 from 1119 to 1121. From 1121 to 1136 there was 
 an interregnum, when Turlogh Conor, King of 
 Connaught, succeeded: he died in 1156. Muircer- 
 tach M'-Lochlan ONeil reigned from 1156 to 1166. 
 Roderic OConor from 1166 to 1175. In 1172 King 
 Henry II. landed in Ireland. 
 
 "> The diploma of Adrian IV., A. D. 1155, is printed 
 by Ussher (Sylloge, Ep. 40), by Baronius, Annal. 
 A. D. 1159 (vol. xii. col. 438), by Prynne (Records, 
 i. p. 710), and by Rymer (Feed., i. p. 19). The 
 learned author of ' Cambrensis eversus ' has called its 
 authenticity in question ; but a succession of writers, 
 such as Giraldus Cambrensis in 1190 (Hib. Expng., 
 ii. c. 6), Reginald Pole in 1554, and Lanigan (Ec 
 Hist , iv. p. 165), in modem days, have established, 
 beyond all reasonable doubt, the fact that Rome en- 
 couraged the subjugation of Ireland. The grant was 
 conveyed in these terms: "Significasti siquidem no- 
 bis, fill in Christokarissime, te Hyberniae insulam, ad 
 subdenduni ilium populum legibus, et viciorum plan- 
 taria inde extirpanda, velle intrare. Nos itaque, 
 pium et laudabile desiderium tuum cum favore con- 
 gruo prosecpientes, gratum et acceptum habemus ut, 
 pro dilatandis ecclesia? terminis, pro corrigendis mo- 
 ribus, et virtutibus inserendis, pro Christina religio- 
 nis augmento, insulam illam ingrediaris". 
 
 "Inaccurate: he started from Dublin in 1177, 
 contrary to tlie order of Fitz Adelm, his superior. 
 
174 
 
 seatibus tunc reverendissimo patre ac domino Patricio" archiepiscopo Armachano, 
 FlorentinoP episcopo Dromorensi, et aliis nonnullis praelatis proviucias Armaghanae ". 
 
 In the King's Books the property of the See is thus taxed"* : — 
 
 Maneria, villaj, et terraj, de Bishopscourt, alias de LismuUin, .... c? ster. 
 
 Maneria;, vills, et terraj de Hand jNP Kee, cf 
 
 Maneriae, villas, et terraj de Ardquin, c' 
 
 Terra; de Dromboe, lx' 
 
 Quatuor villae de Blaris, XL' 
 
 Quatuor villa; de Lambegg, xl' 
 
 Diversse terra; in Killultagh, lx' 
 
 xxv'""- 
 
 From the above recitals it appears that the Bishop of Down had property in all the 
 places where it is recorded that a bishop formerly sat, with the exception of Bangor 
 and Moville. The lands on which the churches of Bright, Kaholp, Nendrum, Rath, 
 and Down, stood, are or were see property, and by their appropriation lend further 
 weight to the theory with which this article started, namely, that the diocese of Down 
 is a complex of several smaller sees. Documentary authority has also been produced 
 to shew that the greater part of the bishop's estates have been in the possession of the 
 see for six centuries and a half. 
 
 Cathedral Of the constitution of the chapter nothing earlier is known than that, 
 
 towards the close of the twelfth century, it was composed of a prior and convent of 
 secular canons. In 1183 John de Courcy so far altered the economy of the establish- 
 ment that he removed the secular canons, and in their stead introduced a body of 
 Benedictine monks from St. Werburgh's of Chester. To this an annalist of Chester 
 alludes, in these words, quoted by Archbishop Ussher: — An. MCLXXXIIL, " Ivit 
 quidam monachus de Cestra, nomine Willelmus de Etleshale, in Hulvester [Ulster] ad 
 Dun ; et prioratum ecclesiae S. Patricii ab episcopo Malachia de Dun et a domino Johanne 
 
 de 
 
 o " Eugenius Mac Gillevider was Archbishop of 1 The taxations in the King's Books raty in 
 
 Annagh in 1210, and not Patricias. It is very their dates. That for Down and Connor, and Dro- 
 
 probable that this is a counterfeit deed. Patricias more, was made on the 8th of October, 1616, under 
 
 (0 Scanlau), supposed witness to the instrument, was a commission from the Court of Chancery, of the 3rd 
 
 translated from Raphoe to Armagh, 1261 " — Ware, of same month, by Christopher Hampton, the Pri- 
 
 in margin. mate, George Montgomery, Bishop of Meath and 
 
 p Florentimus Mac Donnegan was bishop of Dro- Clogher, and Sir Francis Angier, Master of the Rolls 
 
 more in 1309 — Ware's Bishops, p. 260. of Chancer*' at Drogheda (Enrolment.) 
 
^75 
 
 de Curci suscepit".' The contract made by J. de Courcy with the abbey of St. Wer- 
 burgh's ran thus : " Johannes de Curci dedit ecclesia? S. Werburgs, Cestria;, Hurmach, 
 una cum decern carucatis terrse infra Thewet de Chenelfernan, in perpetuam elemosynam 
 
 perut ita quod abbas Cestrensis inveniet sibi, de domo sua, priorem 
 
 et ordinem suum, ad construendam abbatiam sui ordinis in ecclesia S. Patricii, Duni ; 
 ita quod prjefata ecclesia Dunensis, libera permaneat ab omni subjectione Cestrensis 
 ecclesi?e, per decem carucatas pr^edictas. Teste Malachia Dunensi episcopo, &c.'" It 
 was on the occasion of this re-organization of the cathedral that Malachi, the bishop, 
 made to it the grant of the forty-seven townlands above recited, "ad opus Nigrorum 
 monachorum, quorum ipse episcopus ero, custos, et abbas, sicut fit in ecclesia Wynto- 
 niensi vel Coventrensi ". Accordingly, J. de Courcy, when confirming his lands to 
 Radulphus, styles him " episcopus, et abbas de S. Patricio ". " The Bishop of Downe ", 
 says the Terrier, " is Abbott of St. Patrick's Abby and Convent, and the said church 
 is Cathedrall, and moreover he hath in the said Abby and Convent as much obedience 
 and reverence as any other Abbott hath in his own abby". And therefore it was that, 
 until the Reformation, the election to the see, on each vacancy, rested with the Prior 
 and convent, subject to the King's approval, or the Pope's interference. The only 
 other officers, who were specially distinguished, were the Prior, and Archdeacon. " The 
 Prior of the said Abby and Convent is Dean, and the Monks of the said Abby or Cathe- 
 dral church are Canons cathedral, and as it were a chapter " — Hence it happens that 
 there is no mention, in ancient records, of many of the officers which were found in most 
 other dioceses, such as Dean, Precentor, Chancellor, or Treasurer. Until the Refor- 
 mation all capitxilar acts were performed by the "Prior et Conventus"; but after that 
 date, when this corporation ceased to exist, there was no legal substitute for it till 
 1 609, when James I. restored a chapter, but on a new foundation. Meanwhile as 
 capitular sanction was required to render valid certain diocesan acts, the Archdeacon 
 and clergy took it upon themselves to exercise the functions of th^ old Chapter^ In 
 reference to a fee-farm lease, which they made in 1560, of the lands oi Bishop's Court, 
 Bishop Echlin observes: "This fee farm dependeth uppon a Confirmacion of Arch- 
 deacon and Clergie w'*" can never be proved to have been a lawful Chapter, (as appeareth 
 by good evidence) are the Prior and Menkes, and in the seventh of his Ma"" raigne of 
 
 England ; 
 
 f Brit. E. Ant, cap. 17. (Works, vi. p. 372.) both editions of Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanura. 
 
 ' From the Registry of St. Werburgh's of Chester, t Such is the arrangement in the diocese of Meath, 
 
 fol.28a. It -was lent to Sir J. "Ware, 1st Feb., 1641, where the clergy, with the Archdeacon at their head, 
 
 and tliere is a transcript of it among his papers — form a synod, and have a common seal, wherewith 
 
 (Cod. Clar.. tom. xlvi. p. 15.) It is also printed in they autlienticate their acts. 
 
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 England^ for that the B^ had noe Chapter then, w"^ is the narrative of the Ires of 
 erection, his Ma"' makes a new Chapter betwixt the dissolucion of the old and the 
 erection of the new"." 
 
 The following lists" of the Priors and Archdeacons of Down, before the Reforma- 
 tion, though imperfect, may be interesting, as the first attempt to publish such a 
 compilation. 
 
 Priors of St. Patrick's of Down. 
 
 A. D. 1 183, William DE Etlesiiale. [Usshcr, ut supra. lie is a sub- 
 scribing witness to J. de Courcy's charter to St. Andrew's; 
 and Jordan de Courcy's to Neddrum.] 
 A. D. 1 200 circ. Andrew. [He is named in two of J. de Courcy's grants to Down ; 
 
 and his date is also fixed by his attesting a deed of confirma- 
 tion of Thomas, Archbishop of Armagh, who died in 1201.] 
 A. D. 1215 circ. W[ ]. [Neddrum Charters, No. 6; Archdall, p. 115.] 
 
 A. D. 1237-1251, Robert. [In 1237, R. Prior of Down witnesses Hugh de Lacy's 
 
 charter to Ncwry. — Archd., p. 115. In 1251 Robert was 
 prior. — Royal Letters, No. 812. Tur. Lond.J 
 A. D. 1271-1276, Nicholas. [Also Treasurer of Ulster. — See above, p. 91.] 
 A. D. 1276, John. [Abbot of Deulacresse.] 
 A. D. 1 301, Roger. [Inspex. Rot. Pat. 10 Ed. III. p. 2, m. 35 ; and King's 
 
 Collect, ap. Archdall, p. 115.] 
 A. D. 1313, Thomas Bright. [Bishop of Down in 13 14.] 
 A. D. 1317, John. [Cod. Clar., vol. xlvi. p. 103. 1318, Cal. Cane. Ilib., 
 
 p. 22.] 
 A. D. 1352, Richard Calf. [Bishop of Down in 1353.] 
 A. D. 1 361-1365, Nicholas. [Rot. Pat. Exemplif. in 42 Ed. III.; and King's 
 
 Collect., p. 259.] 
 A. D. 1367, Richard Calf. [Bishop of Down in 1368.] 
 A. D. 1381-1387, John Ross. [" 1381, factus episcopus 1387". Ware's MS.] 
 A. D. 141 2, John Cely [or Sely]. [See above, p. 156.] 
 A. D. 1434-1448, William Stanley. [Regist. Swayn; Prene; Mey.] 
 
 A. D. 1470, 
 
 u ui. Vis., p. 237. of Ireland (Cod. Clar., torn. xhd. No. 4793, Brit. 
 
 " There is extant a MS. of Ware's, which contams ]Mus.) ; but it enumerates no more than eight Priors 
 lists of Deans and Archdeacons of the various dioceses and two Archdeacons of Down. 
 
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 A. D. 1470, Thomas Barkely. [Regist. Bole.] 
 
 A. D. 1512-1526, Gelacius Magennis. [1512, Commendatorius of Down. — 
 
 Eeg, Dowd. 1 5 19, Gustos of Spiritualities, sede vacante. 
 
 1526, Glaisne, son of Hugh Magenis, Abbot of Newry, and 
 
 Prior of Down and Saul, killed by the sons of Donald Magenis. 
 
 Four Masters.] 
 A. D. 1526, John Swerdes. [Sworn into office June 19. — Reg. Gromer.] 
 A. D. 1541-1542, GoN Magenis. [1541, Gonosius Maganasse Reg. Dowd. 
 
 " 1542, Gon M'^ginnis dictus Decanus S. Patricii Dunen- 
 
 sis" Ware's MS.] 
 
 Archdeacons of Down. 
 
 A. D. 1 183 circ. Bernardus. [Witnesses a charter of J. de Gourcy.] 
 
 A. D. 1257, Reginald. [Bishop of Down, 1258.] 
 
 A. D. J 267 circ. A[ ]. [Royal Letters, No. 801. Tur. Lond, — See what 
 
 has been said above under Thomas Liddell, p. 155.] 
 
 A. D. 1300 circ. Galfridus. [Witnesses a charter Inspex. Rot. Pat. loEd.III. 
 
 p. 2, m. 35.] 
 
 A. D. 1340, RoBERTus de Pyncebek. [" Archidiaconus ?7/tow2ce". — Rot. 
 
 Pat. 13 Ed. III. m. 21. Tur. Lond. See pp. 147, 148, for in- 
 stances where the Bishop of Down was called 5«s/^o^ of Uladh.'] 
 
 A. D. 1 367-1 369, John Logan. [Regist. Sweteman, fols. 9, 49.] 
 
 A. D. 1373, John Duncan. ["Factus episcopus Sodorensis sive Insulfe 
 
 Manni^e 1374" Ware's MS. MS. T. G. D.] 
 
 A. D. 1425-1434, Henry Logan. [In 1434 he had a commission from the Pri- 
 mate to visit the diocese. — Regist. Swayne, Prene.] 
 
 A. D. 1438-1455, Simon Somerset. [Regist. Swayne, Prene, Mey. He resigned 
 
 his office on account of age and infirmity.] 
 
 A. D. 1456, Philip de Erdeslye. [Reg. Prene.] 
 
 Henry Fox. [Reg. Prene.] 
 
 After the Reformation the diocese remained without a chapter till 1609, when 
 King James I., by letters patent, created certain dignities and prebends in the Cathe- 
 dral of Down, and endowed them with the various benefices recited below. The 
 preamble having stated, " Johannes Todd, Episcopus nunc modernus, qui episcopati- 
 bus de Duno, Gonnorth, et Drumore — nunc presidet, solatio, auxilio, et consilio Deca- 
 norum et Capitulorum dictorum episcopatuum sit destitutus, &c. : quorum omnium 
 
 2 a remedio 
 
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 remedio Episcopus nobis humiliter supplicavit " ; tlie instrument proceeds: " Nos de 
 gratia nostra, &c., creavimus, &c., ac per patentes creamus tres ecclesias Cathedrales 
 in provincia nostra Ultonia;, quarum una, qute modo vocatur Ecclesia Cathedralis 
 Sancti Patricii de Duno, abhinc erit et vocabitur Ecclesia Cathedralis Sanctae Trini- 
 
 tatis de Duno, &c Pra?dicta ecclesia Sanctae Trinitatis de Duno erit et consistet de 
 
 uno Decano presbitero, et de quatuor dignitariis presbiteris, cum tribus prebendariis 
 presbiteris. 
 
 Decanus. Fecimus, &c. Johannem Gibson, in artibus magistrum, et sacra; Tlieologije 
 professorem, primum, originalem, etmoderuuniDecanum prsdictae ecclesise 
 Cathedralis. Dedimus etiam pra?fato Johanni Gibson Decano ecclesiae Ca- 
 thedralis Sanctai Trinitatis de Downe, et successoribus suis, omnes illas 
 rectorias et vicarias nostras de Duno [Down], Saballo [Saul], Viridi Castro 
 [see p. 31], Killemochan, Kilbriditche [see p. 34], Bright alias Braten 
 [Bright], et Villam Richardi Albi [see below under Comber], cum omni- 
 bus suis juribus, &c. 
 
 Archi- Fecimus, &c. Johannem Blackborne, in artibus magistrum, et sacrae Theo- 
 
 DiACO- logia; professorem, primum et modernum Archidiaconum praedicta; eccle- 
 
 Nus. sise, &c. Dedimus, &c., omnes illas rectorias et vicarias nostras de Killcliff 
 
 [Kilclief], Kilbeg alias Killbert [see p. 30], Rosglass [see p. 33], Drumbo 
 
 [see p. 44], Drumbegg [see p. 46], et Capellam Sancti Malachite [see p. 45], 
 
 cum omnibus suis juribus, &c. 
 
 Cancel- Fecimus, &c. Willielmum Worslye, presbyterum, primum et modernum 
 LAKius. Cancellarium dicta; ecclesia;. Dedimus, &c., omnes illas rectorias et vica- 
 rias nostras de Philipston [see p. 24], Troston [see p. 25], Slane [see p. 23], 
 Rathmullen [see p. 33], Arglas [see p. 35], et Ardthnuyle [see p. 35], 
 cum omnibus suis juribus, &c. 
 
 Pr^cen- Fecimus, &c. Johannem Marshall, in artibus magistrum, et sacrs Theo- 
 TOR. logijfi professorem, primum et modernum Precentorem dicta; ecclesia?, &c. 
 
 Dedimus, &c., omnes illas rectorias et vicarias nostras de Kinles [see p. 29], 
 Stion [see p. 33], Drumcadd [see p. 29], Racatt [see p. 29], Boriston, 
 Balliraga, Villa Bilesu [see p. 31], et de Ballintampany [see p. 103], cum 
 omnibus suis juribus, &c. 
 
 Thesau- Fecimus, &c. Johannem Todd, sacr^ Theologies professorem, et Episcopum 
 RARius. Dunensem, fore et esse primum et modernum Thesaurarium dictse ecclesias, 
 
 &c. 
 
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 etc. Dedimus omnes illas rectorias et vicarias nostras de Kilkaill [see 
 p. 2 6 J, Tauleact [see p. 27], Killmighan [see p. 27], et Killcudua [see 
 p, 27], cum omnibus suis juribus, &c. 
 
 Pr^ben- Fecimus, e^c. Jolianuem Christian presbyterum, et in artibus magistrum, 
 
 DA Prebendarium primum dictae ecclesite, &c., et volumus quod dicta pra;- 
 
 Sancti benda vocabitur Prebenda Sancti Andrew. Dedimus, &c., omnes illas 
 
 Andre.e. rectorias et vicarias nostras de Sancto Andrea [see below under Killy- 
 
 leagli], Rosse [see p. 36], Killseaclan [see p. 32], Inis [see p. 44], Syth 
 
 [see p. 22], Earchin [see p. 21], et Killinseach [see p. 10], cum omnibus 
 
 suis juribus, &c. 
 
 Pr.eben- Fecimus, &c. Patricium Hamilton, in artibus magistrum, Prebendarium 
 
 DA DE secundum dictae ecclesise, &c., et volumus quod prebenda vocabitur Pre- 
 
 Talpes- benda de Talpestone. Dedimus, &c., omnes illas rectorias et vicarias nos- 
 
 TONE. tras de Talpestone [see p. 20], Iniscarrge [see p. 19], Drumornan [see 
 
 p. 20], Clontaghleirg [see below under Killyleagh], et Ballekehulte [see 
 
 p. 41 j, cum omnibus suis juribus, &c. 
 
 Pr.iEBEN- Fecimus, &c. Jacobum Hamilton, primum et modernum Prebendarium 
 
 DA DE tertium dictae ecclesiae, &c., et volumus quod prebenda vocabitur Prebenda 
 
 Duns- de Dunsporte. Dedimus, &c., omnes illas rectorias et vicarias nostras de 
 
 PORTE. Dunsporte [see p. 36], Ecclesia Alba [see p. 26], Donoghdie [see p. 17], 
 
 Balleristard, Powley, Ballyneskeans [see p. 15], Balleoran [see p. 14J, 
 
 Knockolumkill [see p. 12], et Bredagh [see p. 15], cum omnibus suis 
 
 juribus, &c. 
 
 Exceptis semper et reservatis pr^fato Johanni, Episcopo Dunensi, &c., omnibus 
 jurisdictionibus, procurationibus, refectionibus, sinodalibus, &c. 
 
 Volumus etiam, &c., quod predictus Decanus, et quatuor Dignitarii, et tres Pre- 
 bendarii sint de se in re facto et nomine unum corpus corporatum, habeant successio- 
 nem perpetuam, et se gerent, &c., juxta et secundum regulas, statuta, &c., concessa, 
 vel in posterum concedenda, &c. Decano et Capitulo Sancti Patricii Dublin"'. 
 
 Westm. 20 Julii. An. vii. Jacobi I, 
 
 B. 
 
 " See Mason's History of the Cathedral of St. Patrick, Appendix, pp. 20-26. 
 
 2 A 2 
 
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 B. 
 
 CLANDERMOD. 
 
 The earliest mention of this territory, which the Editor has met with, is in a Close 
 Roll of the year 1219, where Reginald Haket is stated to have been possessed of seven 
 acres of land, with their appurtenances, in Clenderemod, which had been granted to him 
 by King John", The Registry of Muckamore contains a grant wherein William Mataland 
 bestowed upon that Priory all his land in Clendermod, which was called iSIachindun. 
 
 The townlands which composed the cinament or sub-territory of Clandermod, at 
 the commencement of the seventeenth century, were Ballytullyruske [Tullyrusk], 
 Ballykilltroddan [Dundrod], Ballyboddar [Budore], BaUyknocknekerren [Knock- 
 cairn] ; being the four denominations which constitute the present parish of Tully- 
 rusk: BallymacEwarde Itraghe, and Oughtraghe [Ballymacward, Lower and Upper], 
 Dromnegrough [Tornagrough] ; being the northern portion of the parish of Derry- 
 aghy : and Ballydonaghie [Ballydonaghy], which forms the eastern half of the parish 
 of Camlin. This enumeration is according to the Ulster Inquisitions, No. 7, Jac. I., 
 Antrim. The Inquisition taken at Antrim in 1605, and the Hamilton Patent of the 
 same year, omit Nos. 2, 3, 4. 
 
 This territory is to be distinguished from the Clan-Dermod, now Glendermot, in 
 the County of Londonderry, a parish separated by the Foyle from the city of Derry, 
 and mentioned by the Four Masters at the years 11 77, 1200, 12 15. 
 
 c. 
 
 PARISH OF KILLEAD. 
 
 The modern parish of Killead, comprising thirty-six townlands, which contain 23,000 
 acres of arable land, is a collection of several small parishes or chapelries ; and this fact 
 accounts for the expression in the Act for building the present parish church : 
 "Whereas the parish of Kilead, though very large and well inhabited, wants a parish 
 church, and that the situation of the old parish-church cannot be now ascertained''''. — 2nd of 
 Anne, cap. xi. § 4, A. D. 1 703^^. The following is the ancient distribution of the parish : 
 
 I. KiLLEDE 
 ^ Hardy, Rot. Lit. Claus. Tur. Lond., p. 393 h. > Irish Statutes, vol. iv. p. 40. 
 
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 I. KiLLEDE alias Killelagh, consisting of fourteen townlands. The rectory and 
 advowson belonged to the priory of Muckamore. The church, of which there is not a 
 trace remaining, stood in the townland Killealy, in the northern part of the parish. — 
 (Ord. Survey, s. ^^.) The site was ploughed up about fifty years ago; but the field 
 which contained it is still known as the Kh-k-Jield. In the Depositions of 1641, the 
 parish is called KiUfodd^. 
 
 II. KiLMACHEVET ttUas Tremfade, Containing eight toAvnlands. The rectory, and 
 advowson of the vicarage belonged to the abbey of Bangor. The cemetery of the pre- 
 sent chapel of ease of Gartree belonged to this church — (Ord. Survey, s. 58.) The 
 name is locally preserved as belonging to the southern district of Killead parish. 
 
 III. Carnmeave, now the Grange of Carnmavy, containing 788 acres — (Ord. 
 Survey, s. ^^?) The rectory was appropriate to the priory of Muckamore. The 
 remains of the church were in existence at the commencement of the present century, 
 but they have since been removed to make room for graves* See above, p. 4. 
 
 IV. Dundesert This church, the detailed description of which has been reserved 
 
 for the Appendix, was briefly noticed at p. 5. The following account of it is given in 
 Dubourdieu's Statistical Survey of Antrim : "In this townland [Dundesert], which 
 lies in the parish of Killead, near Crumlin river, are the ruins of an ancient church or 
 monastery, sixty feet long, and twenty-five feet wide, situated on a large fort, with a 
 double intrenchment, faced in front with stones, and paved over the top, with two 
 complete entrances, one north-west, the other south-east ; in cleaning out the trench 
 was found an iron bow, and an arrow-head of steel, also a golden broach, six inches 
 long, with a swivel on the top ; several pieces of silver were also found, with a cross 
 on one side, and an impression not intelligible on the other ; as were several pieces of 
 marble stones, one in particular shaped like a man's head and neck, and three stone 
 basons (probably fonts), which contained about three pints each, and several pieces 
 of metal of different descriptions. In the interior of this intrenchment was an ancient 
 burying place, wherein were several human skeletons inclosed in oak coffins ; others 
 were found in the church and in the windows without any coffins, which gives reason 
 to suppose that it was levelled on the people in the inside, as there was a cannon-ball 
 found near the house, having first struck a stone before it entered it. A number of 
 houses have been near this place. There is a tradition respecting the destruction of 
 the churches in this barony of Masserene; that, in the rebellion of 1641, the rebels 
 
 having 
 
 I Antrim, pp. 3318, 3360. MS. T. C. D. » Dubourdieu, Stat. Surv. of Antrim, p. 594. 
 
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 having got possession in one night of many of them, and having fortified themselves, 
 it was necessary for the army to burn these edifices before they could be driven out"." 
 With this statement agrees, in the main, a description of the premises which was 
 given to the Editor on the spot, in May, 1 845. In a field called the Church- field, which 
 is now as even as if it had never been disturbed by any other instrument than the 
 plough, there was, until about sixty years ago, a space of nearly four Irish acres, 
 enclosed by a large and nearly-circular fosse. This trench was of about the breadth of 
 a moderate road ; and the earth which had been cleared out of it was banked up inside 
 as a ditch, carrying up the slope to about the height of sixteen or twenty feet from 
 the bottom. The whole face of the slope was covered with large stones, embedded in 
 the earth. Concentric with this enclosure, and at about the interval of seven yards, 
 was another fosse, having a rampart on the inner side, similarly constructed; and on 
 the area enclosed by this stood the church, east and west, ninety feet long, and thirty 
 wide. The ruined walls were about six feet high, and five thick. The burial ground 
 was principally at the east end of the building, and the whole space outside the walls 
 was covered with loose stones. The two entrances, as described above, were of about 
 the same breadth as the fosse, and were paved with large flat stones, but they had no 
 remains of a gateway. Pieces of stained glass, coins of the Edwards, oak boards, large 
 iron handles, stone hatchets, a small bell, and three stone basons, one of them perfo- 
 rated, were found within this space. With considerable difficulty all the stones were 
 cleared away, and with them the mill and houses of Dundesert were built, while the 
 trenches were filled up, and every trace of the cashel and church as completely oblite- 
 rated as the most fastidious ploughman could desire. 
 
 In the Litany of jEngus, written A. D. 799, the author commemorates " SS. sep- 
 tem Monachos Aegyptios, qui jacent in Disert Vlidh". The manifest antiquity of the 
 church under description, its name, and its position beside Killultagh, or the Wood 
 of Ulster, render probable its claims to this early distinction. The half-townland of 
 Dundesert is held under the see of Do^vn. 
 
 V. In the townland Ballykennedy formerly stood a chapel : its site was near the 
 modern Dundrod meeting-house, but it is completely demolished, and the only mark 
 which remains are the human bones which are occasionally turned up within the space 
 once occupied by its cemetery. See above, p. 4. 
 
 VI. KiLLMANEEVE. — A church SO called is traditionally recorded to have stood in 
 the townland Ballyginniff, on the shore of Lough Neagh, in the N. W. angle of the 
 
 present 
 b Statistical Account, pp. 593, 594. 
 
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 present parish. The cemetery was separated from it by the stream which parts that 
 townland from Ballynageeragh. 
 
 In the townlands Crookedstone, Ballyrobin, Largy, and Seacash, cemeteries are 
 reported to have formerly existed : and in the first it is stated that head-stones and 
 fragments of coffins were found within the last forty years. It may seem extraordinary 
 that so many Christian burial-places should be established within the bounds of a 
 modern parish ; but the wonder will be diminished Avhen it is remembered that this 
 district was once very densely peopled; of which there is strong evidence in the 247 
 earthen forts, of various kinds, which studded the two parishes of Killead and Mucka- 
 more, at the commencement of the present century'". 
 
 D. 
 
 PARISH OF SHANKILL. 
 
 Belfast is called 6eal-peipfce by the Four Masters, at the years 1476, 1489, 1503, 
 1512, 1537, ^552, where it is mentioned in connexion with its castle. Among the 
 Enflish settlers it was called Belferside, ox Bealfarst. This name had reference, as has 
 been already observed, to the peappac or ford, by which the Lagan was usually crossed 
 at this place. The old map of Belfast, preserved in the MS. collection of Lambeth 
 Library, as well as the plan of the town, constructed about the year 1 660, represent an 
 extensive ford reaching in the direction of the present Corn Market, and communi- 
 cating with the enclosure of the castle. The remains of another ford, composed of 
 large stones, regularly laid, which crossed the river exactly opposite the Ballast Office, 
 Avere lately removed by the Ballast Corporation. The word peappac is of frequent 
 occurrence in Irish writings, in the sense of the crossing of a river at its mouth, or 
 near an estuary. Thus, the Four Masters, A. D. 1098, 1567, mention the peappac 
 Suilije"^, 'the crossing of the Swilly' [in Donegal]: and the word is preserved in 
 Farsat-more, the name of a townland in the parish of Leek, in the same county. F^°P" 
 paD Upepi, ' the crossing of Tresi', is at the head of Rathfran Bay, in the county of 
 Mayo^. Peappao na pionncpctja, ' the crossing of the white strand', at Ballysadare, in 
 Sligo, is mentioned by the Four Masters at the year 1476. Also, at the year 1433, 
 
 Peappac 
 
 ''SeeDubourdieu'sStat.Accountof Antrim, p. 583. "Sepulchrum Suiligi"! 
 
 ^ Conor renders the name in the former passage * Donovan's Hy-Fiachrach, pp. 9, 490. 
 
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 peappac an Chaiplean nui, 'the crossing of New-castle ' [in the county of Down]. 
 The passage of the Bann, as it leaves Lough Neagh, at Toome, is called in the Tripar- 
 tite Life of St. Patrick Fersae^ Tuama; upon which Colgan observes: " Hodie vulgo 
 vocatur Tuaim, est vadum, vel trajectus, ubi Banna lluvius ex Loch Echach ".^ 
 
 Belfast is mentioned so early as the year 667, as the scene of an encounter between 
 the inhabitants of the districts on either side: "6eUuTn F^^P^P' '"^^P ^^^^ *=^ 
 Cpuicne, ubi ceciGic Cacurac TTIac Cupjjein". " The battle of the Ford between 
 the Ulidians and Picts, where fell Catusac, son of Lurggein".& The name appears in 
 the Taxation in the Latin form Vadum ; and again, in 1333, as the place where a castle 
 of the Earl of Ulster stood, and where William de Burgo was assassinated''. Grace 
 says that he was slain " inter castrum de Sancles et Gregforgus"; which name Sancles 
 appears to be a corruption of Shankill (pean-ciU 'old-church'), the parochial name of 
 Belfast. According to the Ulster Inquisitions, the ground occupied by the present 
 town was called BaUyrecoolegalgieK 
 
 At the period of the Reformation the parish contained six chapels, of which the 
 Terrier gives the following recital : — 
 
 "EccLEsiA DE St. Patricii de Vado Albo. — The Prior of Down hath it. Six 
 alterages, and the church is called Shankill. The vicar pays, in Proxies, lo'^ in 
 Refections, do.; in Synodals, 2'"— 22'"". 
 
 L " Capella de Cuoockmock, the Abbott's of Bangor, Shankill is the Vicar, and 
 pays for it". Ballycromoake, now called Cromac or Crummuck, is a district which 
 lies south of the town, and is placed by Lendrick's map along the Lagan, between the 
 stream called Blackstaflfe, and Stranmillis. Instead of this name, the Ulster Inquisi- 
 tions have " Cranage, in the Tuogh Fall". The Ulster Visitation, however, calls it 
 Cramagh. But there must be a mistake on either side, as Ballycromoake and Balle- 
 cranocke were distinct townlands, although the name of the latter is noAv lost. In an 
 anc^le formed by the branching of the Collin road from the Falls' road, and close to the 
 left side of the former, is a slight elevation which bore the name of Callendar's Fort. 
 On this was a chapel, the walls of which are remembered to have been standing ; and 
 the font belonging to which was in the possession of the person who held the ground. 
 The spot is now covered with a luxuriant mantle of grass, but the foundations of the 
 building can be distinctly traced, measuring about 1 14 by 40 feet. The surrounding 
 space is stated to have been occupied by a burying- ground. jj ,, Capella 
 
 f Trias Thaum., p. 183, col. 2. ^ See above, p. 7 ; Archdall's Lodge's Peerage, 
 
 ? An. Ulst. So Tigernach, at 666 ; and Four vol. i. p. 124. 
 Mast, at 665. ' ^^'^ "'1 ^^- ^-i -A-ntrim. Inq. Antrim, 1605, MS. 
 
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 IL " Capella de Kilpatrick, above Moses Hill's house at Stronmillus". The 
 name Stranmillis is still preserved, and though the house here spoken of has long since 
 disappeared, its place is marked on the Down Survey. Besides this chapel, it is stated 
 that another stood in Upper Malone, about a qixarter of a mile S. E. of the present 
 church. 
 
 III. " Capella de Killemna". Called Killonpina in the Inquisitions, and Kilmean 
 or Killeanan in the Ulster Visit. Site unknown. At the extremity of the parish, below 
 Suffolk, it is said an ancient chapel and burying-ground once existed, called Kilwee^. 
 
 IV. " Capella de Clochmestale, that is hard by the strand as we ride to Kar- 
 rickfergus, near Captain Ellises". Greencastle, the extreme townland of the parish, 
 along the shore, was formerly called Cloghcastella. The name is supposed to have been 
 taken from the castle, a small portion of Avhich remains on the bank which runs parallel 
 with the road, and in the neighbourhood of which this chapel probably stood. 
 
 V. " Capella de Balliston". Elsewhere called Ballyvaston. — See above, pp. 7, 8. 
 VI. " Capella de Tullerusk" See above, p. 6. 
 
 E. 
 BARONY OF DUFFERIN. 
 
 This district, the greater part of which lay in the rural deanry of Blaefthwyc, is noticed 
 by the Four Masters, at the years 1433, 1444, 1470, 1503, where the name is given 
 in its correct form, t)uB-cpian, ' the black district'. The name Duffren occurs so early 
 as 1 178, in a charter of John de Courcy. After the Invasion the territory fell to the 
 lot of the Mandevilles : subsequently, on the declension of the English power, the name 
 of M*^ Quillan was the most distingviished here ; but, in Queen Elizabeth's time, it was 
 called " the Whites' country", from the family which had the chief possessions therein. 
 An Inquisition, taken July 4, 1605', i"ecites the names of the townlands and castles of 
 this district, and finds that Patrick Whit, of Flemington, in Meath, was seised of them, 
 and of the advowson of the churches Killinchenemaghery, Renechaddy, Killaureys, and 
 KiDaleagh. The castles were Ballycaslanwilliam, Killaleigh, Rindoffrin alias Meyler- 
 ton, Rathgorman, Casclanegays. Skatrick Island, which possesses the ruin of a very 
 
 fine 
 
 '' [Benn's] Historj- of Belfast, p. 252. ' Ul. Inq., No. 1, Jac. I. Down. 
 
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 fine Anglo-Norman castle, though joined to the townland Ballydorn, in Killinchy, by 
 a causeway, is not mentioned among these, because it has, by some strange allocation, 
 been assigned to the barony of the Ards. It is called Sjaroeipje by the Four Masters, 
 at the year 1470. The dimensions of the castle are: height, 57 feet; length, 51 feet; 
 breadth, 27 feet; thickness of walls, 4^ feet. The religious subdivisions of the terri- 
 tory were as follow: — 
 
 In the modern parish of Killinchy — 
 
 I. Killinchy, See above, p. 10. 
 
 II. RiNGHADDY. See above, p. 9. 
 
 III. Rathgorman. In the townland bearing this name, about a mile west of Ring- 
 haddy, formerly stood a chapel, of which a portion of a wall, about eight feet high, 
 remains. The burial-ground, which was attached to it, is now cultivated. Close to 
 the chapel, on a small earthen mound, stood the castle mentioned above. 
 
 IV. DuNSY Island, or, as it is called in the Inquisition of 1605, Dunshagh isle. It 
 lies outside Ringhaddy, in Strangford Lough, containing thirty-three acres. A little 
 to the S. E. is Dunsy Rock, half an acre in extent. The island derives its name from 
 an Irish saint, who is thus commemorated in the Calendar of the O Clerys at the 5th 
 of August : — 
 
 "Ouinpeac 05 pop loch Cuan 1 nUlcoib". 
 
 •' Dunsheach, a virgin, at Loch Cuan in Ultonia". Primate Swayne's Registry, 
 A. D. 1427, makes mention of a Gilbert M"=Gean, as Rector oi Kilduncy, in the 
 diocese of Down"". There is no ecclesiastical building upon the island, nor the 
 tradition that such ever existed there ; but there can be little doubt that the 
 spot was once held sacred, as large numbers of human bones, indicative of a 
 cemetery, were discovered, within the memory of those alive, on and around the 
 site now ocsupied by a larm house. 
 In the parish of Killyleagh — 
 
 I. Killyleagh. See above, p. 43. Near the castle of Killyleagh stood an ancient 
 church called Killoicen, of which the east gable is all that remains. 
 
 II. Killandreas. In the townland Toy and Kirkland is a burial-ground, which 
 contains the ruins of a church that measures 56-§-by 17^^ feet. The masonry is of a 
 very ancient character, and the walls are, in some places, 5^ feet thick. The spot is 
 
 locally 
 ■» Lib. ii. fol. 84. 
 
18; 
 
 locally called Killrasy or Killandrews, and gives name to the prebend of St. Andrew's, in 
 the cathedral of Down, being the first name on the list of its corps. " Killandrus, an 
 union ", is noticed by the Terrier between Ringhaddy and Killyleagh. Though an- 
 nexed by the Charter to the prebend of St. Andrew's, and thus made collative by the 
 bishop, it was afterwards severed from it, and incorporated with Killyleagh, inasmuch 
 as the advowson was not at the disposal of the CroAvn in 1 609. The patronage of the 
 whole parish is now vested in the Corporation of Trinity College, Dublin, having been 
 purchased by that body, during the last century, from the representatives of the original 
 grantee. 
 
 III. Clontagh. In the townland Cluntagh, near the S. W. extremity of the 
 parish, there was formerly a religious edifice. At the Dissolution, the rectory of 
 " Clontagh, in the DufFeran", was appropriate to the abbey of Saul. By the Charter, 
 this church was attached to the prebend of Talpestone, under the name Clontaghleirg. 
 It also has merged in the rectory of Killyleagh. 
 
 NENDRUM. 
 
 This church was founded soon after the introduction of Christianity into Ireland, and 
 continued for several centuries to hold a distinguished place among the religious 
 institutions of the country. Its situation, however, was so little known in later years 
 that Archdall, distinguishing A^oencfrwrn homNeddrum, observes concerning the former, 
 " It is now unknown"; and conjectures that the latter is the modern Copland Island, 
 at the entrance of Belfast Lough°. Dr. Lanigan, coming after, adopts this suggestion 
 concerning Neddrum ; while Nendrum he refers to the modern Antrim". That Arch- 
 dall's hypothesis is untenable is proved by a passage in the chartulary of Neddrum, 
 which describes the island as situate in Strangford Lough; and by the position which 
 the name holds in the Taxation (p. 10). That Dr.Lanigan's statement also is incorrect 
 will presently be shewn. The truth is that the two names are nothing more than varie- 
 ties of the same word, being both intended for the nQonopuim of the Irish, now called, 
 from its patron saint, Mahee Island. Colgan was correctly informed when he wrote 
 " Magbilia, Killchlethe, Dunum, etEntrumia sunt omnia in prieutali et maritima pai:te 
 Ultoni^ " ; and again " Cum j^ndromensis ecclesia sit in eadem regione Ultoni^ in qua 
 
 est 
 
 " Monast. Hib., p. 126. • ' Eccl. Hist., vols.i. p. 423; iv. p. 255. 
 
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 est Monasterium Bencliorense".P By the aid of tte following authorities the date of 
 the foundation of this church may be ascertained with sufficient precision. The Tri- 
 Tjartite Life, having related the commencement of St. Patrick's missionary labours, 
 follows the saint from Saballum [Saul] to Brettan [Bright], and, on his departure 
 from the latter place, thus continues the narrative: " S. Patricio iter agenti occurrit 
 quidam adolescens, Mochaius nomine, porcos pascens : quem ciim vir Dei spiritu reve- 
 lante prsecognosceret futurum vas electionis, prajdicavit ipsi verbum Dei eumque con- 
 vertit, baptizavit, et Uteris prius instructum clericali tonsura insignivit: qui postea in 
 longe celebratse sanctimoniae et doctrine evasit virum. Reliquit discipulo vir Dei 
 sacrum Evangeliorum codicem, cum aliis sacri minysterii utensilibus. Cum autem die 
 ([uadam colloquia de rebus coelestibus ambo miscerent, inter ipsos medius cecidit bacu- 
 lus, sive pedum pastorale, coelitus missum: cujus caput in sinu Magistri, pes vero sive 
 cuspis in discipuli gremio jacuit. Aggratulans vir sanctus de tanta divipnse bonitatis 
 dignatione, baculum ilium, tanquam pastoralis dignitatis symbolum, tradidit sancto 
 adolescenti, asserens ei divinitus destinatum in hunc finem fuisse: et cum verecundus 
 juvenis se indignum tali munere diceret, et hinc recusaret recipere, sanctus suo man- 
 dato compulit eum ad ilium recipiendum. Unde et Eteac Mochai'^ vulgo nuncupatur, 
 et Aendrumice in Ultonia, ubi S. Mocaius primum Antis[ti]tem egit in magna habetur 
 veneratione. Et quia S. Patricius hunc sanctissimum virum, primo a subulci officio 
 ad pastoralem dignitatem evexit, hinc pradicta ejus Ecclesia porcum annuatim Ec- 
 clesiaj Patriciana;, hoc est, Dunensi, pendere consuevit".'' This first interview with St. 
 Mochay was prior to St. Patrick's appearance at Tara, and was therefore not later than 
 433. The death of St. Mochay, as recorded in almost all the Annals, occurred in the 
 year 497. Before that year he had attained to an advanced age, as may be gathered 
 from the following passage in the Life of St. Finian: " Et misit eum [S. Finanum] ad 
 venerabilem senem Coelanum^ Noendrumensem Abbatem, et ut corporis illius ac anima? 
 curam haberet diligenter commendavit. At ille faciem juvenis intuens statim dixit: 
 Iste meus nunquam erit discipulus. Vere enim in coelo et in terris, honore et merito 
 longe me preecellit: nam Episcopus erit sapientia clarus, et religione ac sanctitate con- 
 spicuus. Hoc audito Finanus prophetice spiritu tactus ait : Nee mora videbitis hue 
 venire, quem sequar, et sub quo erudiar, qui mihi in omnibus necessitatibus succurrat. 
 Et ecce naves, quibus sanctissimus Pontifex nomine Nennio cum suis inerat, de Bri- 
 tannia 
 
 p \cta SS., pp. 59, col. 2 ; 62, col. 1. another crozier, called Baculus Jesu, in Dr. Todd's 
 
 n " Baculus memoratus in eadem Ecclesia reserva- Introduct. to the Obits, &c. of Christ Ch., pp. 8-20. 
 
 tur, baculusque volans ab Hibemicis nominatur".— ^ Part i. cap. 53. Trias Th., p. 125. 
 
 Jocel, cap. 37. See the very learned account of ' Coelan, another name for Mochaoi. Seep. 144. 
 
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 tannia venientes, portum insulce coram Monasterio tenuerunt. Quibus cum gaudio et. 
 honore susceptis prsefati patres juvenum Finanum venerabili Episcopo cum omni dili- 
 srentia commendarunt".' 
 
 With these data, then, viz., that St. Mochay was converted to Christianity in 433, 
 that he lived to an old age, and died in 497, it is not unreasonable to assign the year 
 450 for the foundation of his church. 
 
 This ancient institution was one of that class of monasteries which combined edu- 
 cational pursuits with the monastic discipline. St. Finian, the founder of Moville, was 
 sent thither, as above stated, for the purpose of being instructed ; and St. Colman, the 
 founder of Dromore, was a distinguished student under St. Caylan, or, as he is some- 
 times called, Mochay. His biographer thus writes : " Post hsec ad S. Caylanum Nen- 
 drumensem Abbatem, ut apvid eum litteras addisceret, a parentibus traditus est: qui 
 eum diligenter instruxit, et bonis moribus informavit. Eo vero vita et moribus profi- 
 ciente, quadam die, cum lectionem suam memoriae commendaret, patrem Abbatem, quid 
 ulterius facere deberet, interrogavit. Cui pater spiritualis respondit: Petram illam, in 
 qua offendunt Fratres ad Matutinas euntes comminue: quod ille, signo Crucis prius 
 opposito, perfecit. Rursusque eundem, quid adhuc ageret interrogavit ; cui Abbas ait : 
 An, quod tibi dictum est, perfecisti? Verse humilitatis professor respondit; Deus 
 quidem perfecit. Caylanus dixit: In vicimtm mare fragmenta illius lapidis projice. 
 Quod Angelis cooperantibus ipse complevit. Unde fragmenta ilia, divina virtute in 
 unum coadunata, Pe^ra Colmanni vocatur"." 
 
 The parentage and kindred of the first Abbot of this house are noticed in ^Engus's 
 tract 'de Matribus Sanctorum Hiberniae', as follows: 
 
 " 6ponac mjion milcon co m-bae "Bronach, daughter of Milcon, with 
 
 pacpaic 1 n-oaipi maraip TDochae n- whom Patrick was in bondage, was the 
 Qenopoma o n-Qenopoma loca Cuan. mother of Mochae of Aendrum, or of Aen- 
 OcupCompaipe oUipneachmioi. Ocup drum of Loch Cuan: and of Comraire of 
 TTIanchan o liach TTlanchain 1 n-t)ealb- Uisneach [now Knockusneach, in the pa- 
 na 6earpa. Ocup Colman muilinb o rish of Conrath, county Westmeath], in 
 t)aipe Chaechain 1 nt)al Riaoa. Ocup Meath: and of Manchan of LiathManchan 
 
 eppuic [now Lemanaghan], in Dealbhna Beathra 
 [the barony of Garrycastle, King's Coun- 
 ty] : and of Colman Muilinn of Daire Chae- 
 chain in Dalriada [see p. 78]: and of Bi- 
 shop 
 
 ' Colgan, Acta SS., p, 438, col. 2. "Acta Sanctor. ad. vii. Junii, vol. Junii ii. p. 26. 
 
erpuic meic epca oOomnach mopmu)- shop Mac Ere of Domnach-mor of Moy 
 jri Coba. Ocup Oamnacan plebe 6e- Coba [see p. in]: and of Damnatan of 
 choD. Ocup F"Pr° cpaibcec in papona Slieve Bethad [Slieve Beagh, in Tyrone, 
 in 7\allia". near its junction with Fermanagh and 
 
 Monaghan] : and of Fursa, the pious, in 
 Parona [Peronne], in Gaul". 
 The festival of St. INIochay was observed in this church on the 23rd of June, which 
 was the day of his death. His name is thus commemorated in the aiartyrology of 
 
 ^ngus : 
 
 "IN Sa6 SOCh^^a SOna "The renowned and prosperous champion 
 
 OH OeMt)T^Uim TDOH l^ema". Of Nendmm I celebrate". 
 
 Upon which the gloss thus comments : 
 
 J. mochoe n-Oenopoma 1 nOelbna " i. e. Mochoe of Gendruim in Delvin 
 
 echpai. no 1;: n-opuimne pil ipm baile Ethra, or nine hills that are in the place 
 hica a chell. Ho Oenopuim .1. cen cu- wherein is his church. Or Oendruim, i. e. 
 lach an imp uile, 7 pop loch Cuan aca". one hill, is the entire island, and in Loch 
 
 Cuan it is". 
 
 Of the subsequent history of this church little more than what has been gleaned 
 at pp. 148-150 is recorded, until 1178, when the abbey was restored under a new 
 aspect, as an affiliation of an English religious house. The particulars of this occur- 
 rence are recited in a roll of the thirteenth century, which is preserved among the 
 Cotton Charters in the British Museum. Part of this record, namely, the instruments, 
 Nos. I, 3, 4, 8, is printed in the early and late editions of the Monasticon Anglicanum, 
 and has been borrowed from them in the Appendix of the Papers of the Down and 
 Connor and Dromore Church Architecture Society; but the remainder, containing the 
 instruments Nos. 2, 5, 6, 7, 9, has been overlooked. The following synopsis of the 
 rubrics and principal contents is as much as the limits of the present work will admit. 
 
 " Anno MCLXXVIII. dedit dominus Johannes de Curcy terram de Neddrum mo- 
 nasterio et monachis sanctse Begae de Coupland".' 
 
 I. Carta Johannis de Curci, de insula de Neddrum et Ecclesia. 
 
 NoTUM sit, &c. quod ego Johannes de Curcy concessi, et hac carta mea, confirmari 
 Deo, et sanctse Marise Eboracensi, et sanctae Begae de Coupland, et monachis inibi Deo 
 
 servientibus, 
 
 ' Now St. Bees. This monaster>-was founded about Under Henry I. it was enlarged and endowed by Wil- 
 the year 650, by Bego, an Irish ^-irgin and saint — liam de Meschiens, Lord of Copeland. 
 
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 servientibus, duas partes cujusdam insuliB quae vocatur Neddrum, et duas partes villse 
 ejusdem insulse, et duas partes omnium beneficiorum Ecclesise quae in eadem insula 
 fundata est, et ipsam ecclesiam totam ad laudandum Deum in ea. Et duas partes 
 omnium terrarum ad eandem ecclesiam pertinentium, tarn in vlllis quam in agris, et 
 caeteris aisiamentis. Tertiam autem partem, tam de beneficiis memoratse ecclesise, quam 
 insula prsenominata, et terris praedictis, habebit Malachias episcopus de Duno. Prse- 
 terea concessi et dedi memoratis monacliis, in Duffren, totam terram illam quae fuit 
 Gillanhari'" , cum pertinentiis suis, &c. Hiis testibus [Regijnaldo'^ episcopo de Dal- 
 
 nard, Mauritio abbate de Bangor, Patricio , Ricardo filio Roberti, Rogero de 
 
 Cestria, Adam Camerario, Williemo de , Iratribus ejus, Ricardo filio Crouce, 
 
 Ricardo Masculo, Henrico Len , de Aidale, Willielmo Forestario, 
 
 Rogero de Dunseforthe [et multis aliis]. 
 
 II. Carta Jurdani de Curd de xv Carucatis. 
 
 NoTUM sit, &c. [quod ego Jurdanus de Curci] dedi S. [Marias Eboracensi, et S. 
 Begee de Coupland, et monacliis inibi] Deo servientibus, [decimas omnium terrarum] 
 mearum, et xv carucatas terr^, viz. in , et carucatam in Lechayel. Hiis tes- 
 tibus, de Duno, Adam abbate de Ynes, Willielmo priore de S. Patricio, Jobanne 
 
 Capi , [Adam] Camerario, Willielmo Clerico, Henrico Clemente, Malachia 
 
 de , Rogero de Dunseforthe, Johanne Clerico, scriptore videlicet carts. 
 
 III. Carta Roger i de Dunesford de Ecdesia de \_Auelori], et de una Carucata terrce in 
 
 eadem Villa. 
 
 NoTUM sit, &c., quod ego Rogerus de Dunesefortlie, cum consilio et assensu uxoris 
 mese, et haredis mei Tlioms, concessi, &c., Deo, et S. Mariae Eboracensi, et monachis 
 de Neddrum, ibidem Deo servientibus, ecclesiam de Auelori, cum omnibus pertinentus 
 suis, et cum una carucata terrse, quae jacet inter nemus et villam, et omnes ecclesias 
 alias, et donationes ecclesiarum de tota terra mea; so. de feudo decem militum, excepta 
 ecclesia deDunse/ord, libere, &c.; pro salute domini mei Johannisde Curci, qui mihi 
 banc contulit terram; pro salute mea, et uxoris meae, et heredum meorum, et omnium 
 antecessorum, et successorum meorum. Anno Incarnationis Domini MC. nonagesimo 
 quarto, in capitulo Eboracensi, quando fraternitatem et societatem suscepi. Hiis tes- 
 tibus, Thoma haerede meo, &c. yV, Carta 
 
 « Called Gillanharna in No. 8. The name seems '' Reginald, see No. 6. Dalaradla was the terri- 
 
 to be preserved in the modem BallygUghorn, atown- torial name of Connor diocese, see p. 1-iO, and lower 
 land in Tullynakill (Ord. Survey, s. 11.) down under " Diocese of Connor". 
 
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 IV. Carta Briemii de Schelers de una Carucata terrce. 
 
 SciANT omnes, &c., quod ego Brien de Eschalers dedi, &c., Deo, et beatas Marise 
 Eboracensi, et S. Begs, et monacliis de Neddrum ibidem Deo servientibus, unam caru- 
 catam in Balichatlan : scil. propinquiorem Balidergan^, in omnibus aisiamentis suis, &c. 
 Testibus iiiis, domino meo Johanne de Curci, Eichero filio Eoberti, dapifero, Elia 
 priore, Willielmo filio meo, et multis aliis. 
 
 V. Carta Malachioe Dunensis Episcopi Monachis de S. Bega de Ecdesia de Neddrum. 
 
 NoTUM sit universis, &c. quod ego ]\Ialacliias Dei gratia Dunensis episcopus, nou 
 compulsus ab aliquo, sed bene dcvotus in Domino, spontanea voluntate dedi, &c., mo- 
 nachis de Sancta Bega ecclesiam de Neddrum, simul cum duabus partibus omnium 
 possessionum et beneficiorum ejusdem ecclesiae, &c. Tertiam autem partem in manu 
 mea retineo : Nihil unquam exigens e prrefatis monachis de aliis duabus partibus. Hanc 
 vero concessionem feci in ecclesia S. Trinitatis de Duno, in pra^sentia domini Johannis 
 de Curci, coram Reginaldo episcopo Dalnard, et coram Uroneca episcopo de Uveke^, et 
 coram Patricio abbate de Saballo, et coram priore de S. Johanne de Duno, et Willielmo 
 priore de S. Patricio, et Johanne capellano Episcopi, Ilerwardo capellano, Jurdano de 
 Curci, Joceline de Angulo, Kogero de Costa, Kicardo filio Roberti, Rogero Hert, Adam 
 Camerario, liicardo clerico, Rogero de Dunseford, et Adam Portario. 
 
 VI. \_Co7iJirmatio Archiepiscopi.'] 
 
 Universis, &c., Eugenius*, Dei gratia Ardmacanus archiepiscopus, et tocius Hi- 
 
 berniaj primas, salutem in Domino. Noverit universitas nos dilecto filio nostro Wal- 
 
 ranno monacho priori de Neddrum, et successoribus suis, convencionem factam inter 
 
 ipsum et dominum Malachiam Dunensem episcopum de villa de Neddrum, tarn de 
 
 Ecclesia ejusdem villas, &c., confirmasse, &c. Hiis testibus, domino Johanne de Curci, 
 
 domino R. episcopo de Duno, W. priore de S, Patricio, E. priore de S. Andrea in Arte, 
 
 et multis aliis. 
 
 VII. \_Confirmatio 
 
 y Now Ballydargiii, a townland in the parish of ny. Ul. Inq. 85 Car. I. Down. Uvehe is the modem 
 
 Bright (Ord. Survey, s. 44.) Iveagh, a district nearly coextensive with the diocese 
 
 ^ Oronaga was a common name in Dromore dio- of Dromore. See p. 140 ; and " Diocese of Dromore". 
 
 cese,inthefifteenthcenturj', as appears by the Prima- * Eugene Mac GiUi\'ider filled the primacy from 
 
 tial Registries. In 1 640 it is found in the fonn ORo- 1 2 6 to 1 2 1 6. 
 
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 VII. \_ConJirmatio Archiepiscopi.'\ 
 
 T.^ Dei gratia Ardmachanus arcliiepiscopus, &c., Universis, etc., salutem. Noverit 
 universitas nos dilecto filio nostro Walranno monacho priori de Neddrum, &c., conven- 
 cionem, &c., confirmasse, &c., Hiis testibus. F. abbate de Disert, Andrea priore de S. 
 Patricio, Gilberto priore de S. Thoma, Mauricio serviente domini Primatis, Briano de 
 Scalers, Willielmo de Coupeland*^, David Carpentario, Eadulfo Martel, Gilberto de 
 Lechapel, Gilberto de Furnais, E. Cancellario, et multis aliis. 
 
 VIII. Confirmatio Johannis Tituli S. Stepkani in Coelio-monte^ Preshyteri Cardinalis, de 
 omnibus Terris, et Ecdesiis huic Ccenobio collatis. 
 
 Johannes miseratione Divina tituli S. Stephani in Coelio monte presbyter cardi- 
 nalis, sedis apostolicse legatus'i, dilecto fiUo "Walranno priori de Neddrum, et succes- 
 soribus ejus, &c. Justis vestris postulationibus clementer annuimus, &c., et vos 
 super hoc prsesentis scripti patrocinio communimus ; Statuentes ut possessiones, &c., 
 et bona quaa nunc de concessione nobilis viri Johannis de Curci, seu aliorum proborum 
 virorum juste et pacifice possidetis, &c., vobis et successoribus vestris firma et illibata 
 permaneant. In quibus hsec propriis duximus exprimenda vocabulis : — Locum scil. in 
 quo domus vestra sita est, ex donatione memorati Johannis de Curci; Ecclesiam in 
 insula qu£e vocatur Neddrum fundatam, cum duabus partibus ejusdem insulee, et cum 
 duabus partibus totius terrse qu« ad eandem ecclesiam pertinet ; et totam terram illam 
 quge fuit Gillanharna^ in Duffran, et tres insulas in Lochwene^, quarum nomina sunt 
 hsec, — Scatra, Jtaynche, et Trasne. 
 
 Ex donatione vero Jordan! de Curci xv. carucatas terrte, cum decimatione domus sute. 
 
 Ex 
 
 ■» Thomas or Tomultach Conor presided over the &c. Vitm Pontificum, col. 624. (Romae, 1630.) 
 
 see of Armagh from 1185 till 1201. * This seems to be the portion of Tullynakill pa- 
 
 *-■ His family gave name to Copeland Island, in rish, which is on the mainland, and belongs to the 
 
 Bangor parish ; Bally copeland, in Donaghadee pa- bishop. It is now in the barony of Upper Castle- 
 
 lish ; and Copeland Water, a rivulet in Carrickfergus reagh, but as it is only separated from the Dufferm 
 
 parish. by the stream called the Blackwater, it is likely to 
 
 <* John of Salemum was created Cardinal in 1192. have been foraierly included in that territory. 
 
 " Ad hunc in Angliam, Hiberniam, legatum, mul- f A clerical error for Lochcuene, or Loch-cuan, 
 
 tas epistolas Innocentius III. scribit, monens, inter the ancient name of Strangford Lough. These three 
 
 cffltera, ut eum in Ilibemia abusum toUat, quo filii islands, now called Scatrick, Banish, and Trasnagh, 
 
 et nepotes patribus et avis in beneficiis succedebant : lie close to Mahee Island, on the south, but are in a 
 
 moritur sub Innocentio III. " — Alphons. Giaconius, different parish, barony, and estate. 
 
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 Ex praesentatione autem Helise de Cestria ecclesiam de Balimor, in qua villa con- 
 struitur castellum ejus, cum omnibus ecclesiasticis beneficiis ad eandem ecclesiam 
 pertinentibus, et unam carucatam terras in eadem villa, ex dono Baldwini. 
 
 Ex presentatione autem Eicardi Masculi, omnes ecclesias et capellas totius terrae 
 ]\Iasculi, omnes ecclesias et capellas totius terras suae quas habet in Ultonia, de dono 
 domini sui Johannis de Curci, et de dono aliarum virorum, tarn in Clenelhirelh^ quam 
 in Lesmochan, et in aliis locis, cum omnibus ecclesiasticis beneficiis ad easdem ecclesias 
 et capellas pertinentibus. 
 
 Et unam carucatam terraj in T/iicet/i^, quaj vocatur Clenesperth, ex dono Stephani 
 Locardi. 
 
 Ex dono Rogeri de Croft, et Gilbert fratris ejus, duas carrucatas terrae. 
 
 Decernimus antem ne cui liceat personas vestras molestare, &c. Anno Domini 
 M° CC" nonagesimo' 11°, hoc anno quinto pontificatus domini papae Innocentii tertii, 
 mense Junii IX. die stante. Data Dunens. 
 
 IX. \_BuUa Honor ii Papce."] 
 
 HoNORUs episcopus, servus servorum dilectis filiis abbati et conventui S. Mariae 
 Eboracensis, salutem, &c. Specialiter autem cellam de Neddrura, cvunpella de villa 
 Hugonis de Logani, et terra de Baiigauan, cum pertinentiis suis, &c., monasterio vestro 
 auctoritate Apostolica confirmamus. Datum Alatri, Idus Junii, pontificatus nostri 
 anno sexto. Et anno VI" Henrici Regis III. 
 
 With such endo^vments and such ratifications this priory bade fair to a lasting 
 enjoyment of its wealth and privileges; and yet its conventual existence was but of 
 short duration ; for at the date of the Taxation, it is mentioned simply as the Ecclesia 
 de Neddruni, and is valued at the small sum o^ seven marks. In 1450 it is again noticed 
 as a parish church, and one " Patricius iM'^nycoU is mentioned as Rector de Nedryrn^. 
 It is very probable that the Bishop's prescriptive right to this island and its depen- 
 dencies eventually re-established itself, notwithstanding the covenants to the contrary ; 
 or that, having an undisputed title to one-third of all the profits, some compact was 
 entered into with the mother church of St. Mary's of York, by which the monks 
 were induced to withdraw, and allow their two-thirds to revert to the original owner. 
 Such an arrangement probably took place in the thirteenth century, as the name occurs 
 
 without 
 
 s Probably Kinelarty, now a barony in the county be a clerical error. The Four IMasters date the ar- 
 
 of Down, and adjoining Lismoghan See p. 28. rival of this legate in Ireland at A. D. 1201. 
 
 n See Thewet, p. 175. J See p. 65. 
 
 ■ The introduction of the nmnber ninety here must ^ Regist. Mey, lib. iii. fol. 206. 
 
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 without any mention of reservation in the recitals of the see property given above in 
 note A of the Appendix. At the Reformation the Bishop was seised of " Island 
 Magee [rede Mochee], with three other islands in the sea lying about them ; and, in the 
 mainland, Ballyandrean, Avith fourteen other towns temporals and spirituals" {Ter- 
 rier.) The names of these three islands were recited in No. VIII. of the preceding 
 charters. In Petty's maps Nendrum is represented by a nameless island, having the 
 mark of a circular tower, and accompanied by three islets on the south. It was found 
 by a jury in 1617 that "the manor of Ballydreene, alias Iland-maghie, is the ancient 
 inheritance of the Bishop of Down. The sept or family, called Slutt Mac Henry Keyes, 
 did lately expulse and disseise the said bishop [Merryman] oiit of the whole manor 
 aforesaid in tyme of warre and rebellion".^ 
 
 Having thus followed the church of Nendrum through its various changes, it 
 remains to give some account of its architectural history. The edifice erected by St. 
 Mochee was, in all probability, formed of timber. The curious notice of this saint in 
 the Calendar of the OClerys, at the 23rd of June, commences thus: — 
 
 "ITIocaoi abb nQoriDpoma a nUl- " Mochee, Abbot of Nendrum, in Ul- 
 
 raib, Caolan a ceb ainm. Qpe an mo- tonia, whose first name was Caolan. It was 
 caoi po DO cuaiD map aon le peace this Mochee who went, in company with 
 bpiorciD ojlac bo Buain caolaij cum seven-score men, to hew planks for the 
 eajluipe Do beanam. Ro bi ITIocaoi purpose of erecting a church. Mochee 
 peinajDeanam nahoibpe ajupagbuain himself was engaged in doing the work, 
 piooaij ariioil jacnaon". and cutting the wood, in common Avith 
 
 the others, &c." 
 
 It was in the same manner that Finan, Bishop of Lindisfarn, in the year 652, built 
 " ecclesiam episcopali sedi congruam ; quam tamen more Scottorum, non de lapide, sed 
 de robore secto totam composuit, atque harundine texit ".™ It is related by Conchubran, 
 in his Life of St. Monenna, that her church was constructed " tabulis dedolatis, juxta 
 morem Scoticarum gentium"." Columbanus, an Irishman, built, at Bobbio, an oratory 
 " ex lignis — ad magnitudinem corporis sui".° St. Bernard, referring to the church 
 erected by Malachi at Bangor, says, " oratorium intra paucos dies consummatum est 
 de lignis quidem levigatis, sed apte firmiterque contextum, opus Scoticum ".p 
 
 This frail edifice was superseded, in process of time, by one of a more permanent 
 
 character, 
 
 ' Ul. Inq., No. 6, Jac. I. Down. p. 283.) 
 
 " Bede, Hist. Ec, lib. iii. c. 25. o Miracula S. Columbani. (Messing, p. 240.) 
 
 " Ussher, Ant Brit. Ec, cap. 16. (Works, vi. p Vita S. Malachise. (Messing., pp. 357, 371.) 
 
 2 C 2 
 
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 character, some traces of which yet remain. The western extremity of the island, 
 which is something of the shape of a mallet head, rises from the water edge, by a gentle 
 slope, to the elevation of sixty-six feet. The ascent is interrupted by three oval 
 enclosures, which, somewhat like terraces, gird, in succession, the crown of the hill. 
 The outermost and lowest is in part defaced by cultivation, but enough remains to 
 ascertain that it was of an oval shape with the long diameter lying north and south. 
 The second ring, which is nearly concentric, about thirty yards higher up, is better 
 marked. The third, which encompasses a level space about seventy yards in diameter, 
 approaches nearer to the figure of a circle, and is placed in the upper part of the large 
 oval formed by the outer rings. Near the centre of this platform stood the church, 
 of which nothing but the foundations remain. On clearing away the rubbish it was 
 found that they measured 58 feet 4 inches in length, and 22 feet 4 inches in breadth. 
 The gable walls were 3 feet thick, and the side walls 3 feet 4 inches. The building 
 stood E. N. E. At the west end were two shallow buttresses, formed by the con- 
 tinuation of the side walls beyond the west angles. Several skeletons were found, 
 during the examination, in and about the site of the church. At the distance of forty- 
 three feet to the N. W. stand the remains of a Kound Tower, about nine feet high. 
 The diameter, inside, 6 feet 6 inches; outside, at the base, about 14 feet. It is built 
 of undressed stones, very firmly cemented together by grouting. Judging from its 
 diameter it is probable that the height of this tower was below the middle standard ; 
 but even with a moderate addition to the elevation of the site, its upper story would 
 command a view of nearly the whole length of Strangford Lough. Within the inmost 
 enclosures are several traces of foundations of buildings, but so indistinct that no 
 satisfactory opinion could be formed of their original design. Outside the enclosures, 
 on the east, is a Avell artificially closed in. At the foot of the eminence on which the 
 church stands, to the east, is a creek, Avhich appears to have been the usual landing 
 place. Here are some remains of rude stone works; and this is probably the "portus 
 insulse coram monasterio", in which, according to the biographer of St. Finian above 
 quoted, certain ships, which had come from Britain, arrived. 
 
 It is to be observed that the rings which encompass this venerable spot belong to 
 that species of enclosure which is technically called caskel. Such a fence may be in- 
 ferred, from Adamnau's expression "vallum monasterii",i to have girt the establish- 
 ment at Hy ; and such is expressly stated by Bede to have surrounded the church and 
 monastery of the island of Lindisfarne, which were erected by an Irishman from Hy, 
 and most likely after the model of the parent institution. The historian, in his Life 
 
 of 
 1 Vita S. ColumbiE, lib. ii. c. 29. (Trias Th., p. 357.) 
 
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 of St. Cudbert, states that the building was " situ pene rotundum, a muro usque ad 
 murum mensura quatuor ferme sive quinque perticarum distentum", and that it was 
 constructed "impolitis prorsus lapidibus et cespite". In this manner it was that the 
 cashel surrounding the church of Dundesert was formed, with stones — " e quibus 
 quidam tantge erant granditatis, vit vix a quatuor viris viderentur potuisse levari" — 
 regularly set in the earthen bank — (See p. 182.) In the present case, the substance 
 of the vallum was earth, which was, in part at least, faced with stones. The object, 
 however, of the three concentric rings could not have been what Bede states the cir- 
 cumvallation of Lindisfarne was designed to accomplish ; to restrain the eye and the 
 thoughts from wandering, when nothing could be seen by the pious inmate except the 
 heavens above him ; but was either intended for increased security, or as a compliance 
 with an established style of enclosure which was peculiar to the country'. 
 
 The parish church stands on a little hill, near the shore, opposite to the island; and 
 beside it is the churchyard, in which are the ruins of a church bearing, over the door- 
 way, the date 1639. 
 
 COMBER. 
 
 The name is variously written Comar, Comer, Cumber; from comap, 'a confluence'. 
 It is frequently applied, in Ireland, to places situate at the junction of rivers, either 
 with rivers, or with large sheets of water. In the present instance it belongs to the 
 townland where the river Enler enters Strangford Lough, and as the church stood on 
 it, the name is borrowed for the whole parish. Muckamore, in the county of Antrim, 
 derives its name from maj-comuip, 'the plain of the confluence', being the angle 
 formed by the junction of the Six-Mile- Water with Lough Neagh. The townland 
 Ballentine, in the parish of Blaris, was formerly called Down-cumber, because of its 
 situation at the union of Ravernet river with the Lagan. To a similar junction of a 
 smaller stream with the Ballynahinch river, the townland Cumber, in the parish of 
 Magheradrool, owes its name. To the same origin may be traced the name Cumber 
 in Derry, and Castlecomer in the Queen's County. Another famous spot of this name 
 was the cumap na cqii n-uipce, aic a b-puil puainearh Siuipe 7 Goipe 7 6eapba, 
 ' the meeting of the three waters, the place where the Suir, Nore, and Barrow meet 
 
 together ' 
 
 See the chapter on Cashels, in Petrie's " Origin and Uses of the Round Towers of Ireland".— pp. 440-447. 
 
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 too-ether '.= The Tripartite Life of St. Patrick relates that he went, in one day, from 
 Armagh " ad remotissimum portum de Comarna dtri nuisce"-^'^ which Colgan explains 
 by "confluentia trium fluviorum", adding in his note — "locus in Lagenia ubi tres 
 fluvii, Siurus, Feorius, et Berbha, confluentes simul in unnm alveum, in oceanum 
 decurrentem, resolvuntur"." 
 
 The modern parish of Comber is a union of three distinct rectories, which, before 
 the Reformation, were distributed as follows : — 
 
 I. Comber. An abbey for Cistercian monks was founded here, according to Pem- 
 
 brid"-e, in the year 1199; and, at the Dissolution, it was found to be possessed of the 
 four adjacent townlands, with the tithes of five others; and the rectories and advow- 
 sons of four parishes. Its omission in the Taxation is not easily accounted for. The 
 parish of Comber Proper may be described as embracing the lands in the neighbour- 
 hood of the town, extending southwards to the near end of Kilmood, and stretching in 
 a direction N. W. to Knockbroda. In Ballyaltikilligan, locally called Killaghan, one 
 of the townlands which belonged to the abbey, there is a gentle eminence near the 
 stream which bounds the townland, whereon a church is remembered to have stood. 
 The Avails were razed, and the cemetery ploughed up, about seventy years ago. This 
 building was about a mile and a quarter distant from Comber, on the N. N. E., and 
 may have been the Rogerstown mentioned in the Taxation at p. 11. 
 
 II. Ballymacgeiiax. — The rectory was appropriate to Comber. The longest 
 diameter of the parish was from Joseph's Bridge to Bush Bridge. — See p. 16. 
 
 III. Ballyrichard.— This parish contained six toAvnlands, being bounded by the 
 Lough on the east, and by a line drawn from Scrabo to Cherrp-ally on the Avest: it 
 noAv forms the N. E. portion of Comber. It Avas found by Inquisition, 3 Ed. VL, that 
 " The rectory of Ballyrichard in Cloneboy, in Brian Fertaghe's country, Avas appro- 
 priate to the prior of Crossbearers of St. John of DoAvn. In 1609 it Avas annexed to 
 the Deanry of DoAvn, under the Villa Richardi Albi. In 161 7 its contents Avere found 
 by an Inquisition sped to ascertain the rights of the Deanry of DoAvn. — (Ul. Inq. No. 8, 
 Jac. I. Down.) The name is still preserved in the townland Ballyrickard, but no trace 
 of the church remains. 
 
 To the Note on Kilmode, at p. 11, may be added the folloAving particulars: 
 In the townland Ballyministra (bade maimpcpa ' toAvn of the monastery'), adjoin- 
 ino' Killinchy, there stood a ruin which the country people called Jerusalem. They 
 
 hav 
 
 e 
 
 ' Keating, Hist., vol. i. pp. 152, 153. (Ed. HaU- ' Pt. iii. c. 81. Trias Thaum., p. 164, col. 2. 
 
 dav.) See also pp. 128, 130, 318. " Ibid., p. 185 [recte 187], col. 2, n. 107. 
 
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 have a tradition that its prior, whom they call John of Jerusalem, went on one of the 
 crusades, and that, having agreed that no tithe should be paid until his return, his 
 death, which occurred in the Holy Land, has ever since exempted the greater part of 
 the townland from this charge. In the Terrier and Ulster Visitation, however, the 
 " Capella de Ballymonesteragh" is stated to have been appropriate to Grey Abbey. 
 
 H. 
 BANGOR. 
 
 The name Bangor is popularly supposed to mean White-choir; and is so explained by 
 "Ware. Even Colgan countenances this etymology, as he interprets the Welsh Bangor 
 by '■'■ Ba7i-chora, idem quod pulcher chorus vel albus chorus''\ — (Acta SS., p. 439.) 
 Harris states that " It took its Name a Pulchro Choro, from its fair and white Choir ; 
 being called so from the Elegance of the Building, erected of Lime and Stone, which 
 is said to have been the first of the Sort made in Ulster, but that it was before called 
 
 the Vale of Angels " (Down, p. 64,) The building referred to is that which St. 
 
 Bernard states was erected by Malachi ; and thus by an event of the twelfth century 
 Harris accounts for a name which existed in the sixth ! The same derivation is given 
 
 by De Burgo, in his Hibernia Dominicana (p. 21.) This fanciful origin of the name 
 
 was probably suggested by Jocelin's narrative of a vision which St. Patrick witnessed 
 near the site of the future abbey. " Divertit aliquoties quiescendi gratia ad quendam 
 monticulum, non longe situm a valle, in qua postea constructum est Beannchorense 
 coenobium. — Consedentes ergo conspexerunt de colle vallem illam cetherea luce, ac mul- 
 titudine i7iilitice ccelestis repletam". — (Cap. 98.) To this legend may be fairly traced 
 the Latin appellation Vallis AngelorunC . But the name Bangor is of a very different 
 origin : it is really only a modification of the word Banagher. The two forms are fre- 
 quently exchanged. Thus Banagher, in the county of Derry, is called Benchorra in 
 the Taxation of 1291 ; and Bangoria, in one of the year 1397"'. Banagher, on the east 
 bank of the Shannon, is written 6enncop in O Donovan's Map of Hy-Many. The 
 name, simply, and in composition, is very common. There is a Bangor in the parish 
 of Kilcommon in Mayo ; a townland Banagher in the parish of Fiddown, in Kilkenny ; 
 and in the parish of Liskeevy, in Galway. A Loch Banagher in the parish of Killy- 
 mard, in Donegal; Cool-banagher (Cuil 6encaip, Calend. of OClery), in the Queen's 
 
 County ; 
 
 y Ul. Inq., No. 2, Jac. I. Down. " Visitation in the Registry of Armagh. 
 
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 County ; Drum-banagher (t)puim 6enDcuip, IV.Mast. I032),intlie county of Armagh; 
 Movanafrher (ITIaj 6eanncuip), on the Bann, in the parish of Kilrea, county of Derry ; 
 and the ancient church of Ross-bennchuir, placed by Archdall in the county of Clare. 
 
 In all these cases the root of the Avord is the same, being 6eanna, the Irish for 
 horns. OBrien and OReilly explain "beannacap or beanncuip" by " beanna bo, 
 cow horns^\ And, figuratively, the word is applied to the sharp pointed rocks in the 
 Shannon, and to the crests of helmets. 6eanna, in like manner, is used to denote 
 certain local appearances; thus Benna Barche, the old name for the Mourne mountains, 
 sif^nifies 'the peaks of Barche'. By an analagous change the Latin cornu, as in the 
 '■'■Cornua Parnassi bicipitis" of Statins; the "rubra; cornua cristas *'; and the '■'■ cornua 
 velatarum antennarum", of Virgil, came to signify 'a peak', ' a crest', 'a tip'. 
 
 Keatin"-, who traces the name of Bangor to its proper root, has preserved the fol- 
 lowing curious tradition to account for its application : — 
 
 "■(Do iab CeannpaolaD mac 6lurTriaic " Kennfaolad, son of Blathmac, son of 
 TTiic QoDa Slaine an pije .4. bliaona. Hugh Slaine, enjoyed the sovereignty four 
 Qp na plaiciop do loip^ioD 6eanncup, years. In his reign Bangor was burned, 
 7 DO mapbaiD a coimcionol le h-euc- and its congregation slain, by the forcign- 
 cponnaib. CTp uime jaipciop 6eann- ers. The reason why that place was called 
 caip D'on aic pin. bpeapal 6peac \l\ Bangor was this: Breasal Breac, King of 
 ^.aijion DO cuaiD lion pluaij do cpeacuo Leinster, went Avith an army to plunder 
 Qlban, 50 c-cug lomuo buaip, 7 bo- Scotland ; and he brought many cows and 
 romce leip a n-Gipinn. CI5UP lap c- herds of cattle with him into Ireland. And 
 ceacc a c-cip do p^'"? 7 ^'-' r^"<^5^'> ^'^ after he and his forces landed they formed 
 xniD poflongpopc pan aic do n-gaipciop an encampment in the place which is noAV 
 6eanncaip anop. ITIapbaiD lomoD peol- called Bangor, and slaughtered a great 
 TTioij ann, jopainijmopan Dobeannaib, number of the cattle there, until a con- 
 no o'aDapcaib na m-bo ap puo an ma- siderable number of the Beanna, i. e. the 
 caipe, 50 pamig llluj 6eanncoip D'ainm horns of the coics, Avere scattered over the 
 ap an uic pin o pin ale. Qimpip im- plain, so that the place ever since bore the 
 Clan lap pm, an can do cojaiB an c-abb name of 3Iacik Beanncoir. A long time 
 naothca ComjalL niainipcip 6heanncaip after that, Avhen the holy abbot Comgall 
 ip in aic ceaDna, cuj ainm na h-aice ion erected the monastery of Bangor in the 
 ap cogbuD I uippe .1. 6eanncaip gup lean same spot, he gave the name of the place 
 Di 6 pin". in Avhich it was erected to it, aqz., Beann- 
 
 char, so that it has retained it ever since ". 
 
 The limits of the present work forbid a detailed account of this famous monastery. 
 
 The 
 
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 The Editor hopes that at a future time he may be enabled to publish its history at 
 
 length, and illustrate the strong, but nearly true, eulogium of the foreign Annalist : 
 
 " Circa hsec tempora jacta sunt fundamenta unius ex majoribus monasteriis Ordinis 
 S. Benedicti, et nou solum ex majoribus, imo omnium, quotquot in Europa fundata 
 sunt, maxinii; vocatur autem Bennchor"." 
 
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 LEGALE. 
 
 The modern barony of Lecale is co-extensive with the ancient territory of the same 
 name. Nine townlands of the parish of Kilmegan, among which is Dundrum, thouo-h 
 outside the natural boundary, are included in the barony, and appear to have been 
 similarly allotted in 1 147, as the Four Masters at that year speak of the cpa^ t)uin- 
 Dpoma hi Cleircarcul, ' shore of Dundrum in Lecale'. The boundaries of the terri- 
 tory are, with the exception of this parish and that of Inch, so well marked by the sea 
 that it was anciently called ITlaj-inip, 'the insular plain'; and, to this day, it bears, 
 with the country-people, the designation Isle-Lecale. In the second Life of St. Patrick 
 in Colgan's collection, it is called Campus Inish; upon which name Colgan thus com- 
 ments: " Ita hie, et in quarta vita [c. 36] vocatur Eegio circa Dunum, qua3 ab Authore 
 operis Tripartiti, et a priscis passim Scriptoribus nostris Mag-inis, i. e. campus Insii- 
 laris, vel Insula campestn's vocatur ; quae regio ha;c tota campestris et amoena, mari 
 undique psene ambiente concluditur, ut si non absolute Insula, vere peninsula sit. Sed 
 hodie a quodam posterioris £evi Dyuasta, cui in divisi patrimonii cessit portionem, 
 Leth-cathail, i. e. portio Catkali, prisco nomine extincto, appellatur". (Trias Th., 
 p. 19, n. 51.) This change of name, to which Colgan refers, took place about the 
 commencement of the ninth century, as appears from the Irish Annals, which employ 
 the name TTIaj-inip for this territory, up to the year 823 ; but ^^eac-Carail, from 
 850 forward. 
 
 An estimate may be formed of the age in which this Cathail lived, from the fol- 
 lowing pedigree, which is preserved in the Book of Leacan (fol. 136): — 
 
 Cathail, . . . son of a quo Leath- Cathail, flourished about the year 700. 
 
 MUIREADHACH, SOn of . 
 
 ' "^ Aengus, 
 
 " Anton. Yepes, Chron. S. Bened Cent. 1, ad an. 557. (Fleming, CnUect., p 299.) 
 
 2 D 
 
202 
 
 Aengus, . . 
 Maelcobha, 
 
 FlACHNA, . . 
 
 son of 
 son of 
 
 son of A. D. 597, 
 
 Deman, .... son of A. D. ^C-)^, 
 
 Cairill, 
 
 son of 
 
 A. D. 665, "Aengus of Uladh died". — Tlgern. 
 
 A. D. 646, " Maolcoba, son of Fiaclma, son of Deman, King of 
 Uladh, was slain by Congal Kennfoda ". F.Mast. 
 The battle of Cuil-caol between Fiachna, son of 
 Baotan, and Fiachna, son of Deman". A. D. 624, 
 " The battle of Ard-Corann fought by Condad 
 Kerr, Lord of Dal-Riada, wherein was slain 
 Fiachna, son of Deman, King of Uladh". — Fovr 
 Masters. 
 
 Deman, son of Carill, son of Muredach Muin- 
 dearg, King of Uladh, was slain by the shep- 
 herds of Boirinn".^ 
 
 A. D. 526, " Cairell, son of Muiredhach Muindearg, King of 
 Uladh, died ". — Four Mast. He succeeded to 
 the sovereignty on the death of his brother 
 Eochodius in 503. The Tripartite Life of St. 
 Patrick relates that Eochodius, son of Mure- 
 dacius, of the ancient family of the Dal-Fiatach, 
 Avas King of Ultonia in the time of St. Patrick ; 
 on account of whose unbelief the Saint prophe- 
 sied that the sceptre should pass to his brother 
 
 Carellus (Part iii. cap. 6^.) This Eochodius 
 
 was father of St. Domangart. — (Ibid., c. 64.) 
 See above, p. 154. 
 Muireauhach, son of A. D, 479, "Muiredhach Muindorg (red-necked), King of 
 
 Uladh, died" Four Mast. Colgan states that 
 
 he was in possession of three distinct catalogues 
 of the Kings of Ultonia, in each of which this 
 king was called Muredach, son of Forga, son of 
 Dalian, of the house of Dal-Fiatach. — (Trias Th., 
 p. 287.) Giraldus Cambrensis confounds this 
 Muredach Muindearg ('red-necked') with Eo- 
 chodius Muinremhar (thick-necked). Lord of 
 Dal-Riada. — (Topog. Hib. Dist. iii. c. 16.) 
 
 FORCO, 
 
 y O Conor renders la baclacaib boipne here bibtis tecti ruentihus. There is a large towTiland 
 by a ciistode houm ; and at Tigemach, 5GG, \wtra- called fiwrren in Dromara ; and another in Clonallon. 
 
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 FoRCO, son of 
 
 Dallan, .... son of 
 DuBTHAcn, . . son of 
 
 MlANDACH, . . son of 
 
 LuiGDEACH, . . son of His son Eocliaidh reigned over Uladh twenty years. 
 
 AoNGUS, . . . . son of A. D. 251, "The battle of Crinna-fregabail fought by Cormac, 
 
 King of Ireland, against the Ultonians, where 
 fell Aengus Finn, son of Fergus Dubdetaig". 
 Tigern. He was succeeded by Fergus Fogha, 
 the last king of the Clanna Kury that reigned 
 in Eamania, who fell A. D. 332. 
 
 Fergus, A. D. 226, " Feargus Duibh-deadach ('the black-toothed'), 
 
 son of lomchadh, King of Ireland, was killed in 
 the battle of Crinna". — Four Mast. So Tigern. 
 at 248. This king was of the line of Heremon, 
 according to the pedigree given by Keating at 
 A. D. 212, 
 Colgan states that this territory was also called " Upiuca ceo x\a poillpe, i. e. Can- 
 
 tredus sive centivillaria regio (barony or hundred) luminis ". This name arose from 
 
 the legend concerning St. Patrick's death, as found in St. Fiech's Hymn, verse 28. 
 
 {Lih.Hymnorum, p. 31.) 
 
 "Sam ai^eS CRlCb pi^l aiDChl "Posuit tenebras nocti, 
 QR NQ CQ1U6 66S OCCQl Ita quod apud eos erat indeficiens lux: 
 
 CO CeWN 66iat)hNa 6ai S01C6Se Spatio unius anni continuatalux erat; 
 6a he SlCli^aiChe pOUai ". Et Ista contlnua dies et prolongataerat". 
 
 Or, as the Tripartite Life relates, — 
 
 " Per totam illam regionem priscis Mag-inis^ appellatam, spatio temporis, quo apud 
 alios homines duodecim dies, et totidem transierunt noctes, lux absque ulla noctis 
 medise interpolatione, continua et velut diurna permansit". (Pt. iii. c. 106.) 
 
 The following notices of the territory are principally gathered from the Annals of 
 
 the Four Masters : — -^ ^t 
 
 m. M. 3529, 
 
 * As this name was not disused till about the com- 
 mencement of the ninth century, the word priscis 
 indicates a still later date for this composition, and 
 proves Dr. Lanigan's conjecture, that it belongs to the 
 
 tenth century, to be much nearer to the truth than 
 Colgan's, that it was written in the sixth. Com- 
 pare Trias Thaum., pp. 169, 170, with Eccles. Hist., 
 vol.i. p. 87. 
 
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 JE.'M. 3529, Magli ninis, in Ulidia, was cleared of wood. Rath Croich, in Magh-inis, 
 was erected. 
 
 jE. M. 3656, Battle of Cuil-ard, in Magh-inis, wherein Tigernvas defeated the descen- 
 dants of Heber. 
 
 JE. M. 3942, Fionnachta, King of Ireland, died of the plague in INIagh-inis, in Ulidia. 
 
 JE. C. I, Conchobhar Mac Nessa reigned over Ulster, whose palace was in Magh- 
 inis. (Ogyg., p. 273.) 
 
 JE. C. 493, The body of St. Patrick was interred in Dun-da-lethglas, and for t^veh-e 
 nights there was no darkness in Magh-inis. 
 
 JE. C. 823, The Danes defeated with great loss by the Ulidians in Magh-inis. (An. 
 Ul., 824.) 
 
 JE. C. 850, Flannagan, Lord (njepna) of Lethcaihail, was slain. 
 
 JE. C. 891, Maolmoicheirghc, son of Indreachtach, Lord of Lethcathail, was slain by 
 the people of Lethcathail. 
 
 JE. C. 892, Andiaran, son of Maolmoicheirghc, son of Indreachtach, Lord of Lethca- 
 thail, was slain at the battle of Rath-cro. 
 
 JE. C. 908, The fleet of the Ulidians defeated by the Danes, and many were slain, 
 together with Cumuscach, son of Maolmoicheirghc, Tanist(canaipi'') of 
 LethcathaiL 
 
 JE. C. 927, Indreachtach, son of Cathail, Lord of Lethcathail, died. 
 
 JE. C. 942, A hard fought engagement between the people of Lethcathail and the 
 Danes of Loch Cuan. (^4/?. Ul.) 
 
 JE. C. 1004, Lethcathail laid waste by Flaithbertach ONiall, and Aodh, son of Tonuil- 
 tagh. Lord of Lethcathail, slain by him. 
 
 JE. C. 1006, Cuuladh, son of Aengus, Lord of Lethcathail, slain by Flaithbertach O Niall. 
 
 JE. C. 1022, Flathroi, son of Dubhslanga, son of Aodh, son of Tomaltagh, Lord of 
 Lethcathail, slain, in his seventeenth year, by the Danes, in a naval 
 enaa^ement. 
 
 JE. C. 1 147, An army from Tyrone and Uriel led into Ulidia. The Ulidians encamped 
 against them on the Uchdearg (probably Aghaderg, the parish con- 
 taining Loughbrickland). The Ulidians fled, and were pursued to the 
 shore of Dundrum in Lethcathail. A battle was fought, in which the 
 Ulidians were defeated, and Archoin Flathraoi, Lord of Lethcathail, 
 was slain. The invaders wasted Lethcathail with fire and sword, and 
 
 took hostages from the Ulidians. 
 
 uE. C.I 177, 
 
 » In the parallel passage of the An. Ulst., A. D. 912, this word is expressed by mac R 1 j, son of the King. 
 
205 
 
 JE. C. 1 177, "In February, 1177, John de Courcy led forth twenty knights and 300 
 foot soldiers, besides servants, and marching through Uriel [Lowth] 
 in four days (or rather early the fifth), he came to the city of Down, 
 which, without resistance, he took and rifled" (Cox, p. 32.) 
 
 A. D 1226-7, Sixty-two pounds were returned into the Exchequer "de Balliva de 
 LadcatkeV. — (Rot. CI. 1 1 Henry III. m. 24 dors.) 
 
 A. D. 1276, Dermod Mac Gillmurry (now Gilmore), Lord of Leathcathail, died. 
 
 A- D. 1333, This territory was called Comitatus Ultoyiice (Inquis. P. M. 7 Ed. III.) 
 
 A. D. 1 39 1, Cu-uladh Mac Gilmore, Chief of Leathcathail, was slain by his own kins- 
 men. 
 
 A. D. 1427, Comitatus de Lecale (Cal. Cane. Hib., p. 242.) 
 
 A. D. 1468, The son of Eobert Savage, Lord of Leathcathail, Avas killed, and the 
 English of Leathcathail overthrown by Con, son of Aodh Buidhe 
 ONeill, at Beinn-Uamha (Cave Hill?). 
 
 A. D. 1469, Patrick Savage was taken prisoner by the Whites; and Patrick White, 
 aided by Henry ONeill and MacQuillan, assumed the lordship of 
 Leathcathail. 
 An account of the appearance which this part of the country presented, at the 
 
 beginning of the seventeenth century, is preserved in a MS. entitled " Descriptio 
 
 itineris Capitanei JosIeb Bodley in Lecaliam apud Ultonienses : An. 1602". Copies 
 
 are in the British Museum^ and the Library of Trinity College, Dublin. 
 
 K. 
 MOURNE. 
 
 The name Mourne, under the forms niujbopn, mujbopn TDai^en, and muJDopn 
 Tn6pea5, is of frequent occurrence in the Irish Annals, and is applied, in the first two 
 cases, to the southern district of the county of Monaghan. The parish of Donagh- 
 moyne, in the barony of Farney, is called by the Tripartite Life of St. Patrick Dorn- 
 nach Maigen in regione Mngdornorum ; and the neighbouring parish of Magheross, alias 
 Carrickmacross, is called by Adamnan Cell-ims in provincia Mitgdornorum. In the 
 Taxation of Clogher the name appears, with the prefix cpioc, 'a tribe', in the form 
 Crichmugdorna, which is now contracted to Cremorne, and belongs to the barony which 
 
 joins 
 >> Cod. Clar., vol. xx., No 4784, fols. 187-202. 
 
2o6 
 
 joins Farney on tlie north. Arclidall'^ is, therefore, in error when he refers Kill-rois, 
 above mentioned, to the Mourne of the county of Down; and Harris**, with Lanigan^, 
 commits a like mistake in identifying the territory of Modhurna, where St. Jarlath of 
 Armagh was born, with the barony of Mourne. 
 
 The Taxation is, perhaps, the earliest record in which a name resembling Mourne 
 is applied to the barony now so called. The name by Avhich this mountainous tract 
 was early known was Benna BaircJie, ' the Peaks of Bairche f ', as mentioned in the 
 HjTnn of St. Fiech, v. 1 5 : 
 
 "1 Sf.aN UUaiCh 6eNNa "InfonteSlanadAquilonemjuxta^enwa 
 
 6aiT5Che". Boircke". 
 
 Upon which Colgan observes: — "Hi montes Benna Boirche a Bairche Boaire, i. e. 
 Armentario Eossii cognomento Rig-bhuide, Regis Ultonia?, qui ibi habitabat cum 
 
 pecoribus suis" (Trias Th., p. 5, coh 2, n. 20.) The king here spoken of was Ross, 
 
 the son of Imchadh, who succeeded to the throne of Ulster, according to Tigernach, 
 in the year 248s. His reign intervened between those of Fergus Dub-deadach and 
 Aongus Finn, already spoken of in the pedigree of Cathail. Keating, by prolepsis, 
 relates that Cuchullin and Lay, who flourished about the Christian a^ra, " cpinlluio 
 ap pin 50 cuaipceupc Ulao, jup aiciseaoap luim pe 6eannuib 6oipce ", set out 
 
 for the north of Ulster, where they resided near the Peaks of Boirche" (Vol. i. 
 
 p. 402. Ed. Haliday.) ODugan, in the fourteenth century, and the Four Masters, at 
 the year 1493, call this district by the same name. Tigernach, at the year 744, refers 
 to this territory in the following account: — 
 
 " QipD ingnao cappcipp a m-6oipche 1 " Insigne et mirabile prodigium mani- 
 
 n-aimpippiacna mic Qeoa T^oin pi Ulao festatum in regione Boircheorum, tempore 
 
 7 1 n-aimpip Gachac mic 6peapail pi Fiachnai, filiiAedhi Pilosi, Regis Ulidise,et 
 
 Gach .1. ITlil mop po la in muip 00 cum tempore Eachi filii Bresalli, Regis Eacho- 
 
 cipe 7 cpi piacla oip ina cino 7 ,1. uinje rum, i. e. Cetum ejecit mare in terram, in 
 
 in jach phiaccnl bib, 7 pucciDh piacail cvijus capite tres inerant dentes aurei, 50 
 
 Dib CO paibe pop Qlcaip 6enDchaip ppi unciarura pondo quilibet dens, et positus 
 
 pe ciana". erat unus eorum (in oblationem) supra al- 
 
 tare monasterii Banchorensis, spatio non 
 
 modico". rn, 
 
 Ine 
 
 c Monasticon Hibei-nicum, p. 12'S. learned friend, John Donovan, Esq. OBrien erro- 
 
 <* Ware's Works, vol. i. p. 36, note. neously represents this range of mountains as in " the 
 
 e Eccl. Hist, vol. i. pp. 391, 393. extremity of the countj-of Derrj-" — {Irish Diet.) 
 f For this information the -writer is indebted to his e Compare Ogj-gia, p. 333 ; Trias Th., p. 10. 
 
207 
 
 Tlie occurrence seems to have been fresh in the memory of the inhabitants, in the 
 twelfth century, as Giraldus Cambrensis takes special notice of it. " In Ultonia apud 
 Karlenfordiam inventus est piscis tarn quantitatis immensae, quam qualitatis inusitatas. 
 Inter alia sui prodigia, tres dentes (ut fertur) aureos habens, quinquaginta unciarum 
 pondus continentes, quos aureos quidem exteriore quadam similitudine, aurique nitore, 
 potius quam natura crediderim". — (Dist. ii. c. lo.) 
 
 The parish of Kilkeel (Cill caol 'narrow church'), called Mocorne in the Taxa- 
 tion, is co-extensive with the barony. The old church lies a little S. W. of the modern 
 church, in the townland Magheramurphy. The following chapels belonged to this 
 extensive rectory : — 
 
 I. Tamlaght In the townland Lisnacree, at the S. W- edge of the parish, adjoin- 
 ing Killowen in Kilbrony, is the graveyard of this chapel (Ord. Survey, s. ^^.) 
 
 This place is mentioned in the Calendar of the OClerys as the burial-place of the 
 famous Kuanus of Giraldus Cambrensis, or Tuanus, as he is called by the Irish'' : — 
 
 April I, " Uuan mac CoipiU o Camlacoa i m-6oipce". 
 " Thuan, son of Carrill, of Tamlaght in Borche ". 
 By the charter of 1 609 this chapel was constituted a member of the corps of the 
 Treasurership of Down Cathedral. 
 
 II. " Capella de Balloch-enevry, or part of Morne, near by the sea from New- 
 castle" Terrier. In the townland Ballaghanery are the churchyard and the ruins 
 
 marked on the Ord. Survey St. Mark's C^wrcA.— (Sheet 49.) The chapel, of Avhich a 
 circular chancel-arch is the only part standing, consisted of two compartments ; a nave, 
 measuring 33 by 18 feet, and a chancel, measuring 18 by 12 feet. A drawing and 
 description are to be found in the Transactions of the D. C. and D. Church Architec- 
 ture Society. — (p. 17. Belfast, 1845.) 
 
 III. North-west of the last rises the mountain Slieve Donard, which takes its name 
 from Domangard, a saint who was born about the commencement of the sixth century. 
 Colgan, speaking of him, says: "duK ecclesige ipsi consecratse: una ad radices altissimi 
 montis mari ad Orientem imminentis, priscis Eath-murbhuilg, hodie Machaire-Eatha, 
 appellata; altera in vertice ejusdem editissimi montis longe ab omni humana habitatione 
 posita; quge tamen etiam sseviente dura, diraque haereticorum persecutione, consuevit 
 magno populi accursu, et continuis peregrinationibus, in honorem hujus mirifici servi 
 Dei, multis ibi signis, et miraculis coruscantis frequentari". — (Acta SS., p. 743-) The 
 
 former 
 
 •> See Keating, vol. i. p. 158 ; Ogygia, p. 4 ; Stillingfleet, Ant. Brit. Ch., cap. 5, p. 275 (Lond. 1840.) 
 
208 
 
 former of these churches lias been already noticed (pp. 27, 154); the latter was standing 
 a century ago, as appears from the following description by Harris : — 
 
 " On the Summit of this Mountain are two rude Edifices (if they may be so termed), 
 one being a huge Heap of Stones piled up in a pyramidical Figure, in which are formed 
 several Cavities, wherein the Devotees shelter themselves in bad Weather while they 
 hear Mass; and in the center of this Heap is a Cave formed by broad flat Stones, so 
 disposed as to support each other without the help of Cement. The other Edifice is 
 composed of many Stones, so disposed in rude Walls and Partitions, called Cltapj)els, 
 and perhaps was the Oratory and Cell erected by St. Doniamjard before hinted. Sir 
 William Petty mentions in his Maps a Chappel on the N. E. side of Slieve-Donard, 
 which he calls LeniorcPs Chappel ; but probably for want of due Information he has 
 corrupted the Name, and that the true Name of it is Donard''s Chappel''\ — (Down, 
 p. 121.) 
 
 IV. Greencastle. — The townland so called derives its name from a castle which 
 was erected here by the English soon after the Invasion, and was the point of commu- 
 nication with the opposite shore of Carlingibrd. Here are the remains of the castle, 
 and colse, on the south, the "chapel in ruins" (Ord. Survey, s. 57), measuring 70 feet 
 by 23. 
 
 Besides these chapels, which are in the parish of Kilkecl, there are two rectories, 
 which appear, from their not being noticed in the Taxation, to have been early depen- 
 dencies of Kilkeel. In the Terrier they are called Chapels. In the early part of the 
 seventeenth century they accompanied Kilkeel ; but towards the middle of it, they 
 were held independently of it. At present they form part of a large union extending 
 over 80,000 statute acres. 
 
 V. KiLCOo, in Upper Iveagh. Called Killcudua in the Charter of 1609; Kilchnw 
 in the Terrier ; and Kilcua in the Ulster Visitation. In the townland Ballymoney 
 (Ord. Survey, s. 42) are the " Church ruins" and grave-yard. 
 
 VI. KiLMEGAN — The parish church occupies the old site in the townland Money- 
 lane. — (Ord. Survey, s. 43.) In Drumbuck Wood, to the north of Castlewellan, was 
 formerly a cemetery ; also in Carrowbane, a sub-denomination of Bally willwill ; and 
 another in the townland Ballylough, at Dunsillagh Hill, called Shankill. 
 
 Before the Reformation the parish of Kilkeel was styled a Plebania, — a term, the 
 explanation of which may help to shew the grounds upon which exemption from epis- 
 copal jurisdiction has been claimed for this parish. 
 
 The term Plebanus is occasionally used as equivalent to Rural Dean and Archpres- 
 
 biter. 
 
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 biter. It probably arose out of a Canon of the Council of Pavia, A. D. 850. " Propter 
 assiduam erga populuniDei curam, singulis jo/ei/iz^sArchipresbyteros pr?eesse volumus; 
 qui non solum imperiti vulgi sollicitudinem gerant, verum etiam eorum presbiterorum, 
 
 qui per minores titulos habitant, vitam jugi circumspectione custodiant Et sicut ipse 
 
 (Episcopus) matrici ecclesi£E priest, ita archipresbyteri prsesint plebibus ; cuncta tamen 
 referant ad episcopum".' 
 
 In ecclesiastical usage the ^vord Plebes had three significations: 1st. 'The faithful 
 under a priest ' ; 2nd. ' A diocese or parish ' ; 3rd. ' A baptismal church '. The distinc- 
 tion between it and Plebs is drawn in the line cited by Du Cange : 
 
 "■ Plehs /iominu7n dicas; sed Plebes ecdesiarum''\ 
 
 Spelman observes, concerning the Irish term Corba, that " eminentioris loci fuit, 
 
 atque idem qui Decanus 'Rnrslis^Plebanus, Archipresbiter, seu Chorepiscopus" (Glos- 
 
 sar. Arch^ol., p. 151.) With this agrees the Scholar's Certificate of Sir John Davis, 
 which calls the Comorban "plebanus, quia plebi ecclesiasticse prajest". Also the 
 Inquisition of Cavan, A. D. 1609: " The Corbe called in latin pleibanus, is head of a 
 
 greater familieor sept, and hath sometime under him severall herenaghes" (Ul.Inq., 
 
 Appendix, No. VII.) " Plebania est majus quam Eectoria, habet sub se capellas, et 
 dignitatem esse putant Interpretes ".— (D« Cange.) " There were some cures", writes 
 Bishop Stillingfleet, "which had chapels of ease belonging to them; and they who 
 officiated in them, were called capellani, and had their subsistence out of the oblations 
 and obventions, and were often perpetual and presentativei. And where the incumbents 
 had several chapels of ease, and only assistants to supply them, the canon law doth not 
 call them rectores, but plebani; who had a sort of peculiar jurisdiction in lesser mat- 
 ters, but still they were under the bishop's authority in visitations, and other ecclesi- 
 astical censures " — (Duties, &c., of the P. Clergy''.) Such seems to have been the 
 ancient condition of the plebanus of Kilkeel, rather than that described by Cowel, of 
 "a Parish Priest in a large Mother Chvirch, exempt from the Jurisdiction of the Ordi- 
 nary, who had therefore the Authority of a Rural Dean committed to him by the 
 Archbishop, to whom the Church was immediately subject". — (Interpreter, sub voce.) 
 
 In illustration of what has been advanced, the following occurrences are worthy of 
 notice: — 
 
 A. D. 1369, The parish church of Kylkeyl in le Mourne, diocese of Down, vacant by 
 the death of John de Thrius. — (Reg. Sweteman, fol. 5.) 
 
 A. D. 1388, 
 
 ' Can. 13. Labbe, Concil., torn. ix. col. 1070. cese — See pp. 36, 37, 43. 
 
 J Of this kind were the Libera capella of this dio- '' See Dansey's Horse Decan. Rurales, vol. i. p. 1 53. 
 
 2 E 
 
2IO 
 
 A. D. 1388, John Eheene (recte Cheene) presented by the Crown to the parish church 
 
 of St. Coleman del Morne (Cal. Cane. Hib., p. 131.) 
 
 A. D. 1406, Patrick Oweyn, a clerk of Meath, presented by the Crown to the church 
 of St. Colman of Kylkele, vacant by the death of John Chyne. The 
 Bishop of Down refused institution, and nominated Adam M'^burne. 
 The case was submitted to the Primate, who, in 1407, pronounced in 
 favour of the former, and directed Thomas Omostead, Archdeacon of 
 Dromore, and two others, to induct him and to admonish all and singular 
 the chaplains officiating in said church, and all the dependent chapels, 
 
 to render him due obedience (Kog. Fleming, fols. 8, 9, 12; Cal. Canc_ 
 
 Hib., p. 183.) In the same year a letter of excommunication was issued 
 against Donald Oronaga and Columba ^F Kartan, chaplains, for resist- 
 ance to the new rector; and Walter M"^ Kartan, with other parishioners, 
 were enjoined to desist from further opposition. On this occasion the 
 Primate acts as " custos spiritualitatis X)/*owor(?«s«s dioceseos". — (Ibid., 
 fols. 12, 13b.) 
 
 A. D. 1442, John Lech e, canon of Armagh, rector of Morna. — (Reg. Prene, p. 66.) 
 
 A. D. 1446, John Leci, rector of the parish church of Killchil, alias de Morun — (Keg. 
 Mey, lib. i. p. 92.) 
 
 A. D. 1456, John Leche, rector of Morna, proctor for the Bishop of Down in a pro- 
 vincial synod at Drogheda, 8th July. — (Reg. Prene, p. 32.) 
 
 A. D. 1526, The Primate presented Cormac Roth, bachelor in decretis, to the rectory 
 or plebania of Killcayll, avIio in the following year nominated Patrick 
 M'^Rowry to the vicarage. — (Reg. Crom., pp. 473-597-) 
 
 A. D. 1536, The Crown presented Peter Lewis to the rectory of the parish church of 
 Kyllghill, alias Morne, in the diocese of Down, vacant by the death of 
 Cormac Roth (Rot. Pat. 28 Hen. VIII.) 
 
 L. 
 
 PARISH OF BALLYKINLER. 
 
 This parish forms the eastern boundary of the inner bay of Dundrum, and contains 
 2038 acres. It derives its name from 6aile-camDlepa, ' the town of the candlestick', 
 beins a luminary, or " appropriated", as Harris observes, " to Christ's Church, Dublin, 
 for Wax-Lights". Remote as this tract of land is from Dublin, it has been the pro- 
 perty 
 
21 I 
 
 perty of Christ Church for six centuries and a half. The following is John de Courcy's 
 grant of it to that house, as transcribed from the Black Book: 
 
 " Johannes Courcy. 
 
 " SciANT omnes tarn presentes quam futuri, ad quos presens carta pervenerit, quod 
 ego Johannes de Curci dedi et concessi, et hac mea carta presenti confirmavi ecclesiaj 
 sanctai Trinitatis de Dublina, et sanctiE cruci' ibidem venerabiliter constitutse, et 
 canonicis in eodem loco Deo famulantibus, terras in hac carta nominatas : videlicet 
 InidochamUn, Lesscummahcig, Ganimor, et dimidiam ])artem. BaUimeicdunein, tenendas 
 et habendas, et de me et heredibus meis, in puram et perpetuam eleemosinam, libere, 
 quiete, et honorifice, in pascuis, in pratis, in piscaturis, et in omnibus pertinenciis 
 suis. Quare volo, et firmiter precipio, quatinus omnes supradictse terrae liberse sint 
 ab omni secularium exactione, sicut supra determinavi et decrevi. Hiis testibus, Jo- 
 hanne Dublin archiepiscopo, Hamone de Maci, Willielmo de Curci, Adam Camerario, 
 Amauri de Obda, Willielmo de Marisco, Osberto Trussel, Macrobio archidiacono, Cris- 
 tino decano, Eogero capellano, Johaune Cumeri, Jacobo Pencerna, Henrico priore de 
 Lilisluba, et multis aliis" (fol. 3 b.) 
 
 This instrument is not dated, but it may be referred to the year 1200. Of the 
 lands specified therin, the first, until lately, bore the name of InisIochguUion. It was 
 so called Inif loca cuillin, ' island of the lake of the holly', there being an island on a 
 sheet of water of this name at the east side of it. This lake, containing, according to 
 Harris, (Down, p. 151,) sixty acres, is laid down in Petty's and Williamson's maps; 
 but was drained in 18 14. Besides the natural island, it contained two artificial ones, 
 which were formed of stones, earth, and branches, altei-nately laid, and bound together 
 by stakes interwoven with wattles. Some ancient bronze spears and axes were found 
 in the substance of them, when they were levelled, after the draining of the lake. The 
 present R. C. chapel of Ballykinler stands upon what was the largest of these islands, 
 and the area of the cemetery marks its original shape. This spot is placed by the 
 Ord. Survey in North Tyrella ; but incorrectly, inasmuch as the whole lake, with its 
 islands, belonged to Ballykinler, and the site of the chapel was granted, in 1784, by 
 the then proprietor of Ballykinler, whose property never extended into Tyrella. The 
 townland, which contained InisIochguUion, is now named Middle Ballykinler by the 
 Ord. Survey. Two sub-denominations are locally called Ballyetra, and Cooey's-town, 
 the latter from an occupant whose Christian name was Quintin. 
 
 2. Lesscummalscig seems to be the Lismochan of the Taxation. — (See p. 28.) It is 
 
 still 
 
 ' This was the famous crucifix " quaj bis verba sonasse legitur'' ISee Book of Obits, p. 3, and Introd., p. G. 
 
 2 E 2 
 
212 
 
 still locally called, aud should have been marked on the Ord. Map, Lismoghaiiy instead 
 of "Lower Ballykinler ". The Survey has, however, preserved the name in " Lisma- 
 hon Fort". In Patty's map the townland is marked '■'• Lismagon''\ and '■'■ Lismahon'''' 
 on Williamson's. 
 
 3. Ganimor {'i^amm mop 'the great sand') is now represented by the Rabbit 
 Warren, which lies at the south of the parish, and forms part of the " Upper Bally- 
 kinler" of the Ord. Survey. In Petty's map it is marked " Balligannymore"; and, 
 until aljout thirty years ago, there stood here a high peak of sand, which was locally 
 called Gannymore. In the same townland, north of the Warren, and about a quarter 
 of a mile west of the shore of the inner bay, is an ancient cemetery, in which are the 
 foundations of a church, csWadi Killi/glinnie, measuring 26 by 15 feet. A few yards to 
 the east is a neatly closed spring, called St. Patrick's well. In this townland, which is 
 Ballykinler Proper, a short distance east of Killyglinnie, is a little hill, called Lisna- 
 shimmer, or ' the shamrock fort ', the top of which was formerly surrounded by a 
 trench. Within the enclosed space, a discovery was made, some years ago, of several 
 small graves, about three feet in length, and ten inches in width and depth. The 
 cavities were lined and covered with thin stones, and contained human remains, which, 
 from the charcoal found with them, appeared to have undergone partial incineration. 
 Molar teeth and fragments of full-grown bones, which were interspersed, proved that 
 these graves were not, as might at first appear, intended for unbaptized infants. They 
 may reasonably be supposed to date their formation from a period anterior to the 
 introduction of Christianity into Ireland. 
 
 4. Ballimeicdunem is now luiknown'"; but, in the Ulster Inquisitions, mention is 
 made of" Ballymacgiertie ; a parcel of land called the Earle's-parke ; a coniger called 
 the Yellow-coniger neere Ballymacgiertie, extending to the black ditch ". — (No. 15, Jac. 
 I. ; 20 Car. II. Down.) The Earl's-park is in Upper Ballykinler, on the north side of 
 the road from Dundrvim to Killough, bordering the shore, and takes its name from the 
 Earl of Kildare, Avhose house there is still inhabited. Ballymacguertie was probably a 
 stripe of land, north of the last, between Killyglennie and the shore ; for here, on a 
 hill, were formerly the foundations of an extensive building called, by the neighbour- 
 hood, Mac Gam-trey's Castle. The Black Ditch Avas a rampart which ran along the 
 shore as far as Annadorn, but is now nearly levelled. From these considerations it is 
 likely that Ballimeicdunem and Ballymacguertie were identical, and lay in the west of 
 Upper Ballykinler. 
 
 The manor of Inislochcullen, containing the lands of Ballekenloure, Lismoghan, and 
 
 Ganymore, 
 " Mr. D'Alton transports it to Ballymadun, in the Co. Dublin — Hist Co. Dub., p. 500. 
 
213 
 
 Ganymore, was let in fee farm, iii 1585, by the Dean and Chapter of the Church of 
 the Holy Trinity, to Richard Bealing; at whose death, in 1600, it was inherited by 
 his son, Sir Henry Bealing ; by whom it was assigned to George Eussell, Junior, of 
 Rathmollen; and by him to Con^PGenis, of Ballykenloure; and by him to John Gib- 
 bons, merchant, of Dublin; subject to the rent of £3, payable to Christ Church (Ul. 
 
 Inq. No. 1 1, Car. I.; 20 Car. H.) In the family of the last the lands partly continued 
 until about fifty years ago. They now form three distinct estates. 
 
 In the Terrier the parish is called Ballecanlenor ; and in the Ul. Visitation Capella 
 de Ballecanlener, to which is added: " The great tithes belong to Christ Church in 
 Dublin, and remaynes in their possess" or th"' farmo". The third part thereof esteemed 
 to be worth ^ an. xx^." — (p. 248.) The tithes are now let by the Dean and Chapter 
 of Christ Church, but without any provision being made for the discharge of the 
 spiritual duties. 
 
 M. 
 
 PARISH OF LOUGHINISLAND. 
 
 The present barony of Kinelarty, of which this parish forms a part, represents the 
 ancient territory called Cenel-pasapcaij. It occupies nearly the middle of the county 
 of Down, and is divided between the dioceses of Down and Dromore. It derives its 
 nsime irom Fagartack, whose tribe (cenel) peopled this district, and from whose grand- 
 son Artan, the family of Mac Artan, who were the hereditary lords of the territory, 
 derived their name. They were of the Clanna Rury, or descendants of Rudhraighe 
 Mor, and belonged to the class called Creeve Roe or Red Branch, under which they are 
 thus mentioned by ODugan, the bard, in 1372: — 
 
 " TTlaccapcain ip do capcaij " Mac Cartan: it is to him was chartered 
 
 Cenel poacr Pajcipcaij The firm Cinel-Fagharty, 
 
 aipjib nap ceileab aip cleip Who never refused the request of the clergy, 
 
 Cairjio an einij laopen". They were the depositories of hospitality". 
 
 Concerning their lineage O Flaherty thus writes: " Saranus, qui Patricii tempore, 
 anno circiter 474, Dalaradise principatum tenuit, non alius videtur esse quam Saranus, 
 qui Conallum Coelbadii regis filium sibi proavum praefert, Manii filius, Fothadii nepos; 
 quo ortus est Mac-cartan de Clannfogarta".— (Ogyg. p. 371-) Herein, however, he 
 confoxmds Sarain, the great-great-grandson of Coelbadh, from whom the Magenisses of 
 
 Iveagh 
 
214 
 
 Iveagh are descended, with Sarain, the son of Coelbadh, from whom the Mac Artans, 
 The following is the line of the Mac Artans, according to the pedigree in Mac Firbis' 
 Genealogical MS., and Keating: — 
 
 Coelbadh, . King of Ulidia for fifteen years, and of Ireland for one year; slain in 358. 
 
 I 
 Sarain. 
 
 I 
 
 MONGAN. 
 
 Fagartach, a quo Kinel-Fagartaigk. 
 
 I 
 Craindeach. 
 
 Artan, ... a quo Mac Artan. 
 
 It has been supposed by some that this Sarain was the Saranus whom the Tripartite 
 Life of St. Patrick describes as a contemporary with that saint, and the chief among the 
 twelve sons of Coelbadius; but the dateof Coelbadh's death does not admit of this com- 
 putation, and requires that the word son be taken in the secondary sense of descendant. 
 " Coelbadii filii stricto sensu minime sentiendi sunt: Siquidem Coelbadius omnium 
 calculis septuaginta quatuor annis ante S. Patricii cum Evangelio appulsum e vivis 
 excesserit ; et Saranus contra Patricium pervicax ab Olcano tum Episcopo (post Patri- 
 cii appulsum circa annvim 440 in lucem edito, et anno 474 Episcopo facto) baptismum 
 acceperit toto sa;culo et quod excurrit, post Coelbadii regis exitum" — (Ogyg., p. 371.) 
 
 In 1 605 Phelim M*^ Artan, chief of the clan, with Donald Oge M'^ Artan of Kille- 
 narten, granted to Edmund Lord Cromwell the castle of Dondrome, with the third 
 part of all his country, called Killinartie in Down county, or in Watertirrye, or else- 
 where, the chief seat and demesne of the Mac Artan being excepted : To hold for ever, 
 in consideration of a certain sum of money, and that Lord Cromwell should take into 
 his keeping, and bring up Patrick M"^ Artane, eldest son of said Phelim. On the 28th 
 of September, same year, Lord Cromwell and Phelim made a surrender of the territory 
 of Killenarten, on condition of a re-grant being made to them, half to each. On the 
 4th of October, grants were made to them respectively of a moiety of said terrritory. 
 in fee farm, to be held by the service of knight's fee, at £2 yearly rent. 
 
 " The principal Seat of the Mac Cartanes''\ says Harris, " was at a Place called 
 Annadorn, on an Eminence, near which, noAv called Castle-Hill, it stood, and is at pre- 
 sent inhabited by Mv. Anthony Cosslet^\ — (Down, p. 74.) Annadorn is the name of a 
 townland, and on a hill therein, Avhich rises over the edge of a lake of about sixty 
 acres extent, stood the castle ; but there is not a vestige of it now remaining. From 
 an island in this loughan, or ' small lake', the parish takes its present name. In 161 5 
 the church was called £cc/es« a cle Lochenewin ; in 1636 it was found by Inquisition that 
 
 Lord 
 
Lord Cromwell was seized of the Island of Loughnewy, which, in the Forde Patent, is 
 called Loughnewie, alias Laraty. The earliest instance in which the modern name 
 appears is in a Regal Visitation of 1633, Previously to the Reformation there were 
 several rectories and chapels Avithin the limits of the present parish, as the following 
 table will shew : — 
 
 Taxation. 
 
 Inquisitions, Sfc- Temp. Ed. VI.; 
 Eliz. 
 
 Charter 1609; Ul. 
 Vis. 1622. 
 
 Terrier, 1615. 
 
 Visitations, 
 1633-64-79. 
 
 Kenles, . . 
 Styouii, . 
 Drumcath, 
 Rathcath, 
 
 Lerkes, . . 
 
 Kenlys, 
 
 (In W Carthen's country.) 
 
 Drumcatlie, . 
 Rathekehatt, 
 
 "Lyrge, alias 
 Kynaleorty, 
 
 f Vil. Braiiye, 
 
 I 
 
 \ Vil. Lyrge, . 
 
 Vil. BoUoes, 
 
 (In patria de M'^Cartan.) 
 
 Kinglesse, . . . 
 
 Stion, 
 
 Drumcad, . . . 
 
 Racat, 
 
 Boroston, .... 
 Ballyragga, . . 
 Villa Bilesa, . . 
 Ballintampany, 
 
 
 ) 
 
 Cap. Kenlis. 
 
 (In R. Deanry of Le- 
 gale.) 
 
 Ec. Drumcha, , 
 
 Cap. Recat, . . . 
 
 (Both in R. Deanry 
 of Morne.) 
 
 > Ef. Lochenewin, 
 
 (In R. Deanry of 
 Morne.) 
 
 I 
 
 Dromcad. 
 
 Loughin Is- 
 land. 
 
 Thus it appears that these small denominations became consolidated in the two 
 parishes of Drumcad and Loughin-island. So, in an Inquisition of the year 1657, no 
 more than the two names are returned, Loghan Island, on the north, containing fifteen 
 and a quarter townlands; and Dromcha, on the south, containing eight: and the pro- 
 cess was completed in 1 7 1 8, when the two parishes, excepting four townlands which 
 were transferred to Kilmore, were united and " made one parish, to be called the 
 parish oiLoghans Island''''. 
 
 The traces which remain of these chapels are as follow : — 
 
 I. KiNLES This name is now lost, and one might be disposed to identify it with 
 
 Ballykinler, but for the authority which places it in Mac Carthen's country, and the 
 Terrier, which distinguishes Kenlis from Ballycanlenor. In the townland Farrenfad, 
 a little west of Magheralagan Lake, at Moffat's Quarter, there was a spot called Killy- 
 clough, where the remains of a Christian cemetery are remembered to have been. The 
 space is now occupied by a house and garden. — (Ord. Survey, s, 37.) 
 
 II. Stion — See above, p. 33. 
 
 IIL, IV. Drumcad, 
 
2l6 
 
 III., IV. Drumcad, Racat — See above, pp. 29, 30. 
 
 v., VI., VII. BoRisTON, Ballyraga, Villa Bilesa. — These names are locally 
 unknown, and the Editor has not been able to find a clue to their exact appropriation. 
 The Lerkea or Lyrge of the earlier records is, probably, represented by the Ballyraga 
 of 1609, 1622, and by the Loughan-island of after times, under which, it would seem 
 that, Boriston and Villa Bilesa were townlands, having chapels. Connected by a cause- 
 way with the townland Tievenadarragh is the Loughan-island, which gives name to the 
 parish. — (Ord. Survey, s. 37.) On it is the old parish cemetery, an English acre in 
 extent, and containing the picturesque ruins of three churches. The largest and 
 uppermost is called the old parish church, and measures 67 feet in length, and 30 feet 
 4 inches in breadth. The second and middle is exceedingly ancient, and was probably 
 disused when the other, which is also very ancient, was built. This building measures 
 40 feet by 23 feet 10 inches. The third and lowest down is called ^PCartan's Chapel. 
 It measures 22|- feet by 14^ feet. Over the door are the letters PMC (Phelim 
 M*^Cartan), and the date 1639. Inside is a recumbent tombstone bearing two inscrip- 
 tions, the one of the liev. Theophil. Macartan, and the other of John, Phelomey, and 
 Dominick Macartan, with whose position in the grave their respective inscriptions 
 correspond, being at the opposite extremities of the slab, and turned in opposite ways. 
 
 South-east of this spot, on the right side of the road leading from the back gate of 
 Seaforde demesne, towards the Bochill Bregagh, is a field wherein, it is stated, there 
 was formerly a cemetery called Sliankill.— (Ord. Survey, s. 37.) Again, in Maghera- 
 lone, one of the townlands which, in 1718, were transferred to Kilmore, situate N. W. 
 of the Island, there was known to be a burial-place called Killf/lotie or Shankill. — (Ord. 
 Survey, s. 30.) 
 
 VIII. Ballintampany, a townland in Magheradroll, now called Magheratampany. 
 (Ord. Survey, s. 29.) It is situate N. W. of the Island. — See p. 103. 
 
 Partly in the same barony with Loughinisland, but chiefly Upper Castlereagh, is 
 the parish of Kilmore, or as it was formerly called, Kilmore-moran. The old church- 
 yard is in the townland Carnacally. In the townland Barnamaghery is another ancient 
 burying-ground. Also in Creevyargon and Listooder there were small and long-disused 
 places of interment. In the Kinealarty portion of the parish is a townland called i?a- 
 demynan, in which the Down Survey places a castle called Radaman. This is the site 
 referred to in the ancient Life of St. Mochoemog or Pulcherius, where it mentions the 
 "castellum Rath-temayn, in quo erat rex Ultorum". In Colgan's text it is corruptly 
 printed Rath-leamain (Acta SS., p. 590, col. 2); but in the Book of Kilkenny (foL 81, 
 
 col. 2, 1. 39) it is written as above. 
 
 To 
 
217 
 
 To the same Rural Deanry, though not the same barony as Loughinisland, belonged 
 two other parishes Avhich are not noticed in the Taxation. 
 
 Tawnaghneeve, that is Carhnnc naorh, now Anglicised by Saintfield. Harris 
 derives the name as if TtiUach-na-naove, which means Saint hill. — (Down, p. 71.) The 
 rectory of this parish was appropriate to the abbey of Comber. 
 
 KiLLANEY, called in the Inquisitions Killenny, alias Anaghalone or Anaghdoloitn. 
 The ancient graveyard, enclosed by a ring-fence, but without any traces of a building 
 therein, lies in the southern extremity of the parish, a little S. E. of Lough Henney, 
 called locally Loughinney. — (Ord. Survey, ss. 15, 22.) The rectory, extending over 
 seven townlands, was, at the Dissolution, appropriate to the abbey of Moville. 
 
 PARISH OF KILCLIEF. 
 
 KiLCLiEF, or, as it is written in Irish, Cill-cleice, signifies 'the hurdle church', in 
 reference to the materials of which it was constructed^ ; and this name was continued 
 even when the original structure was superseded by one of more durable materials. 
 The Four Masters, at the year 935, style the church then existing here a boimliag 
 (pronounced duleek)^ which term is derived from boirii (domus) ' a house', and liar ' a 
 stone', and signifies ' a stone church'. Their words are: — 
 
 " Op^ain Cilleclere bo mc 6apir, 7 " Vastatio Cillcletensis per filium Ba- 
 
 lopccctb m boiriiliac, 7 bpacc po rhop bo rithi, ei comhustio ecdesioi lapidece, etcap- 
 bpeir eipce". tivi plurimi rapti inde". 
 
 With this church, as has been shewn at p. 39, was associated the name of St. 
 Kelan, probably either Caylan, the founder of Neddrum, or Cillen of Achadh-chail, 
 since Colgan has stated that the original name Caolan admits of these varieties. — 
 (Trias Thaum., p. 597, col. 2.) 
 
 In this parish, N. W. of the church, which occupies the original site, is a tract of 
 
 400 
 
 " Thus Clr-cliac, 'hurdle ford', the old name alicujus plebei agellulo virgarum fasciculos ad hos- 
 
 of Dublin; Cliac bp Olcec, ' wicker bridge ' pitium &Wiir[&a.t eonstruendum" . JoceUn, speaking 
 
 (F. ]Mast., 1159.) Adamnan relates of St. Columba of Palladius' mission to Ireland, says "tres ecclesiie 
 that on one occasion he sent out his monks " ut de de robore exstructas fundavit" — (cap. 25.) 
 
 2 F 
 
2l8 
 
 400 acres, belonging to the Arclideaconry, which the Ordnance Survey lays down as 
 a sino-le townland under the name of Glebe, though consisting of the three denomina- 
 tions Drumroe, Carriff, and Carrowvannish, or, as they were called in 1592, Spittle 
 Quarter, Carrowreagh, and Fermeannes. In the first of these quarter-lands is a plot 
 called the Spital-field, which, within memory, contained some vestiges of an ancient 
 building. These were the remains of an Hospital of Lepers, which was standing here 
 in the fourteenth century : — 
 
 A. D. 1387, Robert de Vere, Marquis of Dublin, &c., committed to Nicholas Lepyng, 
 clerk, the custody of the Lepers' house of St. Peter, nigh Kylclcth in 
 Ultonia (Cal. Cane. Hib., p. 134.) 
 
 A. D. 1 41 5, The King committed to John Fitz-Richard, chaplain, John Molyn, and 
 Walter Sely, the custody of the hospitals or lepers' houses of St. Nicholas 
 of Down, and St. Peter of Kyicleth, with their lands and appurtenances, 
 to be held while in the King's hands, rent free. — (Ibid., p. 204.) 
 
 Near the church is an old castle, which was formerly a manorial residence of the 
 bishop. It seems to be a building of the fourteenth century, but is still in good pre- 
 servation, being well roofed, and is occasionally used as a granary. Here it was that 
 John Sely, the last Bishop of Down, resided ; and here he pursued that course of life 
 which eventuated in his deprivation. In 1434 Primate Swayne served him with a moni- 
 tion, of which the following is the substance: "■Johannes, permissione Divina, archiepis- 
 copus Armachanus, venera1)ili fratri nostro J. episcopo Dunensi, salutem, &c. Cum ex 
 clamosa multorum insinuatione ad nostrum pervenerit auditum quod qusedam Letys 
 Thomas nunc conjugata, quam olim concubinarie tenuistis, in loco habitationis vestrjE 
 residerit ; vosque publice ac simul cohabitaveritis cum eadem. Quocirca vos primo, 
 secundo, et tertio, in his scriptis monemus, quatenus infra xv dies immediate post pre- 
 sentationem et receptionem prassentium dictam Letys a cohabitatione vestra omnino et 
 realiter amoveatis, &c., 24 Septemb." — (Regist. Swayne, p. 81.) 
 
 This letter, which further threatens suspension and excommunication in case of 
 his obstinately persisting, failed of producing the desired result; for, in 1440, Primate 
 Prene complains of his still living in " castro de Kyicleth simul cum quadam Letys 
 
 Thomb" (Reg. Mey, lib. i. p. 67.) At length summary proceedings were resorted 
 
 to, and on the 29th of May, 1441, the Primate addressed a letter to Pope Eugenius IV., 
 ill which he enumerates the oifences of the Bishop of Down in the following manner: 
 " Cum itaque prout didiceram inspectis tarn Uteris mei immediati predecessoris quam 
 actis curiae Armachanaj inde confectis et referentibus Johannes Dunensis suffraganeus 
 propter diversos excessus, et quod, inter csetera, immemor sui juramenti dictse vestrje 
 
 ecclesiee 
 
219 
 
 ecclesiee et mihi prsestiti, diversa ediclit ordinationes et statuta, juri qiiidem communi 
 dissonantia, quod nulli priscipue suse dioceseos ex appellationum sive querelarum aut 
 causis aliis quibuscunque ad metropoliticam curiam accederent, pro eorum inibi negotiis 
 expediendis : — nee contentus quod ex his ac propter abusionem sui habitus monachialis, 
 quamobrem compertus fuerat, in alieno habitu sfficulari,eteapropter perPrjedecessorem 
 meum expulsus uotorie suo Concilio provinciali. Ac quia post, et contra monitiones, 
 mandata diutina, et diversa hujusmodi, habitum abusus est, extra locvxm sibi congruum 
 in castro de Kilcleth, Dunensis dioceseos, cum quadam Letys Thombe, quam nuper te- 
 nuerat in sui concubinam, tunc alterm$° conjugatam, insimul cohabitando, prout coha- 
 bitare non desinit, et sit excommunicationis vinculo, et aliis sententiarum poenis merito 
 innodatus, et quod sic per nonnullos annos et tempora sustinuerit, et adhuc sustinet 
 indurate, nee procurat se absolvi a sententiis, censuris, pariter atque poenis suspensio- 
 nis, excommunicationis, et interdictionis, Sanctissime Pater, ne talis, qui obedientiam 
 et reverentiam ut congruit superiori debitas non impendit, aut quod honori convenit, 
 sed claves contempnit ecclesise, fidelibus ejusdem praebendo exemplum sacrilegum ac 
 perniciosum, impune (quod absit) sui, transeat per excessus, sed quod ejus poena metus 
 sit multorum similia volentium attempare : Hinc est quod ipsum Johannem, cognomine 
 Sely, episcopum Dunensem, ad Sanctitatis vestras prasentiam ad sui bene meriti de- 
 positionem, ex causis supradictis, ad xxv'""" diem Novembris, jam proxime futuri, 
 prsecise et peremptorie citavimus, ad quam depositionem, quam citius fieri poterit, in 
 nomine Domini Jesu Christi dignetur Sanctitas vestraprocedere, et fieri demandare, ut 
 ipsi ecclesiffi Dunensi de humili, utili, et fideli persona provideatur, ad quam habere 
 gratiose digneris religiosum et venerabilem virum fratrem Willielmum Basset, ordinem 
 Sti. Benedicti expresse professum, et in sacerdotio constitutum, per quern inde sibi pro- 
 viso speratur ilia Dunensis bene regi et utiliter gubernari, &c." — (Eeg. Prene, p. i8i.) 
 On the Ordnance map this parish presents the anomalous appearance of being in 
 five detached portions, namely, Ringreagh, in the heart of Down parish; Carrowdressex 
 and Commonreagh, in diff'erent parts of Bright; Rossglass, with four parishes inter- 
 vening ; and Boss, near Ardglass. It is probable that Kilclief being formerly a small 
 parish, of only 1484 acres, these small denominations, which were originally chapel- 
 ries, were added to it to aiigment its income. In 1834, these five toAvnlands were, bv 
 Act of Council, transferred respectively to the adjacent parishes, while, in lieu of them, 
 the two Killards and Ballywoodan were incorporated with Kilclief. — See Third Keport 
 on Ecclesiastical Revenue, 1836, p. 264. 
 
 0. 
 
 She was his own wife See Primate Swayne's monition, preceduig page. 
 
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 0. 
 PARISH OF SAUL. 
 
 The church of Saul, which was commonly called Saball paopuic, is occasionally 
 spoken of under the Latin form Horreum Patricii. The origin of the name is thus 
 accounted for in an ancient Life of St. Patrick, cited by Archbishop Ussher : — " Dichus 
 credidit ei primus prse omnibus toto corde ; et baptizatus obtulit Deo et S. Patricio agrum 
 in quo ipsi tunc stabant. Ejus enim vicus erat, in quo sanctus Dei portum apprehen- 
 dit : et rogavit Dichu sanctum episcopum, ne longitude suse ecclesiaj ab occidente in 
 orientem esset, sed ab aquilone in meridiem : quia Domini est meridies sicut oriens. 
 Zabulum enim erat in loco quem heros Dichu dedit S. Patricio ; et voluit ille ut secun- 
 dum formam Zabuli sui domus Dei aedificaretur ad Solem : et hoc adeptus est ille a viro 
 Dei. Tunc sanctus pontifex in ipso loco ecclesiam nominatam fundavit ; quae est trans- 
 versa ab aquilone in meridiem, secundum positionem Zabuli pra^dicti. Qui locus ex 
 nomine ipsius ecclesise, Scotice nominatur usque hodiie. Sabhull Padhrig, Latine autem 
 Zabulum Patricii, vel Horreum Patricii". — (Brit. Ec. Ant., cap. 17; Works, voL vi. 
 p. 406.) Or more briefly thus, in the Third Life in Colgan's collection: "Et rogavit 
 Dichu S. Patricium ne longitudo Ecclesiai ipsius ab Occidente in Orientem verteretur, 
 sed ab Aquilone in meridiem. Tunc Patricius in eo loco erexit Ecclesiam transversam, 
 quae usque hodie dicitur Sabul Patric''\ — (Cap. 31, Trias Thaum.. p. 23, col. 2.) 
 Jocelin further attaches to the legend a mystical import: " In eodem loco, ipso Dichu 
 petente (nescio qua de causa) a sancto Dei ab Aquilonari parte versus meridianam 
 plagam Ecclesia adificatur, forte ut ab Aquilonari frigore infidelitatis, ad fervorem 
 meridianum fidei, charitatisqueChristi, mystica hujus structura cultores Idolorum inci- 
 tarividerentur, qu£E usque in prajsens ab mcoW?, Sahhall Phadruig, i. e. Horreum Patricii 
 nominatur". — (Chap. 32.) "The reason assigned for its being called a iarn", observes 
 Dr. Lanigan, " is, that it was built according to the form and position of Dicho's barn; 
 but I should rather think that it Avas originally nothing else than a real barn belonging 
 to Dicho, in which St. Patrick celebrated divine worship, in the same manner as even 
 in our own times barns have been used in Ireland for the same purpose". — (Eccl. Hist,, 
 vol. i. p. 2 1 3.) There is good reason, however, for supposing that the word Sabhnl 
 or Horreum was, in ecclesiastical use, a technical term for a church possessing some 
 peculiarity, such as a deviation from the ordinary rule of position. A church of this 
 name existed in Armagh. The Irish Annals, at 915, record a conflagration at Armagh, 
 which burned its Sabal; and at 10 1 1 a great mortality at Armagh, which carried off, 
 
 among 
 
221 
 
 among others, ' Cennpaelaoh an cSabuiU', ' Cenfaoladh of the SavaP; also, at 1020, 
 they mentiou the burning of the oamlioj an cSabaill, ' the stone church of the 
 Saval '. This church had been founded by St. Patrick. It is related by the Tripar- 
 tite Life that when the lord of the country around Armagh, accompanied by a party, 
 went out to choose a site for a church, " cervam conspiciunt in loco in quo hodie est 
 SabhalP' — (Part iii, cap. 71, Trias Thaum., p. 162, col. 2.) The fourth Life, relating 
 the same occurrence, states " Invenit cervam cum hinnulo jacentem in loco in quo 
 nunc est Altare Sej)te?itrwna lis ecdesice'''' — (Cap. 86; Trias Thaum, p. 46, col. 2.) And 
 the fifth Life " Cervam cum hinnulo jacentem in loco in quo nunc est altare Sinistralis 
 ecdesice'''' — (Lib. ii. c. 8; Trias Thaum., p. 52, col. 2.) 
 
 The custom of building churches east and west seems to have prevailed in Ireland 
 ever since the introduction of Christianity. The following quatrain, which is pre- 
 served in several ancient MSS., as a prophecy of the Druids, foretelling the arrival of 
 St. Patrick and his companions, and which is certainly of a very ancient date, has 
 reference to the position of the altar in the east of churches. It is here given as printed 
 by Petrie, in his "History and Antiquities of Tara Hill" (p. 78); and as translated 
 by Colgan (Trias Thaum., p. 5, col. 2): — 
 
 "Uicrai caillcenb, rap muip meipceno, 
 Q bpacc roillcenb, a cpano cpomceno, 
 Ct miap a n-nipchep ari;;e 
 ppipcepuc a muincep uli, omen, amen". 
 
 " Veniet tonsus in vertice trans mare vorticosum, 
 Cujus toga (i. e. cassula) erit desuper perforata, cujus bacillus erit praecurvi capitis, 
 Cujus disci (sive uteusilia) erunt in parte Oriental! suje domus : 
 Eique decantanti, tota ipsiiis familia respondebit ^mere, Amen". 
 
 Or, as it is thus paraphrased in Jocelin: " Adveniet in circulo tonsus in capite, cum 
 
 suo ligno curvo, cujus mensa erit in oriente domus suge, populusque illius retrorsum 
 
 illi astabit, et ex mensa sua nefas cantabit, et tota familia sua, fiat, fiat, respondebit ". 
 
 (Cap. 31.) 
 
 ODonnellus, in his Life of St. Columba, states that when that saint was laying the 
 
 foundations of his church, called Dubh-reigleas, he disposed them " transversim seu 
 
 strigato situ", sooner than, by felling any of the dense wood which surrounded, enable 
 
 them to face the East, " quanquam ne hunc ipsum Ecclesise morem omnino prgeterire 
 
 videretur, sacrum altare, ad Orientale templi latus erigi curavit. Quem ipsum ilium", 
 
 adds the writer (A. D. 1520), "prgedicti sacelli situm extantia hodie vestigia demon- 
 
 strant". — (i. 57, Trias Thaum., p. 398, col. 2.) 
 
 From 
 
222 
 
 From some such accidental disposition of their sites, the Savals of Down and 
 Armagh may have derived their names. 
 
 Saul, having been the earliest church founded by St. Patrick in Ulster, continued a 
 favourite with him till his death. " Sanctus in eo loco usque ad obitum suum fre- 
 (|uentius habitabat" — (Opus Tripart. Ussher.) The composition which Ussher cites as 
 the " Testamentum Patricii ", contains this verse : — 
 
 " Cpicha bliaohan Damhpa pen, " Thirty years was I myself 
 
 Ipin c-SabuU conjlaine". At Saul with purity". 
 
 Jocelin says : " Processu temporis, cgrcgium inibi monasterium construxit, in quod 
 perfectos monachos introduxit, ad quorum usum non longe a loco pernecessarium de 
 terra fontem orando produxit. Huic ccenobio S. Dunnium discipulum suum abbatem 
 constituit: ubi et ipse, de pradicatione reversus, cum eo non panels diebus deguit" — 
 (Chap. 32,) The fountain here referred to seems to be that which is mentioned by the 
 Scholiast on the verse of St. Fiech's H}Tnn : — 
 
 "1 s6aN cuaiub 6eNNa san^che wis 5ai6et) uoru hq 6ia 
 caNaiocecsa^mcechwamchi t)o t^i^ aiN^e^^po^wiaD". 
 
 " In fonte Slan ad Aquilonem juxta Benna-boirche, (qui fons nunquam deficit) 
 Decantabat centum psalmos singulis noctibus, Regi Angelorum inserviendo". 
 
 Upon which the comment says: — 
 
 " Slan, nomen poncip " Slan, nomen fontis. 
 
 [Sla]na lappinoi buplan Slan, ex eo quod sanus est 
 
 [cech im]obop rapacejeo omnis super quern exsiluit, 
 
 . . . ocup 10 Sabull aca . . . et apud Sabull est; 
 
 . pepleuepunc UlaiD . repleverunt Ulidii 
 
 [earn] ppopcep molepciam cup- eam propter molestiam tur- 
 
 [balpum e;ceuncium ao iLlam". barum exeuntium ad illam". 
 
 This is according to the reading in the Liber Hymnorum (j). 30). Colgan gives 
 the passage in a more extended form : — 
 
 " Proprium nomen ejus Tiprad Innse: et Slan dictus est eo quod omnes omnes 
 sani revertebantur ab eo propter gratiam Patricii. Alii dicunt quod juxta Sabhallum 
 sit, vel in Dalaradia ; Sed Ulidii repleverunt illam propter molestiam turbarum ex- 
 euntium ad ilium sic, ubi fuit". — (Trias Thaum., p. 5, col. 2.) 
 
 In 
 
223 
 
 In this monastery St. Patrick ended his days. The Calendar of the O Clerys, at the 
 14th of April, says: — 
 
 "Uapac e]^poc o 'Rair-colpa i nUl- " Tassach, bishop ofEaholp in Ulidia, 
 
 caiB .1. 1 ^eir-Carail, a pe an Capac pa i. e. Lecale. This is the Tassach who gave 
 DO pao copp Chpipc 00 naom puopaij the body of Christ to St. Patrick before 
 pe nej 1 mainipcip SaBaiU". his death, in the monastery of Saul". 
 
 Which the much earlier authority, the H;ymn of St. Fiech, thus expressess: — 
 
 "Qwais cassach t)ia aes in uqh t)06eRu commaN t)o 
 as6eRu moNicpeD paupaic si^iauhaR uassai^ mir 6u 
 
 «... . . . [SO"- 
 
 " Remansit Tassachus post eum, Quando ministravit Communion em ipsi. 
 Dixit quod coramunicaturus esset Patricium, Nee prophetia Tassachi erat falsa". 
 
 After his death we find little or no notice taken of Saul in the Annals, and it is 
 reserved for Malachi O Morgair to re-introduce into conventual distinction this ancient 
 monastery, which he built entirely anew. His contemporary S. Bernard says: "Eodem 
 visionis genere id quoque quod in Saballino situm est antequam fieret^ prseostensum est 
 illi, non modo oratorium, sed et monasterium totum". — (Vit. S. Malach. Messingham, 
 p. 372.) The Four Masters casually mention it as a church at the year 11 49; but at 
 1 156 they record the death of Maolmaodhocc mac Dubradin, abbot of Sabhall. At 
 1170, they relate that the convent of Regular monks with their abbot, whom Malachi 
 O Morgair, Legate of the Vicar of Peter, had placed in Sabhal Pattraic, were driven from 
 the monastery which they had built and adorned, and were spoiled of their books, 
 their sacred furniture, cows, horses, sheep, and all things which they had collected in 
 the time of said Legate. This was done by Magnus O Eochadha, King of Ulidia, at 
 the instigation of Awlave, a monk who had been expelled from Drogheda for his 
 crimes. For the next event in its history see p. 40. 
 
 In the to-\vnland Ballysugagh, a short distance N. E. of the abbey, is a spot called 
 the Saval-bregagh, or pseudo-Saul, where formerly existed a cemetery. 
 
 P. 
 
 DOWNPATRICK. 
 
 DowNPATRiCK owed its chief celebrity, in former times, to the belief that the mortal 
 remains of Patrick, Brigid, and Columba, the three patron saints of Ireland, were 
 interred there. But this persuasion, prevalent as it was, was founded on evidence 
 
 not 
 
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 not altogether unexceptionable; and the following authorities will shew that discre- 
 pancies and doubts have, for a succession of ages, attended the consideration of the 
 
 subject. 
 
 Tirechan, Avhose notes on the Life of St. Patrick are preserved in the Book of 
 Armagh, having instituted four similitudes between St. Patrick and ISIoses, observes 
 in the fourth place : " Ubi sunt ossa ejus nemo novit ". Nennius, preserving the com- 
 parison, observes: " Sepulchrum illius non invenitur; sed in occulto humatus est, 
 nemine sciente". Yet Tirechan in some measure corrects himself when he writes : 
 " Colomb cille, Spiritu Sancto instigante, ostendit sepulturam Patricii, ubi est confir- 
 mat, id est in Sabul Patricii, id est in aeclesia juxta mare, ubi est conductio martirum, 
 id est ossium Coluimb cille de Brittannia, et coftductio omnium Sanctorum IliberniaB 
 in die judicii".'* Maccuthenius, on the other hand, declares the place to be "ad Dun- 
 leth-ylaisse ubi sepultus est Patricius", and adds " quando ecclesia super corpore facta 
 est, fodientes humum antropi ignem a sepulcro inrumpere viderunt et recedentes flam- 
 migeram timuerunt flammae ignem". The third Life in Colgan's collection introduces 
 an angel saying to St. Patrick, " Noli ire ad civitatem Ardmachae, quia non ibi morieris, 
 nee ibi erit resurrectio tua; sed \n Dun-leth-glaisse : — quia promisisti filiis Trechim 
 
 quod in terra eorum caderes" (Cap. 88; Trias Thaum., p. 28.) In the Tripartite 
 
 Life the angel is represented as saying " Revertere ad Monasterium Sabhallense, unde 
 veneras: ibi, et non Ardmachaj, migrabis ad Deum, tuumque sepelietur corpus ". — 
 (Pars iii. cap. 101 ; Trias Thaum., p. 167, col. 2.) After his death, says the same Life, 
 "inter populos Ulidiae ab una parte et Hua Kelliorum, et Orgiellorum ab altera, orta 
 est gravis et periculosa contentio super sancti thesauri possessione, et funerali recon- 
 ditione : Uiidiis corpus illud in sua regione, ubi sanctus Sabhallense primum in Hiber- 
 nia monasterium fundavit, diu commoratus est, et tandem obiit, humandum asseren- 
 tibus ; aliis contendentibus Ardmacham potius deferendum ; ubi sui honoris sedem, et 
 regni ipse constituerit Metropolim" — (Pars. iii. cap. 107 ; Trias Thaum., p. 168, col. 2.) 
 The dispute having been settled by a miraculous interposition, " Ulidii cum triumpho 
 
 et 
 
 P This quotation is taken from Petrie's Essay on lumbkiUe's bones from Britain, compared with the 
 
 Tara p. 115- The learned writer expresses his opi- Annals of Ulster, 841, 877, it maybe concluded 
 
 nion in p. 107, that the collections in the Book of that Tirechan's part of the work was not composed 
 
 Armagh, relative to the Life of Patrick, were writ- till near the close of the ninth cent\ir>% and that the 
 
 ten in the seventh century ; and, in a later work, transcript in the Book of Armagh is not earlier than 
 
 that " there is no part of the manuscript older than the beginning of the tenth, being executed but a short 
 
 the close of the seventh century, or perhaps than the time before 937, the year in which, according to the 
 
 eighth" (Round Towers, p. 330.) But from the Four Masters, the Canon-Patraic, or Book of Ar- 
 
 mention made by Th-echan of the removal of St. Co- magh, was covered. 
 
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 et tripudio thesaurum ilium desiderabilem in urbem Dunensem Saballensi Monasterio 
 
 vicinam asportarunt; et in altissima fossa ne furto abripi posset, recondiderunt" 
 
 (Ibid., cap. 1 08; Trias Thaum., p. 169.) Accordingly, in the Testamentum Patricii, 
 which Archbishop Ussher describes as " vetustissimis Hibernicis versibus expressum", 
 the saint is made to prophesy 
 
 "Oun I mbia m-epeipji, a Raic Celcaip mic tDuach". 
 
 " Dunum, ubi erit mea resurrectio, in colle Celtaris filii Duach", 
 
 To which may be added the Acts of St. Brigid, quoted also by Archbishop Ussher, 
 "Sepultus est in arce Ladfflaisse, \e\ Leathglaysse, et ibi usque ad diem judicii corpus 
 ejus permanebit" — (Brit. Ec. Ant., cap. 17; Works, vol. vi. p. 457.) 
 
 But these authorities which assert that St. Patrick was buried at Down gain a greater 
 weight than even their age or number could confer, from the fact that the claim was 
 in early ages conceded by Armagh. Considering that that church was founded by St. 
 Patrick, and that the primacy was attached to it, it is not likely that it would have per- 
 mitted another church to enjoy the reputation of being his resting-place without contra- 
 diction ; and that a manuscript in which is a tract which is justly pronounced to be 
 " a mere fabrication to support the authority of the church of Armagh", and " all the 
 lives" in it suspected of being "written with a view to serve the same purpose"," 
 should have invented a story for the purpose of conferring the highest honour upon a 
 rival church. The Book of Armagh would scarcely introduce a fiction to shed lustre 
 on Dow7i or Saul. Nor is it likely that in after ages the church of Armagh would 
 have acquiesced in a mock translation without remonstrance, or allowed the fact to pass 
 for granted, if general belief had not given sentence in favour of Down. It is trvie that 
 the Annals of Inisfallen, at the year 830 (which is 844 of the Annals of Ulster, and 
 845 of the common era), relate that the shrine of St. Patrick was broken open and 
 carried away by the Danes ; which shrine may be supposed to have contained the 
 relics of St. Patrick mentioned by the Annals of Ulster at the year 830, and at 845, 
 as carried by Forinnan, Abbot of Armagh, into Munster. Also that St. Bernard de- 
 scribes Armagh as the place " in qua [S. Patricius] et vivus prgefuit et mortuus requi- 
 escit^\ Still, however, it is not certain that these were the relics of the same St. 
 Patrick, or, if they were, that they Avere more than a small portion of them. 
 
 The selection of Down as the depository of the remains of St. Brigid and St. 
 Columba, whether in reality or in fiction, supports the argument for St. Patrick's 
 interment there, inasmuch as Down possessed no title to them, either by historical 
 
 association, 
 1 Petrie's Essay on Tara, p. 111. 
 2 G 
 
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 association, rank, or immunity from Danish intrusion : and the only attraction which 
 it can be conceived to have possessed was the custody of St. Patrick's remains. The 
 earher biographies of these saints, being written before the spoliation of Kildare and 
 lona by the Danes, represent them as buried at their respective churches. Conlseth, 
 first Bishop of Kildare, died in 519, as did Brigid in 523; and in 799, it is recorded 
 by the Annals of Ulster, that the remains of the former were deposited in a shrine of 
 gold and silver, at which time, or previously, it may be supposed that the remains 
 of Brigid, the patron saint, Avere similarly honoured. Cogitosus, whose Life of St. 
 Brigid is shewn by Mr. Petrie (Round ToAvers, p. 200) to have been written between 
 799 and 835, when speaking of the church of Kildare, says : " In qua gloriosa amborum, 
 hoc est Episcopi Conleath et hujus Virginis S. Brigidse corpora a dextris, et a sinistris 
 altaris decorati, in monumentis posita ornatis, vario cultu auri et argenti, et gemma- 
 rum, et pretiosi lapidis, atque coronis aureis et argenteis desuper pendentibus requies- 
 cunt". — (Messing., p. 199.) Adamnan, again, in his account of the death of St. 
 Columba, in the church at Hy, proceeds to say : " Post Sancta? egressum animse hymnis 
 matutinalibus terminatis sacrum corpus de Ecclesia ad hospitium,' unde paulo ante 
 vivens venerat, cum canora fratrum reportatur Psalmodia, honesteque ternis diebus, 
 t;t totidem noctibus honorabiles rite explentur exequiae. Quibus in Dei sapiendis 
 laudibus terminatis, Sancti, et beati Patroni venerabile corpus mundis involutum sin- 
 donibus, et prajparata positum intra busta debita humatur cum veneratione in lumi- 
 nosa et ajternali resurrecturum claritudine "". — (Lib. iii. cap. 18, ed. Messing.) This 
 occurred, according to the Annals of Ulster, in the year 594. A century or two 
 having rolled by, the relics of this saint were likewise disinterred, and placed in a 
 costly shrine, the fame of which had reached the Danes in 824, when they desolated 
 Hy, and sacrificed the abbot to their fury. His name was Blaithmac, and a metrical 
 account of his martyrdom, written by Walafridus Strabo, thus relates the cause of his 
 death : — 
 
 " Ecce furens maledicta cohors per aperta ruebat 
 Tecta viris minitando pericula sasva beatis 
 Et reliquis rabida sociis feritate peremptis. 
 Ad sanctum venere patrem, pretiosa metalla 
 Reddere cogentes, quels sancta Columbge ■ 
 Ossa jacent, quam quippe suis de sedibus arcam 
 ToUentes tumulo terra posuere cavato, 
 Cespite sub dense gnari jam pestis iniquce. 
 
 Hanc prsedam cupiere Dani". 
 
 Four 
 
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 Four years after this occurrence Dermot, Abbot of Hy, went to Albany [Scotland] 
 with the remains of St. Columba. — (An. Ul.) In 830 they were conveyed to Ireland; 
 but they were shortly after returned, as Inrechtach, Abbot of Hy, is recorded to have 
 brought them to Ireland in the year 848. Again they were returned to lona, as it 
 is stated that in 877 the shrine of St. Columba was conveyed to Ireland to save it from 
 the Danes. About this time it is supposed that his remains were deposited in Down ; 
 but why there, instead of Derry or Durrow, cannot be easily accounted for, except 
 by the supposition that it was out of respect to the memory of St. Patrick. Kildare 
 also was ravaged by the Danes about the same date, for, in 835, a party of them from 
 
 Inbher Dea [the mouth of the Vartrey] assailed it and burned half the church {An. 
 
 Ul.) And to this cause it is supposed was owed the transfer of St. Brigid's remains 
 to Down, Yet it is a strange thing that the remains of these two saints, which had 
 long since been exhumed and enshrined, should now be returned to the earth, in the 
 words of the ancient verse cited by Keating as the prophecy of St. Columba : — 
 
 " ITIo par a n-1 jan coipe " My prosperity in guiltless Hy, 
 Qjup m'anam a n-Doipe And my soul in Derry, 
 
 Qjup mo coppan po'n Lie And my body ixnder the flag 
 
 Po acca pacpuic ip Spijic". Beneath which are Patrick and Brigid". 
 
 Subsequently to this date the Life of St. Brigid by Animosus was written, as quoted 
 already at p. 143; and that anonymously cited by Archbishop Ussher, which states : 
 " In arce Leath-laidhi sepultus est sanctus pater Patricius, et beata Brigida, et reliquise 
 beatissimi abbatis Columbse post multos annos collatee in uno sepulchro". — (Works, 
 vol. vi. p. 450.) In the year 11 86 the famous translation of the relics of the three 
 patron saints took place at Down, in presence of Cardinal Vivian, who had come for 
 the express purpose of the solemnity, and of John de Courcy, and of other distinguished 
 persons. A fanciful account of the invention, and a partly incorrect one of the trans- 
 lation, is given in the Lessons of the Office, which was printed in Paris in 1 620, and 
 was inserted by Colgan in his Trias Thaumaturga. The Lessons are also to be seen in 
 Messingham's Florileg., pp. 206, 207 [recte 208, 209], and Ussher, Works, vol. vi. 
 pp. 452-454.) It is very probable that this translation was a political expedient of 
 John de Courcy, and that it was devised as a means to conciliate a conquered people, 
 just as a recent translation at Paris was designed to amuse a fretful populace. Giraldus 
 Cambrensis, who, in the year 11 85, attended John Earl of Moreton, afterwards Kmg 
 John, to Ireland, in the capacity of tutor and secretary, speaking of St. Patrick, 
 Columba, and Brigida, relates : " apud Ultoniam, in eadem civitate, Dunensi scilicet, 
 ipsorum trium corpora sunt recondita. Ubi, et his nostris temporibus, anno scilicet, 
 
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 quo Dominus Comes Johannes primo in Hiberuiam venit, quasi in spelunca triplici, 
 Patritio in medio jacente, aliis duobus hinc inde. Johanne vero de Curci tunc ibidem 
 prgesidente, et hoc p-ocurante, tres nobiles thesauri divina revelatione inventa sunt et 
 translata. Unde versus 
 
 " In burgo Duno, tumulo tumulantur in uno 
 Brigida, Patritius, atque Columba pius". 
 
 — (Topograph. Ilib. Dist. iii. cap. i8.) 
 
 Public feeling was prepared for this event by the publication of Jocelin's Life of 
 St. Patrick, which Ussher places at the year 1 183, a very probable date, inasmuch as 
 the author states that he wrote it at the instance, partly, of Thomas Archbishop of 
 Armash, who became Primate in 1 181, and as he takes no notice of the translation of 
 the three saints, which occurred in 1 1 86. 
 
 The Four Masters, however, differ from Giraldus and the Otfice, both as to time 
 and place. They relate that in 1293 Nicholas Mac Maolisa (who was Primate from 
 1272 to 1303), having had a revelation that the relics of St. Patrick, Columba, and 
 Brigid, were in Saul, caused them to be disinterred, and that, great miracles having 
 been wrought by them, they were solemnly covered, and finally deposited in a shrine. 
 But, previously to this, the Prior and Monks of St. Patrick's of Down had, in 1220, 
 addressed King Henry III. to the following effect: " Excellentia; vestrai transmittimus 
 uonachum nostrum cumferetro Patrononum Hibernice — Fatricii, Columbce, et Brigidce-, 
 et eorum reliquis; quatinus pro eorum revercntia, et pro promisso, quod domiuus nos- 
 ter, Pater vester promisit ; scilicet se benefacturum ecclesise nostras, et pro vobis, qui 
 Domiuus estis totius terra? patronorum Hibernia; et patronus, aliquam mansiunculam 
 in Anglia, ubi, cum opus fuerit, poterimus hospitari, nobis caritative detis".— (Prynne, 
 Rec. iii. p. 49; Rymer, Feed. i. p. 250.) 
 
 How the question was regarded in the year 1372 appears from the following lines 
 of the bard ODugan: — 
 
 " O tDhun-oa-leacjlap na leann " From Dun-da-lethglas of the cassocks, 
 
 Qp I pij peileaj Gipeann It is the royal cemetery of Erin, 
 
 ^an pajhail ap maipe ann Without my heed on gain there, [vered. 
 
 6aile ap palaij ope Colam. A town wherein the clayof Columb was co- 
 
 San UQi^ ceubna do cuipeuo In the same grave was buried 
 
 ftpi^iD buaib ap m-bancuipeaD Bridget the victory of females; 
 
 map pagmair aca jach buai6 And, as we leave them every victory, 
 
 paopu 15 niaca pa mop uaij". Patrick of Macha is in the great grave" 
 
 In 
 
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 In 1451 the honour Avas again conceded by the church of Armagh, and Primate 
 Mey, writing to Pope Nicholas V., prays of him to provide a fit successor to the see of 
 Down and Connor, then vacant, "ob honorem Sti. Patricii confessoris almifici, cumque 
 corpus unacum corporibus sanctorum Brigidce et Columbfe in Duuo cumulo cumu- 
 latur in uno" (Reg. Mey, iii. p. 357.) 
 
 But Downpatrick is also remarkable on account of the number of religious houses 
 which were collected within its narrow compass, before the fifteenth century. The 
 enumerations of them hitherto given have been very imperfect, and the following, it 
 is hoped, will, in some measure, supply the defect. 
 
 I. Benedictine Abbet/, now the Cathedral. — See pp. 41, 144, 165, 174. The change 
 which John de Courcy made in this house is thus related by Pembridge: "Johannes 
 Courcy expulit seculares canonicos de ecclesia Cathedrali Dunensi, et adduxit mona- 
 chos nigros de Cestria, et posuit in eadem ecclesia: Et sancta Trinitas fuit ibidem in 
 sede magnitudinis, et ipse Johannes deposuit eam de ecclesia et ordinavit capellam pro 
 ea imagine, et in magna ecclesia posuit imaginem S. Patricii, quod non placuit Deo 
 Altissimo". A Pat. Poll (41 Ed. III. p. 2, m. 11), preserved in the Tower of London, 
 contains copies of charters to this house; one from Malachi the Bishop, six from John 
 de Courcy, and one from Hugh de Lacy. It has been printed, with one or two incon- 
 siderable omissions, in both editions of Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum. One of 
 the grants from John de Courcy (circ. A. D. 1182), runs thus: — "Concessi ecclesise 
 S. Trinitatis de Dune terram dextra parte S. Georgii intrantibus murum usque ad 
 Curiam S. Columbse; et a Curia S. Columbee per vicum juxta crucem S. Moninnse, 
 usque ad murum; et Mungona, &c. The cross here alluded to was probably that 
 which Harris describes: " Near the Court-house in the Street lie the several Pieces 
 of an old Stone Cross, on the Shaft of which is carved a Crucifix or Image of Jesus; 
 it is generally called the Market Cross ; yet probably it stood in one of the Church 
 Yards, and was erected for superstitious Purposes. The Pedestal is one solid Stone, in 
 Form of a Cube, about three Feet high, the Shaft or Pillar twelve Inches by sixteen, 
 and five Feet high, and the Cross about four Feet high, all of a stone called the Lapis 
 
 Molaris or Grit" (p. 32.) In 1220 the Prior and monks wrote to Henry III. to say, 
 
 " Domus sancti Patricii stepe per werram desolatse sunt, et combustse, cum Ecclesia, 
 
 quae de novo incipit reedificari" (Prynne, and Rymer, ut supra.) In 13 16 it was 
 
 plundered by Edward Bruce — (Grace, An.) Tiberius, who presided over the see in 
 1500, is said by Ware to have " much beautified his cathedral". The means by which 
 he effected this end appear from the following document : " Tiberius, Dei gratia, Du- 
 nensis et Connerensis episcopus, &c. Sciatis quod nos quasdam uniones ad fabricam 
 ecclesife Cathedralis Dunensis, quee patitur in lapidibus et tectura ruinam ; et ad aug- 
 
 mentandum 
 
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 mentandum cultum divinum in ecclesia prsedicta ; etiam propter venerabiles reliquias 
 sanctorum virorum, Sti. Patricii, Sti. Columbse, et Stse. Brigidaj, ibidem in uno tumulo 
 jacentium; de consensu prioris Dunensis et conventus ejusdem; — Monasterium quod 
 olim ab antiquo gubernabatur per Moniales, quod quidem monasterium est liodie de- 
 vastatum; et Monasterium Sti. JohannisBaptistge; et Monasterium Sti. Thomas Proto- 
 martyris ; et Monasterium Ilibernicorum ; et Eectoriam ecclesiaj parochialis de Ardglas ; 
 et Praebendam de Ros; et Pra?bendam de Ballenagallbee (see p. 30); et Capellam Stse. 
 Marise Magdalene (see p. 43); ad justam et laudabilem petitionem domini Gelasii Ma- 
 ganisse, commendatorii de Duno, praemissa omnia et singula, propter causas pra?missas, 
 quod melius est ecclesiam Cathedralem dotare quam quad ambo in forma cadant, uni- 
 vimus annexuimus et incorporizavimus. Dat. in Caregfergus, 20 die Feb. A. D. 15 1 2 ". 
 This union of the endowments of the smaller religious houses in Down to the Cathedral, 
 was confirmed by the Primate, October 12, 1541 ; and the instrument was directed to 
 " Conosius Maganasse, commendatorius de Duno, sede vacante". — (Reg. Dowd., p. 63.) 
 Gelacius Magennis, above spoken of, was Prior of St. John's in Down, as well as of 
 St. Patrick's and other houses. — (Reg. Dowd., p. 483; supra p. 177.) The cloictheach, 
 or belfry of this church, alluded to above at p. 41, "stands", writes Harris in 1744, 
 " about 40 Feet from the old Cathedral, is 66 Feet high, the Thickness of the "Walls 
 three Feet, and the Diameter on the Inside eight Feet. On the West-side of it is an 
 irregular Gap about 10 Feet from the Top, near a Third of the whole Circumference 
 being broken off by the Injury of Time. The Entrance into it is two Feet and a half 
 ■wide, and placed on a Level with the Surface^ of the Ground: in which last Particular 
 it is pretty singular. For in others the Door is placed from eight to 1 2 Feet above the 
 Ground, without any Steps or Stairs; so that there is no getting into the Building 
 without a Ladder, unless it may be judged (which is probable enough) that this Diffe- 
 rence has been occasioned from the raising of the Ground by the Rubbish of the old 
 Cathedral near it, fallen into ruinous Heaps".— (Down, p. 2 20.) This appendage of the 
 ancient abbey was taken down during the autumn of 1783, being considered an un- 
 sightly as well as unserviceable object ! 
 
 11. Priory of St. John the Baptist. — It was sometimes called the Priory of the English, 
 and belonged to the order of Cruciferi under the rule of St. Augustine. The charters 
 of this house, from John de Courcy, Richard de Burgo, Stephen de Petraponte, Ni- 
 cholas of Trym, William Fitz-Alan, William de Mandeville, are preserved in a Pat. 
 Roll (10 Ed. iii., p. 2, m. 35,) of the Tower of London, which is unnoticed by Dug- 
 dale, Archdall, &c. In these instruments it is variously called the Hospital of St. John 
 the Baptist, and the Hospital of St. John of the English. 
 
 John de Courcy's grant runs thus: " Deo et Staj. Marise et Sto. Johanni, et Sto. Ni- 
 
 chola3. 
 
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 chol£E, et Sto. Clementi, et fratribus qui manent in Hospitale extra civitatem de Dtino". 
 " Domus S. Johannis Anglici juxta civitatem de Dune seisita fuit de quadam insula 
 vocata insula S. Johannis de Doun ". — (Cal. Cane. Hib., p. 1 63 b.) " Prioratus Sti. 
 
 Johannis Baptistte infra muros de Duno" (Eeg. Dowd., p. 483.) In one roll it is 
 
 incorrectly called " Domus S. Johannis Jerusalem de Duno". — (Cal. Cane, p. 131, com- 
 pared with pp. 142 b, 144^.) Its site is now occupied by the Ebenezer Chapel on the 
 south side of Mary-street. The spot is marked on a map of Down, A. D. 1729, by a 
 mound, in the shape of a horseshoe, to which Harris refers, in his History of Down, 
 as on Chappel-hill. — (p. 267.) Near this, on the S. E., is a place marked on the same 
 map, " St. John's Close". " About sixteen Years ago", writes Harris in 1744, " Mr. 
 Trotter, as he was making a new Garden on Chopj)el-hill, found another Agnus Dei, 
 which being also Free-stone, an ignorant Servant Maid brayed it to Powder for do- 
 mestick Uses. He found vast Quantities of human Bones in the same Place, which 
 he deposited in one large Grave". — (p. 29.) 
 
 III. Monasterium Hibernicorum, a priory of Regular Canons, called also Monaster 
 Gallagh. It is said to have been founded byMalachi OMorgair in 1138. Its site is 
 thus pointed out by the Terrier : " Monasterium Hibernorum, hard by the Cathedral, is 
 the church of Channons". The old gaol, now a barrack, which lies a little north of the 
 cathedral, at the north side of English-street, occupies a site whereon human remains 
 have been found, and which would answer well to the description. Also, on what was 
 formerly called Windmill Hill, where the present county gaol stands, human bones and 
 several early English coins have been dug up. This is farther off from the cathedral on 
 the north, but Bridge-street, which runs beside it, was formerly called Fryer'' s Lane. 
 
 IV. The Priory of St. Thomas the Martyr, otherwise Toberglorie, of Eegular Canons. 
 It was founded by John de Courcy, and made a cell of St. Mary's of Carlisle. Nothing 
 more is known of its site than what the founder says in the Charter: "juxta fontem 
 quae vocatur Toberglorie, in suburbio de Dun, inter duas vias, quarum una tendit ad 
 Crems, alia ad grangiam de Saballo". It was prckbably at the N. E. of Down. On 
 the map of 1729 a portion of ground, between the end of Church -street and the road 
 to Saul, is marked i<>^er's Bog. The charter is preserved in a Pat. Roll (12 Ed. II. 
 p. I, m. 19), and is printed in the Monasticum Anglicanum. 
 
 V. Franciscan Friary. — According to Ware, it was founded about the year 1 240 
 
 by Hugh de Lacy. In the angle formed by Scotch-street and Irish-street, about seven 
 
 perches to the rere of the former, and sixteen to the right of the latter, human remains 
 
 were found in such quantities as to indicate a cemetery, which may possibly have been 
 
 that of this house. 
 
 VI. Nunnery 
 
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 VI. Nunnery of the Blessed Mary, Cistercian order. — (Cal. Cane. Hib. p. 242.) Site 
 uncertain. In the map of 1729, the junction of Bridge-street and Church-street, north 
 of the parish church, is marked Nuns'' Gate. 
 
 Besides the conventual houses there was an hospital for lepers dedicated to St. 
 Nicholas (Cal. Cane. Hib., pp. 131, 204; nos. 14, 21.) Site unknown. 
 
 A church of St. Brigid also existed in this city, as appears from the following 
 entry in the Annals of Ulster, at 1006: — 
 
 " IDacaoan mac tDoTTinaill pi Ulaoh "Madugan M'^donell King of Ulstr 
 
 t)0 mupbh con Dupe in eclup 6pi5De pop killed by Turk in St. Bride Church in y* 
 lap Ouinoaleurjlaip". midest of Dundalehglas"."^ 
 
 This may have been afterwards converted into a chapel of one of the religious 
 houses subsequently founded. It is not easy to say whether the present parish church 
 occupies the site of one of these religious houses, or whether it has always been an in- 
 dependent chapel. The earliest mention which the writer has met of a parish church 
 in Down is in the document printed at p. 1 70, 
 
 Q. 
 
 ABBEY OF INCH. 
 
 The following history of the foundation of the abbey of Inch, as preserved in the 
 registry of Fumes Abbey, may be added to what has already been observed at pp. 44, 
 92. " Abbatia de Ynes in forma subscripta filia Furnesii effecta est, prout in registro 
 et cronicis Ultonias de illius fundatione lucidius expressatur. Igitur tertio Kalen- 
 das Junii Anno Domini MCLXXX. et anno regni regis Henrici secundi post con- 
 questum Ultonia; anno tertio, vir illustris dominus Johannes de Curcy conquestor 
 Ultonia; fundavit abbatiam de Ynes in insula de Ynescuscre; sic enim tunc vocabatur; 
 quam utique Abbatiam Rex quidam Ultonia? nomine Magnellus Makenlefe prius fun- 
 davit vi. Idus Septembris Anno Domini MCXXVII. prope fontem sancti Finiani in 
 terra quas dicitur Erynach, et nominavit eam abbatiam de Carricke, et erat de ordine 
 Tyronensi et filia Savigneii; cujus primus abbas sanctus Evodius, in die obitus sui, 
 prascepit fratribus sepelire corpus ejus in Insvda de Ynes, et intulit causam dicens; 
 
 Domus 
 
 ■■ Thus the passage is rendered in the English James Ware, and is preserved in the British Mu- 
 translation of the Annals, which was made for Sir seum (Cod. Clar., xlix, No. 4795.) 
 
233 
 
 Domus ista, fratres inquit, funditus destruetur, et hie erit deinceps habitatio ferarum 
 et latronum. Ibi vero collegium justorum et ascensus animarum sanctarum. Hie 
 vepres et spinae solum desertum operient, ibi virtutum fructus producentur et indu- 
 eentur in horreiun paradisi ; sed nolite tristari, quia desolationem quse fiet liic, ibi 
 populus bonus superveniens reformabit in statum meliorem. Post cujus abbatis 
 transitum mansit dictum monasterium de Carryke, de ordine Savigneacensi, per tem- 
 pera trium abbatum; vidz. Odonis, Devincii, et Johannis; in cujus tempore redditum 
 fuit ipsum monasterium ordiui Cisterciensi, siib conditione, quod imperpetmim esset 
 deinceps filia Furnesii : set tempore conquestus Ultoni^ prsefatus dominus Johannes 
 de Curcy penitus illud destruxit quia fortalicium fuit, et multum ilium infestavit ; sed 
 in recompensationem fundavit, seu potus transtulit illud in Insulam suam de Ynes- 
 cuscre, et dedit domui suae maternse de Furnesio, ad construendum illud, easdem terras 
 quas, in loco priori, habuit ex dono Magnelli regis antedicti ; et sic dicta abbatia de 
 Ynes efFecta est filia Furnesii, sicut ante fuerat in loco priori. 
 
 Anno milleno centeno bis quadrageno 
 Curcy fundavit Ynes, hostes hine superavit". 
 
 — (Monast. Anglic, tom. i. p. 710 b.) 
 
 Jocelin, the biographer of St. Patrick, was a monk of Furness, and it is very 
 probable that, having come over to Ireland, in 1 1 80, on the affiliation of the abbey of 
 Inch, he undertook the work which, as above calculated, he completed about the year 
 1183. 
 
 E. 
 
 DALBOYN. 
 
 This territory, called in Irish t)al m-6uinne, and in a Latin form Dcdmunia, derived 
 its name from an individual thus noticed by Flaherty: A. M. 3934, "Anno primo 
 Achaii Aremh regis Hibernise Ferg-usius Rogius ex matre Rogia filia Achaii filii Carbrii 
 ex Itho Milesii patruo, aut Areco Milesii filio genus trahente cognominatus, Rudricii 
 regis Hibernias (patre Rossio Rufo) nepos, postquam Rudricii lacus Fergusium Ledidam 
 Ultonige regem fluctibus obrueret, factus est rex Ultonige ; sed vix expleto in regimine 
 triennio, eum clavo amovit Conquovarus Nessanus ex eadem Rudricia domo. 
 
 " Fegusii filii diversis, amplisque olim per Momoniam, Connactiam, et Ultoniam 
 
 familiis, et multis Sanctis originem dederunt, viz. Buindus, ex quo Dal-mbuinne ; 
 
 &c."_(Ogyg., pp. 274, 275.) Conchobhar, 
 
 2 H 
 
Conchobhar, or Connor Mac Nessa, occupied the throne for sixty years, and died, 
 according toTigernach, A. D. 37. By this computation Fergus Mac Roy was deposed 
 B. C, 23. The date B. C. 12, given above at p. 44, is according to OFlaherty's Chro- 
 nology— (Ogyg., p. 282.) 
 
 St. Mac Carthen, the first bishop of Clogher, who died A, D. 506, was ninth in 
 descent from Buain, a quo Dal-Buain Aradiorum. Concerning which tribe Colgan 
 observes : " Dal-Buanica familia, olim in Ultonia Celebris, licet hodie ignota et ex- 
 tincta" (Acta SS., pp. 740, 791.) See Appendix, below under Glenavy. 
 
 To a church in this territory reference is had in the note on the Felire of ^ngus 
 at the 29th of May: — 
 
 "m01^Sr,Ua5 I^O^IONIS " a great host flocked, 
 RONSWaOaU don l^hlMOhim who served starry heaven, 
 (OaCLimaM CO^^.aN^ai^ To Cumain of the fair town 
 
 IN^eW aifZeN mmam". Dear daughter of Allen". 
 
 ".1. ben .1. uipjo i n-Dail m-6uinDe "L e. a woman, i. e. a virgin, in Dal- 
 
 aca cell ingen Qillen; an Uib opona Buinne is the cell of the daughter of 
 beop. .1. ben ele o t)aipe injen Qillen Allen; in Idrone [co. Carlow] also; ano- 
 1 n-QipD Ulao". ther woman, of Daire-ingen-Aillen in Ard 
 
 Uladh". 
 
 The church in the Ards of Ulster, in which St. Cummian was commemorated, has 
 been already noticed at p. 24; but it is uncertain what church in Dal-munia is here 
 alluded to. 
 
 The Four Masters, at the year 1 1 30, record an engagement between Connor O Loch- 
 lainn and the Ulidians, in which fell " ^hioUa paccpaicc mac Seappuij cijepna Dal 
 m-6uinne", — " Gillapatrick Mac Sherry, Lord of Dalboyne". 
 
 The rural deanry of Dalboyn comprehended the territories which, in the sixteenth 
 century, were called Kilultagh, Kilwarlin, and Derryvolgie. Kilultagh was the most 
 extensive of these, and may be taken as the representative of the ancient Dal-mbuinne. 
 This district was called in Irish Coill Ullcac, Avhich is occasionally translated in 
 Inquisitions, &c., by ' Sylva Ultoniensis', ' Wood of Ulster'. The name is now borne 
 by the Marquis of Hertford, in his inferior title of Baron Conway and Killultagh, whose 
 Irish estates, amounting to 60,000 acres, are comprised in the two manors of Killul- 
 tao-h and Derryvolgie. The name is also preserved in a townland of the parish of 
 Ballinderry, called Derry- Killultagh — (Ord. Survey, s. 63.) 
 
 S. 
 
^35 
 
 S. 
 
 DRUMBO, GLENAVY. 
 
 The foundation of the church of Drumbo is ascribed by Colgan to St. Patrick (Trias 
 Thaum., p. 270, col. 2), but not on sufficient authority. The name occurs in some of 
 the Lives of that saint, but it is clear that it there belongs to some place near Down- 
 patrick. The Tripartite Life has the following passage: " Dum die quadam Dominica 
 post coelestium contemplationem quietem caperet vir Beatus apud Ecclesiam de Druim- 
 ho juxta mare, audivit sonum sonitumque haud modicum gentilium, contra festi reve- 
 rentiam laborantum, murumque quendam sedificantium. Motus autem Sanctus Antis- 
 tes ob tantam sacratissimaj festivitatis prophanationem, curavit laborantes ad se accersiri ; 
 eisque Dominicum mandatum de sabbatho sanctificando exponens, ut a suscepto opere 
 cessent donee Dominica transeat festivitas, in nomine Creatoris imperavit. Sed illi non 
 solum sancti Dei verba parvipendebant, sed et ipsum, ut dehrum, derisui et subsanna- 
 tioni habebant. Quibus veritatis prsenuncius ait; labor vester non proficiet; quod 
 probatum est. Sequenti enim nocte veutus flans turbavit mare, et omne opus tem- 
 pestas destruxit secundum verbum Patricii". — (Pt. iii. c. 62, Trias Thaum., p. 161.) 
 The Life in the Book of Armagh gives a similar statement : " Alia vice Sanctus re- 
 quiescens Patricius in die dominica supra mare juxta salsuginem quod est ad aquilo- 
 nalem plagam a Collo Bovis distans non magno vice spatio, audivit sonum intemperatum 
 gentilium in die dominica laborantium, facientium rathi, vocatisque illis, &c." — (Be- 
 tham, Ant. Res. App., p. xi.) Jocelin, also, narrating the circumstance, says: "Tem- 
 pore quodam S. Patricius in portu, in Aquilonari parte Hybernige sito, versus oppidum 
 Druimho vocabulo instante die Dominica applicavit, nee egressus inde, sed ibidem navi 
 quiescens eandem devotione solita solemnizavit ". And he continues to relate what 
 occurred as in the other Lives. The work which they were engaged in he states to be 
 '■'■ Rai/tk, id est, murum''''. — (Chap. 160.) 
 
 From these passages it is evident that the place now called Drumbo cannot be in- 
 tended, as it is several miles distant from the sea. 
 
 The name is again introduced by the Life in the Book of Armagh, on occasion of 
 the saint's death: " De reliquis Sancti Patricii in tempore obitus sui dira contentio, ad 
 bellum usque perveniens, inter Nepotes Niell et Orientales ex una parte inter aliquando 
 propinquales et propinquos nunc inter dirissimos hostes irarum intrat certamen secun- 
 dum fretum quoddam quod CoUum-bovis vocatur" (Ant. Ees., p. xvi.) The Life by 
 
 Probus refers to the same encounter in these words : " In tempore transitus sanctis- 
 
 2 H 2 simi 
 
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 sinii Patris nostri Patricii, dira quaidam belli contentio inter Orientales Hibernias 
 populos [i. e. the people of Oirthir, now Orior, in the county of Armagh] ex una parte, 
 et inter Vltanos ex altera parte, orta est in loco qui CoUum Bovis nuncupatur : sed — 
 seditio illico sedata est. Condicto enim beUorum die intumescebant ultra modum 
 fluctus maris, quod erat inter insulanos [i. e. the inhabitants of Mag-inis], istos prohi- 
 bentes naves bellicas, ne adinvicem convenire ullatenus potuissent". — (Cap. 38, Trias 
 Thaum., p. 61.) Probably the Inner Bay of Dundrum is intended in these passages. 
 In the calendar of the OClerys the abbey of Drumbo is noticed at two festivals :— 
 
 July 24, "^ui^Be t>poma bo". " Lughaidh of Drumbo". 
 
 Au"-. 10, "Cuimm abb 6 t)hpuim bo 1 "Cumin abbot of Drumbo in Ulidia". 
 n-Ullcuib". 
 
 ^ngus the Culdee, in his tract on the Mothers of the Saints of Ireland, refers to 
 Drumbo in a passage thus translated by Colgan : — 
 
 " Derinilla cognomento Cethuir-chicheach [i. e. of the four provinces], mater fuit 
 SS. Domangarti filii Euchodii, et Ailleani, et Aidani, ct Murani de Fathen [now Fahan 
 in EnishoAven], et ]VIochumma3 de Druimbo, et Cilleni de Achadhcail in regione de 
 Leth-Cathuil ad ripam sestuarii de Duindroma". — (Acta SS., p. 587, col. 2, n. 5.) 
 
 Glenavy. — The origin of this church is thus related by the Tripartite Life of 
 
 St. Patrick : — 
 
 " In alio ejusdem regionis loco, Lettir-phxidruic a posteritate appellato, ccepit sedifi- 
 care Ecclesiam: cujus curam commisit suo discipulo Danieli, qui ob pusillam corporis 
 staturam Abhac, i. e. Nanus, Patricii, et ob Angelicam animi puritatem et innocentiam 
 Angelus dicebatur. In eodem loco e terra produxit fontem, qui ob multa, qua; confert 
 potantibus, sanitatum remedia, vulgo Slan, i. e. sanus, vocatur. Sed antequam inchoa- 
 tam ibi fabricam perficeret vir Dei, a Sarano terra; illius Principe, injecta in eum sacri- 
 lega manu, ex illo loco violenter ejectus est".— (Pars ii. c. 132, Trias Thaum., p. 147.) 
 Upon which passage Colgan adds the following comment: "Cum Nanus Hibernice 
 Abhac vocetur, ab hoc Daniele, qui Hibernis cognomento Abhac appellatur ; videtur 
 denominationem sumpsisse Ecclesia Lann-Abhaich, i. e. Ecclesia Nani dicta, qua; est 
 hodie Parrochialis Dioecesis Connerensis in regione Del-munia; in Dal-aradia" — (Trias 
 Thaum., p. 183.) 
 
 This church is also mentioned in the Calendar of the O Clerys in connexion with 
 another name: — 
 
 Nov. 6, " Qooan mac Colgan o 6ainn- " Aidan, son of Colgan of Lan-avy, in 
 abaic 1 nUllcQib". Ultonia". 
 
 To 
 
237 
 
 To the same church is probably to be referred the following passage in the Felire 
 of ^ngus, at the 22nd of January : — 
 
 " eCSeChU IN^eW ChOm^aiC^". " Exitus filiarum Comgalli". 
 
 ".1. ^eccip tDul-apaioe acac 7 Do "i.e. at Lettir in Dalaradia they are 
 
 Dal-apaioe ooib". [buried], and from Dalaradia they are 
 
 [sprung]". 
 
 Their names are given in the Calendar of the Clerys at the same day : — 
 
 " Colman, 6o^a, 7 f-aippe cpi oeipb- "Colman, Bogha, et Lassera, three sis- 
 
 pearpaca ec cpi ho^a, ec ooba oalcaoa ters, and three virgins, and they were 
 DO Chorhjall 6enncaip lao 7 a Ceicip foster children to Comghall of Bangor, 
 t)alapoiDe a raio, no 50 mao 1 Cca- and they are [interred] at Lettir in Dala- 
 mup Corhjoill no beiDip". radia; or [according to others] it is at 
 
 Camus Comghaill they are [resting]". 
 
 Their descent also is given by Colgan : — 
 
 " SS. Boga, Colma sive Columba, et Lassara virgines, tres filise Comgelli Jilii Fin- 
 galacii Jilii Demaui Jilii Nuathalii Jilii Mutalani Jilii Cantalani Jilii Fiengalacii Jilii 
 Niedi Jilii Buani a qiio Dal-Buain, Colunturin Ecclesia Litterensi in Dalriedia [_recte 
 Dalaradia] 22 Januarii". — (Act. SS., p. 471.) 
 
 T. 
 
 DIOCESE OF CONNOR. 
 
 The present see of Connor comprises several churches, which, on one or more occa- 
 sions, have been episcopal seats, and have given title to their bishops. These were 
 Connor, Arthirmuigh, Killruaidh, Cuilraithen, Rechrann, and Eathsithe; and it is 
 proposed to treat of these in the two stages of their separate and collective existence. 
 
 I. Connor was founded during the latter half of the fifth century by J^ngus Mac 
 Nisse, who became its first bishop and abbot. A Life of this saint, by an anonymous 
 author, is printed in the Acta Sanctorum, under the 3rd of September. From this, 
 and from some incidental notices in the Tripartite Life of St. Patrick, the following 
 particulars of his history are gathered : — 
 
 " Quern venerabilis sanctus Patricius, Hibernorum apostolus, — baptizavit: 
 
 Bolcano 
 
238 
 
 Bolcano vero episcopo alendum atque docendtim dedit". — (Acta SS. Sept., vol. i. 
 p, 664.) On a subsequent occasion Olcan incurred the displeasure of St. Patrick, who 
 declared " possessiones ejus esse devolvendas ad quendam puerum, ipsius S. Olcani 
 discipulum, tunc praesentem, ej usque in quadam pellicea pera codices gestantem, 
 nempe ad S. Macnissium postea Episcopum Conderensem: et ad quendam alium virum 
 
 sanctum scilicet Senanum de Inis Altich'' — (Vit. Trip. ii. c. 134, Trias Thaum., 
 
 p. 147, col. 2.) After this he was taken by St. Patrick under his own care: " Mac 
 Nessius postea Antistes Condorensis sive Connerensis, dum in pietate et bonis disci- 
 plinis apud Patricium educaretur, &c." But having lapsed into grievous sin, it is 
 added, " manus Mac-nessii extemplo abscissa, in terram cadit, in loco quae exinde Carn- 
 lamha, i. e. tumulus manus appellatur, tumulata reconditur". — (Caps. 128, 129, Trias 
 Thaum., p. 146, col. 2.) "Perfectus autem vir factus, atque beato Patricio in episco- 
 pum sua? gentis ordinatus, limina Apostolorum adiit, Jerusalem quoque, aliaque sancta 
 terree repromissee loca visitavit".— (Acta SS. ut supra, p. 664.) On his return to his 
 native country he founded the church of Connor, and became superior of a religious 
 community which he established there, and which he continued to govern until his 
 death. " Connerense monasterium construitur, in quo usque hodie sedes episcopalis 
 
 habetur" (Acta SS.) " Fluvio nomine Curt, monasterium ejus quod Latine Deser- 
 
 TUM dicitur, prteterfluenti, ne sonitus ejus tam prope transeuntis infirmos loci moles- 
 taret, per ulteriorem viam currere prajcepit, quod continuo, ut ei imperatum est, fecit". 
 {Ibid. See above, p. 96.) " Quadam ibidem die monachis secum laborantibus, nimia 
 exhilaratus Ijetitia, ex improviso ait : Fratres, ab hoc opere cessemus, et ad monasterium 
 revertamur, oportet enim ut Sanctis hospitibus iter aggredientibus, et hac hebdomade 
 hue venturi, quaj necessaria sunt, interim parentur. Hsec de sancta Brigita dixit, quae 
 
 pro utilibus causis eum visitavit" {Ibid.) lie died on the 3rd of September, 514, 
 
 and under this day of the month his festival is placed in the Martyrology of iEngus 
 the Culdee: — 
 
 " mac MlSSe CO mi<^J6 " Mac Nisse with thousands 
 
 O ChONt)eR16 maRai6". From the great Condere". 
 
 Upon which one gloss observes: — 
 
 " .1. Cnep in jen Chomchaioe bo Oal " i. e. Cues, daughter of Conchaid of 
 Cechipn a maraip. Uel mac cnip pa- Dal Cethirn, was his mother. Or Mac 
 rpaic h-e ap ip oc pucpaic no alca, .1. [son] cnis Patraic [of Patrick's skin], be- 
 no choclao ". cause it was with Patrick he was fostered, 
 
 i. e. he used to sleep". 
 
 Another 
 
239 
 
 Another gloss, thus : — 
 
 " Caeman 6iiecc, mac Mipi, mic " Caeman Brec, Mac Nisi, sonofNe- 
 
 NemainDip, mic Gipc, mic Gchac ITIun- maindir, son of Ere, son of Echaidh Mun- 
 opemaip. Ocup Pobpecc ainm a achaip. dremair. And Fobrec was the name of 
 Qenjup ooni a cec ainm". his father. But Aengus was his first 
 
 name". 
 
 His death is noticed in the Annals of Tigernach as follows : — 
 
 "510 [recte 514]. Kl. iiii. ITlac Nip- "514*- Kal. iiii. Mac Nissi, i. e. Aen- 
 
 f) .1. Qenjup eppuc Conbepe quieuic; gus, Bishop of Connor, rested; whose 
 
 cuiup ppacep [recte pacep] Pobpaech father was called Fobraech ; Avhose mother 
 
 Dicrup epc, cuiup macep Cnepp inj^en Cness was daughter of Comchaide of the 
 
 Chomcaioe be Dail Cecepen, a qua no- Dal Ceteren, from whom he was named 
 
 iTHnacup epc TDac Cneippe". jNIac Cneisse". 
 
 " S. Macnessius episcopus Conderensis, qui primo nuncupatus est Aeneas et post- 
 modum Ksemhanus (sonat Caevanus) cognomento Breac, quod est maculosus. Episcopi 
 spiritus in ccelum conscendit Anno Domini DCXIV. Extat basilica parcecialis ejus 
 nomini dicata in superiori Ossoria apud Lagenienses ad pedem mentis Bladhma [SHeve 
 Bloom], dioecesis Ossoriensis, vulgo Anachtrym Choevain Bhricc " [now Annatrim in 
 the parish of Offerlane]. — (Vardeus in Acta SS. ad Sept. iii. p. 662, col. 2.) 
 
 Mac Nisse was buried in Connor: " Sanctus Mac Cneisi episcopus, qui jacet in sua 
 civitate nomine Connyre, quae est in regione Dalnaraidhe". — (Vit. S. Comgalli, in Lib. 
 Kilken., fol. 906, col. 2; and Fleming Collect., p. 304.) See also the Life of Colman 
 Ela cited above at p. 97. 
 
 The following annals of Connor are chiefly compiled from the Four Masters, and 
 prove that the example of the founder was occasionally followed in the combination of 
 the episcopal and abbatial offices: — 
 
 M. C. 537 [recte 543], " S. ^.U5^>C[t)h eppoj Connepe oecc". 
 
 " S. Lug AD H, Bishop of Connor, died". 
 M. C. 558 [recte S^Sli " ^^V mbeic pice bliabna op 6penn i pije do Diapmaicc 
 
 mac Pepjupa Ceppbeoil do ceap la h Qoo n oub mac 
 SuiBne pi DalnapaiDe ag Raich bicc hi moijCine. Cucc 
 
 a cenD 
 
 ^ Doctor Todd, from whose Introduct. to the Obits, and that frater in the text is an error for pater 
 
 &c., of Christ Church the above extracts are bor- p. 73. The Dublin copy of Tigernach, and theChro- 
 rowed, satisfactorily proves that 514 is the true date, nicon Scotorum, read pa<er. 
 
240 
 
 a cenD 50 Cluain mic noip 50 jio habnacr innce, 7 po 
 haonacc a colann hi Ccoinoepe". 
 " After that Dermot, son of Fergus Cerrbeoll, had been twenty- 
 years King of Ireland, he was slain by Aodh Dubh, son of 
 Suibhne, King of Dalaradia, of Eath-beg, in Moy-line. His 
 head was conveyed to Clonmacnois, and interred there, and 
 his body was buried at Connor". "Aldus Niger, Cru- 
 thinius gente, qui et Diermitium filium Cerbuill, totius 
 Scotice regnatorem, Deo auctore ordinatum, interfecerat". 
 (^Adamnan, i. c. 36, Trias Thaum., p, 349.) 
 M. C. 612 [617], " Conoepe Dolopccaoh". 
 
 "Connor was burned". 
 ^. C. 658 [659], "DlOmQ Dub eppcop Conoepe oej. an vi. lanuapii", 
 
 " DiOMA Dubh, Bishop of Connor, died on the 6th of January". — 
 The Annals of Ulster erroneously call him t)i mmciinjepr. This 
 Dima was one of the bishops who were addressed from Kome in 
 640, on the subject of the Paschal controversy. — (Bede, H. E., 
 ii. 19.) 
 M. C. 725 [726], "S. DOChONNQ cpaiboeach, eppcob Conoepe oecc. an xv. 
 
 mail". 
 " S. Dachonna, the devout, Bishop of Connor, died on the 15th of 
 May". 
 M. C. 773 [778], " Qinbcheallacli, abb Conoepe 7 tainne h Gala oeuj". 
 
 " Anbhcheallach, Abbot of Connor and Lan-Ela, died". To what 
 has been already observed, pp. 97, 98, concerning the connexion 
 of Lynally with Connor, may be added the following passage from 
 the Life of St. Mac Nisse: " Dum aliquando beati Patricii atque 
 sanctte Brigita3 tunc comes itineris versus Momoniam euntibus 
 foret, et locum, in quo monasterium nomine Lann-ela postea fun- 
 datum est, transiret ; aliis prajuntibus, solus remansit. Quo per- 
 cepto Sanctus Patricius pro eo misit, cumque venientem immo- 
 randi causam interrogavit. Cui vir Dei ait : Super locum in 
 quo steti, celos apertos atque Angelos Dei descendentes et ascen- 
 dentes vidi. Sanctus Patricius dixit : Oportet ergo ut religiosos 
 viros Deo ibi servituros relinquamus. At ille ait. Pater sancte, 
 si placet, non ita erit. Filius namque, qui sexaginta annis ab ho- 
 die trausactis de mea nascetur parentela, cui nomen Colman Ela, 
 
 illic 
 
241 
 
 illic pra?clarum fundabit monasterium" (Acta SS. Sept., 
 
 vol. i. p. 664.) Bishops of Lan-Ela, singly, are mentioned by the 
 Four Masters at the years 709, 884; and an abbot of Lau-Ela at 
 735- 
 
 M. C. 831 [832], " Opjam \iara-C\y\\\^ 7 Conoipe o ^hallaib". 
 
 " Devastation of Eath-lury [Maghera, co. Derry] and Connor by 
 the Danes". 
 
 M. C- 865 [867], '• Oe^eDChair?, abb Conoipe 7 6anoeeulu, eppcop, 7 pcpib- 
 
 neoip, Decc". 
 
 " Oegedchab, abbot of Connor and Lan-Ela, bishop and scribe, 
 died". 
 
 J^. C. 896 [901], " Cioppaicce mac Nuabac abb Conbaipe, 6ainbe-eia, 7 La\r\\\^ 
 
 6piuin bo ecc". 
 " Tipratte, son of Nuadhat, abbot of Connor, Lan-Ela, and Laith- 
 righ-Briuin, died". The third of these churches is now called 
 Larabryne, and lies near Maynooth [niag-Huabac]. " May- 
 nooth was the name of the mother church, Larabryne was an 
 appendant chapel, which became parochial afterwards [A. D. 
 
 1284], Avhen Maynooth was made prebendal" (Mason's Hist. 
 
 of St. Patrick's, pp. 60-63.) In 897 Fogartach, son of Flann, 
 Abbot of Laithreach-Briuin, died; and in 1036 the duirtkeack 
 [oratory] was spoiled by the men of Meath. — (Four Mast.) The 
 toll-bar on the Dublin side of Maynooth is called Larryhrkn Gate. 
 
 yE. C. 917 [919], " rriaoilene mac maoilbpijbe abb 6ainne Gala 7 Conbepe, 7 
 
 aula Gpeno, becc". 
 " Maolene, son of Maolbrigid, abbot of Lan-Ela and Connor, and 
 ornament of Ireland, died". 
 
 -^. C. 952 [954], " piannaccan mac Qllchon comapba mic Nippi 7 Colmaine 
 
 Qlae becc". 
 " Flannagan, son of Alchon, cowarba of MacNissi and Colman Ela, 
 died". The parallel passage of the An. Ul. (953) is incorrectly 
 rendered by Dr. O Conor, " Episcopus Connerensis et Drommo- 
 rensis". 
 
 M. C. 954 [956], " nitiolbpi^be mac Rebain comapba mic Neippi, 7 Colmaine 
 
 Gala becc". 
 
 " Maolbrigid, son of Redan, cowarba of Mac Nissi and Colman Ela, 
 
 died" 
 
 ^ ' M. C. 960 [962], 
 
242 
 
 M. C. 960 [962], "Sloij;e6 la picirbeprac mac ConcoBaip la cijeapna Oili^ in 
 
 Oalnapaioe 550 po inDip Conoepe, con apcaiprerap Ulubh co 
 po mapbab pioirbepcac 7 a do bparaip Uaioj 7 Conn, pocaifte 
 oile imaille ppiu". 
 "An army led by Flaherty son of Concbobliar, King of Ailech, 
 into Dalaradia, laid waste Connor, until the Ulidians assailed 
 him and slew him, -with his two brothers, Teigue and Con, and 
 many others with them ". 
 JS,. C. 963 [965], " lopeph comapba mic Neippi 7 Cholmam Gala &ecc". 
 
 "Joseph, cowarba of MacNissi and Colman Ela, died". 
 M. C. 968 [670], " Sloicceo la pi^ n Lllab la h Qprjal mac maouoain 50 ^allaiB 
 
 50 po oipcc Conoepe poppa, 7 co papccbac ap ceno laip". 
 " An army led by Artgal son of Madndan, King of Ulidia, against 
 the Danes, so that he laid waste Connor upon them, and very 
 many were left slain with him". 
 M. C. 974 [976]. " Conainj mac Pionainabb Conbeipe 7 Cambe 6ala becc". 
 
 " Conang, son of Finan, abbot of Connor and Lan-Ela, died". The 
 parallel passage of the An. Ul. calls him comapba mic Hippi 7 
 Colmam 6la. 
 M. C. 1038 [1039], " CUINtDGN eppcob 7 abb 7 peaplei^inn Conbepe, comapba 
 
 ITIicneipi 7 Colmam Gala — ". 
 " CuiNDEN, bishop, abbot, and lecturer of Connor, cowarba of 
 
 Mac Nissi and Colman Ela, died". 
 " nriaolmapram cam pepleijinn Conbepe becc". 
 " Maolmartan Cam, lecturer of Connor, died". 
 J^. C. 1063 [1064], "GochaiD ua tDallam aipcmneac Conbepe oecc". 
 
 " Eochaidh O Dalian, superior of Connor, died". 
 M. C. 108 1 [1082], " hua 12obapraij5 aipcmneac Connop, in penicencia oeceppic". 
 
 (An. Ul.) 
 " ORobartag, superior of Connor, died in penitence". The 
 parallel passage of the Four Masters makes him aipcmneac 
 6uccmaib, ' Superior of Lowth'. 
 M. C. 1117 [1118], " p6aNN ua SCUCa eppcop Conbepe". 
 
 " Flann OScula, bishop of Connor, died". 
 
 •M. c. 1124, "S. maGcmhaoDho^ ua moi^^haiR do pumeeppo- 
 
 goioecc Chonneipe". 
 " S. Malachi OMokgaik is ordained bishop of Connor". 
 
 J^.C. ii32[ii34], 
 
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 M. C. 1132 [1134], " niL'olmaoDoj ua rriop^aip bo puibe i gcomopbuf paccpaicc 
 
 cpe impioe cleipec nGpenn". 
 " Malachi OMortrair was elected to the cowarbsliip of Patrick, 
 at the prayer of the ecclesiastics of Ireland". On his promo- 
 tion to Armagh he vacated the see of Connor: Jocelin, there- 
 fore, is inaccurate in saying ." Qui prius in Bunensi ecclesia, 
 postmodum in Ardmachana Metropoli pr^fviit". — (Cap. 175.) 
 
 jE.c. 1174, "mao6 pacci^aicc ua banaiN eppcob Conoepe 7 Ohui 
 
 Qpaibe peap aipmibneac Ian bo nuirhe, bo cenn| a 7 do gloine 
 cpoioe bo ecc co peaccnac inn hi Choluim chiUe icip peanbacaio 
 co^aioe ". 
 " Maolpatrick OBanain, bishop of Connor and Dal Aradia, a man to 
 be venerated, full of sanctity of life, gentleness, and purity of heart, 
 died in a good old age in Hy of Columbkille".' This is theil/«c/ 
 Patricius OBanain Epscop Dailaraidh, of the Book of Flann Mac 
 Eogan (OConor, ProL ii. p. 159); and the TTlaolpabpuic o 6ancnn 
 eappog t)al nQpuibe, of the Book of Clonenagh (Keating), who at- 
 tended the synod of Kells in the year 1 152. 
 
 II. AiRTHERMUiGHE. — The earliest notice of this church is the following, from the 
 Tripartite Life of St. Patrick: — 
 
 " Sanctus Prajsul statuit primo visere provinciam Dal-riedinorum, et postea Dal- 
 aradiorimi ; illam Septemtrionalem, hanc Orientalem UltonisB regionem. Venit igitur 
 primo ad quendam locum regionis Dal-riedige versus septemtrionem, Carn-sedna appel- 
 latum; in quo regionis illius Principem, Darium nomine offendit: qui pro rari pro- 
 digiosique casus remedio ad sancti Dei opitulativam recurrit virtutem. Cum enim 
 hie Princeps per Dal-riediam iter ageret, audit ex objecto tumulo sonum prodeuntem, 
 quasi lachry mantis infantuli ejulatui non absimilem. Tumulo autem aperto, matri 
 emortuge infantem vivum reperit adjacentem. Et ciim regulus ex pietate miserando 
 orphano compassus, eum appellaret Olcanum, id est, misellum (o/c enim hibernice, 
 idem quod malum vel miserum) ; hinc appellatio, quam casus dedit, in proprii postea 
 nominis abiit usurpationem. Et infans etiam postquam vir evasit, consuevit Olcanus 
 appellari. Infantem igitur vir sanctus baptizavit, et in pietate ac bonis Uteris egregie 
 instructum ecclesise Eath-mugIjE, seu ut alii, Arthik-mugi^e oppido Dalredinorum 
 prcecipuo, prgefecit postea Episcopum". — (Part ii. c. 128, Trias Thaum,, p. 146.) 
 
 The 
 ' See Colgan, Trias Thaum., p. 501. 
 2 12 
 
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 The year 440, wliich Colgan assigns as tlie date of this occurrence, is probably the 
 latest which can be allowed to it — (Acta SS., pp. 375, 377.) 
 
 The next stage in St. Olcan's Life is thus related by Jocelin: " Grandiusculus 
 efFectus, discendi aviditate Gallias adiit, ibique diutius degens, multse litteraturs 
 scientiam adeptus, repatriavit: repatriatus scholas rexit, innumeros discipulos, quo- 
 rum plures sancti Episcopi fuerunt, erudiendo in literaturte copiam provexit". — 
 (Cap. 86.) This return of Olcau from Gaul, Archbishop Ussher places under the year 
 450, which, as Colgan remarks, is too early. — (Ibid., p. 375, col. 2.) 
 
 After an interval of many years from his birth his name is again introduced by 
 the Tripartite Life: " Sanctus Patricius in regionem Dalaradiae [recte Dalriedia;], fidei 
 nempe propagandse, et refovendaj causa regressus socium secum ducit S. Olcanum, et 
 cum coram duodecim filiis Erci compareret, Fergussius Erci junior filius, se per fratres 
 a paternas hareditatis portione conqueritur exclusum, et S. Patricium humiliter rogat, 
 ut suarum precum interventu, mcreatur recusatam patrimonii recipcre portionem. 
 Postquam autem vir Dei pro eo factus est orator et exorator, illc patrimonii meliorem 
 partem, nempe ipsum oppidum de Airther Mtigioe cum adjacente territorio, Deo et S. 
 Patricio devotus obtulit. Vir autem Dei munus tanquam Deo devote oblatum ac- 
 ceptat; et ne tamen spe terrenae remunerationis videretur intercessisse, jubet locum 
 oblatum S. Olcano conferri, quod ille lubens annuit. Sanctus autem Patricius pra?- 
 dictum Fergussium benedicens, spiritu inspiratus prophetico ait ; Licet hodie sis despec- 
 tus et humilis, brevi dominaheris fndribus, et poster i tui semper inter fratrum posteros 
 principatum, et distrihuendi potestatem ohtinebunt Qua? prophetia postea coniplcta est 
 in ^Edano filio Gabhrani, ex ejus semine procedeute, qui manu violenta regnum Al- 
 bania; occupavit". — (Part ii. cap. 135, Trias Thaum., p. 147, col. 2.) 
 
 Jocelin, who relates the same occurrence, differs only in the name of the church: 
 " Sanctus autem Olcanus infra territorium sibi collatum, in loco qui dicitur Derkan, 
 Ecclesiam sedificavit, ibique factus episcopus, in sancti tate et justitia perseveravit" — 
 (Chap. 137.) It is probable that Derkan was the name of the district about Armoy, 
 as Archbishop Ussher states that in his time there was a territory in the Route called 
 
 Chn-derkan " (See above, p. 80.) 
 
 The Life of St. Patrick in the Book of Armagh relates: " Per ^was lluvium [the 
 Bush] foramen pertulit, et in Duin Sebuirgi [Dunseveriek] sedit super petram quam 
 petra Patricii usque nunc, et ordinavit ibi Olcanum sanctum episcopum quem nutri- 
 vit Patricius ". — (Betham, Ant. Res. App., p. 33.) 
 
 Among the bishops who are enumerated by Tirechan, as having been ordained by 
 St. Patrick, are Olcanus and Oltcanus ; the former the founder of Armoy, and the 
 latter of Kilcooley, in the county of Roscommon. It is strange that in subsequent re- 
 cords 
 
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 cords no notice is taken of this church. The Tripartite Life may possibly account for 
 this silence by the occurrence which it represents St. Patrick as predicting to St. Olcan : 
 " Ecclesiam ei commissam tertio destruendam, et multa sanguinis eflfusione polluendam. 
 Qute prophetica sententia postea completa est, quando eadem Ecclesia diruta et detur- 
 pata fuit per Scandalium regem Dalaradite, [qui floruit circa annum 612,] et postea 
 per Cucuaranum, [qui obiit anno 706,] et demum incendio vastata per Eochadium 
 filium Bressalii, [qui floruit circ. an. 800.] Adjecit vir sanctus et possessiones ejus 
 
 devolvendas ad quendam puerum, nempe ad S. INIaccnissium postea episcopum 
 
 Conderensem". This passage may denote that after repeated injuries this church sunk 
 into obscurity, and that its property merged in the episcopal property of Connor. And 
 curious it is that sixteen townlands, being more than three-fourths of the parish, are, 
 and have been from time immemorial, the property of that see. 
 
 In the Calendar of the OClerys, at the ist of September, a 6pu5ac eppoj^ o Rair 
 moi^e h-aonaij5, ' Brugach of Rath-moy-enaich ', is commemorated, who is noticed by 
 the Tripartite Life of St. Patrick as " episcopus Brugacius qui est in Rath-MugeaonaicJi 
 asancto Patricio ordinatus Episcopus" — (Partii. c. 136, Trias Thaum,, p. 147, col. 2.) 
 The Four Masters, at the year 725, record the death of a St. Adamnau, bishop "Rara 
 maije-hQonai^, ' of Rath-moy-henaich'; and at 779, of Ciaran, abbct Rara-mcnje- 
 Oenai^. Colgan is disposed to refer these passages to Armoy, but in so doing he 
 loses sight of the clue given by ODonnellus, in his Life of St. Columbkille: " Cruth- 
 necanus assumpto secum Columba, in Tirenniam profectus est, ad locum, qui Rath- 
 enaigh nuncupatur, eo scilicet ad natalitiam Christi solemnitatem invitatus a sancto 
 Episcopo Brugacio filio Deagaidh". — (Lib. i. c. 32, Trias Thaum., p. 394.) Tirenna is 
 stated to have been "in Tir-Conallia [Donegal], inter duo maris brachia, nempe 
 inter sinum Loch-Febhuil [Lough Foyle], et sinum de Siiilech [Lough Swilly]". — 
 (Acta SS., p. 370, n. 14.) It is now called the Lagan. 
 
 III. KiLLRUAiDH. — Mention has already been made of this church at p. 60, and, 
 on the authority of Archbishop Ussher, the year 412 has been assigned as the date of 
 its foundation. Bvit this calculation, which rests on the presumption that Ailbe of 
 Emly preceded St. Patrick in his mission to Ireland, is open to many and serious 
 objections; and, among others, this, that the death of Ailbe is recorded in the Irish An- 
 nals at the year 526. See the evidence on either side in Ussher's Brit. Ec. Ant., cap. 16, 
 "Works, pp. 333, 342, 346; and ChronoL Index, at A. C. 360, 388, 397,401. 412, 449, 
 527; Harris' Ware's Works, vol. i. pp. 490-492 ; Lanigan, Ec. Hist., vol. i. pp. 23, 24. 
 
 The passage from the Life of Ailbe relative to the origin of this church is as fol- 
 lows: "Post hsec sanctus Albeus quasi apis prudentissima cum mellis onere ad suam 
 
 patriam 
 
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 patriam Hyberniam, Deo comite, reversus est. Cumque venisset ad mare benedixit 
 id et cum serenitate magna sine ulla offensione in navi vilissima ipse et omnis populus 
 suus trans mare navigaverunt, et in aquUonali parte Hybernise portum tenuerunt. Ibi 
 autem, jubente sancto Albeo, unus de familia ipsius, Colmaniis nomine, cellam edifi- 
 cavit quEe dicitur Ceall-ruaidk. Cumque locus non liaberet aquam sanctus Albeus 
 r|uendam igitur lapidem benedixit, in nomine Omnipotentis Dei, et ex eo aquarum 
 rivulus statim prorupit. Tunc sanctus Colmanus ad Albeum dixit modica est aqua: 
 Cui Albeus ait, Quamvis modica est semper non deficiet et rivulus eternus erit usqxxe 
 ad finem hujus mundi. Unde nomen fluvii dicitur Buanan Cylle-ruayd, i. e. indefi- 
 ciens rivulus Celle-ruaidh. Postea rex illius regionis qua; dicitur Dalnaraidi, et de 
 ilia gente origo sancti Albei erat, &c.''— (Cod. Kilken., fol. 136 [recte 137] 6, col. 2, 
 1. 16.) Ailbe, however, is stated in the same Life to have been born in Orientali Eli/ach, 
 a territory in the province of Munster. 
 
 Another argument against the early date of 412 is that in the Life of St. MacNisse 
 of Connor, Colman is said to have been in his boyhood while :\Iac Nisse was bishop of 
 Connor, so that he could not have been born before the middle of the fitth century. 
 He is called " Colmanus episcopus, qui ecclesiam novame Kell-ruaid fundavit".— (Acta 
 SS. Septemb., vol. i. p. 665.) Upon which there is the following note of Ward: " S. 
 Colmanus fuit episcopus Kill-ruadkensis, quae nunc obsoleta sedes est in Aradeorum 
 regione [Dal-Aradia], ad oram Stagni Juvenci vulgo Loch-Laodh in Ultonia: ubi 
 ejus festum tanquam patroni colitur xvi. Octobris".— {Uid., p. 662.) 
 
 His name is thus commemorated in the Felire of yEngus, at the i6th of October: — 
 
 " COf^maW ON Ch]U. RUQIOSIN". "Colman of that Cill Euaidh". 
 
 Where the gloss adds : — 
 
 ".1. Colman eppoc mac Carbuib o " i. e. Colman, bishop, son of Cathbadh, 
 
 Chill-'Ruaib pop bpu 6ocha Caij 1 n- of Kill-ruaidh, on the bank of Loch Laig 
 
 LUlraib". in Ulidia". 
 
 The only other instance in which the Editor has met the name is in the Annals, 
 both in those of Ulster and those of the Four Masters, at the year 1122, where it is 
 related that Connor Mac Lochlin, with an army from Tyrone, laid waste CiU-puai6 1 
 n-UUcaiB, ' Kill-ruaidh in Ultonia', and carried away much booty. 
 
 The townland of Killroot, containing 625 acres, is held under the see of Connor. 
 In this townland, which runs down to the edge of Belfast Lough, is a large graveyard, 
 containing some portions of the old church, which Avas about sixty-six feet long, and 
 twenty-four wide. The S. E. and S. W. angles are all that remain standing; but from 
 
 their 
 
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 their thickness and texture the building may be concluded to have been erected at a 
 remote date. 
 
 IV. CuiL-RAiTHEN. — The history of the foundation of this church is thus given by 
 the Tripartite Life of St. Patrick : — 
 
 "Erat Sarano sajpius memorato, alius frater Nad-Sluagius nomine, Coelbadii filius 
 qui licet sub adventu Patricii fuerit in vinculis detentus, virum Dei cum summa reve- 
 rentia, et honore excepit, et ultro prajdium ei obtulit, in quo Ecclesiam erigeret. Et 
 cum vir sanctus peteret, ubi locus esset, quern ei vellet offerre, respondit esse in Aqui- 
 lonari Bannsei iluminis margine, ubi tunc pueri in filiceto accensa filice fumum exci- 
 tarent. Ita est, inquit futurorum prsescivis, Dei vates ; locus ille meus erit ; nee idcirco 
 desinet esse tuus. Nepos enim ixtriusque sedem, et locum quietis in eo habebit, nempe 
 Carbreus episcopus Degilli filius. Quod verbum licet senigma videatur, verissimum 
 tamen oraculum esse constat : nam Carbreus ille Episcopus, qui in loco illo, qui ab illo 
 die et eveutu Cuil-raithen id est secessus jiilicis, appellatur, sedem Episcopalem postea 
 posuit, fuit Natsluagii ex Degillo filio carnalis generationis ordine nepos, et fuit etiam 
 Sancti Patricii, spiritualis procreationis ordine nepos spiritualis: nam Episcopus Bruga- 
 cius (qui est in Rath-Mugeaonaich, a Sancto Patricio ordinatus Episcopus,) est qui Sanc- 
 tum Carbreum ordinavit Episcopum''. — (Pt. ii. cap. 136, Trias Thaum., p. 147, col. 2.) 
 
 The Life by Tirechan, in the Book of Armagh, states: " Perrexit trans flumen 
 Bandce et benedixit locum in quo est cellola Guile Raithin in Eilniu in quo fuit epis- 
 copus, et fecit alias cellas multas in Eilniu''\ — (Betham, Ant. Ees., App., p. 33.) The 
 genealogy of Carbreus is thus given by Colgan: " Sanctus Carbreus Episcopus de Cuil- 
 raithen, filius Degilli, filii Natsluagii, filii Coelbadii, filii Crunnii Badhraoi, &c." — 
 (Trias Thaum., p. 183, col. 2.) Accordingly the year 540 is generally assigned as that 
 in which he flourished, and 560 has been (at p. 138) given as the year of his death. 
 After him Conallus was Bishop of Coleraine, Avho, on the testimony of Adamnan, re- 
 ceived St. Columba a little after the Synod of Dromcheatt, that is in the year 590, in 
 his monastery of Culerathin. — (Vit. S. Columba, lib. i. cap. 50.) These are the only 
 bishops of Coleraine whose names are preserved ; but the monastery which they pre- 
 sided over continued to be governed by abbots, as the following entries from the Four 
 Masters will shew: — 
 
 M. C. 930, " Qipmheoach abb Cuilepachain bo mapbhab la ^allaiB". 
 
 " Airmedhach, abbot of Cuil-rathain, was slain by the Danes". Li the 
 parallel passage of the An. Uls. (931), the word ppincepp is used 
 
 instead of abb. 
 
 ^L. C. 972, 
 
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 jE. C. 972, " Roireccach aipcinneach Cuilepaichin anchoipi, 7 eccnaiDe". 
 
 " Roitectach, superior of Cuil-ratliain, anchorite, and wise man, died". 
 M. C. 988, " TTlac Ceijinn ua muipeabhain cnpcinoeach Chinlepacham Decc". 
 
 " Mac Leiginn O Mureadhain, superior of Cuil-rathain, died ". 
 jE, C. 1 1 10, " Cepnach muc niic Ulcha aipcinneach Culpachain oecc in airpij;e ". 
 
 " Cernach, son of Mac Ulcha, superior of Cuil-rathaiu, died in penitence". 
 ^. C. 1 1 22, " QnDtioh mac mic Ulcha aipcinoech CuiLepachain". 
 
 " Andadh, son of Mac Ulcha, superior of Cuil-rathain, died". 
 ( )n the cessation of bishops in this church, the lands of it merged in the see pro- 
 perty, not of Connor but of Armagh, and continued so till the primacy of Albert of 
 Cologn, who governed the see of Armagh from 1240 till 1247. During his incitm- 
 bency the lands of Coulrath in Toscard were seized by Hugh de Lacy, Earl of Ulster, 
 who, in exchange, gave him the lands of Machirgallin, and the manor of Nobbir. — 
 (Harris' Ware, i. p. 66.) This agreement was ratified in 130 1 by Nicholas Mac Molissa, 
 a succeeding primate, in the following form: " Omnibus Christi fidelibus, c^-c, Nicho- 
 laus miseratione divina Archiepiscopus Ardmachanus, Dionisius decanus ecclesias sancti 
 Patricii de Ardmagh, et Capitulus ejusdem loci, salutem in Domino eternam. Notum 
 vobis facimus per presentes quod nos nichil juris vel clamii habemus vel habere cla- 
 mamus in tenemento de Coulrath in Touscard nee aliqui predecessorum nostrorum ejus 
 ecclesiaj unquam aliquid clamaverunt in eisdem tenementis a tempore quo Hugo de 
 Lacy quondam Comes Ultoniaj dedit Alberto Archiepiscopo Ardmachano predecessori 
 nostro manerium de le Nober in compensatione pro pra;dictis tenementis, nee licet vel 
 liccbit alicui successorum nostrorum aliquid juris vel clamii in eisdem tenementis de 
 Coxdrath in Touscard de cetero exigere vel vendicare, &c. Datum apud Drummeskyn 
 
 XV. die Jul. A. D. MCCC° primo" (Rot. Plac. 29 Ed. i. m. 26, Tur. Berm. Dub.) 
 
 In 12 1 3, according to the Four Masters, Thomas MacUchtry, and the English of 
 Ulidia, pulled down all the houses of the town and all the ecclesiastical buildings, in 
 order to the erection of the castle of Coleraine. On this occasion it is likely that the 
 ancient abbey of Coleraine was demolished. The church, however, escaped, and was 
 probably the bviilding which, in after times, appears under the title of St. Patrick's. — 
 (See above, p. 75.) The site of the abbey is now occupied by the shambles. 
 
 In 1244 a Dominican Friary, called St. Mary's, was founded at Colerane, which 
 subsisted until the general dissolution of religious houses. It is stated to have stood 
 on the west bank of the river. — (Archdall, p. 84.) 
 
 V. Rechrann From the Life of St. Comgall of Bangor, it appears that an eifort 
 
 was made, about the middle of the sixth century, to establish a church on this island, 
 
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 -wliich is now called Rathlin. " Cum sanctus Comgallus cellam voluisset a^dificare in 
 insula nomine Reachrain [Reachraynd — Cod. Kilken.'], venerunt triginta milites et 
 tenentes manum ejus, eum inde expulerunt" — (Fleming, Collect., p. 311, col. 2; Cod. 
 Kilken., fol. 93 b, c. i, 1. 44.) The island was also visited by St. Columbkille, but there 
 is no mention of a church having been founded by him: " Alio in tempore cum vir 
 
 sanctus in Rechrea hospitaretur Insula" (Adamnan, lib. ii. c. 41, Trias Thaum., 
 
 p. 361.) Yet Colgan adverts to the monastery here as " olim a S. Columba fundatum 
 
 et ab ejus discipulis extructum vel reparatum" (Trias Thaum., p. 494) 
 
 The following extracts from the Four Masters, with Colgan's version, throw con- 
 siderable light on the early history of this church, and afford a fresh illustration of the 
 occasional appearance of episcopacy in the monastic discipline: — 
 
 M. C. 630, "Serene abb lae CoU-ciUe do pocujao ecclaipi Reclipainne". 
 
 "S. Segineus Abbas Hiensis extruit Ecclesiam Recranensem". The date 
 in Tigernach and the Annals of Ulster is 634, or 635 of the common 
 sera, as given by Ussher, in his Index Chronol. Segeneus died in 651. 
 An. Ul. 
 M. C. 734, " plann mac Ceallach mic Cpunomaoil eppcob 'Reacpainne Decc". 
 " S. Flannius filius Kellachi filii Cronnmaeli, Episcopus Recrannensis " 
 (obiit). 
 M. C. 738, " Cuimmeni ua Cuapain abb Rechpainne oecc". 
 
 " S. Cumineus Hua Kierain Ab. Recranniensis obiit. 
 M. C. 743, " Cobcach abb Rechpainne oecc", 
 
 " B. Cobthacus Abbas Recrannensis obiit", 
 M. C. 764, " niupjal mac nlnneabha abb Rechpamne oecc". 
 
 f " S. Murgalius filius Nennedii, Abbas Rechrannensis obiit". 
 
 M. C. 768, " Qebh mac Coipppi abb l^echpamne". 
 
 "Sanctus Aldus filius Corbrei, Abbas Rechrannensis obiit". 
 M. C. 790, " 6opccat)h T^echpamGe o ohibeapccaibh, 7 a pccpine bo copccpaoh 7 
 DO lompabh". 
 " Rechrannia per gentiles Piratas fiammis exuritur ej usque Scrinia de- 
 struuntur". This invasion of the Danes is placed by the Annals of 
 Ulster at the year 794, i. e. 795 of the common sera. 
 M. C. 794, " pepaohach mac Seigheni abb T^echpamne". 
 
 " B. Feradachus filius Seginei, Abbas Rechranniensis obiit ". 
 M. C. 848, "Cuaclial mac Pepabhach abb Rechpainne 7 Depmaije". 
 
 " Beatus Tuathalius filius Feradachi; Abbas Rechranniensis et Darma- 
 
 2 K giensis. 
 
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 giensis, obiit". Durrow, which is here associated with Rathlin, was 
 a kindred monastery, being founded by St. Columba, and following his 
 rule. Adamnan, who translates into Latin most of the Irish names 
 which he treats of, calls Durrow Eoboreti, or Roboris campus. Venera- 
 ble Bede, when treating of St. Columbkille's removal to Hy, observes: 
 " Fecerat autem, priusquam in Brittaniam venire t, monasterium nobile 
 in Hibernia, quod a copia roborura Dearmach lingua Scottoriini, hoc 
 est, Campus roborum, cognominatur. Ex quo utroijue monasterio 
 plurima exinde monasteria per discipulos ejus et in Brittania et in Hi- 
 bernia propagata sunt: in quibus omnibus idem monasterium insulanum 
 [sc. Hy], in quo ipse requiescit corpore, principatum teneret". — (Hist. 
 Ec, lib. ill. c. 4.) 
 M. C. 973, " Peapbalach abb Reacbpainne Do mupbhaoh lu ^allaibh". 
 
 " Sanctus Feradachus Abbas Kechranniensis martyrio coronatur per Nort- 
 mannos, seu Danos". 
 
 This entry closes the ecclesiastical notices of this island in the Annals. For its 
 subsequent history the reader is referred to the article RatMhi in the Appendix. 
 
 VI. Eathsithe Less is known of this church than of any of the preceding, the 
 
 only existing notices of it being the record of its foundation by St. Patrick, in the 
 Tripartite Life, and the following entry in the Annals, which causes it to be classed 
 with the foregoing churches : — 
 
 A. C. 618, " Comjall eppoc 7 Go^an eppoc 'Rcidia-piche quieuepunc". 
 
 " Comgall, the bishop, and Eogan, bishop of Rath-sithe, rested" {Tiger- 
 
 nac/i.) 
 An. 617, "Coemjin ^linne oa locha, ocup Cornwall eppcop, ocupeppcop 605011 
 Racha Siche quieuepunc in T^aeomacha". 
 " Coemghin [Kevin] of Glendalough, and Comgall the bishop, and Eogan, 
 
 bishop of Rath-sithe, rested in Raedmacha" (An. Ul.) 
 
 An. 611, *' niopp mic ComjaiU, 7 quiep Gojain eppcoip". 
 
 "Death of the son of Comgall, and rest of Eogain the bishop". — {An. 
 Inisfall.) 
 M. C. 617, " Cornwall eppcob, 7 Goghan eppcob 'Racha Siche oecc ". 
 
 "Comgall the bishoji, and Eoghan, bishop of Rath-sithe, died". {F. J/.) 
 
 The modern name and situation of this church have already been noticed under 
 
 Rassci, at ji. 68. 
 
 Besides 
 
Besides these six churches there are three others, over which, according to the 
 Tripartite Life, pastors of episcopal rank were placed by St. Patrick. These were 
 EccLESiA TuLACHENSis, in that part of Dalriada which is near Ramoan, over which he 
 appointed Nehemias bishop; Cuil-Ectrann, in the territory of Cathrigia, over which 
 he aj^pointed Fiachrius bishop; and Rath-Easpuic-Innic, in Hua Dercachein, a dis- 
 trict of Dalaradia, over which he appointed Vinnoc bishop. 
 
 The modern name of the first is uncertain : possibly it is Drum-tidlagli, a grange 
 which joins Ramoan on the west. It is popularly called CrosJian. It has a townland 
 c&\\&6. Manister (mainipcip 'a monastery'), and another called Kilmoyk, wherein is an 
 ancient burying-ground. — (Ord. Survey, s, 8.) 
 
 The second is now called Cidfeightrin, in the barony of Gary ; at the south-eastern 
 extremity of which, near Cushendun, is a tract of 932 acres, called the Grange of Inis- 
 poUan, which is held under the see of Connor. Its ancient burying-ground, called 
 Killyvallagh, is now attached to the Roman Catholic chapel of Glendun. 
 
 The modern name of the third of these churches is now unknown. Colgan con- 
 jectures that it belongs to a place in the modern barony of Antrim. 
 
 All the other churches, however, yielded in importance to that of Connor, which 
 became the episcopal seat of the aggregate. Thus the Book of Armagh, in the Life 
 of St. Patrick, which was written about the ninth century, represents the diocese of 
 Connor extending to Coleraine: " Et reversus est in campum JS'^m" et fecit reliquas 
 multas ecclesias quas Comdiri habent". — (Ant. Res., App. p. 34.) It is probable that 
 the boundaries of the diocese, if any were assigned to it in its collective form, varied 
 considerably from time to time, and that the first attempt to define them with a view 
 to permanence Avas at the Synod of Rathbreasil, which was held in or about the year 
 1 1 1 8. The limits determined by this Council were the following, as recorded in the 
 Book of Clonenagh, and transferred by Keating into his History of Ireland : — 
 
 " Paipce eappuij5 Coinbipe o 6hmn phoibne 50 Copbuipj, ajup o phupc Dlup- 
 Builj 50 h-OUopba, 50 cuan Snama h-Ctijtie, ajup o ^hlionn Ki^e 50 ColBa n- 
 ^eapmainn ". 
 
 " The diocese of the Bishop of Connor" extended fromBinn-Fhoibhne'to Torbuirg'*', 
 
 and 
 
 " Condire — The etymology of the name has nereth, Connereath, Counorih ; and in Latm, Con- 
 
 been given at p. 85. The most frequent forms in neria, Condoria, diocesis Connerenais, Conerensis, 
 
 which the word appears in the Irish Annals are Con- Connerinensis, Conarensis, Condorensis, Chondo- 
 
 dere, Condire, and Conere. It is also occasionally rensis ; and in old English Coiners, Coyners, Coig- 
 
 Avritten Condiri, Condeire, Condaire, Chuinnere, ners. It is now locally pronounced Con-yer. 
 Conner, Connere, Conneire, Connire, Coinere, Con- " Binn-Fhoihhne. — Now Beuyevenagh, a nioun- 
 
 2 K 2 
 
252 
 
 and from post Murbuilg" to Hollorba^ and to Cuan [the harbour] Suamha Haighiie=', 
 and from Glionn Riogh^ to Colbha Gearmann" ". j^y 
 
 tain 1260 feet high, between JIagilligan and Aghan- 
 loo, at tlie east side of Lough Foyle, and in the county 
 of L. Derrj'. — (Ord. Survey, ss. 5, fi.) As this was 
 the N. W. boundary of Connor, so it was the eastern 
 limit of the diocese of Ardstraw. By this arrange- 
 ment Connor extended to tlie River Roe on tlie west, 
 and beyond the Bann, the present limit — (See Ord. 
 IMemoir of Templemore, p. 20.) 
 
 * Torbuirg. — Now Torr Head, in tlic parish of 
 
 Culfeigiitrin (Ord. Survey, s. 10.) Tliis, which 
 
 was tlie N. E. extremity of the diocese, is the nearest 
 point to the coast of Scotland ; and here, as stated 
 in Nordcn'sMap, published in the State Papers, " the 
 Scotts used to make their warning fires". It is now 
 a Coast-guard station. 
 
 '< Mwbhvlg. — Now ^lurlogh Bay, in the pa- 
 rish of Culf.'ightrin. — (Ord. Survey, s. 5.) It is 
 bouiuled by Tor Head on the south, and on the north 
 by Benmore or Fair Head, which Flaherty calls 
 "Pulchrum Promontorium seu Faire- foreland" — 
 (Ogyg., p 17.) This JIuvbliulg, or Murloch, is to 
 be distinguished from anotlier inlet of the sea, of the 
 
 same name, in the county of Down (See pp. 27, 
 
 1,54.) In the Four Masters at A. M. 28.59, the battle 
 of muipbuilji n-t)alpiaDa, 'MuruulginDal- 
 riada', is recorded : to which Keating adds: .1. an 
 ^?ura, ' that is, the Route', and states that therein 
 Starn, son of Nev\n,', tell by the hand of Coning, son 
 of Fan'ar, in f^eicioD ^>accrhoi^e, 'the expanse 
 \latitudo'] of the milky i)lain'; probably the parish of 
 
 Layd (Vol. i. p. 178.) Again, A. M.3501, "tDun 
 
 Sobaipce i mupbolj t)al "Riaoa la So- 
 baince ", "Dunseverick in Miirbiilg of Dal Riada 
 [erected] by Sovarke". " Sobarchius in Aquilonari 
 Hibernia apud Dunsobarche maritimam Dalriedas 
 arcem juxta Murbolg residebat" — (Ogyg., p. 205.) 
 Dunseverick lies considerably to the west of Mur- 
 lough Bay. Possibly White Park Bay, on the shore 
 of Ballentoy, which is close to it on tlie east, ma}- be 
 
 the Murbulg intended in the last four quotations. 
 There was also a place of this name on the opposite 
 coast of Scotland, which Adanman calls Muirbolc 
 paradisi, Muirbulcmar ; and ODonnellus Bulgmara 
 alias Murbulg. The Annals of Ulster at 730, and 
 Tigernach at 731, record a battle in Murbuilg be- 
 tween the Dalriadians and Picts, which Keating re- 
 fers to this part of Scotland. 
 
 y HoUarba Now Inver or Lame, see p. 5 a, 
 
 and below under Lame. 
 
 » Cuan Snamha Haighne In the Ord. Memoir 
 
 of Templemore (p. 21) Belfast Lough is given as 
 the modern name of " the harbour of Snani Cfi^- 
 m": but there can be little doubt that the state- 
 ment is doubly erroneous, inasmuch as Belfast Lough 
 was anciently called Loch ^aoij;, Lacns Vihdi, 
 and the place under consideration ajijiears to be the 
 same as tlie cuan Snurii-each, which has been 
 shewn aliove (p. 114) to have been the old name of 
 Carlingford Lough. The name occurs four times in 
 the course of the Irisii Annals. A. D. 851, a tieet 
 of ICiO ships of the Finngennte or Norwegi.ins en- 
 gaged with the Diilihgennte or Danes ofSnarh ai^- 
 nech (Snurii eibneach, IV. M.): they fought 
 for three days and three nights, but the Dubhgennte 
 were defeated, and left their ships in the possession 
 
 of their enemies An. Ul. A. D. 922, Killsleibhe 
 
 wasted by the foreigners of Sntiriiaijnech, and 
 Dublitir, priest of Armagh, crowned with martyr- 
 dom by them. — An. Ul. The parish of Killevy, 
 which joins Newry on the west, crosses in one place 
 the present Newrj- river, and might be reached di- 
 rectly by water from Carlingford Lough. A. D. 92.5, 
 the Danes were defeated by INIiiirceartach, the son of 
 Niall, at Snamaijnech, and 200 were slam [de- 
 collati]. A. D. 1149, an army was led by the son 
 of Niall OLochlan, composed of the North of Ireland 
 (Ccuaipcepc GpenO, namely, the Cenel-Conall 
 [people of Donegal], the Cenel Eoghain [Tyrone], 
 
^53 
 
 By these boundaries was defined a diocese equal in extent to the sum of Down, 
 Connor, Dromore, and the N. E. part of Derry. That the union was partly in ex- 
 istence from an early date is conjectured by "Ware, who observes: " It seems probable, 
 indeed, that during almost all that period [i. e. for many centuries after the year 583] 
 tliis See [Down] had no peculiar Bishop of its own, but was included in the Diocese 
 of Connor". — (Ware's Works, vol. i. p. 195, Ed. Har.) From the avigmented list, 
 however, of the bishops of Down previously to the Invasion, which has been given 
 above, pp. 144-148, and from the consideration that the Irish Annals record the names 
 of as many bishops of Down as of Connor, it may be reasonably argued that the dioceses 
 of Down and Connor were independent of one another until the synod of Eathbreasil. 
 
 Soon after this council the bishops of Connor assumed a territorial instead of a 
 cathedral title. Thus Maolpatrick Banuin, who was present at the synod of KeUs 
 
 in 1 152, was styled eappoj Dal n-Qpuioe, 'Bishop of Dalaradia' {Keating ; OConor, 
 
 Prol. ii. p. 159.) The Four Masters, at 11 74, in recording his death, call him eppcob 
 
 Conoepe 
 
 and Airghiall [Louth, Armagh, Monaghan], mto 
 UUdia. " Uo aipccpec Ula6 lapnuachcap 
 uile o ca cuan Snariia-aijneac co opoi- 
 cher na peippci", " They pUindered UUdia in 
 its upper [southern] part, all, from Cuan Snamha- 
 aighneach to the bridge of Fersat [or the Ford] ". 
 
 " Glionn-Riogh — The glen of the Newry river. 
 See O Donovan's Circuit of Muirceartach, p. 31; and 
 his Battle of Magh-Rath, p. 143. The abbey of 
 Newry owned two weares in the river of Glanree^ 
 near the town of Glenry — (Ul. Inq., Xo. 15, Jac. I., 
 Down ; 2 Jac. I. Armagh.) It extended north- 
 wards, beyond Scarva, in the parish of Aghaderg ; 
 the church of whicli, called Hacyglid in the Taxation 
 (p. 112), is probably that mentioned in the Calendar 
 of the Clerj's : " Ciapan Camlacca j^liao 
 ) n-^lionn T5 i^e ". " Ciaran of Tamlaght-gliad 
 in Glionn Kighe ". — Feb. 4. The name Gleann-Righe 
 occurs in the Annals of the Four Masters at the years 
 995, 1113, 1178, 1483, to express the western hmit 
 of Ulidia. Until 332 Uladli or Ulster denoted a pro- 
 vince nearly as large as the name now imports, and 
 the palace of its nders was at n-Eamhain, or Ema- 
 iiia, now the Navan, near Armagh. But in that year 
 Fergus Fogha, tlie last King of Ulster, was slain in 
 
 battle, his forces routed, and the Ultonians driven 
 eastwards, within the territoiy beyond Glenn-Ree 
 and Lough Neagh. This revolution is thus related by 
 Flaherty : "Post Achalethderg [in Fernmoya hodie 
 Farney] prselium, quod Collaorum, et trium CoUao- 
 riim praiUum vocatur, victores, abactis ultra Glenn- 
 KiGEAM, et Neachum lacum Ultoniis, amplam ditio- 
 nem, quam Oirgielliara dixerunt, unde Anglis Uriel, 
 et Oriel scribitur, in comitatus Louth, Ardmach, et 
 Monachan avorum jMemoria descriptam compai-a- 
 rimt" — (Ogyg., p 3C1.) Tigernach says : " T?0 
 claiDpm lapom na cpi Collo ©amain Hla- 
 cha 1 ni pop aicpebpoo Ulaib mnci o pin 
 alle, 7 callad uaiDib a pije o Coch 6a- 
 chac lUe". "The three Collas afterwards de- 
 stroyed Eamhain Macha, and the Ultonians did not 
 dwell in it from that out ; and they took from them 
 their kingdom from Lough Keagh out [westwards] "'. 
 (A. C. 332.) A fosse and rampart called the Dane's 
 Cast marked the boundary in Glenn-Ree. — See 
 Stuart's Armagh, p. 585. 
 
 '' Colbha Gcarmainn. — ' The pillar of Germonn ', 
 Unknown to the Editor. Mr. Donovan suggests 
 that " it must be a natural rock like the Torrs of 
 Donegal ". 
 
254 
 
 Conoepe 7 Ohal-apaioe, ' Bisliop of Connor and Dalaradia'. Eeginald, who was 
 bishop at the close of the twelfth century, subscribes himself episcopus de Dalnard, as 
 AV'ell as Conerensis episcopus — (See pp. 191, 192; and Charters of Down in the Monast. 
 Angl.) Concerning Dalaradia, see Appendix under that name. 
 
 In 1 1 24 Malachi was elected to the see of Connor, which then included Down and 
 Dromore; and the following is the picture drawn by St. Bernard, of the state of the 
 diocese on his appointment to the charge : — 
 
 " Vacabat tunc teraporis Episcopalis sedes in una civitatum, et jam diu vacarat, 
 Malachia nolente assentire, siquidem ipsum elegerant. Persistentibus tamen illis tan- 
 dem aliquando cessit, accedente ad vim faciendam mandate magistri sui, nee non et 
 Metropolitani. Tricesimo ferme a^tatis sua? anno Malachias consecratus Episcopus 
 introducitur Cormereth ; hoc nomen civitatis. Cum autem coepisset pro officio suo 
 agere, tunc intellexit homo Dei non ad homines se, sed ad bestias destinatum. Nus- 
 quam adhuc tales expertus fuerat in quantacunquc barbaric. Nusquam repererat sic 
 protervos ad mores, sic feralcs ad ritus, sic ad fidem impios, ad leges barbaros, ccrvicosos 
 ad disciplinam, spurcos ad vitam. Christiani nomine, re pagani. Non decimas, non 
 primitatis dare, non legitima inire conjugia, non facere confessiones : poenitentias nee 
 qui peteret, nee qui daret penitus invcniri. Ministri altaris pauci admodum erant. 
 Sed enim quid opus pluribus, ubi ijisa paucitas inter laicos propemodum otiosa vaca- 
 ret ? Non erat quod de suis fructificarent officiis in populo nequara. Nee enim in 
 Ecclesiis aut praidicantis vox aut cantantis audiebatur. Quid faceret athleta Domini? 
 Aut cedendum turpiter, aut periculose certandum, sed qui se pastorem non mercena- 
 rium agnoscebat, elegit stare quam fugere, paratus et animam suam dare pro ovibus 
 si oportuerit. Et quanquam omnes lupi, et oves nulla3, stetit in medio luporum pastor 
 intrepidus, omnimodis argumentosus quomodo faceret oves de lupis. Movere commu- 
 niter, secreto arguere, flere per singulos : nunc aspere, nunc leniter convenire, prout 
 cuique expedire videbat. In quibus per hsec minus profecisset, cor contritum et humi- 
 liatum offerebat pro eis. Quotiens noctas totes pervigiles duxit, extendens manus in 
 oratione. Et cum venire ad Ecclesiam nollcnt, per vicos et plateas occurrrebat invitis, 
 et circiiiens civitatem pcrquirebat anhelus (|uem Christo acquirerct. Sed et foris rura 
 et oppida nihilominus sa?pius percurrcbat cum sancto illo comitatu discipulorum suo- 
 riun, qui nun quam deerant lateri ejus. Ibat et erogabat vel ingratis coelestis tritici 
 mensuram. Ncc vehebatur equo, sed pedes ibat, et in hoc virum se Apostolicum pro- 
 bans, Jesu bone, quanta passus est pro nomine tuo bellator tuus a filiis sceleratis? 
 quanta sustinuit ab iis ipsis, quibus, et pro quibus loquebatur bona tibi ? Quis digne 
 exprimat in quantis vexatus, quibus alFectus sit contumeliis, quibus iujuriislacessitus, 
 quotiens lassatus inedia, quotiens afflictus in frigore et nuditate? Attamen cum iis, 
 
 qui 
 
^55 
 
 qui oderunt pacem, erat pacificus, iustans nihilominus opportune importune. Blas- 
 phematus obsecrabat, injuriatus opponebat scutum patientise, et vincebat in bono 
 malum. Quidni vicisset? perseveravit pulsans, et secvmdum promissionem tandem 
 aliquando pulsanti apertum est. Quomodo poterat non sequi quod Veritas prsenuncia- 
 verat secuturum, Dextera Domini fecit virtutem : quia os Domini locutum est verita- 
 tem. Cessit duritia, quievit barbaries, et domus exasperans paulatim leniri ccepit, 
 paulatim correptionem admittere, recipere disciplinam. Fiunt de medio barbaricte 
 leges, Romanse introducuntur. Eecipiuntur ubique Ecclesiastica; consuetudines, con- 
 trarige rejiciuntur. Eeasdificantur basilicge, ordinatur clerus in illis, Sacramentorum 
 rite solemnia celebrantur. Confessiones fiunt, ad Ecclesiam conveniunt plebes, concu- 
 binatus honestat celebritas nuptiarum. Postremo sic mutata in melius omnia, ut 
 hodie illi genti conveniat, quod Dominus per Proplietam dicit : Qui ante non populus 
 meus, nunc populus meus". 
 
 Such is Bernard's description of the beneficial efi'ects wrought in the diocese of 
 Connor by the exertions of Malachi ; and yet it is difficult to repress the suspicion that 
 the picture owes its darkest shade to the want of conformity among the people of 
 Connor to the Romish discipline. When Gillebert, Bishop of Limerick, a little before, 
 had published his letter "deusu ecclesiastico", his professed object was, not to convert 
 the nation, but " ut diversi et schismatici illi ordines, quibus Hibernia pene tota delusa 
 est, uni Catholico et Romano cedant officio".— (Ussh. Syll. Ep. 30.) Indeed, during 
 the whole century, it seems to have been the favourite tone of the advancers of the 
 papal ascendancy in Ireland to decry the native institutions of the country, and to 
 exalt the competing influence of Rome, until, in the subjugation of Ireland, a religious 
 change was effected by force Avhich might have failed had its establishment been left 
 to the march of popular opinion. In the latter part of the century Pope Alexander III. 
 addressed a bull to Henry II., in which he describes the immorality and irreligion of 
 the Irish in language even stronger than that of Bernard: " De gente ilia Hybernica, 
 qu«, Divino timore postposito, tanquam eff'renis passim per abrupta deviat vitiorum, 
 
 et Christiange fidei religiouem abjicit et \irtutis, Novercas suas publice intro- 
 
 ducunt, et ex eis non erubescunt filios procreare: frater uxore fratris, eo vivente, 
 abutitur ; unus duabus se sororibus concubinis immiscet ; et plerique illorum, matre 
 relicta, filias introducunt: et omnes passim in quadragesima vescuntur carnibus, nee 
 solvunt decimas, nee sacras Dei ecclesias, et personas ecclesiasticas, prout debent, ali- 
 quatenus reverentur". In another bull, which was directed to the Kings and Princes 
 of Ireland, he instances, as a benefit of their submitting to Henry II., that " gens Hy- 
 bernica, qu^ per enormitatem et spu.rcitiam vitiorum adeo videbatur longius recessisse, 
 divino cultui propensius informabitur, et melius Christianas fidei suscipiet disciplinam". 
 
 In 
 
256 
 
 In a third document of the same nature, he acknowledges to Christian the Legate, and 
 the Archbishops of Ireland, the information he had received from them of the moral 
 condition of Ireland : " Quantis vitiorum enormitatibus gens Hibernica sit iufecta, et 
 quomodo Dei timorc, et Christianse fidei rehgione postposita, ea sequatur qua? pericula 
 pariunt animarum, ex vestrarum serie literarum nobis innotuit, et aliorum etiam 
 veridica relatione nichilominus ad notitiam apostolicse sedis plerumque pervenit" — 
 (Rymer, Foed., vol. i. p. 45, Lond. 1 8 1 5.) 
 
 On the retirement of Malachi from the see of Connor, a successor, whose name is 
 not recorded by St. Bernard, was chosen to fill his place; and thenceforward, until its 
 permanent union with Down, the see enjoyed a regular succession of bishops. The 
 following table exhibits their names, in continuation of the partial list from the Irish 
 Annals given above at p. 243 : 
 
 NAMES. PREVIOUS STATION. SUCCESSION. VACANCY. 
 
 Nehemias, before 1 172 
 
 Reginald, before 1178'= . . .after 1183 
 
 GiLLACHRisT OKERNY^ . . . Abbot of Dcrry after 1 198 1209 
 
 Reginalds '^25 
 
 EusTACHius, Archdeacon of Connor, .... 1225 
 
 Adam, Abbot of Wardon, 1242 1244 
 
 Isaac of Newcastle, 1245 1256 
 
 William of Portroyal, 1257 1260 
 
 William de Hay, 1261 1263 
 
 Robert deFlemeng'', 1264 1274 
 
 Peter of Dunachs, 1274 1292 
 
 John", Rector of St. Mary's, 
 
 Corriton, 1293 
 
 Henry 
 
 c See above, pp. 191, 192. Henry III. he styles himself " Reginaldus Conno- 
 
 ^ The Four Masters, at 1198, record the appohit- rensis episcopus" (Royal Letters, No. 799, Tur. 
 
 ment of Giolla Criost Cearnaigh to the abbacy of Lond.) 
 
 Deny-Columkille; and, at 1209, in recording his f " Robertus deFlemeng, electus Conerensis, qui 
 
 death, they style him Cowarh of Condere. ex Anglicorum prseclaro genere extat oriundus" — 
 
 e Omitted by "Ware and Harris. A. D. 1225, (Royal Letters, No. 800, Tur. Lond.) He is also 
 
 "Mandatum est R. Cemerensi {recte Connerensi] called Robertus Flandrensis. 
 
 episcopo quod permittat Priorem et Conventum de s This name is variously wintten Douach, Dove- 
 
 Mukemore pacifice possidere ecclesias, quae eis ap- nach, Douvach — See p. 67. 
 
 propriata fuerunt per antecessores eorum". — (Rot. " See Prynne's Records, vol. iii. p. 573. His pre- 
 
 Cl. 9 Henn- \\l. m. 5, Tur. Lond.) Writing to vious station was, probably, Ballycorra — See p. 69. 
 
^■■^'If^S PREVIOUS STATION. SUCCESSION. VACANCY. 
 
 Henry Mac OiRE.\CHTY', . . Bishop of Derry, ... . after 1295 1297 
 
 John'', before 131 1 
 
 EiCHARD, before 1320 . ," 
 
 James of Couplith, 1021 
 
 John OF Eglescliff, .... Bishop of Betlilehein', . . . .1322 translated 1323 
 
 James O Kerne y, Bishop of Enaghduue, .... 1324 1351 
 
 William Mekcier, Archdeacon of Kildare .... 1353 1375 
 
 Paul'", Rector of Achohill, 1375 
 
 John before 1411 
 
 Eugene, before 1427 
 
 Cornelius, 
 
 John, before 1438 
 
 At the close of the year 1441, the see of Down becoming vacant, the last men- 
 tioned Prelate entered upon the administration of its affairs, and henceforward DoAvn 
 and Connor were incorporated under one bishop. The circumstances attending this 
 union have been already related at pp. 156-159: but the list of the bishops of Down 
 and Connor, which has been given at p. 160, on the authority of Ware and Harris, 
 may be amended by the following, which has been compiled since that part of the 
 present work was printed: — 
 
 NAMES. PREVIOUS STATION. SUCCESSION. VACANCY. 
 
 John, Bishop of Connor, i44^ .... 1450 
 
 Thomas'*, 1450 .... 145 1 
 
 Richard Wolsey°, Dominican Friar, 145 1 
 
 Thomas, 
 
 'The Annals of the Four Mast, and of Connaught Dominican Friar, and was translated to the see of 
 
 relate that Henry Mac Oireaglity, Bishop of Connor, Landaff in 1323. 
 
 andaGroy Friar of the Cistercian order, diedin 1297, "■ See above, p. 88. The presentation of William 
 
 and was buried in the monastery of Drogheda. Ware WjTie to the church of Ohorhill, directed to Paul, 
 
 calls him Henry of Ardagh, and states that he Iiad Bishop of Connor, Ls dated May 23, 1375- — (Rot. 
 
 been elected Bishop of Derry in 1294 (p. 228, Ed. Pat. 49 Ed. IH.) 
 
 Hams) : but he errs in representing him as Bishop " Tliis seems to be Thomas Pollard, of wliom men- 
 
 of Achonry (p. 059.) See Ord. Mem. of Temple- tion has been made at pp. 37, 159. In 1450 he was 
 
 more, p. 32. appointed custos of the temporalities of Down and 
 
 ^ Not noticed by Ware or Harris. A Pat. Bull, Connor, and appears to have also received a provi- 
 
 3, 4 Ed. II., mentions Johannes as then episcopus sionfrom the Pope to the vacant see — See next note. 
 
 Conncrensis (Cal. Cane. Hib., vol. i. p. 17.) " This name is supplied by Harris, but is misplaced 
 
 ' De Burgo, Hib. Dom., p. 464. He was also a by him. A bull of Pope Nicholas V., directed " Ri- 
 
 2 L 
 
258 
 
 NAMES. PREVIOUS STATION. SUCCESSION. VACANCY. 
 
 ThomasP, Prior of St. Catherine's, 
 
 AVaterford, 1456 .... 1468 
 
 Thady, 1469 .... i486 
 
 Tiberius", before 1495 .... 15 19 
 
 Robert Blyth, Abbot of Thorney, . . . . before 1526 about 1540 
 
 Eugene MAGENIS^ Prebendary of Aghaderg, . . . .1541 .after 1560 
 
 See Property. — The following Eschaetor's accounts, which are copied from Sir 
 J. Ware's MSS., are the earliest records concerning the temporalities of Connor which 
 the writer of this w^ork has discovered: — 
 
 " Computus magistri Willielmi de Bakepur escaetoris. Idem reddit compotum de 
 xxvi . lib .iv .d . de redditibus liberarum terrarum manerii de Ki/lroth [Killroot], a die 
 
 Veneris 20° post festum S. M , anno xl° [1256], usque ad sextum diem Januarii 
 
 anno xlii? [1257], antequam liberaret pra?dictum Episcopatum Willielmo de Portu 
 Regio episcopo ejusdem episcopatus, per literas domini Regis paten tes, &c. 
 
 " De liberis terris manerii de Glin v . lib. 
 
 " Sm" xcix . xviii . vi ." — (Cod. Clar., vol. xlii. No. 4789. fol. 15 i.) 
 
 " Anno xxiii'i" Regis Edwardi I. AValterus de la Hay Escaetor Hibernian reddidit 
 compotum de xii .lib.v.s.x.d. de exitibus temporalibus episcopatus Connorensis 
 in iiianibus domini Regis per mortem Petri de Douvach episcopi ejusdem loci, ex vigilia 
 beatse Katherina^ virginis, anno Regis Edwardi xxi" usque xxvii"' diem Aprilis, anno 
 
 eodem 
 
 cnnlo Foist electo episcopo DiiiU'ii. Conereu.". ami 
 dated July 11, 1451, i.s copied by l)c Burgo from 
 the l?ullar. Ord. Pnedic. It states the vacancy to 
 be " per obitum ipsiiis Thomse, qui extra Ronianani 
 Curiam diem clausit cxtremmn ". — (Hib. Dom., 
 p. 472.) Robert Kochfort, or de Rupe Forti, whom 
 Ware introduces at 1451, was in this year elected 
 bishop, and recommended by Primate Mey to fill the 
 see, but his appointment does not appear to have 
 been confirmed, as Ware was not " able to discover 
 whether he were consecrated or not". 
 
 P Ware dates his appointment and avoidance as 
 above. In 1465 he was bishop. — (Keg. Mey, lib. iv. 
 fol. 9.) De Burgo, on the authority of the Bullar. 
 Ord. Pned., states that one Simon, S. Theol. Bac, a 
 
 Dominican Friar, received a i)rovision to the see va- 
 cant by the death of John, Feb. 12, 1459 (Hib. 
 
 Dom., p. 475.) 
 
 1 He was present at Drogheda July 6, 1495. — 
 (Records, Christ Ch.) 
 
 ■■ In 1542, May 8, he had a pardon for accepting 
 the see, in addition to the benefices of Acaderige and 
 Enaghluayn [Anaclone] — (Rot. Pat. 34 Hen. VIII. 
 S, f. 2.) There were two parishes in the diocese of 
 Dromore, to the former of which he had been pre- 
 sented by the Primate in 1526, and to the latter in 
 1528. See note ", p. 160. He assisted at the con- 
 secration of Bale, Bishop of Ossory, in 1552, arid is 
 
 by him named Urbane Bishop de Duno (Voca- 
 
 cyon, fol. 18, p. 2.) 
 
259 
 
 eodem, antequam liberaret praedicta temporalia ejusdem episcopatus magistro Johanni 
 electo ibidem per literas domini. 
 
 "Sm* est xii . lib . v . s . x . (/." — (Cod. Clar., a'oI. xlv. No. 4792, p. 236; and 
 vol. xxxvi. No. 4787, p. 286 i.) 
 
 In 1380 William Proketour, Vicar of Antrim, held the manor of Kilkenan to him 
 and his heirs, of William, Bishop of Connor, at the rent of 100 barrels of oatmeal per 
 annum, and rendering yearly to the chui'ch of St. Colman of Kilroth a pound of wax, 
 and usual suit at the Bishop's Court. — (Eot. CI. 4 Eic. II. Cal. Cane. Hib., vol. i. 
 p. 109.) 
 
 The fullest recital of the various estates belonging to the see which remains is that 
 preserved in the Terrier of 1615: — 
 
 " Connor, with the Temporalities of 16 Towns. 
 At Crelicunkill, the Temporalities of 4 Towns. 
 At Duneane, the Temporalities of 4 Towns. 
 At Driimmaide, the Temporalities of 4 Towns. 
 At Ahahill, the Temporalities & Spiritualities of 4 Towns. 
 In Ballyclug, the Temporalities of 4 Towns. 
 In Skerrie, the Temporalities of 7 Towns. 
 In 3/«y/^era5/(!arX;m, the Temporalities of 5 Towns. 
 In Annoy, the Temporalities of 4 Towns. 
 In Tnc//j>ollen, the Temporalities of one half-townland. 
 In i/ne Gleine, the Temporalities of 8 Towns. 
 In KiUroote, the Temporalities of 4 Towns. 
 In Deserta Vera, nigh Skerrie, the Temporalities of 2 Towns". 
 
 In the King's Books the estates are thus taxed : — 
 
 " Maneria et terra? de Connor, c' ster. 
 
 Maneria et terrge de Glinns, c! 
 
 Domus et terrse de Killroote alias Killraig, lx? 
 
 Quatuor villas de Duneene, xx' 
 
 Quatuor vill^e de Cromwell, xx' 
 
 Quatuor villse de Drummale, xx! 
 
 Septem villge de Skirries, vii'"' 
 
 Quatuor villse de Aghohill, xx! 
 
 Quatuor villas de Ballycloige, xx' 
 
 " S"^ xxv"." ster." 
 
 2 L 2 
 
26o 
 
 The income accrueing to the Bishop in 1622, appears from the following statement 
 in the Ulster Visitation : — 
 
 " Landes and Manno"" of Conno', xl"" ster. 
 
 Manno' of Killrout, worth, l"'' „ 
 
 Landes and Manno'' of Glynne (worth £160 or £180), . . vi".'' xiiif iv!* 
 
 15 
 
 Lands and Manno"' of ^lagherahoghill, xxx'"" 
 
 O ^ " O ' ^^^ . ,, 
 
 mks 
 
 ?» 
 
 i<l 
 
 Lands of Skirry, iv" 
 
 Lands of Dunean, Craukhill, & Dromaula, x'"" 
 
 Mensalls of InispoUan & Solour, 11".'' vi' viu*? 
 
 Landes of Ballyclog coutayning foure townes & a half, . . noe rent. 
 A dayes fishing w"" the halfe of the Tithe fish taken uppon 
 the river of the Banii. 
 
 " The some of the whole rents of the B''"''' of 
 
 Connor are, 150'''' 10* ster." 
 
 At present the see property consists of the following lands: — 
 
 Connor. — The manor and rectory of the sixteen townlands, now called ArtnaguUion, 
 Ballycowan, Barnish, Carncome, Carnearny, Castlegore, Connor, Forthill, Lislun- 
 nan, Maxwell's Walls. R<iss, Scolboa, Tardree, Whappstown. 
 
 Armor/. — Commonly called the sixteen toicnlands of liaUeeny, consisting uf .\glniui- 
 iiiaght, Alcrossagh, Balleny, Breen, CarroAvlaverty, Cleggan, Cromaghs, Doonans, 
 Essan, Gortmillish, Kilcroagh, Knockans, Monanclogh, Stroan, TuUaghore, Tu- 
 reagh, Turnarobert (of which Mill Five Acres, containing the village of Armoy, 
 was a part). The glebe, containing the church and round tower, seems to have 
 been part of Doonans. 
 
 Ahoghill The four towns of, namely, Carmacmoin, Gloonan, Killane, Lismurnaghan. 
 
 Glynn. — The eight towns of, namely, Ballylcsson, Ballylig, Craiganboy, Glynn, iVc. 
 
 /^(7s/!fflr^-/«.— The four towns of, namely, Carnfinton, Church Tamlaght, Crushybracken, 
 and Drumak. 
 
 Skerry. — The four towns of, namely, Breckagh, Loughconnelly, Loughloughan, and 
 ^lagheramully. 
 
 Dunean. — The four towns of, namely, Cloghogue, Gortgill, Lismacloskey, and Tam- 
 naghmore. 
 
 Drummaul. — The four towns of, namely, Caddy, Coolsythe, Drunmiaul, and Tamlaght. 
 
 Cranjkld The townland of, formerly consisting of Ballykeel, Ballyliarvine, Bally- 
 
 narny, and Tamnaderry. JnispoUan. 
 
26l 
 
 Inispollan — The grange of, containing Ardicoan, Ballure, Clady, Inispollan Mountain, 
 
 and Inispollan. 
 Dunaghi/.—lw the parish of, the two towns of Cargan and Dungonnell. 
 Solar. — In the parish of, the townland Solar. 
 Kilwaughter. — In the parish of, the townland Ballyhampton. 
 Killroot. — In the parish of, the townland Killroot. 
 Ballydug. — Rent of £i i is. (i\d., from the four towns of. 
 Templecorran. — The rectorial tithes of the parish. 
 
 All these lands, &c., amounting, according to the Eeport of 1833, to 23,833 acres, 
 are stated to prodvxce at that time the annual siun of £2942 6s. 6\d. 
 
 Cathedral It appears from the authorities already cited, at pp. 96, 97, 239, 
 
 that the ancient church of Connor was attached to a monastery, and that the founder 
 of the see filled the double office of abbot and bishop. Examples have also been ad- 
 duced of the continuance of this junction of the two offices until the eleventh centurv. 
 When they became permanently separated the writer is unable to pronounce; but it is 
 likely that the partition took place during the twelfth century. Then probably it was 
 that, the abbey f/c Deserto Connerice, or Kells, becoming an independent estal)lishment, 
 another church, subsequently called the church of Connor, w^as founded for cathedral 
 or parochial purposes. This church, which is now only parochial, is situate half an 
 English mile S. E. of the abbey of Kells. It is probable also that about the same time 
 that arrangement was entered into whereby the Abbot became seised of the rectorial 
 tithes and advowsons of all the neighbouring parishes wherein the bishop had pro- 
 ])erty. The church of Connor stands on see land, yet the advowson of the vicarage 
 and the rectorial tithes of the bishop's sixteen towns of Connor belonged to the Abbot 
 of Kells. The church of Glynn stands on see land, and yet the advowson of the 
 vicarage and the rectorial tithes were vested in the Abbot of Kells. So also with re- 
 spect to the parishes and bishop's lands of Drummaul, Dunean, Killroot, and Kilke- 
 nan in Island Magee. The castle and certain lands at Glenarm were anciently held 
 under the Bishop of Connor, and, accordingly, the advowson of the vicarage of Tem- 
 
 pleoughter, with the rectory, was appendant on the abbacy of Kells (See pp. 51, 52.) 
 
 Before the Reformation there does not appear to have been any dignitary connected 
 with the cathedral, except the Archdeacon: and all capitular acts seem to have been 
 performed by the Archdeacon and Clergy assembled in synod. Thus James of Coup- 
 lith, who succeeded to the bishopric in 1321, was "elected by the Archdeacon and 
 Clergy of Connor". — (Ware, p. 221, Ed. Plar.) Harris, indeed, states that the writ for 
 the election of a successor to Peter of Dunath, in 1293, was issued to " the Dean and 
 
 Chapter 
 
262 
 
 Chapter of Connor". — (^Ibicl.) But there is probably an error either iu the formula 
 of the writ or in the words of the quotation, and that A^xhidiacomis should be read 
 instead of Decanus. 
 
 Archdeacons of Connor. 
 
 A. D. 1225, EusTACHius In this year he was advanced to the see of Connor. — 
 
 (Ware's Works, vol. i. p. 219.) 
 A. D. 1244, Adam Pang '• Archidiaconus Conerensis, 1244, h. e. tempore Sim, 
 
 Burford, Arch. Mid."— (MS. Trin. Coll. Dub., F. i. 18, p. 2.) 
 A. D. 1250, TuoMAS DE Sandal. — (Ware's MS.; MS. T. CD.; Regist. Mucka- 
 
 more.) 
 A. 1). 1460, Donald OKylte. — (Reg. Prene, fol. 12.) 
 A. D. 1538, M[ ] Y[ ]— (Reg. Dowd., p. 22.) 
 A. D. 1540, Kellanus OIIele. — {Ibid.) 
 
 In 1609 the cathedral of Connor was remodelled by charter of King James I., and 
 received the name of "Ecclesia Cathedralis sancti Salvatoris de Connorth". Bishop 
 Todd being then at the head of the three sees of Down, Connor, and Dromore, the same 
 instrument contains the letters of erection of their three cathedrals. The following 
 were constituted the members of the new chapter, and the accompanying parishes were 
 those which were asssigned as the corps of each office. 
 
 Decanus. Fecimus, &c. Milonem Whale, presbyterum, in artibus magistruni, et 
 sacri Divini verbi professorem, primum et modernum Decanum ecclesia^ 
 Cathedralis Sti. Salvatoris de Connorth. Dedimus etiam et concessimus 
 prjefato Miloni Wliale Decano, &c., et successoribus suis Decanis ejusdem 
 ecclesiaj Cathedralis, omnes et singulas illas rectorias et vicarias nostras 
 Ecclesia; Albas de Vado [p. 6], Mablayske [p. 8], Balle Edward [p. 56], 
 Ralowe [p. 53], Invermore [p. $f\, Knockfergus [p. 61], et Balloran[?], 
 in comitatu nostro Antrim; et rectorias et vicarias de Blaris [p. 47], 
 et Deriakie [p. 46], in comitatu nostro Duno, cum omnibus et singulis 
 suis juribus, membris, et pertinentiis, &c. 
 
 Archidia- Fecimus etiam, &c. Nicholam Todd, presbyterum, primum et modernum 
 fONrs. Archidiaconum dicta; ecclesise Cathedralis, &c. Dedimus, &c., omnes illas 
 
 rectorias et vicarias nostras de Bille, Balleclugg, Armoye, Acheohill 
 [p. 88], Kilbrid, et Dunnager, cum omnibus, &c. 
 
 Cancella- Fecimus, &c. Robertum Maxwell, in artibus magistrum, et sacrse theolo- 
 Kius. gia; professorem, primum et modernum Cancellarium dictse ecclesise Ca- 
 
 thedralis, 
 
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 thedralis, &c. Dedimus, &c., omnes illas rectorias et vicarias nostras de 
 Miltone [p. 76], Culfetryn, Singington [p. 74], Eamoan, Loughguill, 
 Dundermont, Skyrre, et Tacmacremye [p. 87], cum omnibiis, 6cc. 
 
 Precen- Fecimus, &c. Willielmum Todd, in artibus magistrum, et sacrse theologia; 
 
 TOR. professorem, primum et modernum Precentorem dict^ ecclesia? Catlie- 
 
 dralis, &c. Dedimus, &c., omnes illas rectorias et vicarias nostras de Port- 
 
 camon [p. 77], Ballibony [p. 80], Sancto Cuthberto Dunlups [p. 77], et 
 
 Calvad [pp. 74, 81 ?], cum omnibus, &c. 
 
 Thesaura- Fecimus, &c. Samuelem Todd, presbyterum, in artibus baccalaureum, 
 Rius. primum et modernum Thesaurarium dictse ecclesiae Cathedralis, &c. De- 
 
 dimus, &c., omnes illas rectorias et vicarias de Culrathan [p. 75], Aghar- 
 ton, Arclynnes, Kosrelige [p. 75], et Racavan, cum omnibus, &c. 
 
 Prebenda- Fecimus, &c. Johannem Cotton, presbyterum, primum et modernum 
 
 RIUS DE Prebendarium Primum dict^ ecclesiae Cathedralis, et volumus quod 
 
 KiLROiGH. prebenda vocabitur Prebenda de Kilroigli. Dedimus, &c., omnes illas 
 
 rectorias et vicarias nostras de Templecororan [p. 58], Temple Igormangan 
 
 [p. 57?] Lougliualitten [p. 57], Ballinure, Insulam [p. 59], et Ballyprior 
 
 [p. 59], cum omnibus, &c. 
 
 Prebenda- Fecimus, &c. Antlionium Hill, presbyterum, in artibus magistrum, pri- 
 Rius de mum et modernum Prebendarium Secundum dictae ecclesi^ Cathedralis, 
 
 Rasarkan. et volumus quod prebenda vocabitur Prebenda de Rasarkan. Dedimus. 
 &c., omnes illas rectorias et vicarias nostras de Rasarkan, Finvoy, Kil- 
 loconriola [p. 89], Kilrates, Kildalage [p. 73], Sancti Conic [p. 53], 
 Tullacur [p. 81 ?], et Glinarrm, cum omnibus, &c. 
 
 Prebenda- Fecimus, l^c. Archibaldum Rowatt, in artibus magisti'um, et sacra; theo- 
 Rius DE logia? professorem, primum et modernum Prebendarium Tertium dictas 
 CoNNORTH. ecclesia; Cathedralis, et volumus quod prebenda vocabitur Prebenda de 
 Connorth. Dedimus, &c., omnes illas rectorias et vicarias nostras de Con- 
 north, Introia [p. 63], Kilglin, Solor, Killagan, cum omnibus, &c. 
 
 Prebenda- Fecimus, &c. Donaldum OMorrey, presbiterum, et sacr« theologiae pro- 
 
 Rius DE fessorem, primum et moderniim Prebendarium Quartum dictae ecclesi^ 
 
 Carne- Cathedralis, et volumus quod prebenda vocabitur, Prebenda de Carne- 
 
 CASTLE. castle. Dedimus, &c., omnes illas rectorias et vicarias nostras de Carne- 
 
 castle, Killwotragh [p. 53], Ballecora [p. 69], Rathsith [p. 68], et Deri- 
 
 keikan, cum omnibus, &c. 
 
 At 
 
264 
 
 At the period of Bruce's invasion, A. D, 13 15, Connor was a town of considerable 
 importance, and the residence of the bishop. Barbour, speaking of the invading troops, 
 says:— 
 
 " Thai tuk to consaill that thai wald 
 Thair wayis towart Coigneris hald; 
 And berbery in the cite ta. 
 And than in gret by thai haf don sua ; 
 And raid be nycht to the cite. 
 Thai fand thair of wictal gret plente; 
 And maid thaim rycht mery cher ; 
 For all traist in the toun thai wer. 
 
 — (Bruce, Buke tend, v. 459, &c.) 
 
 Grace and Pembridge relate that on this occasion the bishop fled to the castle of 
 Carrickfergus, and his bishopric was put under an interdict. His residence was pro- 
 bably the castle, a portion of the outworks of which remain within the glebe. In 1434 
 the Bishop of Connor was resident at Carrickfergus (Reg. Swayne, p. 81.) 
 
 u. 
 
 LARNE. 
 
 This name, which is now confined to a town in the county of Antrim, was orighially 
 applied to a considerable district extending from that town northwards along the coast. 
 In an Inquisition of 1605 Carncastle was found to be in the " Baronia de Larne"; and, 
 in another, the Prior of Muckamore was found to be possessed of the rectory of " Kill- 
 garne [Killyglen] in le Larne". In the Tripartite Life of St. Patrick the " Regio 
 Latharna" is noticed as in Dalaradia. The Annals of the Four Masters, also, make 
 mention of this territory under the following years : — 
 
 A. M. 2550, nrja^Cacapna lu t)alnjpui6e, ' the plain of Larne in Dalaradia', cleared 
 
 of wood. 
 A. M. 3529, T?ac 6acain 1 Cacapna, ' Rath Bacain in Larne', was erected. This date 
 
 corresponds to 2756 of Keating, who calls the place \lav 6acaU 1 6a- 
 
 rapnuib (Vol. i, p. 320.) 
 
 A. M. 3586, Lathar, one of the sons of Hugony the Great, had his portion 1 f-arapna, 
 
 'in Larne'. — (Keating, vol. i. p. 348.) ^^ ^ g 
 
265 
 
 M. C. 1 198, " Q06 ONell luce COICC lonj do cill 1 ^acapnaib, 7 po loipc m 
 
 Don baile, 7 po riiapb occ Bpip decc do ^allaib". 
 
 " Aodli ONeill sailed with five ships to Kill in the Larne, burned a 
 
 gi'eat part of the town, and killed eighteen of the English". 
 
 The harbour of Larne has had a great variety of names. Snorro relates that in 
 1 01 8 Einar Jarl, son of Sigurd, Earl of the Orkneys, sailed on a piratical expedition 
 to Ireland, and that having encountered Konofogor [Connor?], King of Ireland, i VI- 
 freksjirdi, 'in the bay Ulfreksfiord', he was defeated, and retired with loss (John- 
 stone, Ant, Celt. Scan., p. 157.) 
 
 A. D. 1 2 10, July 26, King John being at Carrickfergus granted to Duncan Fitz 
 Gilbert, and his heirs, the town of Widfridiford, and all the land from Wulfrichford to 
 Glynarm, containing fifty plowlands. Witnesses: the Bishop of Norwich, John de 
 Courcy, &c. — (Cal. Cane. Ilib., vol. ii. p. 354.) An Inspeximus of this grant recites 
 that these fifty carucates were in Widvricheford, Inverth [Inver], et Glivarn [Glenarm]. 
 (Rot. CI. 3 Hen. III., Hardy E. C, p. 402 b.) 
 
 Barbour, describing the arrival of Edward Bruce in Ireland in 13 15, writes, 
 
 "In Wohingh fyrth arywyt thai". — (Buke x. 33.) 
 
 In subsequent records the name assumes the various forms of Ulderfleet Haven, 
 Wolderfrith, Wolverfiete, and Olderfleet : the last of which is still borne by the ruined 
 castle near the end of the falciform neck of land called the Curran [Copann ' a sickle'], 
 which bounds the entrance of Larne Lough on the west. But the original name, of 
 which the later ones seem to be corruptions, was Ollarba, which has already been shewn 
 to have been that by which the bay was called in the sixth and twelfth centuries. — 
 (pp. ^^, 252.) The passage which has been quoted in the former place is recorded 
 by the Annals of Ulster at the year 571 ; by the Annals of Boyle at 545 ; and more 
 fuUy by the Four Masters, at 558, in the following words: — 
 
 " Ipin bliaohain pi po gubhoD <J.n TTluip- " Anno hoc captum est Marina fera, i. e. 
 
 jelc .1. Ciban, .1. eacach mac ITIuipeDa Siren, i. e. per Eathachum filium Mured- 
 pop cpachc Ollctpbha hi lin 6eoain mic hi, supra littus [_al. prope ostium fluminis] 
 Inli lapcaipe Com^aiU 6enDchaip". Ollarbce, in retibus Beoani filii Inlii pisca- 
 
 toris Comgalli Benchorensis". 
 It need not seem strange that a story like this should have found its way into so 
 faithful a record as the Annals of Tigernach, inasmuch as the existence of the mer- 
 maid was strongly believed by the ancients. Nay, it is not twenty years since, in this 
 age of light, a large company travelled all the way from Belfast to this neighbourhood, 
 to see a mermaid which was reported to have been taken in Island Magee ! A seal, 
 
 2 M or 
 
266 
 
 or some such tenant of the sea, may have been caught in the nets of Comgall's fisher- 
 man, and, as a " sancta Liban [6iban ' maris mulier'] flourished about the year 580 
 " sub magisterio S. Comgalli", the foUowing generation may have converted the pen 
 (seal) into a liban, and St. ^iban into a muipjelc (mermaid). 
 
 The river OUarba, now called the Larne or Inver River, rises about four miles 
 S. W, of Larne, in a spot which was once famous as tented ground, but concerning 
 which modern writers have been silent : — 
 
 "Tuathal Teachtmar [the acceptable] was 
 slain by Mai Mac Rochraidhe, King of 
 Ulster, at Linn-an-gabunn in Dalara- 
 dia". — {Tigernach.) 
 
 A. D. 160, "Cuachal Ceachcmap occi- 
 
 pup la niul mac l^och- 
 
 paiohe, la pi nUlaoh oc 
 
 Cino an ^ubuno i tiOuI 
 
 Qpaiohe". 
 This date is more correct than that of the Four Masters, which is 106: their state- 
 ment of the occurrence, however, is fuller, and is worthy of being transcribed:— 
 
 "lap mbeir rpioco blia&uin hi pi^e "After Tuathal Toachtmhar had been 
 
 nGpenn go Cuacul Ueachcmap copcuip thirty years in the government of Ireland 
 
 lu ITlal mac TJocpaioe pi Ula6 In TTIoij^- he fell by Mai Mac Kochraide, King of Ul- 
 
 line hi nrioin in cara 1 nt)alupai&e, un stcr, in Moylinuy, at Moin-ai-chat/ia [bog 
 
 bail apa m bpucc Ollap 7 OUapba an of the battle] in Dal Aradia, at the place 
 
 oa abainn. Ceannjuba ainm an cnuic whence spring the Ollar and OUarba, the 
 
 in po mapbao pomh peb oeapbup an two rivers. Ceann-gubha [hill of grief] 
 
 is the name of the hill on which he was 
 killed, as the verse proves: — 
 
 " Ollar and OUarba, 
 Ceann-f^iil)ha lordly, nolilo. 
 They are not names without a cause, 
 The day on which Tuathal was slain. 
 
 " And as was also said: 
 
 " Tuathal, from whom the tribes of our lands 
 The chiefs of Meath, heroes of valour, 
 Was wounded — that chief of fair Frewiu, 
 In the field of the hill of Glenn-an-Gabhann". 
 
 This ground was again contested, according to the Four INIasters, in the year 285: — 
 
 " t)o cheap Poca6 Qipccceac lap pm " Fothadh Airgtheach was afterwards 
 
 hic car OUapba hi Cine la Caoilce". slain by Caoilte, at the battle of OUarba 
 
 in Line". 
 
 With 
 
 jiann, 
 
 "Ollap ocup OUapba 
 Ceannj^uba cpiarac cuarac 
 Hibbup anmonoa ^an abbap 
 Qn la DO mapbao Cuacal. 
 
 " Qcup amail ap puBpab beep — 
 
 "Uuacal Diap ppine peponn 
 piaic mi6e milib jalann 
 ^aocca plair Ppemann pinne 
 hi pe cnuic ^linoe an jabann". 
 
267 
 
 With this agrees the statement in the Book of Conquests: 
 
 "^ubair na PodiaiD .1. Pocha6aip5- "The Fothadhs, i. e. Fothadh Airg- 
 
 reach acuy PochaG caippreac oa mac theach and Fothadh Cairptheach, the two 
 
 f.uijoeach mic maicniao an Rije ppi pe sons of Lughdeach son of Macniadh, us- 
 
 aen bliaona, acup mp bo pommeach a sumed the monarchy during one year, and 
 
 pplairep. t)o pocliaip Pocob caipp- their reign was not happy. Fothadh Cairp- 
 
 reac la Porao aip^reac, acup bo ceap theach fell by Fothadh Airgtheach, and 
 
 Porub aipjreac la Caoilce 1 ccac Ol- Fothadh Airgtheach fell by Caoilte in the 
 
 lapba illine". battle of Ollarba in Line". — (p. 156.) 
 
 From the following lines of Flann of the Monastery we learn that Moylinny, the 
 scene of this engagement, was in the territory of the Picts : — 
 
 "Qipbpi pocab caippceacli cpeach " Chief-king Eochaidh Cairptheach of the preys, 
 Co pop bi Porab aipgreach Until slain by Fothadh Airgtheach 
 
 Qn C-aip3ceacli moice a bic be The Airgtheach— the greater his destruction 
 
 6a Caoilce 7 epic na Cpuirne", By Caoilte in the country of the Cruithne". 
 
 The victorious hero was foster-son of Finn Mac Cumhaill [the Finn Mac Cool of 
 the legends], who was also called Mongan. The particulars of the death and sepulture 
 of Fothadh are related in the following extract from the Leabhar na li-Uidhre, as cited 
 and translated in Mr. Petrie's Round Towers of Ireland, pp. 105, 106: — 
 
 " 6amaip-ne lac-pu, a Pinb, ol in c- " We were with thee, O Finn, said the 
 
 oclac, Qbaucc, ol Ulonjan, ni maic youth. Hush! said Mongan, that is not 
 
 pin. 6amaip-ni la Pmo, r\\a, ol pe ; bu good [fair]. We were with Finn, once, 
 
 loomap bi aibae [rec^/?<s almoin]. Im- said he; we went from Alba [recte Al- 
 
 mopnacmap ppi Porub n-Qipjcec b-i main]. We fought against Fothadh Airg- 
 
 punb accuc pop Ollopbi. Piciminip thecb here with thee at Ollarba. We 
 
 pcanbal n-anb. Pocapcpo epcop paip, fought a battle here; I made a shot at 
 
 CO pec cpir, co lluib h-i colmain ppipp him, and I drove my spear through him, 
 
 anall, acup con pacaib a lapnb h-i cal- so that the spear entered the earth at the 
 
 am; ippeb an bicelcap po po boi ip in other side of him, and its iron head was 
 
 gai pin. Pujebcap in mael clod bia po left buried in the earth. This is the very 
 
 lapa a pouo pi [«/. un poab pm], acup handle that was in that spear. The round 
 
 poj^ebrap anaip lupnn ip in calam, acup stone from which I made that shot will be 
 
 pogebcap aulao [a/.ulaio] PoraioQipj- found, and eastof it will be found the iron 
 
 C15 ppip anaip bic. Qra compap cloci head of the spear buried in the earth; and 
 
 imbi the earn of Fothadh Airgthech will be 
 
 2 M 2 found 
 
268 
 
 imbiano h-1 ralam. Qcac a oi poil aip- found a short distance to the east of it. 
 
 TIC, acuf a Di bunne ooac, acup a mum- There is a chest of stone about him in the 
 
 cope apjic pop a compaip ; acup acd earth. There are his two rings of silver, 
 
 coipce oc a ulaiD; acup aca 050m ip and his tv:o bunne doat [bracelets?] and 
 
 m cinD pil h-i calam bin coipci. Ippeb his torque of silver on his chest ; and there 
 
 pil ano, is a pillar stone at his earn; and an Ogu- 
 
 mis riuscribedl on the end of the pillar 
 
 -eochait) an^^chech inso. ,, J,,i,i,i, ^.i, ,1,, ,,,th. AndwLtis 
 
 ■Ra m-bi Cailce in imaepiuc ppi PinD. in it is, 
 
 ecbe (.1. DO ^nichep) lap m oclaic a picc .. EocHAiD Airgthech here. 
 
 pamlaiD ule, 7 porepca", ,. ri -i^ ^i * i, 1 -u 
 
 ' ' / r r I ii -^yag (_,ailte thiit was here along witli 
 
 Finn. All these things were searched for 
 
 by the youth who had arrived, and they 
 
 were found". 
 
 The Larne River rises by two heads in Ballybracken Moss, in the parish of Bally- 
 nure. The Six-Mile Water rises in a spring in Ballyboley Park ISIoss, in the parish of 
 Ballycor, a little S. W. of Shane's Hill: after a course of about 100 perches it becomes 
 the boundary between that parish and Kilwaiighter, as well as between the baronies 
 of Upper Glenarm and Upi)er Antrim. Following the direction of a ravine which 
 runs dovm the face of the hill, it arrives at the townland of Headwood, in Kilwaugh- 
 ter parish, near the place where the three baronies of Upper Glenarm, Upper Antrim, 
 and Lower Belfast meet. In this townland there is a spot where a branch of the Six- 
 Mile Water can be turned into the Larne Eiver, and which, in dry summers, is a position 
 of importance to the bleachers, as the stream which it commands forms a valuable acces- 
 sion to the river that receives it. Here also is a large bog, probably the Moin-an- 
 ratha of a preceding passage, which lies between the two rivers. A deep drain, which 
 was intended to intersect it, was abandoned before its completion, on the plea that it was 
 calculated to divert into the Larne liiver a portion of the water which prescriptively 
 ran into the Six-Mile Water, and thus affect the bleaching interest on that side. On 
 the face of Ballyboley Hill, about a quarter of a mile to the west, is a place called 
 Carn-doo, and here, under the brow of the hill, is a pile locally called the Abbey. It 
 consists of several huge stones, ranged in an irregular circle, the space within being 
 chieily occupied by six large upright stones, disposed in pairs, and supporting two 
 blocks, above five feet long, and from two to three feet square, laid horizontally upon 
 them. This massive erection is not noticed on the Ordnance ]\Iap, but should appear 
 on sheet 46. For two miles along the face of the hill which forms the western boun- 
 dary 
 
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 dary of the valley of the Six-Mile Water is a series of foundations of inclosures, called 
 by the people Boley hozises. They are for the most part quadrangular, and look like 
 ancient foundations of small cabins, with paddocks attached to them. Tradition says 
 that they were employed by the inhabitants of the valley when, in summer, they drove 
 up their cattle to the pasturage on the heights. These curious remains of a remote 
 period begin Avhere the new Ballymena and Larne road passes beside Shane's Hill, at an 
 eminence called Cruic-na-Grania, and extend in a S. W. direction on the brow of the 
 hill overhanging the valley. The valley of the Six-Mile "Water is exceedingly fertile, 
 and the view of it from the top of Ballyboley Hill is one of great beauty. 
 
 In the sixteenth century the Six-Mile Water had lost the name Ollar, as the appel- 
 lation by which it was then known among the native Irish was Owen-na-view, i. e. 
 Qbamn na B-peaD, ' river of the rushes'. 
 
 Magheramokne Adjoining the parish of Inver on the south is the district of 
 
 Magheramorne, which now gives name to an estate in the parish of Glynn. The name 
 signifies 'the plain of Mourne', and was originally written niu^bopn, pronounced 
 Mourne. The name is also preserved in Lough Mourne, a lake of ninety acres extent, 
 which is situate in the N. E. of Carrickfergus parish. — (Ord. Survey, s. 46.) This ter- 
 ritory is worthy of notice as having given birth to St. Comgall, the founder of Bangor. 
 " De Aquilonali Hibernian regione, nomine Dail-naraidhe, quae est contra mare in Aqui- 
 lonali provinciae plaga Ultorum, sanctus abbas Comgallus ortus fuit. — Sanctus jam 
 Mac Cneisi episcopus, qui jacet in sua civitate nomine Connyre, quaj est in regione 
 Dalnaraidhe, prophetavit de nativitate S. Comgelli. Nam cum quadam die Setna pater 
 beati Comgalli et uxor ejus nomine Brig, in uno curru vecti venissent per locum in 
 quo erat Episcopus, ipse audiens sonitum currus, dixit ministris suis: videte qui sunt 
 in curru, quoniam sub homine, in quo gratia Dei abundat, sonat. Ministri aspicientes 
 dixerunt Episcopo: Domine, miles Setna et uxor sua devehuntur in curru: Quibus 
 sanctus Episcopus ait: vere ilia foemina habet in utero suo filium, cujus gratia magna 
 erit in coelo et in terra. Ipsa jam mulier Brig crastino die, oriente sole, filium reveren- 
 dissimum, cujus nomen dicetur Comgallus, pariet, in oppido de Mourne^ et ipse magnus 
 coram Deo erit, atque in modum clarissimi radii solis in Hibernia fulgebit : et ilia con- 
 cepit et peperit sicut dixit Episcopus Mac Cnessi". — (Lib. Kilken., fol. 90^, cols, i, 2.) 
 Fleming, who has printed this Life from a MS. of Armagh, reads Murue instead of 
 Mourne — (CoUectan., p. 304.) This story, with some slight variations, is told in the 
 Life of St. Mac Nisse — (Acta Sanctorum, Septemb., torn, i, p. G6^.) And though there 
 is an anachronism in it, for Mac Nisse died in 514, whereas Comgall was not born till 
 517, yet it serves to shew that the Mourne of Antrim, and not that of Down, was the 
 
 birth-place 
 
2/0 
 
 birth-place of St. Comgall; Connor being about thirteen miles distant, westwards, from 
 Magheramorne. This part of Antrim, extending south-westwards to Lough Neagh, 
 was the head-quarters of the Irish Picts or Crutheni; and in allusion to his parentage, 
 Adamnan introduces St. Columbkille addressing St. Comgall in these words : " tui 
 secundum carnem cognati Cruthinii populi". 
 
 V. 
 
 ISLAND MAGEE. 
 
 The Four Masters, at A. M. 2859. speak of a ^^ar Chiombaoir i Seirime, ■ liath 
 Kimba'h in Shevny'; and of mu;^ Semne 1 nt)al nQpuioe, ' Moy Shevnyin Dalara- 
 
 dia' (So Keating, vol. i, pp. 176, 178; OFlaherty, Ogyg., p. 169.) At A. M. 3529, 
 
 l?ue Cuinceoa 1 Semne, 'Rath Concha in Shevny'; and at A. M. 3656, ca^ Cula 
 arjuipc 1 Semne, 'the battle of Cul-athgurt in Shevny'. The name occurs in the 
 Tripartite Life of St. Patrick also, where, treating of his labours in Dalaradia, it states 
 that he founded a church " in Imlech-cluana in agro Semne". — (Pt. ii. cap. 133.) Mr. 
 O Donovan, in a note upon the expression r^""S Seimne, ' host of Seimne', observes 
 that " the Ultonians were sometimes so called by the bards, from the plain of Seimne, 
 situated in the territory of Dal Araidlie, in the south of the present county of Antrim". 
 (Battle of Magh Rath, p. 211.) 
 
 It is probable that this word enters into composition in Ransevyn, the ancient name 
 of Island Magee, which may be a corruption of Rinn Seimne, ' the point of Shevny'. 
 It is possible also that the la-alftviai uKfot of Ptolemy may more properly be understood 
 of a part of this peninsula than of St. Johii's Point in the county of Down, whither 
 Camden and Ware refer it. 
 
 The peninsula of Island Magee contains 703 1 statute acres, and though comprised 
 in one parish now, was subdivided before the Reformation into a number of chapelries 
 and granges. 
 
 In 12 1 3 the Justiciary of Ireland was directed by King John to consign to Robert 
 Fitz Serlon his lands of Hensanem, provided the castle of Cragfergus could spare them. 
 (Hardy, Rot. CL, p. 138 i.) In 1333 it was found that two and a half carucates of land 
 in the Graunge [Gransha] in Renceven were held by John Folcard under the Earl of 
 LTlster. — (Inq. P. M. Will.de Burgo.) In 1326 Roger Outlaw granted, and to farm let, 
 to William de Longadell Manster, a messuage and a carucate of land in Cronanton [Bal- 
 lycronan] in Banseuene. — (King's Collect, p. 61.) lu 1375 the King granted to John 
 
 Fox 
 
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 Fox, of Cragfergus, three and a half carucates of land in Kilkennan in insula de Rame- 
 nem, in the county of Ultonia. — (Cal. Cane. Hib., vol. i, p. 91 b.) In 1583 the Earl of 
 Kildare was granted a lease of certain rectories, and among them " Rinchevn, otherwise 
 called Portmulke" — (Enrolment.) At what time it changed its name is not exactly 
 known ; probably it was in the sixteenth century. An account of the county of Antrim, 
 supposed to have been written in 1598, mentions Island Magee, and adds, " the inhabi- 
 tants thereof are the Magies, from whom it hath the name". — (Dubourdieu's Antrim, 
 p. 620.) Strange to say there is not a Magee in the district now. 
 
 The churches and chapels which formerly existed here were the following : — 
 
 I. Kilkenane. — See p. 59. When Edward Bruce landed at Olderfleet, on the other 
 side of the Lough, he was opposed by the English, and among them, by 
 
 " Sawages als ; and yeit wes ane 
 Hat Schyr Nycholl oi Kylkenane''\ 
 
 — (Barbour, Bruce x. 521.) 
 
 In 1 3 10 Michael of Kylkenan was summoned to a parliament at Kilkenny — (Cal. 
 Cane. Hib., vol. i. p. 13.) In 1320 the Prior of St. John of Jerusalem in Ireland com- 
 plained to the King of the great privations he had suffered by the Scots and rebels, 
 and especially through the instrumentality of Michael of Kylkenan and John Fitz 
 Nicholas of Slane [see above, p. 23]. "Wliereupon the King granted to him and his 
 successors three carucates of land in Portmok [Portmuck], and two carucates in Kyl- 
 kenan, which had belonged to the said Michael ; with two carucates in Ardmacaisse 
 [see above, p. 23], which had belonged to said John, but were forfeited by reason of 
 his adhesion to the enemy. — (Cal. Cane. Hib., vol. i. p. 28.) In 1380 William Proke- 
 tour. Vicar of Antrum, held the manor of Kilkenan under William, Bishop of Connor, 
 i^Ibid., p. 109.) The rectory was appropriate to the abbey of Kells. 
 
 II. PoHmuck Rectory appropriate to the abbey of Inch See p. 58. 
 
 III. Ballyprior. — Rectory appropriate to the priory of Woodburn See p. 59. 
 
 IV. Ballydun. — This grange or chapelry, containing the two townlands of Bally dun 
 [Ballydown], and Ballyneighane, was parcel of the possessions of the Preceptory of St, 
 John. — (Ul. Inq. 7 Jac. I., Cah Cane. Hib., vol, ii. p. 122.) — Ord. Survey, s. 41. 
 
 V. Templenelafin — This rectory, extending over the townlands Temple Effin, and 
 the three towns of Mullaslee, now Muldersly hill, was appropriate to the abbot of 
 Comber — Ord. Survey, s. 47. 
 
 VI. St. Johti's or Whitekirk. — Appropriate to the priory of Muckamore — Seep. 59. 
 
 The 
 
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 The parish church stands in the townland Ballyharry : it was built about the year 
 1595, but is called "the new church". In 1827, being much dilapidated, twenty- 
 seven feet of the building at the west end, and a transept which was on the north 
 side, were removed, and the edifice reduced to its present dhnensious. 
 
 In 1638, Viscount Chichester, who had previously received a grant of the rectorial 
 tithes and the advowsons of the churches of Island Magee, surrendered the same to the 
 Crown, and in lieu thereof was confirmed in the possession of the rectory and advowson 
 of Shankill, otherwise Belfast. At the same time the Deputy was directed to unite 
 the whole island of ISIagee into one parish, and dispose of the said tithes for the benefit 
 of that church and the college there, for bettering the means of the vicar, and the found- 
 ing of lectures, as should seem most fit.— (Lodge, Peerage, vol. i. p. 323, Ed. Archd.) 
 
 LOCH LAOGH. 
 
 The Irish Annals relate that in the fifth year of the reign of Hercmon, "^och ^.ao^ 
 ino Ulcoib", "Loch Laogh in Ultonia", broke forth. — (Four Mast. JE. M. 3506; 
 Ogyg., p. 187; Keating, vol. i. p. 310.) Tigernach, at the year 161 of the Christian 
 ajra, thus records the reign of a King of Ulster: " 6pepal mac 6piuin pejnac an 
 eamain annip ;ci;c. qui 6och 6015 pubmcpauic", " Bresal son of Brian reigns in 
 Eamania nineteen years, who was drowned in Lough Laigh". The Felire of Aengus 
 the Culdee, already cited, speaks of Killroot church as on the shore of Lough Laogh. 
 (pp. 60, 246.) The same work mentions the name again in connexion with another 
 church, in the following words : — 
 
 « CaiST^eW mOl^ mac l^aSCai. " Laisren the great, Son of Nasca. 
 
 ".I. 6aippen mac Napcai o Qipo mic " i. e. Laisren son of Nasca, of Ard- 
 
 Mapcai pop bpu 6ocha Caij 1 n-Ull- mac-Nasca on the shore of Lough Laig 
 
 caib", — Oct. 25. in Ultonia". 
 
 In the same words the Calendar of the O Clerys, and Maguir, and Marian Gorman, as 
 cited by Colgan.— (Acta SS., p. 631.) Colgan states that this Laisrenus flourished 
 about the year 650, and conjectures that he was the presbyter addressed, under the 
 name Laistranus, in the superscription of the letter from Rome, A. D. 640 — (Bede, 
 ^ Ec. Hist., lib. ii. c. 19; Colg. Acta SS., p. 17, col. 2.) 
 
 The modern name of this Ard-mac-Nasca is unknown. Colgan himself was uncer- 
 tain 
 
tain about its application; at one time he places it in the neighbourhood of Larne: 
 " Cum passim idem Sanctus Hibernis nunc Mo-laisse, nunc Laisre et Laisren vocetur ; 
 Molassius [de Gluaire in regione Latharua] videtur esse S. Laisrenus filius NascjB, quern 
 S. vEngussius, &c., tradunt coli juxta lacum de Loch-Laodh in loco Ardh-mac-nasca 
 dicto" (Trias Thaum., p. 183); and at another he removes the lough, on whose shore it 
 was, faraway: " Stagnum Vituli vulgo Loch Loedh appellatum, _;'?<xta Dunum, Ultonite 
 oivitatem". — (Ibid., p. 386, n. 16.) It is more probable that it was an ancient name 
 of Holy wood, on the county of Down side of Belfast Lough. Archdall, on the autho- 
 rity of Ware, introduces a place called Ardicnise among the monasteries of the county 
 of Down. From its being described as a Franciscan abbey, and of uncertain position, 
 it seems very probable that the name was aliter for, though less known than, Holy- 
 wood. — (Monast. Hib., p. 106.) It is recorded that the Claneboy ONeills gave the 
 lands of Ard-Mac- Croisq, or Holywood, to the Gilmors. — (Stuart's Armagh, p. 630.) 
 
 Adamnan, in his Life of St. Columba, represents the saint as exhorting his frater- 
 nity to prayer on behalf of the monks of Bangor in these words: " Monachis abbatis 
 Comgelli auxiliemur hac in hora in Siagno demersis Vitidi". — (Lib. iii. caji. 13, Trias 
 Thaum., p. 366, col. 2.) Here, according to his custom, he translates the Irish name 
 into Latin. But O Donellus, who introduces the occurrence into his Life of the saint, 
 restores the name to its original form Loch Laodh. — (Lib. ii. c. 90, Trias Th., p. 426.) 
 
 The river Lagan, which rises in Slieve Croob, in the county of Down, after a 
 course of about thirty miles, falls into Belfast Lough. The name which it, in common 
 with the stream which forms the southern boundary of the county of Monaghan, noAV 
 bears, does not appear to have been its original appellation, but to have been borrowed, 
 
 in later times, from the shape of the adjacent grounds in some part of its course (See 
 
 p. 46.) In early Irish authorities the river is called Capan 6ine (see p. no); biit in 
 the Life of St. Colman of Dromore it is called the Xoc//« — (See p. 105.) Ptolemy, the 
 Geographer, in his Topography of Ireland, mentions the Aoytst, itc^oT^oci, which Ware, on 
 his Ptolemy's Map, lays down as the Lower Bann (Works, vol. ii. pp. 37, 41 ), and which 
 is so explained by Dr. O Conor (Rer. H. SS., Prol. i. p. ^6); who, however, on his map 
 traces the course of the Logia as running eastwards, exactly in the direction of the 
 Lagan. The latter is probably the correct representation, and the names Locha and 
 Logia seem to be derived from a common origin with Loch Laogh. 
 
 Archdall says that Loch Laogh is now called Lough Neagh (Monast., p. 2) ; but 
 he is sadly misled by an imagined similai'ity of the names, not knowing that the latter 
 is written 6och n-6accc. 
 
 There were other lakes of the same name in Ireland, as, one in the west of Mayo 
 (Four Mast. M. C. 848); and one near Baltinglass, mentioned in the charter of the 
 
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 abbey de Valle Salntis (Monast. Angl.); but this was the largest and best known in 
 ancient times, until the name sunk into desuetude, being superseded in succession by 
 "Lough Bannchor", "Bay of Knockfergus", and finally "Belfast Lough". 
 
 X. 
 
 CARRICKFERGUS. 
 
 The following is a list of the religious foundations which existed in or near this 
 town : — 
 
 I. St. Mary^s Ahhey. — See above, at p. 60. The letter there referred to, which is 
 valuable as containing information not hitherto published, is couched in the following 
 terms: " Domino reverendissimo H. Dei gratia regi Anglia?, &c., Suus devotus clericus 
 lieginaldus Connorensis episcopus eternam in Domino salutem. Quam grati extitissent 
 munificentissimo bonorum distributori antiqui terrarum dominatores e perpetuis eorun- 
 dem devotionis operibus licjuere potest. Illi etenim, ccclesias in honore Dei omnipo- 
 tentis et sanctorum ejus construentes, virorum collegia regularium in eisdem jugiter 
 Altissimo devote ministratura construxerunt. Et non solum eis perpetuam et sulfici- 
 eiitem ex propriis territorii bonis aliis providerunt exhibicioncm ; sed et ad hospita- 
 litatis sustentacionem, et pauperum cotidianam recreationcm redditus amplissimos 
 manu largiti sunt copiosa. Quatinus amoti a villicatione in eterna rcciperentur taber- 
 nacula. Nostris vero, proh dolor, temporibus, et maxime nostris in partibus, versa 
 vice agitur domus enim beatae Mariaj de Cragfergus, a pia3 recordationis nobili viro 
 Johanne de Curci, ad usum Canonicorum Prasmonstratensis ordinis deputata, et ab 
 eodem, terris et beneficiis ecclesiasticis, juxta patrias facultatem, ita largiter donata quod 
 ad honestam conventuali muneri sufficet victualiura administrationem, necnon ad hos- 
 jjitum procurationem, et pauperum refocillationem : Nunc vero, quod non sine dolore 
 referimus, ad tantam, per extorquentium et occupantium malitiam, redacta est pauper- 
 tatem, quod vix trium canonicorum parcissime suppetit exhibicioni. Audoenus enim 
 Brun clericus ecclesiam Sti. Nicholge de Cragfergus, et alias ecclesias, in proprios eorum 
 usus a jam dicto J. de Curci collatas, et a summo Pontifice, necnon a domino Metro- 
 politano nostro, et a nobis canonice confirmatas, regia abusus potestate, violenter occu- 
 pavit et injuste possedit. Unde dicti canonici jure suo videbuntur alienari nisi mise- 
 ricordem Excellentias vestrce senserint pietatem. Hinc est quod pro dilectis filiis 
 vestris Abbate et Canonicis ad regiae majestatis vestrse pedes prosternimus, obsecrantes 
 in Domino, quatinu' pro ^alute anima^ vestra? necnon et patris vestri quondam Regis 
 
 illustris.'^imi, 
 
illustrissimi, quorum auctoritate se tueri prfEsumunt qui sibi Cliristi patrimonium 
 usurpaverunt, dictae ecclesias inormis lesionis dampnum resarcire velitis, sibi iujuste 
 subtracta restituentes, non promereiites eterni dispendii occasionem unde vero tempo- 
 rale reportatis emolumentum. Eo benignius dominum Abbatem iu agendis suis exau- 
 dientes, quod in guerra vestra universis mobilibus domus suse per inimicos fuerit 
 spoliatus quia fideliter vobis adhesit, et quicquid potuit in castri vestri de Cragfergus 
 
 convertit munitionem. Valeat in Domino Excellentia vestra" (Royal and Other 
 
 Letters, No. 799, Tur. Lond.) 
 
 In the year 1183, " Willielmus, prior de Cracfergus", subscribes one of J. de 
 Courcy's charters to Down cathedral. There is some reason for supposing that this 
 house was identical with the abbey afterwards called de Goodborn or Woodborn. The 
 latter, which stood half a mile to the west of Carrickfergus, on the left bank of the 
 river Woodburne, was of the order of Prsemontre, and was traditionally reported to 
 have been called Mary's Abbey. In the Monasticon the foundation is vaguely referred 
 to "some Scots, in the thirteenth century": but the omission of its name in the Taxa- 
 tion, and the introduction of St Mary's church, countenance the supposition of their 
 identity. A lease of certain lands granted, in 1326, by Roger Outlaw, Prior of Kil- 
 mainham, is dated "apud abbatiam deWoddeborne".— (Monast. Hib,, p. 7.) Bernard 
 Mac Cura w^as abbot in 1527 ; and Gillerath MacCourath, the last abbot, on the ist of 
 March, 1542, resigned into the hands of the King's Commissioners the possessions of 
 the house, consisting of its site and lands, with the rectories of Antrim, Killdollao-h, 
 Coule in Carmoney, Ballyprior in Island Magee, and the chapel of Downmallis at Larne. 
 
 He and the monks retired to Island Magee, where they died (King's Collect., p. 256.) 
 
 The site is exactly known, but there is not a vestige of the buildings now remaining. 
 
 II. Franciscan Friary. — Said to have been founded about the year 1232, by Hugh 
 
 de Lacy, Avho was buried here in 1243, " apud Cnocfergus in conventu fratrum" 
 
 {Ch-ace, Annal.) The Four Masters, at the year 1497, relate that the monastery of the 
 Friars at Carrickfergus was founded, with consent from Rome, at the request of Niall, 
 son of Con, son of Hugh Buidhe ONeill, for the use of Friars Minor de Observantia, 
 and that sixteen friars of the fraternity of Donegal, with a superior, took possession of 
 it. The site is now occupied by the county gaol. In the Stowe Library is a volume 
 of fifty-two pages, which was transcribed from an ancient MS. belonging to this house; 
 it contains the lives of sixteen saints, and is written in the Irish language ; and at the 
 end is the subscription: " Fr. Bonaventura Mac Dool Guardianus de Carrickfergus, 
 theologia; lector" — (O Conor, Stowe Catalogue, vol. i. p. 158.) 
 
 in. St. Nicholas'' Church See above, p. 61. 
 
 2 N 2 IV. St. John's 
 
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 IV. St. John's Church — See above, p. 61. 
 
 V. St. Mary's.— In 1450 Primate Mey, as guardian of the spiritualities of Down 
 and Connor, sede vacante, admitted to the vicarage of the church of St. Mary, on the 
 east side of the town of Cragfergus, vacant by the death of Hugh Byrde the last vicar, 
 AVilliam Kerde, on the presentation of Marc, abbot of the monastery of St. Comgall of 
 Bangor. Witnesses, Patrick Wyncheslade, mayor, Thomas Warde, Robert Hulyn, 
 bailiffs, of Cragfergus.— (Keg. Octav., fob 40 b.) An Inquisition taken at Antrim in 
 1605, finds, among the appropriations of Bangor, the " capella in vel juxta vallum de 
 Knockfergus, vocata Eastny, cum omnibus suis decimis, &c." 
 
 VI. St. Bridgefs " Adjoining the east suburb of the town is the site of the hos- 
 pital of St. Bridget, an ancient monastic foundation, said to have been for the reception 
 of lepers. Some remains of the chapel attached to this hospital remained within the 
 last forty years, and persons were interred in it within memory. The lands adjoining 
 are still called the Spittal Parks, and were, till this year (1823), free of ty the. There 
 is no record when this hospital was founded, or by whom. In the 36th of the reign of 
 Queen Elizabeth this hospital and the lands attached were granted by the Crown to 
 Richard Harding for 30 years. Some silver coins have been found here of Edward III." 
 (M'Skimin, Hist, of Carrickferg., p. 127.) 
 
 VII. Killi/ann About two miles N. W. of the town, in Middle Division, a gable 
 
 of an ancient church called Killyann remains. It is not laid down on the Ordnance 
 Map, but it stands near Duncriie Fort, which is marked on sheet 52. A drawing is given 
 by M'Skimin, p. 287. "When King John was at Carrickfergus, in 12 10, he granted to 
 John de Hauewude the " villa de Duncru in Ultonia" — (Hardy's Rot. CI. Tur. Lond., 
 p. 390 1>.) 
 
 VIII. Carnrawsi/ In same district, east of the preceding, near Burleigh Hill, 
 
 and about a mile and a half from the town, stood the ruins of a church called Carn- 
 rawsy. They were, some years ago, converted into a vault for a neighbouring family. 
 This was the Ecdesia de Bassie mentioned by the Terrier as belonging to the Dean of 
 Connor. Silver coins of Henry V. and VII. were found here. — (M'Skimin, p. 129.) 
 
 IX. Spittal House.—'' A little north of the town, on the east of the road leading to 
 Gleno, is a well, neatly enclosed with cut stone, now called the Bride-well. Here 
 formerly stood an hospital dedicated to St. Bride, called " the Spittal House", which 
 was granted, same time as St. Bridget's Hospital, to Richard Harding, for a like term of 
 years. In the deed to Harding it is called " parceU antique hereditament", and con- 
 sisted chiefly of a small plot called ' the Fryar's Garden' ". — (M'Skimin, p. 128.) 
 
 White 
 
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 White Abbey In the parish of Carnmoney, about halfway between Carriekfer- 
 
 gus and Belfast, is the townland White- Abbey, which takes its name from an abbey, 
 the ruins of the chapel of which stand in a field a little to the right of the road, and 
 are marked on the Ord. Survey " White Abbey Euins". — (s. 57.) The place is laid 
 down under the same name on Norden's and Speed's Maps. The ruin is 38 feet 6 inches 
 long, 19 feet 9 inches wide at the east end, and 20 feet 2 inches at the west. The 
 walls are four feet thick, and built in courses. In the east side, about nine feet from 
 the ground, are three lancet windows, which are much disfigured by the removal of the 
 dressings, but their dimensions may be estimated as 7 feet 6 inches in height, 1 foot 
 9 inches in width outside, splayed to 5 feet inside. They are pleasingly represented 
 in a drawing of White Abbey, pviblished in [Beun's] History of Belfast. — (p. 265.) On 
 the north and south sides there Avere similar windows at a like elevation. The N. W. 
 angle is ragged, and looks as if it had been connected with, other buildings. For a con- 
 siderable space around, and especially in this direction, several foundations and pave- 
 ments have been from time to time discovered : among them have been found silver 
 coins of the Edwards, a font, a quern, carved stones, and quantities of human bones. 
 One of the sculptured stones bore the figure of a shamrock, and another resembling a 
 corbel head is over the door of an adjacent ice-house. Some antique bronze orna- 
 ments, including a crucifix, which were found near this spot, are in the possession of 
 Edmund Getty, Esq., of Belfast. About fifty yards S. W. was a deep draw-well, whicli 
 was closed in 1836. This abbey was, probably, the Druin-la-croix of Archdall, which 
 is described as having been founded for Prsemonstrant or White Canons, and as being 
 a daughter of the abbey of Drieburgh, in Scotland. — (Monast. Hib., pp. 6, 7.) 
 
 Y. 
 
 ANTRIM. 
 
 The following notices of this ancient church occur in the Annals of the Four Masters : 
 
 JE. C. 612, "PioncaiM Oencpeib abb "Fintan of Oentreibh, abbot of Bangor, 
 6enbcaip becc". died". 
 
 The Annals of Ulster, at the same date, read Oencpaib, Tigernach, how- 
 ever, at 613, reads Qenrpuim. 
 
 JE. C. 772, "S. piariD o Qoemcpeb abb " S. Flann of Aontrebh, abbot of Bangor, 
 6enbchuip becc". died". 
 
 The An. Ul., at 727, have Oencpib; and Tigernach, at 728, Oencpaib. 
 
 JE. C. 822, 
 
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 M. C. 822, '• OpTQin 6enDcaip la ^al- " Bangor plundered by the Danes, and its 
 
 laiB, -| copccpab a oepraije, -| 
 pelcci Com^aiU do cpocao ap 
 an pspin in a paBpac arhail po 
 caipnjip Comjall peipin Dia n- 
 ebaipc — 
 
 " 616 piop pip 
 t)o 6eoin Qipopi^ na pi j, 
 6epcop mo cnariia ^an cpon 
 06henDcuip baja 00 Gncpob ". 
 
 oratory destroyed, and the reliques of 
 Comghall scattered from the shrine 
 which contained them, according as 
 Comghall himself predicted when he 
 said: 
 
 " It will be true-true, 
 By permission of the King of kings, 
 BIy bones shall be removed without defect 
 From beloved Beimchorto Entrobh". 
 
 "Muredhach, son of Cormac, abbot of 
 
 Oentraibh, died". 
 " Cellach, son of Bee, lord of Dalaradia, 
 
 was slain in Oentribh by his own 
 
 tribe". 
 " Antrum spoyled by Fermanach". 
 
 M.Q. 877, "muipeoac mac Copbmaic 
 abb Oenqiaib". 
 
 M. C. 941, " Ceallac mac 6ece ciccep- 
 na t)alapai6e do opccain in 
 Oencpib la a cenel peipin". 
 
 jYj. C. 1018, "Oencpub Doapcainoo pe- 
 paib". 
 
 This passage, Avhich is wanting in the Four Masters, but supplied by the 
 An. Ul., is thus translated in the old English version made for Sir J. Ware. 
 O Conor renders it " a prsedonibus maritimis". 
 M.C. 1030, "Cenel Gojain do bpipuio "Kindred Owen [the men of Tyrone] 
 luinji ua Coinjpij pop lap Oen- broke OLongsy his ship in midest of 
 
 cpaib". Antrim" — {An. Ul.) 
 
 So the old English translation. O Conor renders the passage: " Tironenses 
 destruunt naves OLongsigii in ipso conspectu Antrimia;". The Four Masters 
 are silent concerning the occurrence. The lordship of Dalaradia was here- 
 ditary in the Ua Coinjpij [Lynch] family from 985 do^vnwards. 
 JE. C. 1096, "F^ci"^ "" ^"'Peccan aip- "Flann OMuregan, superior of Aen- 
 
 cinDecQencpuib". truibh, died". 
 
 ^i:. C. 1 147, " Roppcpe acup Oencpob do " Roscrea and Oentrob were burned", 
 lopccao". 
 
 The name Oencpeib occurs also in the Annotations on the Felire of Aengus 
 
 at July 31. 
 Adjoining the parish of Antrim, on the east, are the two townlands of llathmore 
 and Rathbeg, the latter of which was formerly one of the sixteen towns of Antrim. 
 
 Rathbeg 
 
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 Rathbeg joins Rathmore on tlie north, and the road from Antrim to Park Gate, which 
 forms the boundary betAveen Donegore and Nilteen, crosses the division of the two 
 townlands, so that the chief part of Rathbeg is thrown into Donegore, while the bulk 
 of Rathmore is reckoned into Nilteen. 
 
 Rathbeg is famous in the Irish Annals as the place where Dermot Mac Cearblial, 
 King of Ireland, was slain by Hugh Dubh, King of Dalaradia. The occurrence is thus 
 recorded in the Annals of Tigernach at the year 565 : — 
 
 "(Diapmaic mac Capbaill occifup "Dermot Mac Cearbhall was slain at 
 
 epc hippaic-bich a ITIuij 6ine, la liQeb Rath-bich in Moylinne by Hugh Dubh, 
 nDub mac Suibne Qpaibe pi Ula6". son of Suibhne Araidhe, King of Uladh". 
 
 The Four Masters and the Dublin Annals of Inisfallen style the aggressor pi t)al- 
 napaioe, ' King of Dalaradia'; but they refer to his station at the time he committed 
 the act, whereas Tigernach designates him by his subsequent title, Avhich he assumed 
 in 581. Lynch gives a fuller account of the occurrence: " Diermitius filius Kerualli. 
 Etenim in Banuani cujusdam tedibus apud Rathbeggam de Muighlinne positis con- 
 stitutus, ubi domum flagrasse persensit, extra portam se proripere conatus, ab Aido 
 nigro Dalaradise regulo, suo quondam alumno, hasta confossus est". — (Cambrens. 
 Evers., p. 57.) To the subsequent history of this Aldus, Adamnan refers in the fol- 
 lowing passage: "Alio in tempore supra memoratus Prtesbyter Findchanus Christi 
 miles, Aidum cognomento nigrum, regio genere ortum, Cruthinium gente, de Scotia 
 [Ireland] ad Britanniam sub clericatus habitu secum adduxit, ut in suo apud se monas- 
 terio per aliquot peregrinaretur annos; qui scilicet Aldus niger valde sanguinarius 
 homo, et multorum fuerat trucidator; qui et Diermitium filium Cerbuill totius Scotise 
 Regnatorem Deo auctore ordinatum, interfecerat. Hie itaque idem Aldus post ali- 
 quantum in peregrinatione transactum tempus, accito Episcopo, quamvis non recte 
 apud supradictum Findchanum Pra?sbiter ordinatus est. Episcopus autem non ausus 
 super caput ejus manum imponere, nisi prius idem Findchanus Aidum carnaliter 
 
 amans, suam capiti ejus pro confirmatione imponeret dextram Aldus vero Niger, 
 
 solummodo nomine Prassbyter, ad sua priora reversus scelera, dolo lancea transfixus, 
 de prora ratis in aquam lapsus stagneam, disperiit" — (Lib. i. cap. 36, Trias Thaum., 
 p. 346.) An ancient catalogue of the Kings of Ulidia states that he was killed "in 
 
 nave a Crutheniis" (Rer. Hib. Script., voh ill. p. 176, note 2.) There is no fort 
 
 remaining in this townland. 
 
 Rathmore, however, was a place of greater celebrity, and the circular entrench- 
 ment which remains in the part of the townland which lies north of the Antrim and 
 Park Gate road, and which belongs to the parish of Donegore, indicates its former 
 
 importance. 
 
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 importance. — (See above, p. 69.) According to Tigernacb it received this name in the 
 
 second century : — 
 
 A. C. 161, "6pepal muc 6piuin pejnac "Bresal, the son of Brian, reigns in Ea- 
 
 (in 6aTnain annip;r;i;c. cuiup con- mania nineteen years : ciijus conjux 
 
 iu;c TDop a ben ipi ubbach oia (his spouse) Mor died of grief for his 
 
 cumaijh, aquo nommacup T3uic death: from her Rath-mor in Moy- 
 
 mop rPuije Cme". linny is named". 
 
 In the Life of St. Comgall, however, as cited above at p. 70, the more natural in- 
 terpretation Atrium magnum is assigned for the name. 
 
 Bede relates that in the year of our Lord 684 " Ecgfrid rex Nordanhymbrorum 
 misso Iliberniam cum exercitu duce Bercto, vastavit misere gentem innoxiam et nationi 
 Anglorum semper amicissimam; ita ut neecclesiis quidem, autmonasteriis manus par- 
 ceret hostilis". — (11. E., iv. 26.) Keating follows his citation of the passage with the 
 additional account: — 
 
 "Qrup cujaoop car l^ara-nioipe a "And they gave the battle of Rath-mor, 
 
 rrioi^-lme QIC ap TTiapb)xaD Cumupjac in Moy-linne, the place where was slain 
 plaic Cpuirnioc, -\ oponj mop, do ^'icioi- Cumasgach, chief of the Picts, and a great 
 Diolaib mapaon pip". number of the Irish along with him". 
 
 Ti"-ernach places the battle at 682, and calls the leaders who fell Cathusach, son of 
 Maclduin, King of the Cruithne, and Ulltan, son of Dicholla. Rathmore was at this 
 time the seat of the lords of the Dalaradian Picts, whose chief dominion lay in the ter- 
 ritory along the Six-Mile Water and Larne River. 
 
 Rathmore is next mentioned in the Annals on the occasion of its being visited by 
 the famous Brian Boroimhe. The Annals of Inisfallcn, at the year 987, state: — 
 
 " Comcinol pep nGpeno ec ^uUu -\ " An assembling of the Irish, as well 
 
 ^aeoelu o ra pliab Puair pabep la Strangers as Natives, from the limits of 
 
 6pian mac Cennecich co Qpomaca, -| Slieve Fuaid, Avith Brian, son of Kennedy, 
 
 CO T^aic moip IDaije line in Ulcaib, Do to Armagh, and Rath-mor of Moyline in 
 
 cabaipc j^iall ceniuil Chonaill -] ceniuil Ultonia, to receive hostages of the men of 
 
 fcojain''. Tirconnell and Tyrone". 
 
 Or, as it is recorded in the Dublin version of the Annals at the year 1004: — 
 
 " t)o chuaiD 6piun ap pin 50 'Rair- "Brian set out thence [Armagh] to 
 
 ihoip ITIhuije-line 50 cciij jeille Oail- Rath-mor in Moy-line, until he carried 
 nopaioe leip". away the hostages of Dalaradia with him ". 
 
 Again, 
 
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 Again, the Annals of Connauglit, at 13 15, represent Rathmor as invaded from another 
 quarter: — 
 
 " Gbbapb mac ■Roibepo 6piuip lapla "Edward, son of Robert Bruce, Earl 
 
 Capji DO coioeacc t>o cum eipeann ap of Carrick, came to Ireland [disembark- 
 
 oipep Ula6 buD ruaio luce ccc, lonj a ing] in the land of Ulster in the north, a 
 
 lion 5up combumoip acup gup cpicnaij fleet of 300 ships his number; so that the 
 
 aiona m^acup ipgaileeipm uile co coic- heroes of valour and fight of all Ireland, 
 
 ceann eoap ^all acup ^aoioil, acup in general, both Gall and Gael, shook and 
 
 po aipj^ a ceDoip popjla Ula6, acup po trembled. And he soon plundered the 
 
 loipc l^air mop JTIui^^i line -| Oun Deal- best part of Ulster: and he burned Rath- 
 
 jan". more of Moylinny and Dundalk ". 
 
 In 1347 Edward III. confirmed to Robert Savage the manors of Rathmore, Duntorsy, 
 Balencan, and Donaghty, Avith their appurtenances in Ulvester. — (Rot. Pat. 2 1 Ed. III. 
 m. I, Tur. Lond.) A neighbouring townland in the parish of Donegore, called Bally- 
 savage, preserves this family name. 
 
 This Rathmore is not to be confou.nded with the Rac-mop TTlhaije-leiTina which 
 the Four Masters, at ^. Cm, relate was founded byBaine, and which Colgan describes 
 as " vicus in dioecesi Clocharensi, juxta oppidum Clochariam, olim Celebris arx et sedes 
 Principum Orgielliaj". — (Acta SS,, p. 3.) The latter is erroneously placed by OBrien 
 in the county of Antrim (Diet., sub voce.) 
 
 Moylinny is sometimes rendered by O Conor campus Lcne^ but incorrectly, as ITiaj 
 lena was a tract which lay in Fircall, near Tullamore, in the King's County. 
 
 GARY. 
 
 This barony comprises a territory which is called Cathrigia by the Tripartite Life of 
 St. Patrick, and which derived its name from the Cathraighe, a sept who once occupied 
 it, just as Dartry, Kenry, Kerry, Tradry, belong to districts formerly peopled by the 
 Dartraighe, Caenraighe, Ciarraighe, Tradraighe. The Ordnance Map, indeed, marks 
 a small fort, Avhich is on the opposite side of the road to Culfeightrin church, as ®af)tr 
 i^igtlC, ' King's chair'; which, being on the next townland to Cmy Mill, and over Caiy 
 River, would seem to be intended as the origin of their name: but the word Cairpi^e 
 does not admit of this derivation ; and, even if it did, it would be objectionable in the 
 
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 present case, as the fort is not locally known by that name. In a record of tlie year 
 1279 ^^^^ territory is called Catherich^ and John Byset is stated to have derived a rent 
 from it. — (Inq., P. M., 7 Ed. I. No. 28, Tur. Lond.) This barony contains the parishes 
 of Culfeightrin, Ramoan, Ballintoy, part of Billy, Armoy, and Rathlin. 
 
 I. Culfeightrin. — This parish is remarkable for the number of its small burying- 
 grounds. These are called by the country people Keels (from cill 'a church'), and 
 are principally employed for the interment of still-born children. The following list 
 of the ecclesiastical remains in the parish exhibits their names and situation : — 
 
 1. Cvlfeightrin. — The old parish church was situate about a mile and a half S. E. 
 of Ballycastle, in the townland of Churchjield, anciently called Magheratemple, and so 
 marked on Petty's map. It was 100 feet long, and 21 feet 8 inches broad. The east 
 gable, which, with the exception of a small portion of the south wall, and the N. E. 
 angle, is the only part now standing, contains a very elegant window, in the perpen- 
 dicular style of the close of the fifteenth century. There is no cemetery attached, but 
 the field which surrounds the ruin is supposed to have been in part a burying-place, 
 as human remains have been found therein. 
 
 2. Bonamargy This abbey is so called, according to Mr. O Donovan, from 6un na 
 
 ITIcnp^e, ' the foot of the Margy ', ' now the Gary River', being situated at its opening. — 
 (Dub. Pen. Jour., vol. i. p. 321.) Archdall, on the authority of Ware, says, "a small 
 monastery was built here, in the fifteenth century, for the Franciscan friars of the third 
 
 order". (INIonast., p. 3.) A MS. list of the Irish Franciscan abbeys, preserved in the 
 
 British ]\Iuseum, states that Bunamargy in the Reuta was founded in 1500 by Roory 
 M= Quillin, lord of the Rente — (No. 4814, Plut. cxx. G., p. 2.) The chapel measures 
 98 feet by 21. The east window strongly resembles that of old Culfeightrin church. 
 The large cemetery which surrounds the ruins is the principal burying-ground of the 
 parish ; and in a vault at the south side are deposited the remains of the first Marquis 
 of Antrim. Close to the abbey, on the S. W., is Danriney Fort. A MS. on vellum, 
 with illuminated capitals, containing a translation of Bonaventure's tract "De descensu 
 Christi ad inferos" in the English of the fifteenth century, and formerly belonging to 
 the abbey, is now in the possession of Mrs. Ezechiel Boyd of Ballycastle. 
 
 3. Drumnakill. — In the townland Bighouse, on Murlough Bay, near the water-edge, 
 is a high platform of rock, which bears this name. On the top are the foundations of 
 an old church, measuring 24^ feet by 10 feet 9 inches. From the following notice in 
 the Terrier it appears to have been a chapel of ease to the mother church: " Capella 
 
 lie 
 
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 de Killoan. — The chappell of St. James in Mowllocke near the Fair Foreland [Fair 
 Head] : it is usurped and concealed by the parson of Kulfeehtrene a long time, and tis 
 exempted" — (See Ord. Survey, s. 5.) 
 
 4. Killowen. — In the townland Dunard, or Cross, as marked on the Ord. Map (s. 5), 
 or Coolalough, as it is locally called, about thirty-five perches west of Lough- na-Cra- 
 nagh, are the foundations of this chapel, measuring about 33 feet by 16. Unbaptized 
 infants have been occasionally interred here. The lake just mentioned covers 24^ acres, 
 and derives its name from a small circular island artificially formed in the centre of it. 
 
 5. RilUjlijenan — In the same townland, S. W. of last, in a part locally called Crua- 
 chan-Carrach, is a little glen, through which flows a stream, where are the remains of 
 this rudely built little chapel, measuring 16^ feet by 9 feet 5 inches. The spot is 
 marked " Burying Place" (Ord. Survey, s. 5.) 
 
 6. Tervillin. — In this townland is a spot marked on the Ordnance Map, " Buryino- 
 Place" — (s. 5.) No interments are remembered to have taken place here. 
 
 7. Killi/phadrick In the townland Drumadoon, close by the road, is a circular 
 
 space so called, where unbaptized infants are occasionally interred. It is marked 
 "Burying Place" on the Ordnance Map (s. 9.) 
 
 8. Drumnakill. — In the townland of this name (Ord. Survey, s. 9), is a small space, 
 unenclosed, in a field, where infants have been buried. It is situated in the fork of the 
 Gary and Glenmakeeran rivers. Near this is a conical hill, with some remains of a 
 stone enclosure on the top, called DunmakeUer. 
 
 9. Killyluke. — This small disused cemetery lies at the S. E. of the parish, in the 
 townland Duncarbit. — (Ord. Survey, s. 14.) 
 
 10 — Longhangorm — At this place, in the townland Greenan, to the south of last, 
 it is stated that a spot containing graves was discovered after a stratum ol' turf had 
 been cut away. — (Ord. Survey, s. 14.) 
 
 11. Killotcen. — In the townland East-Torr, below the village of Escort. Adults 
 are still occasionally buried here. Near the point of Torr Head is an old fort called 
 Dunavarre, and, at some distance above it, Sleacht (leacc) na Barragh, said to be the 
 grave of the builders. Another fort is called Tigh-na-sadane. 
 
 12. Crosscrene — In the townland Ballyteerim, on the hill over Cusheudun Bay. 
 There are some rude remains of a fort here, and the faint traces of a building, measur- 
 ing 35 feet by 22._(0rd. Survey, s. 15.) In Nordeivs Map, prefixed to the State 
 
 202 Papers, 
 
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 Papers, this townland is called " Balle Teraine", and it is added " Here Shane ONeale 
 was slayne". — (Vol. ii.) The occurrence alluded to took place in 1567, and the Four 
 Masters have preserved an account of it. The bay is called by them 6un-abann-t)u me, 
 ' the foot, or mouth, of the river Dun', Avhich is now changed to Cop-abann-Oinne, 
 having the same meaning. The river Dun rises on the S. W. side of Trostan, and flows 
 in a direction N. E., giving name to the beautiful valley of Glen-Dun. In the town- 
 land Cushendun, which is separated from Ballyteerim by only two A'ery narrow town- 
 lands, originally quarter-lands, is a small mound called Cruik-na-Dhmne, where, 
 according to local tradition, O Neill and Mac Donnell fought in single combat. This 
 mound is beside the new church. 
 
 13. Killnacrumbagh A short distance north of the last, in the townland Augh- 
 
 nasillagh. The little cemetery is now cultivated. — (Ord. Survey, s. 10.) 
 
 14. KiUgarve. — A small patch in a Held in the townland Broughindrummin, mea- 
 suring about 25 by 20 feet. The district in which this lies is called the " Grange of 
 Layd"; but it seems more properly to belong to Culfeightrin.— (Ord. Survey, s. 14.) 
 
 II. Ramoan "Hodievulgo Rath-nioain corrupte appellatur, recthis Eath-moclhain 
 
 appellanda" (Colgan, Acta SS., p. 455.) Colgan assigns the year 450 as the date 
 
 of the foundation of this church. The festival of St. Ereclacius, its first minister, 
 he places at March 3rd, on the authority of the ancient calendars. — (Ibid.) The river 
 Shesk, which joins the Gary river at Bonaniargy, llows from south to north, and 
 divides this parish from Culfeightrin. The churches and cemeteries in this parish are 
 the following : — 
 
 1. Ramoan. — Parish church occupies the ancient site. — See p. 79. 
 
 2. Killeena. — In the townland Drumeeny, in Glenshesk, a little west of the river 
 which bounds the parish, is a gentle eminence, on which are the remains of an ancient 
 chapel, 28 feet 9 inches long, and 15 feet wide, in the clear. Walls 10 feet high, and 
 3 feet thick. There seems to have been a narrow window in the east gable, as also in 
 the north wall, near the altar end, and in the south Avail. The font, together with 
 the dressed sandstone quoins, Avas carried away to a field at some distance. About 
 three perches south Avas a burying-ground, locally called Killeena, Avhich Avas long 
 disused, and is now under cultivation. On the S. E. is a long cave, running north- 
 AA'ards, in the wall of Avhich, according to the report of the tenant of the land, are " two 
 stones, one with a crucifix carved on it, and the other with a cross". About twelve 
 perches north are several large pillar stones lying prostrate. This church is very 
 
 probably 
 
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 probably the "Ecclesia de Druim-Indicli", which the Tripartite Life of St. Patrick 
 states to have been founded by him in the region of Cathrigia, and to have been placed 
 under the care of St. Enan. — (Pt. ii. c. 130, Trias Thaum., p. 146, coL 2.) This saint 
 seems to have been the person who is styled in the Calendar of Marian Gorman ' Ena- 
 nus egregius, diuturnge quietis, et Muadani filius"; and from whose father the parish 
 church derived the name Eat/i-Muadain, ' Arx Muadani'. — (Trias Thaum., p. 182, 
 col. 2 ; Acta SS., p. 747.) The festival of St. Euan was observed on the 25th March, 
 under which day the name is noticed by Colgan. The chapel above described is vul- 
 garly called Gobbiri's Heir Castle. So it is termed in the Parochial Survey (vol. ii. 
 p. 506) ; and even on the Ordnance — both Townland and Index — Maps, it bears the 
 same name. — (sheet 9.) The first two words are evidently a corruption of Goban Saer 
 (^oban paop, ' Goban the Artificer'), the title of the celebrated architect to whose 
 skill the traditions of the country ascribe the erection of so many churches and round 
 towers, and of wliom an interesting account is given by Mr. Petrie in his late incom- 
 parable work (Round ToAvers, pp. 343, 380); but the term Castle is a complete per- 
 version, as every feature of the spot is indicative of an ecclesiastical character. 
 
 The Four Masters, at the year 8 1 8, record a meeting of the Northern and Southern 
 Hy Niall, at a place called Opuim-inbech, which O Conor renders CoUis-equi : but 
 this was situated in a plain, and appears to have been far south of the place under con- 
 sideration. 
 
 3. It is stated that small burying-grounds for infants existed in the townlands 
 Ballydurnian, Ballyveely, Drumavoley, and Killrobert, but their places are not now 
 distinguishable, being under cultivation. In Ardagh there is a spot called Friary^ 
 whither it is reported the brethren of Bonamargy retired upon the dissolution of that 
 house. Here also is shewn the earn of a Mac Quillin. 
 
 III. Ballintoy. — 6aile an ruaio, 'town of the north'. Previously to 1745 this 
 parish formed part of Billy. Besides the parish church there are the following eccle- 
 siastical remains: — 
 
 \ . Templastragh Ceampull ^upcpac, ' Church of Lassara', locally pronounced 
 
 Templelassaragh. About half a mile east of Dunseverick are a townland and village 
 of this name. Here, between the road and the shore, are the ruins of an old church, 
 measuring 46 by 18 feet 10 inches: the walls built of the articulated columnar stones 
 of the causeway. Attached to this ruin is a small graA^eyard. About twelve perches 
 north, and close to the shore, is another and apparently more ancient cemetery, very 
 near the middle of which are the faint traces of the foundations of a small quadrilateral 
 
 buildino;. 
 
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 buildinn^. This is probably the spot referred to in the following passage of the Tri- 
 l^artite Life: " Sua; benedictionis intuitu promuererit — quod tria hajc loca Deo conse- 
 crata, Rathairthir, Sean-Domnach in Magach, et Sen-domnach jitxta Dun-Sobkairche 
 ab hoste nunquam diruantur" — (Pt. iii. cap. lOO, Trias Thaum., \). 146, coL 2.) 
 
 The local tradition concerning the name Templelastragh is that it means ' the 
 flaming church', because a light was seen over the spot, pointing out the present 
 site instead of the other cemetery, where a church had been several times commenced, 
 but as often overturned at night. The legend probably originated in Lassora, the 
 name of the patron saint, which signifies 'a ilame'. 
 
 2. Kilmahamogue. — In this townland, which lies at the S. E. edge of the parish, was 
 formerly a burial-ground, in which human bones and pieces of coffins have been found. 
 The site is now occupied by a farm-house. The name may be interpreted the ' church 
 of Mochoemog' — a saint called in Latin Pulcherius, and whose festival was kept on 
 the 13th of March. 
 
 Adjoining this townland on the north is another townland, called Maghernahar, the 
 southern portion of which is locally called Lniigh-a-verrie^ where may have been the 
 Inif-loca-buppann, which the Four Masters mention, at 1544, as one of the places in 
 the Route taken by ODonnell from Mac Quillin. A mill-dam is the only sheet of water 
 in the neighbourhood, but many of the neighbouring townlands present an aspect very 
 different from that which their names iniplj-. 
 
 IV. Billy In this parish are the following places worthy of notice: — 
 
 I. Dunseverick. — The townland Feigh, otherwise Dunseverick, adjoins the parish 
 of Ballintoy, and derives thelatter name from a large, bold rock, which projects into 
 the sea, on the platform of which was the stronghold of an ancient prince, and, in later 
 times, the castle of a family of the O Cahans. The origin of the name, and the early 
 celebrity of the spot, will appear from the following entries in the Annals of the Four 
 Masters : — 
 A. M. 3501. '' t)un-Sobaipce ) TTIupbolj 001-1^1000 la Soboipce". 
 
 '' Sun-Sobharky in ^Nluirbhulg of Dal-Kiada [was fortified] by Sobharky ". 
 A. M. 3668, "Soboifice cuoir m Oun Soboipce". 
 
 " Sobarky [governed] the north in Dun-Sobarky ". 
 A. M. 4176. " lop mbec peace mbliaona hi pije n Gpenn Do Roceaccoc po loipcc 
 ceni-geolam e hi n Oun Soboipce". 
 " After Eotheacht had been seA^en years King of Ireland, he was Ijurned 
 by lightning in Dun-Sobharky". 
 
 A. D. 870, 
 
28; 
 
 A. D. 870, " Gpcpujnacio t)uin Sobaipcae quoD ancea non peppeccum e|"c". 
 
 " The storming of Dun Sobarky, a thing which had never been eifected 
 heiore'\— (An. Ul.) 
 
 In a note on this passage Dr. Conor observes: — "Extant in 
 Stowense qutedam Poemata vetusta Hibernica, de expugnatione Duni 
 Sobairche in Ultonia". 
 j^. C. 924, " Opjuin t)uine Sobaipce do ^uUuib Loca Cuan". 
 
 " Dun Sobarky was plundered by the Danes of Lough Cuan", 
 
 For further information see Keating's History, vol. i. pp. 124, 300, 302, 308, 324, 
 332. — (Ed. Haliday.) O Flaherty's Ogygia, pp. 205, 247; and, above all, the Dublin 
 Pen. Jour., vol. i. p. 361, where Mr. O Donovan, in an able article, established Dun- 
 Sobharche of the ancients to be modern Dunseverick, and gave to the public an earnest 
 of those rare talents and attainments which have since displayed themselves in his 
 writings, and which, vmder due encouragement, qualify him to be the restorer of 
 native Irish literature. 
 
 2. Ballylough. — A townland in that part of the parish which is in the barony of 
 Lower Dunluce, now subdivided into Ballylough, Ballyloughmore, and Ballyloughbeg. 
 The Four Masters, at the year 1544, make mention of the castle of 6uile-an-laca 
 'town of the lough' as a stronghold of Mac Quillin, and as being well stored with 
 arms and provisions. A portion of the castle is standing in the rere of Ballylough 
 House, in the townland Ballyloughmore ; but the lake has disappeared, although the 
 time is remembered when boats were plying upon it. 
 
 3. LougUynch Until lately there was a lake of this name, covering nineteen acres 
 
 and a-half, and divided between the townlands Loughlynch and Upper Glassaneeran ; 
 but it is now drained, and the island which was in the middle of it is accessible by 
 dry ground. The Four Masters relate that Inip-loca-leirmnpi in the Route was taken 
 by ODonnell from Mac Quillin in 1544. Hither it is said that one of the Mac Quillins 
 tied after the battle of Orra, and that one Owen Gar Magee, an adherent of Mac Don- 
 nell, having pursued him, swam across to the island, and, after a violent struggle, 
 overcame him, and cut oflf his head. Tradition states that the body was buried on 
 the spot, and a earn raised over it. 
 
 In the townland Moycraig there was formerly a little burial-groiind ; and in Lower 
 Ballynarry, over the Bush, one called Killreda. 
 
 V. Armoy. — At the southern extremity of the parish, in the townland Kilcroagh, 
 is a small cemetery marked on the Ord. Map " Ancient Burying Ground". — (sheet 13.) 
 
 In 
 
288 
 
 In the towaland Knockans is a small casbel, -which the Ord. Survey marks " Old 
 burying ground" (sheet 13), but which is not locally known to have been employed 
 as a place of interment. 
 
 AA. 
 RATHLIN. 
 
 This island lies about five miles and a half off the coast of Antrim, and is generally 
 approached from Ballycastle. It is mentioned by Pliny, under the name Sigtieo, as 
 one of the islands " inter Hyberniam et Britanniam". — (Nat. Hist. Lib. iv. c. 16.) In 
 Ptolemy's Geography it is called 'PtKiv». Tigernach, at A. C. 634, 739, calls it TJech- 
 poin, and at 748, Reclainoi. In 12 13, the " Insula de RatlJin^^ was granted by King 
 John to Alanus de Galweia. And in confirmatory deeds, of the years 12 15, 1220, it 
 is called Bachrunn. (Hardy's Hot., Tur. Lond.) In 1279 it was found by Incpiisition 
 that John Byset, son and heir of John, held, of Richard de Burgo, " insulam de Racry, 
 
 quae valet w .lib .Vin.s .\ .d .el dua? partes unius denarii" (Inq. P. M. 7 Ed. I. 
 
 No. 28, Tur. Lond.) In 13 19 King Edward II. granted to John de Athy the lands in 
 the island of Raghery which had belonged to Hugh Biset, and which he had forfeited 
 by joining the rebellious Scots. — (Rot. Cur. Scac. Abbrev., vol. i. p. 247, Lond. 1805.) 
 Hither it was that Robert Bruce fled for refuge in the winter of 1306. As Barbour 
 describes in these lines: 
 
 " Bot in to Rauchryne, nocht forthi 
 Thai ary wy t ilkane sawffly : 
 Blyth, and glaid, that thai war sua 
 Eschapyt thai hidwyss waivis fra". 
 
 — (Bruce, Buke Thyrd, vs. 187.) 
 
 In 1 55 1 four ships' crews were despatched by the Lord Deputy to Reuchrainn to 
 plunder it. A battle ensued between them and James and Colla, the sons of Mac Donell, 
 who were on the island to defend it; and not one of the invading party escaped ex- 
 cept the lieutenant Avho commanded them. — (Four Mast.) 
 
 After the Dissolution the rectorial tithes of the island o^ Roghlin, Avhich had been 
 appropriate to the abbey of Bangor, w^ere granted to Rice Aphugh; subsequently to 
 John Thomas Hibbots; and in 1605 to Sir James Hamilton. In the King's Books the 
 vicarage of Rmiyhlins is taxed at i6s. Sd. In the Ulster Visitation there is the follow- 
 ing entry: "Graunge de Ratlines; the 2'^ part of all tithes impropriate to the Abby 
 
 of 
 
289 
 
 of Bangor, & are possest by the Earl of Antrym. Noe vicar nor curate, it being not 
 able to maynteyne one, neither can the people come to be served ellswhere it being 
 remote and a Hand in the sea". The Regal Visitation of 1633 returns: '■'■ Rmighlins^ 
 Insula maris, Vicaria vacante". Subsequently it was considered as an appendage to 
 the parish of Ballintoy, which was itself united to Billy until 1745. In 1722 Francis 
 Hutchinson, Bishop of Down and Connor, published his " State of the Case of the Island 
 of Raghlin", from which it appears that the island then contained 500 inhabitants, 
 but had no resident clergyman. The Rev. Dr. Archibald Stewart, minister of Ballin- 
 toy, gave up the small tithes, and the trustees and governors of Queen Anne's Bounty, 
 out of the First Fruits, bought the great tithes of the island, and the gentlemen and 
 clergy of the neighbourhood built a new church on the ruins of an old one, and thus 
 
 enabled a clergyman to take care of the island (Ware's Works, vol. i. p. 215, Ed. 
 
 Harris.) The Act of Council, severing Raghery from Ballintoy, and constituting the 
 new church, which was built upon the site of the old one in Ballynoe, parochial, is 
 dated April 20, 1722. 
 
 This island in ancient times was made a stage in the voyage between Ireland and 
 Scotland. Thus, in the Irish tale called Deirdri, the sons of Usnach are advised to go 
 to Raclainn, icip Gipm acapQlbain, 'Rachlin between Erin and Alba'. — (Transact. 
 Gael. Soc. Dub., p. 54.) But the voyage was also apprehended on account of the violent 
 confliction of the tides which, at stated periods, takes place in the sound. — (See Hamil- 
 ton's Letters on Antrim, No. II.) By the natives this vortex is called Sloghnamorra, 
 which is the Irish Sluj-na-mnpa, ' gulp of the sea', and most expressively conveys an 
 idea of the peculiar motion of the water. In ancient times it was called Coipe 6pea- 
 cain, 'the Cauldron of Brecain'; the history of which name is thus given in Cormac's 
 Glossary, under the word Coipe 6pecain: — 
 
 " Coipe 6pecain ,1. paebcoipe mop " Coire Brecain, i. e. a great vortex be- 
 
 pil eoip Gpinn -j Qlbam 1 leic po cuaib tween Ere and Alba to the north, i. e. the 
 
 .1. corhpac na n-ilrhuipeo .1. in riiuip conflux of the different seas, viz., the sea 
 
 cimceallap n-Gpent» a n lapcuaib 1 an which encompasses Ere at the north-west, 
 
 rninp cimceallap Qlban a noipcuaio, the sea which encompasses Alba at the 
 
 acupinmuip a noepjDip 6pinn -| Qlbain. north-east, and the sea to the south bo- 
 
 PopcepD lapam imon pec f o copmailep tween Ere and Alba. They rush at each 
 
 luairpmoe 1 DO cuipecap cac ae 1 cuaim other after the likeness of a luaithrinde, 
 
 alaile, arhail opcel caipecca -| pui^jce and each is buried into the other like the 
 
 piop 1 puDorhan co mbia m coipe obela; oircel tairechta, and they are sucked down 
 
 -] no pui6pe6 cio Gpe uile po cepo mn into the gulp so as to form a gaping caul- 
 
 2 p dron, 
 
290 
 
 pop a Tincpaef. Sceio icepum an loim dron, which would receive all Ere into its 
 rin ruar 1 po clu innecap a copanribpucc wide mouth. The waters are again thrown 
 -1 a bpipimnec 1 a epcal icip neluib po up, so that their belching, roaring, and 
 copmailep njalaijeoap cope bip pop thundering are heard amid the clouds ; and 
 cen. • they boil like a cauldron upon a fire. 
 
 " Brecan, a certain merchant, the son of 
 Maine, son of Niall of the Nine Hostages*, 
 had fifty curraghs trading between Ere 
 and Alba, until they all fell together into 
 this cauldron, and were swallowed up, so 
 that not one survived to bear the tidings of 
 
 "6pecan om cenoaibe an mac TTlaine 
 mic Weill Nai^iallai^ caeca cupac do 
 oc cenoac icip 6pinn -] Qlbain : do cuipe- 
 oap lapam poPf '" coipe in pin -j poo 
 pluijeo u\le imale; 1 ni cepnaciopceo- 
 la oipj^ne ap; -| ni pep a noi^eo co painic 
 f>UTui6 Doll ejep co 6encaip : do cuaio their fate, and theii- fate was unknown un- 
 
 Din a muincip pme 1 qiacr Inbip bece, co 
 puapaoap cloiceno lorn bee ami, -\ do 
 bepcaoap leo co ^ujaio he; inreppo- 
 jauepunceum cuiupeppec,-) ille eipoi;:- 
 )c; cabpuiD cfno na pleipce pilio fatp; 
 DO ponao pon; 1 Di;:ic tujaio eij^ep: 
 
 til LughaidhDall ['the blind'], the poet, 
 came to Bcnchair, when his people going 
 to the strand of InverBece' found the bare 
 scull of Bece, and having brought it to 
 Lughaidh, et interrogaverunt eum cnjus es- 
 set; et ille eis dixit; place ye the head of 
 the poet's wand upon it. They did so, et 
 
 "Oobap Dorperan apo ar bac 6pe- 
 can uipce na coipe; ceno oipce 6pecain dixit Lughaidh Eigeas: 
 inpo ocu]- ip bee oi mop mpo, op pe op po " The waters of the great sea, 
 baioeb 6pecan co n-a muinrip uile ipin 
 coipe ujao". 
 
 The waters of the vortex, 
 Drowned Brecan. 
 This is the head of Brecan's dog. 
 And little here remains of greatness, 
 For Brecan and all his people 
 Were in that vortex drowned". 
 Adamnan, in his Life of St. Columba, occasionally alludes to this Coire Brecain, 
 which he latinizes by Charybdis Brecani. Thus he represents St. Columbkille, on one 
 occasion, as saying of a friend who was coming from Ireland " Columbanus ad nos 
 transnavigare incipiens nunc in undosis Charybdis Brecani aistibus valde periclitatur ". 
 
 (Lib. i. c. 4.) 
 
 ' Niall NaiKhiallach, ' of the nine hostages ', called 
 also Niall the Great, became sovereign of Ireland 
 A. D. 379— (Ogyg., p. 393.) 
 
 ' This seems to have been the old name of " Bangor 
 Bay". "Alio tempore quando S. Columba navigas- 
 
 set, unus de Fratribus in navi mortuus est; cumque 
 pervenissent ad portuni qui dicitur Invirbeg, festiiia- 
 verunt de navi ad monastcrium S. Comgalli^ et cum 
 
 gaudio suscepti sunt ab eo" Vit. S. Comgalli — 
 
 (Fleming, Collect., p. 309 ; Cod. Kilken., fol. 92 b.) 
 
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 (Lib. i. c. 4.) Another chapter is headed: " De periculo S. Colmani Episcopi, Moc-u- 
 Sailni, in mari juxta insulam Eec/ira'". — (Lib. i. c. 5.) When St. Columbkille was 
 conveying the remains of St. Kieran from Cluainmacnois to Hy, " orta est tempestas 
 et trusa est navis ad Charibdem, qui locus Coi-ebrecayn dicitur ; in quo est vorago peri- 
 culosissima marina, in qua, si ([ua navis intrat, non evadit". — (Vit. S. Kieran. Cluanen. 
 cap. 33, Trias Th., p. 458.) ODonnellus, when relating the departure of St. Columb- 
 kille from Derry for Hy, also makes mention of this formidable sound : " Cum secundis 
 spirantibus ventis ostia Euripi, Loch Feabhuil [Lough Foyle] esset prsetergressus ; 
 navis incidit in vorticosam quandam charybdem, nautis et navigantibus formidablilem, 
 quae vulgo Core Brecain, id est, Charybdis Brecani, appellatur, quia ibi ante annos 
 multos Brecanius, ex Manio filio, Nielli Magni, Hiberniae regis, nepos, submersus in- 
 teriit". — (Lib. iii. c. 21, Trias Thaum., p. 434, col. 2.) Colgan, though intimately ac- 
 quainted with the geography of the north of Ireland, has fallen into error with respect 
 to the situation of this vortex, for he writes: " Coire Brecain in faucibus Oceani inter 
 Ultoniam et Albaniam seu Scotiam Albiensem, ubi vorticosum illud mare in sinum de 
 
 Loch-Feabhuil magno impetu influit " (Trias Thaum., p. 374, n, 33.) Now it is very 
 
 well known that the mouth of Lough Foyle has a comparatively gentle tide, the only 
 peculiarity being that in ebbing and flowing the current is rather rapid in its narrow 
 entrance. 
 
 From the publicity Avhich this Coire Brecain acquired in ancient times, on account 
 of its extreme danger, the name, like the Greek Xapv/S?*?, came to be extended to other 
 places similarly affected. Owing to the constant intercourse which existed between 
 Ireland and Hy, it is probable that this name was well known in Scotland, and that 
 through the monks of Hy it was borrowed for the Western Isles. The sound between 
 Scarba and Jura bears still the name of Corrievreckan, and is represented as a place 
 of great peril. Sir Walter Scott, in his " Lord of the Isles", thus alludes to it:— 
 
 " And Scarba's isle, whose tortured shore 
 Still rings to Corrievreken's roar" {Cant. iv. 19.) 
 
 So Leyden's " Mermaid": — 
 
 " As you pass thro' Jura's Sound, 
 
 Bend your course by Scarba's shore; 
 Shun, O shun the gulph profound. 
 Where Corrivreken's surges roar". 
 
 — (Minstrelsy Scot. Border.) 
 The Scottish legend concerning the origin of the name may be seen in a note to the 
 New Statistical Survey of Scotland, vol. vii. p. 536. And in Mac Culloch's " High- 
 
 2 P 2 lands 
 
292 
 
 lands and "Western Isles" is to be found an explanation of the causes -wliich render the 
 sound so perilous at certain times. 
 
 In reference to the meaning ofBeckran Archbishop Ussher, having quoted Caradoc 
 Lancarvanensis, who calls the island Rechrepi, adds: " Hibernici nostri antiquarii insu- 
 1am hanc Ro-chrinne nominant; et ab arborum [Chrann], quibus olim abuudasse puta- 
 batur multitudine ita dictam interpretantur". — (Brit. Ec. Ant., c. 17.) On all modern 
 maps the island is marked BatMin, but by the natives it is invariably called Raghery. 
 
 The name liacraind, or Reackrain, also belonged to other islands. Thus, Mr. 
 O Donovan shews that it was formerly borne by Lambay, off the coast of the county 
 of Dublin, which was part of the ancient Bregia, or the region between Dublin and 
 Drogheda: " porai^ip Colam CiUe eclaip 1 Rpacpaino oiprip 6pe^, ■] pajbap 
 Colman tDeocain mce", " Columbkille erects a church on Rachralnn [Lambay] in 
 the east of Bregia, and leaves Colman, the Deacon, in it" — {Leahhar Breac, cited in 
 Irish Gram., pp. 155, 281.) So ODonnellus, Vit. S. Columb., i. 6^ — (Trias Thaum., 
 p. 400, col. 2.) The Irish Calendar mentions " Colmanus filius Koi in Reachrann" at 
 June 16 (Trias Thaum., p. 450, col. 2.) 
 
 The Four Masters at 11 21 relate that Cumaighe, son of Deoradh OFlinn, lord of 
 Derlas [a territory east of the river Bann] was drowned in Loch Eachdach [Lough 
 Neagh] after that the people of Ua Eachdach [Iveagh] had obtained the island Raic- 
 penn from him". This island is now called Rat/din, and is situate in the S. E. 
 extremity of Lough Neagh, opposite the parish of Moyntaghs, in the diocese of Dro- 
 more (Ord. Survey, s. 6, Armagh.) 
 
 At 1542 they also make mention of Rathlin OBirne Island, off the west coast of 
 Donegall, under the name Reacpainn muincipe 6ipn hi Cipbojame. 
 
 BB. 
 HY-TUIRTRE. 
 
 CoLLA HuAisH, who, With liis two brothers, defeated the Ultonians at the battle of 
 Carn-eacha-lcthderg, in 332, had assumed the sovereignty of Ireland in the year 327, 
 
 and held it until 331 (See above, pp. 82, 253.) The descendants of his son Fiachra 
 
 Tort were called Ui Uutpcpe, and the territory which they occupied received their 
 name. Duald Mac Firbis thus traces the origin of the family : 
 
 " CoUa Uajp cpa oa mac maire laip " Colla Uais had two goodly sons, viz., 
 
 .1. Gape ppia Sliab a cuaio o craio TTlec Earc on the North of the Mountain, from 
 Cappcamn loca PeaBuil. Piacpa Cope whom descend the Mac Carrtains of Loch 
 
 ppi Feabhail 
 
293 
 
 ppi SliaB a n-oeaf o ccaiD Ui Uuiprpe Feabhail [Foyle], and Fiaclira Tort on the 
 acup Pip 6>, acup Pip Cuipc, acup Lli South of the Mountain, from whom de- 
 TTIac Uaip. Qp lepi6e ceabna oeapnab scend the Hy-Tuirtre, and the Fir-Li, 
 copc^abuil ConaiUe niuipremne (cope and the Fir-Lviirc, and Hy-Mac Uais. It 
 bno ainm bo jabail), dc" was by him [Fiachra] that Conaille Muir- 
 
 themne [Lowth] was first appropriated — 
 Tort being a name for seizure, &c." 
 Not being of the Ruderician or old Ultonian stock, their territory originally lay 
 on the west side of Lough Neagh, and comprehended a considerable portion of the 
 modern baronies of Dungannon, in the county of Tyrone, and Loughinsholin, in the 
 county of Derry. This appears from the following account which the Tripartite Life 
 gives of St. Patrick's labours in this quarter : — 
 
 " Dum vir Apostolicus egrederetur fines Dal-aradice suscepit iter per Fersait- 
 Tuama!^ in regione de Hi-Tiiirtre : et diebus quadraginta moram contraxit in loco 
 Finnahlimr' appellato; volens ibi tanquam loco peridoneo sedem Cathedralem erigere. 
 Erat enim locus campestris et amoenus, habens montem Callann^ ab Oriente, et lacum 
 spatiosum Ethach" ab Occidente. Sed Carthennus major, illius regionis dynasta in 
 sensum actus reprobum, invitum et injuriis affectum, verum sanctum ex illo ejecit. 
 Cui idcirco Domino inspirante vir Dei ore prophetico pr^enunciavit — totius illivis 
 regionis principatum, et dominium ab illo, ej usque progenia et semine propediem 
 transferendum in fratrem ejus Carthennum juniorem; quem ipse nuper ne portione 
 aliqua in paterno solo potiretur, ex ilia regione nequiter relegaverat. Excitato igitur 
 pedum pulvere contra tyrannum, Sanctus Patricius contulit se ad alterum Carthen- 
 num fratrem ejus, solo cognomento Minorem. Fuit enim virtute, nomine, devotaque 
 in Christum mente, et benedictione almifica Patricii longe major suo fratre. Ad 
 primam enim fidei pr^edicationem in Christum credidit, et cum uxore et familia a 
 Patricio baptizatus est. Svib id tempus uxor Carthenni Mugania, Fergussio magno, 
 filio Nesse Dal- Aradise Principe nata, filiam enixa est : quam et vir Dei baptizavit et 
 
 Treharn 
 
 " Fersait Tuama, — ' the crossing of Tuaim', — le7nna aliis Clossach dicta" (Trias Th., pp. 149, 
 
 now Toome Bridge — See above, pp. 86, 184. col. 2 ; 184, n. 11.) 
 
 * " Fionnabhair, qui latine interpretatiir ' albus « Now Slieve Gallion, a high ridge of mountain 
 
 campus' " (Jocel, c. 94) There were several at the S. W. of the barony of Loughmsholin, county 
 
 places of this name in Ireland (see Trias Thaum., of Deny. 
 
 pp. 168, 188, 226; Four Mast., 1157), especially '^ Now Lough Neac/h. It would seem that Colgan, 
 
 one near Clogher, which Colgan thus describes : — in translating the original of this passage, has acci- 
 " CoUis Finn-abhuir in Lemania, quae est regie dentally inverted the relative position of Slieve Gal- 
 campestris Tironise, dioec. Clocharen. vulgo Mag- lion and Lough Neagh. 
 
294 
 
 Treham' imponens nomen, prsedixit statim ac adolesceret, sacrum virginitatis velum e 
 sua manu suscepturam, et in virginem eximiae evasuram sanctitatis. Carthenno igitur 
 Dynasta, cum uxore et liberis et universe populo regionis Turtreorum e Tartari fau- 
 cibus prius erutis, Christique assertis familia?, coepit vir Apostolicus teneras in fide 
 recenterplantalas radices suis sacris concionibus, piisque laboribus refovere, et firmare. 
 Unde in regioue ilia septem basilicarvim^ jecit fundamenta: quarum prisca vocabula 
 erant Domnach-Fainre^, Domnach-Riascaicfh^, Domnach-Fothairhe^ ^ Dom7iach-Righ- 
 
 dhninn, Domnach-Bram, Domnach-moelain^ et Domtiac/t-liljeir" Pt. ii. caps. 138-140. 
 
 (Trias Thaum., p. 148.) 
 
 The Four Masters, at A. M. 2859, make mention of a rOaj ^ujao, 'Moy-Lugh- 
 adh'; and at 3549, of a Hlaj^ m6ealui5, ' Moy Bealy', both as 1 n-Uib Cuipcpe, 'in 
 Hy-Tuirtre'; the former of which is again mentioned by the same authorities at 
 JE. C. 1 1 60 and 1218, where it seems intended to designate a tract west of the Bann 
 or Lough Neagh. In like manner Church Island, which belongs to the parish of Bally- 
 S(;ullion, in the county and diocese of Derry, is placed by the OClerys in Hy-Tuirtre: 
 
 "Uoic innpe Uoioe pop Loch beaj 1 "St. Toit of Inis-Toide [or Inistede, as 
 
 nUiB Cuipcpe". it is called in the Ulster Visitation of 1622] 
 
 —Calendar, Sept. 7. on Lough Beg in Hy-Tuirtre". 
 
 At an early date, however, it would appear that the people of Hy-Tuirtre removed 
 
 to the eastern side, and transferred their name to the tract which is comprised in the 
 
 modern baronies of Upper and Lower Toome, forming the principal part of the rural 
 
 deanry which, in 1291, bore the name ofTin-tn/e. — (See pp. 82, 83.) 
 
 The 
 
 y'TreduisiveTrega, lilia Carthennii filii Krci lilii parish which joins the last on the west. In the 
 
 E(K-hadiitiliiColl:eHuasii, colituriiiArdtrea, 3Aug." Taxation of Armagh diocese, A. D. 1291, Doiiagh- 
 
 (Tr. Th., p. 183.) The parish of Artrea lies on the luresca occurs as the name of an independent chunh; 
 
 N. \\. border of Lough Neagh, and reaches to Toome. and in the ancient Registra of the diocese it is called 
 
 '• Other instances of groups of seven churches exist the rectory of Domnaghreasca, Doivnaghryeske. The 
 
 in the well-known case of Glendalough, and m the Dungaimon Inquis. of 1609 represents Donoghrdske 
 
 " Septem Ecclesise", of which Boith- Domnach [Ba- as a chapel with two balliboes of Erenagh land there- 
 
 dony] was one, founded by St. Patrick in Keenaght. to belonging — (UL Inq. Ajip. ii.) Its ancient ceme- 
 
 (Vit. Trip. ii. 119, Trias Thaum., p. 145 ; Ant. Kes. tery was the burying-place of the sept of Ollag.m. 
 App., p. 33.) "^ The modem names of this and the four remain 
 
 » Now Donaghenry, the name of a parish in the ing churches are unknown, nor is there any approach 
 
 county of Tyrone, near Lough Neagh. In the ancient to them in the lists of parishes contained in the Ar- 
 
 liegistries of Armagh it is generally written Dom- magh Registra, excepting iJownaiaran in the deanry 
 
 nughfenra, Dompnachfionnraij. of Tullaghoge, which was herenach land, and resembles 
 
 •> Now Donaghrisk, a townland in Desertcreat, the the name Domnach-Brain — (Reg. Swayne, fol. GO.) 
 
295 
 
 The clan of Hy-Tuirtre continued to be governed by chieftains of their own tribe 
 for a long series of ages, as the following catalogue, chiefly furnished by the Four 
 "Masters, shews: — 
 
 jE. C. 668, " Moelfothartaigh, son of Suibhne, chief"* of the Cenel-Tuirtri, died". 
 
 JE. C. 728, " Reachtabra OCathusaigh, chief of Hy-Tuirtre, died". 
 
 JE. C. 738, " Muiredhach, son of Fergus Forcrad, lord of Hy-Tuirtre, died". 
 
 ^E. C. 743, " Colman, bishop of Lessan [Lissan], strangled by the Hy-Tuirtre". — 
 {A?i. Ul.) 
 
 M. C. 834, "Eochaidh, son of Cucongoltach, lord of Hy-Tuirtre, died". 
 
 M. C. 10 15, " Conchobhar O Domhuallain, lord of Hy-Tuirtre, slain in battle". 
 
 yE. C. 1059, "Muredhach OFlann, lord of Hy-Tuirtre, died".— (^n. Ul.) 
 
 M. C. 1081, "Maolmithidh O Maolruanaigh, lord of Hy-Tuirtre, slain". 
 
 JSt. C. 1 121, " Cumaighe, son of Deoradh OFlinn, lord of Derlas^, drowned in Lough 
 Neagh" (See above, p. 292.) 
 
 ^. C. 1151, "Cuuladh OFlinn, lord of Siol-Cathusaigh^ ". 
 
 M. C. 1 154, " Mac Deoradh OFlinn put out the eyes of his son because he had ob- 
 tained the lordship of Hy-Tuirtre, to the prejudice of his father's 
 rights. Mac Deoradh banished to Connaught by O Lachlann. 
 
 M. C. 1 158, "Cuuladh, son of Deoradh OFlinn, lord of Hy-Tuirtre and Dal-Aradia, 
 died". 
 
 xE. C. 1159, '* Cumaighe OFlinn, Rex OTurtray", attests the Charter of Newry. — 
 See note p. 117. 
 
 yE. C. 1 1 76, "Cumaighe OFlinn, lord of Hy-Tuirtre, Fir-Lee^, and Dal-Aradia, was 
 slain by his kinsman Cumidhe, aided by the people of Fir-Lee. 
 
 M. C. 1 1 77, 
 
 •* Uoipeac; upon wliich word Flaherty ob- "^ This territory seems to have been a dependency 
 
 serves: " Taisius apud nos idem est sensu literal!, of Hy- Tuirtre, but its exact situation has not been 
 
 ac Capitaneus, seu prsecipius Dux ; officio, et honore ascertained. There was a place of this name in 
 
 couvenitcum prisco Thano Anglosaxonico " (Og}'- Lecale, (see p. 35,) and one which is mentioned by 
 
 gia., p. 27.) In the succeeding passages Ui^epna the Four Masters, (A. D. 6G0, 89-1, 931, 934, 962, 
 
 ' lord' is the word generally employed by the Four 983, 999,) in connexion with the names Furadhran, 
 
 Masters ; instead of which the more ancient Annals, Gairbith, Domhnallan, and Domnall. 
 
 as those of Ulster, use the term T^li or T^e^, much f " In the county of Antrun" (Ord. Mem. Tem- 
 
 ia the same acceptation as the kindred Hebrew plemore, p. 19.) The Siol Cathusaigh were akin 
 
 word for King is used in Josh. xii. 24 ; Judg. i. 7 ; to the Hy-Tuirtre, being descended from Fedhlim, 
 
 1 Kings, XX. 1. See the admirable dissertation on grandson of Fiachra Tort — (MacFirbis.) 
 
 the ancient titles of honour in Ireland, in Part i. of ^ The Fir Li, or ' men of Li', originally occupied 
 
 the Ogygia (pp. 27-39). a portion of the territory on tlie west bank of the 
 
296 
 
 M. C. 1 177, " John de Courcy was opposed in his advance upon Hy-Tuirti-e and Fir- 
 Lee by Cumidhe OFlinn. In the following year, having again in- 
 vaded Dal-Aradia, he encountered Cumidhe OFlinn, lord of Hy- 
 Tuirtre and Fir-Lee, and, having suffered a defeat, he fled, wounded, 
 to Dublin", 
 
 M. C. 1 181, " The Ulidians, commanded by Rory Mac Duinsleve, and the men of Hy- 
 Tuirtre and Fir-Lee, commanded by Cumidhe OFlinn, were defeated 
 by the men of TuUaghoge. OCahan having led an army from Tyrone 
 across by Tuaim plundered Fir-Lee and Hy-Tuirtre". 
 
 M. C. 1215, " Ruaidhri OFlinn, lord of Derlus, died". 
 
 ^. C. 1 2 18, "Murtogh OFlinn, lord of Hy-Tuirtre, was slain by the English". 
 
 M. C. 1275, " M. OFlin, Rex Turturiae", and five other chieftains, addressed a letter 
 to Edward, exculpating themselves from the blame of rebellion. — 
 (Rymer, Fsed., vol. i. p. 520.) 
 
 M.C. 1 29 1, "Bryan OFlinn, lord of Hy-Tuirtre, died". 
 
 M. C. 1314, " Eth OFlyn, dux Hibernicorum de Turtery", was summoned to the 
 assistance of the King of England against the Scots, He is also 
 named in a Close Roll of the following year — (See above, p. 83.) 
 
 M. C. 1359, "Murtogh, son of Thomas OFlinn, of Line [Moylinny], heir to the 
 lordship of Hy-Tuirtre, was slain by Aodh, son of Bryan, sou ol' 
 Aodh Buidhe OXeill". 
 
 M. C. 1368, "Thomas OFlinn, lord of Tuirtre, died". 
 
 In the foregoing extracts it may be seen that ODonuellun was lord of this territory 
 in 1015, and that OFlin is the prevailing name from 1059 forward. These two fami- 
 lies were the chief representatives of the head of the race, and as such are coupled in 
 the lordship by the bard O Dugan : — 
 
 " Rioj^a OCuipcpe na qiom up " Kings of Hy-Tuirtre of hea\7 slaughters 
 
 LI I pioinn, DioB O Oomnallu in ", Are the Flynns ; of them are the Donnellaiis "'. 
 
 Or, 
 
 Baiiii, aiul tlieir district, called Li or Magh-Li, is the C'recve and Keenaght, but after 1 1 7(i it was coupled 
 
 modem barony of Coleraine — ( Dub. Pen. J our., vol. i. «ith Hy-Tuirtre. The Four Masters, at 1181, shew 
 
 pp. 103, 362.) O Dugan describes Li as the eastern that the name had then been tran.sferred to the east 
 
 limit of Keenaght : aiac Firbis says Fir- Li extended .side of the Bann. Colgan, in his \-ersion of the Tri- 
 
 from Bior to Camus. It was governed by its own partite Life, writes: " Leaorum fines, Bann.-efluniiiii 
 
 ciiiertains for many years — (Four Mast., 557, 893, ad orientalem ejus ripam adjacentes" (Tr. Th., 
 
 1003, 1036, 1063 ; An. Ul. 1081.) In 1138 Kagh- y. 127.) The Book of Armagh places Lee Bendrigi 
 
 nail Cathan was lord of this territory, together with on the west side (Ant. Kes. App., p. 3.) 
 
297 
 
 Or, as it is expressed in the prose preface: O pioinn agupODomnallain ciseapnuibe 
 OUuiprpe, 'OFlinn and ODonnellan, lords of Hy-Tuirtre'. 
 
 The connexion of the two fomilies is thus shewn from their genealogies, as pre- 
 served by Duald M*^ Firbis : — 
 
 "tDomnallan, " Domhnallan, 
 
 [a quo Ui Dom- [a quo ODonnel- 
 
 nallain], Ian], 
 
 TTlac rriaoilcpaoibe, S. of Maolcraoibhe, 
 niic tDuiBianaij, /S". of Dubhianach, 
 rriic QoDQ, ;S'. of Aodh, 
 
 rriic ^oinjpij, *S'. of Loingseach, 
 
 TTlic lonnpuccui^, 
 
 niic T^eacrabpao, 
 
 IDic ITIaoilcpaoiBe, 
 
 niic IDaoilpoj^apcai^, 
 
 niic Suibne, 
 
 ITIic pupuopain, 
 
 niic 6ece, 
 
 ITlic Cucinac, 
 
 ITlic t)aipe, 
 
 rriic PeblimiD, 
 
 rriic pecin, 
 
 niic PiacaiD Cope, 
 
 [a quo Ui Cuipcpe], 
 
 TTlic Gacach, 
 
 rriic co6ca uais". 
 
 " Qob, 
 ITIac Donnagain, 
 TDic Pojapcai^, 
 IDic pioinn, 
 
 [o ccaib Ui 
 pioinn,] 
 ITIic ITIuipecaboij, 
 
 " Aodh, 
 aS*. of Donnagan, 
 S. of Fogartach, 
 S. of Flann, 
 
 \^Ji-o?n whom are 
 OFlinn,] 
 S. of Muireadhach, 
 
 Son of lonnrachtach. 
 
 Son of Reachtabradh (A. D. 728), 
 
 Son of Maolcraoibhe, 
 
 Son of Maolfogartaigh (A. I). 668), 
 
 Son of Suibhne, 
 
 Son of Furadhran, 
 
 Son of Bee, 
 
 Son of Cuanach, 
 
 Son of Daire, 
 
 Son of Fedhlim, 
 
 Son of Fechin, 
 
 Son of Fiachaidh Tort, 
 [a qi(o Hy-Tuirtre], 
 
 Son of Eachaidh, 
 
 Son of CoLLA Uais (A. D. 336)". 
 
 Upon which ^P Firbis observes: " Qj lonnpaccac mac Reaccabpao mic ITIaoil- 
 cpaoibe compaicib ui phloinn pe h-uib Oomnallam", " In lonnrachtach, son of 
 Reachtabradh, son of Maolcraoibhe, Ui Floinn meet the Ui Domhuallain ". 
 
 From Bee, son of Cuanach, in this pedigree, sprang the Siol Cacupaij, ' Seed of 
 Cathusaigh', of which tribe mention has been made in a preceding page. From Ro- 
 nan, son of Bee, sprang the ITIuincip Camladca ^aoij, ' Muintir Tamlachta Laoigh', 
 Avho appear to have settled in a parish in the county of Armagh, called Tamlachtlege, 
 in the diocesan Registra, Tawnatelee in the King's Books, and Balhjmore or Tandrayee 
 in modern authorities. 
 
 The name Flinn commonly occurs in tlie North, under the form Lynn. 
 
 2 Q CC. 
 
298 
 cc. 
 
 LAYD, ARDCLINIS, AND GLENARAl. 
 
 The following is a list of the churches and burying-grounds in these three parishes: — 
 
 I. Layd. — The present parish church was built, at Cushendall, in 1832, and super- 
 seded another which had been erected on an eminence near the village in 1800. The 
 latter, which was deficient in accommodation, had been raised by private contributions, 
 as the Board of First Fruits " declined giving money unless the old church was in ruin 
 for twenty years". — (Paroch. Surv., vol. iii. p. 21.) This old church was the original 
 parish church, already noticed at p. 83, and concerning which the following particu- 
 lars may be added : — 
 
 1. Lai/d. — The ruins stand in the parish churchyard. A stone which had been in 
 the east wall bears the date 1 696 -, but this must refer to the repair or restoration of 
 the chui'ch in that year, as the general character of the building, and the fact that the 
 graves outside are nearly five feet higlier than the floor inside, indicate a much greater 
 afe. The length is 61 feet, and the breadth 24. Attached to the ruin, at the west 
 end, is a square building 24^ feet long, and of the same breadth as the church. Its 
 under story is arched above, and has of late been converted to a burial vault. The 
 chamber over this is of the same dimensions, and appears to have been formerly a dor- 
 mitory. The popular belief in the neighbourhood is that this little edifice was a nun- 
 nery; and an adjacent well is styled " the Nun's well". In an interleaved copy of 
 ArchdalPs Monasticon, belonging to the late S. M*^ Skimin of Carrickfergus, there is 
 the following MS. note, under the title Layd: " In a dell near the shore, about one mile 
 east of Cushindall, are the ruins of a small religious house, said to have been founded 
 by the sept of M'^Fall or Macfaull". Tradition assigns the name of iSt. Kieran as the 
 patron saint of the church. 
 
 2. Kilnadore, — In a townland of the same name, a little south of Cushendall.- — 
 (Ord. Survey, s. 20.) It is an ancient cemetery, but without any traces of a building. 
 
 ^. Kilmore, — In the townland Kilmore, on the west side of Glenarriff. — (Ord. 
 Survey, s. 20.) The burying-ground is much used, and it is said that the foundations 
 of a church existed here, although they are not discernible now. 
 
 4. Kilnaval, — A square patch in a field in the townland Cloghs (Ord. Survey, 
 
 s. 20.) It has been occasionally used for the interment of still-born children, and 
 remains untilled. Cdlcaroo, 
 
299 
 
 5- Cillvaroo, — In the townland Murroo or Lower Gortnagross. — (Ord. Survey, 
 s. 20.) It is a little spot beside the stream which bounds the townland, but without 
 any marks of graves, 
 
 II. Ardclinis — The ruins of the old parish church, which have been alluded to 
 in the note at p. 86, are 58 feet long and 21 wide. Besides the churchyard which 
 contains them, and the burying-ground mentioned at p. 87, this parish contains the 
 following : — 
 
 Killyhurragh^ — In the townland Drumnacur, a little S. W. of Bay Lodge, and near 
 the stream which divides this parish from the last. It is a circular space, about twenty- 
 one yards in diameter, and enclosed by a low cashel. One headstone formed of a large 
 boulder bears the inscription of a rude cross. 
 
 III. Glenarm. — The parish popularly so called is a union of Tickmacrevan and 
 Templeoughter. The parish church is quite a modern building, occupying part of the 
 site of the Franciscan abbey. It superseded an also comparatively modern church, 
 which stood at the shore end of the town, at the other side of the river. The ancient 
 churches in the union were: — 
 
 1. 8t. Patrick'' s, — The old church of Tickmacrevan. — See p. 87. 
 
 2. St. Mary's., — The old church of Templeoughter. — See above, p. 51. A double 
 tomb enclosed by a Avail marks the place of this church. Out of the ruins a line of 
 cabins, called ' Beggar's Row ', was built, in the last century, between the castle and 
 the site of the church. About the year 1802 the interest of the occupants in these 
 tenements was purchased, and their dwellings levelled. 
 
 3. In Bridge-street was formerly an ancient chapel, the ruins of which were re- 
 moved to make way for the ornamented school-house which now stands there. There 
 was a burying-ground attached to it, which is now converted to other purposes, with 
 the exception of a small space which is still claimed bv one family, and over which is 
 one tombstone enclosed by walls. The name of this chapel is now forgotten. 
 
 4. Abbey. — Archdall, on the authority of Allemande, states that in 1465 a religious 
 house, for friars of the Third Order of St. Francis, was founded here by Eobert Bisset, 
 a Scotchman. This abbey and its lands were granted to Alexander Mac Donnell in 
 1557. When the present church was building the ruins of the abbey were pulled 
 down, and nothing of them is now remaining but some foundations in the churchyard, 
 
 which seem to have belonged to a cruciform building. 
 
 2 Q 2 
 
 DD. 
 
300 
 
 DD. 
 
 BARONIES OF TOOME. 
 
 These baronies, whicli represent the greater part of the ancient Hy-Tuirtre, contain, 
 among others, the churches following : — 
 
 I. DuNEANE. — To what has been already observed concerning this church at p. 86, 
 the following may be added from Colgan and the Irish Calendars: " Floruit S. Ergnata 
 sub annum Christi 460, ejusque festum in Ecclesia de Cluainda-en, in regione Fiodh- 
 hhaidh [Feevah] dicta, et in ecclesia de Tamhlact-bo, tiim octavo Januarii, turn 31 
 [30?] Octob. nostri Hagiologi recolunt celebrari". — (Acta SS., 8 Jan., p. 42, col. 2.) 
 Upon which Colgan observes in the note on Cluanida-en: " Est hodie parochialis eccle- 
 sia dioecesis, et comitatus Dunensis, juxta ripam lacus Echach [Lough Neagh] in 
 Ultonia" — (Ibid.) He evidently errs, however, in referring it to the diocese and 
 county of Down. The note on the name Gl^NQChLlQ^, in the Festology of iEngus, 
 at October 30, runs thus: — 
 
 "Gpnachuaj .1. mac laipno a amm, " Ernachuag, son of Jairnn his name, 
 
 acup 1 n-tDun-Du-en l\i Piobaio t)ail-a- and at Dun-da-en in the Feevah [Wood] 
 paiDe aca". of Dalaradia he is [commemorated]". 
 
 The Calendar of the OClerys mentions the name at two festivals : — 
 
 "Gapjnac o^ o Oun-ou-en 1 nOala- " Eargnath, avirgin, of Dun-da-eu in Dal- 
 
 poiDe" — 8 Jan, aradia". 
 
 " hepenac 65 o t)hun-Da en 1 Bpio6Bai6 " Ilerenat, a virgin, of Dun-da-en in Fee- 
 
 Dalapaioe". — 30 Oct. vah of Dal-aradia ". 
 
 Dun-da-en, contracted to Duneane, signifies ' the fort of the two birds', as Slieve- 
 da-en in the barony of Tirerrill, county of Sligo, signifies, in reference to some tra- 
 dition, ' the mountain of the two birds'. The four towns of Duneane, on one of Avhich 
 the church stands, are see lands, and are surrounded by that part of Lord O Neill's 
 property which is called " the estate of the Feevah". The will of Sir Henry OXeill, 
 
 of 
 
 '' There is a parish Tamlaght on tlie borders of tlie modem name of this place. S. Ergnata, Darii 
 
 Tyrone and Derry, and in the diocese of Armagh. filia, " quje quiescit in Tamhlact" Vit. Trip. iii. 
 
 As it was anciently called Tamlaght KUUetragh it c. 72 ; (Trias Thaimi., p. 163.) " Tanilachta -bo, 
 
 is more hkely that Tamlaght, anciently called Taw- ubi Ercnata" Vit. Quarta, c. 87; (Trias Thaimi., 
 
 Inglitu-ho, a townland in Eglish, near Armagh, is p. 46, col. 2.) 
 
301 
 
 of Shanescastle, dated September 13, 1637, leaves his estates in remainder, failing his 
 own issue, and that of his two brothers, to " Bryan Mac Hugh Oge ONeale of the 
 Feevagh". Art Oge O Neil, of the same territory, distinguished himself in the scenes 
 of 1641. 
 
 II. Ahoghill. — Parish church occupies the old site, see p. 88. 
 
 1. Gortfad, — A townland about a mile N. E. of Portglenone. — (Ord. Survey, s. 31.) 
 It is thus noticed in the Ulster Visitation : " Graungia de Gortfadd, noe church, chap- 
 pie, nor walls. The 2^ p* of all tithes impropriate to the Abbey of Armagh, possest 
 by Sir Hugh Clatworthy, Knt." In the King's Books it is called Vicaria de Gortfaule, 
 and is rated at 26s. Gortfayd paid 8s. proxies to the bishop. — {Ul. Vis.) There was 
 an ancient burying-place here called " St. Columb's Thorn". It was a piece of ground 
 twenty-two yards long, and eleven broad, no way enclosed, but distinguished from 
 the field, at the side of which it was, by its greater height. The last interment in it 
 was of a woman the name of M'= Can about 18 15. It contained a stone vault, six feet 
 in length, and three feet wide, in the form of a chest, composed of large flags. — 
 (M'Skimin's interleaved Archdall.) 
 
 2. In the townland Ballylummin, at a place called Gilvaltagh, was the site of an 
 ancient church and cemetery. Beside it was a holy well where the Roman Catholics 
 of old held stations at midsummer — (M'^ Skimin, ut supra.) 
 
 3. In the townland Finkiltagh was an ancient burying-groimd, the name of which 
 
 is lost. {Ibid.) In 1 840 twenty townlands, of which this Avas one, were severed from 
 
 the rectory of Ahoghill, and, by Act of Council, were formed into a distinct rectory, 
 thenceforward to be called the parish of Portglenone. The village from which it 
 takes this name is in the townland Garvaghy, and situate on the river Bann. It was 
 formerly called Clanowen, andColgan alludes to it under the name Cluain-eoin, as one 
 of the places in Hy-Tuirtre, which " olim videntur omnia fuisse loca sacra" — (Trias 
 Thaum., p. 1 84.) The parish of Craigs, which was also severed from Ahoghill in 1 840, 
 has been already spoken of at p. 89. 
 
 III. KiLCONRioLA Incorrectly written in the Ordnance ^luTp Kirkinriolci. — (s. 32.) 
 
 The correct spelling of this curious name may be gathered from the following varie- 
 ties of it: Killoconriola, (Inq. 1605; Charter 1609; Reg. Vis. 1633; Trien. Vis. 1664; 
 Reg. Vis. 1693;) Kilconriola, (Inq. 1605; Trien. Vis. 1679; Act 1707;) Killoconriole, 
 (UL Vis. 1622; Trien. Vis. 1664;) Killoconrcdl//, (Ilamilt. Pat.;) Kilcunrelly and Kil- 
 cunrdly, (Down Suvyej;) Killoconriolla, (Tr. Vis. 1666;) Ki/lieconriola, (Reg. Vis. 1693.) 
 
 Before 
 
302 
 
 Before the Dissolution all its tithes were appropriate to Muckamore Priorj, by ' 
 which house a curate was provided who performed the spiritual duties. After that 
 priory was dissolved its possessions were granted to Sir Thomas Smith, and, having 
 reverted to the Crown by his non-fulfilment of conditions, they were subsequently 
 granted to Sir James Hamilton, from whom they passed to Sir Roger Langford. Among 
 those possessions were the tithes of Kilconriola. subject to the payment of a stipend to 
 the curate, which tithes were afterwards purchased by the Kev. Alexander Colvill, 
 1). D. ; from whom they, together with the right of nomination to the cure, descended 
 by intermarriage to the late Earl of Mountcashell, who disposed of them, in 1 807, to 
 AYilliam Adair, Esq., the then lord of the soil. 
 
 The ruins of the old church, measuring 52 feet by 18 feet 10 inches in the clear, 
 occupy a place in the original churchyard, in the townland Kilconriola. The distance 
 proving inconvenient to the inhabitants of Ballymena, an Act was procured in 1707, 
 which ordained that " a church now building at Ballymenagh, which is a considerable 
 market-town, in the parish of Kilconriola, shall be deemed and rej)uted the only parish 
 church of the said parish of Kilconriola for ever". On the loth May, 1 72 1, the new 
 church was consecrated by Bishop Hutchinson, this being among the earliest of his 
 episcopal acts. 
 
 The northern extremity of the parish is bounded by the Clough "Water, anciently 
 the Ravel, and the Inquisition of 1 605 finds that near it the three territories of Lower 
 Claneboy, the Route, and the Glynns, meet. 
 
 IV. Grange of Siiilvodan. — Siol 6haoDain, 'progenies Boydoni'. This tract, 
 which is now extra-parochial, paying £4 per annum to the Vicar of Connor, as curate 
 
 of it, was considered a parish in 1615: " Ecclesia de Schilowodan of Muckamore" 
 
 (Terrier.) "Ecclesia parochialis de Silvodan continet septem villas ". — (Ul. Inq.) The 
 prior of Muckamore, before the Dissolution, enjoyed the tithes of the chapel of *?///- 
 woodan in the Tuogh of Munter-Rividy, and was bound to maintain a curate therein. 
 (Inq. 1605.) ^"^ ^^^ King's Books the vicarage oi Sil wooden is valued at 30s. Colgan, 
 at the 23rd of March, has a Life of St. " Bocdan, abbot of Kill-Boedain", wherein is 
 introduced the following passage from the Life of St. Corbmac: " Sanctus Boedanus, 
 sive Boetanus sextus Eugenii filius intelligens quam prospere res successissent suis 
 fratribus S. Cormaco et S. Diermitio, eos sequutus est ad partes Leth-conniae, seu 
 Aquilonares Hibernite. Et postquam aliquamdiu cum eis mansisset, contulit se ad 
 reraotiores UltoniiE fines: ubi a nobili stirpe Sodani Fiaco Aradio nati', in partibus 
 
 Dal-aradia2 
 'See the note on Bal'ubigan, p. 30: and Ogj-gia, p. 327. 
 
Dal-aradiaj tunc rerum potiente honorifice, et devote susceptus. Ibi extnixit eccle- 
 siam, ex ejus nomine Kill-Boedain nuncnpatam, qviam agris et possessionibiis dotarunt 
 poster! Sodani, et prtecipue nobiles familiee de Cinel-Decill, Clann Scoba, et Sil-noi- 
 ridhin, qua? se, suosque posteros ei, ut patrono devotos clientes consecrarunt, Tenipo- 
 ris vero successu familia de Cinell Declll a vario [_recte viro] sancto deficiens, convertit 
 suam devotionem, et affectum in S. Cuanum, et S. Colmanum, sua eis obsequia et 
 clientelam addicens. Duee aliae jam memorat^ familise remanserunt viro Dei devota;, 
 donee tandem nepotes Tomultacii, contra eum tumultuantes, non solum locum sanctum 
 invaserunt, suique juris fecerunt, sed et nomen alium indiderunt, Ecclesiam prius 
 Kill-boedain appellatam, postea Kill-Oscoba appellari curantes". — (Acta SS., pp. 728, 
 col. 2; 753, col. 2.) 
 
 There are no remains of a church or graveyard in Shilvodan ; but it is believed 
 that the latter formerly existed in the townland Tavnaghmore. 
 
 V. Grange of Ballyscullton. — The lands and tithes of this district, called in 
 the Inquisition of 1 605 the Grange, and still locally so termed, belonged to the abbey 
 of St, Peter and St. Paul of Armagh. It is placed in the territory of Muntercally, and 
 stated to contain seven townlands. In the Ulster Visitation it is styled the Grange of 
 Feevah, and its tithes are returned as in the possession of Sir H. Clatworthy. The 
 burying-ground, called Templenioi/le, is in the townland Killylaes, which, in 1605, was 
 styled Ballintemple, alias Temple-eglish. The district seems to have taken its present 
 name from Bally scullion, an adjoining parish in the diocese of Derry. 
 
 EE. 
 
 DIOCESE OF DROMORE. 
 
 It has been already observed, at p. 126, that the extent of the Irish sees was generally 
 reo-ulated by the territories of the tribes to which they were severally attached, and 
 that the spiritual jurisdiction of the bishop was coextensive with the temporal sway 
 of the chieftain. This sentiment receives great weight from the authority of the vene- 
 rable Roderick O Flaherty, who states that "every Irish seignory had its own [cathe- 
 dral], whose diocess runned with the seigniory's bounds ".J Thus the diocese of 
 Dromore, which was an independent see till the death of Bishop Saurin, April 9, 1842, 
 
 was 
 
 i " Description of West Coniiaiight". p. 1. 
 
J 
 
 04 
 
 was modelled upon the ancient lordship of Iveagh, and continues to this day very nearly 
 coextensive with the baronies of Iveagh, which represent the original territory. Hence 
 the secular name was occasionally borrowed as an ecclesiastical denomination, and Ave 
 find the diocesan called Bishop of Uvche towards the close of the thirteenth century. 
 
 This see was founded, about the year 500, by St. Colmau, who established a monas- 
 tery at Dromore, and presided over it in the joint capacity of bishop and abbot. His 
 Life is published by the Bollandists at the 7 th of June, but without the valuable notes 
 with which the research of Colgan would have illustrated it had he lived to undertake 
 the task. The narrative is thus introduced: — 
 
 " Beatissimus vir Colmanus, Drumorensis episcopus, Aradeorum gente'' fuit oriun- 
 dus: cujus privilegium sanctitatis S. Patricio Hiberniensium apostolo, longe antequam 
 nasceretur, a Deo est revelatum. Diun enim aliquando ab Ardmachano ad Sabbalense 
 properaret monasterium ; apud quemdam hospitatus est Episcopiun, qui ob reverentiam 
 tanti hospitis, se suumque locum, crastina die recedenti obtulit. Quod verus mundi 
 contemptor accipere renuit, dicens: Non mihi a Deo traditus es, sed post sexaginta 
 annos' nascituro, qui in valle vicina, quam paulo autea, Missam decantans, Angelica 
 inultitudine frequentari per fenestram ecclesia; conspexi, suum fundabit monasterium. 
 Alii quoque Episcopo, a se eisdem partibus ordinato, se suaque omnia ipsi tradere 
 volenti, similiter ait. Beatus quoque Abbas Columba, in campo Conalleorum nobili 
 Mongano"", se suamque posteritatem ei ofFerre cupienti, de eodem Colmano simili pro- 
 
 pheticu 
 
 ^Aradeorum gens, — That is, the Dal-Araidhe, themne, now the eastern part of the county of 
 
 who gave name to Dalaradia. Louth. Tlie parishes of Donaghcloney and Tully- 
 
 ' With tlie old Lives this was a favourite term of hsh, in Iveagh, formed a territorj- which was an- 
 years for prophecies of nativities. See the passage ciently called Clan-Connell. In IGIO Glassney 
 fnmi the Life of Colmanellus, cited above at p. 240; JIac Agholy Magenisse held the lordship of Clancon- 
 and St. Patrick's prediction of St. Comghall's birth, ncll. The extent is set out in a Pat. Roll, 8 Jac. 1. 
 in Jocelin, cap. 98. In the present instance the (Cal. Cane. Hib., vol. ii. pp. 193-195.) "De Co- 
 number is by half too great. Armagh was first nalleorum populo sanctam Monennam patrem habu- 
 visited bj' St. Patrick about the year 457 ; whereas uisse nomine Maugtheum; regentem Oveagh-Ulud 
 St. Column was grown up before the death of Csy- [Iveagh], et totam terrani in circuitu Ilardmacha 
 Ian, which took place iji 497; and founded the [Armagh], a Luve [Louth], usque ad Ulvester 
 church of Dromore, at the instance of St. Mac Nisse, [counfy of Down] affirmat Conchubranus. Unde 
 who died in 514. inter Dunenses in Clan-Conall Yveachensium et 
 
 "' This name occurs in the pedigree of Magennis, Louthianos in Magherj'-Conall, ilia terra Conallea 
 
 and Mac Artan. Mongan, tlie ancestorof Mac Artan, fuerit quajrenda, &c." (Ussher, Brit. Ec. Ant. cap. xv.) 
 
 was grandson of Coelbadh, King of Ireland, who was St. Moninna, or Darerca, was abbess of Kill-sliabh 
 
 killed in 358. The campus Conalleorum seems to Cuilinn, i. e. "the church of the mountain CuiUn", 
 
 be Machaire- Conaill, called also Conallia Muir- now Killevy, beside Slieve Gullion; and died in 518. 
 
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 phetico spiritu dixit : Crede mihi quod te suscipere nequeo, quia cuidam sancto viro, 
 qui in Aquilonali ripa fluminis cui nomen Lockce, suum cofistruet monasterium, dona- 
 tus es Deo". 
 
 The Life having next adverted to his baptism by his uncle, St. Colman, proceeds 
 to give an account of his education in a passage which has been already cited at p. 1 89. 
 After this we find him in the company of Aylbe, Bishop of Emly, " ut lineam recte 
 vivendi ab eo disceret". His object being gained, he asks leave to return to his native 
 country, and the Life continues to say : " Concedente itaque S. Aylbeo" ad terram 
 nativitatis reversus, sanctos Patres, videlicet Episcopum Colmanum suum patruum", 
 Caylanumque doctorem suumP, visitavit ; cum quo aliquantulum demoratus, exemplum 
 omnium virtutum ; Monachos ad meliora exhortabatur. Deinde saepe venerabilem 
 Macnyseum Conderensem Episcopum petiit, qui hospitum prassciens adventum, eis 
 necessaria jussit prteparari. Ille itaque illuc perveniens, in omni hilaritate susceptus 
 est: ibique paucis diebus mansit. Deinde, inito consilio, venerabilem senem, ubi lo- 
 cum serviendi Deo fundare deberet, consulit. Qui respondit ; Voluntas Dei est, ut in 
 finibus campi Coba tibi construas monasterium''. 
 
 " Beatus ergo Colmanus secundum verbum sancti Pontificis, fines illos adiit : ibique 
 in valle, sancto Patricio quondam prasostensa, super flumine vocabulo Locha, ut pro- 
 pheta Dei Columba praedixerat, sedem sibi constituit, in qua sibi discipulorum multi- 
 tude in brevi excrevit". 
 
 The records of succeeding bishops or abbots, as preserved in the Annals, are very 
 scanty, but sufficient remain to shew that the cowarba or successor of Colman was 
 sometimes abbot, sometimes bishop, and sometimes both. The following extracts are 
 from the Four Masters, except where otherwise mentioned: — 
 M. C. 841, " Ceallach mac Cairjeinn abb t)pomamoip la h-uiB GacDGc o'ecc". 
 
 " Ceallach, son of Cathgenn, abbot of Dromore in Iveagh, died". 
 M. C. 903, " Copbmuc [ancopica] abb Opomamoip d'ecc"' 
 
 " Cormac, [an anchorite, — An. Ul.,'\ abbot of Dromore, died". 
 M. C. 909, " maelmaeDocc abb Opoma moip b'ej". 
 
 " Maelmaedhocc, abbot of Dromore, died". 
 M. C. 972, " ma0661^I5hOe mac Carapaig eppcop, -j abb Dpomamoipe". 
 
 " Maolbrigid, son of Cathasaigh, bishop and abbot of Dromore, [died] ". 
 M. C. 992, " Cuurul mac ITIaoilpuBu coriiapba Pinmu -| niocholmocc". 
 
 "Tuathal, son of Maolrubha, successor of Finian and Mocholmog"."" 
 
 M. C. 1006, 
 n St. Ailbe, of Emly, died A. D. 526. p See above, pp. 144, 148, 188. 
 
 ° This was probably St. Colmau of Kill-ruaidli, 1 See note at p. 105. 
 
 concerniug whom see above, pp. 60, 245, 246. ■■ The cowarba of St. Fiaian was probably abbot 
 
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 JE. C. 1006, " Cen&paolab aipcinbeac tDpomamoip ITIocholmocc". 
 
 " Cennfaoladh, superior of Dromore-of-Mocholmog, died''. 
 JE. C. 1018, "DoTTinall mnc lHaoilfeacnaiU mic OomnaiU coriiapba Pinnen 1 
 mocolmocc b'ej". 
 
 " Domhnall, son of Maolsechnall, son of Domhnall, successor of Fiiiian 
 and Mocholmog, died". 
 iE. C. 1043, " Ceallach ua Cleipcein comapbn PitiDein 1 mocolmocc". 
 
 " Ceallach OClercan, successor of Finian and Mocholmog, died". 
 jE. C. 1068, " Qnjene mac en 6eccanaicch comapba mocolmocc -| Comj^aiU". 
 
 " Anghen, son of Becanagh, successor of Mocholmog and Comghall, [i. e. 
 abbot of Dromorc and Bangor], died". 
 JE. C. I loi, " "Rl^QN eppcop Dpomo moip v. m. lul. 1. p. q." 
 
 " RiGAN, bishop of Dromore, quinto ulus Jvlii in pace quievit''\ {An. Ul.) 
 IE. C. 1 143, "^lolla Cpiopc mac an 6ecanai^ aipcinoec Opomamoip o'ecc" 
 
 " Giollcrist, son of Becanagh, superior of Dromore, died". 
 ^E. C. 1 159, "• Cfnjen uipcinGeac Dpomamoip". 
 
 " Angen, superior of Dromore".* 
 
 The above catalogue contains all that is to be found concerning this church in 
 the Annals published by Dr. O Conor. AVhat those two churches were, which the 
 Life of St. Colman states were governed by bisliops before St. Colman's birth, is not 
 told, but they were evidently not far from Dromore. There are two churches, how- 
 ever, in the diocese of Dromore, which are recorded as having been episcopal seats ; 
 namely, Donaghmore and Magheralin. 
 
 II. DoMNACHMOR. — This church was founded in the fifth century by St. Mac Ere, 
 who, according to ^Engus the Culdee, was its bishop — See above, pp. 1 11, 190. As 
 was usually the case with churches which were anciently the seats of bishops, the 
 adjacent lands became episcopal jjroperty ; but for some cause now unknown the lands 
 Avere annexed, not to the see of Dromore, but to that of Armagh. The family of 
 OMac Kerell were the herenachs under the archbishop of Armagh in the fifteenth cen- 
 tury, as has been shewn at p. 1 1 2. This property is described in the Ulster Visitation 
 
 of 
 
 of ^Maghbile, and the eowarba of Mocholmog, abbot in this, and two succeeding cases, as that see was 
 
 of Dromore, and the offices may have been, pro hoc founded by Finian in 520, and afterwards governed 
 
 vice, united in one person. Such a plurality was by Colman, who died in 6.32. 
 very common, as has been shewn under Do\Nni and * He subscribed the Charter of Newrj' [circ. A. D. 
 
 Connor. Or, the Bishop of Clonard may be intended 1 159] as Angen, Herenanus Dromamoyr. 
 
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 of 1 622 as the " Manner of Donaghraore contayning 1 2 townes and one Eectorie". The 
 same are still held under the see of Armagh, and are known by these names : Annagh- 
 bane, Ardkeeragh, Aughnacaven, Bnskhill, Cargabane, Donaghmore or Tullynacross, 
 Ringclare, Ringolish, Ringbane, TiiUymurry. The Primate is also rector and patron. 
 
 III. LiXNDUACHAiLL, — This church was founded by St. Colman or Mocholmog, and 
 enjoyed a succession of abbots, some of whose names have been already recited at pp. 
 1 10, III. The name of one bishop who presided over it is preserved: — 
 
 tE. C. 803, "Uomap eppcob pcpibneoip ajiip abb 6inne Oaocaill". 
 
 " Thomas, bishop, scribe, and abbot of Linduachaill[died]". (Four Mast. ; 
 and An. Ul. at 807.) 
 
 The "six towne-lands of Magherilin" were held, in 1622, under the bishop of 
 Dromore, and in 1699 Tobias Pullen, the then bishop, erected an episcopal house upon 
 a portion of this property. — (Harris' Ware, vol. i. p. 267; Down, p. 102.) 
 
 In the proceedings of the synod of Rathbreasil no notice is taken of this diocese; 
 but, as already shewn at pp. 139, 253, it was included in the vast tract which was 
 marked out as the see of Connor. Nor is it named in the acts of the synod of Kells, 
 nor in Roger de Hoveden's list of the sees in the province of Armagh at 1 172, nor in 
 the Census of Cencius Camerarius of 1192. The first time after the Invasion that a 
 bishop of Dromore is mentioned is among the attestations of a charter of John de 
 Courcy, about the year 11 90. — See above, p. 192. 
 
 The following list of the bishops of this see continues the succession to the Refor- 
 mation: — 
 
 NAMES. PREVIOUS STATION. SUCCESSION. VACANCY. 
 
 Ueoneca, before 1190 
 
 Gerard, Monk of Mellifont, 1227 .... 1245 
 
 Andrew, Ax-chdeacon of Dromore, 1245 
 
 Tigernach', before 1287 , after 1291 
 
 Gervase, after 1291 
 
 TiGERNACH, A Monk, 1309 
 
 Florence Mac DoNEGAN, . Canon of Dromore., 1309 
 
 Christopher", before 1369 
 
 Cornelius, 
 
 'He is named in a record of the year 1291 bernica (vol. i. p. 118,) gives a drawing of an epis- 
 
 (Reg. Swayne, lib. ii. f. 52.) copal seal which was found in the county of Clare in 
 
 « Regist. Sweteman, fol. 9. The Anthologia Hi- 1789. On the field is a canopied figure of the Vir- 
 
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 names. previous station. succession. vacancy. 
 
 Cornelius, 13^' 
 
 John OLannub Franciscan Friar, 1382 
 
 John Volcan, H04 
 
 Richard Messing^, Carmelite Friar, 1408 .... 1409 
 
 JoHN^ 1410 .... 141 8 
 
 Nicholas Wartre, Franciscan Friar, 1419 
 
 David of Chirbury, .... Carmelite Friar, 1427 
 
 Thomas Scrope* Carmelite Friar, 1434 before 1440 
 
 Thomas RADOLIFFE^ before 1461 
 
 George Brann', Procurator of Indulgences, before 1487 .... 1499 
 
 William Egremond^ 1500 
 
 (iALE.vrius, 15^4 
 
 John Bapti.st, 1504 
 
 Thauy Franciscan Friar, 1511 after 1518" 
 
 QuiNTiN CoGLEY^, Dominican Friar,, '53^ 
 
 Arthur Magenis"*, before 1550 
 
 See Property. 
 
 gin and Child ; under whicli is the bust of a bishop, 
 and, at the foot, a shield charged with a cross between 
 four quatrefoils. Tiie lo>;end is Jigillu. cnccs. Hit 
 gra. trromorcnc. cpi. Tlie namo Is vmuiniTtain: 
 the late Bishop Bennett (of Cloyne) understood it of 
 "Christopher", adding " there is some old plate in 
 
 Dromore Catlicdral with this very coat of arms" 
 
 (:\IS. Notes.) 
 
 * In IIU'J he was custodee of the Temporalities 
 of Lismore and Waterford (Cal. Cane, p. 190.) 
 
 * He re.signed in 1 4 1 8. In 1420 he was appointed 
 suffragan bishop of Canterbury. 
 
 * He resigned in this year. He is sometimes called, 
 from hi.^ birth-jdaco, Bradley. He wa.s Vicar Ge- 
 neral under the Bishoi)of Norwich, and died in 1491. 
 
 y He was suffragan bishop of Durham. 
 
 ^ A native of Athens. He had been procurator of 
 the Indulgences granted to the Hospital of the Holy 
 Cliost in Saxia, or the Saxon-street in Rome. (Jn 
 his seal he is styled Vicariiis Generalis Saneti 
 Spiritits. He was Bishop of Dromore in 1487 — 
 (Keg. Octav., fol. 25-2.) 
 
 » His monument, placeil " under the lanthom stee- 
 ple" of York Cathedral, bore this inscription: — 
 
 " Ilio Egrcmond Wiirmus Dromorensis Episcopus olim 
 Marmore pro nitidis tectus utrin<iue Mitris. 
 Pavit Oves Cithiso (Hii sub hi* Prcsule bino, 
 Atijue Lupi ruhiem movit ab /Edc truccra. 
 Unguine quotsanxit Pucros, (iiiot Prcsbytcrosque, 
 
 Astra nisi scirent, credere nemo valet. 
 Ante prophanus erat I/ocus hie quern dextrn beavit 
 Ejus, et hine pro sc dieitc quisquis Ave ". 
 
 — (HistorienI Description of the 
 Cathedral of York, vol. i. p. 68. York, 1768.) 
 
 In his later d.iys he was suffragan bishop of York. 
 
 •> Registrum Cromer, fol. 59. 
 
 •^ His name is omitted in the body of Harris' Ware, 
 but, in the Additions at the beginning of the volume, 
 it is stated " Quintin Cogley, a Dominican Frier, 
 was advanced to the see of Dromore, A. D. 1536". 
 With this agrees the bull of Pope Paul III. in De 
 Burgo, Hib. Dora., p. 486. 
 
 "* On the 10th ilay, this year, he had a pardon 
 under the great seal, for having received the Pope's 
 bull, and for other misdemeanors. — (Rot. Pat.) 
 
309 
 
 See Property In the fourteentli and fifteenth centuries it was very much im- 
 paired, and for this reason there were often long vacancies in the see, during which 
 the Primates administered its temporalities jure devolutionis. Their registries afford 
 the following particulars respecting the episcopal property of Dromore during that 
 period : — 
 
 1 . In the parish of Kilbrony the bishop had a mensal, consisting of certain lands, 
 tithes, and dues, which were appendant upon the " Officium baculi sanctse Bromanae 
 in ecclesia S. Bromanae", and were farmed by the ecclesiastic who was appointed by 
 the bishop "custos baculi S. Bromanae ". St. Bromana is called Bronach in the Irish 
 Calendar, at the 2nd of April, and from her the parish derived its name. Her baculus 
 or crozier seems to have been a relique which was preserved in this church, and was 
 attended with certain privileges to its custodee. The names of some persons, who 
 were nominated by the Primates, sede vacante^ to this office, have been already given 
 at pp. 115, 116. The rectorial tithes and the townland of Kilfeaghan continued to 
 be held under the bishops, until the annexation of the see in 1842. 
 
 2. The Manor of Dysertmoy. — The name is now obsolete, but it has been conjec- 
 tured above, at p. 106, that it is the modern Seapatrlck. This was also a mensal. 
 
 3. The Lands of Garwaghadh, — Now Garvaghy. In 1428 these land, together with 
 the manor of Dysertmoy, Avere let by the Primate to Gyllabrony RP Kewyn ; and, in 
 143 1, to Philip M"^ Kewyn. — {Reg. Swayne.) Certain lauds in this parish, which were 
 held under the see of Dromore, have been transferred to the Ecclesiastical Commis- 
 sioners. 
 
 4. Laireachtdyrke Now Aghaderg. In 1427 Maurice ^Pbryn was appointed 
 
 herenach by the Primate as custos of the see of Dromore. — {Reg. Swayne, lib. i. f. 24.) 
 See above, p. 114. 
 
 5. Enaghluan. — Now Anaclone. In 1427, October 15, the lands of the church of 
 Enaghluan were let to Peter M'gyryn, Canon of Dromore. — {Reg. Swayne.) 
 
 6. Dromore. — Christinus M'bryn and Nemeas jVPKarrmyke were herenachs of these 
 lands A. D. 1427. — {Reg. Swayne.) 
 
 In the King's Books the see property is taxed under the following denominations: 
 
 " Maneria de Dromore cum pertinentiis consistens de sequentibus, viz. : — 
 
 " Territoria de Dromore continens per estimationem xiv villas terrse, . xviii'"}' ster. 
 Territoria de Magherawly continens per estimationem sex villas 
 
 terra, viii'".'' „ 
 
 Territoria 
 
3IO 
 
 "Territoria de Knockaguerrin continens quatuor Aillas et dimidium, . vi'".'' ster. 
 Territoria de Magherilin continens per estimationem sex villas et di- 
 midium, VIII '. ,, 
 
 AU which, with other chiefe Rents from divers freeholders, belonging 
 
 to the said ^lanor of Dromore, vaUued at xlv''.*" „ 
 
 Rectoria de Killbrony, xl? „ 
 
 Rectoria de Magheredrall, xL' ., 
 
 Mensall decimse de Knockaguerin, xx? „ 
 
 "S"" L'^^ster." 
 
 Bishop Buckworth's return of the property, in 1622, is still more full: — 
 
 '■'■ Demeasne Lands, consisting of 400 acres: — 
 
 ster. 
 " Knockaguerin^ conteyneth 4 Towne-lands, Ballylysdunevaghy, Balli- 
 
 castlevannan, Ballijenkillies, Ballihilli, per an., x''.** 
 
 Magherilin, 6 Townc-lands, viz., Ballimagin, Ballym'ceownan, Bally- 
 m'entire, the halfe townes of Ballydrumlin, BallyedentoggaU, Bal- 
 lylismcan, Ballym'^breeden, Ballim'mean, Ballyaderdowanf, Tulli- 
 necrosse, per an., lxx''. 
 
 Magheraidy, 6 Townes, viz., Ballyenemaheriawly, Ballydroometh, 
 Ballytullieheeuanc, Ballykilmagrewy, Corbad being 2 Townes. 
 Item Ballyannum, Ballyednegon [belonging to Dromore], in all 
 eight townes, per an., lxv'!'' 
 
 Dromore, Mahcribeg, Ballynoris, Quilly, KiUescolvane, Drumnagha- 
 dowan, Ballysallagh, Dromiller, Lurganbane, Aucknakelly, Drum- 
 broneth, Ballym^carrmick, Rickmakeary, Ballykeele, per an., . . . 136''.'' 3' 4"! 
 
 Maheredrall, Townland of, and a quarter of Drumoneconcor [now 
 
 North Ballymaglave?], per an., v'".'' 
 
 Tieths of the parish of Maheredrall, x''.'' 
 
 Kilhrony, Tiethes of the Rectory of, per an., v'".'' 
 
 Chiefe Bent, From severall lands granted by Patent from his Ma"^ in 
 the Settlement of the country of Evagh, xx'l'' 
 
 "Summa Totalis, 374"." 3! S"! ster." 
 
 With 
 
 ' So called from Knockgorm, a townland in Gar- ' This name, -which signifies " the town between 
 
 vaghy; which, with Ballyoolymore, Castlevennon, the two rivers", is now obsolete; in the Return of 
 Killaney, and Tullyorior, is still church-land. 1833 it is called Ballybot/land. 
 
311 
 
 With reference to the chief rent mentioned in the last item, Bishop Buckworth 
 observes: "All Termon and Erinagh Lands within the Diocesse of Dromore Avere 
 granted by his Ma"" Letters Patents dat' A° 7° in generall to be divided, the one half 
 to the B"* of Dromore, y" other half to y' Deane and Chapter. But after in y^ Settle- 
 ment of y^ Country of Evagh [Iveagh] the Termon and Erenagh Lands were granted 
 to y* Natives (by Patent) who had been ancient Tenants unto them as freehold lands, 
 to pay a Chiefe Rent unto y^ Bp." The first Letters Patent referred to were the joint 
 Charters of Down, Connor, and Dromore, granted in 1 609 ; the second were those 
 which were granted 21 Feb., x6io. Harris states that the Chiefries reserved to the 
 bishop amounted to about £46 sterling — (Ware's Works, vol. i. p. 259.) These chief 
 rents, which were the most ancient part of the episcopal income, arose from lands in 
 the following parishes, and are still reserved : — 
 
 In Aghaderg and Seapatrick, a chief rent of £13 3s. \od. 
 
 In Anacloan, a chief rent of £3 19s. 2d. 
 
 In Garvaghy, a chief rent of £6 3s. 30'. 
 
 From the four towns of Clondiiff, a chief rent of £5 5.5. 6^/. 
 
 To these the Return of 1833 adds the following items [pp. 148-153]:— 
 
 In Annacloan, the townlands Bally shell and Aughnacloy, 
 
 In Kilbrony, the townland Upper Kilfeaghan. 
 
 In Drimigath, the townland Ballykeel. 
 
 In Garvaghy, the rectorial tithes of nine denominations [called, in the King's 
 
 Books, the mensal tithes of Knockaguerin.] 
 In Drumgooland, the rectorial tithes of four townlands. 
 
 Cathedral, — Anciently called, from the name of the founder, " the church of 
 St. Colman" or "Colmoc''. Before the Reformation its corporation consisted of a 
 Dean, Archdeacon, and Canons, whose prebends were endowed with the rectories of 
 certain parishes, the vicarages of which were endowed with the third part of the tithes, 
 and were presentative in the several parishes belonging to the prebends. The Dean 
 and Chapter were anciently the elective body in filling up a vacancy in the see. In 
 the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries their elections were subject to the King's 
 confirmation. Thus the writ of Edward II., confirming the appointment of Florence 
 MacDonegan, October 22, 1309, is directed "Patricio Decano, c^terisque Canonicis 
 ecclesiee S. Colmani de Drumore, eo quod ipsi Decanus et Canonici magistrum Floren- 
 tinum, concanonicum suum, in episcopum elegerant". — (Cod. Clar., xlvi, lol. 176 //.) 
 
12 
 
 Subsequently the Court of Eome interfered, and, at 1382, we have in John OLannub 
 the first recorded instance, in this see, of an appointment by Provision of the Pope: — 
 
 Deans. 
 
 A. D. 1309, Patrick. — (See preceding passage.) 
 A. D. 1369, AuGUSTiN (Reg. Sweteman, fol. 7.) 
 
 Archdeacons. 
 
 A. D. 1244, . . Andre w8. 
 A. D. 1406-13, Thomas O-mostead*". 
 A. D. 1427, . . Adam M^gynd'. 
 A. D. 1428, . . Adam M'gwyryn''. 
 
 Archdeacons — continued. 
 
 A. D. 1434, . . John M'gilboy, 
 A. D. 1456, . . Patrick Omystege. 
 A. D. 1 461, . . John Oshele'. 
 A. D. 1526-9, Arthur M'gin. 
 
 Canonries and Canons. 
 Prebenda S. Colmani, 
 
 A. D. 
 Prebenda de Lann, aP Land, A. D. 
 
 Prebenda de Kylmilcon", 
 
 s Ware's Works, vol. i. p. 259. 
 
 I" The names Omostead, Omystege, OmoLstaygh, 
 are varieties of the more modem Mustey. In the 
 III. Inq. an Agholy OIMustey is mentioned as of 
 Cowes, now Coose, in the parish of Tullylish, rn 
 Lower Iveagh. — (Down, No. 85, Car. I.) 
 
 • The name SFGjTid or M'^gin still prevails in 
 Upper Iveagh, under the form Maginn. 
 
 ■t John Magwirrin, in 1632, held Grawell, a town- 
 land in Dromore parish (Ul. Inq. No. .31, Car. I.) 
 
 'OShele, OSliieghell, OSeadhaill, Sedulius, are 
 ancient forms of the modern Shell. In 1618 Comiac 
 OSheale lived atEdenderry, in Aghaderg. In 1657 
 Patrick and Ewny Sheall held lands in Amiaclone, 
 
 A. D. 1439, Nemens Obryn, "canon and preben- 
 dary". 
 1440, Pairicius Oronaga'^, id. 
 I ^^2, Johannes M'gt/nd, "canon and pre- 
 bendary ". 
 A. D. 1464, Patrick Oronaga. 
 A. D. 1411, Patrick M'gvyryn. 
 A. D. 1430, Donald Oronaga. 
 
 A. D. 1431, Tatheus M'gyryn. 
 
 Prebenda 
 
 under the see of Dromore. Tlie townland Ballysheil, 
 in Aimaclone, is called after the family. 
 
 "' Oronaga, Uroneca, O Rowny, are forms of O Rony, 
 the name of a family, in 161», holding lands in Dro- 
 mara and I)riiinl)ullyrony parishes. Ballyrony, in 
 the latter, is called after them. The Four Mast., at 
 1376, record the death of Emit Ua Ruanadha, chief 
 poet to Magennis — See below, p. 316. 
 
 " The parish of Kylmilcon is now called Shank- 
 hill ; a name which appears in the King's Books, 
 and in the Return of 1622, (where it is written 
 Shankill, i. e. pean Clll, 'old church',) as in the 
 corps of the prebend of Dromara, while, in the Foun- 
 dation Charter of 1609, the same member of the 
 
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 Canonries and Canons — continued. 
 
 Prebenda de Lanronan°, . . . A. D. 1440, Odo Oronaga. 
 Prebenda de Downachclone, a. D. 1526, Cormac Oshieghell. 
 Prebenda de Aghaderk, . . . A. D. 1526, Eugene M'ganym. 
 Prebenda de Clondallan, . . A. D. 1526, Candits Caan. 
 Prebenda de Drumeragh, . . A. D. 1529, Peter ORowni/. 
 
 The following are styled " Canonic! Ecclesia? Dromorensis" in the Eegistries of 
 Armagh, but their prebends are not specified: — 
 
 A. D. 1309, Florence M'donegan. A. D. 1427, Peter M'gyrgn. 
 
 A. D. 1366, Cornelius Omagrela. A. D. 1428, John M' gerywey . 
 
 A. D. 1406, Patrick Okellaid. A. D. 1442, John M'giUaboy. 
 
 A. D. 1407, Patrick M'gynd. A. D. 1461, John Omohtaygh. 
 
 A. D. 1408, John M'gillaboy. A. D. 1464, Patrick Oronaga. 
 
 A. D. 1427, Adam Oronaga. A. D. 1524, John M'gyan. 
 
 In 1609 the name and constitution of the cathedral body were altered by Charter 
 of James I. Having treated of the churches of Down and Connor, the instrument 
 proceeds: " Tertia quas modo vocatur Ecclesia de Drumore, in comitatu Downe, ab- 
 liinc erit et vocabitur Ecclesia Cathedralis Christi Redemptoris de Drumore". — " Ac 
 preedicta ecclesia erit et consistet de uno Decano prcsbytero, et de quatuor dignitariis 
 presbyteris, et de uno prsebendario presbytero". The following were the names of 
 the officers on the new foundation, and of the parishes which formed the corps of their 
 respective prebends: — Decanus. 
 
 prebend appears under the name KUwilke. In a sub- ° The church of Lanronan is mentioned m the Ca- 
 sequent document (p. 324) it will be found that all the lendars of vEngus and the OClerys, at May 22, in these 
 wonted names of the parishes in Dromore occur except words: " l^onun Pionn o 6ainn TJonain 1 
 Shankill, instead of which KiUmyhon is to be found. nUiB 6acDac Ula6", "Eonan Fionn of Lann- 
 Inl411 Patricius M' g-nyrjn is recorded to have been Ronan ['church of Ronan'] inlveagh of Ulidia". "S. 
 " rector ecclesia3 parochialis de Kyl-milcon, prtebendae Eonanus Fionn, i. e. Candidus, filius Sarani filii Col- 
 nuncupat*" (Eeg. Flem., fol. 37.) In 1431 the gani, ex familia Orgiellorum seu stirpe CoUa; Da- 
 Primate, as custos of Dromore, conferred upon Ta- chrioch". (Colgan, Acta SS., p. 713, col. 2.) " Lann- 
 theus M''g>'ryn the " Canonicatus et Prebenda Sti. Eonain in Machaire-lainne,— an autem haec sit, qiiie 
 Fintani de Kyllmilcon alias de Caillmore", with its hodie Machuire-linne vel Machaire lainne vocatiu-, 
 accompanying stall in the choir, and place in the estque ecclesia parochialis ejusdem Dioecesis Drom- 
 chapter, which were vacant by the death of Donald morensis, conjicere magis Ubet quam asserere" — 
 
 Oronaga (Eeg. Octav., fol. 44.) With the ex- {Ih., p. 792, col. 2.) It does not appear to have been 
 
 ception of one townland, KiUmore, which is in the identical with Lann-Huachaille, otherwise Lann- 
 
 county of Down, the whole of tliis parish lies m the Mocholmog, called Zanw in ecclesiastical records, and 
 
 modern county of Armagh. now known by the name MagheruUn. 
 
 2 S 
 
3^4 
 
 Decanus. Fecimus, &c., Williemum Todd, presbyteruin, in artibus magistrum, et 
 sacrae tlieologise professorem, prinium et modernum Decanum ecclesiae 
 Cathedralis Christi Redemptoris de Drumore. Dedimus, Ac, prjefato 
 Willielmo Todd, decano ecclesiaj Cathedralis Christi Redemptoris de Dru- 
 more, et successoribus suis, Decanis ejusdem ecclesice pro tempore ex- 
 istentibus, omnes illas rectorias et vicarias nostras de Aghederigh, et 
 duobus Luminaribus [see p. 316, note "] ISIagheredroll, et Tullaghlisse, 
 cum eorum juribus, membris, et pertineutiis universis. 
 
 Archii)!- Fecimus, &c., Donaldum OMorrey, presbyterum, et sacra? theologis pro- 
 
 ACONUS. fessorem, primum et modernum Archidiacouum, &c. Dedimus etiam, &c., 
 
 omnes illas rectorias et vicarias nostras de Donachglonie, cum reliquis de 
 
 antiquo Archidiaconatui de Drumore spectantibus [see p, 107], cum eorum 
 
 juribus, membris, et pertineutiis universis. 
 
 Cancel- Fecimus, &c., Williehnum Webbe, presbyterum, in artibus magistrum, et 
 LARius. sacri verbi professorem, primum et modernvun Cancellarium, &c. Dedimus 
 etiam, &c., totam illam rectoriam sive pra;bendam, et vicariam, de Clan- 
 dallan [Clonallau], cum omnibus suis juribus, membris et pertineutiis. 
 
 PR.ECEN- Fecimus, &c., Jacobum ODornan fore et esse primum ct modernum Pra- 
 TOR. centorem, &c. Dedimus etiam, &c., omnes illas rectorias et vicarias nostras 
 de Lann [Magheralin], et Annechelte [Annahilt], cum omnibus suis juri- 
 bus, membris, et pertiuentiis. 
 Thesau- Fecimus, &c., Johannem M'^Inivmy Thesaurarium ecclesiai Cathedralis Christi 
 RARius. Redemptoris de Drumore. Dedimus, vie., omnes illas rectorias et vicarias 
 nostras de Drumore, Drumgath, et Anechloin [Annaclone], cum omnibus 
 suis juribus, membris, et pertineutiis. 
 Pr.eben- Fecimus, &c., Nicholam Webbe primum et modernum Praebendarium, &c. 
 DARIUS. Et volumus quod prebenda vocabitur Prebenda de Drumarath. Dedimus 
 (fee, omnes illas rectorias et vicarias nostras de Drumarrath [Dromara], 
 Kilwilke [see Kt/hnilcon, p. 312, note "], et Clonduffe, cum omnibus suis 
 juribus, membris, et pertineutiis. 
 
 Among the tables of procurations payable to the Primate in his Provincial Visi- 
 tations, in Primate Dowdall's Registry, are the two following valuations of the pjarishes 
 in the diocese of DromoreP. They help to illustrate the earlier taxation, and are useful 
 as guides to the correct forms of the parochial names. PRQCUR \TIONES 
 
 f Liber Niger, or Regist. Dowd., pp. 214, 267. 
 
O T - 
 
 J^3 
 
 PROCURATIONES DROMORENSES METROPOLITICiE, 
 
 VIZ. DE QUALIBET MARCA, 2S. 2D. 
 
 Vide in Libro Johannis \_Swayne\ Primatis'^, 
 
 Dimidia Ecclesife Dromorensis quam Archipresbyter'' obtinet, 
 
 Alia ejusdem Ecclesiae dimidia quam [ ], 
 
 Ecclesia de Drummeragh cum capellis', 
 
 Ecclesia de Land [p. i lo], 
 
 Ecclesia de Downagliclona cum capellis [p. 107], 
 
 Ecclesia de Acliadeyrge [p. 112], 
 
 Ecclesia de Clondallan ciim capellis [p. 1 14], 
 
 Ecclesia de Clonseys* pertinet ad mensam Episcopi, 
 
 Ecclesia de Clondam [p. 115], 
 
 Ecclesia de Drumgolyn cum capellis pertinet ad Priorem S. Patrici de Duno", 
 
 Ecclesia 
 
 1 The date of this valuation is 1422, as appears 
 from the observation at tlie close of the next table. 
 
 ■' The term Archipresbyter occurs so early as an 
 epistle of St. Jerome (A. D. 378), and the seven- 
 teenth canon of the fourth Council of Carthage 
 (A. D. 3i)8) ; and was in use to denote a spiritual 
 church -governor long before the term Decanus came 
 to be employed in that sense ; — that is, before the 
 age of Charlemagne. In the sixth century ^\j-chi- 
 presbyters were either Cathedral or Urban, else Vi- 
 can or Rural. Of the former Duarenus writes: 
 " Urbani dicuntm: qui in urbe et in major e ecclesia 
 officio suo funguntur". — (Sac. Eccl. Minist., lib. i. 
 c. 8.) Of the latter there is JUi example in Bp. Eoch- 
 fort's Constitutions in 1216 — (See above, p. 128.) 
 Full information on this subject may be foimd in that 
 valuable work, — Eev. W. Dansey's Horaj Decanicae 
 
 Rurales, vol. i. pp. 1-21 (Lond. 1844.) The 
 
 Archipresbyter of this taxation is called Decanus in 
 the next, and the cathedral is styled Major Ecclesia. 
 
 ^ Of these chapels one is now called Magheraham- 
 let, seemingly a con-uption of ITlacaipe carh- 
 
 lacca, 'field of the burial-place' (See above, 
 
 2 S 
 
 p. 105, col. 2.) 
 
 ' A corrupt form of Glen-seichis, the ancient name 
 of Kilbronj'. This church was called by the latter 
 name from Bronach, its patron saint, whose festival 
 is placed by the OClerj-s at the 2nd of April: 
 " 6poriuc 6^ O ^hlionD peicip", " Bronach, 
 a virgin, of Glionn-Seichis ". The name of the 
 place would be equally correct if written ^lionn 
 c-peicip, '■'■ Glen-teichis"' (see Donovan's Irish 
 Gram., pp. 61, 454, note ';) which fomi is closely 
 followed by the Taxation of 1291 in the word Glen- 
 
 tegys (See above, pp. 115, IIC.) 
 
 " By Inquisition 3 Ed. VI. it was found that the rec- 
 tory of Dromgolyn, of the annual value of £8 13s. 4rf., 
 was appropriate to the Prior of St. Patrick's of Down. 
 The old parish church, of which a portion of the east 
 wall is standing, and the grave-yard, are in the 
 townland Drumadomiell. Its ancient stone cross, 
 seven feet high, is built into the gable of an adjoin- 
 ing school-house. In the townland Deehommed 
 (Bally-diccovade, aZias Bally -dicomeade, Ul. Inq.) is 
 an ancient burying-place. In tlie townland Magh- 
 eramayo are the ruins of an old church, and beside 
 
 2 
 
i6 
 
 Ecclesia de Enaghluan% 2 marc. 
 
 Ecclesia de Anyll [p. io6], 2 marc. 
 
 Ecclesia de Dysertmoygli pertinet ad mensain Episcopi [p. io6], 2 marc. 
 
 Ecclesia de Tullaglllyss^ 2 marc. 
 
 Ecclesia de Domnaghmore [p. iii], 3 marc. 
 
 Ecclesia de Meacarne-de-OdargTilla% 2 marc. 
 
 Ecclesia de Enaceilte^, ' marc. 
 
 Vicarius de Viridi Ligno [p- u6] i marc. 
 
 Vicarius de Drom% 4 solid. 
 
 Vicarius de Garwagh'', 3 solid. 
 
 TAXATIO OMNIUM BENEFICIORUM DIOCESIS DRUMOREXSIS, 
 
 ANNO DOMINI I 546. 
 
 Praibenda Decani de Dromore, 7 marc. 
 
 Prajbenda alia Majoris Ecclesia?'' \_Dromore'], 7 marc. 
 
 Luminaria'^ ejusdem Ecclesia*, 3 marc. 
 
 Prajbenda 
 
 them is a holy well called Tnherdnnniitih, where is of great anti<niity; anil the fort in wliicli it stands 
 
 stations used to be held on the 24th of June. The is curious; being the innermost of four enclosures, 
 
 Ord. Valuation marks a small graveyard also in the the whole occupying at least nine acres, and sloping 
 
 townland Leganauny. These may have been the to the east in a regular glacis " — (I'aroch. Survey, 
 
 c.apeUce of the text. '^■'^'- ''■ P- l^O 
 
 * Enaghluan,—T\vi.i is, ennac cluana, ' mo..r " Probably tlie modern Drum-halhjrony. Optlim 
 
 of the meadow',— now Annadone. bade Ui Ruanuioe, 'ridge of O Rooney's-town '. 
 
 « TuUylish is thus noticed in the Calendar of the See pp. 105, 312. 
 
 (tClerys at May 12: " fteapnopj^a O Uulac ^ 'Sow Garvaffht/, i.e. ^apB-acab, 'the rough 
 
 lip 1 n-Uib Gacac Ulab", "Bearnosga of tield'. 
 
 Tullach-lis (' hill of the fort') in Iveagh of Uhdia". b t^js ^yas the rectory of the parish of Dromore, 
 
 ■'' A more correct form of the name Magheradrool as appears from a manuscript in the Library of 
 
 occurs in the Regist. Prene, (fol. 45,) namely, Mu- Trinity College, Dublin, in which the title "Pre- 
 
 cliary-edargaical, i. e. JTIucaipe eooap jabul, benda Majoris Ecclesiae" is given to that member of 
 
 ' the plain between the two forks ' See p. 1 06. the corps of the Treasurership, which, in the charter, 
 
 y The patron saint of this church is thus comme- King's Books, and elsewhere, is called " Kectoria de 
 
 morated at the 18th of February in the Calendars of Dromore" — (MSS. E. 4. 15, p. 30.) 
 
 yEngus and the O Clerys : " ITIolioba O eanac- •■ Luminare, — "A lamp or candle set burning on the 
 
 eilce 1 nil lb Gacac ULao", "Molibbaof altar of any church or chapel ; for the maintenance 
 
 Eanach-eilte in Iveagh of Ulidia". It is now called of wliich lands and rent-charges were frequently 
 
 Annahilt. " The burying-ground about the church given to rehgious houses and parish churches'". — 
 
3^7 
 
 Prsebenda de Achaderyge [Aghaderg~\, lomarc. 
 
 Vicarius ibidem, . marc. 
 
 Vicarius de Droym \I)rumhallyrony\ 4 marc. 
 
 Vicarius de Soyge-Patrick'^ \^Seapatrick\ 2 marc. 
 
 Prasbenda de Layn \_21aghercdin~\, n marc. 
 
 Vicarius ibidem, , marc. 
 
 Prajbenda de Downaghclona [I)ownaghcloney\ y marc. 
 
 Vicarius ibidem, , marc. 
 
 Vicarius de Taydba^ \_Seagoe\ 2 marc. 
 
 Prsbenda 
 
 (Kennett, Par. Ant., Glossary, suh. voc.) Among The Return of 1622 recites the names of the corps 
 
 the title deeds of the property which Guy Stone, as in the King's Books, omitting the " Tres Lumi- 
 
 E.sq., of Bam Hill, Comber, holds in the parish of nai-ies", but it adds, in another column, " Noe Gleabe 
 
 BromesbeiTow, in the county of Gloucester, (which but one Quarter of a towne, deteyned by S^ Arthur 
 
 property has continued in his family, without en- Magenis and MarmaducWhitechurch". 
 tail, in direct male descent since the reign of Ed- "^ The word SuiDe, 'a seat', enters very f reel v 
 
 ward IV.,) is a document in the hand of the reign of into composition in the names of places, and is 
 
 Edward III., reciting a bequest of four acres of land pronounced sea ; thus Seacon, a townland of Bally- 
 
 to the church of Bromesberrow, to be employed in the money parish, in the county of Antrim ; and Seajin, 
 
 followng manner ; " Qute iv. acrte, tradentur in ma- a townland of Drumballyrony, in the comity of 
 
 luis cujusdam boni viri, qui ex eisdem acr'is Lu7ni- Down. The latter name, i. e. Suibe plonn, was 
 
 nare duarum lampadum sustinere debeat secundum borne by a place at Slievenaman, in the county of 
 
 formam subscriptam, Viz. quod singulis diebus dum Tipperary, and was given to it from Fionn, the son 
 
 capellanus parochialis ofRcium divinmn in dicta ec- of Cumhall, commonly called Fiim Mac Cool 
 
 clesia celebraverit ardeant priedicta; lampades; et (Keating, under Cormac Mac Art.) For the deriva • 
 etiam integre in noctibus subscriptis: In nocte Na- tion of Seapatrick, see note f, p. lOG. 
 talis Domini, Paschie, et Pentecostes ; *In noctibus "^ ^Vnciently called Ueac-ba-Toba, 'house of 
 omnibus festorum beatre Mari*, et in noctibus apos- the two smiths ', and written Teachgown, Teacha- 
 tolorum Petri et Pauli, beati Johannis Baptistce, beati ghawa, in the fifteenth century. (See above, p. 108.) 
 Laurentii, et beati Nicholie, sine omni contradic- In the King's Books, and in the Return of 1622, the 
 tione". The Dean of Armagh was formerly, in vir- name is written, as now pronounced, Seagoe, Seigo ; 
 tue of his office, " parson of the i>?<nifnaries in Clan- the word ceac in its composition having been 
 coughie" — (Ul. Inq..App.No. 1, p. 7.) Ballykinler, changed to puibe. In 17G5 a low-lying district, 
 in the diocese of Dowti, appears to have been a hi- called the Montiaghs ( niomceaca, 'bogs' or 
 minary to Christ Church in Dublui — (See p. 210.) ' boggy groimds'), bordering on Lough Xeagh, was 
 What the nature of the endowment was in the church severed from the parish, and erected mto an inde- 
 of Dromore is not recorded. The Charter of 1609 pendent cure, under the name of A/on<?a^As. Of the 
 specifies the Duo Luminaria in the corps of the ten townlands which it contains, the names of eight 
 Deanry; and the King's Books mention Tres Lumi- begin with the prefix ZJerry (do ipe ' an oakwood'j, 
 naries under the same dignity, but subsequent re- indicating that in former times the district was ex- 
 cords neither mention that name nor any in its stead. tensively wooded. 
 
3i8 
 
 Prsebenda de Drummerrach [Z)?'o;««ro], 7 marc. 
 
 Vicarius ibidem, 3 marc. 
 
 Vicarius de G^rvagh \_Garvaghi/'], 3 marc. 
 
 Prajbenda de Clondallan \_Clonallan~\, 9 marc. 
 
 Vicarius ibidem, 4 marc. 
 
 Vicarius de Drumga \_Drumgath'\, 3 marc. 
 
 Rector de Donnaghmore [^Donaahmore] 5 marc. 
 
 Vicarius ibidem, 3 marc. 
 
 Unio de Enaghluan [Annaclone], 6 marc. 
 
 Rector de Tulaglys [Tullijlish'], 3 marc. 
 
 Vicarius ibidem, 3 marc. 
 
 Rector de Killmylcon \_SlMnkhill\ 3 marc. 
 
 Rector et Vicarius de Achalead \_Aghal€e~\, 4 marc. 
 
 Rector de ClondufFe [C/o;i^^{^J, 6 marc. 
 
 Vicarius ibidem, 4 marc. 
 
 Rector de Drumgwalyn \_Dru7ngooland'\, ^ marc. 
 
 Vicarius ibidem, 4 marc. 
 
 Rector de Maccharedruall \_JIag/ieradrool], 4 marc. 
 
 Rector de Enaghallty [_A7ifia/iilt^, x marc. 
 
 Rector de Awall et Vicarius ibidem [^Magkeralii/'], 3 nuvrc. 
 
 Vicarius de Killbronaghf \_Kilbroney'\, 2 marc. 
 
 Vicarius de Viridi Ligno \_Ne7cry~\, i marc. 
 
 " Quia Procurationes domini Primatis in diocesi Drummorensi debcnt levari anno 
 Metropolitico, Vide in antiquo libro domini Johannis [Swayne] Primatis 1422 : viz. 2s. 
 de (jualibet marca, et 2d., ju.xta taxam". 
 
 FF. 
 DALRIADA. 
 
 The name Dal-riada, contractedly written Ruta^, and still called the Route, is derived 
 from tDal, Avhich primarily signifies descendants ; secondarily, territory of descendants, 
 
 and 
 
 ' The earliest instance in which the ^mter has met qui dicitur Kyllbronaygh" (fol. 49.) Previously 
 
 this name is in the Kegistrum Sweteman, where no- it was called Glenseichis. See note ', preceding, 
 tice is given to the Bishop of Dromore of a visitation s " Dalriedia, quae hodie Beuta contracte appel- 
 
 of his diocese, to be holden, Nov. 4, 13G6. "in loco latur" — (Colgan, Tr. Thaum., p. 114, n. 144.) 
 
aud TJiaoa, the surname of a man. This individual, whose name in extenso was Cairbre 
 Righfada, or ' Cairbre the long-arm'd "'j was son of Conaire II., King of Ireland. After 
 a reign of eight years Conaire was killed, A. D. 220, and Art Aen-fir, his brother-in- 
 law, having been chosen as his successor, took under his care the three sons of the 
 deceased monarch. Caii'bre Righ-fada, or Riada, signalized himself, in the year 237', 
 by slaying, at the battle of Cinfebrat, Nemed, the murderer of his father. The reign 
 of Cormac OConn, son of Art Aen-fir, was rendered illustrious by his victories over 
 the Ulidians, and the success which attended his arms in Albany. At this period it 
 probably was that Cairbre Riada and his adherents obtained a footing in those parts 
 of Erin and Albany which afterwards bore his name''. During the two succeeding 
 centuries his descendants were principally settled in the Irish Dalriada, as the superior 
 power of the Crutheni or Picts rendered their acquisitions very insecure in Albany. 
 When St. Patrick first visited the Irish Dalriada he founded several churches therein, 
 an account of which will presently be given, and when he re-visited it, " fidei nempe 
 propagandge et refo vendue causa", some time after the middle of the fifth century, he 
 found the twelve sons of Ere in possession of the sovereignty. Fergus Mac Ere, the 
 youngest, received the saint with kindness, and his future greatness is made by the 
 Tripartite Life the subject of a prediction. — (See above, p. 244.) At the commence- 
 ment of the next century the Irish Scots, vxnder Fergus Mac Ere, passed over to Albany, 
 and founded the Dalriadian monarchy there. The event is thus recorded by the anna- 
 list Tigernach: — 
 
 A. D. 502, " Pecipjup mop mac eapca " Fergus the Great, son of Ere, accompa- 
 
 cuin jence Oal Rinba papcem panied by the race of Dalriada, oc- 
 
 6picunniae cenuic ec ibi mop- cupied a part of Britain, and died 
 
 cuup epc''. there' 
 
 ." 
 
 Venerable Bede, connecting this permanent settlement with the supposed migra- 
 tion under Cairbre Riada, describes both events as if one continuous occurrence: 
 " Procedente autem tem^sore Brittania post Brittones et Pictos, tertiam Scottonim 
 nationem in Pictorum parte recepit; qui duce Reuda de Hil/ernia progressi, vel ami- 
 citia vel ferro sibimet inter eos sedes quas hactenus habent, vindicarunt : a quo vide- 
 licet 
 
 *"^ liigh-fhoda, i. a lacertus seu carpus longus, et Dr. Conor's edition of Tigernach the year 212 is 
 
 omissis in sono mediis consonantibus, inde Ri-oda, the date of this battle. 
 
 Riada, et Rieda emanavit" (Ogj-g., p. 322.) ^ Tliis supposition is urged with great force in 
 
 'In this and the previous date the chronology of C. Conor's note to " Ogj'gia Vindicated", pp. 162, 
 
 OFlaherty is followed (Ogyg., pp. 324-326.) In 163; and in his " Dissertations", pp. 297, 307. 
 
320 
 
 licet duce usque hodieDALREUDiNi vocantur, nam lingua eorum daal partem significat".' 
 (Hist. Ec, lib. i. c. i.) This, which is a very condensed account, but of the highest 
 value as an external testimony to the correctness of our domestic records, admits of 
 being illustrated by the following passage from Keating's History of Ireland™ : — 
 
 "t)o popuD SapaiD [injean Chuinn] " Saraid [daughter of Conn] was mar- 
 
 pe Conaipe mac moja^-ama, ocuppuj ried to Conary, son of Mogh Lamha; and 
 
 pi na cpi Cuipbpe 60, mup aca Caipbpi she bare him the Three Carbrys, viz., 
 
 l?ia6paDa;Caipbpe6afcain; uciipCaip- Carbry Riadhfliada, Carbry Bascain, and 
 
 bpe mup^; acup apiao pliocr Chaipbpe Carbry Muse; and it was Carbry Riadh- 
 
 "RiaopaDa 00 cuaio a n-Qlbciin, acup op fhada's descendants that went into Alba, 
 
 Diob xaipmriop t)al l^inoa. t)u mac, and it is they that are denominated Dal- 
 
 umoppo, 00 bi aj 6ocui6 ITlumpeamap Kiuda. Eochaidh Muinreamhar, of the 
 
 DO pliocr Chaipbpe 'Riaopaoa, man ara line of Carbry Riadhfhada, had two sons, 
 
 Gape acup Olchu ; acupap plioccGapca viz., Ere and Olchu; and it is from Ere 
 
 acait) t)al Riaoa Qlban, acup ap pliocc the Dal-Riada of Alba are descended ; and 
 
 Olchon acaio tDal "Riaoa Ula6 o paio- it is from Olchu the Dal-Riada of Ulster, 
 
 reap an "Ruca". from whom the Ruta is named, descend". 
 
 With this agrees the account given by Mac Firbis, as collected by him from the 
 most ancient manuscripts. It goes more into detail, and is worthy of being annexed 
 to the above: — 
 
 "• GocaiD muinpeamap mac Qonjup " Eochaidh Muinreamhar, son of Aon- 
 
 mic Peapjupa Qulaio, no Uaille, mic gus, son of Fergus Aulaidh or Uaille, son 
 
 Piacac Carmuil, no Caicmil, mic Peb- of Fiachaidh Tathmail, or Taithmil, son of 
 
 limiD 6arriDoiD mic Cinge mic ^uaipe Fedhlimidh Lamhdoid, son of Cinge, son 
 
 mic Cionaooa, no Cinoe, mic Caipbpe of Guaire, son of Cionaoth, or Cinde, son 
 
 RiojpoDa,a quoOalT^iaoa, mic Conaipe of Carbry Rioghfhota, a quo Dal-Riada, 
 
 Caoim mic TTloja 6ama. son of Conaire Caomh, son of Mogh Lam- 
 
 "Gocaio niuinpeariiup ono, oa mac ha". 
 
 lep .1. Gape acup Olcu. Gape rpa, Da "Eochaidh Muinreamhar, now, had two 
 
 mac oej laip .1. ape biob sabpao Ql- sons, viz.. Ere and Olchu. Ere, too, had 
 
 bain, no pije M-Qlban .1. oa ^oapn, .1. twelve sons, viz., six of whom conquered 
 
 Coapn Alba, 
 
 ' "-Dal properly sii^iifies posterity, or descent by less instances: thus Bedes interpretation is, doubt- 
 blood ; in an enlarged and figurative sense, it signi- less, in the second sense, admissible" — (C. Conor's 
 fies a district, i. e. the division or part allotted to note to " Ogj'gia Vindicated ", p. 175.) 
 such posterity : of this double sense we have number- " Under the reign of Ai't Aoinf hir. 
 
321 
 
 ^oapn beaj acup Coapn mop; acup ba 
 ITlac-Nip, no ITIipi, .i. ITIac-Nipi beaj 
 ajupTTlac-Nipi mop; ajup oa pheapgup 
 J. Peapjup bea^ ajup Peapjup mop. 
 Q pe aile i n-Gpinri oioph ,i. TTlac t)e- 
 cill, np Dejill, agup Qonjup (cuiup 
 camen pemen m Qlbania epc) 6unna, 
 6peapal, piacpa, ajupDubcac. Q oea- 
 paiD apaile 50 paibe mac ele (05 Gape) 
 bap b'ainm niuipeaoac bolg gibeao ni 
 pip pm. 
 
 " Olchu mac Gacac niuinpeamaip 
 biu, aon mac oeuj lap ab Olchom pm. 
 Qpiab bo aicpeab 1 ITlupbolj La t)al 
 Riaba .1. ITluipeabac bolj, Q06, Daipe, 
 Qonjup, Cuacal, Qnblomaic, Gocuib, 
 Seubnu, 6pian, Omiu, agup Copmac". 
 
 Alba, or the sovert'ignty of Alba, viz., two 
 Loarns", i. e. Loarn Beg (little), and Loarn 
 Mor (great) ; and two Mac Nisis, i. e. Mac 
 Nisi Beg, and Mac Nisi Mor; and two 
 Fergus's, i. e. Fergus Beg and Fergus Mor. 
 Six more of them in Erinn, viz., Mac De- 
 cill (or Degill) and Aongus {cujus tamen 
 semen in Albania est), Eunna, Breasal, 
 Fiachra, and Dubhthach. Others say that 
 Earc had another son, whose name was 
 Muirheadhach Bolg ; but that is not true. 
 " Olchu, son of Eochaidh Muinream- 
 har, now, had eleven sons. It was they 
 that occupied Murbolg in Dalriada", viz., 
 Muireadhach Bolg, Aodh, Daire^, Aongus, 
 Tuathal, Anblomait, Eochaidh, Seudna'', 
 Brian, Oiniu, and Cormac". 
 
 The Dalriadian monarchy being now firmly fixed in North Britain, Fergus Mac Ere 
 was succeeded, in 529, by his son Domangart; he, in 534, by his son Comgall; he, in 
 558, by his brother Gabhran; and he, in 560, by his nephew Conall, son of Comgall. 
 The last named prince it was who bestowed the island of Hy upon St. Columbkille in 
 563. Conall died in 574, and was succeeded by his covisin, Aodhau or Aidan, who 
 accompanied St. Columbkille, in 590, to the Synod of Druimceatt^ One of the objects 
 
 for 
 
 " From them Loin derives its name. 
 
 " See above, pp. 154, 252. 
 
 P This was probably the Darius whom the Trii)ar- 
 tite Life mentions as lord of the north part of Dalrie- 
 
 dia, at the time of St. Patrick's first visit See 
 
 above, p. 243. 
 
 'I A Carn-sedna in Dalriedia is spoken of in tlie 
 passage cited in last note. 
 
 ■" This famous convention was called in Irish 
 mopoail Opoma Ceac, Adamnan calls the 
 place Dorsum Cete or Cette. Its exact situation is 
 not now kno^vn, but from Donnellus' description of 
 St. Columbkille's journey thither we may conclude 
 that it was on the river Roe, and not far from 
 
 the modern Newtown Limavaddy. He states that, 
 liaving entered the Roe, the saint arrived at a place 
 called Cabliaii-an- Churaid/i, and that he proceeded 
 thence " ad peramoenum ilium collem, leniter accli- 
 
 vem, vulgo Druimchett'" (Lib. iii. c. 5; Tr. Th., 
 
 p. 431.) Colgan seems to have known the exact 
 spot, for he speaks of it, under the name Druimcheda, 
 as " locus hodie et semper venerabilis, maxime ob 
 multas peregrinationes et publicani Theophoriam, qu* 
 in festo Omnimn Sanctorum in predict* synodi me- 
 moriam ibidem celebratie in eo quotannis sit, cum 
 summo omnium vicinarum partium accursu". — 
 (Acta SS., p. 204, col. 2, n. 13.) A townland and 
 hill at the east of Drumachose are called Ready. 
 
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322 
 
 for which this assembly was convened was to determine the jurisdiction of the Alba- 
 nian Dalriada. The question at issue is variously stated: ODonnellus would have it 
 that Aidan laid clami to the sovereignty of the Irish Dalriada, and required that it 
 should be exempt from the rule of the Irish mona^ch^ Keating and OFlahertyS on 
 the other hand, state that the dispute arose from the demand of Aldus, the Irish king, 
 to receive tribute from the Albanian prince as from the governor of a colony. They 
 ao-ree, however, as to the decision, which was, that the Irish Dalriada should continue 
 under the dominion of the King of Ireland, and that the sister kingdom should be 
 independent ; subject to the understanding that either power should be prepared, 
 when called upon, to assist the other, in virtue of their national affinity. 
 
 From this time forward the Irish Annals make occasional mention of the Lords or 
 Chiefs of Dalriada, by whom they intend the Albanian princes; while the Irish terri- 
 tory is comparatively unnoticed, inasmuch as it was a mere sub- territory of the king- 
 dom of Ireland. In the year 838 Kineth :\Iac Alpin, the thirty-fourth ruler of the 
 Albanian Dalriada, ascended the throne, and, in 842, he subdued the Picts of North- 
 Britain, thus becoming master of the entire country between Edinburgh and Caithness. 
 From this time the specific name Dalriada began to fall into disuse, until at length the 
 whole kingdom was called Scotia or Scot-land, after the name of the race which had 
 branched into it from Ireland, and to whose arms it had gradually submitted. 
 
 But, to return to the history of the parent Dalriada, it has been already observed 
 that St. Patrick, on occasion of his first visit to it, founded certain churches therein. The 
 following is the account which the Tripartite Life gives of them : "In adjacentibus 
 etiam Dal-riediaj regionibus multarum Ecclesiarum extruendarum designavit loca, et 
 jecit fundamenta, In regione in primis stirpis jEngussiance'' Fothratensem excitavit 
 Ecclesiam'; cujus regimen et incolatum duobus e discipulis Cathbadio pra;sbytero, et 
 Dimano monacho commisit. Excitavit in eadem regione ecclesias; i?a?A??zWfti«'' cui 
 Erclacium prajsbyterum ; et Tulachensem^ cui Nehemiam Episcopum prsefecit. In 
 regione etiam Cathrigice^' ajdificavit Ecclesiam de Domnach-Coinri\ ubi duos Connen- 
 
 nanos 
 
 s Lib. iii. cap. 10. (Trias Thaum., p. 432.) raartjTologia, et obiit anno aetatis 150, etChristi 554, 
 
 t History of Ireland, reign of Aodh; Ogj-g., p. 475. juxta Quat. iMag". (Colgan, Trias Thaum., p. 182.) 
 
 " So I'alletl, i)robiil)!y, from Aongus, father of Eo- " Now Ramoan, see pp. 79, 284. 
 
 cliaidh Mumreanihar. " Probably the modem DrumUdlagh — See above, 
 
 >■ Modem name unknowTi. "Ab eo, de quo hie p. 251. Colgan improperly confounds it with Tu- 
 
 agitur, forte denominationem sumpsit lacus vicinaj lach-ruisc [Tullyrusk] in Dalmunia — See p. 6. 
 
 regionLsDal-aradia;/.oc/jCa</*fcaf//(, i.e. LacusCath- J Now the barony of Gary. — See pp. 79, 281. 
 
 badii appellatiis. Colitur S. Cathuljius tilius Fer- ^ Modem name unkno^vn. Colgan conjectured 
 
 gussii, 6 April, in ecclesia de Achadh-Cinn juxta Kill-Domnach; but that name is also obsolete. 
 
323 
 
 nanos discipulos suos posuit. Item Ecclesiam de Druim-Indic//^, cui S. Enanum; et 
 Cuil-Ectrann^ cui Fiachi-mm Episcopum prsefecit. Benedixit etiam tunc arcem de 
 Dun-Sobhairche'^, ubi est fons miraculosus Tipra-Phadruic, id est, fons Patricii appel- 
 latus".** The account given in the same record of the second visit to this territory 
 has been already printed at pp. 243-245 of the present work. There is another pas- 
 sage also in the Tripartite Life, which, although introduced in the narrative of the 
 Saint's proceedings in Connaught, appears to be out of its place, and to belong rather 
 to the Glynns, a territory formerly comprehended in Dalriada or the Route. " Inde 
 progressus versus Orientem venit ad regionem de Glinne in qua hodie stirps Muinre- 
 marii principatum tenet. E duobus ejus naribus ibi profluxit sanguis in via: ibique 
 saxum Leac-Phadruic, et arbor nux, Coll-Padruic appellata visuntur : adjacentque 
 versus Occidentem Ecclesise quam ibi extruxit ; qu£e olim Domnach-Stratha, id est, 
 Ecclesia prati dicta; hodie Strath- Padruic, id est Pratum Patricii, vocatur, Mansit in 
 ea Patricius Dominica die; estque unica ejus in ea regione Ecclesia". 
 
 In the year 1210 King John was at Carrickfergus, and on that occasion bestowed 
 the territory of Dalriada, with its appendant districts, upon the Earl of Galloway. 
 There are three rolls preserved in the Tower of London, which record the terms of 
 this grant: one bearing date 12 13, wherein John de Gray, Bishop of Norwich, and late 
 Justiciary of Ireland, recites the territories of which possession had been given ; a 
 second, bearing date 12 15, being a charter of the estates from King John; a third, 
 bearing date 1220, being a confirmation of the grant from Henry IIP. The first of 
 these instruments is expressed in the following terms, and, to save repetition of the 
 suceeedmo- grants, their various readings of the names are inserted within brackets : — 
 
 " Kelsissimo domino suo J. Dei gratia illustri Eegi Anglige, &c., J. divina permis- 
 sione Norwic. episcopus, salutem et tarn devotum quam debitum domino famulatum. 
 Sciatis domine quod Alanus de Galweia^ misit nobis in Hybernia avunculum suum^ et 
 alium militem et clericum unum ad recipiendum terras quas ei ibidem contulistis. 
 
 Cum 
 
 » Now, probably, Drumeeny See above, p. 284. f Alan, son of Roland, was lord of Galloway, and, 
 
 b Now Culfeightrin. — See above, pp. 79, 251, 282. in right of his mother Elena, constable of Scotland. 
 
 <-■ Now Dunseverick See above, p. 287. He was great grandson of Fergus, by Elizabeth, il- 
 
 <* Part ii. cap. 130. (Trias Thaum, p. 146, col. 2.) legitimate daughter of Henry I. He married IMarga- 
 
 «^ They are printed, respectively, in iVIi-. T. Duffus ret, eldest daughter of David, Earl of Huntuigdon, 
 
 Hardy's Rot. Lit. Pat. Tur. Lond. p. 98; Rot. Char- by whom he had a daughter Dervolgilda, who was 
 
 tar, p. 210; Rot. Lit. Glaus., p. 420 b. These three mother of John Balliol, King of Scotland. He was 
 
 volumes were published imder the English Record buried in the abbey of Dundrennan, in Galloway, 
 
 Commission, and are a lasting monument of the (not in Galway, as Archdall represents it.) 
 
 learning and accuracy of their editor. S Probably Duncan Fitz Gilbert, his Welsh uncle. 
 
 2 T 2 
 
3^4 
 
 Cum io-itur fuissemus apud Crakfergus convocatis coram nobis militibuset melioribus 
 et prudentioribus lioninibus provinciae assignavimus eidem Alano et contulimus ex 
 parte vestra septies xx" feoda, scil. totam Dalreth \_Dalrede per suas rectas divisas, 
 1 2 15; divisas de Dalrede, 1220] cum Insula de Rathlin \_Rachrun] et cantredum quod 
 y,^liQ\\a.i\ir Kynilalmerach^ [^Crihenelanmerach per suas rectas divisas], et totam terram 
 de Gweskard' \Toscliart, Thoskart], et terram de Lat/iernei, et duo cantreda ultra 
 Bamim [^Bannaml, sc. cantredum de Kunnoch^ \_Kennacht], de Tirkehit^ [_Tirkelin, 
 Tirkethiri], cum omnibus ad dictas terras pertinentibus, exceptis xx" feodis propin- 
 quioribus castello de Kilsantan \_Kirkesantain'\ sc. decern citra Banum, et decern 
 ultra Banum, qu£e retiuuiinus in manu nostra ad custodiam castelli de Kilsantan^, 
 excepto et omni jure ecclesiastico et omnibus illis ad viros religiosos pertinentibus, 
 exceptis etiam terris illis quas contulistis Dunekano de Karracli", et omnibus feodis 
 illis de quibus alii prius fuerunt infeodati. Pra;dictas autem terras ei assignavi- 
 
 •■ Unknown, if it be not KiUymurris. 
 
 ' See note on Twescard, p. 71. This use of the 
 word cuaipceapr, 'north', as limited to the 
 northern part of the present county of Antrim, seems 
 jjeculiar to the Anglo-Norman records. The Irish 
 Annalists frequently emi)loy the word absolutely, 
 but in such cases it means the Northern Hy-Niall, 
 or Cinel Owen. Thus ci^epna an Cuoifcepr, 
 ' lord of the North ', occurs at the year 936 in the 
 Annals of the Four Masters to denote what tlie 
 Annals of Ulster, in the parallel pa.«age, at 937, 
 express by pij Ctil)^, 'King of Ailigh'; Ailech 
 being the jjalace of this dynasty. At 1109 the An- 
 nals of Ulster and tlie Four INIa-sters record the death 
 of maoilio]>a Ua Guillen uapal eppcob 
 Uuaipceipc Gipenn, "Maoliosa OCuUen, ve- 
 nerable bishop of the North of Ireland " This was 
 Mac Mal-Iosa 0-Ciillean, who is placed by Ware 
 as the immediate predecessor of Christian (J ^Morgair 
 in the see of Clogher. — (Works, vol. i. p. 179.) 
 
 J Now Larne See above, p. 264. 
 
 •' The Irish Cianacht, now the barony of Keenaght 
 in the county of Londonderry. 
 
 ' Probably the modern barony of Tirkeeran. 
 
 ■"In 1215 King John granted to Thomas de Gal- 
 weya, Earl of Atliol, Killesantan, with the castle of 
 
 mus 
 
 Cnlrath [Coleraine], and ten knights' fees in Twes- 
 cart, adjoining said castle on the Bann, and on the 
 other side of the Bann ten knights' fees in Kenact 
 lying nearest to said castle, and Duncathel, with all 
 
 Twerth and Clinkinnomolan (Hardy's Rot. Chart., 
 
 p. 210 ; liynier, Feed., vol. i. p. 140, Ed. Lond. l«lo.) 
 The situation, and date of the erection, of the castle 
 of Killsanctain have been already mentioned at p. 74. 
 The name seems to have passed into Mount Sandall, 
 the title of an adjacent townland in Coleraine parish, 
 whereon is a verj' large earthen fort overhanging the 
 Bann. The Inq. 1605 finds KillsantUl alias Mount 
 Sandall among the lands of the priory of Coleraine. 
 The Thom:is de Galweya, above mentioned, was 
 younger brother of ^Uan, and is called by the Four 
 Masters Thomas Mac Uchtry, after his grandfather 
 Uchtrcd or Gothred. (A. D. 1211, 1213, 1220.; He 
 was Earl of Alhol in right of his wfe Isabel. 
 
 " King John, in his charter, conveys to Alan "to- 
 tam terram quse est inter Inverarma [ Glenarm ] 
 et divisas de Dalrede, salvis Dunecan filio Gilbert! 
 duabus carucatis terrfe et viii. acris quas prius de- 
 deraraus ei". In 1210 King John granted, and in 
 1219 Henry III. confirmed, to Duncan, son of Gilbert 
 and liis heirs, the town of Wulfrichford [Larne], and 
 all the lands which Roger de I'reston and Henrv 
 
3^5 
 
 mus [in soc, et sac, et tol, et them, furcis et fossis, et infangenethef, et utfangethef] 
 cum omnibus hominibus et aliis pertinentiis suis dicto modo ; ita tamen quod si terraj 
 illje contineant plura feoda quani ei a nobis fuerint collata, superplusagium ad vos 
 revertatur vel ipse gratum vestrum in sibi perquiret. Et si forte plenum suum ibi non 
 liabuerit, vos ei in propinquiori loco ultra Banum perficietis. Valete". 
 
 Alan of Galloway died in 1234, and Patrick, son of Thomas of Galloway, was 
 murdered in his bed-chamber at Haddington, in 1242, by the Bissets, who, after this 
 deed, fled from Scotland, and took refuge in the Glynns of Antrim, where they ob- 
 tained a settlement under the Earl of Ulster". In 1279 i* ^^^ found by Inquisition 
 that John Byset, son and heir of John, held, in capite, of Eichard de Burgo, son of 
 Walter, the following lands in the Glynns: Drouach [Droagh], Villa trium fontium 
 [i. e. 6aile na o-cpi b-cobap, now Ballytobber], Villa Hacket [Ballyhackett], Carl- 
 castel [Carncastle], Carkemachan [Corkermain], in the modern parish of Carncastle ; 
 also Psallor [Solar], Glenharm [Glenarm], Glenclene [Glencloy], Glenarthac [Glena- 
 rifF], Catherich [Gary], and Racry [Rathlin]. From the first John the family in after- 
 times received the patronymic Mac Eoin, i. e. 'son of John', and the Four Masters 
 style them Mac Eoin Bisset, or simply Mac Eoin. — (A. D. 1383, 1387, 1422, 1495, 
 15 12.) In the State Papers " FytzJokn Byssede of the Glynnes" is represented as one 
 of the " great Englyshe rebelles of Wolster". — (Vol. ii. p. 7.) In another place his 
 territory is styled the " Baronye of the Glynnes". — (lb., p. 27.) 
 
 But besides the Glynns a considerable portion of the Route was attached to the 
 Earldom of Ulster, as appears from the Inquisition taken on the death of William de 
 Burgo, in 1333, concerning his possessions in the " Comitatus de Coulrath". It was 
 then found that he held the following lands: Loganton [Ballylagan], Erthermoy 
 
 [Armoy], 
 
 Clemens held near Widfrichfnrd, viz., Iiiverth [In- nus de Karyc, quod ceperat Matildem, et filiam suani 
 
 ver], and all the land from Wulfrichford to Gly- uxorem (ilii Roger! de Mortimer, &c — (Rymer, Feed., 
 
 narm, witli the town of Glynarm, so that he might vol. i. p. 107.) This Dmican was a-kin to King 
 
 have, in all, fifty plowlands (Cal. Cane. Hib., ii. John through his grandmother Elizabeth, illegiti- 
 
 p. 354; Hardy's Rot. CI., p. 402 6.) Again, in mate daughter of Henry I. King William, in 118G, 
 1224, Henry III. confirmed to the same certain lands granted to him "all Carrie in possession for ever", 
 in Ulster, called Balgeithelaugh [Ballygelly in Cam- in satisfaction for his claims on Galloway — (Chal- 
 castle?], which had been granted by King John, but mers, Caled., vol. i. p. 629 ; Camden, vol. iv. p. 70.) 
 of which Hughde Lacy had disseised him — (Hardy's ° The Bissets had removed from England to Scot- 
 Rot. CL, pp. 615, 640.) In a letter written by King land mider William the Lion, and were numerous in 
 John, A. D. 1212, he thus makes mention of this the northern districts, imder Alexander II. After 
 individual: " Et cum essemus apud Cracfergus, the murder of the Earl of Athol, John Bisset, and 
 rapto jam castro illo, mandavit nobis quidam amicus Walter, his uncle, were outlawed, and fled to Ireland. 
 t:t cimsangvineits noster de Galweya, scilicet Duneca- (Chalmers, Caledonia, vol. i. p. 593.) 
 
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 [Armoy], Corritown, Kynergher, Lenagh, Baliliouchay, Maynfauour, Castlemyloghan, 
 Loghkel [Loghguile], Corcagh [Corkey], Ever-Corcagh [Love's Corkey], Coultoune, 
 Villa de Arys, Villa Cryngel, Villa de Knogli [Ballyknock], Cylreghtone, Brystone, 
 Le Halde, Le Crage [Craigs], Le Fynmaugh [Finvoy], Castlewy, Clantfynan [Clonty- 
 finnan], Cameltone, Balylough [Ballylougli], Downshale-svy, Tylaghyssliyn, Dondouan 
 [Dundooan], Dromort [Drumart], Hoghtonesalach, Stantone, Dromtarcy [Killowen], 
 consisting of portions of the present parishes of Armoy, Loughguile, Finvoy, Billy, 
 Coleraine, Ballymoney, Killowen, 6cc. 
 
 But the family which most distinguished itself by its power and continuance in 
 this territory was that of Mac Uidhelin, or Mac Quillin, as the name was pronounced, 
 and as it is now commonly written. The head of the family was called Uidhelin, 
 (which Mr. O Donovan supposes to be a corruption of Lhlewellin,) and is stated to 
 have come over to Ireland among the Welsh adventurers at the time of the English 
 invasion. Duald Mac Firbis, in his tract concerning " the Welshmen of Hy-Amhal- 
 gaidh mic Fiachrach", makes mention of " ITIej Ui jilin an l^uca", " the Mac Uighi- 
 lins of the Ruta ", and adds : " It was at the time of the arrival of the English in 
 Ireland with Diarmaid Mac Murchadlia, King of Leinster, that the people aforesaid 
 came to Ireland ; they landed in Tir Amhalgaidh Mic Fiachrach ", [now Tirawley, in 
 the N. E. of the county of Mayo]"". The same Avriter, in another part of his genealo- 
 gical work, gives a further account of these families, and in the following words 
 records the tradition of their being descended from the ancient Dalriadic stock : — 
 
 " Qcaio cmeaoa in Gpinn ay cunco- " There are families in Ireland, whose 
 
 baipc aj^ainn a Ian oa luaice oppa. Qp history, for a great part, we have some 
 ariilai6 capla an upmop pin panilaib .1. doubts of. Thus did it happen to the 
 a bepceap 50 n-oeacpao apaile bo iiaip- greater part of them, viz., it is said that 
 lib 6penn na n-^aoioeala cap muip u certain of the Nobles of Erin passed over 
 b-Gpinn, acupgo cranjaoap acaio paba the Seas, as Gaedheals, out of Erin, and 
 lapaiii a pleacca na n-^ulla, n« m- that their descendants returned a long 
 6peacnaca no na n-eaccaipcineala ele time after as Galls, or Britons, or other 
 1 n-6pinn bo pipi. Ctp bibpin tDuBbalai 5 foreign tribes, into Erin. Of these are 
 a oeapap jijupob bo piol n-Duboa. . . . theDowdalls, who are said tobe of therace 
 
 " maiUe piu pin araib cineaoa ele of Dubhda [O Dowda] 
 
 cainiT apa parhail pin bo pli^io m 6pinn, " Along with these are other families 
 
 aTupapDiob6aipeuDai^, 6apoibi^,Clann who came in the same manner into Erin, 
 Llirilinan Riica acup 6peacnai^ Gpenn and of these are Barrets, Barrots, Clan 
 
 bo Uillin 
 
 p O Donovan's Hy-Fiachrach, pp. 324, sqq. 
 
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 DO upriiop maille piu. Dlapf o capla .1. 
 Sip Riocupo Qilpm mac Uilliam mic 
 Qlayanoaip, mic DorhnaiU, [mic] Cio- 
 naoir, mic Uilbam, mic tDoriinaillDub- 
 lomjpis .1. an TTIacaorh Gpennac bo 
 pliocc GocaiD niumpeamaip; acup ape 
 an Oomnall poin do h-ionnapbao a h- 
 6pinn, acup po jab pe pije 6peacon, 
 ucup pug 6punnac pijen pij Qlban oiap 
 mac 60 .1. UiUiam acup Qla;:anoap, 
 acup po ^ub Uilliam pige Cllban, acup 
 po jab QlapcanDap pije 6peacGn. . . . 
 
 "Qoep an pliocc pa jupob do pliocc 
 GochaiD rriuinpeamaip mic Qongupa 
 micPeapjupaUallaijaccainijinepinn 
 Dib, acup gupob e 6airin o ccao 6ai- 
 peuoaij ap ceunn Da ccainij a cpiocaib 
 6peacon, acup a bpairpeaca ^aoil .1. 
 Uoimin DO jab cpioca ceuD loppaip aj\ 
 clannaib Piacpac, acup Sip lHaijin 6 
 ppuil CLann Qinbpiu, acup TJicin 05 miic 
 ■RiocaipD o ppuil Clann Kicin 
 
 " Sliocc ele aDep mappa : T^ibepe 
 Pionn .1. mac Deapbparap do Uilliam 
 Pionn CiUe Comain ap uaoa acaio 
 Clann hebil, acup a ccionn ;c;c. bliaoan 
 lap cceacc anuip do cuinij an 'Rioepe 
 Pionn o cpiocaib 6peacon na oeajaib, 
 acup ap clann Da oeapbparap lao pen 
 acup an ^aijlepioc 6peacnac, acup 
 Clann an phail^i j, acup Seoaij lapraip 
 Chonnacc, acup niac Uijilm an Ruca, 
 acup 6apoioi5 na TTluman". 
 
 Uillin [t/ie Mac Uillins] of the Route, and 
 the Welshmen of Erin also. Thus did it 
 happen. Sir Rickard Alpin, son of Wil- 
 liam, son of Alexander, son of Donall, son 
 of Keneth, son of William, son of Donall 
 of the black ships, i. e. the Irish youth of the 
 race of Eochaidh Muinreamhar ; and that 
 was the Donall who was banished from 
 Erin, and who became king of the Britons 
 [i. e. of Wales'l. And Brannach, daughter 
 of the King of Alba, bore him two sons, 
 \'iz., William and Alexander ; and William 
 took the kingship of Alba, and Alexander 
 
 took the kingship of the Britons 
 
 "This version says that all those of them 
 who came to Erin are descended from Eo- 
 chaidh Muinreamhar, son of Aongiis, son 
 of Fergus Uallach ; and that Watten, from 
 whom descend the Barretts, is the head 
 of all that came out of the country of the 
 Britons; and his kinsmen, viz., Toimin, 
 who wrested the cantred of Jorras [Erris] 
 from the Clan Eiachrach, and Sir Maigin, 
 from whom descend the Clan Andrew, and 
 Rickin oge, the son of Rickard, from 
 
 whom descend the Clan Rickin 
 
 " Another version says thus : The White 
 Knight, i. e. a brother's son of William 
 Finn [the white] of Kill Comain, it is 
 from him descend the Clan Hedhil, and in 
 twenty years after his coming hither the 
 White Knight came out of the country of 
 the Britons after him ; and they, and the 
 Welsh Lawless and the Falls, and the 
 Joices of West Connaught, and Mac Quil- 
 lin of the Route, and the Barretts of Mvm- 
 ster, are the children of two brothers". 
 
 Although 
 
328 
 
 Althougli the family in aftertimes confomied to the Irish customs, the memory 
 of their British extraction was kept alive until their declension at the close of the 
 sixteenth century. A letter addressed to Henry VIIL, in 1542, notices, among others, 
 " One Maguyllen, who, having long strayed from the nature of his alleigance (his an- 
 cestors being your subjects and cam oute of Wales,) was growen to be as Irissheas the 
 worste, and was in the late conflycte with Oneil, in his ayde ageinste your Majestic". 
 (State Papers, vol. iii., p. 381.) In the same year was recorded the "Submission of 
 Maquillen", to which was appended the observation: " Note he desireth to be reputed 
 an Englishman as his ancestors weare and are"."* — (Cod. Clar., xlv. No. 4792, fol. 123 b.) 
 Dymmok's " Treatice of Ireland", which was written at the close of the sixteenth 
 century, observes: " The Route is properly the inheritance of one Mac Willi'" descended 
 from a Welsh ancestor in the tyme of the first conquest" (p. 22.) Another descrip- 
 tion, written about the same time, states that " the now capten [of the Route], that 
 maketh claim to it, is called Mac (iuillin (the posteritie as is thought of a Welshman,) 
 but Sir James Mac Surley [Mac JJonndl'\ hath wholly expulsed him and driven him to 
 
 live in Knockfergus, where he remayneth in a vei-y poore estate" (Dubourdieu's 
 
 Antrim, p. 623.) "A lineal descendant of his now [1812] lives near Silver Stream, 
 
 just by the road from Belfast to Carrickfergus " [Ibid., p. 610.) 
 
 About the middle of the sixteenth century the greater part of this territory was 
 wrested from Mac Quillin by Somhairle Buidhe [So7-lei/ Bot/] Mac Donnell, who, though 
 a Scotchman, and sprung from the Lords of the Isles, was yet of Irish extraction, and 
 about the thirty-sixth in descent from Colla Uaish, King of Ireland. It appears from 
 the Annals of the Four Masters that during the three preceding centuries a close con- 
 nexion subsisted between his ancestors and the chieftains in the north of Ireland, whose 
 quarrels they espoused, or whose territories they invaded. The Four Masters, at the 
 year 1544, record that James and Colla, sous of Alexander Mac Donnell, came with a 
 body of Scotch, on the invitation of Mac Quillin, to assist him against the OKane: but 
 this alliance was soon after succeeded by his own expulsion, for Somhairle Buidhe 
 [Sorley Bo)'], a younger son of Alexander Mac DonnelP, took forcible possession of 
 
 the 
 1 See Lodge's Peerage, vol. vi. p. 101. Ed. Anlid. Mac Gmllie (ramden, vol iv. p. 431.) 
 
 ■" It is curious to observe under liow many varie- •' " Alexander, whose four sons, James, ancestor 
 
 ties the name, which is properly written Mac Uidhe- of the late Sir James Mac Donnel, Baronet; En- 
 Ihi, or Mac Uighelin, appears in English records. gris, SamarJy, and Alexander Oge, coming out of 
 Besides the forms which occur in the above ex- Scotland, possessed themselve.s of old Dalrieda, 
 tracts, we lind M'gwylyn (A. D. 1448. Reg. IMey. i. now the Routh in the county of Antrim ; in defence 
 fol. 40); Fit2-AoJctyw(seep. 72); M'C«27/e« (p. 71): whereof, James and Engus fell in the battle of 
 M'Quoilli/ne (Chancellor Cusacke's Letter, 1552); Gleantaoise [Glenshesk?], A. D. 1565, by ONeill. 
 
329 
 
 the Route, about the year 1554, and even established himself in Mac Quillin's fortress 
 of Dunluce. In the enjoyment of his newly acquired territory he continued till 1584, 
 when, having learned that the new Lord Deputy had received instructions to drive 
 him back to his native land, and restore the Eoute to its lawful proprietor, he in- 
 vited over to his aid a large body of Scotch, who, on their arrival, commenced to lay 
 the country waste. Whereupon Sir John Perrot, the Lord Deputy, set out upon an 
 expedition against the refractory intruder, and made himself master of Dunluce, the 
 only fortress which Somhairle had left in a posture of defence when he fled with all his 
 valuables to the fastnesses of Glen-Chon-Cadhan, in Ballynascreen*, in the county of 
 Derry. Having subsequently submitted to the Queen", he obtained a pardon in 1586, 
 and received a grant of four tuoghs or districts in the Route; namely, The Tuogli 
 from the Boi/s [River Bush] to the Ban ; Donseverig ; Loghill; andi Balla-mongn, toge- 
 ther with the government of Donluse Castle. His wife M^as Mary, daughter of Con 
 ONeill, Earl of Tyrone; and her death is recorded by the Four Masters at 1582. Som- 
 hairle died in 1599, and was succeeded by his son Randal, who also married an ONeill, 
 namely, Ellice, sister of Hugh, last Earl of Tyrone'. Having evinced a loyal dispo- 
 sition*, he received from James L, in 1603, a plenary grant of the Route and Glynnes, 
 a tract of country extending, according to the popular expression, " from the Cutts 
 of Coleraine to the Curran of Larne". This vast territory was at the time subdivided 
 
 into 
 
 John an Diomais (Dedication of O Flaherty's 
 
 Ogyg. Vindicated, p. h-ii.) See Four Masters, A.D. 
 1565, 1567. 
 
 ' Anciently called Serin- Columkille See Four 
 
 Masters. A. D. 1203. " Hie locus est dioecesis Do- 
 
 rensis jacens in vaUe de Ghann-chon-cadhan" 
 
 (Colgan, Trias Thaum., p. 494, col. 2.) 
 
 " " Nest year [1585], however, he recovered it by 
 treacherj', having slain the governor Gary, who made 
 a brave defence. But the deputy sending against 
 him Meriman, an experienced otlicer, who slew here 
 the two sons of James Mac Conell [Donell], and 
 Surlej' Boy's son Alexander, so harassed him, and 
 drove off his cattle, which were his only wealth (he 
 having 50,000 cows of his o-wn), that Surley Boy 
 surrendered Donluse, went to Dublin, and in the ca- 
 thedral made his public submission, presenting an 
 humble petition for mercy" — (Camden's Britannia, 
 vol. iv. p. 431, Ed. Gough, Lond. 1806.) 
 
 " Archdall's Lodge, vol. i. p. 207. 
 
 " He was also a con'espondent of Abp. Ussher, and 
 furnished him with the following Irish quatrain, illus- 
 trative of the extent of Dal-Riada : — 
 
 " O 6huaip d'o neip^iD ealca 
 ^o cpoip ^leanna Pinneaccu, 
 Q5 pin Oal Riaoa na peann 
 5'OD be ap eolac pan peapann". 
 
 — (Brit. Ec. j\ntiqq. cap. 15.) 
 
 Which Jlr. Donovan thus translates : — 
 " From the Buaish, which flocks &y over, 
 Unto the cross of Glenfinneaght, 
 Extends Dahiada of sub-di\'isions, 
 As all who know the land can tell ''. 
 
 — (Dub. Pen. Jour., vol. i. p. 362.) 
 
 For the modem name of Glenfimieaght see p. 56 of 
 the present work. 
 
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 into sixteen tuoghs or districts, the names of which are recited in the patent*, and are 
 here subjoined, with some illustrative remarks. 
 
 I. In the Route nine tuoghs or districts, namely : — 
 
 1. Tuogh between the Bande and the Boys This territory, as the name indicates, 
 
 was bounded by the Bann on the west, and the Bush on the east. It comprehended 
 the parishes of Coleraine, Ballyaghran, Ballywillen, Ballyrashane, Dunluce, and Kil- 
 dollagh. That part of it which lay near the Bann was anciently called Moy Elle, as 
 ajjpears from the Irish lines: — 
 
 " 6uap n binn apblaoaeb binne, " Buasius perennis per rura amcena, 
 
 6anna eccip L^ ctjup GUe". Banna inter Lee et Eile".'' 
 
 Tirechan, in describing St. Patrick's journey eastwards from Tyrone, thus writes: 
 " Perrexit trans flumen Bandce et benedixit locum in quo est cellola Cuile Raithin 
 in Eilniu in quo fuit episcopus, et fecit alias cellas multas in Eilniu. Et per Buas 
 [the Bush] fluviura foramen pertulit, et in Dui7i-Sebiiirgi [ Dunseverick] sedit, &c.'" 
 Adamnan, speaking of St. Columbkilie's reception at Coleraine, observes: "Eodem in 
 tempore Conallus episcopus Ctdet-alhin collectis a populo campi Eilni^ paene innumera- 
 bilibus xeniis, &c."— (Lib. i. cap. 50; Trias Thaum., p. 350.) 
 
 2. Tuogh of Dunseverick and BaI/enato>/. — Separated from the last by the Bush. 
 It contained that part of Billy pari:^h which lies in the barony of Gary, and to 
 which belongs Dunseverick castle, with the parish of Ballintoy — See above, pp. 285, 
 286. 
 
 3. Tuogh of BaUelagh. — Containing that part of Billy which is in the barony of 
 Lower Dunluce, together with the parii^h of Derrykeighan. In this lay the castle of 
 Ballylough.— See above, pp. 78, 287. ^ Tuogh 
 
 ^ An abstract of this patent is printed in the Ca- vocatur". — (Trias Thaum., p. 381.) " The terri- 
 
 lend. Cancell. ffib., vol. ii. p. .58. tory of Lee, which he [Fiachra Lonn, King of Dal- 
 
 y O Conor, Eer. Hib. Script., vol. i. prol. 2, p. 57. Araidhe] got a-s a reward for his ser\ices in the battle 
 
 See also Keatuig, vol. i. p. 170; and Flalierty'.s [of Ocha, recorded by the Four ]Masters, at the year 
 
 Oeveia, p. 165. ^li] was situated on the west side of the river Bann". 
 
 » Sir W. Betham, Ant. Res., App. p. 33. (O Donovan's Hy-Fiachrach, p. 312.) See above, 
 
 » Colgan errs in placing this territory on the west jjp. 295, 296. The Leabhar Breac observes, concern- 
 side of the Bann: " Campus Elne priscis Magh-elne ing St. Guaire Mor of Achadh Dubhthaigh {^Agha- 
 videturregioamocnaetcampestrisexadversaBannei dooey-], and Guaire Beg: "Q mu.;^ f.u Don 
 fluminis ripa Cuh-athniee civitati adjacens versus oc- oa ^huaipe pin", "In Magh Lit those two 
 cidentem, quaj hodie vulgo Machaire, id est, planities Guaires are" [commemorated].— (fol. 4 b.) 
 
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 4- Titogh of LoiighgiU. — So called from the parish of Loiighguile, which forms the 
 chief part of it, and was anciently important on account of its castle. 
 
 5. Tuogh of Ballemoney arid Dromart. — So called from the parish of Ballj'money, 
 and the townland Drumard therein, which lies N. E. of the town. This territory 
 included the parishes of Ballymoney and Kilraghts. 
 
 6. Tuogh of Killeoconway The name Kilconway, which is now borne by the 
 
 barony of which this territory forms a part, originally belonged to the western part 
 of the parish of Finvoy. The name seems to be derived from Coil ua j-Connmuij, 
 ' the wood of Conway '. A large earthen fort, now enclosed in Finvoy glebe, was 
 formerly called Kilconway Fort, and a writer in the Parochial Survey states that 
 from it the barony took its name. — (Par. Survey, vol. i. p. 383.) 
 
 7. Tuogh of Killioquin Now known under the form Killyquin, as the name of an 
 
 estate containing thirteen townlands, in the western part of Rasharkin parish. In the 
 journal of Phelim ONeill, by his chaplain, OMellan, the name is written CoiU Ui 
 Cuinn, ' the wood of OConn'. It is not noticed in the Ordnance Map. In 1641 
 Donnell Gorm Mac Donnell resided here.— (Depost., T. C. D. Com. Antrim, col. 4245 ; 
 and Archdall's Lodge, vol. i. p. 201.) This territory seems to have included Easharkin 
 and the four towns of Craigs. The southern portion of this district, bordering on the 
 River Bann, seems to be intended in the following description, written about the year 
 1599: '■'■ Bryen GarrogKs country was a portion of Clandeboy, but won from it by a 
 bastard kind of Scotts, of the sept of the Clandonnells, who entered the same, and yet 
 do hold it, being a very strong piece of land, lying upon the north side of the Bann. 
 The name of the now captain thereof is Bryen Carrogh^, who possesseth also another 
 piece of the country upon Tyrone side upon the Bann, for which he doth contribute 
 to Neille, and for the lands on the north side, to the lord of that part of Clande- 
 boy. This man, by reason of the fastness and strength of his country, having succour 
 on each side of the Bann, is so obstinate and careless, as he never yet would appear 
 before any deputy, but yealdeth what relief he can to the Scotts. His force in people 
 is very small ; he standeth only upon the strength of his country, Avhich indeed is the 
 fastest ground of Ireland". — (Dubourdieu's Antrim, p. 620 ; Dymmok's Treatice, 
 pp. 23, 29.) In Norden's Map prefixed to the third part of the State Papers Brian 
 Carogh is placed in the county of Derry, N. W. of Forte Tuom [Toome]. 
 
 8. Tuogh of Killiomorrie. — Now known by the name Killymurris. Co ill Ui ITlhui- 
 
 peaoai^, 'the wood of OMurry'. This district lies around the village of Dunloy, in 
 
 the eastern part of Finvoy parish, and is a place of note on account of its wood-coal. 
 
 9. Tuogh 
 
 b ''Brian Carragh, of the family of the MacConnells" — (Camden, Brit., vol. iv. p. 431.) 
 
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 9- Tmgh of Magheredunagh.— It received this name from ITIucaipe, ' a plain', and 
 t)un GacDac, 'Dunaghy'; the parish of which it chiefly consisted. In the Antrim 
 patent the village of Clough, in this parish, is called Clogh-maghera-donaghie, which 
 name, together with Oldstone, its aliter, belonged to the ancient castle at the north of the 
 village. This castle was " a Mac Donnell's house" in 1641, and was a place of refuge 
 for the Protestants of the neighbourhood — (Deposit. T. C. D. Com. Antrim, col. 3492-) 
 
 II. The district of the Glynnes was subdivided into seven territories. Dymmok, 
 in his "Treatice of Ireland", thus notices them: "The ile of glinnes conteyneth 
 seven Baronyes of which the Raughlincs beinge six miles, is counted half a barony, the 
 rest are Larnparke, Glanan, Redbay, Lade, Carye, and Mowbray".— (p. 23.) Or, as 
 the names are recited in another document of the same age: " The names of the baro- 
 nies are these: Larne, Parke, Glenarm, Red Bay (where Randall, now lord of the 
 country, has his residence), Carie, [Isle of Raghlin], and Mowberry".— (Dubour- 
 dieu's Antrim, p. 621.) In the Antrim patents they are the following: — 
 
 1 . Tmgh of Munerie. — This was the district in which Ballycastle was situate, and 
 it was about coextensive with the parish of Ramoan and Grange of Drumtullagh, In 
 the later Patent the name is written Mynirie, and, in the authorities just cited, 
 Mowbray, Mowberry. A. D. 1333, William de Welles was tenant of the Earl of Ulster 
 in Manybe'ry and Gary. The town of Ballycastle takes its name from the castle which 
 stood there, and of which a portion yet remains. In 1641 this building was occupied 
 by Alice, Countess Dowager of Antrim — (Deposit, id supra, col. 4229.) 
 
 2. Cynamond of Armoyaiid Rar/M ins.— As the name indicates, the parish of Armoy 
 and the island of Rathlin were combined to form this cinament or minor territory. 
 
 3. Tmgh of Cflrey.— The name Gary is often used as synonymous with the parochial 
 name Culfeightrin. The barony, which is now so called, comprehends much more 
 than the original territory. 
 
 4. Tuogh of Glinmiconogh.— In the grant under the " Act of Settlement and Ex- 
 planation" it is called Tmgh of Middle- Glynnes'', and perhaps the former name is a 
 (jorruption of ^leann meabonac, ' Gleann-meadonaghe', which expresses in Irish 
 what the other does in English. In the later Patent the name is written Gletu/o- 
 nenaghie, which seems to be intended for Glendun. This glen consists, on the north, 
 uf the Granges of Inispollan and of Layd, and, on the south, of the parish of Layd : it 
 forms the commencement of the barony of Lower Glenarm. Dymmok, accordingly, 
 terms it the " barony of Lade". The castle which protected this territory seems to have 
 
 been 
 <= See Fifteenth Annual Koport of the Irish Record Conunission, vol. iii. p. 49 b. 
 
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 been that which Dubourdieu describes in the following notice: "At the north side of 
 Cushindall are some remains of another castle, called Court Martin : it is said to have 
 been built by a Martin M*= Owen, and stands upon a mount, which is thought to be an 
 indication of Danish origin. Whatever it was, it is now reduced to a very small rem- 
 nant, parts of it having been carried away to assist in more modern structures". — 
 (p. 609.) In the description of Antrim, written about 1599, " Castle Marteen in the 
 Route" is reckoned among the " Castles defaced".— (lb., p. 624.) In a grant under 
 the Act of Settlement, &c., a tract of land is called " Court M-^ Martin ".'i The Mac Owen 
 to whom it is reported to have belonged was probably one of the Bisset family, who, 
 for a long period, were lords of the Glynns, and among the natives went by the name 
 Mac Eoin, that is, ' Son of John'. 
 
 5. Tuogh of the Largie That part of the parish of Ardclinis which lies between 
 
 Nappan and Lemnalary is still called the Largij. Ceapga signifies ' slopes of hills', and 
 the name is descriptive, in the present instance, of the continuous inclination of the 
 high ground towards the shore. 
 
 6. Tuogh of the Parke— It included Tickmacrevan, Templeoughter, and Solar, and 
 was so called from the Demesne attached to the castle of Glenarm. 
 
 7. Tuogh of the Lame. — Elsewhere called ' the Larne'.— See above, pp. S5^ 264. 
 This territory comprised the parishes of Carncastle, Killyglen, Kilwaughter, and Larne. 
 
 The following table, compiled from the Ordnance Survey Valuation, sets out the 
 acreable extent in statute measure, and the valuation per annum of the seven modern 
 baronies which represent the sixteen territories just recited: — 
 
 BARONIES. 
 
 ACREABLE EXTENT, 
 STAT. MEASUKE. 
 
 I. 
 2. 
 
 3- 
 4- 
 
 5- 
 
 6. 
 
 7- 
 
 N. E. Liberties of Coleraine, 
 
 Lower Dunluce, 
 
 Upper Dunluce, 
 
 Kilconway, 
 
 Cary, 
 
 Lower Gleuarm, 
 
 Upper Glenarm, 
 
 Total, . . . 
 
 A. 
 17,986 
 
 30'574 
 52,742 
 68,265 
 74,876 
 
 65,433 
 24,030 
 
 R. 
 I 
 
 O 
 
 o 
 
 2 
 
 O 
 O 
 
 o 
 
 p. 
 
 8 
 
 36 
 
 14 
 8 
 
 12 
 
 15 
 23 
 
 VALUATION PEK 
 ANNUM. 
 
 333,907 
 
 36 
 
 £ s. 
 16,421 17 
 16,810 7 
 25,267 10 
 22,209 9 
 24,053 I 
 13,492 12 
 12,483 2 
 
 d. 
 
 o 
 8 
 o 
 2 
 I 
 
 7 
 9 
 
 130,738 o 3 
 
 The 
 
 •i Reports of Irish Record Commission, vol. iii. p. 1 69 b. 
 
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 The names of the Glens are: i, Ghnshesk, through which runs the river Shesk, 
 dividing the parishes of Ramoan and Culfeightrin ; 2, Glendun, traversed by the river 
 Dun; 3, Glencorp, a small valley, at the N. E. of Layd; 4, Ghnaan, giving name to a 
 townland in Layd — (Ord. Surv., s. 19); 5, Glenhallyemon, also in Layd parish; it is 
 not marked on the Ordnance Map, but the "Ballyemon River" which runs through 
 it, is noticed on Lendrick's County Map, — the streams which flow through this glen 
 and the last, meet and form the river Dall, whence Cushendall derives its name; 6, Glen- 
 nriff, lies between Layd and Ardclinis, running in a S. W. direction from Red Bay, — 
 the stream which flows through it is called the " Acre River", but on Petty's Map it 
 is marked "Dree fluvius"; 7, Glendoy, lies between Ardclinis and Tickmacrevan, 
 beginning at Carnlough, — " Glencloy" is marked on the Ord. Map (s. 25); 8, Glenarm, 
 in Tickmacrevan. 
 
 GG. 
 DALARADIA. 
 
 Next to Dalriada on the south lay Dalaradia, a territory deriving its name from t)al, 
 'posterity', and Qpaibe, commonly known by the name Fiacha Araidhe, a king of 
 Ulster, who reigned ten years in Eamania, and flourished A. D. 236. — [Tigernach.) 
 On the east and west the boundary between the two territories was indistinct, but in 
 the middle it was well marked by the river Ravel, which in ancient times was con- 
 sidered the partition line. Thus, the Four Masters, at the year A. M. 3510, make 
 mention of the " ppejabail eccip Dal n-Qpai6e ajup Oal Riaoa", " Fregabail 
 [Ravel] between Dalaradia and Dalriada".^ This river rises in the southern part of 
 Dalriada by two streams, one called, from a townland by which it flows, the Diingonnell 
 River\ and the other the Eavel. That the former, though it has of late lost the name, 
 
 was 
 
 * So Keating, Hist., vol. i. p. 318. In another 912, relate that an army was led by Niall, son of 
 
 part, however, of the same work, he differs from him- Aodli, from Ailech, near Derrj', to Dalaradia, and 
 
 self in stating: " 6uaip iDip Dhalnupu i6e "^ that at Ppejabail, 'Freowie', he encountered 
 
 Ohalpiaoa .1. an Ruca," "the Buais [Bush] Loingsech O Lethlobhair, lord of Dalaradia, whom 
 
 between Dalaradia and Dalriada, i. e. the Rout " he there defeated. In all these passages, except that 
 
 (lb., p. 168.) Tigemach, at the year 251, and the at912, Dr. OConor translates the proper name as if it 
 
 Four Masters, at 262, record the battle of Cpinna was an inflexion of the verb jabdil, ' to take '. 
 Ppegabail, 'Crinna Freowie', wherein Aengus f This branch, with the continuation of the stream, 
 
 Fionn, King of Ulster, was slain. Again, the An- is marked Ravel Water on Petty's Map. It rises 
 
 nals of Ulster, at 913, and of the Four Masters, at from a small basin called Lough E^-ish, in the town- 
 
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 was originally considered the true source, appears from the fact that it is the boundary 
 between the baronies of Kilconway in Dalriada, and of Lower Antrim in Dalaradia. 
 The two branches having united near the ancient burying-ground of Deshcarts, men- 
 tioned in the note at p. 72, receive the name of the Clovgh Water, and, flowing in a 
 south-west course, continue to divide the two territories, separating Dunaghy and 
 Dundermot, on the north, from Skerry, Kilconriola, and Ahoghill, on the south, until, 
 near a place called Glary Ford, they fall into the Main Water*", which, flowing south- 
 wards, continues to be the boundary, till it reaches the village of Cullybacky. 
 
 The extent of the territory is thus defined by Colgan : " Dal-aradia est maritima 
 et Orientalis Ultoniaj regio, ab oppido luorio [an cloBap ' the Newry'] usqtie Montem 
 Mis' protensa" : to which OFlaherty adds : " seu a Cairg-inver-uske ad Liunduachaill" 
 [Magheralin]. — (Trias Thaum., p. 8, col. 2; Ogygia, p. 190.) This extensive applica- 
 tion of the name seems to have reference to the descendants of Fiacha Araidhe, rather 
 
 than 
 
 land Cloughcor, at the edge of Ardclinis parish. The 
 northern branch, now called the Ravel, rises in a 
 small lake called Agan-na-munican, on the moun- 
 tain SUeveanee, in the parish of Dimaghy, and, flow- 
 ing through the valley of Glenravel, joins the other 
 branch at Deshcart. In the Inquisition taken at 
 Antrim, in 1 605, the whole river is styled the Owen 
 Glan Rawre, or Owen Rawre, and is set out as the 
 northern Umit of Lower Claneboy. In Rory oge 
 Mac Quillin's patent of 1607 it is called Owen Glan- 
 rawree (Cal. Cane. Hib., vol. ii. p. 114.) 
 
 s The IMartyrologj' of Aengus commemorates the 
 name Breccan at the 7th of May, where it is accom- 
 panied by the following note: " .1. o Scbpuim 
 6pecain 1 cocpic Oail Qpaioe -| Oail 
 Riacai", " i. e. of Echdruim [Aughrim] Brecain, 
 on the border of Dalaradia and Dalriada ". — (Intro- 
 duct. Book of Obits, p. lix.) Though the name is 
 lost, the position corresponds very accurately with 
 that of Deshcart, which is close upon the stream 
 dividuig the two territories. The spot bears strong 
 marks of remote antiquity, and it is reported that 
 stations were formerly held there, though they are 
 now discontinued, and even the name of the patron 
 saint is forgotten. 
 
 *" The Main Water is called Owen Myn in the 
 
 Inquisition of 1605, and Myn Water in Dymmok's 
 Treatice, p. 29. 
 
 ' Mons Mis, — Or Sliabh Mis, now Slemish, is not 
 strictly at the northern extremity of the territory, 
 but stands in the middle of the parish joining that 
 one which reaches to the boimdary. It is a solitary 
 basaltic rock, rising to the elevation of 1437 feet 
 above the level of the sea, and a conspicuous object 
 to serve as a land-mark. This hill is mentioned by 
 the Four Masters at A. M. 4319, 4981, under the 
 name Sliab ITIip; and at A. D. 771 they advert 
 to it as the scene of a bloody battle between the 
 Dalaradians. The same occurrence is noticed in the 
 Annals of Ulster at 775 ; and of Inisfallen at 763. 
 There is another moimtain of the same name in the 
 county of Kerrj', about four miles south of Tralee, 
 which the Four Masters designate the mountain of 
 Mis, daughter of Muireadh, the son of Caireadh — 
 —(A. D. 1580.) The name of " Muireadh, son of 
 Caireadh, son of Breasal ", occurs in the pedigree of 
 St. Mac Carthen of Clogher, preserved by Duald 
 Mac Firbis, where it is introduced the twentieth in 
 order from Miletius, and in the line of Heremon. It 
 is probable that the Dalaradian Slemish received its 
 appellation, if not from the same individual, at least 
 from one of the same name. 
 
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 than to the country which they occupied. The Magenisses, Mac Artans, and other 
 branches of the Creeve Roe, being of his stock, might, for that reason, be included in a 
 generic name derived from their common ancestor ; but, strictly speaking, the name 
 Dalaradia, as a territorial designation, was applied to only a northern portion of this 
 large tract. Thus, the Bishop of Connor was styled Bishop of Dalaradia, as contra- 
 distinguished from the Bishop of Uladh or Down. The " Book of Rio-hts" excludes 
 the King of Dalaradia from most of the modern county of Down ; and the Irish Annals 
 frequently represent Dalaradia as a territory independent of Ulidia. 
 
 Another name by which this territory was occasionally known was Cpic na 
 Cpuirne, ' Country of the Cruithne' or 'Picts'. — (See above, pp. 266, 267, 270, 
 280.) Thus the Book of Lecan states: — 
 
 " ClanD ChonaiU Cheapnai^ .1. Dal " The children of Conall Cearnach, i. e. 
 
 napctibi o Chappoic inobeip uipci co 6inD the Dakraidhe from Carrick Inver UisgeJ 
 
 Uacaill. Qinm n-uili Doib Cpuinug". to Linn Uachaill. Cruithne is another 
 
 — (fol. 1401?'.) name for them". 
 
 " Neim in^eanChelccuip bean Qilin- " Neim, daughter of Celtchar'', was the 
 
 ni mic Conaill Ceapnai^, a quo Inobep wife of Ailinn, son of Conall Cearnach, a 
 
 n-ailinni la Cpuicnecaib". quo Inver Ailinn, in the country of the 
 
 — (ib. fol. 194 a, i.) Crutheni", 
 
 The Book of Lecan further observes that " they were so called from Irial [the Enry- 
 alus of O Flaherty] Glunmor, the son of Conall Cearnach, whose mother Lorceta was 
 daughter of Eachaidh Echbeoil of the Cruithnigh of Alba. Dalaraidhe, then, are of the 
 Cruithne of Erin, &c."— (fol. 141 rt ; Ogygia, pp. 190, 278.) The second and fourth Lives 
 of St. Patrick in Colgan's collection, describe a journey Avhich the saint undertook 
 from Moy-Inis or Lecale to the scene of his early servitude in the north of Dalaradia, 
 in these words: " Coepit per terram iter dirigere ad regionem Cruthenorum quatenus 
 perveniret ad montem Mis''''. — (Trias Thaum., pp. 19, 39.) 
 
 The name Cruithne is supposed to be derived from cpuic, 'colour', for the same 
 reason that in Latin the people were called Picti or Fictores, namely, from the artificial 
 
 colouring 
 
 J Carrick-invcr-usk, — ' The rock at the mouth of ^ This was Celtchar mac Uitechair, the hero of 
 
 the water', is unknown to the Editor. Querj', In- the Creeve Eoe, who flourished aljout the period of 
 
 vcr, beside Lame, which was the northern hmit of the Christian era, and from whom Downpatrick de- 
 
 Dalaradi a along the coast ? From Lame to Magh- rived its ancient name Rath- Keltair. (See above, 
 
 eralin might be considered the diagonal of the ten-i- pp. 142, 225.) Conall Ceamach's third wife was 
 
 tory. Mac Firbis calls it Carrick Uisge. " Maina filia Keltcharii" (Ogyg., p. 278.) 
 
?>?>7 
 
 colouring of their skin'. In illustration of which Archbishop Ussher cites the lines 
 
 of Claudian : — 
 
 " ferroque notatas 
 
 Perlegit exanimes Picto moriente figuras". 
 
 The connexion which existed between the Picts of Alba and the earlier inhabi- 
 tants of Ireland is shewn by Venerable Bede, in his account of the colonization of 
 Britain, (Hist. Ec, lib. i. c. i): whose statement is doubly interesting to the lover of 
 Irish antiquities, as it is an external testimony to the correctness of domestic records. 
 The Irish account, w^hich differs only from Bede's so far as to shew that it is indepen- 
 dent evidence, may be seen in Keating's History, where it is given on the authority of 
 the Psalter of Cashel™. — (Vol. i. pp. 312-318.) 
 
 It has been observed, at pp. 270, 279 of the present work, that Adamnan speaks of 
 St. Comgall, the founder of Bangor, who was a native of Dalaradia, and of Aldus, 
 King of Dalaradia, as Cruthinians or Picts. In reference to these and other passages 
 Archbishop Ussher writes : " In Adamnani de rebus S. Columba' «vsx^oto<s, a Pictis 
 distingui Cruithnios sive Cruthinios" ; et illos in Britannia, hos, quantum ego quidem 
 possum intelligere, collocari in Hibernia. Unde suborta mihi aliqua est suspicio, 
 horum fuisse regionem Cruthenorum a Probo in vita B. Patricii, Claneboianam a 
 nobis hodie appellatam : eosdemque Hibernicos Pictos" illos esse habendos, a Cambro- 
 Britannicis scriptoribus celebrates, qui cum rege suo Sirigi insulam Monse sive Angle- 
 seise intrantes, in loco Yn hericy Gwydhyl ab ipsis denominata Britannos fuderunt; 
 posteaque ad Lhan y Gwydhyl, Hibernicorum in promontorio sacro, quod Holy-head 
 vocant, ecclesiam, a Caswalhone Lhawhir sive Longimano, patre Maglocuni, cujus 
 Gildas meminit, cseso Sirigi, inde expulsi sunt". — (Brit. Ec. Hist., cap. xv.) 
 
 The account which the Tripartite Life gives of St. Patrick's labours in Dalaradia 
 is as follows : — 
 
 " Multarum Ecclesiarum jactis fundamentis et fabricis inchoatis in regione Dala- 
 radia? \_recte Dalriedice], vir laborum non magis pro Christo patiens quam sitiens, con- 
 tulit se ad provinciam Dal-aradioe^ Christi fidem ac religionem per earn propagaturus. 
 
 Earn 
 
 ' A flippant writer says : " The epithet of crvit- " This distinction is occasionally observed by the 
 
 nich^ or wheat-eaters, expressed the contempt or Annals of Ulster, which apply the term Pictores to 
 
 envy of the carnivorous Highlander" (Gibbon, the Albanian Picts, (An. 628, 668, 675, 727, 728, 
 
 Decline and Fall, cap. 25.) 781,) while they use the synonym Cpuicne to de- 
 
 ■" The Book of Lecan states that there was a place note the Irish Picts. In purely Irish writings, how- 
 in Dal Araidhe called Qlc na n-ln;^eann, 'Mount ever, the native term is used to express both, 
 of the Maidens', from which the maidens given by ° The Irish Picts are called by Welsh writers V 
 
 Heremon to the Cruithne took their departure for Gioydhyl Phichtiaid. — See the references in Areh- 
 Albain. — (fol. 141.) bishop Ussher's note. 
 
 2X 
 
33^ 
 
 Earn provinciara, in portiones di\nsam, tunc tenuerunt duodecim filii CoelbadiiP; inter 
 quos Saranus principatum teuebat. Cum earn regionem verbi Dei semina spargendo 
 circuiret vir Dei, coepit in loco dido Kill-glais'^ Ecclesiam sedificare: et postquani a 
 loci habitatoribus primo pateretur repulsam, opus tamen inchoatum curavit postea 
 foeliciter ad exitum perduci. Et in eo loco duos ex discipulis Glassicum et Liberium 
 prsesbyterum reliquit" — (Part ii. cap. 131.) 
 
 The succeeding chapter has been already printed at p. 236 of the present work. 
 Chapter 133 proceeds with the narrative: — 
 
 " Audiens autem et dolens Conla Coelbadii filius ; quam inhunianiter fuerit vir 
 Dei a suo Iratre Sarano tractatus, accessit ad euni venerabundus, seque ac sua omnia 
 in ejus consecravit obscquia, ofterens ei imprimis insigne pra^dium in usum extruendas 
 Ecclcsiaj : in quo Commorense excitavit Monasterium'. Conlam ibi cum suo semine 
 suse bencdictionis munimine firmavit, ditavitque, apprecans et spiritu revelante pra- 
 dicens ex ejus posteris Reges et Principes illius ProvincijB p^odituros^ Multas alias 
 vir Dei in eadem Dalaradia; regione fundavit Ecclesias et cellas ; ut Domnachmor' in 
 agro de Mag-daynorna'', et Rath-sithe' : quibus duos ex discipulis prajfecit. Item 
 Ecclesiam Tulac/iensem, quae et Kill-chonadhain" ; et Gluaire in regione ia//wr«a* ; ubi 
 
 quiescit 
 
 I' The common ancestor of the families of Jlagen- 
 nis and MacArtan. " Coelbadius hie ex Crunno 
 Badhraoi filio, nepos Eochadii, a quo Rege Ibhechach 
 \^Iveagh\ in Ultonia nonien desumpsit, fuit ultimus 
 ex Rodcriciorum faniilia, Ilil)erni;c Rex, annoque 
 Christi 357 rcgnavit, juxta Quat. aiag. in AniiaUb." 
 (Trias Th., p. 182, col. 2.) See above, pp. 213, 214. 
 
 <> Kill-glais. — Modem name unknown. 
 
 f Colgan, in his note on this name, imderstands it 
 of Mag-commiiir, now called Miickamore — (p. 183, 
 n. 211.) Jocelin, in the parallel passage, states that 
 this church was founded in a place called Elom, and 
 that it was called Domnach-comhnir. — (Cap. 130.) 
 This name signifies 'the church of Comber', as that 
 in the text signifies ' the monastery of Comber' ; and 
 Colgan correctly observes upon the name: " Hodie, 
 sine addito vocabulo, Comur, est nobile coenobium 
 dioecesis Dunensiset Connerensis" — (p. 114, col. 2.) 
 Jocelin elsewhere speaks of Mucoomuir or Mucka- 
 more, so that Golgan's note on the present passage is 
 not to be followed. Comber is situate in U]iper Clan- 
 naboy, which was part of Dalaradia. The Anuals 
 
 of Ulster, at 1031, relate that Mac Eoch.aidh led an 
 army as far as Iveagh, burned Cill-cumbair with its 
 oratory, killed a number of the clergy, and carried 
 away thirty captives. Pembridge, in assigning 1 199, 
 and another authority (Butler's Grace's An., p. 170) 
 1 198, as the year in wliich the abbey of Commerer 
 was founded, refer only to its existence as a house 
 of the CiVercian order. — See above, pp.197, 198. 
 
 » From him sprung the Magennis's, in whose family 
 the lordship of Iveagh was hereditary. This line was 
 the senior representative of the race of Ir. 
 
 ' Domnachmor — Now unknown. 
 
 " Mag-damoma, — Now Magheramorne. See 
 above, pp. 51, 56, 269. 
 
 * Rath-sithe, — Now Rashee. See pp. 68, 250. 
 
 " Kill-chonadhain Possibly the name St. Cun- 
 ning may be a corruption of this. See above, p. 53. 
 
 * As the territory of Latharna or Lame extended 
 northwards to near Glenarm, it is possible that this 
 name may be represented by Glore, the name by 
 which the old churchyard of Tickmacrevan is com- 
 monly known. See above, pp. 87, 264. 
 
339 
 
 quiescit Mac-lassius. ^diticavit etiam Ecclesiam in valle de Gleann-indeachtaJ' , et 
 aliam in Imlech-cluana' in agro Semne\ ubi S. Coemanus quiescit: et tertiam in regione 
 de Hua-Dercachein^, qu£e a Vinnoco, quern ei praefecit, Episcopo, Rath-Easpuic Innic 
 appellatur". — (Trias Thaiim., pp. 146, 147.) 
 
 The following notices, wliicli are principally extracted from the Annals of the Four 
 Masters, shew that Dalaradia not only enjoyed a succession of chieftains from a very 
 early date, but that it occupied a place of importance among the Irish principalities : 
 
 A. D. 236, The Cruithne and Fiacha Araidhe defeated at the battle of Fothard Muir- 
 theimne [in Louth] by Cormac OCoinn, King of Ireland. — {TigernacL) 
 
 A. D. 388, Milchuo, son of Hua Buain, King of North Dalaradia"." 
 
 A. D. 478, Fiachra Lonn, King of Dalaradia, distinguished himself at the battle of 
 Ocha, and received the territories of Lee and Cairloegh as a reward*^. 
 
 A. D. 557, The battle of Mona-doire-lothair"! between the Cruithne and the Northern 
 
 Hy-Niall; 
 
 ? Gleann-indeachta Now Glynn. See pp. 56, 329. 
 
 ^ " Imlech Cluana puto esse qu;e hodie Kill-chlu- 
 ana appellatur ; vel saltern quse Kill-ckoemhain cli- 
 citiir. Kill-choemhain autem est in regione de Hi- 
 
 Tuirtre " (Trias Th., p. 183, c. 2.) Both names are 
 
 now unknown. Concerning Semne see above, p. 270. 
 
 » Colgan errs in identifying this with the valley of 
 the Braid in the barony of Antrim. It seems to have 
 been a tract in the north of the coimty of Down, or 
 on the confines of Down and Antrim. The " Book 
 of Rights" mentions Ui Deapca Chein as a 
 sub-territory of Uladh. The Four Masters, at the 
 year 1199, relate that Rodubh Mac Roedig, chief of 
 Kinel vEngus, was slain by the English while plun- 
 dering Ua-n-Earca- Chein : and, again, at 1391, 
 Cuuladh Mac GilUmuire is called "Chief of Ua-n- 
 Earca-chein and Leth-Cathail". The same name, 
 in a corrupt form, appears in Rymer's Foedera, at the 
 year 1275, where " D. Mac Gilmori" is represented 
 
 as "Dux de Anderken'" (Vol. i. p. 520.) In 
 
 1442 a Patrick Ogallmyrre was chief parishioner in 
 
 Breda (See p. 15.) The Clannaboy ONeills gave 
 
 settlements to the Gilmors in Holywood ; and it was 
 observed in 1599 concerning the Great Ardes: "the 
 auncient dwellers there were the Guillemers " — 
 (Stuart, Armagh, p. 630; Durbourd. Ant, p. 629) 
 
 2 
 
 The genealogies of the Hy-Earca-Chein are to be 
 found in the Book of Lecan, fol. 142, a, b; and in 
 MacFirbis' Geneal. MS., p. 513. 
 
 *> Vet. Schol. in HjTim. S. Fiechi, ap. Colgan, Tr. 
 Th., p. 4, col. 2. This was the master under whom 
 St. Patrick served. He is called by the Tripartite 
 Life " Milcho Buani filius Princeps Dalaradise". — 
 (Tr. Th., p. 119, col. 2; 125.) 
 
 c The original, which is falsely rendered by Dr. 
 O Conor, is presented in a correct version by Mr. 
 O Donovan, Hy-Fiachrach, p. 812. 
 
 •i In the verses of the Cennfaoladh cited by the 
 Four Masters this place is called Moin-mor Doire 
 Lothair. Adaninau notices the battle as having 
 been fought " in Scotia", and calls it "beUum quod 
 Scoticfi dicitur Mona-moire ". He also tells " de 
 rege CrviUmiorum, qui Echodius Laib vocabatur, 
 quemadmodum victus, currui insedens, evaserit". — 
 (Trias Thaum., p. 340, col. 2.) Dr. Conor places 
 the field of this battle in Scotland, (vol. iv. p. 23, 
 note 2,) but he evidently misinterprets Adamnan's 
 " Scotia". The graver authority of Colgan may be 
 adduced to rectify Conor's error : " Moin-mor de 
 Dore-lothuir, situs in finibus Aquilonaris Hiberniaj ". 
 (Trias Thaum., p. 374.) Both names are still pre- 
 served in the town Moneymore, and the parish Der- 
 
 X 2 
 
340 
 
 Hy-Niall; wherein Aodli Breac and seven lords of the Cruithne fell: 
 
 after which Lee and Carn Eolarg were laid waste by the Hy-Niall. 
 A. D. 558, Aodh Dubh, son of Suibhne, King of Dalaraidhe, 
 
 A. D. 615, Aedan, son of Mongan, King of Dalaraidhe, died (An. UL) 
 
 A. D. 626, Fiachna, son of Baedan, King of Dalaraidhe, slain at the battle of Lethead 
 
 Midhind in Drung^. — [Tigernach.) The Four Masters call him King of 
 
 Uladh, adding that he fell by Fiachna Mac Demain, lord of Dal-Fiatach. 
 A. D. 637, Suibhne, son of Colman Guar, son of Cobhthach, King of Dalaraidhe^. 
 A. D. 665, Maolcaoich, son of Scandal, chief of the Cruithne of the race of Ir, died. 
 A. D. 680, Cathasagh, son of Maoldun, chief of the Cruithne, slain by the Britons 
 
 at the battle of Rathmor of Moylinny. 
 A. D. 690, The Dalriadians spoiled the Cruithne and Ultonians. — (An. UL) 
 A. D. 696, Aodh Aired, chief of Dalaradia, slain at Tulach-Garaisg in FarneyS. 
 A. D. 700, Fianan, son of O Dunchadha, King of Dalaraidhe, was strangled. — {Tig.) 
 A. D. 706, Cucuarain, King of Cruithne and Uladh, was slain by Fionnchu OKenain. 
 
 (King of the Cruithne of Uladh — Tig. 708.) 
 A. D. 725, Battle of i\Iui-bholg between the Cruithne and Dalriadans. 
 A. D. 771, Battle between the Dalaraidhe at Sliabh Mis [Slemish], wherein was slain 
 
 Nia, son of Cucongalta. 
 A. D. 778, Battle of Dumha Achidh between the Dalaraidhe, in which Focarta OCo- 
 
 nalta was slain. 
 
 A. D. 787, Bresal, son of Flathrai, lord of Dalaraidhe, died. Tomoltagh, son of Inn- 
 
 reachtach, 
 
 ryloran which contains it. The Four Masters, at Shnibhne. Ainonp; tlie places mentioned in it are 
 
 1123, 1136, call the latter Z)oi>e/aroin. Lee and the following : Cea// La/ne in Dalriada, the church 
 
 Carn-Eolairg seem to be the places which have been of Ronan Fionn who cursed Suibhne ; Ros Bearaigh 
 
 mentioned in the text at A. D. 478. Concerning in Gleann Earcain ; Tuath O Nineadha, and Muil- 
 
 the former see above, pp. 295, 300 : Cam-Eolairg leati Lmngseachain, in DsLlaraidhe; Gleann Bolgain, 
 
 was probably near the Ard-Eohrg of the Book of called in later timea Gleann Ciach, in Mucliairc Ci- 
 
 Armagh, which Mr. O Donovan states to be "a rock neoil Ainmirech, which was probably the same as 
 
 over Lough Foyle" (Dub. P. J., vol. i. p. 362.) the Cri-kenel-ainmirech already mentioned at p. 324. 
 
 •■ There is a short poem in the Book of Lecan in His places of residence in Dalaraidhe were : Teach 
 
 jiraise of Baodan Mac CairioU, King of Uladh, which Mac Sinneadha ; Cluain Creamha ; and Ros Er- 
 
 makes mention of '■'■Dun Baodain in Lethead ", and cain : the last of which is mentioned by the Four 
 
 of "Baetan o{ Leaf head of the seas" (fol. 139 a.) Miisters at 1497, and is now known by the name 
 
 See also Mac Firbis' Gen. MS., p. 491, col. 2. Rasharkin — See note on Rosserkan, at p. 90. 
 
 f Annals of Tigernach ; Battle of llagh-Rath, S Tulach Garaisg. — " Not known, it would be 
 
 p. 39. His wandermgs after the battle of Magh-Rath anglicised now Tully Garrisk " Account of Farney, 
 
 are related in a curious old tract called the Buile by E. P. Shirley, Esq., p. 3. 
 
341 
 
 reaclitacli. King of Uladh, was slain by Eocliaidh, son of Fiachna. (The 
 An. Ul. at 789, and tlie An. Inisfal. at 776, represent Tomoltach, son of 
 Innreaclitacli, as King of Dalaraidhe.) 
 
 A. D. 822, Eochaidh, son of Breasal, lord of Dalaraidhe-an-tuaisceirt [North Dala- 
 raidhe] was slain by his own people. 
 
 A. D. 823, INIaolbresail, son of Ailill Cobha, lord of Dalaraidhe, died. 
 
 A. D. 827, A victory obtained over the Danes by Lethlobhar, son of Longsegh, King 
 of Dalaraidhe. — {An. Ul. The Four Masters style him King of Uladh.) 
 
 A. D. 831, Cionaedh, son of Ethach, lord of Dalaraidhe-an-tuaisceirt, was slain. 
 
 A. D. 847, Flannacan, son of Ethach, lord of Dalaraidhe-an-tuaisceirt, was slain by 
 the Kinel-Owen. (See An. Ul. at 848, and An. Inisf. at 835.) 
 
 A. D. 871, Lethlobhar, son of Longsegh, King of Uladh, died. 
 
 A. D. 892, Muredhach, son of Maoletigh, lord of Dalaraidhe, slain in battle at Rath-cro. 
 
 A. D. 896, ^Muredhach, son of Muretegh, King of Dalaraidhe, slain in battle — (An. Ul.) 
 
 A. D. 899, Muretegh, son of Lethlobhar, King of Dalaraidhe, died. — (An. Ul.) 
 
 A. D. 904, Bee Ua Lethlobhair, lord of Dalaraidhe, died". 
 
 A. D. 912, Loingsegh Ua Lethlobhair, lord of Dalaraidhe, defeated at the Fregabhail 
 by Niall, son of Aodh Finnliath, King of Ailech. His brother Flathrai 
 Ua Lethlobhair fell in this battle. Another battle was fought between 
 the same parties at Carn-Eirinn\ where Loingsigh was again defeated. 
 
 A. D. 931, Loingsech Ua Lethlobhair, lord of Dalaradia, died — (An. Ul) 
 
 A. D. 941, Ceallach, son of Bee, lord of Dalaraidhe, was slain in Oentribh [Antrim]. 
 
 A. D. 960, An army was led by Flaithbhertach Conchobhair, King of Ailech, into 
 Dalaradia, which plundered the city of Connor. 
 
 A. D. 977, Lethlobhar Ua Fiachna, lord of Dalaraidhe, was slain. 
 
 A. D. 985, Flathri Ua Loingsigh, lord of Dalaraidhe, was slain by his own people. 
 
 A. D. 1003, 
 
 h He was called " the renoiraed Chief of Tuaigh- " The Bann at one time was but small, 
 Inver". The mouth of the River Bann bore the name If any body now could remember it, 
 
 of Uuaij Inbip, as appears from the An. Inisfal., Women and children could leap over it, 
 
 1084. A townland in the parish of Ballyaghran, in Previous to the eruption of Loch n-Eachach. 
 
 the angle formed by the mouth of the Bann and the The eruption of Eachach's lake was 
 
 sea, is called Dooey. According to the legend in the A hundred years after the creative God's birth. 
 
 Dinnseanchus, Tuagh Inbhear took its name from It gave force to the Bann to flow 
 
 Tuagh, daughter of Conall Collamhrach [Monarch of Over all the country to Tuagh Inbhear". 
 
 Erin, A. M. 4876], who was drowned here, after • —(Book of Lecan, fol. 252, b, b.) 
 
 she had been carried off from Tara. Previously it ' The hill of Carneamy, in the parish of Connor, is 
 
 had been called Inbhear Glas. called Carneirin in the Inquis. of 1605. 
 
342 
 
 A. D. 1003, DonucUadh Ua Loingsigh, lord of Dalaradia, and righ-damhua of Uladh, 
 Avas slain by the Kinc4-0wenJ. 
 
 A. D. 1004, Brian [Boroimhe], son of Cennetigh, marched with an army from Armagh 
 to Dalaradia, and received hostages of the Dalaraidhe and Dalfiatach. 
 
 A. D. 1005, Brian, son of Cennetigh, proceeded with an army to exact hostages as far 
 as Tirconnell and Tirone. Thence he passed across Fertais-camsa'' into 
 Dalriada, Dalaradia, Ultonia, and Conallia Muirtheimhne. 
 
 A. 1). 10 1 5, A battle between the Ulidians and Dalaraidhe, in which the latter were 
 defeated, and Domhnall, son of Loingsegh, their lord, was slain. 
 
 A. D. 1046, Conchobhar Ua Loingsigh, lord of Dalaraidhe, slain by the son of Domh- 
 nall Ua Loingsigh, in Leinster. 
 
 A. I). 1065, Domhnall Ua Loingsigh, lord of Dalaraidhe, slain by the people of OMeith 
 
 A. D. 1070, Hua Eochaidhen, King of Dalaraidhe, slain by his own people. — {An. Ul.) 
 
 A. D. 1077, Ua Loingsigh, lord of Dalaraidhe, slain by his own people. 
 
 A. D. 1095, -^ battle was fought at Ardachadh between the Dalaraidlie and I'lidiniis, 
 in which the latter were defeated. 
 
 A. D. 1 1 13, Fionnchas Ua Loingsigh, lord of Dalaraidhe, slain bj' Niall OLochlain. 
 
 A, D. 1 1 14, Donnchadh Ua Loingsigh, lord of Dalaraidhe, died. 
 
 A. D. 1 130, Aodh Ua Loingsigh, lord of Dalaraidhe, slain in battle, in Ulidia. 
 
 A. D. 1 141, Domhnall Ua Loingsigh, lord of Dalaraidhe, slain by the Cruithnigh. 
 
 A. D. 1 156, Ua Loingsigh, lord of Dalaradia, slain by the Kinel-Owen. 
 
 A. D. 1 158, Cuuladh, son of Deoradh Ua Flainn, lord of Hy-Tuirtre and Dalaraidhe. 
 
 A. D. 1 177, John de Courcy slew Domhnall, son of Cathusagh, lord of Dalaradia. 
 
 A. D. 1 1 89, Domhnall, son of Murtogh OLochlain, killed by the English of Dalaraidhe. 
 
 A. D. 1 1 98, The English of Moy Line and Dalaraidhe mustered 300 strong, and 
 
 marched to Lame against Aodh ONeill. 
 
 From 
 
 J In this year a battle was foufjlit lietween the men mentioned again at 1148, in connexion with the 
 
 of UHdia and Tyrone, at a place called ' Cpaob same parties, aiid from the narrative it would ap- 
 
 Culca', i. e. ' the tree of the hill'. The wounded pear that tlie place lay towards the north of the nio- 
 
 Ulidians fled to tDuneacac [Duneight, in the dem county of Down, somewhere in Castlereagh. 
 
 parish of Blaris?] and tDpuimbo [Drumbo, the k Feartas Camsa ' Crossuig of Camus', lay on 
 
 adjoining parish.] In 1090, another battle was the Baun near the old church of Camus. An 
 
 fought between the same parties at the same place, ancient historical tale, entitled " The Trimnphs of 
 
 where the invaders gamed the day, and afterwards Congal Clairingnech ", speaks of it as near Gcip 
 
 cut down the Cpaob or 'tree', which was pro- Cpaoibe, ' the Cataract of Craol)h', now tAe Cm«.v, 
 
 bably one under which the prince of the district was ,ind Oun-GCi-beanrj, 'the fort of the two peaks', 
 
 inaugurated. (See A. D. 1111.) The name is now the mound of 3/o«7<< Sandal — (pp. 12, 1.3.) 
 
343 
 
 From the preceding notices it appears that the lordship of Dalaradia, after the 
 year 826, was associated, with very few exceptions, with the names Let klobhar and Ua 
 Loingsigh. These, Avhich still exist under the vulgar forms of Lawlor and Ly^ich^ an- 
 ciently belonged to the same family. Duald Mac Firbis has preserved their pedigree, 
 from which it appears that Leathlabhar, the first of the name, was thirteenth, and 
 Loingseach, a quo Ua Loingsigh, sixteenth in descent, in the same line, from Fiacha 
 Araidhe, the progenitor of the Dal- Araidhe. It also appears from the foregoing annals 
 that the English obtained a footing in this territory soon after the Invasion. The 
 bishops of Connor were frequently chosen from men of English descent, and the Earls 
 of Ulster, who early acquired large possessions in this territory, not only appear in 
 records as the founders or endowers of religious houses therein, but as the leaders of 
 numerous Anglo-Norman adventurers, who followed in their train, and received grants 
 under them. The Inquisition taken on the death of William de Burgo, in 1333, sets 
 out not only the names of his extensive holdings, in the three counties of Cragfergus, 
 Antrum, and Newtown of Blcetliwyc, into which Dalaradia had been parcelled out under 
 the English rule, but also the names of many of the tenants who held under him. At 
 that date the estates of the Earldom were found to have been materially impaired by the 
 invasion of the Scots under Edward Bruce, and by the war of the Logans, so that his 
 castles were untenantable, and his lands, either worthless, or greatly reduced in value. 
 Thenceforward the English interest rapidly declined, and was, in proportion, superseded 
 by the rising power of a family, which, hitherto of little weight in this region, quickly 
 acquired an ascendancy, which it maintained during more than two succeeding centu- 
 ries. In the year 1230 died Aodh Macaomh Toinleasc ONeill, the chief of his princely 
 race, leaving two sons, Niall Roe and Aodh Meith, in whose respective descendants the 
 common stock struck oiF into two distinct branches. To the senior line the represen- 
 tation of the race and the lordship of Tyrone was, with a few early exceptions, confined ; 
 while the junior line subsequently received, and gave to their territory, the designa- 
 tion of Clannaboy. This name, which was a compound of the Irish Clun Qoo 6uiDe, 
 ' Children of Hugh the Yellow ', was derived from Aodh Buidhe, grandson of Aodh 
 Meith, who, on the fall of Bryan in the battle of Down, in 1 260, assumed the lordship of 
 Tyrone, and was slain in 1283, while in the enjoyment of that dignity, by Mac Mahon 
 and the men of Oriel. The tribe name appears to have been established very soon 
 after, for the Clan of Hugh Boy are spoken of by the Four Masters at the years 
 1319, 1320, 1345: at the last of which dates they are represented as settled on the 
 border of Lough Neagh, and in hostility to the lord of Tyrone. From this period 
 the name Dalaradia fell into disuse, and Clannaboy became established in its place. 
 
 Another name by which a large portion of this tract, if not the whole, is frequently 
 
 spoken 
 
344 
 
 spoken of in tlie Four Masters, is Trian CongaiU\ signifying ' Congall's portion' or 
 ' third part'. It is supposed to have borrowed from Congal Claen, King of Uladh, who 
 contested the battle of Magh-Rath in 637, to which he seems to have been partly insti- 
 gated by the non-fulfilment of the promise which was made him by the King of Ireland, 
 to put him in possession of the extended instead of the circumscribed Uladh"". 
 
 Towards the close of the sixteenth century the territory is presented to notice 
 as in two divisions, namely, Upper or South, and Lower or North Clannaboy : con- 
 nected with which was an officer styled " the Seneschal of the Clandeboys". North 
 Clannaboy extended from the Ravel southwards to the Lagan, and contained the 
 modern baronies of the two Antrims, the two Toomes, the two Belfasts, Lower Masse- 
 reene, and the county of Carrickfergus; while South Clannaboy lay on the south of 
 the Lagan, and was exactly commensurate with the modern baronies of Upper and 
 Lower Castlereagh. A very accurate and detailed recital of the boundaries and con- 
 tents of the former is contained in an Inquisition of the year 1605, which has bet-n 
 frequently referred to in the course of the present work". From it we learn that 
 North Clandeboy comprised twenty sub-territories styled Tuoghs or Cinaments, the 
 names and situation of which were as follow : — 
 
 I. Tiiogh of Clanagharlie, — Containing the whole parish of Kilconriola, and that 
 adjacent portion of Ahoghill which lay on the east of the Main Water: being bounded 
 on the north by the Ravel, on the west by the Main, on the south by the Braid, and 
 on the east by Skerry. This territory was granted by James L to Rory Oge Mac Quillin, 
 whose patent bears date loth March, 1607. A MS. cited in Hamilton's Letters on 
 Antrim states that the territory of Chmreaghnrkie was granted to Mac Quillin in lieu 
 of Enishowen, which he had surrendered to Sir A. Chichester. His new holdino-, 
 however, did not long remain in his possession, for in 16 18 Sir Faithful Fortescue, 
 nephew of Sir A. Chichester, purchased Mac Quillin's interest therein, and, a joint 
 sui-render having been executed to the Crown, the former took out his patent of the 
 same on the 30th of May". The territorial name is still preserved, and was lately 
 
 published 
 ' We have Colgan's autliority for stating that it " It was taken at Antrim, July 12. It has not 
 
 reached from the parish of Glynn, near Lame, to been printed, probably because the original is not 
 
 ftroville, near Newi;ownards — (Conf. Trias Thaum., forthcoming. A " copia vera" which was produced 
 
 p. 183, and Acta SS., p. 641, col. 2.) Tts extent in the ca.se of Archdeacon Lemuel Mathews, in 1692, 
 
 may also be estimated by a comparison of the pas- was kindly lent to the writer of this note l)y the Lord 
 
 sages of the Four Masters, in which the name oc- Bishop of the Diocese. 
 
 curs, namelj', A. D. 1383, 1427, 1450, 1471. 1483. "Abstracts of the six instruments which con- 
 
 1485, 1489, 1493, 1512, 1513, 1537, 1573. cerned this transfer are to be seen in the Calend. 
 
 ■" Battle of Magh-Kath, pp. 38, 262. Cane. Hib., vol. ii. pp. 114, 363, 366, 367. 
 
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 published in the advertisements of the contemplated sale of the Galgorm estate. On 
 Jobson's and Speed's maps the territory is marked Glanharky. It probably took its name 
 from the Clann Pojapca mentioned in the Annal. Inisfal., A. D. 1177; called Clann 
 Phuacopca in the Book of Lecan, (fol. 142, a, a), and MacFirbis' Gen. MS. (p. 510.) 
 
 2. Tuogh of Muntercallie mumcip Ceallaij, ' the tribe of Kelly', its ancient 
 
 occupants. It contained that part of Ahoghill parish which is in the barony of Lower 
 Toome, and west of the Main Water. This and the preceding territory were com- 
 bined to form the barony of Lower Toome. 
 
 3. Tuogh of Mtmtir Puvidy — Containing the parishes of Drummaul, Shilvodan, 
 that part of Connor which is south of the Kells' Water, and those parts of Ahoghill 
 and Antrim which lie in Upper Toome. 
 
 4. Tuogh na Fuigh. — Sometimes called ' the Feevah', and still known by this 
 
 name. Its name piobbao denoted that it was originally a wooded district See 
 
 above, pp. 86, 300. It contained the parishes of Duneane, Cranfield, and Bally scul- 
 lion Grange. This territory and the last form the barony of Upper Toome. 
 
 5. Tuogh of Muntermurigan. — niuincip mhuipeajain, 'the tribe of Murrigan', 
 
 its ancient tenants. A townland therein is called Lisnamurrikin (Ord. Surv., s. 33.) 
 
 It contained the parish of Rathcavan, with its district of Glenwherry, 
 
 6. Cinament of Knockboynabrade. — Cnoc buioe na bpai^oe, 'yellow hill of the 
 neck'. The name is preserved in the townland Knockboy, and in the word Braid, 
 which is used to denote as well the parish of Skerry as the river which bounds it on 
 the south. The valley through which the Braid River flows, dividing the parishes of 
 Skerry and Rathcavan, is, in all probability, that which Colgan referred to in the fol- 
 lowing description: " Hodie vocatur Braige-Dercan, estque vallis in Bai'onia jEndro- 
 mensi Dioecesis Connerensis, olim dicta Glann-fada-na-Feine, i. e. 'vallis longa Fenio- 
 rum' ". In the same barony, he adds, " sunt quatuor Ecclesise, una Rath-mor, altera 
 Eath-cabain [Rathcavan], tertia Uath-eochuiV' [Ahoghill?] — (Trias Th, p. 183, col. 2.) 
 
 7. Tuogh ne Keart — Still preserved in the word Keart, the manorial name of the 
 patrimony of the Antrim O Haras. It contained the parish of Ballyclug, and that 
 portion of Kells, in the parish of Connor, which is north of the Kells' Water. 
 
 8. Cinament of Duogh Connor^ — Contained the sixteen towns of Connor. The word 
 Duogh may be the Irish Dumac, ' a sand-bank', a name frequently borne by sandy 
 districts. The last four territories are united in the modern barony oi Lower Antrim. 
 
 9. Tuogh of Moylinny, — Containing the parishes of Antrim, Donegore, Kilbride, 
 Nalteen, Rashee, Ballycor, and Doagh, and being precisely coextensive with the modern 
 barony of Upper Antrim. — See above, pp. 62, 279. 10 T" / 
 
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 10. Tuogh of Killelag/i.— Containing the Grange of Muckamore, and the northern 
 two-thirds of Killead. The name is still locally applied to the same portion of Kil- 
 lead, which is subdivided into Upper and Lower Killelagh.— See above, p. 181. 
 
 11. Cinament of Kilmachevet.—T\ie soutliern part of Killead parish is still subdi- 
 vided into Upper and Lower Kilmakevet.—See above, p. 181. This, with the former 
 district, forms the barony of Lorcer Massereene. 
 
 12. Tuogk of Maghery-moryie. — Containing the parishes of Inver, Glynn, and Raloo. 
 See above, pp. 51, 56, 269. 
 
 13. Tuogh of Braden Hand. — Now Broad Island, a territorial name for the parish 
 of Templecorran, which, with Kilroot, constituted this district. 
 
 14. Tuogh of BaUifdyny. — Stdl preserved as a manorial and parochial name, com- 
 prehending the parishes of Ballyliimy, Umgall, Ballymartin, Templopatrick, Bally- 
 walter, and Molusk. — See above, p. 67. The three territories last mentioned, together 
 with Island Magee, now form the barony of Lovrer Belfast. 
 
 15. Cinament of Ballinorcre. — A small district represented by the present parish 
 of Ballynure. — See above, p. 68. 
 
 16. Cinament of Carntall, Monksland, ami Carnemony. — Containing the united 
 parishes of Coole and Monkstown, in the present parish of Carnmoney, together with 
 the townland Carntall, in the parish of Ballylinny. — See above, pp. 67, 69. 
 
 17. Tuogh Cinament. — Containing the northern portion of the parish of Shankill, 
 i. e. from Benvadegan, now " the Cave-Hill", to Belfast. 
 
 18. Tuoqh of the FcdL alias Mylone. — Containing the southern portion of Shankill, 
 and the parish of Drumbeg. One district of the parish is still known by the name of 
 " the Falls", and another by the name of " Malone". Belfast was situate in this. 
 
 19. Cinament of Dirrevolgie, alias Fealoagh. — This was made up of those parts of 
 Derryaghy, and of Lambeg, and of Drumbeg, which are in Upper Belfast, These 
 three territories constitute the present barony of Upper Belfast. 
 
 20. Cinament of Clandermot. — A small tract comprising the parish of Tullyrusk, 
 three townlands of Derryaghy, and the east portion of Camlin. — See above, pp. 2, 180. 
 
 To these may be added the territory of Kilhdtagh, which, though now included in 
 the county of Antrim, and, with the last-named district, forming the barony of Upper 
 Massereene, was in the seventeenth century reckoned in the county of Down. Strictly 
 speaking it was not a part of North Clannaboy, but was found in Inquisitions to be a 
 
 territory 
 
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 territory per se. It contained the parishes of Balliuderry, Aghalee, Aghagallon, Magh- 
 eramesk, Magheragall, and the portion of Blaris north of the Lagan See above, p. 234. 
 
 In South Clannaboy the subdivisions were not so well defined as those in the 
 northern territory, to which is added the want of sufficient detail in its Inquisitions'". 
 It may be affirmed, however, that the present baronies of Upper and Lower Castle- 
 reagh were formed out of this territory. The following were its subdenominations : — 
 
 1 . Castlereagh This district comprised that part of Knockbreda parish which lay 
 
 in the vicinity of ONeilPs residence of Castlereagh, i. e. Caiplean piabac, 'grey- 
 castle'. " The captain of this tract [South Clandeboy] is Neill mac Bryan Flain: his 
 
 chief house is Castle Reagh" (MS. circ. 1599, in Dubourdieu's Antrim, p. 629.) It 
 
 had been occupied successively by Bryan Fagartach O Neill, his son Neill, and his 
 grandson Con, when Bryan Mac Art O Neill, a relative of the Earl of Tyrone, seized 
 upon it. In 1601 it was taken by Sir Arthur Chichester, and restored to ConONeill, 
 who, in the preceding year, had been taken, with his retainers, into the Queen's pay. 
 He held it, however, but a very short time, for a few months before the Queen's death, 
 on the occasion of his indulging " in a grand debauch at Castlereagh, with his brothers, 
 his friends, and his followers", a riot occurred between his servants and some soldiers, 
 in which one of the latter received a mortal wound. This affray was pronounced the 
 following week to be a " levying war against the Queen"; Con ONeill was imprisoned 
 in Carrickfergus, and circumstances put in that train which eventuated in the entire 
 transfer of the South Clannaboy estates to other possessors'*. 
 
 2. Les Gillachrewes de le Gallagh This small tract comprehended a portion of 
 
 Knockbreda lying between Castlereagh and the Lagan. 
 
 3. Slut Neales, — That is, ' the pliocc or family of Neills'. It embraced the parishes 
 of Drumbo, Saintfield, Killaney, with parts of Kilmore and Knockbreda, and such 
 portions of Blaris, Lambeg, and Drumbeg, as lie in the barony of Upper Castlereagh. 
 In Jobson's Map of Ulster, (A. D. 1590,) the territory marked Slut M'Oneale is 
 
 bounded 
 
 P The Inquisitions which have been consulted the Irish Eecord Commission, that this Inquisition 
 
 are: that taken at Ardquin, 4th July, 1605, which remauis in the office of the Usher of the Court of 
 
 is printed in tlie Ulster Inej., Dowti, No. 2, Jac. I. ; Chancery, consisting of " 21 Membranes, but nearly 
 
 and that taken at Downpatrick 13th October, 1623. the half of each, from 11 to 20 both mclusive, has 
 
 The latter, which is of great length, has not been been cut away" — (Vol. ii. p. 468, note.) 
 printed, but an early copy of it is in the possession 1 The whole story is told in that curious produc- 
 
 of Daniel Delacherois, Esq., of Donaghadee. It ap- tion, ' ' the Montgomery MS. ;" a work in which truth 
 
 pears from the Supplement to the Eighth Report of and pedantry are strangely blended.— See pp. 21, sqq. 
 
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 bounded on the north by the Lagan, on the west by KiUwarlyn, on the east by the 
 KeUes, and on the south by Kinelarty— (MS. T. C. D.) The Slut JPNele is similarly 
 placed on Norden's Map. — (State Papers.) 
 
 4. Les Mulckreives de le Tawne — This family occupied the west side of Knock- 
 breda, from Ballymacarret southwards. The name Maolcraoibhe, or Mulcreeve, [Four 
 Mast. A. D. 1490,] was anglicised hj Rice. — (Stuart's Armagh, p. 630.) These five 
 districts now appear united in the barony of Upper Castlereagh. 
 
 5. Slut Ilenrickies. — Occupied part of Killinchy and Kilmood in Lower Castle- 
 reagh, adjoining a small portion of Killinchy and Kilmore, which they held in the 
 upper barony. The name was probably derived from Sliocc Gnpi Caoic, ' Tribe of 
 Henry the Blind', a branch of the Clannaboy O Neills. — (Mac Firbis, Gen. MS., p. 121.) 
 
 6. Slut Kellies. — They occupied the greater part of Comber and Tullynakill. On 
 Norden's map the name Kellies is laid down in the situs of Comber, and Slut Kellies a 
 little W. S. W. of Drumboe. Jobson's map places the Kelles between Castlereagh and 
 DufFerin on the east and south, and Slut M'^ONeale and Kinelarty on the west. The 
 I'amily was originally settled near Drumbo. — See below, p. 359. 
 
 7. Slut Hugh Bricks. — Tliat is, Sliocc Q06 bpeac, 'the family of freckled Hugh '. 
 Their territory contained the N. E. portion of Comber, S. W. of Newtownards, and 
 S. E. part of Dundonald, lying principally between Scrabo and the town of Comber. 
 
 8. Slut Bryan Boye, — Occupied five townlands in the N. E. of Holywood parish. 
 
 9. Slut Durnings, and Sluit Owen Mac Quin These families occupied some town- 
 lands in Holywood, in Dundonald, and in the adjacent part of Newtownards. 
 
 The five districts last-named are comprised in the barony of Lower Castlereagh. 
 On the establishment of the baronial names the ancient territorial one gradually sank 
 into disuse : even the generic name Clanneboy, having forsaken the family in whom it 
 originated, and the territory to which it belonged, is now only known as a joint- title 
 with Dufferin, in the Baronage of Ireland. 
 
 HH. 
 
 IVEAGH. 
 
 The tribe-name UiB Gacac was formerly borne by two distinct territories, — the one 
 in the present barony of West Carbery, in the county of Cork, sometimes called 
 Uib 6acac TTIuriian, 'Uibh Eachach of Munster', and now known by the name 
 
 Evaugh ; 
 
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 Eoaugh ; the other in the present county of Down, generally styled Uib Gacac 
 Ula6, ' Uibh Eachach of Ulster ', sometimes anglicised Evagh, and now known as the 
 baronies of Iveagh. A considerable portion of the latter territory was anciently called 
 Coba or UiB Gucac CoBu, and in many instances this name was used as equivalent to 
 Uibh Eachach'', both being derived from the same individuals " ©ocuiD Coba a quo 
 Llib Gucac Coba la Oalapaibe", " Eochaidh Cobha, a quo Uibh Eachach Cobha in 
 Dalaraidhe"; "Ui n-Gucac Coba .1, leac jenealac Oalapoioi", " Ui n-Eathach 
 Cobha, i. e. the half tribe of Dalaraidhe'". An estimate may be formed of the age iu 
 which this Eochaidh Cobha lived, from the place which his name holds in the pedigree 
 of Magennis, and other ancient families of the race of Ir. 
 
 Pocaio 
 
 TTlac ConaiU, 
 
 rriic CaolbaiD, 
 
 rriic Cpomnbabpaioe, 
 
 rriic GQChacb co6]ia, 
 
 o pnicep Llib Gacac Ulao, 
 rriic Piuca QpaiDe. 
 
 Fothadh", (ob. A. D. 552,) 
 
 Son of Connla, (temp. S. Patricii,) 
 Son of Caolbadh, (ob. A. D. 358,) 
 Son of Crunnbadruidhe, 
 Son of Eochaidh Cobha, from whom is 
 called Uibk Eachach of Uladh. 
 
 Son of Fiacha Araidhe', (ob. A. D. 236.) 
 
 D. 55 1, Fergna, son of Aengus, King of Uladh, slain in the battle of Druim-Cleithe 
 by Deman, son of Cairioll, and by the Uibh Eathach n-Arda. 
 
 A. D. 683, 
 
 ■■ Thus Mac Firbis gives the ^enealac TTlec 
 Qonjjupa cijeapnu Uib Gucac Ulao, no 
 Coba, " Pedigree of Mac Aongus, Lord of Uibh 
 Eachach of Uladh, or Cobha ". The " Book of 
 Kights," indeed, distinguishes between them, and 
 makes Hi/ Eachach tributary to the king of Oriell, 
 while Cobha it places under the king of Uladh. 
 
 ^ The Dinnseanchus says that Magh Cobha was 
 surnamed after Cobha, the huntsman of the sons of 
 Miletius of Spain (Book of Lecan, fol. 254, b, b.) 
 
 ' Book of Lecan, fol. 135 a, cols. 2 and 3. 
 
 " There must be an hiatus of at least two genera- 
 tions in this pedigree between Fothadh and Caol- 
 badh, as appears from the annexed dates. Tiger - 
 nach, at 552 ; the An. UI. at 551 and 557 ; and the 
 Four Mast, at 546, record the death of " Fothadh, son 
 of Conall". Tigernach, again, at 553, records the 
 death of " Eochaidh, son of Connla, king of Uladh, 
 
 adding, "a quo Llib Gaccic Ulao naci 
 punc", "from whom the Uibh Eathach ofUladh are 
 descended". So also the An. UI. at 552. The Four 
 ]Mast , at 547, are even more explicit : " The king of 
 Uladh, Eochaidh, son of Connla, son of Caolbadh, 
 son of Cnmnbadraighe, died. The Conaill in the 
 pedigree, or Connla, as he is called in the Biogra- 
 phies of St. Patrick, was brother of Sarain, from 
 whom descended the Mac Artans, and both were con- 
 temporaries of the saint See above, pp. 213, 214. 
 
 '■ All the pedigrees introduce between Eochaidh 
 Cobha and Fiacha Araidhe the names of Lughaidli, 
 Eos, Imchadh, Fedhlimidh, and Cas. But O Fla- 
 herty cancels them, inasmuch as the mterval be- 
 tween 358 and 236 does not admit of so many ge- 
 nerations. — See Ogyg., pp. 156, 157. Tigernach 
 excludes Eos, son of Imchadh, by assignmg to him 
 the date 248. 
 
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 A. D. 683, Breasal, son of Fergus, chief of Cobha, died. 
 
 A. D. 701, Macnia, king of the Nepotes Echdach Uladh, died. — (An. Ul.) 
 
 A. D. 703, Battle of the Plain of Cuilenn" in the Ard of Uibh Ethach, between the 
 
 Ulidians and the Britons, where the Ulidians were victors — {Tigernach.) 
 A. D. 712, Battle between the two sons of Bee Boirche and the descendants of Breasal, 
 
 chiefs of Ua n-Ethach Uladh, in which the latter were defeated. 
 A. D. 732, Conchadh, son of Cuanach, chief of Cobha, slain at the battle of Faughard 
 
 in Magh Muirtheimhne. 
 A. D. 734, Fergus Glutt, chief of Cobha. 
 A. D. 739, Eochaidh, son of Breasal, chief of Ua n-Ethach. 
 A. D. 756, Battle of Ath-Duma between the Ulidans and Uibh Ethach, in which Ailill, 
 
 son of Fedhlimidh, lord of Ua n-Ethach, Avas slain. 
 A. 1). 771, Battle of Ath-Dumha between the people of Orior and Uibh Echach Cobha, 
 
 in which Gornighal, son of Conall Crai, lord of Cobha, was slain. 
 A. D. 779, Coisenmhech Ua Pordene, lord of Ua n-Ethach Uladh, died. 
 A. D. 796, Battle between the Ulidians and Ui Ethach Cobha. in which Eocliaidh, son 
 
 of Ailill, lord of Coliha, was slain. 
 A. I). 825, Muiredhach, son of Eathach, lord of Ui Ethach of Uladh. 
 A. D. 851, Cearnach, son of Maolbresail, lord of Cobha, died. 
 A. D. 879, Conallan, son of Maolduin, lord of Cobha, slain in battle. 
 A. 1). 931, Bard Boinne, chief poet of Ireland, slain by the Uibh Corbmaic of Ua 
 
 n-Ethach Cobha. 
 
 A. 1). 965, Aodh Ua h-Aitidhe, King of Ua n-Ethach Cobha, slain by his own tribe. 
 
 A. D. 980, Donihnall Ua h-Ateid, lord of Ua n-Ethach, slain. 
 
 A. D. 992, Clercein, son of Maoldun, lord of Ua n-Ethach, was slain by his own tribe. 
 
 A. D. 998, Ua n-Ethach laid waste by Aodh, son of Domhnall, who carried off great 
 
 spoils of oxen, and this depredation was called the great prey of Magh 
 
 Cobha. 
 
 A. D. 1 003, Gairbhidh, lord of Ua n-Ethach, Avas slain at the battle of Craobh Tulcha. 
 
 A. 1). 1004, The Ui n-Eathach and Ulidians defeated by Flaithbhertach at Lochbri- 
 
 crend, and Artan, righdamhna of Ua n-Eathach, was slain. 
 
 A. D. 1005, Echmilidh Ua h-Aitide, lord of Ua n-Ethach, slain by his own Ulidians. 
 
 A. D. loii, Muirchertach Mac Artain, tanist of Ua n-Ethach, was slain. 
 
 A, D. 1 01 8, Ruaidhri Ua h-Ailellan, lord of Ua n-Ethach, slain by the men of Farney. 
 
 A. D. 1028, The son of Cu-Cuailgne, lord of Ua n-Ethach, died. 
 
 A. D. 1046, 
 
 " Cuilinn. — Probably near the modem Slieve Gullion. 
 
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 A. D. 1046, Aitidh ua h-Aiteidh, lord of Ua n-Ethach of Uladb, was burned in his 
 
 house by Cuuladh, son of Congaltach, lord of Uachtartire". 
 A. D. 1065, Echmhilidh Ua h-Aiteidh, lord of Ua n-Ethach, slain by the Cenel- 
 
 Eoghain. 
 A. D. 1086, The Ui Eathach defeated by the men of Orior, and Domhnall Ua h- 
 
 Aittedh, slain. 
 A. D. 1094, Flaithbhertach Ua h-Addidh, lord of Ua n-Ethach Uladh, blinded by 
 
 Donnchadh Ua h-Eochadha, King of Uladh. 
 A. D. 1 102, Donnchadh Mac Echri Ui Aiteidh, tanist of Ua n-Ethach, was slain by 
 
 the Ulidians. 
 A. D. 1 1 19, Domhnall Ua h-Adeith", lord of Ua n-Echdach, slain by Echri, son of 
 
 Flaithbhertach. 
 A. D. 1 136, Echri Ua h- Aitteidh, lord of Ua n-Eachdach, was slain by the Ui Eachach 
 
 themselves. 
 
 In the course of the twelfth century the family of Magennis rose into power in 
 this territory, and presently superseded the family of OHaideth, which, from the 
 foregoing Annals, appears for a considerable time previously to have held the supre- 
 macy. The name Magennis was formed from niac Qongupa, ' Son of Aongus', being 
 a patronymic derived from Aongus, son of Aidith, an ancestor of the family, who was 
 sixteenth in descent from Eochaidh Cobha, the author of the name Iveagh. " Qongup 
 mac QiDiora, a quo Clann Qonjupa", "Aongus, son of Aidith, from whom the 
 
 Clann-Aongusa" (Mac Firbis, Geneal. MS.) The Magennisses at first were called 
 
 " Lords of Clann- Aodha", from Aodh, who was seventh in descent from Eochaidh Cob- 
 ha'. Thus among the attestations to the Charter of Newry occurs the name of " Aedh 
 
 Magnus 
 
 « Uachtairtire. — Watertiry is laid do^vn on Mer- parte of all that his countrie, called Killanarte [Kine- 
 
 cator's Map of " Ultoiiia Orieutalis" as the territory larty], or in Watertirrye, or elsewliere, in co. Downe". 
 
 adjoining the inner bay of Dundrum on the west, con- {CaX. Cane. Hib., vol. ii. p. 71.) 
 
 taining the castle of" Dondroni", and extending from x 'Yhe Charter of Newry records the name of Do- 
 
 "Maheracat"[Clough] southwards to below "Magh- naldus OHede as then Rex OveacL As this docu- 
 
 ereraj-e" [Maghera]. ("Atlas". Duysbiu-gi Clivo- nient is referable to about A. D. 1158, it follows that 
 
 rum, 1595; Amst. 1606, between pp. 55-56; Amst. a second Domhnall Ua h-Adeith was at that time 
 
 1630, between pp. 53-54.) Itis now chiefly represent- Lord of Iveagh, or else that the charter is spurious, 
 ed by those nine to wnlands of Kilmeganpaiish, which y "Aodh, a quo Clann Aodha, son of Failbhe, 
 
 are included in the barony of Lecale — (Ord. Surv., son of lollan, son of Fiachna, son of Maine, son of 
 
 ss. 48, 44.) See Four Mast, A. D. 1054, 1061. Aongus, son of Crunnbadhruighe, son of Eochaidh 
 
 In 1605 PhelomyM'-"Arton made over to Lord Crom- Cobha" — (Mac Firbis.) See the Catalogue of the 
 
 well "the castle of Dondrome", with "the third Kings of Uladh following, No. 18. 
 
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 Magnus Magangasa, Dux Clanaeda Oveacli Ulad". And in like manner in the Annals 
 of the Four Masters at the year 1208. The title, however, seems to have been changed 
 in the fourteenth century, as we find Eachmilidh [Agholy] Magennis, who was great- 
 great-grandson of the Aedh who signed the Charter of Newry, addressed in two letters 
 of Edward II., bearing date 1314 and 1315, as " Admely Mac Anegus, Dux Hiber- 
 nicorum de OueAagh". — (Rymer Feed., vol. ii. pp. 245, 263.) 
 
 11. 
 
 ULADH. 
 
 The province of Ulster anciently extended from t)j obcioip, Droceesh, now the river 
 Drowse, which flows from Lough Melvin into Donegal Bay, dividing the counties of 
 Donegal and Leitrim, to liibecip Colpa, Inver Colpa, the mouth of the Boyue, the 
 river which divides the counties of Louth and Meath'. Thus its superficial extent 
 was nearly the same as that of the modern Ulster, inasmuch as it contained Louth, 
 which is now in Leinster, instead of Cavan, which then belonged to Connaught. In 
 this condition it enjoyed a succession of thirty-one kings', from Cimbaoth, son of 
 Fintan, who flourished B. C. 305, to Fergus Fogha, who fell at the battle of Carn 
 Achaidh Lethderg in 332^ Emania was the seat of royalty, and the princes who occu- 
 pied it were, with few exceptions, of the Clanna Rudhraighe [Clanna Rury], or descen- 
 dants of Rudhraighe Mor, in the line of Ir. In the year of our Lord 108, according 
 to Tigernach, Fiatach Finn began to reign in Emania; and in the year 116, according 
 to the chronology of O Flaherty, he became King of Ireland'^. He was of the race of 
 Heremon^ and from him descended the family called Dal Fiatach, which, at an early 
 date, became engrafted into the Clanna Rudhraighe, and had attained to considerable 
 power at A. D. 332, when it shared their fortunes in the joint limitation of their 
 power to their circumscribed Uladh, After that event the Dal Fiatach became the 
 leading family in Uladh, and furnished it with more than three-fourths of its kings 
 during a period of seven centuries. This will appear from the following catalogue 
 of the Kings of Uladh, compiled from the Genealogical Work of Duald Mac Firbis, 
 
 and 
 
 ' Keating, Hist, of Ireland, vol. i p 132. ^ See the note on Glionn Riogit at p. 25.3. 
 
 =» A catalogue of these kings, compiled from tlie <• Ogj'gia, pp 142, 301. See also Dr. OConor's 
 
 Annals of Tigernach, is printed by Dr. Conor, Ker. Rer. Hib. SS., vol. ii. p. 27, note 2. 
 Hib. SS., vol. ii. p. 66 ; and by ^Slr. O Donovan. Rat. '' In the Ernai, a tiibe sprung from Ailill Aronn who 
 
 of Magh Kath, p. 329. settled in Ulster, circ. A. M. 3850. (Ogj-g., p. 266.) 
 
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 and from the Annals of the Four Masters, wherein the only names belonging to the 
 Clanna Eudhraighe are those numbered i, 2, 6, lo, 13, 18, 20,' 25, 28, 31, 38, 43. 
 
 1. Caelbadh, son of Crunnbadruighe, after a reign of fifteen years over Uladh, and 
 
 one over Ireland, was slain A. D. 358''. 
 
 2. Saran, son of Caelbadh, reigned twenty-six years. 
 
 3. Muireadhach Muinderg, ninth in descent from Fiatach Finn, after a reign of 
 
 twenty-eight years, died a natural death A. D. 479. 
 
 4. Eochaidh, son of the preceding, died after a reign of twenty-four years, A. D. 503. 
 
 5. Cairioll, brother of preceding, reigned twenty-three years, and died A. D. 526. 
 
 6. Eochaidh, son of Connla, son of Caolbadh, reigned twenty years, and died A. D. 
 
 547- 
 
 7. Feargna, son of Aongus, reigned four years, and was slain, A. D. 551, at the battle 
 
 of Druim Clethe, by Deman, son of Cairioll. 
 
 8. Deman, son of Cairioll, after a reign of fourteen years, was slain, A. D. ^6^, by the 
 
 shepherds of Boirinn'. 
 
 9. Baodan, brother of the preceding, reigned twenty years, and died A. D. 585s. 
 
 10. Aodh Dubh, son of Suibhne, reigned seven years'', and was slain by Fiachna, son 
 
 of Baodan, A. D. 592. 
 
 11. Fiachna, son of Baodan, after a reign of thirty years, was slain at the battle of 
 
 Lethead Midinn' A. D. 622. 
 
 12. Fiachna, son of Deman, reigned two years, and was slain by the Dalriads. 
 
 13. Congal Claen, son of Sgannlan Sgiath-leathan, descended from Eochaidh Cobha, 
 
 after a reign of ten years, was slain at the battle of Magh Rath A. D. 634J. 
 
 1 4. Dunchadh, son of Fiachna, son of Deman, reigned nine years, and died A. D. 643. 
 
 15. Maolcobha, son of Fiachna, reigned three years, and was slain by Congal Ceannfada 
 
 16. Blathmac, 
 
 *■ He became monarch of Ireland after the death f See note, \). 202. To the tomilauds there men- 
 of Jluiredhach Tireach, whom he slew at Port High tioned may be added the names of Burrenhane and 
 on the Dabhul ui Oriel, now called the Blackwater^ Burrenreagh in the parish of Kilcoo, between Castle- 
 as appears from Jocehn's Life of St. Patrick, cap. 87. -svellan and Bryansford. 
 
 The sixteen years of his reign, deducted from 358, s Under him the Ultonians sought to re-establish 
 
 leave 342 as the date of his accession, which was ten themselves in Emania ; as Tigernach records, A. D. 
 
 years subsequent to the battle of the Collas, and five 578, " Primum periculura Ulidiorum in Eamania" ; 
 
 years prior to the destruction of Eamania (Ogygia, and again, " Abreversio Uladensium de Eamania". 
 
 pp. 156, 157, 360, 371, 373.) This computation ■' He was previously Lord of Dalaraidhe. See j). 2 7!i. 
 
 excludes the four kings Avhich precede Coelbadh in ' See p. 340, note ^, and the passage in the text. 
 
 Mac Firbis' hst, p. 491. J See O Donovan's Battle ofMacjh Rath. 
 
 2 Z 
 
1 
 
 54 
 
 1 6. Blathmac, son of Maolcobha, reigned ten years, and died A. D. 656. 
 17'. Congal Ceannfada, son of Dunchadh, (No. 14,) reigned seven years, and Avas slain 
 by Bee Boirche A. D. 673. 
 
 1 8. Feargus, son of Lodan, son of Aodh, from whom are the Clann Aodh, descended 
 
 from Eochaidh Cobha, reigned thirteen years, and was slain by theUibh Eathach 
 
 A. D. 689. 
 
 19. Bee Boirche, son of Blathmac, (No. 16,) reigned thirteen years, and died on a pil- 
 
 grimage A. D. 71 6. 
 
 20. Cucuaran, son of Dungaill, brother of Congal Claen, (No. 13,) reigned five year?. 
 
 and was slain by Sgannlann Finn O Rabhan of Dalriada. 
 
 21. Aodh Roin, son of Bee Boirche. reigned twenty-seven years, and was slain by 
 
 Aodh Allan, at the battle of Fothart, A. D. 732. 
 
 22. Breasal, son of Aodh Roin, reigned one year, and died at Uun Celtchair^ A. D. 733. 
 
 23. Cathusach, son of AiliU, son ..f Dungaill, (No. 20.) after a reign of sixteen years, 
 
 was slain at Rath Bethech A. I). 749. 
 
 24. Fiachna, son of Aodh Roin, reigned two years, and died A. D. 785. 
 
 25. Tomaltach, son of lonnrachtach, descended from Eochaidh Cobha, reigned two 
 
 years, and was slain by Eochaidh, son of Fiachna, A. D. 787. 
 
 26. Eochaidh, son of Fiachna, son of Aodh Roin, after a reign of ten years, was slain 
 
 by his brother Cairioll A. D. 807. 
 
 27. Cairioll, son of Fiachna, reigned nine years, and was slain by Muiredhach, son of 
 
 Eochaidh, A. D. 816. 
 
 28. Breasal, son of Oilill', descended from Eochaidh CoV)ha, reigned six years, and 
 
 died A. D. 823. 
 
 29. Muiredhach, sou of Eochaidh, son of Aodh Roin, reigned thirteen years"', and fell 
 
 by the hands of Aodh and Aongus, his oAvn brothers. 
 
 30. :Madagan, son of preceding, reigned seventeen years, and died in holy orders A. D. 
 
 855. 
 
 31. Leathlobhar, son of Loingsech, descended from Eochaidh Cobha, reigned sixteen 
 
 years, and died at a good old age A. D. 871°. 
 
 32. Ainbeth, 
 
 •i Dim CeUchair, — An ancient name i)f the sreat An. i:i. in tlie iiaralUl itassa^e. 
 
 tort at Uownipatricli, see p. 142. " Dundaleathglas, " The Foui- Mast, at 826 record a victory he gained 
 
 otherwise Aras-Cealtrach".— .Aji. Inisf., A. D. 1304. over the Danes, and style him King of Uladh. The 
 
 I The Four Mast, at 823, and the An. Ul. at 824, Xn. Ul. at the parallel place, 827, call him King of 
 
 call him •' :Maolbre.<ail. lord of Dalaraiflhe". Dalaraidhe, wlueh he then was, and from which he 
 
 "' He is styled Lord of Uibh Eathach Uladh by ^vas advanced in 855. For an exami)le of a similar 
 
 the Four Mast, at 825 ; but King of Uludh by the prolepsis see above, p. 279. 
 
32. Ainbeth, son of Aodh, son of Madagan, (No. 30,) reigned twenty years, and fell 
 
 in battle by the Conaille Miiirtheimhne, A.D. 879, or 881. 
 
 33. Aireaman, brother of the preceding, reigned twenty years, and was killed by the 
 
 Danes A. D. 885. 
 
 34. Fiachna, son of Ainbeth, son of Aidith, after a reign of one year, was slain by the 
 
 Ulidians A. D. 886. 
 
 35. Bee, son of Aireman, (No. 33,) after a reign of seven years, was slain by Aidith, 
 
 son of Laighne, and the Uibh Eachach Cobha, A. D. 889. 
 
 36. Aodh, son of Eochagan, descended from Aodh Eoin, reigned twenty years, and 
 
 was slain, with Niall Glundubh, by the Danes of Dublin. 
 
 37. Dubhgall, son of the preceding, reigned seven years, and was killed, treacherously, 
 
 by his own brother Maolruanaidh, aided by [a tribe of] the Ulidians, i. e. the 
 Cenel Mailche°, A. D. 923. 
 
 38. Loingsech Ua Lethlobhair, son of Eitigh, son of Lethlobhar, (No. 31,) reigned 
 
 seven years, and died A. D. 923. 
 
 39. Eochaidh, son of Conall, reigned five years, and died A. D. 935. 
 
 40. Madagan, son of Aodh, (No. 36,) reigned fifteen years, and was killed by iNIac Broin 
 
 of the Uibh Eathach A. D. 948. 
 
 41. Niall, son of Aodh, (No. 36,) after a reign of fifteen years, died A. D. 959. 
 
 42. Ardgal, son of Madagan, (No. 40,) reigned seven years, and was killed by Donall 
 
 of Cnodhbha in the defeat of Cill Mona, A. D. 976. 
 
 43. Aodh, son of Loingsech, (No. 38,) reigned two years, and was slain by Eochaidh, 
 
 son of Ardgal, A. D. 978. 
 
 44. Eochaidh, son of Ardgal, (No. 42,) after a reign of thirty-five years, fell at the 
 
 battle of Craobh TulchaP A. D. 1003. 
 
 45. Giollacomgaill, son of Ardgal, (No. 42,) reigned one year, and was slain by Maol- 
 
 ruanaidh, son of Ardgal, A. D. 1004. 
 
 46. Maolruanaidh, son of Ardgal, reigned half a year, and was killed by Madagan, son 
 
 of Domhnall, A. D. 1005. 
 
 47. Madagan, son of Domhnall, reigned one month, and was slain at Dun-da-leath- 
 
 glas, by the Danes'', A. D. 1005. 
 
 48. Dubhthuinne, 
 
 " Cenel Mailche, — Was a tribe of the Dal Fiatach Lecaii, fol. 138, 6, a. 
 of Uladh. It is mentioned by the Four Mast, at p See p. 3-11. note ''. 
 
 A. D. 912, 923. According to MacFirbis the Cinel 1 The Fom- Mast, say it was by Tore, i. e. Dubh- 
 
 rriuilce was one of the four families of the Mo- tuinne ; to which the Annals of Ulster aiid : in Ec 
 
 nach (Gen. MS., pp. 506, 507.) See Book of clus Briyhde. See p. 232. 
 
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 48. Dubhtliuinne [Duffin], son of Eochaidli, (No. 44,) reigned five years, and he was 
 
 slain at Dun-da-leath-glas, through the miracles of God and Patrick, by Muire- 
 dhach, son of Madagan, A. D. 1005. 
 
 49. Donall, son of the preceding, reigned five years, and was slain by Muiredhach, son 
 
 of Madagan, A. D. 1006. 
 
 50. Niall, son of Dubhthuinne, (No. 48,) reigned ten years, and died. 
 
 51. Niall, son of Eochaidh, (No. 44,) reigned forty-seven years, and died A. 1). io62\ 
 
 52. Eochaidh, brother of the preceding, reigned one year, and died A. D. 1063. 
 
 53. Donnchadh OMathghamhna (OMahony) reigned two years, and was slain by 
 
 Brodar in the Daimhliagh of Beannchar A. D. 1065. 
 
 54. Cuuladh OFlaithrigh, after a reign of six years, was burned by the men of Meath 
 
 A. D. 1072. 
 ^^. Aodh Manannach reigned two years, and was drowned in Loch Eathacli A. I). 
 1074. 
 
 56. Donnsleibhe OHeochaidh [Iloey], after a reign of twenty years, was slain by tlie 
 
 Cinel Owen, at the battle of Bealach Guirt-an-Iobhair, A. D. 1094. 
 
 57. Donnchadh, son of the preceding, after a reign of six years, was blinded by Donn- 
 
 chadh OLochlain A. D. iioo. 
 
 58. Goll Garbraighe, or Eochaidh, son of Donnsleibhe Heochaidh, reigned four years, 
 
 and was beheaded by OMathgamhna and OMaolruanaidh A. D. 1 108. 
 
 59. Aodh Mac Donnsleibhe reigned twenty-one years, and died*. 
 
 60. Garrchu O Mathghamhna reigned twenty-five years, and was killed at the battle 
 
 of Uais. 
 
 61. Cuuladh OHeochaidh reigned twenty-five years, and died A. D. 1157, and was 
 
 buried in Down. 
 
 62. Aodh O Heochaidh reigned one year, and was slain by the Cinel Conaill A. I). 1 1 58. 
 
 63. Kochaidh Mac Donnsleibhe OHeochaidh blinded by Muircertach OLochlan A. D. 
 
 1 166. 
 
 64. Maghnus OHeochaidh slain by his brother Donnsleibhe A. D. 1 171. 
 
 6^. Donnsleibhe OHeochaidh, King of Uladh A. D. 1172. 
 
 66. Cuuladh, 
 
 >■ Tlic An. Ul. style this jirince QipDJiI UltiD, they relate that the two Kiin^^s of L'lailh, Aodh Ua 
 
 Areh-king of Uladh. ^lathgamhna and Niall Jlac Duinnslebhe Ua Eocha- 
 
 * The Four Masters, at 1113, relate that Donn- dha, fell in battle. At 11 28 they relate the death 
 
 cliadh was expelled from the government by Donall of Cenneith mac Aodha mac Duinnslelihe, King of 
 
 < » I>(jughlin, and the authority di\-ided between Ua Uladh. At 1131, that Itaghnall Ua Eochadiia, King 
 
 Mathgamhna and Ua Punnslebhe. Again, at 1127, of Uladh, was slain in ilagh Conaill. 
 
2>S7 
 
 66. Cuuladh, son of Donnsleibhe, defeated at Downpatrick by John de Courcy A. D. 
 
 1178. 
 
 67. Rudhraighe Mac Donnsleibhe, mentioned by the Four Masters A. D. 1181, 11 89, 
 
 1 196, 1199, as in alliance with the English settlers. The Annals of Inisfallen, 
 at A. D. 1200, in recording his death by John de Courcy, style him " the last 
 kingof Uladh". 
 
 68. G. Mac Duinleve', rex Hibernicorum Ultoniaj, A. D. 1275. — (Rymer, Feed., 
 
 vol. i. p. 520.) 
 
 It is to be observed that the annalists in treating of Uladh frequently employ the 
 term Coicib, Province, taken absolutely, instead of the proper name. This word pri- 
 marily signified 'a fifth portion', and was commonly applied to each of the five prin- 
 cipal divisions of Ireland: hence it came to denote a province, and was applied to 
 Uladh, par excellence, even long after that name was limited in its acceptation. Thus 
 the individual who is called Re;: in Coicit) by the Annals of Ulster at A. D. 872, is 
 styled T^ij Ula6 by the Four Masters in the parallel passage, A. D. 871 ; while at the 
 years 913, 1062, of the former, and 912, 978, 1062, 1096, of the latter, the term CoiciD 
 is used to denote what elsewhere is expressed by Uluoh. 
 
 Another term which occurs in the Annals in connexion with this country is that 
 of 6eir-pi Lllao, which Dr. O Conor always renders " Rex dimidii Ultonije". It was 
 used to denote the King of Leath-Cathail, in contra-distinction to the Qipb-pi^ or 
 Arch- King. This may be shewn from the Four Masters, A. D. 891, who apply to 
 Maolmocheirghe, son of Innreachtach, the t\l\& Lord of Leath-Cathail'', as equivalent to 
 Leithri Uladh, by which the Annals of Ulster, at A. D. 895, designate the same person : 
 
 A. D. 851, Cathmal, son of Tomaltach, Leith-ri of Uladh, was slain by the Danes. 
 A. D. 869, Cathal, son of Innreachtach, Leith-ri of Uladh, was slain at the instance 
 of King Aodh. 
 
 The Annals of Ulster, at 882, 885, 890, apply the term Leith-ri to certain persons 
 
 who are called Kings of Uladh in the Four Masters and in Mac Firbis' Catalogue, in 
 
 which cases it is probable that they retain the inferior title which these individuals 
 
 enioyed before their elevation to the supreme dignity. 
 
 •' With 
 
 ' This name, as well as the modern Dunlevy, is took its name from Cathal, one of the Dal Fiatach, 
 
 written according to the pronmiciation of tlie origi- after whose death it was governed by a series of 
 
 nal, Diinsleibhe, which became a patronj-mic among lords. Cathal flourished before the middle of the 
 
 the regidi of Uladh from 1094 till after 1275. eighth centurj-, masmuch as his son Tomaltach was 
 
 » It has been shewn at p. 201 that this territory' slain in a civil commotion A. D. 788 — (Jn. Ul.) 
 
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 With the catalogue of the Kings Uladh, which has been just given, may be advan- 
 tao-eously associated the following curious tract upon the princes and families of Dal 
 Fiatach, taken from Duald Mac Firbis' Genealogical Work, pp. 50S-510: 
 
 " Piacna mac Oeamam do mac lei|^ 
 .1. Ouncab aj^up rDuolcoba. Romapb 
 maol-coba umoppo Ounc.iD. Do mupb 
 Conral ceanpaoa mac Ouncaoa ITlaol- 
 coba 1 n-t)un mop. Qpe an IDaolcoba 
 rin DO puD puilce o'pileaDuib Gpenn lup Maelcobha that entertained the poets of 
 n-Diulcao ppiu d'CTod mac Qmmipeuc Ireland when Hugh, son of Ainmire, nio- 
 Do pi^fcipenn a rhopoud Dpomci Ceaca nurch of Ireland, discarded them at the 
 
 " Fiachna Dubhtuile, son of Deaman, 
 had two sons, viz., Dunchadh and Mael- 
 cobha. Maelcobha slew Dunchadh; and 
 Congal Ceannfoda, son of Dunchadh, slew 
 Maelcobha at Dun-mor*. It was this 
 
 lie Di;tic an pile : 
 
 " Pecc DO maol-coba na ccliap 
 Qt lobap-cinn-cpocca nap, 
 t)a ceD oej pde6 pop puaip, 
 Rip an lubap aniapcuaio. 
 CoinnrheuD ceopa m-blinoain m-biim 
 tDo paD ooib rriaolcoba an cinj: 
 niepaiD 50 la bparu bam, 
 t)o cenel oealbDa TDeamain. 
 
 " Oa mac niaoil-coba .1. 6larmac a 
 
 Meeting of Dromceat. Ut dixit the poet: 
 
 "At a time that the popular Maelcobha 
 Was at lubhar Chinntrachta [Newry], 
 Twelve hundred poets he discovered. 
 Hard by the lubhar on the north-west. 
 A three years happy coigny 
 Maelcobha the king gave to them : 
 Its renown shall ever live. 
 For the comely Cenel Demain". 
 " The two sons of Maelcoba were Blath- 
 
 nuo pioj5pai6 Ulao; Qon^up a quo Ci- mac, a quo the Kings of Ulidia; and Aen- 
 
 nel n-Qon^upa, up DiB piojpaioe 6eire gus, a quo the Cenel Aengusa*, of whom 
 
 Cacail. tDo jab Dno 6lacmac pi;i^e an are the Kings of Leath Cathail. Blath- 
 
 (joiTiD ajup DO jab 6fcc 6oipce a mac mac (son of Maelcobha) assumed the kuig- 
 
 ma Diaij^. t)a mac Deg 6ec 6oipte .1. ship of the province, as did also his son 
 
 6Dipp5el a quo Cmel eoeppjeoil. Con- Bee Boirche after him. Bee Boirche had 
 
 cabap mac 6ec a quo Uu Oachua .1. twelve sons, viz., Edirsgal, a ^mo the Kinel 
 
 t)achuamac Concubaip mic6eic.Ceal- EdirsgeP ; Concobar, son of Bee, a quo 
 
 lac 
 
 ' A towuliiud ill the )>arish of Dromara, and barony 
 of Kinelarty, bears this name. See p. 105, col. 2. 
 
 " Cenel Demain One of the witnesses of the 
 
 Charter of Newiy is " GillanaiiiPinh OLourada. Uux 
 Kyiiel-temnean" . Tliis tribe may have settled in 
 tlie vicinity of Rath- Temayn, now Rademan — See 
 p. 216. The above lines are also quoted in Keating's 
 
 O Dachua, 
 
 Historj-, at .\n. 560. A reference to Dermod O Co- 
 nor's version, or rather perversion, of them will satisfy 
 the reader that the second part of Keating's work 
 remains yet to be translated. 
 
 ■^ Cenel Aetigttsa This tribe is mentioned by the 
 
 Four Masters A. D. 1199 — See above, p. 339, note ». 
 
 1 The Inquisition on William de Burgo, A. D. 1333. 
 
359 
 
 lac mcic 6ec a quo Clunn Ceallai^ 05 
 Opuim bo; ©aracDci mac 6ece a quo 
 ui GuracDQ 05 Pionnloc; Ceapnac mac 
 6ec a quo p\p 6oipce .1. ui IDuipeaDai^, 
 agup clann Chaipiollan an piojpuib, 
 
 Clann ITlaoilcpnecca aliop. Qoo 
 
 Roin mac 6eic 6oipce pi pioen an coi- 
 516 1 n-oiai^ a acap apuao bno piojpaij 
 Lllao opin cille. 
 
 "' C015 mec la h-Qo6 TJo»n .1, piaca 
 mac Qo6a Roin a quo Clann Piachaib 
 1 n-Oun-ba-lecjlaipi. Qp laip &o ponao 
 bpoiceacc na peippi ojup tDpoiceacc 
 TTlona t)aim et alios, gona Piacna oub 
 opoirceac a ainm piben. Qp do cii^ao 
 an miol mop jup na cpi piaclaib oip 50 
 rcapoab piacail Don c-paop oib .1. an paop 
 DO pinne an Dpoiceacc ajup a Do pop 
 mionnaib an cuijiD ape Do cuaio ma 
 ailicpe DO 6eanDcaip ap jam aonbo ma 
 coijeab. Se meic Dno ajan piiiocna 
 pin .1. Caipioll mac piacna o ccaiD ui 
 Caipill 1 n-Oun-oa-leac-jlapp; Gochcno 
 mac piacna a quo Clann Garac 1 n- LI Il- 
 ea ib; 
 
 gives the name Edrescall to a tract of land lying 
 between Ballyoran and Holywood, in the N. E. of 
 the county of Down. 
 
 ^ Drwnbo. — See Slut Kellies, above at p. 348. 
 
 ^ Now the barony of IMourne — See above, p. 206 ; 
 and further on, pp. 365, 369. 
 
 ^ O Murry.—See above, p. 9. note ''. 
 
 '^ This cannot be Belfast, for the Lagan here is too 
 wide for such bridges as the ancient Irish were able 
 to construct. The Long Bridge, as it was called. 
 
 ODachna, i. e. Dachua, son of Concobar, 
 son of Bee ; Ceallach, son of Bee, a quo the 
 Clann Ceallaigh at Drum-bo^; Eathacli- 
 dlia, son of Bee, a quo OEathachdha, at 
 Finnloch ; Cearnacli, son of Bee, a quo Fir 
 Boirche \the men of Boirche'^'], i.e. OMur- 
 ry'', and the Clann Cairiollan the kings; 
 
 Clann Maelsnechta alios. Aodh 
 
 Eoin, son of Bee Boirche, was king, and 
 the fifth after his father. It is from him 
 the Kings of Uladh descend from that 
 time down. 
 
 " Aodh Roin had five sons, viz., Fiacha, 
 son of Aodh Roin, u quo Clann Fiachaidh 
 at Dun-da-leathglas. It was he that made 
 Droichead na Feirsi'^ [the Bridge of the 
 Pass], and Droiehed Mona Daimh [Bridge 
 of Moin Daimh], et alios : he got the name 
 of Fiaehna of the black bridges. It was he 
 that got the whale with the three golden 
 teeth; and he gave a tooth of them to 
 the mason, i. e. the mason that built the 
 bridge; and he gave the other two to or- 
 nament the reliquaries of the province**. It 
 was he that made a pilgrimage to Beann- 
 chair, because one cow had been stolen in 
 his province. This Fiaehna had six sons, 
 
 viz., 
 
 was the first which was built there, and its date was 
 1682. Possibly the Fearsat of the text was tliat 
 mentioned by the Four Masters, A. D. 1149, 1433. 
 See above, pp. 184, 253. 
 
 <* See pp. 200, 207. Such stories were not un- 
 common. Giraldus Cambrensis writes : " Nostris 
 quoque diebus in Britannia majori, foresta scilicet 
 Dunohiiensi, mventa et capta est cerva onmes ui ore 
 dentes amei cnloris habens" — (Top. Hib., Dist. ii. 
 cap. 10. 
 
360 
 
 caib; 6ec mac Piacnci a quo Clann 
 f^aipepne, ajup Clann Cepn mic 6eic 
 mic Piacno; ^oinjpioc mac Pincna a 
 quo ui Connmai^ i n-Dun-ba-learjlap; 
 6larmuc mac Piacna a quo luce na 
 tDopnainbe .1. Cara|Kic mcic Ojun ^c. ; 
 Concubap mac Piacna oiobhuio pioen. 
 
 " Gochaio muc piacna umoppo 12 
 mac laip ba ppirii mnaiB, ajup 12 mac 
 pe capubmnaib. Peupjup mat 6ocliaou 
 o ccaiG Clann pepj^up .1. pinnpiop na 
 b-ppiom-mac; 6ec mac fearac o craio 
 Clann 6ece ; Qonjup mac Bacac o rcaio 
 Clann Qonju pain; OuncabmacGacac o 
 ccGib Clann Oiapmaba mic tDuncaoa 
 mic Gachac mic Piacna; Qno^aib mcc 
 Gacbac o ccaib Clann Qnnj^aou; Oonn- 
 chab mac Gacbuc o ccaib clunn Donn- 
 caib; ]Tluipeaboc mac Gacbac o ccaiD 
 Clann ^opmlaire, niabaoan mac ITIui- 
 pebai^ mic Bachoac mic Piacna, ^. 
 
 " 6larmac ono mac Qooci l^oin o c- 
 caib UI 6larmeic. 
 
 " 6peapal 
 
 " Durnan. — At the beginning of the seventeentli 
 century, a famil\- in Upper Clannaboy was called 
 Slutt Durnings See above, p. 348. 
 
 f Clann Dermod. — This name was preserved until 
 the seventeenth centuiy in the S. W. of the coimty 
 of Antrim. — See above, pp. 2, 180. 
 
 viz., Cairioll, son of Fiacbua, from whom 
 are the OCairill in Dun-da- leathglas ; 
 Eochaidh, son of Fiachna, a quo Clann 
 Eochadh in Uladh; Bee, son of Fiachna, 
 ii quo Clann Laiserne, and Clann Cern, 
 son of Bee, son of Fiachna; Loingseach, son 
 ol' Fiaehna, u quo OConnniaigh in Dun-da- 
 leathglas ; Blathmac, son of Fiachna, a quo 
 the people of Dornau^, i. e. Cathasach, son 
 of Ogan, &ic. ; Concobar, son of Fiaclina, 
 died without issue. 
 
 " Eochaidh, son of Fiachna, had twelve 
 sons by his principal wives, and twelve 
 sons by his concubines. Fergus, son of 
 Eochaidh, from whom are the Clann Fer- 
 gus, was the eldest of the chief sons; Bee, 
 son of Eochaidh, from whom the Clann 
 Bece ; Aengus, son of Eochaidh, from 
 Avhoni are the Clann Aengusain ; Dun- 
 chadh, son of Eochaidh, irom whom are 
 tlie Clann Dermod'" mac Duuchadh mic 
 Eochaidh mic Fiachna; Andgaidh, son of 
 Eochaidh, from whom are Clann Andgadha ; 
 Donnchadh, son of Eochaidh, from whom 
 are the Clann Donnchaidh ; Muireadhach, 
 son of Eochaidh, from whom are the Clann 
 Gormlaithe, Madadhan, son of Muiread- 
 hach, son of Eochaidh, son of Fiachna, &c. 
 
 " Blathmac, son of Aodh Koin, from 
 wliom are the Hy-Blatlimeic^. 
 
 "Breasal, 
 
 S Hy-Bluthmaic — This is the true derivation of 
 tlie name Blaethwyc, or Blawic, wliich has occurred 
 in the preceding part of this work, at pp. 8, 9, 171. 
 The extent of the rm-al deanry of Blaethwyc may be 
 calculated from the Taxation ; and, of the county of 
 Ne^^•to^^■n of Blaethwyc, from the Inqmsition of the 
 
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 " 6peapal mac Qo6a l^oin o ccaib 
 Clann 6peapail a Sleb ^apbpai^e. 
 
 " Caral mac Qo6a Roin o rcaio 
 Clann Cacail, ap biob tDiapmaio o 
 niaoilrealca comapba ComjaiU, acup 
 cenn eajna na n-^aoi6eal. 
 
 " Peapjal mac Qo6a Roin araip 
 Oiapmaoa, o cca Dipiopc tDiapmaoa. 
 
 " Coicc aicme umoppo o 6lacmac 
 mac Qooa T^oin .1. Clann ^aiceapa, 
 Clann TDomnaill, acup Lli Naemam, 
 Clann Cuileannain, acup Ui Cpaoibe. 
 
 " Q06 mac Gacac ono C015 meic laip 
 .1. Qinbich mac Qooa pi an C01516 o 
 rraiD niuinnp "Cip Qo6a ; Hiall mac 
 Qooa ap epioein bo rhapbpab i Cpeicim 1 
 n-t)un-bu-leacj^lap5o bopcaip cerpaime 
 an t)uin uaraib inn bo clomn phiacac 
 uaraib 50 bpac ; t)ub^all mac Qoba 
 o ccaiD Ui t)ub^aill; Qipeamon mac 
 Qooa o craib Lli Qipeamoin aj Inip- 
 moip. Do jabao bno pije Ulao o ib 
 Qipeamom .1. 6ec mac Qipeamoin acup 
 
 Riajan 
 
 Earl of Ulster, A. D. 1333, whieh finds the following 
 names of lands therein : Doundaunald [Dundonakl], 
 Austinestown, Dunleth [Dunlady], Wauerantone 
 [ Ballyoran], Masountoune, Edrescall, Halywode 
 [Holywood], Hogstoun [ llogstown ], Halcroscos, 
 Chenynton, Ynestoua, Nicholstoun [ Ballynichol], 
 Phyllipestoun [ Bally philip], Punyertoun, Ardke- 
 nan, Prerestoun, Agrystone, Castletoun [ Balh- 
 castle], Kannany, Balyeonn [Ballycam], Sythe, 
 [Bally galget], Arkyen [Ardkeen], Frenestoun [Bal- 
 lyfrenis], Ardclenan, Balymosky [ Bally niiskaw], 
 Islands of Dnft'rauys [Dufferin], Kakebertonn, Gan- 
 nagh [Gannawa}'], Newtown of Blaethwyc [New- 
 townards], Kjlinelech, Castelbeg [Castlebeg], Mol- 
 
 " Breasal, son of Aodh Roin, from whom 
 the Clann Breasail at Sliabh Garbhraighe. 
 " Cathal, son of Aodh Roin, from whom 
 the Clann Cathail, of whom was Dermod 
 OMaoiltealcha"", comharbaof St. Comgall, 
 and the head of the wisdom of the Gaels. 
 
 " Fergal, son of Aodh Roin, the father 
 of Dermod, from whom Disert Dermoda. 
 
 " Five tribes sprang from Blathmac, 
 son of Aodh Roin, viz., Clann Laitheasa ; 
 Clann Donaill ; and Hy-Naemhain ; and 
 Clann Cuileannain; and Hy-Craoibhe. 
 
 " Hugh, son of Eochaidh, had five 
 sons, viz., Ainbith, son of Aodh, king of 
 the Province, from whom is the family of 
 Lis- Aedha' ; Niall, son of Aodh, was killed 
 by the OCreichim in Dundalethglas, by 
 which the quarter of Dun was forfeited 
 bv them for ever to the Clann Fiachaidh : 
 Dubhghall, son of Aodh, from whom are 
 the Hy-Dubhghaill ; Aireamhon, son of 
 Aodh, from whom are the Hy-Aireamhoin 
 at Inismore". The Hy-Aireamhoin sup- 
 plied 
 
 lerytoun, Balycanidan. All which lands now lie in 
 the baronies of Lower Castlereagh and Ards, and 
 are distributed through the parishes of Dundonakl, 
 Holywood, Donagliadee, Ballytrustan, Ballyphilip, 
 Slanes, Ardkeen, Ballywalter, and Newtownards. 
 
 ^ He was one of the superiors of Bangor who com- 
 bined the offices of Abbot and Bishop. — See above, 
 p. 154. His death is recorded by the Four Masters 
 and the Annals of Ulster at the year 1016. 
 
 ' Lis-Aedha Now unknown. There was a reli- 
 gious house of this name at Armagh. — See Four 
 Mast. A. D. 1003, 1015, 1116, 1155. 
 
 '' Inismore There is a townland hiandmore in 
 
 the parish of Killinchy. 
 A 
 
362 
 
 l^iajcm mac Qipeanioin, acurHluipea- 
 60c mac Qipeamoin, ^c. 
 
 '' eocajan mac Qoba o ccaiD pioj- 
 pai6 ULa6 o fin alle ceirpe meic leip •'• 
 QoD, Qmalaib, ^aipbic, acup ^oinj- 
 piocan, ape an c-Qo6 mac eoca^ain pin 
 CUJ5 a mamcinne do Chom^all lap m- 
 bpipeao a lupjan a c-Cealaijj-na-lupjun 
 ap papujab muinnpe Com^aiU, acup ni 
 oeacaiD necc Oiob poime 50 Comjall 
 ucr ap 05 paccpaicc po bacrap o pe 
 Caipill mic rriuipeDaij 50 nuije pin. 
 
 "t)u mac aj CI06 mic Gocajain 
 Niall mac Qo6a o ccaiD Lli CaipiU, 
 acupDonnplebe; acupf.oclamn: ape an 
 Oonnplebe pin bo paD car t)aipe Ceioe 
 00 Choin-UluD Ua Phluirpi do pij^ an 
 C01516 jup rhaiD pop Olioinnplebe j;up 
 lao ap Ua m-6lacmeic acup luce na h- 
 Qpoa ann cpe miopbuile Com^aill 1 n- 
 Dio^ail Lli niar^amna lap na tiiapboD a 
 n-oamliaj 6eanncaip .1. do Uib 6Unr- 
 meic; muDaDcm mac Clooa araip Qpo- 
 
 J Ttalachna-lurgan. — That is, •' tliu Hill of the 
 Sliin"'. Its situation is uiikiiowii. 
 
 I* That is, the family transt'L-i-red from the cowarha 
 of St. Patrick to the successor of St. CoiUKailthe dues 
 arising from baptisms, burials, &c. ; and made Uan- 
 Sor their burying place.— See O Donovan's lly-Many. 
 pp. 78-82 ; Trias Th., pp. 131, 132. 
 
 ' O Muhonij. — This name is supplied from the 
 Book of Lecan, fol. 142, a, a. The reading in :Mao 
 l-'irbis is faulty. 
 
 '"Bangor. — The Four :Masters. at liXJJ. relating 
 
 pliedkingsofUladb, viz., BecMacAircam- 
 hoin, and Eiagan Mac Aireamhoin, and 
 ^Muireadhach Mac Aii'camhoin, &c. 
 
 " Eochagan, son of Aodb (from whom 
 the kings of Uladh from that down), had 
 four sons, aIz., Aodh, Amlaibh, Gairbith, 
 and Loingseachan. It was that Aodh, son 
 of Eochagan, that gave his dues and ser- 
 vice to Comgall on breaking his shin at 
 Tealach-na-lurganJ, while committing sa- 
 crilegious violence on Comgall's congrega- 
 tion. And none of them had previously 
 gone over to Comgall, but always abode 
 with Patrick, from the time of CairioU, 
 son of Muireadhach, till then"*. 
 
 " Aodh, son of Eochagan, had two sons, 
 viz., Miall, son of Aodh, from whom are 
 the Hy-Cairill, i. e. Donnsleibhe and Loch- 
 lainn. It was that Donnsleibhe who gave 
 the battle of Derry-Ceite to Cooley O Fhi- 
 thri. King of the Province, in which Donn- 
 sleibhe was defeated with a great slaughter 
 of the Ily-Blathmac, and of the people of 
 the Ards, by the miracle of Comgall, in 
 revenge of O Mahony ' who had been killed 
 in the daimhliag [ oratory ] of Bangor"" 
 
 by 
 
 the murder ofOilahony in this church, term it a 
 daimhliag or 'stone church'. How then is tli<- fol- 
 lowing nanation, which purports to be of an occur- 
 rence taking i)lace about 111.5, to be understood V 
 " A'isum est Jlaladiiie debere constrni in Bencftar, 
 oratorium lapideum, instar illorum qui in aliis re- 
 gionibus extructa consj)exerat. Et cum ccepisset 
 jaccre fundamenta, indigena; qiiidam mirati sunt, 
 quod in terra ilia necdiim ejusmodi adijicia inveni- 
 
 renUir"" Bernardi Vit. S. Malachiae, cap. ix. (Mes- 
 
 singham Florileg., p. 371, recte 373.) 
 
z^?> 
 
 jaip ap uaba pin an pi^e j^o nui^e po, 
 acup bi6 uao 50 bpar mapi coil t)e. 
 
 by the Hy-Blathmaic" ; Madadlian, son of 
 Aodh, and fiitber of Ardgall, — the kings 
 are from him hitherto, and shall be from 
 him for ever if it be the will of God. 
 
 " There were a few kings of Erin, and 
 many kings of Uladh, and of Dal Fiatach, 
 
 " 6abap uacao pioj Gpenn, acup pio- 
 jfx lomoa Lllao acup t)hail Piacac ipm 
 
 j^enelac peiiipspiobra cona cpaoBaiB in the above written genealogy, with its 
 
 coiBneapa, acup ap n-bluruj^ao oppa various branches : but when the descen- 
 
 bo clannuib Cumo Cheocaraij nip paj- dants of Conn of the Hundred Battles en- 
 
 buiD CIO pij^e tDail Piacac pen aca co n- croached on them they were not left even 
 
 beacpab 1 n-bic pine pa oeoij^ ace beajij the sovereignty of Dal Fiatach alone, and 
 
 aca pe bimcenoiob 1 n-oepeoile. bcioj^al they became extinct ultimately, except a 
 
 a\' amlaio pin 00 ^haoioioluib Gpenn few of them who are a long time in insig- 
 
 uile ipin ampo i666, ace, paippin^ t)iu nificance. And thus it is Avith the Gaels 
 
 pacuTTigac". of Erin at this time 1666, but that, God 
 
 makes broad the narrow way''\° 
 
 In ancient times the kingdom of Uladh comprehended several minor territories, 
 each of Avhich possessed its own chieftain, who, according to the custom of the country, 
 was sty\<idi king. The sovereignty of Uladh was, for the most part, hereditary; but 
 occasionally the lord of a tributary region was elevated to the supreme dignity. The 
 subsidies paid by the King of Uladh to these chieftains, and the tributes which he 
 received from their territories, are recited in the following extracts from the Leabhar 
 na g-Ceai% or Book of Rights^, which professes to be the compilation of St. Benen or 
 Benignus, the disciple of St. Patrick, but which really belongs to a much later age, as 
 appears from internal evidence. It is, however, a record of considerable antiquity, and 
 is highly valuable as illustrative of ancient customs and topography: — 
 
 "t>0 OrhRai6h aCLlS t)0 Chll- 
 
 aT^iscacai6h ucaoh qkiOso. 
 
 "OI1516 pij Lllao ceaoamup in T:an 
 nac pi pop Gijiinn be pein .1. leac-lani 
 
 P'5 
 
 " Ify-Blathmaic Tlicir territory, in ^vl\iph Ban- 
 
 jTor was situate, adjoined the Ards, and, after the 
 Encrlish invasion, was united to it to form a county, 
 wliich was sometimes styled Comitatvs Novir J'illce 
 de BlcBthwyc ; and sometimes Comitatvs de Ardo. 
 
 3 A 
 
 " Of the Subsidies and Stipends of 
 Uladh. 
 
 " The king of Uladh is entitled, in the 
 first place, wlien not himself king of Erinn, 
 
 to 
 
 " This paragraph is added in tlie margin of the 
 Eoj'al Irish Academy's transcript of Mac Firbis' 
 larger work, from an abstract made by liimsolf, 
 p. 331. 
 
 c Contained in the Book of Lecan, fol. 189, «, Ij ; h. 
 
3^4 
 
 pij ©penn, acup copob he bup cuipci 
 beap na chocap acup caeimreacca in 
 comaipeuD beap i pail pig Gpenn. Qcup 
 in can mupceapao, caeca claiDearh, acup 
 caeca eoc, acup caeca bpac, acup cae- 
 ca cochoU, acup caeca pjinj, acup 
 caeca luipeac, acup cpica palac, acup 
 Deic milcoin, acup oeic macail, acup 
 oeic cuipn, acup oeic lonja, acup pici 
 pjlac lopa, acup pici uj pailinn, do pij 
 Ulao pin uili cac rpeap bliaoain. 
 
 " PoblaiD Din, pijULoD cuapipcol Da 
 pijuib .1. 
 
 " pici copn, acup pici claiDeam, ucup 
 pici TTiilcoin, acup pici nio^aio, acup 
 pici eac, acup pici bpar, acup pici ma- 
 cal, acup pici cumul, o pi^ Ulao do pij 
 X)aC N-CIRaiDhl. 
 
 " Upi h-eic, rpi mo^aio, rpi mna, cpi 
 
 lonjc, DO P15 Dac 1^1 aca. 
 
 *' Ceirpi lonja, ceirpi mojaio, ceirpi 
 h-eic, DO P15 in QlRRChli:?. 
 
 " Se mo,^Lii^, pe h-eic, pe cuipn, pe cUti- 
 
 Dim, DO pi;5 Lia N-eaRca cheiN. 
 
 " Occ cuipn, occ n-eic, occ mojaib, 
 DO pijDaC in-6UlNt)]. 
 
 " Occ 
 
 I'l' Dal-.lraidhe. — See above, it]). ooA-IMH. 
 
 'I Dal Riada — See above, ]^\). 3] 8-331. 
 
 ^ Airtheurr — OHanlon'.s coimtry, in the countv 
 of Armagh, bore this name, which is commonly la- 
 tinized Orienfalis, and is now known as the baronies 
 (if Orior. It would .seem tliat the Orier of the text 
 lay somewhere at the east of Uladh. 
 
 ' Uibh Earea Cein — See above, p. 339, note '. 
 
 ' Dal Uuindi — See above, pp. 44, 171, 233. The 
 tribe whiili gave name to this territory is thus no- 
 
 te sit by the shoulder of the king of Erin, 
 and that he be the first to share his se- 
 crets and companionship during the time 
 that he remains Avith the king of Erin. 
 And when he departs he receives 50 
 swords, and 50 steeds, and 50 cloaks, and 
 50 capes, and 50 targets( ?), and 50 coats 
 of mail, and 30 rings, and 10 hare-hounds, 
 and 10 mantles, and 10 horns, and 10 
 ships, and 20 handfuls of leeks, and 20 
 sea-gulls' eggs : all these to the king of 
 Uladh once in three years. 
 
 " The king of Uladh distributes sti- 
 I)ends to his own kings, A-iz., Twenty horns, 
 and 20 swords, and 20 hare-hounds, and 
 20 bondmen, and 20 steeds, and 20 cloaks, 
 and 20 mantles, and 20 bondmaids, from 
 the king of Uladh to the king of Dal- 
 
 AR.41DHE''''. 
 
 " Three steeds, 3 bondmen, 3 women, 
 3 ships, to the king of Dal Riada*". 
 
 " Four ships, 4 bondmen, 4 steeds, to 
 
 tllL- king of AIRRTI1EAR^ 
 
 " Six bondmen, 6 steed^^, 6 horns, 6 
 swords, to the king of Uibh Erca Cein*. 
 
 " Eiglit horns, 8 steeds, 8 bondmen, to 
 the king of Dal Buindi*. 
 
 " Eight 
 
 ticed by ^lac Firbis: "The five Lordships of Dal 
 liuimie, viz., Dal Corb na h-Uamadli [of the Cave] ; 
 and Dal m-Buain; and Kind Maolaiii, and Li Da- 
 .sluaglui ; and Kinel u-Ernain ; and Guiliiie ; and 
 Dal ni-Huachalla, the sixtii. Gailine are of Leinster 
 origin. Kinel n-Ernain, and Kinel 3Iaolain, and 
 Ua Dasluaglia, are of the .seed of Bninne, son of Fer- 
 
 gu.s, son of R0S.S, son of Kudhraighe " (Geneal. MS. 
 
 1». .J07.) In another place is given the pedigree of the 
 Kinel m-Buinne in Cnnaillc Mnirtliciiiihne [Lowth], 
 
3^5 
 
 " Occ mojam, occ n-eic co n-abal- 
 laib apjaiD, do pij LlCf m-6CQlCh- 
 
 meic. 
 
 " Oa palaij, acup beic longa, aciip 
 beic n-eic, acup oeic ppein, acup beic 
 pcinji DO pij t)L116hrhRlH. 
 
 " Occ lonja, acup occ mojaio, acup 
 occ n-eic, acup occ cuipn, acup occ m- 
 bpuic, DO pij na h-Ql^t)Q. 
 
 "Occ mojato, acup occ mna, acup 
 occ n-eic, acup occ lonja, do pij 661- 
 
 uhi cachait. 
 
 " Cpi h-eic, acup cpi macail, acup 
 cpi cuipn, acup cpi coin, do pi 6011^- 
 Chl. 
 
 " tDeic cuipn, acup oeic claioiiii, acup 
 Deic lonja, acup Deic m-bpuic, do pij 
 C06ha. 
 
 " Se cuipn, acu]' Deic lonjga, acup 
 
 Deic n-inaip, DO pij muiRChemNe. 
 
 "6iaca 
 
 so named from Buimie, son of Aongus, son of Crunii 
 Hadraighe — (p. 519.) 
 
 " Uibh Blaithmeic See above, pp. 8, 360, 3G3. 
 
 » Duibhthrin Now Dufferin. See p. 185. 
 
 "'' Ards. — See above, pp. IG, 171. 
 
 'i Leath Cathail Now Lecale. See p. 26. At 
 
 pp. 201, 357, it has been shewn that Cathal, from 
 whom this region derived its name, flourished during 
 the eighth centur}\ St. Benen, therefore, who lived 
 ill the fifth century, could not have been the author 
 of this part of the compilation, even though the sub- 
 scription of this recital states : " It was to treasure 
 these things that Benen composed the following ". 
 
 > Boirchi — Now the barony of Moiirne. See 
 pp. 206, 369. " It appears from a pedigree of the 
 Mac Mahons, preserved in an Irish MS. in T. C. D. 
 that the Barony of Mourne, in the County of Down 
 was So called from a tribe of the Mac ^lalious. ui- 
 
 " Eiglit bondmen, 8 steeds with sil- 
 ver bridles, to the King of Uibh Blaith- 
 meic". 
 
 "Two rings, and lo ships, and lo 
 steeds, and lo bridles, and lo targets, to 
 the king of Duibhthrin^. 
 
 " Eight ships, and 8 bondmen, and 8 
 steeds, and 8 horns, and 8 cloaks, to the 
 king of the Ards"'. 
 
 " Eight bondmen, and 8 women, and 
 steeds, and 8 ships, to the king of Leath 
 Cathail\ 
 
 " Three steeds, and 3 mantles, and 3 
 horns, and 3 hounds, to the king of 
 
 BoiRCHl^. 
 
 "Ten horns, and 10 swords, and 10 
 ships, and 10 cloaks, to the king of 
 Cobha\ 
 
 " Six horns, and 10 ships, and 10 tu- 
 nics, to the king of Muirtheimhne''. 
 
 " The 
 
 habitants of Crioch Miiglidhorna [CVtf-mo«;«t'], in 
 Zllouaghau, who emigrated to the former in the time 
 of Niall the oppressive, the son of Hugh, son of 
 ^Magnus MacMahon, and transferred the name of 
 their former to their new territory ". — (Shirley's 
 Farney, p. 152, note.) This historical fact, as well 
 as the structure of the name in the original, shews 
 how Harris' etyniolog}', " Mor-Rinn, the great Par- 
 tition, or great Hill"', is to be regarded — (Down, 
 p. 120.) Seward's "Topographia" and "Gazetteer" 
 improve upon Harris' ftmcy by deriving the name 
 from " Moor Kinii, i. e. the Great Eidge". 
 
 z Cobha Now part of Iveagh. See above, pp. 
 
 105, 349. 
 
 » Muirtheimhne. — Now the county of Lowtb, 
 which fonnerly beloiigeil to Uladh, but was won 
 from it by the Airghialla. It was also called Co- 
 nallia and Muchaiie CoiiaiU. 
 
2,66 
 
 "6iaua ocus cisa rhuach 
 
 N-UCat>h QNOSO .1. 
 
 "Qp epic moip mUI^l ^>lNe cea- 
 Dumup a ceo biarao : cpi cec mapr, 
 acup cpi ceo bpac a CING inopin. 
 
 "Se caeca oam aXiOiC RlCIUa. 
 
 " Qcup pe caeca cope, cpi ccieca bo, 
 acup cpi caeca bpac a S6n"IN6. 
 
 " t)a dec cope, ncup oa cec bo a 
 
 " Ceo bo, acup cec bpac, acup cec 
 mole, a CROURQlOhl. 
 
 " Ceo bo, acup ceo bpac, acup cec 
 mole, acup cec cope ap iti 61x6CI- 
 
 " Ceo mapc, acup ceO mole, acup 
 
 cec cope o ph01^Cl.UCI~hC116 inopin. 
 
 " Upi caeca mapc, acup cpi cueca 
 
 cope, o na maNCiiai6. 
 
 '• Cpi cec oam, acup cpi cec bo ap 
 in t)lll6hChT51UN. 
 
 " Cpi ce& bo, acup cpi ceo cope, acup 
 cpi cec bpac, a ^GICIl CQChQlC. 
 
 " Ice 
 
 ^ Magh Line See aljove, p. C2. 
 
 •^ Sdmhnc See above, p. 270. In this territory 
 
 was a place called Rop nu T^ioj^, 'Ros of the 
 Kings', ■where Aodhan Mac Gabhraiii, King of Al- 
 bany, made submission to Baodan, son of Cairill, 
 wlio was King of Uladh A. D. 585. — (Book of Le- 
 cnn, fi.l. 139, a, a.) 
 
 "* Lathaime See above, pp. 55, 264. Among 
 
 X\\o families of the Ui n-Earca Chein in the Genea- 
 logical MS. of Mac Firbis mention is made of '' Ceal- 
 lach, son of Bledine, King of Latharna " (p. 513.) 
 
 <= Crotraidhe Styled in the poetical version in 
 
 " The Food axd the Kents of the 
 CuiEFRiEs OF Uladh. 
 
 " On the territory of the great Magh 
 Ltne'*, firstly, his first food — 300 beeves, 
 aud 300 cloaks, that from Line. 
 
 " Six times 50 oxen from Dal Eiata. 
 
 "And six times 50 hogs, and thrice 
 50 coAvs, and thrice 50 cloaks, out of 
 Seimiine*^. 
 
 " Two hundred ln:>gs, and 200 cows, 
 out of Lathairne"*. 
 
 " One hundred cows, and 100 cloaks, 
 •and 100 wethers, out of Crotraidhe^ 
 
 "One hundred cows, and 100 cloaks, 
 and 100 wctliers, and icohogs, out of the 
 Bkeadach^ 
 
 " One hundred beeves, and 100 we- 
 tliL'Vs,and 1 00 hogs, from thcFoRTUATHsS. 
 
 " Thrice fifty beeves, and thrice 50 
 hogs, from the j\Ianachs\ 
 
 " Three hundred oxen, and 300 cows, 
 out of the Dubhthrin. 
 
 " Three hundred cows, and 300 hogs, 
 and 300 cloaks, out of Leath Cathail. 
 
 " These 
 
 choblcil^, 'of the fleet'. 
 
 f Bieu'lacli — 'riie parish of Breda is called Bra- 
 dach ill tlie Taxation, and Breadac in the Regist. 
 Prene — See above, p. 15. 
 
 ? Fortiiaths The name is now lost in I'ladh. 
 
 It is derived from pop, 'external', and cuar, 
 ' a tribe '; and denotes stranger-tribes, settled in the 
 territory of a noble tribe. 
 
 ^ Manachs. — The genealogy- of the ITlonac: is 
 given by Mac Firbis, p. 50C. "The fourcliief tribes 
 of Monach were Cinel Laindiuin, Cinel Muilce, Cinel 
 Criodain, and the Bredach" (/6.) 
 
367 
 
 / 
 
 " Ice fin CI biaca o paepruaraiB cen- 
 mocaic a oaepruaca. Ip laipi6e, imop- 
 po, cupgnom loma, acup leanGa, acup 
 uamai can caca uaiDib". 
 
 " These are . his provisions from his 
 free territories, independently of his en- 
 slaved territories. To him is due, also, a 
 supply of milk, ale, and all kinds of co- 
 lours, -without scantiness, from them". 
 
 The topographical poem of John Dugan furnishes the following account of the 
 distribution of Uladh, as it existed in the middle of the fourteenth century: 
 
 " Uojbam ipin Cpcioibpuaib ceano, 
 
 QipDpioja LUa6 aipmeam, 
 pumn na peile co ppa^a, 
 Lli Ounuiplfcbe, Lli Gochaoa. 
 
 " X}a n-uaiplib pip na ppao ap 
 Lli Qibich, Ui Gochajan. 
 TTlop na pajlaba a bpojla, 
 Ui f>abpu6a, Lli 6eaclobpa. 
 
 " Ui ^oinjpij na laech pocla, 
 Ip Lli nriopna mioncopcpa, 
 C115 caoall cap a cnpib, 
 Qnam do na h-aipopijib, 
 tDual Da pplacaib na pajla 
 t)a maicib Ui macjarhna. 
 
 " Uippioja o n-Gachach Coba 
 Pa neapcriinp a nallona; 
 pa blapoa 1 Coinne in ^ac epic, 
 1 Coinne gapoa Lli ^haipbir. 
 
 "Lli Qinbidi 
 
 ' Creeve-roe, or Red Branch, uas a name bona' 
 by the families of the race of Kudraighe 3Ior. 
 
 J O Dunlcvie See above, p. 357. 
 
 '^ O Heochy — Xow anglicised //bey. See p. 35 (i. 
 ' O Haidith — See above, pp. 350, 351. 
 "' O Lawhr. — Now Laiclor. See above, p. 343. 
 " O Linchy — Xow Lynch. See above, p. 343. 
 o O Mahony — See above, pp. 356, 362. 
 
 " Let us into the Creeve-roe' advance, 
 The chief kings of Uladh let us name, 
 The laud of hospitality and spears, 
 ODunlevieJ and O Heochy"^. 
 
 " Of their nobles — the men of slau2;hters 
 Oh-Aidith', OEochagan. 
 Their plunders are great plunders, 
 O Lavrey , O Lawlor"". 
 
 " O Linchy" of the proud champions, 
 And O jMorna of blushing beauty. 
 Let us touch upon their lands. 
 Let us pass from the chief-kings, 
 To their chiefs belong the plunders, 
 Of their nobles was O ^Nlahony". 
 
 " The petty kings of Hy-Eachach Coblia'' 
 Were powerful of old ; 
 O Coinne Avas tasteful everywhere — 
 O Coinne'' the ingenious, O Garvey"". 
 
 " Oh-Ainbitli 
 
 I' Hy Eachach Cuh/ui.~See above, p. 349. 
 
 'I O Coinne See O Coyne, at p. 79. 
 
 Garvey — Xow Garvey. See an interesting 
 notice of this family in OBrien's Irish Dictionary, 
 p. 470. The townland Aughnagon, in the parish 
 of Clonallan, was part of their ancient patrimony, 
 and continued in their possession until about thuty 
 years ago. 
 
368 
 
 " Ui Qinbich pa h-aijiDpi ann 
 Hip pajbao ip ni pagpam: 
 Nip locao a par no a pian, 
 Socal a each 5a ccoimcpiall. 
 
 " plaic ap Cloinn uapail Qeoa 
 Dlaj Qengupa apo aoB6a: 
 t)o rajpac an cculai j cce, 
 \io jabpac Ulao uile. 
 
 " TTIac Capcain ap oa capcaij^ 
 Cenel popaij Pajapcai^, 
 Qipjib na ceiliD ap cleip, 
 CaipjiD an einij laiopein. 
 
 '■ niejj tDuibeamna jan pojoil 
 Qp Cenel n-apo n-QrholjaiD; 
 Ui IDopna bunao buaioe, 
 popmna Ulao apmchpuaioe. 
 
 '' ITIej Duilecliain na n-uile 
 
 Qp Chlomn 6peapail bappbuioe. 
 OColcapam buipD 6aile, 
 Qp t)al Cuipb na coriinuioe. 
 
 " Cpiallom 
 
 " O h-Aiubith» the chief-king there 
 
 Has not been left out, nor shall we leave him : 
 lie was not behind in prosperity or in career, 
 The battle was the prouder of his inarch. 
 
 " Lord of the noble Clann Aedha', 
 
 Magenis the illustrious and beautiful: 
 They selected the warm hilly country — 
 They were lords of all Uladh. 
 
 " Mac Cartan — to his chart belongs 
 
 The noble Cenel Fagartaigh", [learned, 
 
 A deposit which they hide not from the 
 They were the depository of munificence. 
 
 " Mac Duvanay', withoiit division, 
 Over the noble Cinel Amlaff"; 
 OMorna^ the root of \nctory, 
 The highest of Uladh of hard swords 
 
 " Mac Duileachau in full 
 
 Over Clann BreasaP of the yellow hair. 
 OColtaran from the border of Bail e, 
 In Dal Cuirb' had residence. 
 
 " Travel 
 
 ' O Hainbith Now pronounced Hannifey. 
 
 ' Clann Aedha — See above, pp. 351, 354. 
 
 " Cenel Fagartaigh — Now Kinelarty. See above, 
 p. 213. 
 
 ' Mac Duvanay Now anglicised Devenny. 
 
 " Cinel Amlaff. — This tribe may have given name 
 til the parish of Jlagherally, anciently Maghcrawly. 
 
 '' O Morna. — The habitat of this family is fi.xrtl 
 by the following passage in Mac Firbis' (icncaiogi- 
 cal work : " IHopna on obaprap Ui ITIopna 
 1 f^ec Cacail ", " Morna from whom are the Ui 
 
 Morna in Leth Cathall" (p. 205.) See Four 
 
 Mast. A. D. 1391. 
 
 y Clann Breasal — " Clanbrassel Mac Coolechau 
 
 (so called for a difference betwixt it and one other 
 coiintrj' of the same name in the county of Armagh), 
 is a very fa.st country of wood and bogg, inhabited 
 with a sept called the O Kellies. a verj' saviige anil 
 barbarous people, and given altogether to .«)>oi]s and 
 robberies". (MS. cited in Dubourdieu's Antrim, 
 p. 627.) The barony of OXeilland East repre- 
 sent.s the ancient territory of Clanbrassil, consisting 
 of the parishes of fehankhijl, Seagoe, Montiaglis, and 
 three townlands of Magheralin. 
 
 ' Dul Cuirh " Dal Corb na h- Uaniadh [of the 
 
 Cave] and Dal Corb of Fabar, are of the seed of 
 ^lesin Corb, son of ^logh Corb, son of Concobliar 
 Abradruadh, son of Finn the poet, son of lioss Koe, 
 
3^9 
 
 "Cpiallom o 6oipche beanoaijh, 
 Ip oChuailj^ne cpicjleanoaij, 
 O TDuij 'Rarh ppaoch na pala, 
 'So car laoch OCubpaoa". 
 
 " Travel we from Boirche* of the peaks, 
 And from Cuailgne'' of the glenns, 
 From Magh Eath*^ of the furious feuds, 
 And from the warlike O Lavrey ".'* 
 
 KK. 
 ECCLESIASTICAL BELLS. 
 
 In Stuart's "Historical Memoirs of Armagh", and in a recent publication, entitled 
 " Belfast and its Environs", is given an interesting account of an ancient ecclesiastical 
 bell, in the possession of Adam M" Clean, Esq., of Belfast. The great attraction which 
 this reliquary presents to the curious arises from the elaborately-formed shrine in 
 which it is contained, remarkable at once for its beauty and antiquity. Its age, which 
 might be presumed, from its style of workmanship, to be very great, is determined by 
 an inscription which is evidently coeval with the construction of the case. The letters, 
 which are uncials, are engraved along the edge of a silver plate that covers the back, 
 and, from the appearance which some of them present, seem to have been filled with 
 a dark enamel. There are no distinctions of words, and any blanks which are caused 
 by rivets, or the angles, are irrespective of the sense, as they sometimes occur in the 
 middle of a letter. Commencing at the left-hand angle of the upper margin, the in- 
 scription runs thus, except that what is here printed in parallel lines is disposed in 
 the original in the figure of an erect trapezoid : — 
 
 son of Fergus Fairrge, son of Nuadhat Neachtt" — 
 (Mac Firbis, p. 507.) Possibly the parish of Bal- 
 lyculter derived its name from the O Coltarans. 
 
 a Boirche Tigemach, at Gil, relates: " Fulmi- 
 
 natus est exercitus Uladh im Bairche fidmine ter- 
 ribili". The legend concerning the name Beann 
 Boirche is thus given in the Dinnseanchus : "Boirche, 
 a cowherd, son of Ros Eighbuidhi ; and this pinnacle 
 was his herd-seat. And alike did he herd every cow 
 from Dun Sobhairci [Dunseverick] to Inbhear Colp- 
 tha [mouth of the BojTie], and from Boinn [Boyne] 
 to Beann Boirchi, and not one cow of his herds 
 should eat a morsel more than another cow. Unde 
 Beann Buirche dicitur". (Book of Lecan, f. 256, b, b.) 
 
 See above, pp. 206, 365. 
 
 *> Cuailgne Now Cooley, a mountainous district 
 
 of the county of Louth, in tlie barony of Lower Dun- 
 dalk. It derived its name from Cuailgne, son of Breo- 
 gan, an early colonist. 
 
 <^ Maffh Rath — Its ancient name was ITlaj Co- 
 maip, ' Flam of the Confluence'. A famous battle 
 was fought here A. D. 637 — (See Donovan's Bat- 
 tle of Magh Rath, pp. 110, 226. 
 
 •1 Lavrey Now anglicised Lavery. In the 
 
 early part of the seventeenth centurj', Tirlagh oge 
 OLa^vry held a number of townlands in the now 
 parish of Moira, and in the adjacent part of Maghe- 
 ralin (Ul. Inq., No. 13, Jac. I. ; 93 Car. I. Down.) 
 
 B 
 
?>7^ 
 
 0Rt)0t)0mNa66ucach6aiMt)6asiH0ePH 
 aoiNC6ocsaocust)ODOTnHa66Chomai^6aphaui^aicicoMt)e 
 RHaDocust)Ot)Chacha<'.aHLimae6Chac^aNDt)omaeRiNCh 
 ^uicocust)ochOHDU6i5uiNmaiNeNCONamaccai6ROCumcuis. 
 
 Divided into words it is to be read and translated in the following manner: — 
 
 " Op. DO Oomnall U 6achlainD Xcxy " Oratio^ pro Domnallo O Laclilainn' 
 
 I n-oepnab in doc pa, ocup do tDom- per quem^ facta est** ^ campana haec, et pro 
 
 nail chomapba pharpaic ico n-DepnaD, Domnallo comarbano Patricii apud quern' 
 
 ocup &o(d) Chachalan U maelchallano facta est, et pro Cathalano OMaelchallain-" 
 
 DO maep m chluic, ocup do Chonoulij pro*" custode'TSjcampana;, etpro Cudulig"' 
 
 U Inmamen co na maccaib po cum- 
 CU15". 
 
 '' Oratio. — Opoic, 'a i)rayer', an ecclesiastical 
 word derived from the Latin Oratio. — See O Dono- 
 van's Irish Gram., pp.43, 228, 23-1; Petrie's Round 
 Towers, pp. 137, 268, 281, 309, fee. 
 
 '■ OLachlainn The letter LI, witli which tliis 
 
 name commences, is a form found in ancient inscrip- 
 tions and manuscripts for Ua, or the modem O. 
 
 S Per quern, — lap 1, for the modern leip a. 
 
 '' Facta est, — n-oepnoD : See O Donovan's Irish 
 Grammar, p. 397, and the inscription cited in same 
 work at p. 233; also Petrie's R. T., pp. 281, 309. 
 
 ' Apud quein,—\co\ now OJ O. See ODono- 
 van's Irish Gram., p. 281. 
 
 J O Maelchallain, — A name now very common in 
 the counties of Antrim and Londonderry', under the 
 form Mulhollaiid. It may be derived from Dilaol 
 Chnllann, 'Sen-ant of [St.] Callann'; or, with 
 greater probability, as Mr. Eugene Curry suggests, 
 from niaol, and Calloino, 'Calends'; in the 
 same manner that TTIaolcopjaip (Four Masters, 
 888, 999) isfonned from Copjap, 'Lent'; and 
 maolpamna (Four Mast., 969) from Sariiain, 
 ' All Hallows '. The Four Masters, at 921, make 
 mentiim of TTlaolcallanD, abbot of Disert Der- 
 
 Olnmainen" cum suis filiis qui coope- 
 
 ruere".° 
 
 Though 
 
 mod; at 1012, of Ua ITl'iolcaUann, lord of 
 Dealbhna-bice ; at 1186, of maolcullann, bi- 
 shop of Elphin ; and at 1432, of Patrick U a lllaol- 
 callunn. Stuart and others derive the name from 
 TTlaol ChoUiim, ■ Servant of [St.] Columb', not 
 knowing tliat tliis is tlie origin of Malcolm, not of 
 Mulholland. 
 
 ^ Pro, — Oo. Tiie preposition is often repeated 
 in ancient Irish l)cfore words put in ajiposition — 
 (0 Donovan, Gram., p. 398.) Tlie second D in DOD 
 preceding appears to be an error of the engraver. 
 
 ' Custode TTluep or niaop, Keeper, Steward. 
 
 See above, p. 1.50. 
 
 "' CiidriUg, — ChonDullj, genitive of Cii- 
 DUlllT, which is interpreted ca«/s avidus. Cu, 
 ' a liound', enters very freely into the composition of 
 Irish pritnomens: as, Cuuladh [Cooley], Cumaighe 
 [Cooey], &c. — See Irish Pen. Jour., p. 254. Tlie 
 ])resent name occurs in the Four Masters at A. D. 
 978, 1003, 1013, 1026, 1038, 1047, 1063, &c. 
 
 " O Inmainen, — In the form lonmainen, is to 
 be found in the Four Masters A. D. 920, 921. 
 
 " Cooperuere, — Cu mcuij, the same as CUm- 
 DU15, from cUTTiDUijim, ' to cover' or 'roof. 
 

 
 7^ 
 
 Though undated, the inscription possesses two historical notes by which its age 
 can be ascertained with considerable precision. The Four Masters, at the 3'ear 1121, 
 record the death of the person first named in the above recital, in the following terms : 
 " Donnell, the son of Ardgar Mac Loughlin, monarch of Ireland, the most distinguished 
 of the Irish for personal form, nobility of birth, wisdom, feats of arms, wealth, and 
 prosperity, for bestowing riches and food, died at Derry-Columbkille, in the 38th year 
 of his reign and 77th of his age, &c." This fixes the date between the years 1083 and 
 1 121, The other note limits the date to a narrower period. A. D. 1091, " Maoiliosa, 
 cowarba of Patrick [i. e. Archbishop of Armagh], died in penitence on the 20th of 
 December, and Domlui all Mac Amhalgadha [MacAuly] w^as immediately chosen to 
 the abbacy in his room". Again, A. D. 1105, " Domhnall Mac Amhalgadha, chief 
 comarba of Patrick, went to Dublin to establish peace between Domhnall Ua Loch- 
 lainn and Muircertach O Brian, where he was seized by a deadly disease. He was 
 afterwards conveyed to the cathedral of Armagh, and there he breathed his last, on 
 the 1 2 th of August," &c. 
 
 Thus it is determined that this inscription belongs to one of the fourteen years 
 immediately siicceeding 1091. At that early period Cathalan O Maelchallan was keeper 
 of this bell, agreeably to the custom of the country, which vested the custody of vene- 
 rated relics in particular families, and associated with the keeping certain emoluments 
 or immunities. In the middle of the fourteenth century, however, this relic, accord- 
 ing to the Four Masters, was in the hands of another family. At the year 1356 they 
 have the following entry : — 
 
 " Solam O TDeallan maop cluij an " Solomon O Mellan, keeper of the Bell of 
 eoachca b'ej. Pecem coiccenn bo the Will, died. He was the general 
 
 cliapaib Gpeann epioe". patron of the clergy of Ireland". 
 
 Again, at 1425, they make mention of 
 
 "Onieallan maop cluicc an uoacca " O Mellan, keeper of the Bell of Patrick's 
 pharpaicc". Will' 
 
 I ?? 00 
 
 By what means the family of O Mellan became invested with this privilege is not 
 recorded, nor indeed would it be certain that the bell mentioned by the Four Masters 
 was the one under consideration, were it not for the continuation of its history, which 
 the Registrum of Primate Prene affords in the two following documents: — 
 
 " PRIVATIO 
 
 See Petrie, Round Towers, pp. 87, 330, 333. tricii Cap. xvii. (Works, vol. vi. pp. 446, 457, 
 
 "» Archbishop Ussher, in his Brit. Ec. Antiqq., 540.) This bell may have been in some way con- 
 quotes an Irish poem called the Testamentum Pa- nected with it. 
 
 3 B 2 
 
ZT^ 
 
 ''PRIVATIO CUSTODIS CAMPAN.E SANCTI PATRICII PROPTER EJUS 
 
 DEMERITA. 
 
 " Universis Christi fidelibus, &c., Johannes Dei gratia, et Apostolics sedis gratia, 
 Archiepiscopus Armaclianus, Hiberniae Primas, Salutem in Domino. Nos vero con- 
 siderantes qualiter a diuturno tempore Johannes OMellan, qui se gerit pro suae nationis 
 capitaneo, et altero custode camjmna; beatissimi patroni nostri Patricii, ut ex permissione 
 nostra ecclesise metropoliticaj ac primatialis Armachanae, praelatique pro tempore in 
 eadem tanquam officiarii in ea parte, eisdem ecclesiaj et pralato, de fidelitate, et obe- 
 dientia, et de ipsius campana;, quamdiu meruerit illius custodiam pro ecclesiaj disposi- 
 tione, voluntate, et beneplacito, de bono regimine, et ejus cura, etiam de exitibus"" 
 ratione dictae campanse privilegiatus, juratus existit ad compotum fidelem reddendum : 
 Prajmissa itaque perpendens non ipse quod a tam diuturno tempore, pro nostri et im- 
 mediati predecessoris tempore, se nonobtulit ad mittendum et reddendum, sui compotum 
 in praemissis ; nee etiam contentus quod inobediens et non fidelis post et contra dictum 
 juramentum Ecclesiae, et ejus prajlato, nonnullas EcclesijE terras etiam pra2ter et contra 
 jn-aelati et tenentium beneplacitura occupasset, pariter et detinuisset, prout usurpat, 
 detinet, et occupat: Ex his, et pro non solucione reddituum earundem, suspensionis, 
 excommunicationis, etinterdicti sententias nonnullas danipuabiliter incurrendo; etiam 
 auctoritate apostolica pro manutenentia Karoli Omellan in Decanatu Armachano in- 
 trusi, quod a septem annis et ultra suspcnsus, excommunicatus, et interdictus, animo 
 sustinuit, prout sustinet indurato, claves almae matris Ecclesia? nequiter contempnendo, 
 inde quod plus eminct ipsum pro hajretico censeri quam pro Ecclesiae filio humili aut 
 fideli prout se indignum reddit consideratis ex prtemissis considerandis nedum ad 
 campanae custodiam sed officium qiiodlibet privilogii et patrocinii, commodi, aut ho- 
 noris, quocirca quousque alias meruerit satisfactione prajvia ex commissis ab hujusmodi 
 sententiis et censuris in forma juris absolutionis beneficium et integrum restitui ob- 
 tinere, cum non jura volunt ut qui Ecclesiae offendit ejus gaudere debeat immuni- 
 tate, patrocinio, aut privilcgio quibuscunque, Ipsum omni officio, ac patrocinio, et 
 
 privilegio, 
 
 V This was probablj' employed in the same man- serendae sacramentum, illius tractus indigenae aliique 
 
 iier as the bell which was preserved at Inis-muigh- viciui solent iurare" — (Acta SS., p. 114.) See also 
 
 S.inili, now Inismacsaint, thus described by Colgan : a similar account in Bishop Jeremy Taylor's Preface 
 
 "Ibidem, in magna semper veneratione habitum est to his "Dissuasive from Popery", Works, vol. x. 
 
 usfiue ad nostros dies cymbalum, quod Cloc Nen- p. cxxii. (Lond. 1828.) It seems that fees were paya- 
 
 nidh, i. e. cymbalum seu campana Nennii appellatur, ble for the use of this bell, and that certain lands were 
 
 auro et argento ccclatmn : per (piod in veritatis as- enjoyed in virtue of its custody See pp. 150, 309. 
 
?>7?> 
 
 privilegio, quibus presertim occasione custodiae dictge campanas, ac alias, nomine Eccle- 
 siae, fuerit praeferendus, et reputat se fulsitum, privamus tenore presentium, et denu- 
 damus, ac privatum et denudatum pronunciamus, decerninnis, et declaramus, seqne- 
 stramusque campanam hujusmodi, et sub arto sequestro in custodia omnino Patricii 
 Omulchallynd alterius ciistodis, suse nationis capitanei, quousque pro dispositione Ec- 
 clesiae alias fuerit ordinatum, volumus permanere, mandantes omnibus et singulis 
 nostris subditis et subjectis, ecclesiasticis, et ssecularibus, nostrae provinciae quibus- 
 cunque, ne dicto Johanni Omellan, ratione dictae campanEe, vel alterius Ecclesiae officii, 
 patrocinii, aut privilegii, de aliquibus fructibvis, proventibus, custumis, juribus, ob- 
 ventionibus, aut emolumentis, quisquam respondeat sibi, pareat, vel intendat, imo 
 tanquam omni privilegio privatum, et denudatum, suspensum, excommunicatum, ac 
 interdictum, quo supra reputet, publicet, atque credat, et communionem suam pesti- 
 feram dampnabilem procuret attentius evitari, et facere evitari, sub dictarum suspen- 
 sionis, excommunicationis, ac interdict! sententiarum poenis, quas quemlibet contra- 
 facientem, ix. dierum termino pro monitione canonica precedente, incurrere volumus 
 ipso facto. Insuper per presentes firmiter injungendo mandantes universis et singulis 
 viris ecclesiasticis quibuscunque, per nostram provinciam ubilibet constitutis, (juate- 
 nus has nostras literas, vel saltern effectum earundem, pro diebus ac locis ubi quotiens 
 ac quando coram majori populi congregatione opportuerit et visum fuerit expedire, 
 intimetis, publicetis, nuncietis, insinuatis, et notificetis, nee cessetis quousque aliud de- 
 super habueritis in mandatis, sub excommunicationis latse sententite poena in his scriptis, 
 quam singulares personas contra facientes, trium dierum termino pro monitione cano- 
 nica prtecedente, inciirrere volumus ipso facto. Datum sub nostro sigillo in crastino 
 Trinitatis apud Dundalke nostras Ardmachanse diocesis. Anno Domini 1441, et nostrae 
 consecrationis anno secundo". — (Eegist. Prene, fol. iii, a, b.) 
 
 " SEQUESTRATIO CAMPAN^ SANCTI PATRICII PROPTER DEMERITA 
 
 CUSTODIS ILLIUS. 
 
 " Johannes, &c,, dilecto in Christio filio Patricio Omulchallynd, suae nationis capi- 
 taneo, alterique custodi campance heatissimi patroni nostri Patricii, salutem, &c. Cum 
 nos Johannem OMellan, qui se gerit pro suis nationis capitaneo, et altero custode cam- 
 panaj prsedictaj, exdiversis sui demeritis, cum non jura volunt ut qui Ecclesiae ofFendat 
 ejus gaudere debeat immunitate, patrocinio, aut privilegio quibuscunque, ipsum omni 
 officio, patrocinio, et privilegio, quibus praesertim occasione custodife dictae campanae ac 
 alias, nomine Ecclesiae fuerit prseferendus, et reputat se fulsitum, privaverimus et denu- 
 daverimus, ac privatum et denudatum pronunciaverimus, decreverimus, et declara- 
 
 verimus, 
 
374 
 
 verimus, sub certis modo et forma, ut in aliis nostris Uteris patentibus inde confectis 
 plenius continetur; et quia sequestravimus, et tenore praesentium sequestramus cam- 
 panam hujusmodi, volentes ipsam in vestri custodia sub arto sequestro permanere, 
 quousque pro dispositione ecclesis quod alias sit agendum inde fuerit ordinatum: 
 Hinc est quod vobis, in virtute obedientise, et sub suspensionis, excommunicationis, et 
 interdicti sententiarum poenis, quas, nisi feceris quod mandamus, ix. dierum termino 
 pro monitione canonica precedente, te incurrere volumus ipso facto, tenore presentium 
 districte prajcipiendo, mandamus quod hujusmodi campanam in tui custodia fideliter 
 conserves, illam dicto Johanni, vel cuicunque alteri non tradendam ipsius nomine, quo- 
 usque super his aliud a nobis specialiterhabueritis in mandatis; imo procures studiose 
 dictam campanam adeo conservare quo non inde nobis et Ecclesice fidelem compotum 
 pro loco et tempore congruis et requisitis fueris redditurus, imo de tuis fidelitate et 
 obedientia causam habeamus tibi merito regratificandi. Datum sub nostro sigillo 1 3 
 die Junii, A. D., &c., et nostras consecrationis anno secundo ". — (Ibid., fol. lii,b.) 
 
 At the time that this was written the head of the family of INlaolcallann appears to 
 have been settled in that part of Tyrone which is now transferred to the county of 
 Derry, under the name of the barony of Loughinsholin. The Four Masters relate 
 that in 1432 Patrick OMaolcallan and the son of OMellan were slain in OCahan's 
 country, that is, the present barony of Keenaght. In 1425 Nellanus OCorre was 
 collated to the perpetual vicarage of Teothgalta [IMagherafelt], which was vacant by 
 the death of Malachias OMulchallyn. — (Keg. Swayne.) 
 
 In 1458 the Primate issued a monition to Maurice OCahau, comharba of St. Kan- 
 nice of Drumchossa'', Donald OKyltc, Archdeacon of Connor, Nicholas OHegirthay, 
 Rector of Balliscrine, Donald OCahan, Archdeacon of Derry, enjoining them to desist 
 from disturbing Patrick OKegan in the rectory of Inisthayde [BallyscuUion], and 
 threatening, if they persevered in contumacy, to invite the aid of the secular arm in 
 
 the person of Magonius OMulhallan (Reg. Prene, fol. 11 b.) In the last-named 
 
 parish, and especially in the neighbourhood of Bellaghy, iSIulhoUand is still a preva- 
 lent name. A branch of the family appears also to have early settled in the county of 
 Antrim. The last prior of Muckamore was Bryan Boy OMuhallan; and in 1640 
 several Mulhollands were living in the parish of Killead (Ul. Inq., Antrim, No. 143, 
 
 '^^ I-) After 
 
 '' The Priinatial Kegistra make frequent mention who is spoken of by tlie Four blasters, A. D. IO06, 
 
 of the Comurba7ius S. Kannici, generally adding the 1090. The Life of St. Cainnech in the Book of 
 
 parochial name Drumachose. This deteniiines the Kilkenny calls him " Canuicus sanctus abbas de ge- 
 
 church of the coTTlupba Cainm^ hi cCian- nere Connach Duine-Gemhyn", i. e. of the tribe of 
 
 naccaib, 'comharba of Cainnigh in Keenaght', Keenaght about Diuigiven. 
 
375 
 
 After the faculty granted by Primate Prene to Patrick O iNIulchallyn a long blank 
 occurs in the history of St. Patrick's Bell ; but at the expiration of three centuries 
 and a half it again presents itself in the possession of a member of the same family. In 
 the year 1758 Bernard Mvilhollan died at MoyagoU, in the parish of Maghera, and 
 county of Derry, aged seventy-five years'". His son Edmond lived at Edenduflfcarrick, 
 or Shane's Castle, in the capacity of an under-agent to the ONeill family. His son 
 Henry, being designed for the priesthood, received a liberal education; but, failing to 
 enter into holy orders, he became master of a grammar school, and towards the close 
 of the last century followed his vocation in the now obliterated village of EdendufF- 
 carrick, on the confines of Drummaul and Antrim parishes. Among his pupils was 
 Mr. Adam I\r Clean, who, in after life cherished a lively feeling of regard for his pre- 
 ceptor, and was enabled to aff"ord him assistance in his declining years. To testify his 
 gratitude for the kindness he had received, the old man, when on his death bed, con- 
 signed to Mr. M^ Clean the possession of this venerated relic, which was found, together 
 with a copy of Bedell's Irish Bible, in an oak box, buried in the garden, where, for 
 safety's sake, it had been deposited by the last of its hereditary keepers. 
 
 Other ecclesiastical bells, of the same shape and materials, namely, four-sided, and 
 generally formed of iron plates riveted and brazed, have been found in various parts of 
 the three dioceses. 
 
 One, which was found in the stream that divides the townlands Craigatempin and 
 Glenlough, in the parish of Ballymoney, in a pool commonly called Bannat-a- linn, is 
 now in the possession of James Bell, Esq., of Prospect, in same parish. 
 
 Another, which was found in the parish of Solar, is deposited in the Belfast 
 
 Museum. 
 
 A third, formed of bronze, which was found at Bangor, is in the possession of 
 Doctor Stephenson of Belfast.— See the work " Belfast and its Environs", p. 63. 
 
 A fourth, which was found in the ivy-clad walls of Kilbrony old church, is pre- 
 served in the R. C. Chapel of Newry.— See Newry Magazine, No. ii. p. 109. 
 
 Colgan states that the bell of St. Domangart, called Glunan, was preserved at his 
 time in the church of Maghera. — See above, p. 28. 
 
 LL. 
 
 r This appears from an entrj- on a blank page, at page is written " Ex libris Edmundi Mulhollan, in 
 the end of the book of Deuteronomy, in an Irish comitatu Antrim, Anno Domini 1750— emunn 
 Bible which belonged to the family. On the title Ua ITIhaolcallan". 
 
376 
 
 3)anuar2. 
 
 I 
 
 Kalend. 
 
 2 
 
 iv. Non. 
 
 6 
 
 viii. Id- 
 
 7 
 
 vii. Id. 
 
 8 
 
 vi. Id. 
 
 9 
 
 V. Id. 
 
 12 
 
 Prid.Id. 
 
 ^3 
 
 Idus. 
 
 i6 
 
 xvii. Kal. 
 
 22 
 
 xi. Kal. 
 
 27 
 
 vi. Kal. 
 
 29 
 
 iv. Kal. 
 
 31 
 
 Prid. Kal. 
 
 i 
 
 Pcliruarg. 
 
 3 
 
 iii. Non. 
 
 4 
 
 Prid. Non. 
 
 II 
 
 iii. Id. 
 
 18 
 
 xii. Kal. 
 
 18 
 
 xii. Kal. 
 
 20 
 
 X. Kal. 
 
 28 
 
 Prid. Kal. 
 
 LL. 
 CALENDAR. 
 
 S. CoLMAN MnLiNN, of Doire Chaochain, . . 
 
 S. Lochaid; abbot of Magh Bile, 
 
 S. DiOMA DuBH, bishop of Connor, 
 
 S. Cronan Beg, bishop of Naondrum, .... 
 S. Eargneath, virgin, of Dun-da-en, .... 
 S. LoMCHU, of Kill Lomchon, in Ultonia, . . 
 
 S. LoiCHEiN, of Uibh Eathach, 
 
 S. AiLiLL, abbot of Magh Bile, 
 
 S. LociiiN, of Dal Araidhe, 
 
 SS. CoLMAN, BoGHA, and Lassara, of Lettir, 
 
 S. MuiRGEN% virgin, 
 
 S. Dallan Forgaill, of Cluain Dallain, . . 
 S. MocHUMMA, bishop of Naondrum, 
 
 S. CoANAN Ghlinne, abbot of Magh Bile, (Ob. A. D. 742) 
 
 S. CiARAN, of Tanihlacht Gliadh, 
 
 S. FiNDXA, bishop of Magh Bile, 
 
 S. MoLiOBA, of Eanach Eilte, 
 
 S. Lasair, virgin, of Ghlionn-meadhoin, 
 
 S. Bolcan, Bishop of Airther Muighe, 
 
 S. SiOLLAN, abbot of Bangor, (Ob. A. D. 606,) 
 
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 ' S. Mmrgen. — "niuipj^ein .1. Cioban, 
 injean eacaib mic muipeoa", " Muirgh- 
 ein, i. e., Liban [woman of the sea], daughter of 
 Eacbaidh, son of Muiredhach."_(Cal. Cleiy.) To 
 the observations upon the name Liban, which have 
 been made above, at pp. 265, 266, may be added the 
 following wild legend, which is given at length in the 
 Leahhar na h-Uidhre, fol. 36: — 
 
 " Eochaidh, from whom Lough Neagh derives its 
 name, was drowned in its eruption, together with all 
 
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 ittarcb. 
 
 his children, except Liban, Conaing, and Curnan. 
 Liban was preserved from the waters of Lough 
 n-Eachach for a full year, in her grianan [palace] 
 under the lake. After this, at her own desire, she 
 was changed into a salmon, and continued to tra- 
 verse the seas till the time of St. Conigall of Bangor. 
 It happened that Comgall despatched Beoan, son of 
 Innli, of Teach Dabeog, to Rome, on a message to 
 Gregorj' [Pope, A. D. 590-604], to receive order and 
 rule. When the crew of Beoan's curacli were at sea 
 
in 
 
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 S. Mantan, of Blarus', 
 
 S. Ereclac, of Rath Muadhain, 
 
 S. Sedna, of Kill Aine, 
 
 S. MocHOEMOG, abbot of Duu-di'um, (Ob. A. D. 496,) 
 
 S. Patrick, at Duudaleatliglas, 
 
 S. BoEDAN, of Kill Boedain, 
 
 S. DoMHANGARD, of Ratli-miirbliolg, 
 
 S. Enan, son of MuADAiN, of Druim Indicli, 
 
 S. Fergus, bishop of Dundaleathglas, 
 
 S. CoLMAN, of Linn Uachaille, 
 
 S. AoDHAN, of Kill Aodhan, (F. Mast. A. D. 1149.)- • • 
 
 S. TuAN Mac CoiRiLL, of Tamhlacht, . ^ 
 
 S. CoNALL, of Cluain Dallain, 
 
 S. Bronach, virgin, of Ghlionn Seichis, 
 
 S. Cathubh, bishop of Achadh Cinn, (Ob. A. D. 554,) . 
 
 S. AoDH, abbot of Reachrann, 
 
 S. Ross, of Dundaleathglas, 
 
 S. Cennfaoladh, abbot of Bangor, (Ob. A. I). 704,) . . 
 
 S. CoNNA, abbot of Doire-dba-conna, 
 
 S. Tassach, bishop of Rath Cholpa, 
 
 S. Berach, abbot of Bangor, (Ob. A. D. 663), 
 
 S. Maolruba", abbot of Bangor, (Ob. A. D. 721,) . . . 
 
 S. RuFiN, bishop of Gleanndaloch and Bangor, 
 
 S. SuAiRLEACH, abbot of Linnduachaille, (Ob. A. D. 770,) 
 S. Indreachtach, abbot of Bangor, (Ob. A. D. 901,) . . 
 
 S. Gas, of Bangor, 
 
 S. Breaccan, bishop of Magh Bile, 
 
 S. DiCHU, of Sabhall Patraic, 
 
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 they heard the celebration of angels beneath the 
 boat. Liban, thereupon, addressed them, and stated 
 that she had been 300 years [500 ?] under the sea, 
 adding that she would proceed westward and meet 
 Beoan, that day twelvemonths, at Inhher OUarha 
 [Lame, see p. 264], whitlier the saints of Dala- 
 
 raidhe, with Conighall, were to resort. Beoan, on 
 his return, related what had occurred, and, at the 
 stated time, the nets were set, and she was cauglit 
 in the net of Fergus of Miliuc ; upon which she was 
 brought to land, and crowds came to witness the 
 sight, among whom was the Chief of Vi Conai/icf. 
 

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 S. Cairbre, bishop of Magli Bile, 
 
 S. Neim, bishop of Tulach, 
 
 S. Breacan, of Eachdrum Brecain', 
 
 S. CoMHGHALL", abbot of Bangor, 
 
 S. Bearnasga, of Tulach Lis, 
 
 S. TiGHERNACH, of Boirche, 
 
 S. Dachonna, bishop of Connor, 
 
 S. Mac Laisre, abbot of Bangor, (Ob. A. D. 645,) 
 
 S. Criotan, bishop of Naondrum, 
 
 S. RoNAN Finn, of Lann Ronain", 
 
 S. MoDuiN, abbot of Sabhall, 
 
 S. CuMMAiN, virgin, of Doire and Dal m-Buinne, . 
 
 S. EoGAN, abbot of Magh Bile, 
 
 S. CoiRPRE, abbot of Magh Bile, 
 
 S. Ernin, of Creamhchoille, 
 
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 The right to her being disputed by Comghall, in 
 whose territorj', — and Fergus, in whose net, — and 
 Beoan, in promise to whom, — she was taken, they 
 j)rayed for a heavenly decision ; and next day two 
 wild oxen came down from Cam Airend, and on 
 their being yoked to the chariot on which she was 
 placed, they bore her to Teach Dabeoc, where she 
 was baptized by Comghall, with the name Muirgen, 
 i. e. 'born of the sea', or Muirgeilt, i. e. 'traverser 
 of the sea '. ^Vnother name for her was FuitichL 
 
 ' Blarus. — Colgan cites Maguir as his authority 
 for this name, but hesitates as to its identity with 
 Kill-Mantain, now Wicklow — (Acta SS., p. -iol.) 
 
 " Maolniba The Four Masters record that in the 
 
 year 671 Maolruba, abbot of Bangor, set out to Scot- 
 land, and founded the church of Aporcrosan. At the 
 year 721 they relate that he died in his church of 
 Apmcrossan, on the 2l8t day of April, aged eighty 
 years, three months, and nine days. The note on the 
 Martyrology of Aengus, at this day, adds: "Moel- 
 rubai was of the Cinel Eoghan, and his churcli is in 
 Scotland. And this is the festival of his death. 
 Subtan, daughter of Setna [see p. 269], sister of 
 
 Comgall of Bangor, was his mother; and his church 
 is in Abur Chresen ". This statement of his paren- 
 tage involves a difficulty: Comgall died A. D. 601' 
 aged ninety-one ; Maolruba was bom A. D. 641. 
 
 ' Breacan, — Son of Saranus — See above, p. 338. 
 " Qui \idetur esse S. Brecanus, qui 7 Maii colitur 
 in Ecclesia de Eachdruim, Dia'cesis Connerensis et 
 Uunensis, in Confinibus Dalriedia; et Dalaradiae" — 
 Acta SS., p. 783, col. 2. Also p. 378. 
 
 w ComhghaU There are two lives of this saint in 
 
 the Acta Sanctorum— (May 10, pp. 581-583.) The 
 editor errs in stating Moiime, Comghall's birth-place, 
 to be " oppidum baud procul ab sestivario Carlinfor- 
 
 do" See above, p. 2G9. 
 
 " Lann Ronain The situation of this church is 
 
 not exactly kno^\^l, but that it was near Moira, and 
 in the old parish of ]Magheralin, of which :Moira 
 formed a part until about the year 1725, appears 
 from the following entry in the Book of Lecan : 
 "f^ainn Ronain Pmn i Copco l^mpean 1 
 ITIuiT T5ac", — "Lann Ronain Finn, in Corco 
 Ruishen in Magh Rath".—(M. 9G, b.) See above, 
 p. 313. The church of Moira is called St. Inn's. 
 
379 
 
 
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 S. CuiMiN, abbot of Reaclirann, 
 
 S. CoLMAN Finn, of Cill Cleitlie, .... 
 
 S. CoLMAN, of Dromore, . 
 
 S. Brigid, in Dundaletliglas, 
 
 S. Regail, of Bangor, (Ob. A. D. 881,) 
 
 S. ToRANNAN, abbot of Bangor, 
 
 S. MocHAoi, abbot of Naondrum, .... 
 S. Thiu, of Rubba^ 
 
 S. CuMMiNE, bishop of Naondrum, 
 
 S. Flann Mac Cellach, of Reachrann, 
 
 S. Mac Earca, bishop of Domnach-mor, 
 
 S. BiTEUS or MoBiu, abbot of Inis Cumsgraidhe, 
 
 S. LuGHBHE, of Druimbo, 
 
 S. Beoghan, of Magh Bile, 
 
 S. Nathi, of Cuil Fuitherbe% 
 
 S. Saran, abbot of Bangor, (Ob. A. D. 742,) 
 
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 S. Duinseach, virgin, of Loch Cuan, | 186 
 
 S. MoLiOBA, of Gort Cirb^, 
 
 S. Cronan, of Magh Bile, (Ob. A. D. 649,) 
 
 S. CuiMiN, of Druimbo, 
 
 S. Segene, founder of Reachrann, 
 
 S. Temnen, monk and martyr, of Linn Uachaill, . . . 
 
 S. EoiN Mac Carlain, of Teach Eoin, 
 
 S. Beoghna, abbot of Bangor, (Ob. A. D. 605,) .... 
 
 S. SiLLAN, bishop, and abbot of Magh Bile, 
 
 S. Uindic'', bishop of Rath-Easpuic-Innic, 
 
 y Ruhha " Haom Uiu o 'Rubu \ n-Qpo 
 
 Ulao", " S. Tiu, of Eubha, in the Ards of Uladh". 
 (Cal. OClery.) The townland Echlinville, in the 
 parish of Ballyhalbert, was anciently called Rowbane 
 (or Rhenbane, — Harris" Down, p. 48), as the ad- 
 joining one is still called Rowreagh. The chapel, of 
 
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 September. 
 
 which not a vestige remains, formerly stood in the 
 field opposite the entrance to Echlinville demesne. 
 
 ^ Cuil Fuitherbe " Nathias de Cuil-fothribh in 
 
 Dalaradia". (Ogyg., p. 293.) B.of Lecan, f. 134, 6,i. 
 
 » Gort Cirb Probably the Gortgrib of p. 11. 
 
 •> Uindic. — The Calendar of Clerys styles him 
 
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 S. Mac Nissi, bishop of Connor, 
 
 S. Maolathgen, bishop of Magh Bile, 
 
 S. FiNiAN, bishop of Magh Bile, 
 
 S. Segan OCuinn, abbot of Bangor, (Ob. A. D. 662,) 
 
 S. LoARN, bishop of Breattan, 
 
 S. Daniel"^, bishop of Bangor, 
 
 S. Maoltoloigh, of Druini, 
 
 S. Criotan, of Bangor, (Ob. A. D. 668,) 
 
 S. RiAGAiL, of Teach Riagla, 
 
 S. CuMMiNE, abbot of Bangor, (Ob. A. D. 666,). . . . 
 
 S. loMcuAiDH, of Kill Droichid**, 
 
 S. Colman-Elo, of Connor and Muckamore, 
 
 S. Fiachrach, bishop of Cuil Eachtrann, 
 
 S. MuRGHAL, abbot of Reachrann, 
 
 S. Faolan, of Rath-aine, in Dal Araidhe, 
 
 S. SiNEAL, bishop and abbot of Magh Bile, 
 
 S. CoLUM, of Bangor, (Ob. A. D. 666,) 
 
 S. CoLMAN, bishop of Kill-ruaidh, 
 
 S. CuBRETAN, anchorite of Magh Bile, 
 
 S. SioLLAN, abbot of Magh Bile, 
 
 S. Laisren, of Ard-Mic-Nasca, 
 
 SS. BoEDAN, bishop, Meallan, and Nasadh, of Tamh 
 
 lacht INIenain, 
 
 S. AuGUSTiN, of Bangor, (Ob. A. D. 775,) 
 
 S. Ernachuag, of Dun-da-en, 
 
 S. Herenat, virgin, of Dun-da-en, 
 
 S. Mac Hua Gualae, of Lann Mocholmog^, 
 
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 iiobembcr. 
 
 Uinoic Cui^neaca, 'Winnie of Tynan' [in 
 the diocese of Armagh], but Colgan places him as 
 in the text — (Trias Th., p. 183, col. 2.) 
 
 •^ " 5. Daniel, 11 Septembis, vocatur Episcopus 
 Bennehoreusis, utiqne juxta consuetudinem illius 
 temporis, qua solebant aliqui simul et Episcopi et 
 .4.bbatis curam exercere". — (Fleming, CoUectan., 
 
 p. 316.) 
 
 "i Kill Droichid,—' Church of the Bridge'. Now 
 miknown. There is no river in the Ards deser\ing 
 a bridge except the Blackstaff which di\ided the 
 Great and Little Ards. Near this was the chapel of 
 Gransha — See p. 21. 
 
 « Lann Moeholmog — " Mac Hua Gualae, of the 
 
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 6 
 
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 3Bcfcmber. 
 
 viii. Id. 
 
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 S. AiLLTiN, bishop, of Kill-innsi, , 
 
 S. Anog, of Kill-innsi, 
 
 S. Caomh, virgin, of Kill-innsi, , 
 
 S. Maolmaodhog Ua Morghair, bishop, . . . 
 S. AoDHAN Mac Colgan, of Lann Abhaic, . . . 
 S. Cronan, abbot of Bangor, (Ob. A. D. 688,) 
 
 S. Cairbre, bishop of Cuil Eaithin, 
 
 S. BuAiDH Beo^, of Loch Cuan, 
 
 S. EscoN, bishop, of Druini-daganda, 
 
 S. FiNNCHUos, abbot of Bangor, 
 
 S. GoBHAN, of Teach-da-gobha, 
 
 S. Flann, abbot of Bangor, (Ob. A. D. 722,) . 
 
 S. MocHUMOG, of Cluain Daimh, 
 
 S. MoLioBA, of Eanach Eilte, 
 
 S. TiOBRAT, of Magh Rath, 
 
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 MM. 
 
 ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA. 
 
 Page 8, col. i, line 26, for " 1231", read " 1213". 
 
 Page 9, col. I, 1. 6; page 14, col. 2, 1. 19; page 20, col. i, 1. 8; page 22, col. 2, 1. 7; 
 page 30, col. 2, 1. 28, for " 1334", read " 1333". 
 
 Page 12, col. 2, 11. I, 16; ,page 13, col. i, 1. 11, for "Hollywood", read "Holy- 
 wood". 
 
 Page 13, col. 2, 1. 12; page 70, col. i, 1. 30; page 82, col. 2, 1. 20; page 151, 1. 6, 
 
 for "Book of Armagh", read "A Manuscript of Armagh". The Editor was not 
 
 aware, until a considerable portion of the work was printed, that the authority cited 
 
 by Fleming in his Collectanea, under the title Codex Armachanus, was different from 
 
 the Book of Armagh. ^ 
 
 Page 18, 
 
 Galfine, an Ultonian tribe ; he is [commemorated] at son of Araidhe, a quo Dal Araidhe, at Loch Cuan ". 
 Lann Mochohnog". g Finnchuo — For an account of the austerities he 
 
 fBuaidh Beo — " Son of Lughaih, son of Leathcu, practised see Fleming, Coll. Sac, p. 314, col. 2. 
 
382 
 
 Page 1 8, to the note ', the following account is supplemental : — 
 " The priory of St. Andrew, or, as it is sometimes styled, the Black Priory, in the 
 Ards, was founded by John de Courcy, about the year 1 1 80, at which date he granted 
 ten carucates of land, called MaccoUoqua in the Ards, with certain tithes, to the priory 
 of St. Andrew de Stokes, or Stoke Courcy, which he had founded in Somersetshire. 
 By some arrangement, which is not recorded, this grant was transferred to the priory 
 of St. Mary of Lonley in Normandy, and the priory of St. Andrew's in the Ards, about 
 1218, was constituted by Hugh de Lacy a cell of that house. — (Harris' Ware's Works, 
 vol, ii. p. 273.) In 1342, during the war between France and England, the temporali- 
 ties of this house were seized, as belonging to an alien priory, into the King's hands; 
 l)ut were in the ibllowing October delivered to William de Hodierne, a monk of 
 
 Lonley (King's Collection.) Not long afterwards, Richard Fitz Ralph, archbishop 
 
 of Armagh, entered into an agreement with the prior and convent of Lonley for the 
 purchase of the lands, tithes, and privileges of the priory of St. Andrews. This took 
 place in the year 1356; and the deed of assignment, which has been preserved, is 
 printed in the Monasticon Anglicanum. — (Vol. ii. p. 1019.) At the same time the 
 Primate bound himself to the abbot and convent of Lonley in the sum of £200, to be 
 paid to them or their attorney, on or before the feast of St. John the Baptist, in the 
 year 1360: provided that this transfer of the cell of St. Andrew in the Ard, in the 
 county of Ultonia, should be confirmed by the Pope, the King, and other the lords and 
 founders of said house, to him, his successors, and the church of Armagh. That if 
 such license should not be obtained, the premises were to be delivered back in due form. 
 Dated 20th [March] 1356. A copy of this bond is entered in the register of Arch- 
 bishop Sweteman, who succeeded Fitz Ralph in the primacy, and is, perhaps, the oldest 
 record on paper now existing in Ireland — (fol. 16 1.) An inffpexhmis of the same docu- 
 ment is preserved among the rolls of Chancery of Ireland.. — (Calend., p. 140, no. 123.) 
 Richard Fitz Ralph died on the i6th of November, 1360, and after his death the 
 priory of St. Andrew was seized into the King's hands. In 1382 it Avas under the 
 government of a prior; and in 1389 the office was held by one Thomas. — (Cal. Cane, 
 p. 140 h.) In 1390 Primate Colton, presented a petition to the King setting forth that 
 license had been granted by Edward III. to Richard, Archbishop of Armagh, and his 
 successors, to purchase such alien priories and cells of the French, in Ireland, as did 
 not exceed 100 marks a year, and that said Richard had made the above purchase from 
 the abbey of Lonley, but that after his death it had been seized to the Crown, and 
 praying for its restoration. Upon this, Richard White, prior of the Hospital of St. 
 John of Jerusalem, Richard Russell, and William Merser, were appointed to examine 
 into merits of the claim. — (Cal. Cane, p. 142.) In 1395 the custody of the priory was 
 
 Gjranted 
 
^83 
 
 J 
 
 granted by the King to the same primate, subject to ten marks per annum. Still, 
 however, it seems to have been regarded as having a foreign relation, for in 141 1 the 
 King granted to John Chenele the alien priory of Eynes in Arde, within the lordship 
 of Ulster, which had been seized into the King's hands by reason of the war between 
 
 him and France (See above, p. 22.) During the wars of the ONeills these lands 
 
 were taken possession of by them, and by their rebellion were supposed to be vested 
 in the Crown. Hence it was that James Hamilton, Viscount Clandeboy, succeeded 
 in obtaining a grant of them, and the appendant rectories and advowsons. The lands 
 he assigned to Sir Hugh Montgomery of the Ards. The see of Armagh did not, 
 however, abandon its claim to them or their appurtenances, for in 1622 Primate 
 Hampton made the following return : " Withheld by S' Hugh Montgomery Kn', and 
 S' James Hamylton Kn\ y" Black Priory of S' Andrews in the Ardes, sometyme the 
 lands of Prior Aliens and bought by one of my predecessors, for the mayntenance of 
 his successors table, from the Abbot and Convent of Clonley in Normandy, by license 
 of King Edward the third, with allowance of the poope; for the some of 200' ster, 
 paid by my predecessor, in Paules Church in London: which Priory doth consist of 
 three towne lands and five impropriations".— (Ulster Visitation.) According to 
 Harris, the priory was awarded to the see of Armagh in 1639. Until the middle of 
 the last century, the representatives of the Lord Viscount Claneboy claimed the right 
 of patronage to the united vicarages of Talbotstown, White Church, and Inishargy, 
 under the name of the parish of St. Andrews; but a suit, which was instituted by 
 Primate Stone against Viscount Mount Alexander, concerning the advowson to the 
 vicarage of Donaghadee, having resulted in favour of the plaintiff, reestablished the 
 see of Armagh in the enjoyment of this portion of its ancient rights. The five im- 
 propriations, spoken of above, were the rectories of Donaghadee, Whitechurch or 
 Bally waiter, Talbotstown or Ballyhalbert, Inishargy, and Derryaghy". 
 
 Page 41, to note "^ add : " In Audleystown, a townland at the N. W. of the parish 
 of Bally culter, adjoining Castle Ward, is a subdenomination called Toherdoney, where 
 the remains of a small chapel were standing within the last forty years, and, attached 
 to them, a cemetery which was used for burials, within memory". 
 Page 47, 11. 3, 4, for "j .m^r", read " i mark". 
 
 Page 47, to note ^ add : " The townland on which the town of Lisburn is built is 
 called Lisnagarvy, which is derived from Ciop na 5-ceupbac, ' the fort of the Car- 
 rogh' or ' gamester '. — (' Montgomery MSS.', p. 199; 'Belfast and its Environs', 
 p. 81.)" 
 
 Page 66, note ^ 1. 21, for " Capn gpeine, ' the earn of the sun' ", read " capn 
 5paine, ' Crania's earn' ", Crania, daughter of Cormac Mac Art, was wife of Finn 
 
 Mac 
 
384 
 
 Mac Cumhail. From her many places take their name, as Leaha Graiiie, Cruik-na- 
 Grania. — See Keating, under Cormac Ulfada; and above, p. 269. 
 
 Page 68, col. i, 1. 11, for " Ballymure", read " Ballynure". 
 
 Page 71, col. 2, 1. 19, for "Robert", read " Roland". 
 
 Page 75, col. I, 1. 25, dele " strata ". 
 
 Page 75, col. 2, 1. 28, for " Rosrelick More", read " Roselick More". 
 
 Page 8 1, to note * add : " The towiiland Culbrim, which lies in the N. W. of Bally- 
 money parish, is marked Kilbnme in Petty's map of the county. The cemeteries in 
 the parish of Finvoy are : Knockaiis, a little west of the church ; Voiv, a circular 
 graveyard, near the Bann-ferry; and Ballpiiacaldrack, at the east of the parish, a 
 little south of Dunloy. The parish of Killagau, which is not noticed by this name in 
 the Taxation, joins Finvoy on the east, and has a very ancient and disused buryfng- 
 ground in the townland Brougnanore ". 
 
 Page 83, col. I, 1. 18, hetiveen "Antrim" and "and", insert "Upper". 
 
 Page 98, to note ^ add : " In the Inquisition of Antrim, 1605, and in Harris' Cata- 
 logue, the priory of Muckamore is stated to have belonged to Regular Canons of St. 
 Augustine; but, in the Registrum of Octavian de Palatio is the following entry: 
 " Carolus Odurnyn, prior de M'^mor, ordinis S. Victoris sub regula S. Augustini ". — 
 (fol. 253 a, and 6.)" 
 
 Page 102, to note*^ add: " The Synodals payable, in former times, to the Primate, 
 were: 'Every Parson iS"*; Every Vicar 8'". — (Reg. Dowd., p. 186.)" 
 
 Page 117, col. 2, 1. 10, o/Ver Druimfornact, add : "A battle was fought here by the 
 Genel Conaill and Cenel Eoghain, under Flaithbertach, son of Loingsech, and Aodh, 
 son of Allan. — (Tigeniach, A. D. 727; Four Mast. A. C. 721.)" 
 
 Page 127, to note *" add : " The following passage from John of Tinniutirs Life of 
 St. Kentigern confirms what is stated in native records concerning the transmission of 
 episcopal orders in the ancient Irish church : ' Proccdens inde vir Dei [S. Kentiger- 
 nus], in loco nomine Glasghu in multa abstinentia vixit: donee rex et clerus regionis 
 Cambrensis cum cseteris Christianis, licet paucis, ipsum plurimum renitentem in pas- 
 torem et episcopum eligerent. Accito atitem de Hibernia uno episcopo, more Britonum et 
 Scotorum, in episcopum ipsum consecrari fecervint. Mos enim in Britannia inoleverat, in 
 consecratione pontificum tantummodo capita eorum sancti chrismatis infusione perun- 
 gere, cum invocatioue sancti Spiritus, et benedictione et manus impositione. Insulani 
 enim quasi extra orbem positi, emergentibus paganorum infestationibus, canonum 
 erant ignari : ecclesiastica ideo censura ipsis condescendens excusatiouem illorum 
 
 admittit in hac parte' (Ussher, Brit. Ec. Ant., cap. xv.) To which, Jocelin, who 
 
 uses almost the same words, adds : " Sacri vero canones sanctificant, ut nuUus epis- 
 
 copus 
 
385 
 
 copus consecretur, absque tribus ad mintis episcopis ; uno videlicet consecratore, qui 
 sacramentales benedictiones, et orationes ad singula insignia pontificalia super sacran- 
 dum dicat; et duo alii cum eo manus imponant; testes existant; textum evangeloruni 
 cervici illius impositam teneant. Sed licet consecratio Britonibus assueta, sacris canoni- 
 bus minus consona videatur, non tamen vim aut eiFectum divini misterii, aut episcopalis 
 ministerii amittere comprobatur ". — (Pinkerton's Vitge Antique, p. 223, Lond. 1789.) 
 
 Page 128, 1. 28, for "transaction", read "transition". 
 
 Page 134, 11. 19, 29, for " unbenificed ", read "unbeneficed". 
 
 Page 134, 1. 20, a/ifer " mention ", supply "is made". 
 
 Page 161, note ^, for the second " muc", read " rnic". 
 
 Page 166, note ', for "both the Killynchys are", read " Killinchy is". 
 
 Page 176, 1. 27, after "p. 259", add, "and Regist. Sweteman, fol. 136". 
 
 Page 176, between 11. 27, 28, imeH : " A..D. 1365, Ricardus, Sub-prior. — [Regist. 
 Sweteman, fol. 1 3 6.] " 
 
 Page 177, 1. I, add : " He is also called Brekway. — [Regist. Octav., fol. 340.] " 
 
 Page 177, betiveen 11. i, 2, insert: "A. D. 1494, Robert. — [Regist. Octav., 
 fol. 1246.]". 
 
 Page 177, 1. 2g, prefix, " A. D. 1467-1470"; and to " Prene " add, "Regist. 
 Octav., fols. 127, 340". 
 
 Page 194, 1. 24, after "marks", add: "A. D. 1365, Feb. 21, the Primate, as 
 guardian of the see of Down, vacante sede, collated, jure devolutionis, John Haket to 
 the parish church of Nedrum — (Regist. Sweteman, fol. 41 a, b.y 
 
 Page 195, 1. 6, after " charters", add : " On Norden's map a place beside Strang- 
 ford Lough, between the name Dufferin and the shore, is marked Antrum, which must 
 be intended for the Aendruim or Nendrum of the ancients — (State Papers.)" 
 
 Page 200, 1. 9, for " analagous ", read " analogous ". 
 
 Page 200, 1. 25, add : " A similar story is told in the Dinnseanchus, under the 
 head ' Inbher Bicne '. A jilace called Atli Beanchair [i. e. ' the ford of the crests '], 
 derived its name from the bens or crests which the heroes cast into it. — (0 Donovan, 
 Irish Gram., p. 326.)" 
 
 Page 208, 1. 17, for "colse", read "close". 
 
 Page 211, 1. 18, /or "therin", read "therein". 
 
 Page 217, note °, lin. penult., for "ecclesise", read "ecclesias". 
 
 Page 218, 1. 13, for " Kyicleth ", read " Kylcleth". 
 
 Page 222, 1. 12, for "panels", read "paucis". 
 
 Page 224, note p, col. 2, 1. 2, for " 841 ", read " 848 ". 
 
 Page 230, 1. 28, for " 1783", read " 1789". 
 
 3 D Page 234, 
 
386 
 
 Page 234, 1. 25, add : " A. D. 1 176, Niall Mac mic Lochlinn was slain by a clan 
 
 of his own subjects, sc. the Dal m-Buinne, i. e. the Muintir Brain of Moylinny. 
 
 (Annal. Inisfall.)" 
 
 Page 235, 1. 7, for " laborantum ", read " laborantium ". 
 
 Page 235, 1. 28, for "reliquis", read " reliquiis ". 
 
 Page 241, I. 5, for " opjam ", read " opjain ". 
 
 Page 248, to 1. 34 add: "But this is incorrect, as is shewn by an old map of 
 Coleraine, preserved in the MS. Library of Trinity College, Dublin''. 
 
 Page 254, 1. 28, for " noctas totes", read " noctes totas". 
 
 Page 265, 1. 9, add: " In the Icelandic saga this bay is also called Ulfk-eLsford". 
 
 Page 267, 1. 15, for " " n ", read " i ". 
 
 Page 270, 1. 5, add: "St. Comgall's crozier, called the Bachall Comhghoill, was 
 preserved by the clergy of Armagh till 1177, when it was taken from them by the 
 English — (Annal. Inisfall.) " 
 
 Page 272, 1. 19, for " was drowned in ", read " went in under ". The expression 
 .^ithintravit, in the original, has reference to the following legend in the Dinnseanchus : 
 Hath Mor of Magh h-Eini [^Magh-Lini, — Book of Ballymote, fol. 223], was first called 
 Kath Rogein, and until the reign of Breasal Breac, son of Brian, King of Uladh. He 
 went on an expedition under Loch Laidh, and remained there fifty years. Mor, 
 daughter of Rithir, son of Gearrlamh, his wife, remained all that time in that Rath, 
 and at last she said, ' I think Breasal's absence too long ' ! And a certain woman 
 said to her, ' It will be long to thee indeed, for Breasal will never come back to his 
 friends until the dead come back to their's'. Mor then died suddenly, and her name 
 remained on the Rath ; 7iiide Rath Mor dicitiir. Breasal soon after returned to his house 
 one evening, as is related in ' Breasal's Expedition' (Book of Lecan, fol. 256 h, h.y 
 
 Page 282, 1. 19, aftei- "321", insert : "The local tradition is, that Mairge signifies 
 Market ; and it is a curious fact that Ballycastle Bay is marked in Jobson's, and other 
 old maps, Marketon Bay". 
 
 Page 284, 1. 24. for " Killeena", read " Killeenan". 
 
 Page 285, 1. 25, add : " In the townland Turraloskin was an old cemetery, called 
 Kilhmcrue, where were the ruins of a small chapel, and, about seven yards from 
 them, a stone j^- feet high, called the PriesVs stone, Avhich bore the figure of a cross ". 
 
 Page 290, after line 27, add : " The description of Coire Brecain, given in the 
 Dinnseanchus, agrees very nearly with the above, except that it mentions a Brecan, 
 son of Partholan, as having been lost here when he fled Avith his fifty boats out of 
 Erin, from his father. This sound is, in all probability, the place which is called 
 in the Icelandic saga Jokhihlaup (Yelldhoohleyp), i. e. ' the running' or 'breaking of 
 
 waves '. 
 
t 
 
 87 
 
 waves'. It is stated to be on the north coast of Ireland, and five or six days' sail from 
 Reykjanaes in Iceland ". 
 
 Pa"-e 290, note ', add : " The Dinnseanchus derives the name Inbhear Bicne from 
 Bicne, servant of Conall Cearnach, Avho was drowned here, while driving to land the 
 cows which they had carried off from Alba. Wliereupon the cows cast off their horns, 
 from which circumstance the name Beannchair of Uladh is derived, and also Inbhear 
 
 m-Bicne (Book of Ballymote, fol. 228, b, b.) This place, which is called Invir beg 
 
 in the authorities cited in the note, and also in the Second Life of St. Comgall, in the 
 Acta Sanctorum, is styled in the First Life of the Saint, in the same collection, 
 Ostium fluvii nomine i?«ce.— (May 10, p. 581, col. 2.)" 
 
 Page 291, 1. 2, for "Rechra", read " quge vocatur Rechru". 
 
 Page 293, 1. 4, on " Hy MacUais ", note : " This tribe was first settled in or near 
 the present county of Armagh. The Four Masters, at 642, record the death of 
 Furadhran, son of Bee, son of Cuanach, Chief of Ua mhec Uais. He was eighth in 
 descent from Colla Uaish, and was an ancestor of O Flinn.— (See above, p. 297.) In 
 851 died Maolcaulrarda, son of Maolbresal, Lord of the Ua mec Uais of Airghiall. In 
 870 died Maolruan, son of Maolcuardda, Lord of Ua mec Uaish of Fochla. This word 
 Fochla signifies north, and is employed by the Four Masters to denote the country 
 around Armagh, and, in a more extended sense, the region elsewhere expressed by the 
 word Tuaisceart.—{S(iQ Four Mast. A. D. 858, 864, 879, 910, 913, 939, loio.) The 
 family afterwards emigrated southwards, and gave name to the barony in the county 
 of Westmeath now corruptly called Moygoish — (See Ogygia, p. 361.)" 
 
 Page 295, to note ^ add : " Murtogh O Flinn, Lord of Hy Tuirtre, was slain by 
 the English, who, on the same day, slew Congallach OQuin, Chief of Magh Lughadh 
 and the entire district of Siol Cathusaigh. — (Anna!. Inisfall.) " 
 
 Page 301, at foot, add : " In the Book of Lecan (fol. 65, coh 5, 1. 17) the name of 
 a man, Cu-pailjeach, 'hound of the cemetery', occurs. This name, in the genitive, 
 with oil 'a church', or coiU ' a wood', prefixed, forms CiU Conpailjeac, Kilcon- 
 reelagh, Avhich is probably the origin of the name Killconriola ". 
 
 Page 303, 1. 2, at " Kill-Boedain " note : " This church may be the ' Kiel Bodan ' 
 mentioned above at p. 1 66 ". 
 
 Page 304, note ', 1. 8, for " Csylan", read " Caylan". 
 
 Page 313, 1. 9, for "M'^gyrgn ", read "M'^gyryn". 
 
 Page 323, h 21, for "grant from", read "grant, from". 
 
 Page 331, to note " add : "The learned writer errs in representing Bryan Car- 
 ragh as a Mac Donnell: he was an ONeill. He belonged to the branch of the lat- 
 ter family styled by Mac Firbis ' Clann Oorhnaill Oumn na 6ana ', 'The clan of 
 
 -J D 2 Donnell 
 
388 
 
 Dounell the Brown, of the Bann '. His descent ran thus: Hugh Boy H., (who was 
 slain A. D. 1444,) father of Brian, who was father of Donnell Don [the Brown], who 
 was father of Shane DuiF, who was father of Cormac, who was father of Bryan Car- 
 ragh, who was father of Shane Boy, who was father of Cormac. Anne, daughter of 
 this Bryan Carragh ONeill, was the second wife of Shane ONeUl, gf Shane's Castle, 
 from whose third son, Phelim Duff, the present Viscount ONeill is the fifth in lineal 
 descent. In Jobson's Map of Ulster, Bryan CarrogWs Counti-y is represented as ex- 
 tending over those tracts on either side of the Bann, now comprehended in the parish 
 of Ahoghill and the barony of Loughinsholin ' ". 
 
 Page 332, 1. 7, after "territories" add: " Mac Firbis, in his genealogy of the 
 Mac Donnells, has a passage, of which the following is a translation: 'Eoin [Mac 
 Donnell], who is also called Eoin a Hile and Eoin more, the second son of Eoin, son 
 of Aongus oge, had to wife Maria Bised, daughter of Mac Eoin Bised, (a Greek family 
 which came in with the concjuest of William the Conqueror;) and it was by her that 
 the seven lordships of the Gknns came to the Mac Donnells. Donall a Hile Mac Don- 
 nell, and Eoin his brother, died in the same year [1422], i. e. 227 years previous to 
 this present year 1649. The Mac Donnells own the Glens for the last 227 years to 
 this year 1649. Eoin. son of Eoin, son of Aongus oge, had a son by Maria Bised, 
 namely, Donnell Ballach, heir of the Glenties, as well as of his patrimony in Scotland 
 and in the Hebrides ' ". ... 
 
 Page 332, 1. 30, after "English" add: "This conjecture is confirmed by the 
 readings of the name in Erck's Repertory, namely, GUnimieonagh and Glinmeonagh 
 
 (PP- 137. 274)"- 
 
 Page 340, col. 1,1. 1, for " contains it", read " is an adjacent parish ". 
 
 Page 342, to note '' add : " In the Life of St. Molagga, published by Culgan, 
 Feiiais Chainsa is styled 'fluvius seu maris brachium'. — (Acta SS., p. 147)". 
 
 Page 344, 1. 16, upon the words " Tuoghs and Cinaments " note : "This word 
 Tuogh is the Irish Cuair, 'a family', which came to be applied to the district they 
 occupied. Harris observes that in the Table to the Red-Council Book the word Tuogh 
 is made synonymous to Barony. Thus, in the authorities cited already at pp. 62, 264, 
 332, the word barony is employed to denote the Irish tuogh. In most instances, as may 
 be seen above at pp. 330-333, 344-346, two or three tuoghs wei-e put together to 
 form a barony. The barony of Upper Antrim is an instance where a single tuogh 
 was converted into a baronv. The term Cinament seems to have been employed to 
 denote a smaller tract than a Tuogh. In one case there was a ' Tuogh Cinament '. — 
 (See p. 346.) Harris observes : ' The Word Cine, from whence Cinament is formed, 
 signifies no more than a Family, and so Cinament is^the Habitation or District of such 
 
 a Family'. 
 
389 
 
 a Family '.—(Ware's Works, vol. ii. p. 226.) The Welsh had a territorial division 
 called Cymwd, which was equal to half a cantred, — See Aneurin Owen's 'Ancient 
 Laws and Institutions of Wales ', Glossary, p. 998, col. 2 ". 
 
 Page 346, 1. 6, upon the name "Massareene" note : "In OMellan's Journal of 
 Phelim ONeill, this word is written mapapej^na, which is interpreted TTiap a' pio- 
 ^ain, ' the Queen's hill '. The name at first belonged to a small friary of Franciscans 
 
 of the Third Order, which was founded about the year 1500 by one of the ONeills 
 
 (MS. Brit. Mus., No. 4814, p. 2.) The ground adjoining the town of Antrim, at the 
 other side of the bridge, is still called Massareene, and here, in a fruit garden, beside 
 the Six Mile Water, and adjoining Lord Massareene's demesne, is shewn a trace of 
 the old foundations of the friary. The Inquisition of Antrim, 1605, ^"^^^ that to 
 the Friary of Massareene belonged the townland Ballydonogh in Ederdowen, and a 
 parcel of thirty acres, south of the river OAven-na-view, and that near it were the 
 foundations of a castle called Cloghanmahree, alias Castlemonybray, then almost pros- 
 trate ". 
 
 Page 352, 1. 6, add: "A portion of Lower Iveagh was known, in the sixteenth 
 century, by the name Killwarlin, which is variously written Kilmarlin, Kilwarly, 
 Kilwarninge, and Kilwarney. This tract comprehended the parish of Hillsborough, 
 and the neighbouring parts of Blaris, Moira, Dromore, and Dromara. The townlands 
 contained in it are set out in the Ulster Inquis., No. 31, Car. I. It was the patrimony 
 of a branch of the Magennis family which was called Mac Rory, from Rudhraighe, an 
 ancestor. Art, surnamed na Madhman, or ' Of the overthrows', who flourished A. D. 
 1 380, had two sons, Aodh and Cathbar ; from the former of whom the Lords of Iveagh 
 were descended ; while the Kilwarlin branch derived its origin from the latter. In 
 1575 Ever Mac Rory of Kilwarlyn made a surrender of this tract to Queen Elizabeth, 
 and took out a patent for the same; which original document is in the possession 
 of George Stephenson, Esq., of Lisburn, whose maternal ancestors were of this race. 
 The name Kilwarlin is still locally preserved, and is borne by the Marquis of Down- 
 shire, in his inferior titles of Viscovint and Baron (Archdall's Lodge, vol. ii. p. 333; 
 
 Dubourdieu's Antrim, p. 626)". 
 
 Page 360, to note*" add: "A. D. 11 77, Conchubhar OCioralain, Chief of the 
 Clann Diarmada, was slain by the English — (Annal. Inisfall.)" 
 
 INDEX. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 The Names printed in Italics are those which occur in the Taxation. 
 
 Pase. 
 
 Abbacy, tlie, 22 
 
 Abbot, office of, combined with the epis- 
 copate, 95, 136 
 
 , (races of this union, . 95, 
 
 163, 165 
 , presided over several monaste- 
 ries, 98, 146, 240, 241 
 
 Abbot Grange, 38 
 
 Achadh-chail, 217,236 
 
 Achadli-cinn 89, 322 
 
 Achadli-Dubhthaigh, now Aghadooey. • 330 
 
 Achadii-na-chille, 89 
 
 Achalead, now Aghalee, . . . 49, 318 
 
 Achalethderg, battle of, 253 
 
 Achedyrke, now Aghaderg, . . . .113 
 
 Acheli, 48 
 
 Achochill, 88 
 
 'AK-oi/Ltjjrai, in the ancient Church, . . 94 
 
 Acre River, 334 
 
 Acta Sanctorum. See Bollandists, Colgan. 
 
 Adam, bisiiop of Connor, 256 
 
 , of Bremen, 162 
 
 Adamnan, abbot of Hy, his Life of St. 
 Columbkille cited, 82, 97, 130, 131, 151, 
 205, 217, 226, 240, 249, 270, 273, 279, 
 
 290, 339 
 
 Page. 
 Adamnan, bishop of Rathmoyenaich, . 245 
 Adrian IV., Pope, his bull, . . . .173 
 
 Aedan, son of Mongan, 340 
 
 Aendromia, Latin form o^ Antrim, 63, 345 
 
 Aendrumia, 148, 188 
 
 Aendruim, (see Nendrum,) .... 63 
 Aensus Mac Nissi. See MacNissi. 
 
 , son of Maelcobha, 202 
 
 , the Culdee, Feilire of, cited, 71, 85, 
 
 86, 104, 110, 113, 130, 142,234,237,23s, 
 246, 272, 300, 335, 378 
 , tract " de Matribus 
 
 Sanctorum" cited, . . . 78,189,236 
 , Litany of, referred 
 
 to, 182 
 
 , Saltar na rann, . .151 
 
 Aengussiana stirps, 322 
 
 AfFreca, wife of John de Courcy, ... 92 
 
 Aghaderg, parish of, 112, 113, 160, 258, 309, 
 
 311,312,314,315,317 
 
 Aghagallon, parish of, 48, 49 
 
 Aghalee, parish of, . 49, 103, 141, 172, 318 
 
 Aghavea, church of, 109 
 
 Agherton, parish of, . . . . 75, 7^, 263 
 Ahoghill, parish of, . . 88. 257, 262, 345 
 , parted into three, 89, 301 
 
392 
 
 Page. 
 Ahoghill, parish of, see lands in, . 259, 260 
 Aidan, son of Gabhran, . . 244, 321, 3G6 
 Aidus Niger, (see Aodh Dubh,) . . . 240 
 
 Ailbe, St 245, 305 
 
 , Life of, quoted 245 
 
 Ailill, St., .376 
 
 Ailltin, St., 381 
 
 Ainbetli, son of Aodh 355,361 
 
 Aircindeach, 145 
 
 Aireanian, son of Aodh, .... 355, 361 
 Aireamh, or Errew, meaning of, . . . 57 
 Airearachaid, now Derryaghy, ... 46 
 
 Airnihedliach, St 247 
 
 Airthir Muighe, in Dalriada, . 80, 243, 376 
 
 , in Tuaitli-ratha, ... 80 
 
 Alan of Galloway, . . . 32-3, 324, 325 
 Alba, the early name of Scotland, 320, 321 
 Alba Ecclesia, now Ballywalter, ... 26 
 
 , now Shankill, . . 6, 7, 262 
 
 Ahiiudo Ultorum, (see .(4rrfA',) ... 13 
 
 Alt-na-nlngheann 337 
 
 Anihra Choluim Chille, 114 
 
 Anacheoajdanagli, 48 
 
 Anaehtryni, now Annatrim 239 
 
 Anaghalone, 217 
 
 Analle, 106 
 
 Anbhcheallach, of Connor, 240 
 
 Andadh, of Coleraine, 248 
 
 Anderken, 339 
 
 Andiaran, son of Maolmocheirge, . . 204 
 Andrea-, Sancti, Ecclesia, . . . 18, 192 
 Andrew, St., Priory of, . . . 18, 382, 383 
 Andrew's, St., ciiurch. See Killa?idreas. 
 
 . , Prebend of, . . 1/9, 187 
 
 Anghen, son of Becanagh, 306 
 
 Animosus, his Life of St. Brigid, . 143, 227 
 Annaclone, parish of, . 258, 314, 316, 318 
 
 . , see lands of, . 309,311,312 
 
 Annadorn, 214 
 
 Page. 
 Annadown, diocese of, . . . . 101, 257 
 Annahilt, parish of, . . . 314,316,318 
 Annals of Connaught, cited, . . 257,281 
 
 the Four Masters, 13, 95, 97, 109- 
 
 112, 118, 126, 144-150, 161, 173, 183,239- 
 
 243, 247-250, 264-266, 277, 286, 292, 324, 
 
 334, 343, 349, 353-357, 370 
 
 Grace, cited, 35, 92, 117, 184, 229, 
 
 264, 275, 338 
 
 Inisfallen, 134. 147-149, 151, 153, 
 
 280, 341, 245, 357 
 
 Pembridge, . . 93, 229, 264, 338 
 
 Tighernach, 10, 94, 110, 149, 154, 
 
 206, 239, 253, 279, 319, 349 
 
 Ulster, 93, 97, 110, 154, 184, 204, 
 
 232, 250, 324, 338, 349 
 
 Anog, St., 381 
 
 Anihologia Hibernica cited, .... 307 
 Antiphonarium Bencliorense. See liangor. 
 Antrim, baronies of, ... . 62, 345, 38-^ 
 
 , county of, 262 
 
 , parish of, . . . .60, 63, 277, 278 
 
 Antroye, 62 
 
 Antrum, 62, 166 
 
 Anyll 106,316 
 
 Aodh Aired 340 
 
 Dubh 240, 279, 340, 353 
 
 Mananach, 356 
 
 Roin, 354, 359 
 
 , son of Ainmireach, 358 
 
 • , son of Coirpre, 249 
 
 , son of Eochagan, .... 355,362 
 
 , son of Loingsech, ..... 355 
 
 , son of Tomullach, 204 
 
 Aodhan, King of Dalriada. See Aidan. 
 
 , sonofColgan, .... 236,381 
 
 Aondruim. See Nendrum. 
 
 Aontreibh. See Oentraibh. 
 
 Aongus, son of Fergus, 203 
 
393 
 
 Page. 
 Aiadei, people of Dal-Aradia, 234, 246, 304 
 
 Aras Cealtair, 142, 143, 354 
 
 Arcail, now the Braid valley, .... 83 
 
 Archdall, Monasticon Hib., cited, 30, 31, 95, 
 
 118, 200, 248, 273, 275, 277, 282, 299. 
 
 , , errors of, 22, 47, 
 
 68. 98, 146, 187, 206, 273, 323 
 Archdeacon, ancient jurisdiction of, 99, 100 
 
 Archdeacons of Connor, 262 
 
 of Down, .... 177, 178 
 
 . of Dromore, 107, 108, 312,314 
 
 Ardddiaconus Drummorensis, ■ . .106 
 Archipresbyter, office of, . . . 128, 315 
 
 Ard, rural deanry of, 16 
 
 Ardachadh, battle of, 342 
 
 Ardagaualle, 106 
 
 Ardagh, a townland, 285 
 
 Ardclinis, parish of, .... 86,263,299 
 
 Ard-eolerg 340 
 
 Ardgal, son of Madagan, . . . 242, 355 
 
 Ardglanys 86 
 
 Ardglass, parish of, . 35, 36, 165, 178, 230 
 
 Ardglassce, 34 
 
 Ardicnise, 273 
 
 Ardkeen, parish of, . . • . 21, 171, 179 
 
 Ardkene, 20 
 
 Ard-mac-criosq, 273 
 
 Ard-niac-Nasca, 149, 272 
 
 Ardmacossce, 22, 23, 271 
 
 Ardmillan, 171 
 
 Ardquienne, 20 
 
 Ardquin, parish of, 21, 164, 166, 168, 171, 174 
 
 Ardrachi, 46 
 
 Ards, county of, 16, 363 
 
 , preceptory of the, . . 25, 33, 34, 164 
 
 , territory of the, 13, 16,21, 171, 362, 365 
 
 Ardtole, 35, 36, 178 
 
 Ardtrea, church of, 294 
 
 Armagh, abbey of St. Peter & St. Paul of, 303 
 
 Page. 
 Armagh, archbishops of, guardians of 
 
 suffragan sees, jure devolution la, 103, 160 
 
 , Book of, referred to, 150, 224, 235, 
 
 , lands and advowsons of, in these 
 
 three dioceses, ... 17, 248, 306, 383 
 Armoy, parish of, . . 80, 243, 262, 287 
 
 , see lands of, .... 259, 260 
 
 , territory of, 332 
 
 Artan, a ^Mo Mac Artan, . . . 213,214 
 
 Arte, (see Ards,) 164, 165 
 
 Art na Madhman, 389 
 
 Arx Muadain. See Rath Modhain. 
 
 Ath Beannchair, 385 
 
 Athcrathin, . .117 
 
 Ath-dumha, 350 
 
 Athirde, now Ardee, 36 
 
 Athol, Earl of, 324, 325 
 
 Atbolrill. See AhoghiU. 
 
 Athrumensis ecclesia, 128 
 
 Atrium Magnum, (see Rathmor,) . . 70 
 
 Auelori 191 
 
 Aughnagon, 367 
 
 Aughnakeely, 89 
 
 Augustin, St., of Bangor, 380 
 
 Awall 106,318 
 
 B. 
 
 Bachlach, signification of, . . . . • . 202 
 Baculus. See Crazier. 
 
 Badony, ancient name of, 294 
 
 Baile-an-lacha, now Ballylough, . 78, 287 
 Baile-draighin, now Ballydrain, . . .168 
 Bairche. See Boirche. 
 
 Balayfican 4,281 
 
 Bale, Bishop of Ossory, his " Vocacyon", 258 
 Balebonad. See Balli/money. 
 
 Balgeithelaugh, 325 
 
 Baliath, 40 
 
 E 
 
394 
 
 Page. 
 
 Balibodan, 38, 166 
 
 Baliboni/, 80,263 
 
 Balibren, 40 
 
 Baliconyngham, 34 
 
 , Jolin of, . . . 34, 155 
 
 Balicultre 40 
 
 Balidergan, 192 
 
 Balidugan, 30 
 
 Balienbretbnaglie, now Ballybrannagli, . 163 
 
 Balienstruthi, 164 
 
 Baligauan 194 
 
 Balilugd, 84 
 
 Balimacgehan, 16 
 
 Balimor, 194 
 
 Balimoran, 170 
 
 Balindethdume, 163 
 
 Balioconewi, 163 
 
 Baliurgan, 36 
 
 Ballaghanery. See Ballochaneir. 
 
 Ballaglimore, 77 
 
 Ballecanlenor, 213 
 
 Bailee, parish of, 41,42,163 
 
 Ballelughan 37 
 
 Ballenagallbee, 30, 230 
 
 Ballenaskey. See Ballijskeagk. 
 
 Balleny, the sixteen towns of, . . . . 260 
 
 BalHggan, 20 
 
 BaUimeicdunem, 211,212 
 
 Ballinderry, parish of, 49, 50 
 
 Ballinlagh, tuogh of. See BaUylough. 
 Ballintampany, .... 103>178,216 
 
 Ballintemple, 303 
 
 Ball inline, 172, 197 
 
 Ballintogher, 40 
 
 Ballintoy, parish of, ... . 78, 285, 289 
 
 Ballivico, rural deanry of, 8 
 
 Ballochaneir, chapel of, . . . . 27, 207 
 
 Ballyaderdowan, 310 
 
 Ballyaghran, parish of, 75, 76 
 
 Page. 
 
 Ballyaltikilligan, 198 
 
 Bally bodan, 168 
 
 Ballyboley, 268 
 
 Ballycarry, village of, 57 
 
 Ballycaslanwilliam, 185 
 
 Ballycastle, town of, 332 
 
 Ballyclug, parish of, 84, 262 
 
 , see lands of, . . 259, 260, 261 
 
 Ballycor, parish of, 69, 203 
 
 Bally cronan, 270 
 
 Ballyculter, parish of, . . 39, 41, 163, 369 
 
 Ballydargin, 192 
 
 Bally dorn, 171, 186 
 
 Ballydown, 271 
 
 Ballydrain 168, 171. 195 
 
 Ballydugan 30 
 
 Ballydurnian, 285 
 
 Ballyeaston 69 
 
 Ballyedward, chapel of, ... 56, 262 
 
 Ballyellough, 47 
 
 Ballyetra, 211 
 
 Ballyfuneragh 22 
 
 Ballygalgett 22 
 
 Ballygalley Head, 53, 325 
 
 Ballygannymore, 212 
 
 Ballygealagh, 169 
 
 Ballvglighorn, 191 
 
 Ballygrangagh, 18 
 
 Ballyhalbert, parish of, . . . . 20, 179 
 Ballyhampton, church of, . . . 53, 261 
 
 Ballyharry, 272 
 
 Ballyhay, 15 
 
 Ballyhenry, 7 
 
 Ballyhiggin 20 
 
 Bally kawkill 115 
 
 Ballykeel, 59,88,260,311 
 
 Ballykennedy, 4, 182 
 
 Ballykilbeg 30 
 
 Ballykinler, parish of, ... 28, 210-213 
 
395 
 
 Page. 
 
 Ballylesson, 84,260 
 
 Ballylig, 51 
 
 Ballyligpatiick, 84 
 
 Ballyliany, parish of, 67 
 
 , tuogh of, 346 
 
 Bally lisne van, 13 
 
 Ballylough, castle of, 78, 287 
 
 , townland, 208 
 
 , tuogli of, .... 7^, 330 
 
 Ballymacgehan, 16, 198 
 
 Ballymacgiertie, 212 
 
 Bally magauhy, 16 
 
 Ballymaglian, 12 
 
 Ballymanagh 69 
 
 Ballymartin, parish of, 66 
 
 Ballyniena, town of, 302 
 
 Ballyministra, 198 
 
 Ballymonesteragh, chapel of, . . . . 199 
 Ballymoney, parish of, . . . 80, 81, 263 
 
 , townland of, 208 
 
 , tuogh of, ... . 329, 331 
 
 Ballymore, parish of, 297 
 
 Ballymorran, 170 
 
 Ball'ymote, Book of, cited, . 150, 386, 387 
 
 Ballymoyre, 150 
 
 Ballymullen, 19 
 
 Ballynagallbee, 30 
 
 Ballynahincli, village of, 106 
 
 Ballynamanagh, 14, 69 
 
 Ballynarry, 38, 287 
 
 Ballvnascreen, in county of Derry, 329, 374 
 
 Ballynoe, 13, 163, 289 
 
 Ballynure, parish of, ... . 68, 263, 268 
 
 , territory of, 346 
 
 Ballyoran, church of, .... 14, 179 
 
 Ballyorgan, 37 
 
 Ballyphilip, parish of, . . . 23, 24, 178 
 Ballyprior, church of, ... 59, 263, 271 
 Ballyquonyam, 34 
 
 3 
 
 Page. 
 
 Ballyraga, 178,215,216 
 
 Ballyrashane, parish of, . . . . 74, 263 
 
 Ballyrecoolegalgie, 184 
 
 Ballyrichard, 198 
 
 Ballyrobert . . . 5, 141 
 
 Ballyrobin, 183 
 
 Ballyroger. See Filla Rogeri. 
 
 Bally roily, church of, 18, 28 
 
 Ballyrony, 105,312 
 
 Ballysavage, 281 
 
 Ballyscullion 294,303,374 
 
 Ballysheil, 311,312 
 
 Ballyskeagh, 15, 179 
 
 Ballysugagh, 223 
 
 Ballyteerim, -283 
 
 Ballytrustan, parish of, 25 
 
 Ballyvaston, clmpel of, 7, 185 
 
 Ballyurcegan, 37 
 
 Ballywalter, parishes of, .... 26, 67 
 Ballywillin, parish of, ... . 76, 263 
 Ballywoodan, chapel of, . 38, 166, 168, 219 
 
 Balycunpan, 53 
 
 Bali/michgoJi, 12 
 
 Banaghen, 39 
 
 Banagher, 199 
 
 Banbridge, 106 
 
 Bangor, abbey of, . 13, 93, 152, 290, 359 
 
 , abbots of,. . . 153,277,376-381 
 
 , Antiphonary of, 153 
 
 . , appropriations of, 12, 37,47, 49, 55, 
 
 11.5, 181, 184,276,288 
 
 . , bishops of, 153,380 
 
 , meaning of name, 199 
 
 , plundered by Danes, . . 153, 278 
 
 . , St. Bernard's description of, . 94 
 
 , school of, 146 
 
 , stone church of, ... 356, 362 
 
 Bangor Bay, 290 
 
 Bangore, 54 
 
 E 2 
 
39^ 
 
 Page. 
 
 Bangowre, 12, 93 
 
 Bann, River, . 75, 247, 260, 324, 330, 341 
 Baodan, son of CairioU, .... 340, 366 
 Barbour, his Bruce cited, 264, 265, 271, 288 
 
 Barkely, Tiiomas, 177 
 
 Barn, St. Patrick's. See Sabhall. 
 Baronius, his Annals referred to, 164, 173 
 Barony, modern, how formed, . . 344-348 
 
 , the term, in the sense of territory, 62, 
 
 264, 325, 332, 388 
 
 Barreston, 38 
 
 Barton's Lectures on Lough Neagli, . 48 
 
 Basset, William, 157, 219 
 
 Bay of Knockfergus, 2/4 
 
 Bealing, Henry and Richard, .... 213 
 
 Beaiyath, 42 
 
 Beanna, signification of, 200 
 
 Beanna Boirche, (see Boirche,) . 206, 369 
 Beanncliar (see Bmigor), . . ■ 200, 387 
 
 Beann-Uamha, Cave Hill, 205 
 
 Bearla Peine, what, 114 
 
 Bearnosga, St., 316, 378 
 
 Bee Boirche, 350, 354, 358 
 
 Bee, OLethlobhair, 341 
 
 , son of Aireamhan, .... 355,362 
 
 , son of Cuanach, 297 
 
 , son of Eochaidh, 360 
 
 Bece, 290, 387 
 
 Bede's Hist. Eccles. cited, 113, 126-128, 130, 
 132, 149, 195, 250, 280, 319, 337 
 
 LifcofSt.Cudbert, . 132,197 
 
 Bega, St., priory of, in Cumberland, 163, 190 
 
 Belfast, baronies of, 346 
 
 , town of, , . . .7,183,184,359 
 
 Belfast Lough, ... 68, 252, 272-274 
 Belfast and its Environs, work so called, 369, 
 
 375 
 Belferside. See Belfast. 
 Belgach, 42, 163 
 
 Page. 
 
 Bells, Ecclesiastical 369 
 
 Benchor, (see Bangor,) 94 
 
 Benmays, Robert of, 75 
 
 Benn, his History of Belfast, . . 185, 277 
 
 Bennchair Britonum, 94 
 
 Mot, 94 
 
 Benn-Phoibhne, now Benyevenagh, . 251 
 
 Beoan Mac Innli, 55, 265, 376 
 
 , St., 113 
 
 Beracli, St., of Bangor, 377 
 
 Bernard, St., his Life of Malachi cited, 63, 
 75, 94, 99, 129, 136, 140, 147, 153, 162, 
 
 195, 223, 224, 254 
 , some of his statements in- 
 correct, 140,362 
 
 Betham, Sir W., Antiqq. Researches, 125, 
 
 235, 244, 247, 251 
 
 Bethlehem, a bishop of, 257 
 
 Bice, or Bicne, river of, 387 
 
 Bile 76, 117 
 
 , meaning of name, 77 
 
 Billy, parish of, 77, 262, 286 
 
 Bingham, Ecclesiast. Antiqq. cited, 126, 130, 
 
 131, 134, 140 
 
 Bior, 296 
 
 Bishops, anciently very numerous in Ire- 
 land, 123, 132 
 
 • , St. Bernard's testimony of their 
 
 numbers, 136 
 
 , bore a large proportion to tlie 
 
 priests, 123, 132 
 
 , causes of this frequency, . 125, 129 
 
 , ambulatory in many instances, . 137 
 
 — — , distribution of, regulated by civil 
 
 causes, 125, 303 
 
 in Eng- 
 land as in Ireland, 126 
 
 , numerical declension of, in Ire- 
 
 land, 126, 139 
 
397 
 
 Page. 
 Bishops, office of, combined with that of 
 
 abbot, 95,129,361 
 
 , , traces of this 
 
 union, 95, 163, 165,261 
 
 , frequently declined, . 130 
 
 , sometimes concealed, 131, 
 
 132 
 
 , sometimes ordained by a single 
 
 bishop, . . . 127, 128, 135, 384, 385 
 -, acknowledged to be superior to 
 
 priests, 130, 131 
 
 — - — , fluctuating in number, . . . 136 
 
 , succession of, at Hy, . . 131-134 
 
 , (TxoXa^ovTCf and cxoXaloi, who, 134 
 
 , vacuntes and vagantes, . . .134 
 
 , itinerating, restrained by Coun- 
 cils, 135 
 
 , endowment of, small at first, . 162 
 
 -, prsedial, origin of, .161 
 
 -, see lands of, how made up, 174, 245, 
 246, 248, 306, 307 
 -, a very ancient te- 
 
 nure, 174,258 
 
 , dioceses of, when first defined, . 141 
 
 . , irregularities in extent, . 126, 127 
 
 -, visitations by 98-102 
 
 of Connor, 237,264 
 
 of Down, 141, 179 
 
 ofDromore, 303-318 
 
 Bishopscourt, . . . . 37, 171, 174, 175 
 
 Bishops-island, 165, 170 
 
 Bisset, family of, ... . 288, 325, 388 
 
 Biteus, or Mobiu, St., 379 
 
 Black Abbey 18, 22, 382 
 
 . , appropriations of, 17, 19,20, 26, 
 
 46 
 Black Book of Christ Church cited, . .211 
 
 Blackborne, John, 1 78 
 
 Blackstaffe River 21, 184 
 
 Page. 
 
 Blackwater River, 193, 353 
 
 BlcBthwyc, rural deanry of, ... . 8, 9 
 
 , origin of name, . 360, 362, 363 
 
 Blaithmac, 226 
 
 , son of Aodh Roin, . . . .361 
 
 5 son of Fiachna, 360 
 
 . , son of Maolcobha, . . 354, 358 
 
 Btavi,,, . . 46, 47, 172, 174, 262, 377, 378 
 
 B\awic, (see BlcBihioyc) 171 
 
 Bleau's Geographia referred to, . . . 48 
 
 Blosgadh, 8 
 
 Blount, Law Dictionary, cited, . . . 101 
 Blyth, Robert, bishop of Down and Con- 
 nor, 160,258 
 
 Bobbio, monastery of, 129 
 
 Bochill bregagh, a hill, 216 
 
 Boedan, St., 302, 377 
 
 Bogha, St., 237, 376 
 
 Boirche, a quo Benna Boirche, . 206, 369 
 
 , a territory, 206, 207, 359, 369, 378 
 
 Boirinn, or Barren, 202 
 
 Boith-Bolcain, 46 
 
 Boith Domnach 294 
 
 Bolcan, St. See Olcan. 
 
 Boley houses, what, 269 
 
 Bollandists, their Acta SS. cited, 96, 104, 105 
 189, 238, 241, 246, 269, 304, 387 
 
 Bonamargy, abbey of, 282 
 
 Bonaventure, St., MS, of a tract of, . . 282 
 
 Book of Conquests, cited, 267 
 
 of Rights. See Leabhar 7ia g-Ceart. 
 
 Boriston, 178,215,216 
 
 Borough, origin of word, 166 
 
 Bovolcan, "16 
 
 Bois. See Bush. 
 
 Bradach, H 
 
 Braden Island, tuogh of, ... 57, 346 
 
 Bradley, Thomas 308 
 
 Braid, valley of the, . . . .83,339,345 
 
398 
 
 Page. 
 
 Braige Dercan, 70, 345 
 
 Brakenberghe, 37 
 
 , William of, 57 
 
 Brann, George, 308 
 
 Bratten, 35, 178 
 
 Breadach, 15, 366 
 
 BreasahBreac, 200,386 
 
 . , son of Ailill, 354 
 
 — — , son of Aodli Roin, . . . 354,361 
 
 , son of Brian 272, 280 
 
 , son of Flathrai, 340 
 
 Brecan, 290,291,386 
 
 Breccan, St., 335, 378 
 
 Breda, parish of, 15, 179 
 
 Bremen, Adam of, 162 
 
 , Historia Archiep. de, .... 162 
 
 Brian Boroimhe, .... 172,280,342 
 
 , de Eschalers, 192 
 
 , Fertagh, his country, . . . .198 
 
 Brick, 34 
 
 Brichten, 35, 164 
 
 Bricius, 108, 110 
 
 Bridlington, priory of, 99 
 
 Brig, a woman's name, 269 
 
 Bright, parish of, 31, 34, 35, 142, 163-165, 
 
 168, 171, 178 
 
 Bright, Thomas, 155, 176 
 
 Brigid, St., date of her death, and place 
 
 of her burial, 226, 227 
 
 . , churches of, . . 34, 64, 86, 232 
 
 Broad Island, 58 
 
 Brokenbury, 56 
 
 Bromana, St., 116,309 
 
 Bromesberrow, in Gloucestershire, . ,317 
 Bronach, St., .... 189,309,315,377 
 Bruce, Edward, invades Ireland, 23, 229, 264, 
 
 265, 271, 281, 343 
 
 Brugach, St., 245, 247 
 
 Brun, Audoenus, 274 
 
 Page. 
 
 Bruyn, Francis de, 58 
 
 Bryan Carragh's country, . . . 331, 388 
 
 Buaidh Beo, St., 381 
 
 Buain, a quo Dal Buain, .... 234, 237 
 
 Buanan cylle-ruayd, 246 
 
 Buais, River. . . 77, 244, 329, 330, 334 
 Buckworth, Bishop, his report of Dro- 
 
 more 104,310,311 
 
 Buile Suibhne, cited, 340 
 
 Buinn, a quo Dal m-Buinne, . 44, 233, 364 
 
 Bulgmara 252 
 
 Bunn-abhann-dhuine, .... 83, 284 
 
 Bunn-na-mairge, 282 
 
 Burcesiona, 38 
 
 Burgo, Richard de, . . . 62, 73, 76, 81 
 
 , Walter de, 14 
 
 , William de, 9, 14, 21, 22, 30, 73, 80 
 
 Burgo, De, his Hibernia Dominicana 
 
 cited 199, 257, 258, 308 
 
 Burren, 202, 353 
 
 Bush River, 77, 329 
 
 Bushmills, village of, 77 
 
 Byrd, Hugh, 276 
 
 Byscopille, 168 
 
 By set. See Binset. 
 
 C, 
 
 Caan, Carolus, 115,313 
 
 Cabhan-an-Churaidli, on the Roe, . .321 
 
 Caelbadh. See Coelbadh. 
 
 Caemhan Breac, (see Mac Nissi,) . . 239 
 
 Cailan, St., 143, 188 
 
 Caillmore, 313 
 
 Cainnech, St., comharba of, in Keenaght, 374 
 
 Cairbre Riada, 319,320 
 
 Cairioll, son of Fiachna, . . . 354, 360 
 
 , son of Muireadhach, 202, 353, 362 
 
 Cairloegh, 339, 340 
 
399 
 
 Page. 
 Calendar of the OClerys, cited, 32, 33, 113- 
 
 115, 144, 154, 186, 195, 199, 207, 223,236, 
 245, 253, 300, 313, 315, 316, 376 
 Calendarium Rot. Cancellar. Hib., vol. i. 
 
 cited, 31, 32, 36, 37, 47, 49, 58, 62, 75, 88, 
 156, 159, 210, 218, 231, 257, 271, 294 
 
 , vol. ii., 49, 
 
 54, 73, 105, 265, 271, 304, 330, 344 
 
 Calf, Richard, 156, 176 
 
 Callann, a mountain, 293 
 
 Callendar's fort, 184 
 
 Camden, Britannia, cited, 162, 325, 329, 331 
 
 Camelyn, 4, 171 
 
 Camlin, parish of, . . . . 4, 171, 180 
 
 Campana. See Bells. 
 
 Campus Cobha. See Magh Cobha. 
 
 Campus Inis. See Magh Inis. 
 
 Camus Comghaill, on the Bann, 237, 296, 342 
 
 Canlan, Richard 36 
 
 Canons, Irish, cited, 99, 108 
 
 , of St. Patrick, 137 
 
 Cantigerna, queen, 70 
 
 Cantock, John, 62 
 
 Caoilte, 266,267,268 
 
 Caol, or Caol Uisge 114 
 
 Caolan, St., 144 
 
 Capitulum, 98, 100 
 
 Cappel-na-cuil, 37 
 
 Carbreus, St 75, 247 
 
 Cargan, 72 
 
 Carlecastel, 60, 325 
 
 Carlingford, King John at, 170 
 
 ^ Lough, . . . 114,207,252 
 
 Carlisle, St. Mary's in, 231 
 
 Carmavy, grange of, 4, 181 
 
 Carnachalethderg, battle of, . . 82, 292 
 
 Cam Airend, 378 
 
 Carn-dhu, 268 
 
 Carnearny, hill of, 341 
 
 Page. 
 Carn-Eirinn, now Carnearny, .... 341 
 
 Carn-eolerg 340 
 
 Carnfinton 260 
 
 Carngrany, G6, 383 
 
 Carnlamha, 238 
 
 Carn-meave, 4, 181 
 
 Carnmoney, 67, 346 
 
 Carnrawsy, 276 
 
 Carnsedna, 243, 321 
 
 Carnstroan, 84 
 
 Carntall, cinanient of, 346 
 
 Carrick, 31, 62, 232, 233 
 
 Carrickfergus, 262, 274-276 
 
 , Castle of, 275 
 
 . , Franciscan Abbey of, . 275 
 
 _, King John at, . . 170,276 
 
 . , St. Bridget's of, . . . 276 
 
 , St. John's of, . . . . 61 
 
 , St. Mary's of, . 60, 274, 276 
 
 , St. Nicholas' of, 61, 62, 274 
 
 Carrick-inver-uske, 335, 336 
 
 Carrickogantelan, 14 
 
 Carrowdore, 18 
 
 Carrowdressagh, 32, 219 
 
 Carthennus, 293,294 
 
 Cary, territory of, 79, 281, 282, 322, 325,332 
 Casan-line, or the Lagan, . . 105, 110, 273 
 Cashels, churches enclosed by, 23, 181, 196 
 
 Castelbeg, 10 
 
 Castleblaney, 146 
 
 Castleboy 25, 164 
 
 Castle-Enigan, 117,119 
 
 Castlereagh, baronies of, . . . 347, 348 
 
 , castle of, ... . 12, 347 
 
 Castlescreen, 31 
 
 Castro, Richard de, 81 
 
 Castrum Jordani de Sankeville, . . .170 
 
 Lethglaysse, 143 
 
 Spinarum, 168 
 
400 
 
 Page. 
 Cathal, a quo Leth-Cathail, . 201, 357, 365 
 
 , son of Aodh Roin, 361 
 
 Cathalan, son of Muireadhacli, . . . 171 
 
 Cathasacli, prior of Down, 145 
 
 Cathbadh, 322 
 
 Cathedraticum, what, 102 
 
 Catherich, or Cathraigbe, . . . 281,282 
 Cathrigia, a territory, . . .79,281,322 
 
 Catiiubius, St., 377 
 
 Cathusach, son of Ailill, 354 
 
 , son of Maoldun, . . 280, 340 
 
 Cave Hill, ancient names of, . . 205, 346 
 Caylan. See Cailan. 
 
 Ceallach, of Droniore, 305 
 
 , O Clercan, 306 
 
 , son of Bee, 278 
 
 , son of Conmaigh, 95 
 
 Ceann-gubha 260 
 
 Cearnach, son of Bee, 359 
 
 Cedma, St., church of, 54 
 
 Celedabhall, bishop of Bangor, . . .153 
 Celtchar, a hero, . . . 142, 143, 225, 336 
 
 Celcyth, council of, 135 
 
 Cellrois, where, 205 
 
 Cely, John, 156,157,176 
 
 .Walter, 218 
 
 Cenel, meaning of word, 83 
 
 Cenel Aenguis, 339, 358 
 
 Ainmirech, 324, 340 
 
 Amlaff, 368 
 
 — Criodain, 366 
 
 Decill, 303 
 
 Demain, 358 
 
 Edirsgel, 358 
 
 Faghartaigh, . . . 213, 214, 368 
 
 fernan, 175 
 
 Lainduin, 366 
 
 Mailche, 355 
 
 m-Buinne, 364 
 
 Page. 
 
 Cenel Muilce, 366 
 
 n-Ernain, 367 
 
 Tuirtre, 295 
 
 Cencius Camerarius 164,307 
 
 Census of Ireland of 1841, cited, . . . 127 
 Chalmer's Caledonia, cited, .... 325 
 Chancellor, an ecclesiastical oflScer, . .108 
 
 of Connor, 262 
 
 of Down, 178 
 
 ofDromore, 314 
 
 Chapel Island, in Strangford Lough, . 18 
 Chapters, held by bishops. Sec, . 100, 101 
 Cliarter of James I. to Down, Connor, 
 
 and Dromore, 177-179, 262, 263, 313, 314 
 Charters, Cotton,. . . .65, 96, 163, 190 
 
 Charybdis Brecani, 290 
 
 Cheene, Joim 210 
 
 Chell Ruaid. See Killrnaidh. 
 Chester, Down Cathedral remodelled 
 
 after, 91, 174 
 
 , Randal, Earl of, 90 
 
 , Roger of, 91, 191 
 
 Christ Church, Dublin, appropriation of, 210, 
 
 213 
 Christi Redemptoris ecclesia, . . . .104 
 Chronicle of Man, referred to, . 92, 165 
 
 Church, origin of word, 107 
 
 Churches, built of timber, . . . 195,217 
 
 stone, . . . 41,217,362 
 
 , erected near earthen forts, 64, 104, 
 
 142 
 
 , stood east and west, . 220, 221 
 
 , in groups of seven, .... 294 
 
 , Major es Ecclesice, . . 315, 316 
 
 Churchfield. See Magheratemple. 
 
 Church-moyly, 39 
 
 Church Temporalities' Act, . . . .103 
 Ciaconius, Alphonsus, Vitae Pontiff, cited, 193 
 Ciaran, St., of Tamhlacht Gliadh, 253, 376 
 
401 
 
 Page. 
 Cill, and its compounds. See Kill, and 
 its compounds. 
 
 Cillen, St 217, 236 
 
 Cimbaoth, King of Ulster, 352 
 
 Cinament, meaning of word, .... 388 
 Cinaments, names of, in Antrim, 332, 345 
 Cinel. See Cenel. 
 Cistercian Abbeys, . 93, 117, 198, 233, 338 
 
 Clan-Aeda Oveach Uladh, 352 
 
 Clanagharty, territory of, 344 
 
 Clan Connell, in Iveagh, 304 
 
 Clancoughie, 317 
 
 Clandermot, rural deanry of, ... . 2 
 
 - , territory of, . . 171, 180, 346 
 
 .^ . , origin of name, .... 3G0 
 
 Clandowaddoge, 161 
 
 Clannaboy, 337, 343 
 
 . , Lower, 344-346 
 
 , Upper, 347, 348 
 
 Clanna Rury, 213, 338, 352 
 
 Clann Aengusain, 360 
 
 Clann Andgadha 360 
 
 Clann Aodlia, 351, 354, 368 
 
 Clann Aongusa, 351 
 
 Clann Bece, 360 
 
 Clann Breasail, 361, 368 
 
 Clann Cairiollain, 359 
 
 Clann Cathail, 361 
 
 Clann Ceallaigh, 359 
 
 Clann Cern, . 360 
 
 Clann Cuileanain, 361 
 
 Clann Dermod, 360, 389 
 
 Clann Domlmaill, 361 
 
 Duinn na Bana, . . 387 
 
 Clann Donnchadha, 360 
 
 Clann Eochaidh, 360 
 
 Clann Fergus, 360 
 
 Clann Fiachaidh, 359, 361 
 
 Clann Fogarta, or Fhuacorta, .... 345 
 
 Page. 
 
 Clann Gormlaitbe, 360 
 
 Clann Laiserne, 360 
 
 Clann Laitheasa, 361 
 
 Clann Maelsnechta, 359 
 
 Clann Scoba, 303 
 
 Clann Uighilin, 326 
 
 Clanovven, 301 
 
 Clanwilliam, barony of, 18 
 
 Clarendon MSS., in British Museum, 
 
 cited, 71, 72, 75,81, 90,91, 93, 98, 117, 158, 
 
 164, 167, 169, 175, 176, 205, 258, 311, 328 
 
 Clarke, Dr. Adam, Works, cited, . . 64 
 
 Clary River, now The Clady, .... 4 
 
 Clemly, 88 
 
 Clenelhireth, 194 
 
 Clenesperth, 194 
 
 Clenough, otherwise Glenavy, ... 47 
 
 Clochmestale, chapel of, 185 
 
 Cloc Nennidh, 372 
 
 Clog-an-edachta, 371 
 
 Cloghcastella, 185 
 
 Cloghmagheradonaghie, 332 
 
 Cloghmaghrecatt, 30 
 
 Clonallan, parish of, . . 114,313-315,318 
 
 Cloncohnoc, 46 
 
 Clondalan, (see Clonallan,) 112 
 
 Clonderkan, 80, 244 
 
 Clondermod, rural deanry of, ... . 2 
 Clonduff, parish of, 115, 311, 314, 315, 318 
 
 Clondunmales, 54 
 
 Clondyme, 114 
 
 Clontagh, chapel of, 179, 187 
 
 Clossach, 293 
 
 Clough, a village, in county Antrim, 72, 332 
 
 Down, . . 29 
 
 Cloueh Water, ancient name of, . 302, 335 
 
 Cluain Creamha, 340 
 
 Cluain-da-en, 300 
 
 Cluain-daimh, in Iveagh, 115 
 
402 
 
 Page. 
 
 Cluain Dallain, 114 
 
 Cluain Eoin 301 
 
 Cluaintarbh, battle of, 172 
 
 Cluaintairib 30, 172 
 
 Clunturiffe, 30 
 
 Cnes, mother of St. Mac Nissi, . . .238 
 
 Cnokengarre 38 
 
 Cobha. See Magh Cobha. 
 
 Cobthach, St., 249 
 
 Coelanus, St., 144, 188 
 
 Coelbadli, . . 21.3, 214, 247, 338, 349, 333 
 
 Coemhan, St., 339 
 
 Cogley, Quintin, 308 
 
 Coicliid, meaning of, . . . 337, 361, 362 
 
 Coiners, 231 
 
 Coire Brecain, . . . 289,290,291,386 
 
 Colbha Gearmain, 232, 253 
 
 Coldhall, Sir William, 37 
 
 Coill-Ultacli 47 
 
 Coleraine, . . 73, 247, 248, 263, 296, 324 
 
 , Priory of, 247,248 
 
 , appropriations of, . 81 
 
 , Bishops of, . . . . 114,247 
 
 Colgan, Acta Sanctorum, quoted, 28, 32, 64, 
 69, 71, 77-79, 83, 90, 93, 108, 110, 112, 
 113, 113, 13.3, 149, 131, 188,189,207,234, 
 236, 243, 272, 300, 303, 313, 321, 344, 372 
 
 . , Trias Thaumaturga, cited, 6, 13, 44, 
 
 31, 36, 64, 68-70, 79, 82, 86, 89, 106, 107, 
 110, 112-114, 127, 137, 142, 143, 145, 130, 
 184, 188, 220-222, 224, 233, 238, 243, 243, 
 273, -291, 293, 301,318,321, 322, 329,335, 
 336, 338, 339, 344, 345 
 
 , errors of, 70, 79, 82, 199, 216, 273, 
 
 291, 296, 300, 322, 336 
 
 Colla Uaish, 292, 297, 328 
 
 CoUum bovis. See Drumbo. 
 
 Colman, St., of Dromore, 104, 304, 311, 379 
 
 , ofKilkeel, . . . 26,27,210 
 
 Page. 
 Colman, St., of Kilruaidh, 60, 246, 259, 305 
 
 , of Magheralin, . . 110,377 
 
 , ofMoville, 152 
 
 , ofNendrum, 149 
 
 Colman Ela, St., . 88, 97, 104, 240, 291, 304 
 
 , Comharba of, . 241,242 
 
 Muilinn, St., .... 78, 189, 376 
 
 Colmoc, a form of Colman, .... 17 
 Columbkille, St., 129, 130, 131, 224, 226-228 
 
 Columbanus, St 129, 195 
 
 Comar, meaning of, 197, 369 
 
 Comber, 11, 16, 197 
 
 , abbey of, when founded, 198, 338 
 
 , appropriations of, 198, 217, 
 
 271 
 
 Comgall, King of Dalriada, .... 321 
 Comgall, St., birth-place of, . 55, 152, 269 
 
 , prophecy concerning, 304, 376 
 
 , patron saint of the Dala- 
 
 raidhe, 151, 377 
 
 , his abbey, . 
 
 , his festival, 
 
 , celebrity of hi 
 
 , shrine of, . 
 
 , Life of, cited, 
 
 Comharba, meaning of term 
 
 of Comghall, 
 
 of Colman Ela, 
 
 of Connor, 
 
 of Down, . . 
 
 of Finian, . . 
 
 of Mac Nissi, . 
 
 of Mocholmog, 
 
 Commorense monasterium. 
 Computus of Connor, 
 
 of Down, . . 
 
 order 
 
 , 200 
 
 . 378 
 
 . 94 
 
 . 278 
 
 62, 70, 94, 387 
 
 136, 145, 209 
 
 152, 153, 361 
 
 97,241,242 
 
 . . . -256 
 
 ... 143 
 
 . 305, 306 
 
 97, 241, 242 
 
 . 305, 306 
 
 . 338 
 
 . 258 
 
 . 167 
 
 Comraire, St., 189 
 
 Conaille Muirtheimhne, 293, 304, 355, 365 
 Conall, King of Dalriada, 321 
 
403 
 
 Page, 
 
 Conall Cearnach, 336 
 
 Conalleorum Campus, 304 
 
 Conallus, St., bishop of Coleraine, 75, 247 
 
 , of Clondalan, . . 114,377 
 
 Conchadh, son of Cuanach, 350 
 
 Concilia. See Labbe. 
 
 Condere. See Connor. 
 
 Condoria. See Connor. 
 
 Coneria, (see Desertum Conerice,) . 84, 94 
 
 Congal Ceannfada, 354 
 
 Claen, 344, 353 
 
 Coniamstown, 34 
 
 Conla, son of Coelbadh, 338 
 
 Connennani, 322 
 
 Connereth, 140, 254 
 
 Connor, see of, when founded, . . . 237 
 
 , bishops and abbots of, before 
 
 the Invasion, 239-243 
 
 , , after the 
 
 Invasion, 256, 257 
 
 , extent of diocese defined by 
 
 synod of Rath-breasal, . . . . 141,253 
 
 . St. Bernard's account of, . . 254 
 
 , see lands of, ... . 95, 258-261 
 
 , revenues of bishop of, in 1306, 90 
 
 , temporary union with Down, . 140 
 
 , permanent incorporation with 
 
 Down 156-158 
 
 , cathedral, constitution and offices 
 
 of, 261-263 
 
 -, parish of, 85 
 
 Cooey, a man's name, 25, 147, 211, 292, 370 
 
 Coolbanagher, 199 
 
 Coole, parish of, 67 
 
 Coolegrange, 21 
 
 Cooley, a district, 369 
 
 Copeland Island, 187, 193 
 
 Water, 193 
 
 Corann, the, of Lame 265 
 
 3 
 
 Page. 
 
 Corbmac, St., of Dromore, 305 
 
 Corcanus, St., 18 
 
 Corco Ruishen, in Magh Rath, . . . 378 
 
 Corcrib, 1 1 
 
 Corebrecayn, 291, 386 
 
 Cor grippe, 10 
 
 Cormac's Glossary referred to, . 116,289 
 
 CormacOCon 319,339 
 
 Corngran, 66 
 
 Corrievreckan, 291 
 
 Cos-abhann-dhalla, 83 
 
 Cos-abhann-duine, 284 
 
 Cotelerius, Patres Apostol. cited, . 127, 137 
 
 Cotton, John, 263 
 
 Coule, 66, 141 
 
 Coulfade, 74 
 
 Coulrath, 74,75,248 
 
 Counties, ancient division of, 9, 16, 205, 325, 
 
 363 
 
 Coupland, in England, 190 
 
 Courcy, John de, 21, 31, 41, 60, 92, 163, 165, 
 190, 205, 211, 227, 229, 232, 296 
 
 Jordan de, 191 
 
 Court Mac Martin, 333 
 
 Cowel, Interpreter, cited, . 100, 109, 209 
 Cowey. See Cruachan, Lough, and Tem- 
 ple Cowey. 
 
 Cragfergus, 60 
 
 Cragger, 12 
 
 Craigarogan, 66 
 
 Craigatempin, 375 
 
 Craigavad, 13 
 
 Craigogantlet, ' 14 
 
 Craigs, parish of, 89 
 
 Craindeach, 214 
 
 Cranfield, church of, 87 
 
 , see lands of, ... . 259, 260 
 
 Crannog, meaning of, ... • 165, 184 
 Creamchoill, 82,87,88,378 
 
 F 2 
 
404 
 
 Page. 
 
 Creeve 87, 119, 296 
 
 Creeve Roe, 213, 367 
 
 Cremse, 163, 231 
 
 Creuill, 86 
 
 Crich Mugdorna, now Creniorne, 205, 365 
 
 Crich-na-Cruithne, 336 
 
 Criclmelanmerach, 324, 340 
 
 Crinna fregabail, battle of, , . . 203, 334 
 
 Critan, St., of Nendrum, 148 
 
 Croghill 87 
 
 Cromac, 184 
 
 Cromanus, St., 149 
 
 Cromg]ean, 5, 117 
 
 Cromwell, Lord, 214 
 
 Cronan, of Moville, 152 
 
 , St., of Nendrum, . 148, 149, 376 
 
 Cronanton. See Balhjcronan. 
 
 Croockmock, chapel of, 184 
 
 Crosses, ancient, . . . 88, 112,229,315 
 
 Crotraidhe, a tribe, 366 
 
 Crozier, of St. Bromana, . . . 116,309 
 
 ■ , of St. Comgall, 386 
 
 , of St. Mochaoi, 188 
 
 Cruachan Cowey, 25 
 
 Crucifix, famous, at Dublin, . . . .211 
 
 Cruik-na-dliuine, 284 
 
 Cruik-na-Grania, 269 
 
 Cruithne, or Picts, 267, 270, 279, 280, 337 
 
 Crumlin 5, 45 
 
 Crunimuck, 184 
 
 Crunn Badhruidbe 349 
 
 Cu, in composition 370 
 
 Cuailgne, now Cooley 369 
 
 Cuanan Ghlinne, St 376 
 
 Cuan-snamh aignech, 252 
 
 each, 114,252 
 
 Cubynhillis, 19 
 
 Cu-Cuailgne, 350 
 
 Cucuaran, King of Dalaradia, . . 245, 340 
 
 Page. 
 
 Cucuaran, son of Dungall, 354 
 
 Cudulig, a man's name, 370 
 
 Cuil-an-tuaisceirt, 71 
 
 Cuil-ard, battle of, 204 
 
 Cuil-athgort 270 
 
 Cuil Bennchair, 199 
 
 Cuil caol, battle of, 202 
 
 Cuil-ectrann, now Culfeightrin, 79, 251, 323 
 
 Cuilfada, 74 
 
 Cuilinn. See Sliabh Cuilinn. 
 
 Cuil-raithen, now Coleraine, 71, 75, 247, 324 
 
 Cuinden, bishop of Connor, 242 
 
 Culfeightrin, parish of, 79,263,282-284,323 
 Cumaighe. See Cooey. 
 
 , OCairill, of Down, . . . 147 
 
 Cumain, St., 24, 234 
 
 Cumar-na-dtri-nuisce, .... 197, 198 
 Cumber. See Comber. 
 
 Cumidhe 295, 296 
 
 Cumin, St., 45, 149 
 
 Cummeni OKierain, 249 
 
 Cumscradh, a man's name 93 
 
 Cumusgach, Lord of the Picts, . . . 280 
 
 Cunning, St., 53, 263, 3-38 
 
 Curailgeach, a man's name, .... .387 
 
 Curi, River, 96, 238 
 
 Curran of Larne, 54, 265 
 
 Cushendall, village of, ... . 83, 298 
 
 Cutts of Coleraine, 74, 342 
 
 Cushendun, Bay of, 283, 284 
 
 Cuuladh, . . 204, 205, 339, 356, 362, 370 
 
 D. 
 
 Da, force of the prefix, 110 
 
 Dabhul, in Oriel, 353 
 
 Dailnary. See Dalaraidhe. 
 
 Daimliag of Bangor, 356, 362 
 
 of Down, 41 
 
405 
 
 Page. 
 
 Dainiliag of Kilclief, "^l? 
 
 Daire, a man's name, 321 
 
 Daire-chaochain, 189 
 
 Daire-ingen-Aillen, 24, 234 
 
 Daire-na-con, or Connor, 85 
 
 Dal, signification of, . . . 318,320,334 
 
 Dalaradia, 83,86, 97, 154,243, 246, 264,266, 
 
 293, 300, 303, 304, 364 
 
 , description of, ... 334-348 
 
 , bishops of, 140, 191, 192, 243, 253 
 
 , kings of, 245, 278, 279, 293, 295, 
 
 334, 339-342 
 
 North 339, 341 
 
 , St. Patrick's visit to, . 337, 338 
 
 Dalaraidhe. See Dalaradia. 
 
 Dal-Araidhe Olchan, 146 
 
 Dalboyn, rural deanry of, 44 
 
 '—, territory of, . . 172, 233, 234 
 
 Dal-Buain Aradeorum, .... 234, 237 
 
 DalCethirn, 238,239 
 
 Dal Corb na h-Uamadh, . . . 364, 368 
 Dalebuin, {see Dal jn-Buinne,) 164, 166,171 
 Dal Fiatach, . . .64, 202, 342, 352, 363 
 
 Dall, River 83, 334 
 
 Dalian, St., 114,132, 133,376 
 
 , son of Dubthach, 203 
 
 Dal m-Buachalla, 364 
 
 Buinne, 44, 171, 233, 234, 364, 386 
 
 Dalmunia, 6,233,236 
 
 Dalnach, 4, 5 
 
 Dalnard. See Dalaradia. 
 
 Dalrede, (see Dalriada,) 324 
 
 Dalreudini, 320 
 
 Dalriada. 71, 78,80, 89, 154, 243, 286, 364 
 
 , description of, . . . 318-334 
 
 , extent and present divisions of, 333 
 
 Dalvanie, 44 
 
 Damnatan, St., 190 
 
 Danes' Cast, a rampart, 253 
 
 Page. 
 
 Danes invade Ulster, 93, 94, 111, 150, 153, 
 
 204, 241, 242, 247, 249, 250, 278, 287, 357 
 
 Daniel, St., 236 
 
 Danriney Fort, 282 
 
 Dansey, Rev. W., his Horae Decanicte 
 Rurales, cited, .... 128. 209, 315 
 
 Dany, Walter, 25 
 
 Darkehan, 78 
 
 Darius, 243, 321 
 
 Dartas, Janico, 28 
 
 David of Chirbury, 308 
 
 Dealbhna Eathra, in Westmeath, 189, 190 
 
 Deans of Connor, 262 
 
 of Down, 176-178 
 
 ofDromore, 312,314 
 
 Dearmach, or Durrow, 250 
 
 Deehommed, 315 
 
 Deirdri, tale of, 289 
 
 Depositions of 1641, county of Antrim, 
 
 cited, 181.331,332 
 
 Derhi, 48 
 
 Dercan, or Derchon, .... 80, 85, 244 
 
 Dere, 22 
 
 Derlas, a district, ... 35, 292, 295, 296 
 Dermod Mac Cearrbhoil, . . . 240,279 
 
 . OMaoiltealcha, of Bangor, 154,361 
 
 Derry, chapel of, 23, 234 
 
 Derryaghy, parish of, . . 46, 172, 180, 262 
 
 Derry-Ceite, 362 
 
 Derrjkeighan, parish of, . . 78, 189, 263 
 
 Derryleckagh, 117, 119 
 
 Derryvolgie, .... 46, 172, 234, 346 
 
 Deschart, 72, 335 
 
 Deserta Vera, 72, 259 
 
 Desertiim, 4, 171 
 
 Desertum Conerice, ■ ■ 94, 95, 193, 261 
 
 Deulacressce, 90, 91 
 
 Devenny, a family name 368 
 
 Devincius, 233 
 
 / 
 
4o6 
 
 Page. 
 
 Dichu, St., 40, 142, 220, 377 
 
 Dima Dubh, St., of Connor, . . 149,240 
 Dinnseanclius, quoted, . 341, 349, 386, 387 
 Diocese. See Biahop. 
 
 Disert Cellach, 95 
 
 Disert Dermoda, 361 
 
 Disertmoy, 106, 309, 316 
 
 Disert Ulidh, 182 
 
 Diserlunde, 106 
 
 Do, a prefix, 110 
 
 Doagli, grange of, 67 
 
 Dochonna, St., of Connor, 240 
 
 Dofnachti, 16 
 
 Doire-chaocliain. See Derri/keighan. 
 Doire-Lurain, now Derryloran, . 339, 340 
 Domangard, St., ... 27, 134, 207, 377 
 
 , liis parentage, . 202, 236 
 
 Domangart, King of Dalriada, . 154,321 
 Donilinall Mac Anialgadha, . . 370,371 
 
 Mac Aodha, 161 
 
 Mac Ardgair Mic Lougblin, 371 
 
 Mac Dublitliuinne, .... 356 
 
 . Mac Maolseachnall, .... 306 
 
 Ua Catliusaigli, 146 
 
 Dominica, signification of, 107 
 
 Dominican priories, 13 
 
 Domnacb, meaning of, 107 
 
 Brain, 294 
 
 Cluana, 107 
 
 Coinri, 322 
 
 Combuir, now Comber, . . 338 
 
 Fainre, now Donaghenry, . 294 
 
 Fothairbe . . 294 
 
 Libeir, 294 
 
 ■ Maigen, now Donaghmoyne, . 205 
 
 Moelain, 294 
 
 Mor, in Magh Cobha, . 111,190 
 
 , in Magh Damorna, . . 338 
 
 Riascaigh, now Donaghrisk, . 294 
 
 Page. 
 Domnach Righdhuinn, ...... 294 
 
 Stratha, 323 
 
 Donaci, 70 
 
 Donaghadee, parish of, . . . 17, 18, 179 
 Donaghcloney, parish of, . 107, 304, 314 
 
 , prebend of, . . . 313, 317 
 
 Donaghenry, 294 
 
 Donaghmore, parish of. 111, 306, 316, 318 
 
 , see lands of, 306 
 
 Donaghmoyne, 205 
 
 Donaghrisk, 294 
 
 Dondafnald, 10 
 
 Donegore, parish of, . . . . 64, 69, 262 
 Dongan, John, Bishop of Down, . . . 156 
 
 Dongardus, St., of Rath, 27 
 
 Donnaclimore, 110, 111 
 
 Donnsleibhe, family of, 71, 356, 357, 362, 367 
 Dopping, Bishop, his Tract, de Visita- 
 
 tionibus Episc. quoted, . . 99, 102, 128 
 
 Dorechon, (see Connor,) 85 
 
 Dore-na-bflann, now Derrynifiyn, . . 18 
 
 Dorn, the, 171 
 
 Dornan, people of, 360 
 
 Dorsum Cete, 104, 321 
 
 Douach 66, 67 
 
 Dovan 86 
 
 Down, ancient names of, . . . 142, 143 
 
 , Bishops of, before the Invasion, 144- 
 
 148 
 
 , after the Invasion, 155, 
 
 156 
 , ex officio. Abbots of 
 
 St. Patrick's, . . . 163, 165, 170, 175 
 , styled Bia/iop.s of 
 
 Uludh, 140, 147, 148 
 
 and Connor, . . .160, 257, 258 
 
 , cathedral of, . . . . 174-179,229 
 
 , priors of, 144-148 
 
 , clergy of, at Synod of Kellsj . 141 
 
407 
 
 Page. 
 
 Down, diocese of, 2, 123 
 
 , a collection of smaller 
 
 sees, 141-154 
 
 , annexed to Connor in 
 
 1117, 140,253 
 
 Down, diocese of, included in Connor in 
 
 1118, 139,253 
 
 , united with Connor in 
 
 1441, 156-159 
 
 , part of, transferred to 
 
 Connor, 141 
 
 ; Franciscan Friary, . . . .231 
 
 , Hospital of St. Nicholas, 218, 232 
 
 , Nunnery, 232 
 
 , appropriations of, 17, 18, 40 
 
 , parish of, . . . 163, 164, 170, 178 
 
 , priory of Regular Canons, 230, 231 
 
 appropriations of, 29, 30, 34 
 
 -, priory of St. John, 230 
 
 appropriations of, 15, 19, 
 
 29, 38, 39, 198 
 -, priory of St. Thomas, . . 230,231 
 -, St. Bride's church of, . . . . 232 
 -, St. Patrick's of, . .41, 90, 163, 229 
 -, appropriations of, 7, 
 
 22, 29, 31-33, 35, 38, 40, 42, 43, 73, 78, 
 
 184, 315 
 , priors of, . .176 
 
 , school of, 146 
 
 , see of, when founded, . . 141-143 
 
 , property of, . . . 163-176 
 
 Down Survey 64, 79, 105, 185 
 
 Dramcro, 8 
 
 Dree River, 334 
 
 Drieburgh, White Abbey a cell of, . . 277 
 
 Drobhais, River, 352 
 
 Droiched-na-feirtsi, 253,359 
 
 Droiched-mona-daimh, 359 
 
 Drom, parish of, 46, 105, 380 
 
 Page. 
 Dromara, parish of, . .105, 313-315, 318 
 
 Dromca, 29, 178 
 
 Drommaule 86 
 
 Dromore, bishops of, . . . . 102, 305-308 
 
 -, diocese of, 303-318- 
 
 , a collection of smaller 
 
 sees 306 
 
 , modelled on Iveagh, 304 
 
 , not noticed in early 
 
 records, 307 
 
 — — , administered by Pri- 
 
 mates, 103 
 
 , cathedral of, 311-314 
 
 , deans of, 312,314 
 
 .chapter of, 312-314 
 
 -, manor of, 309 
 
 , see of, when founded, .... 304 
 
 ^ property, formerly small, . 103 
 
 -, particulars of, 309, 310, 
 
 311 
 , parish of, . . . . 104, 315, 316 
 
 Droneyll, 34 
 
 Druim, signification of, 104 
 
 Druim Bencbair 200 
 
 Druim-cleithe, 349 
 
 Druim-daganda, 381 
 
 Druim-fornacht, 117,384 
 
 Druim Mocholmog, 104 
 
 Druim-mor. See Dromore. 
 
 Drum, 46 
 
 Drumachose, 374 
 
 Drumadonnell, 315 
 
 Drumart, 326,331 
 
 Drumballyrony, parish of, 105, 312, 316, 317 
 
 Drumbeg, parish of, 46, 178 
 
 Drumberra, 104 
 
 Drumbo, parish of, . 44, 178, 235, 342, 359 
 
 , see lands of, .... 172, 174 
 
 Drumboo, 44 
 
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 Page. 
 
 Drumbulcan, 90 
 
 Drumcale, 4G, 172 
 
 Drumculh, 28, 178, 215 
 
 Drumcaw, 29, 215 
 
 Drumceatt, synod of, . . . 132, 321, 358 
 
 Drumeeny, 284, 323 
 
 Drumfinn, 20 
 
 Drumgatli, parish of, . . .311,314,318 
 Drumgooland, parish of, 105, 31 1, 315, 318 
 
 Druni-indich, 284, 285, 323 
 
 Drutn-la-croix, 277 
 
 Driimbjn, 104 
 
 Drummaul, parish of, 86 
 
 , see lands of, 95, 259, 260 
 
 Drummore, 102 
 
 Drumnakill 282, 283 
 
 Drumnedergal, > 64 
 
 Drumnrensis Dyocesis, 102 
 
 Drunireagh, 9 
 
 Drumroe, 218 
 
 Drumrone, or Drumrovvan, .... 20 
 
 J^runisallagh, 113 
 
 l^rumtarsy, now Killowen, . . . 72, 326 
 Drumtullagii, Grange of, . . . 251,322 
 Dubhgall, son of Aodli, . . . . 355,361 
 
 Dubli-Galls, or Danes, Ill 
 
 J)ubhinnsi, bishoj) of Bangor, . . . . 153 
 Duijhtiiacii, son of Miandacii, . . . . 203 
 Dubh-thrian, now Dufferin, . 185, 365, 366 
 Dubhthuinne, son of Eochaidh, . . .356 
 Dubourdieu, Statistical Survey of Antrim, 181, 
 183, 271, 328, 331-333, 347, 368 
 
 of Down, 1 1 3 
 
 Du Cange, Glossary, cited, 73, 102, 129, 209 
 Dufferin, barony of, 166, 171,185-187,191, 
 
 193,365, 366 
 
 DufBn, a man's name, 356 
 
 Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, cited, 91, 
 99, 117, 163, 175, 190, 229, 231, 387 
 
 Page. 
 Duinseach, St., . .... 186, 379 
 
 Duniha Achaidh, 340 
 
 Dumhach 345 
 
 Dun, or Down, 143, 165, 166, 170, 174, 225 
 
 , a river, 83, 284 
 
 Dunadry, village of, 65 
 
 Dunagliy, parish of, 72, 332 
 
 , see lands of, ... . 259, 261 
 
 Dunales, 54 
 
 Dunamoy, 65 
 
 Dun Baodain, 340 
 
 Dun Bolcain, 90 
 
 Duncan, John, archdeacon of Down, . 177 
 Duncan FitzGilbert,ofCarrick, 265,323-325 
 
 Duncarbit 283 
 
 Dunceltchair 142, 354 
 
 Dunchadh, lecturer of Down, .... 143 
 
 • , son of Fiachna 353 
 
 Duncrue, 276 
 
 Du7icurri, 64 
 
 Dun-da-bheann, now Mount Sandal, . 342 
 Dun-da-en, now Duneane, . . . 86, 300 
 Dundalethglas, now Downpatrick, 41, 139, 
 
 143, 224, 228, 361 
 
 Dundela, 12 
 
 Dundermot 72, 73, 263 
 
 Dundesert, cliurch of, . 5, 171, 181, 182 
 Dundonald, parish of, . . . 11,14,361 
 Dundrod, anciently Dunkilltroddan, . 6 
 Dundrum, . . . 201,204,214,236,377 
 
 Dun-Eachdach, 72 
 
 Duneane, parish of. 86, 300 
 
 , see lands of, . 95, 259, 260, 300 
 
 Dun-eathach, 342 
 
 Dunedergel, 64 
 
 Duneight, 172,342 
 
 Dunesford 36 
 
 Dungai, abbot of Down, 144 
 
 Dungonnell River, 334 
 
409 
 
 Page. 
 
 DunkeU.sj}, 76 
 
 Dunlethglas. See Dundalethglas. 
 Dunlevy, (see Donnsleibhe,) 336, 357, 367 
 Dunlibhsi, Dunliftsia, Dunlippus, Dunlis, 
 
 now Dunluce, ... 76, 77, '263, 329 
 
 Dunmakelter, 283 
 
 Dunniallys, 34 
 
 Dunmore, 105, 358 
 
 Dunnius, St., 19,222 
 
 Duno, Ecclesia Sti. Patricii in, ... 40 
 Dunogcurra [t)un O j-Coppa], . . 64 
 Dunseverick, (see Dun Sobhairclie,) Tuogh 
 
 of, 329,330 
 
 Dun Sobhairclie, now Dunseverick, 244, 232, 
 
 286, 287, 323 
 
 Dunsport, prebend of, 179 
 
 Dunsy Island, 186 
 
 Dunum, Latin of Down, . . . 140, 143 
 Duogh Connor, cinament of, ... . 343 
 Duvelinensis, that is, " of Dublin ", 147, 164 
 Dymmok's Treatice, cited, . 328, 331, 334 
 Dysert, and its compounds. See Disert. 
 
 E. 
 
 Eachach. See Eochaidh. 
 
 , Loch. See Lough Neagh. 
 
 Eachmilidh, or Agholy, 352 
 
 Eamain, 125, 233, 332, 353 
 
 Eanach-eilte, 316 
 
 Earc, son of Cairbre Riada, .... 320 
 , son of Colla Uaish, 292 
 
 Earchin, 21, 
 
 Eargnath, St., 300, 
 
 Eas Craoibhe, 74, 
 
 East, churches turned toward the, 220, 
 Ecclesia Alba. See Whitechurch. 
 
 Echdruim Brecain, 333, 
 
 Echlinville, 21, 
 
 179 
 376 
 342 
 221 
 
 378 
 379 
 
 Page. 
 Ecmarcach, superior of Down, .... 146 
 Edenduffcarrick, ...... 86, 373 
 
 Edrescall, 339, 361 
 
 Edrumensis Ecclesia 148, 168 
 
 Egremond, WiUiam, 308 
 
 Eilni, territory of, ... . 247, 251, 330 
 
 Einar Jarl, 265 
 
 EUe, (see Eilni,) 330 
 
 Elom 338 
 
 Enachloisgy, 108 
 
 Enaghluain, 258,309,316 
 
 Enan, St, 79, 285, 323, 377 
 
 Enis Garden, 48 
 
 Enler, River, 197 
 
 Entroya, now Antrim 63 
 
 Entrumia, 187 
 
 Eochagan, son of Aodh, 362 
 
 Eochaidh Cobha, 349 
 
 Eigeas, ,.114 
 
 Muinreamhar, 202, 320, 323, 327 
 
 ODallain, of Connor, . . .242 
 
 , son of Ardgal, 333 
 
 . , son of Bresal, . 206, 245, 341 
 
 , son of Conall, . . . 353, 355 
 
 , son of Eochaidh, .... 356 
 
 , son of Fiachna, . . . 354, 360 
 
 , son of Muireadhach, . 202, 376 
 
 , son of Muiredhach Muinderg, 333 
 
 Eogan, St., of Moville 378 
 
 bishop of Rath Sithe, • . 68, 250 
 
 Eoin Mac Carlain, St., 379 
 
 Episcopacy. See Bishops. 
 
 Erclacius, St., .... 79,284,322,377 
 
 Ergnata, St., 300, 376 
 
 Ernachuag, St., 300, 380 
 
 Ernai, a tribe, 332 
 
 Ernin, St., of Creamhchoille, .... 378 
 
 Erthermoy. See Armoy. 
 
 Erynagh, 31, 232 
 
 3<J 
 
4IC 
 
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 Escon, St., of Druim-daganda, . . . 381 
 
 Eteac Mochaoi 188 
 
 Ethirmoy, 80 
 
 Eugenius, St., 38 
 
 Eustachius, bishop of Connor, . 256,262 
 Evagh, now Iveagh. . . . 115,310,349 
 
 Evaugh, .348 
 
 Evectiones, 99 
 
 Evodius, 232 
 
 Exhibits, at visitations, 100 
 
 Eynes 22, 383 
 
 F. 
 
 Fagartach, 213,214 
 
 Fairce, or diocese, 251 
 
 Familia, (see il/K/n//r,) 221 
 
 Faolan, St.. of Ralhaine 380 
 
 Fathen, in Enishovven, 236 
 
 Fealoagh, a territory, .... 46, 346 
 Fearsat, signification of, . . . 7, 183, 184 
 
 , Chaislean Nui, 184 
 
 , Droicheat na, .... 253, 359 
 
 , Fionntraglja, 183 
 
 Suilighe, 183 
 
 Tresi, 183 
 
 Tuama, now Toome, . 86, 184, 293 
 
 Fechtany, St., of Culfeightrin, ... 79 
 Feevah, a territory, .... 86, 300, 345 
 
 , Grange of, 303 
 
 Feliptone, 24 
 
 Feradhach, son of Segheni, .... 249 
 
 Ferdalach, 250 
 
 Fergal, son of Aodh Roin, 361 
 
 Fergna, son of Aongus, 353 
 
 Fergus, bishop of Down, . 143, 144, 377 
 
 Duibhdeadach, 203 
 
 Fogha, .... 203, 253, 352 
 
 Glutt 350 
 
 Page. 
 Fergus Mor, King of Dalaradia, . 293, 321 
 
 , son of Eochaidh, 360 
 
 , son of Ere, , . . 244,319,321 
 
 , son of Lodan, 354 
 
 , son of Roy, 233, 234 
 
 Ferleighinn, or lecturer, . . . 145,146 
 
 Ferneys, Thomas 36 
 
 Fernmoya, now Farney, 253 
 
 Fertais Canisa, 342, 388 
 
 Fiacha Araidlie, . 30, 302, 334, 339, 349 
 Fiachna Dubh Droithcheach, .... 359 
 
 , son of Ainbeth, .355 
 
 , son of Aodh Roin, . 206, 354. 359 
 
 , son of Baodan, . 70, 202, 340, 353 
 
 , son of Denian, 202, 340, 353, 358 
 
 achra Lonn 330, 339 
 
 Tort, a quo Hy-Tuirtre, 82, 292, 297 
 
 achrius, St 79, 251, 323, 380 
 
 atach Finn, a quo Dal Fiatach, . . . 353 
 
 dglassayn, 117 
 
 ech,St., Hymn of, quoted, 41, 83, 143, 203, 
 
 206, 222, 223 
 
 nbarr, St., 151 
 
 ndchanus, St., 279 
 
 nghin, bishop of Down 145 
 
 nian, St., of Moville, . . 151,188,380 
 
 nnabhuir, 146, 293 
 
 nnchuo, St., of Bangor, 381 
 
 nnlocii, 359 
 
 nn Mac Cumhail, 267 
 
 nn Mac Gormain, 118 
 
 ntan, St., of Antrim, 277 
 
 nvoy, parish of, . 81,263,326,331,384 
 
 odhbhadh. See Feevah. 
 
 onn Galls, or Norwegians, . . . .Ill 
 
 r Boirche, 359 
 
 r Li, (see Li,) . . 293, 295, 296, 330 
 
 r Luirc 293 
 
 r Sidhe, signification of, 68 
 
411 
 
 Fitzhowlyn, or Mac Quillin, 
 Fitz John Byssede, .... 
 Fitz Nicholas, John, .... 
 Fitz Ralph, Richard, ... 17, 
 Flailhbertach, bishop of Down, 
 
 Flann, of Bangor, 
 
 , of the Monastery, cited, 
 
 OMuregan, of Antrim, 
 
 O Scula, of Connor, 
 
 , son of Ceallach, . . 
 
 Flannagan, lord of Lecale, . 
 
 , son of Alchon, . 
 
 Flathri, son of Cumasagh, . 
 , son of Dubhslanga, 
 
 46. 
 
 Page. 
 
 72, 328 
 
 . 325 
 
 . 23 
 
 75, 382 
 
 . 146 
 
 277, 381 
 
 267 
 
 278 
 
 242 
 
 249, 379 
 
 204 
 
 241 
 
 170 
 
 204 
 
 Fleming, his Collectanea Sacra, quoted, 70, 
 82, 124, 151, 201, 239, 249, 269, 380, 381 
 Fleury, his Church History cited, . .162 
 Florentine Mac Donnegan, . . 174, 307 
 Fobrec, father of St. Mac Nissi, . . .239 
 
 Folcard, John, 270 
 
 Fochla, 387 
 
 Ford, The, a name of Belfast, ... 7, 183 
 
 Fortescue, Sir Faithful, 344 
 
 Forts, earthen, numerous, 183 
 
 Fortuaths, a tribe-name, 366 
 
 Fothadh Airgtheach, 266, 267 
 
 Cairptheach, 267 
 
 sonofConall, 349 
 
 Fothrath, 322 
 
 Four Masters. See Annals. 
 
 Fourneys, Ralph, 37 
 
 Fox, Henry, 37, 177 
 
 Francis, houses of Third Order of, 55, 95,113, 
 
 275, 282, 299, 389 
 
 Free chapels, 36,37,43 
 
 Fregabail, River, (see Ravel,) . . 334, 341 
 Fremann, or Frewin, near MuUingar, . 266 
 
 Frigidian, St., of Lucca, 151 
 
 Fuaran, signification of, 14 
 
 3 
 
 Page. 
 Fuigh, tuogh of, (see Feevah,) . . . 345 
 Furadhran, son of Bee, .... 297, 387 
 
 Furness Abbey, 93, 232, 233 
 
 Fursa, St., 113,190 
 
 G. 
 
 Gaeithene, bishop of Down, .... 145 
 
 Gailine, 364,381 
 
 Gairbith, or Garvey, 362,367 
 
 Gallagh, the, 347 
 
 Gallus, St., 129, 131 
 
 Gannymore, 211, 21-2 
 
 Gartree, chapel of, 181 
 
 Garthe, 15 
 
 Garvaghy, parish of, . . 309-311,316,318 
 
 , townland of, 301 
 
 Gelasius, or Glaisne, 177 
 
 Georgii terra, in Downpatrick, . . . 229 
 Gibbon, Decline and Fall, cited, . . .337 
 
 Gibbons, John, 213 
 
 Gibson, Bishop, his Codex cited, 100, 102, 
 
 108, 109 
 . . 178 
 . . 116 
 . . 347 
 191, 193 
 273, 339 
 . . 355 
 . . 256 
 . . 148 
 . . 173 
 , . 234 
 148 
 
 -, John, Dean of Down, 
 
 Gillabrony, a Christian name, . 
 Gillachreeves of the Gallagh, . 
 
 Gillanharna, 
 
 Gilmore, family of, ... . 
 Giolla-Comgaill, son of Ardgall, 
 Giolla-Criost O Cearnaigh, 
 Giolla-Domhnaill Mac Cormac, 
 GioUa-Modhuda, poem of, . . 
 GioUa-Pattraicc, mac Searraigh, 
 GioUavider O Casey, prior of Down, 
 Giraldus Cambrensis, quoted, 27, 94, 125, 
 150, 202, 207, 227, 359 
 Glan-curry, now Glenwherry, ... 96 
 
 Glanharky, 345 
 
 Glan-rawre, 335 
 
 G 2 
 
412 
 
 Page. 
 
 Glanry, River, 253 
 
 Glasgbu 384 
 
 Glassicus, St., 338 
 
 Gleann-Bolgain, 340 
 
 Ciach, 340 
 
 Chon-cadlian, 329 
 
 Earcain, 340 
 
 fada-na- Peine, 345 
 
 Finneachtha, or IndeaclUa, . 56, 329 
 
 Taoise, now Glenshesk, . . . 328 
 
 Glenaan 334 
 
 Glenariff, 298, 325, 334 
 
 Glenarm, . . . 263, 265, 299, 324, 325 
 
 , barony and tuogh of, 55, 332, 333 
 
 Glenarum, Eccleniu S. Marian de, . 50, 299 
 
 , Ecdesia S. Patricii de, . 86, 299 
 
 Glenavy, parish of, ... . 44, 47, 236 
 
 Glenballyemon, 334 
 
 Glencloy, 325,334 
 
 Glencorp, 334 
 
 Glendun, 284, 332, 334 
 
 Glenmakeeran, 283 
 
 Glenravel, 335 
 
 Glen-ree 253 
 
 Glenshesk 284, 328, 334 
 
 Glens, Middle, 332 
 
 Glentegyx, 114,315 
 
 Glenwherry, 96 
 
 Glin. See Glynn. 
 
 Glin-an-gabhun 266 
 
 Glionn-meadhain, 332, 376 
 
 Glionn Righe, 253 
 
 Glionn Seichis, now Kilbroney, . . . 315 
 
 Gloonan, 260 
 
 Gluaire, now the Glore, ... 87, 338 
 Glunan, a shoe of St. Donard, ... 28 
 
 Glyne, 56 
 
 (ilynn, parish of, 56 
 
 , see lands of, ... . 95, 258, 260 
 
 Page. 
 Glynns of Antrim, . . 325, 332, 334, 388 
 
 Goban Saer, 285 
 
 Gobbin's Heir Castle, 285 
 
 Gobhan, St., 107,108,381 
 
 Godwin, de Praesulibus Angliae, cited, . 92 
 Goodburn. See Woodburn. 
 
 GortCirb, St. Molioba of, 379 
 
 Gortfadd, Grange of, 301 
 
 Gortgrib, 11,379 
 
 Grace. See Annals- 
 
 Grange, The, 303 
 
 Grangeoughter, 25 
 
 Grangerow, 21 
 
 Grangia, 20 
 
 Grania, daughter of Cormac mac Art, . 383 
 
 Granny's Grave, 66, 383 
 
 Gransha, 21,270,380 
 
 Gralianus Lucius, Cambrensis Eversus 
 
 of, cited, 279 
 
 Grecisms in frish compositions, . . .131 
 
 Greenau, 117, 119,376 
 
 Greencastle, 31,178,185,208 
 
 Grencastell, 30 
 
 Grey Abbey, 18, 92 
 
 , appropriations of, . 69, 199 
 
 , priors of, 92 
 
 Guaire, St., of Aghadooey, .... 330 
 Gypsum, found at Cranfield, .... 88 
 
 H. 
 
 Hacket, Reginald, 180 
 
 Hacyglid, 112,253 
 
 Haliuode, 12 
 
 Hamilton, Sir James, . . .33, 288, 302 
 
 , James and Patrick, . . .179 
 
 , Rev. William, Letters on Co. 
 
 Anlrtm, quoted, 289, 344 
 
 Hannifey, a family name, ..... 368 
 
41 
 
 J 
 
 Page. 
 
 Hardy, T. D., Tower Rolls of, cited, 35, 57, 
 
 66, 71, 170, 180, 265, 270, 276, 288, 323, 
 
 324, 325 
 
 Harris' History of Down, quoted, 30, 32, 34, 
 
 36, 42,44, 45, 107, 118, 199,208,210,211, 
 
 214, 217, 229, 231, 365, 379 
 
 . Ware's Works, cited, 88, 103, 257, 
 
 289,307, 311 
 
 errors of, 20, 147, 199, 206, 217, 365 
 
 Hathraiitone, 74 
 
 Hay, Walter de la 90 
 
 Haytona, 14 
 
 Heber, Bp., his Life of Jeremy Taylor, 
 
 cited, 49 
 
 Hedd, Richard, 59 
 
 Herenach, 106, 112, 114, 145, 161, 162,209 
 
 Herenat, St., 300, 380 
 
 Hertford, Marquis of, .... 172,234 
 Hi. See Hy. 
 
 Hill, Anthony 263 
 
 Hillhall, 46 
 
 Hillsborough, parish of, 45, 46 
 
 Hochageran, 75 
 
 Hoey, a family name, .... 356, 367 
 HoUorba. See Ollarba. 
 Holm Cultram, in Cumberland, ... 92 
 Holy wood, parish of, . . . 12,170,273 
 
 Hore, John, 23 
 
 Horreum Patricii. See Sabhall. 
 Hospitallers, 25, 33, 52,61, 67, 74, 164, 271 
 Hospitals, .... 34,218,230,232,308 
 
 Howse, Anthony, 115 
 
 Hua, a prefix, 82 
 
 Hua Dercachein, 339 
 
 Hua Kellii, 224 
 
 Huaran, signification of, 14 
 
 Hucaschini, 166 
 
 Hugh, a man's name. See Aodh. 
 Hulvester, or Ulster, 174 
 
 Page. 
 
 Hulyn, Robert, 276 
 
 Hurdles, houses built of, . . . .39,217 
 
 Hurmach, 175 
 
 Hutchinson, Bishop, . . . . 78,289,302 
 
 Hy or lona, bishops of, 1 34 
 
 , monastery of. 130-134, 196, 321 
 
 Hy or Ui, latinized by Nepotes, . . 82, 350 
 
 Hy Aireamhoin, 361 
 
 Hy Blathmeic, . . . 360, 362, 363, 365 
 
 Hy Cairill 362 
 
 Hy Conaing, 377 
 
 Hy Corbmaic of Iveagh, 350 
 
 Hy Craoibhe, . 361 
 
 Hy Creichim, 361 
 
 Hy Dasluagha, 364 
 
 Hy Dearca Chein, 339, 364 
 
 Hy Dubhghaill, 361 
 
 Hy Kelli, 224 
 
 Hy Mac Uais, 387 
 
 Hy Naemhain, 361 
 
 Hy Tomaltach, . 303 
 
 Hy Tuirtre, . . . . . . .64, 82, 87 
 
 , description of, . . 292-297 
 
 I. 
 
 Ibh-Echach, or Iveagh, 108 
 
 Hand M'Kee. See Mahee Island. 
 
 Imaee of the Trinity in a church, . . 229 
 
 Imleac, 4 
 
 Imlech cluana 270, 339 
 
 Inch, abbey of, 92, 232, 379 
 
 , appropriations of, 14, 25, 57, 
 
 .58, 271 
 , chapel of, 44, 179 
 
 Inchemekargy, 19 
 
 Indel, 4 
 
 Indreachtach, son of Cathal, . . 171, 204 
 Ines, 44,92,232 
 
414 
 
 Page. 
 
 Inescuscre, 232 
 
 Infang^enetlief, what, .... 167,325 
 Inis. See Incli. 
 
 Inis Altich 238 
 
 Iniscumscraidh, now Inch, . . 44, 93, 379 
 Inishargy, parish of, ... . 19-21, 179 
 Iniskeel, formerly Inis-coel, . . . . 1 14 
 
 Inis-locha-burran 286 
 
 Inislochaculin 211,212 
 
 Inis-locha-leithinnsi, 78, 287 
 
 Inisloughgullion, 211,212 
 
 Inis Mochaoi, now Mahee Island, . . 10 
 
 Inismore, 361 
 
 InispoUan, Grange of, . . .231,259-261 
 
 Inis Toide, or Inistede 294, 374 
 
 Innocent III., Pope, Bull of, .... 99 
 
 , Epistles of, cited, 8, 33, 
 
 61, 67,133 
 Inquisitions, Ulster, cited, . 119,253,312 
 Insula. See Inch, Island Magee. 
 
 Introia, now Antrim, 63, 263 
 
 Inver, 54,55,265 
 
 Inver Ailinn, 336 
 
 Inverarma, 324 
 
 Inver Bece 290, 387 
 
 Inver Beg, 54, 290, 387 
 
 Inver Colptha, 352, 369 
 
 Inver Dea, 227 
 
 Inver Glas, 341 
 
 Invermore 54, 262 
 
 lobhar-chinn-choiche, 116 
 
 lobhar-chinn-trachta, . . . 116,118,358 
 lomchadb, St., of Kill Droichid, . . . 380 
 lona. See Hy. 
 
 lonmainen 370 
 
 lonnrachtach 297 
 
 Irewe, 56 
 
 /jTc 56 
 
 Isaac, bishop of Connor, . 33, 64, 65, 67, 256 
 
 Page. 
 
 Isamnium, 270 
 
 Isertkelly, church of, 93 
 
 Island Magee, parish of, . . 58, 270-272 
 Iveagh, barony of, . . . 165,304,-338 
 
 , bishops of, 140, 192 
 
 , description of, ... . 348-352 
 
 Iveagh Cobha, 367 
 
 lubliar. See lobhar. 
 
 Ivorium, or Newry, 116,335 
 
 J. 
 
 James I., King, charter of, to Down, 
 
 Connor, and Dromore, . .177,262,313 
 James of Couplith, bishop of Connor, 257, 261 
 Jerusalem, visited by St. Mac Nissi, . . 238 
 Jews, five, expelled from Ireland, . . .173 
 Jobson, Map of Ulster, . 345, 347, 348, 386 
 Jocelin, Life of St. Kentigern, cited, . 384 
 
 . , Life of St. Patrick, . 41, 68, 80, 83, 
 
 97, 143, 152, 168, 199, 217, 221, 222 
 
 , when written, 228 
 
 John, King, his visit to Ireland, 170, 227,265, 
 
 276, 323 
 
 John de Athy, 288 
 
 de Baliconynghani, . . . 34, 153 
 
 de Eglescliffe, 257 
 
 de Gray, 323 
 
 de Hanewude, 276 
 
 de Lenne.s 163 
 
 de Salerno, 193 
 
 de Tinmuth, his Life of St. Kenti- 
 gern, 384 
 
 Fitz Nicholas, 271 
 
 Fitz Richard, 218 
 
 Johnstone, Antiq. Celt. Scand., cited, . 263 
 Johnstown, or Castleboy, .... 25, 164 
 
 Jolduhlaup, 386 
 
 Jordan de Saukevill, . . . . 12,35,170 
 
415 
 
 Pa see. 
 
 Joseph, abbot of Connor, 242 
 
 Josephus, his Jewish War, cited, . . . ] 26 
 Journal, Dublin Penny, cited, .... 93 
 
 Jugo Dei, abbey de, 92 
 
 Jurisdictio, an ecclesiastical emolument, 101 
 
 K. 
 
 Karkastelle, 52 
 
 Karlenfordia, 207 
 
 Karryn, 6 
 
 Keart, tuogh of, 343 
 
 Keating, History, quoted, 114, 116, 123-12.3, 
 139, 146, 151, 15.3, 200, 206, 207, 227, 251, 
 252, 264, 270, 280, 287, 320, 334, 337, 358 
 
 Keehill, 115 
 
 Keel, burying-ground, 282 
 
 Kelan, St., 39, 144, 217 
 
 Kellies, tribe of, 348 
 
 Kellrethi, 72 
 
 Kells, abbey of, 95, 261 
 
 . , appropriations of, 51, 56, 59, 
 
 69, 73, 76, 78, 86, 261 
 
 , synod of, . . 128, 135, 141, 148, 307 
 
 Kenles, 6, 28, 215 
 
 Kennet, Parochial Antiquities, quoted, 100, 
 
 102, 317 
 Kennfaolad, son of Blathmac, .... 200 
 
 Kentigern, St., Life of, 384 
 
 Ketel, Thomas, .... ,28, 50, 155, 167 
 
 Kettyl, William 36, 37 
 
 Kieran, St., 291, 298 
 
 Kilbride, 34, 64, 178, 262 
 
 Kilbritoune, 80, 384 
 
 Kilbrony, parish of, . . . 115,315,318 
 
 , see lands of, . . 309,310,311 
 
 Kilbulk, 28, 29 
 
 Kilcleth. See Kilclief. 
 
 Kilclief, parish of, 33, 36, 38, 43, 93, 164-167, 
 
 170, 178,217-219 
 
 Page. 
 Kilcoan, .59 
 
 Kilconriola, . . 89, 263, 301, 302, 344, 387 
 Kilconvvay, barony and tuogh of, . . .331 
 
 Kilcoo, parish of, 27, 179, 208 
 
 Kilcroagh, 260, 287 
 
 Kilcubyn, 19 
 
 Kildare, Earl of, . . 29, 35, 36, 212, 271 
 
 Kildollagh, parish of. 
 
 r3, 263 
 
 Kilduncy 186 
 
 Kilfeighan, 309, 311 
 
 Kilfenora, a small diocese, 127 
 
 Kilfeutre, 78 
 
 Kilglan, 52, 53 
 
 Kilkeel, parish of, . 26, 179, 207, 209, 210 
 
 Kilkenan, 58, 271 
 
 , see lands of, . . . . 96, 259 
 
 Kilkenny, Book of, cited, 70, 82, 151, 216, 
 239, 246, 249, 269, 290, 374 
 
 Killagan, parish of, 263, 384 
 
 Kill-aine, 377 
 
 Killandreas, 185, 186 
 
 Killaney, parish of. 217, 310 
 
 Kill Aodhain, 377 
 
 Killard, 39, 219 
 
 Killarn, 14 
 
 Killbian, 144 
 
 Killboedain, . . 166,302,30.3,377,387 
 
 Kill-chluana, 339 
 
 Kill-Choemhain 339 
 
 Kill-Cholmoc, -17 
 
 Kill-chonadhain, 338 
 
 Kill-cleithe. See Kilclief. 
 
 Killcooby 19 
 
 Killcudua, or Kilcoo, 179, 208 
 
 Killcumbair, 338 
 
 Kill DalUiin, or Killdallon, 113 
 
 Kill-domnach, 322 
 
 KiU-droichid, 380 
 
 Killead, parish of, . . . . 180-183, 374 
 
4i6 
 
 Page. 
 
 Killeanan, chapel of, 185 
 
 Killeenan, 284 
 
 Killelagh, church of, 181 
 
 , cinanient of, 346 
 
 Killemochan, 178 
 
 Killenny, 217 
 
 Killernard, 39 
 
 Killfodfl 181 
 
 Killgarne, 264 
 
 Killgarve, 284 
 
 Killglais, 338 
 
 Killinchy, parish of, 9, 10, 166, 179, 186, 381 
 
 Killinchynakille, 10 
 
 Killinchynamaghery, .... 10, 185 
 
 Killkieran, 9 
 
 Kill-laine, 340 
 
 Kill-lamhrnidhe, 107 
 
 Kill-lomchon, 376 
 
 Killmaeneeve, 182 
 
 Killmakee, 65 
 
 Kill Mantain, now Wicklow, .... 378 
 Killmilcon, ...... 312, 313, 318 
 
 Killmona 355 
 
 Killmore, 313 
 
 Kill-moyle, 82, 251 
 
 Killnacrue 386 
 
 Killochre, 52 
 
 Kill Oscoba, 303 
 
 Killowen, 116,186,283 
 
 Killpatiick, 7, 185 
 
 Killraghtis, 73 
 
 Killrasy, 187 
 
 Killreda 287 
 
 Killrois, 206 
 
 Killroot, parish of, . . 60, 245, 246, 263 
 
 , see lands of, ... . 96, 258-261 
 
 Killruaidh, 60, 245 
 
 Killsanctan, castle of, .... 74, 324 
 Killseaclon, 179 
 
 Page. 
 
 Killskeaghly, 32 
 
 Killsleibhe, now Killevy, . , . 252, 304 
 
 Killtonga, 14 
 
 Killtroddan, 6, 180 
 
 Killultagh, territory of, . . 47-49, 234, 346 
 Kilhvarlin, territory of, . . 234, 348, 389 
 
 Killyann, 276 
 
 Killyargin, 38 
 
 Killyclough 215 
 
 Killycrappin, 87 
 
 Killyglen, parish of, 53, 263 
 
 Killyglinnie, 212 
 
 Killylaes, 303 
 
 Killyleagh, parish of, ... . 43, 185, 186 
 
 Killylone, 216 
 
 Killyluke 283 
 
 Killyl-yeenan, 283 
 
 Killymurris, tuogh of, 331 
 
 Killyphadrick, 283 
 
 Killy(|uinn, tuogh of, 331 
 
 Killysuggan, 14 
 
 Killyvallagh, 251 
 
 Kiiniacduagh, a .small diocese, . . .127 
 
 Kilmachevet, church of, 181 
 
 , tuogh of, 346 
 
 Kilniahaniogue, 286 
 
 Kilmegan, parish of, . . 27, 179, 208, 351 
 
 Kilmelei/t, 42 
 
 Kilmessan, Ralph de, 156 
 
 Kilmode, 10 
 
 Kilniodemanagh, 11 
 
 Kilmood, parish of, 11,198 
 
 Kilmore, parish of, 216, 298 
 
 Kilniore-Moran, 216 
 
 Kilnadore, 298 
 
 Kilnaval, 298 
 
 Kilpike 106 
 
 Kilprioragh, 59 
 
 Kilraghts, parish of, 73, 263 
 
417 
 
 Page. 
 
 Kilroe, Kilroigh, Kilruaigli 60 
 
 Kilrush, 47 
 
 Kilschaelyn, 32 
 
 Killrodan, 6 
 
 Kilvergan, 108 
 
 Kilwaughter, parish of, . . . , 53, 263 
 
 Kilwee, 185 
 
 Kilwilke, (see ^j7Z»i27con,) . . 313,314 
 
 Kilwyinchi, 10 
 
 Kinel, and its compounds. See Cenel. 
 Kinelarty, barony of, ... 213-215, 368 
 
 Kinetli Mac Alpin, 322 
 
 King, Archbishop, his Monastic Collection, 49, 
 
 176, 270, 275 
 
 Kinghill 115 
 
 King's Books, cited, 42, 76, 90, 104, 106, 107, 
 174,259, 288, 309, 317 
 
 Kinles, 29, 178, 215 
 
 Kircubbin, village of, 19 
 
 Kirk, or church, 107 
 
 Kirkekth, 38 
 
 Klenber, 48 
 
 Knock church, 12, 179 
 
 Knockagar, 40 
 
 Knockaguerrin, 310,311 
 
 Knockans, 260, 288, 384 
 
 Knockboynabrade, 345 
 
 Knockbreda, parish of, . . . 11, 12, 15 
 
 Knockuairn, 6, 180 
 
 Knockcollumkill, 12, 179 
 
 Knockdoo, 22 
 
 Knockfergus. See Carrickfergus. 
 
 Kolmani, Suncti, Capella, 16 
 
 Konofogor, 265 
 
 Korcamj, Saudi, Ecclesia, 18 
 
 Kyles, a Scotch term, 114 
 
 Kylkenane, Sir Nicholas of, . . 59,271 
 
 Kynelteninean, 358 
 
 Kynilalmeracli, 324 
 
 Page. 
 
 Labbe, Concilia, 102, 126, 133, 135, 137, 209 
 
 Lachreachtdyrke, 114, 309 
 
 Lacus Vituli. See Loch Laoigh. 
 
 Lacy, Hugh de, . . . 22, 164, 248, 275 
 
 Ladcathel, (see Lecale,) 205 
 
 Ladglaisse, (see Dundaleathglas,) . . 225 
 Lagan, meaning of the word, .... 46 
 
 river, 47, 273 
 
 territory, anciently Tirenna, . . 245 
 
 Lagnolottyn, 57 
 
 Laisren Mac Nascai, 272, 380 
 
 Laisrianus, a presbyter, 149 
 
 Laistranus, 272 
 
 Laithrigh Briuin, now Larabrien, . . 241 
 
 Lambay Island, 292 
 
 Lambeg, parish of, 172, 174 
 
 Lan, 110 
 
 Land, (see Zanw,) 111,312 
 
 Lan-da-Cholmoc, 110 
 
 Lanigan, Dr., Eccles. Hist, cited, 83, 125, 
 127, 130, 137, 144, 151, 163, 187, 206, 220 
 
 Lan-mic-Luachain 110 
 
 Lan Mocholmoc, 1 10, 380 
 
 Lann, now Magheralin, 1 10, 312-315, 317 
 Lann-abhaich, now Glenavy, . 44, 47, 236 
 Lann-Eala, now Lynally, . 97, 98, 240, 241 
 
 Lann Ronain, 313, 378 
 
 Largy, tuogh of, 333 
 
 Larne, ... 54, 55, 264, 265, 338, 366 
 
 , barony and tuogh of, 52, 264, 324, 333 
 
 , king of, 366 
 
 , river of, 268 
 
 Lasair, St., or Lassera, . 237, 285, 286, 376 
 
 Laslaynan, 58 
 
 Lateran, Third Council of, ... . 99, 162 
 Latharna, territory of, 54, 87, 264, 324, 338 
 Laurentius, a prior of Muckamore, . . 98 
 
 H 
 
4i8 
 
 Page. 
 Lavery, a family name, .... 367, 369 
 
 Lawless, Patrick, 158 
 
 Lawlor, a family name, .... 343, 367 
 
 Layd, parish of, 83, 252, 298 
 
 Leabliar Breac, cited, 330 
 
 na g-Ceart, cited, . . 339, 349, 363 
 
 na h-Uidhre, .... 267, 376 
 
 Leac Phadruic, 323 
 
 Leaei. See Fir Li. 
 
 Leath Cathail. See Letli Cathail. 
 
 Leathglaisse. (See Dundaleathglas,) . . 225 
 
 Leath-laidhi, 227 
 
 Lecale, . . . 26,166,170,191,365,366 
 
 , account of, 201-205 
 
 , lords of, . . . . 204, 357, 358 
 
 Lecai), Book of, referred to, 78, 201, 336, 
 337, 339-341, 345,349, 355, 362, 363, 366, 
 
 369, 378, 379 
 
 Lechayll, deanry of, 26 
 
 Leche, John, 210 
 
 Lector, office of. See Ferleishinn. 
 
 Lede 82 
 
 Lee. See Li. 
 
 Lee Bendrigi, 296 
 
 Legananny, 316 
 
 Legates, Papal, in Ireland, . 193, 223, 227 
 Legends, curious, . 1 49, 1 5 1 , 203, 34 1 , 376 
 Leigh. See Grey Abbey. 
 
 Leirge, 31 
 
 Leithead, or Layd, 83, 252 
 
 Leith-ri 357 
 
 Lemania. See Magh Lemhna. 
 
 Lenavy, 47 
 
 Lendrick's Map of Antrim,. . 83,184,334 
 
 Lenneuy, 46 
 
 Lepers, hospitals of, 218, 232 
 
 Lepyng, Nicholas, 218 
 
 Lerkes, 30, 31, 215, 216 
 
 Lessan, now Lissan, bishop of, ... 295 
 
 Page. 
 
 Lesscummalscig 211 
 
 Lethcapel, 165 
 
 Leth Cathail, now Lecale, 26, 201, 204, 357, 
 
 358, 365, 366 
 
 Lethead 340 
 
 Lethlobhar, a family name, 341-343, 354, 355 
 Lettir, Lettir Phadruic, . .117,237,376 
 Leyden's Mermaid, a poem, . . . .291 
 
 Lhan y Gwydhyl, 337 
 
 Li. (See Fir Li,) . . 296, 330, 339, 340 
 Liath Manchain, now Lemanaghan, . . 189 
 
 Liban, St., 265,266,376 
 
 Liber Hymnorum, cited, . . . 203, 292 
 
 Munerum Hibernia? cited, ... 42 
 
 Liberae Capellae, .... 36,37,43,209 
 
 Liberius, St., 338 
 
 Liddell, Thomas, 155 
 
 Lignolitter, 57 
 
 Lilisluba 211 
 
 Lindewode's Provinciale, cited, 102, 108, 166 
 Lindisfarne, church of, .... 132,196 
 Line, Linia- Campus. (See Magh Line), 
 
 62, 266, 267, 296, 366 
 
 Linn-an-gabunn, 266 
 
 Linnduachaill, . 1 10, 1 1 1, 307, 335, 336 
 
 Lis Aedha, 361 
 
 Lisburn, town of, 47, 383 
 
 Lislaynan, 58 
 
 Lismacloskey, 86, 260 
 
 Lismahon 28,155,211,212 
 
 Lhmochan, 28,155,194,211 
 
 Lifsmolyn, 36,167 
 
 Lismullen, . , 36,159,165,167,171,174 
 Lisnagarvie, now Lisburn, . . . .47, 383 
 
 Lisnashimmer, 212 
 
 Lives of Saints, inaccurate in chronology, 269, 
 
 304, 378 
 Lloyd, bishop, on Church Government, 124, 
 
 130, 133 
 
419 
 
 Page. 
 
 Loam, St., 35,142,380 
 
 , son of Earc, 321 
 
 Locha. See Loga. 
 
 Lochaid, St., 376 
 
 Loch Beannchair 199 
 
 . Bricrenn 112,113,330 
 
 Cathbadli, 322 
 
 Cuan, 78, 93, 186, 189, 190, 193, 204, 
 
 287, 379, 381 
 
 Eachdach. See Lough Neagh. 
 
 Erne, official of, 109 
 
 Feabhuil, 245,291,292 
 
 — Laoigh, or Laodli, 60,246,252, 272-274 
 
 Lodge, Peerage, ed. Archdall, cited, 30, 43, 
 
 184, 272,328, 329,331 
 
 Loga or Locha, now the Lagan, 98, 273, 305 
 
 Walter de, 67 
 
 Logan, Henry, John, .... 156, 177 
 
 s, war of the, 21,343 
 
 Loganstown, 65 
 
 Loghkan, 72 
 
 Loghkell, 72 
 
 Loghlat, 56 
 
 Lomchu, St., 376 
 
 Longsech, or Lynch, a family name, . 343 
 
 —, abbot of Down, 145 
 
 O Lethlobhair, . . . 334, 341 
 
 Longsiochan, 362 
 
 Lonley, in Normandy, abbey of, . . . 382 
 
 Lorn, in Scotland, 321 
 
 Lough Beg 294 
 
 Brickland, 112 
 
 Cowey, 22,25 
 
 Evish, 334 
 
 Falcon, 30 
 
 Henney, . 217 
 
 Lynch, 78,287 
 
 Mourne 269 
 
 - na Crannagh, 283 
 
 3 
 
 Page. 
 Lough Neagh, . . 273,292,293,341,376 
 
 Loughan-island, 215,216 
 
 Loughans, The, 74 
 
 Loughaverrie, 286 
 
 Loughguile, parish of, ... 73, 263, 326 
 
 , tuogh of, ... . 329, 33 1 
 
 Loughinisland, parish of, 29, 30, 34, 213-216 
 
 Loughinney, 217 
 
 Loughnalitten, 57, 263 
 
 Loughnewy, 215 
 
 Lughadh, bishop of Connor, .... 239 
 
 ,St., 45,236,379 
 
 Luigdeach, son of Aengus, 203 
 
 Luminare, 210,314,316,317 
 
 Lurgan, town of, 127 
 
 Lynall}^ church of, 97,98,240 
 
 Lynch, family of, 278, 343, 367 
 
 , Dr. John. See Gratianus Lucius. 
 
 Lynn, a family name, 297 
 
 Lynne, 66 
 
 Lyrge, 31,215,216 
 
 Mac 
 
 Mac 
 Mac 
 Mac 
 Mac 
 Mac 
 Mac 
 Mac 
 Mac 
 Mac 
 
 Mac 
 Mac 
 
 I Mac 
 
 H 2 
 
 M. 
 
 AnnuUovve, Murtogh, .... 96 
 Aongusa (see Magennis), . 349, 368 
 Artan. See Mac Car tan. 
 Bloske, or Mac Closkey, .... 81 
 
 Broin, of Iveagh, 333 
 
 Brun, Patrick 116 
 
 Bryn, Maurice, 114,309 
 
 Burne, Adam, 210 
 
 Cartain, of Lough Foyle, . . . 292 
 Cartan, .... 213, 214, 304, 368 
 
 , family of, . . . 210, 214, 216 
 
 's country, 215 
 
 Clean, Adam, Esq., . . . 369, 373 
 Closkey, a famil}' name, .... 8 
 Connocha, William, 43 
 
420 
 
 Page. 
 
 Mac Crela, John, H2 
 
 Mac Cremheavid, Thomas, 85 
 
 Mac Cressulane, Henry, 27 
 
 Mac Cura, Bernard, 160 
 
 Mac Dermydan, Agholy, 115 
 
 MacDonegan, . . . 115,116,307,313 
 Mac Donnell, family of. 287, 299, 328, 329 
 Mac Duinsleibhe, or Duinsleve, . . . 357 
 Mac Duiblieamhna, now Devenny, . . 368 
 
 Mac Duilechain 368 
 
 Mac Eogain, John 108 
 
 Mac Eoin, or Bisset, 325, 333 
 
 Mac Ere, St. 111,190,306,379 
 
 Mac Erewyn, Patrick 86 
 
 Mac Fall, family of, 298 
 
 Mac Firbis.Geneal. MS. cited, . 214,296, | 
 
 297, 320, 326, 335, 339, 340, 343, 345, 348. ; 
 
 349, 351-353, 355, 358, 363, 304, 366-368 
 Mac Ganyse, or Magennis, IIG, 100, 177,313 , 
 
 Mac Gean, Gilbert, 186 , 
 
 Mac Gerewey, John, 116,313 
 
 Mac Gillaboy, family of, 106, 116,312, 313 
 
 Mac Gillimuire, Cuuladh, 339 
 
 Mac Gillirynan, Florentine, .... 63 
 
 MacGilmore, 113, 115,205 
 
 Mac Gin, orMacGynd, 107,110,111,312,313 
 
 Mac Gremayn, Michael, 86 
 
 Mac Gwyryn, or Mac Gyryn, 106, 312, 313 
 
 Mac Hua Gualae, 380 
 
 Mac Hyrnore, Macgonius, 113 
 
 Mac lUekenny, John 107 
 
 Mac Karrmyke, Nemeas, 309 
 
 Mac Kasshen, John, 158 
 
 Mac Kathmayll, Henry, 35 
 
 Mac Kenny, Donald, 160 
 
 Mac Kerny, Thomas, 89 
 
 Mac Kewyn, family of, . . 106, 116, 309 
 Mac Laisre, St., of Bangor, .... 378 
 Mac Lassiu.s, St., 339 
 
 Page. 
 Mac Leighind, superior of Down, . . 145 
 
 OMuireadhain, . . . 248 
 
 Mac Loughlin, Maurice, 93 
 
 Mac Lyrynan, Adam, 63, 89 
 
 Mac Malawg, Mellanus, 15 
 
 Mac Molyn, John, 89 
 
 Mac Moyre, family of, 150 
 
 Mac Niadh, son of Ceallach, .... 144 
 
 Mac Ninkyan, John, 85 
 
 Mac Nisi, son of Earc, 321 
 
 Mac Nissi, St., of Connor, 95, 96, 97, 104, 
 
 •237-239, 245, 269 
 
 Mac Oireaghty, Henry, 257 
 
 Mac Quillin. family of, 185, "iS^, 285, 286, 
 
 287, 326-328, 344 
 Mac Rory, family name, . . . 210, 389 
 Mac Skiniin, History of Carrickfergus, . 276 
 Mac Uchlry, Thomas, .... 248, 324 
 Mac Uidheiin. See Mac Quillin. 
 
 Mac Umcaidhan, Maurice, 72 
 
 Mac Yneryny, Gilbert, 105 
 
 Machaire, signification of, 330 
 
 Cineoil Ainmirech, . . 324, 340 
 
 Conaill, 304, 365 
 
 Lainne, 313 
 
 Morna, 56 
 
 Hatha, 27, 207 
 
 Madagan, son of Aodh, .... 355, 363 
 
 , son of Domhnall, .... 355 
 
 Madaean, son of Muiredhach, .... 354 
 
 Maelchalland, Cathalan, 370 
 
 Maelcobha, son of Fiachna, .... 202 
 
 Magdamorna, 51, 338 
 
 Ma gee, family of, 271, 287 
 
 Magennis, family of, 112, 160, 177, 213, 230, 
 258, 304, 308,317,332 
 
 , origin of name, . 351, 352, 368 
 
 's country, or Iveagh, . . .115 
 
 Magh Bealuig 294 
 
421 
 
 Page. 
 
 Magh Beannchair, 200 
 
 Magh Bile, abbey of, . . . . 14, 78, 131 
 
 , appropriations of, 20, 
 
 21, 24, 46, 49, 217 
 
 , bishops of, . 131, 132, 377-380 
 
 , saints of, ... . 376-380 
 
 Magh Cobha, 105, 1 1 1 , 1 12, 303, 349, 330 
 
 Magh Comair, now Moira, 369 
 
 , now Muckamore,97, 197,338 
 
 Magh Cuilinn, 330 
 
 Magli Elle, or Elne, (see Elle,) . . .330 
 
 Maghera, parish of, in Co. Down, 27, 134, 
 
 163, 166, 170, 171, 207 
 
 , in Co. L.Derry, 27,241 
 
 Magheradrool, parish of, 103, 106, 216, 314, 
 
 316,318 
 
 , see lands of, . . . .310 
 
 Magheragall, parish of, ... . 47, 172 
 
 Magherahamlet, 105, 313 
 
 Magherahoghill. See AhoghilL 
 Magheralin, parish of, 110,307,313, 314, 315, 
 
 317 
 
 , see lands of, . . . 307,310 
 
 Magherally, parish of, . 106,107,318,368 
 
 , see lands of, . . . 309, 310 
 
 Magheralone, 216 
 
 Magheraniayo, 313 
 
 Magheramesk, parish of, . . . 48,172 
 Magheramourne, . . 51,36,269,338,346 
 Magherasharkin. See Raaharkin. 
 
 Magheratampany, 103, 216 
 
 Magheratemple, 79, 282 
 
 Magherawly. See Magherally. 
 
 Magheredunagh, tuogh of, 332 
 
 Maghernagath, or Magheranagaw, . . 49 
 
 Magheross, 203 
 
 Magh h-Eini, 386 
 
 Magh-inis, 201, 203, 204 
 
 Magh Latharna, 263 
 
 Page. 
 
 Magh Lemhna 281, 293 
 
 Magh Lena, in King's County, . . .281 
 
 Magii Li, 296 
 
 Magh Line, (see Moylinny,) . 62, 366, 386 
 
 Magh Lughadh, 294, 387 
 
 Magh Nuadhat, now Maynooth, . . .241 
 Magh Rath, (see Moira,) . . 369, 378, 381 
 
 , Battle of. See O Donovan. 
 
 Maginn, a family name, 312 
 
 Magnellus Makenlef, .... 31,232 
 Mahee Island, . . 10, 148, 168, 187, 193 
 Mailros, Chronicle of, cited, .... 92 
 
 Main river, 86, 96, 333 
 
 Malachi OMorgair,99, 116, 147, 162,223,242 
 
 , St. Bernard's Life of. 
 
 See Bernard. 
 Malachi, bishop of Down, 135, 163, 191, 192 
 Malachioe, Sancti, Capella, . . . 42, 178 
 Malcolm, derivation of, . 
 Mantan, St., of Blaris, . 
 
 Manybery, 
 
 Maol, signification of, 
 Maolathgen, of Moville, . 
 Maolbresail, son of Ailill Cobha, 
 Maolbrigid, bishop of Connor, 
 , bishop of Dromore, 
 
 Maolcalland, now Mulholland, 
 Maolcaoich, son of Scandal, 
 Maolcaoimghin, bishop of Down, 
 Maolcholum, now Malcolm, 
 
 Maolcobha, 
 
 Maolcorgais, 
 
 Maolcothaigh, of Bangor, . . 
 Maolcraoibhe, family of, . . . 
 Maolfothartaigh, son of Suibhne, 
 Maoliosa, archbishop of Armagh, 
 
 , Mac-an-Chlerigh Chui 
 
 ,OCuillen, .... 
 
 Maolmaire, bishop of Down, 
 
 . 370 
 . 377 
 . 332 
 . 81 
 . 380 
 . 341 
 . 241 
 . 303 
 . 370 
 . 340 
 . 147 
 . 370 
 333, 338 
 . 370 
 . 134 
 297, 348 
 82, 295 
 . . 371 
 147, 148 
 . . 324 
 140, 147 
 
422 
 
 Page. 
 Maolnioedhoc, of Dromore, .... 303 
 
 Mac Dubradin, . . . 223 
 
 . Ua Morgair, 147, 242, 381 
 
 Maolmoclieirghe, 204 
 
 JMaolmartain, of Connor 242 
 
 . , of Down 145 
 
 Maolpatrick O Ailecain, of Down, . . 146 
 
 OBanain, of Connor, 243, 253 
 
 Maolruanaidh, son of Ardgal, .... 355 
 Maolruba, of Bangor, .... 377, 378 
 
 Maolsambna, 370 
 
 Maoltoloigh, St., of Druim, . . . .380 
 
 Maor, or Steward, 370 
 
 Mariadac, King of Limerick, . . . .170 
 
 Markelon Bay, 386 
 
 Mason, History of St. Patrick's, . 179, 241 
 Massareene, barony of, .... 346, 389 
 
 , friary of, 389 
 
 Mainland, William, 180 
 
 Maudone, 04, 65 
 
 Maugtbeus, or Mochta 304 
 
 Muulijne, rural deanry of, 62 
 
 Maundeville, 185 
 
 Maurice, Defence of Dioc. Episcopacy, 124 
 
 Maijnblossce, 8 
 
 Meatb, diocese of, composed of smaller 
 
 sees, 128 
 
 Medumij, Sancti, E celesta, 18 
 
 Meenan, 113 
 
 Meldan, St., 113,380 
 
 Mercator, his "Atlas", referred to, . . 351 
 
 Mercer, Robert le, 62 
 
 Mercier, William, bishop of Down, . . 257 
 
 Mesin Corb, 368 
 
 Messing, Richard, 308 
 
 Messingham's Florilegium, cited, 43, 63, 95, 
 
 99, 129, 131, 132, 136, 147, 163, 195, 223, 
 
 226, 227, 362 
 ]\Iey, Primate, (see Regisii-y,) . 229, 276 
 
 Page. 
 Miandach, son of Luigdeach, .... 203 
 
 Michael of Kilkenan 271 
 
 Middle Glynns, tuogh of, 332 
 
 Milcho, 78, 83, 339 
 
 Milecross, 14 
 
 Miliuc, 4. 377 
 
 Miloc, 2, 3, 4, 166, 172 
 
 Miltone, (see Balhiivillin,) ... 76, 263 
 Mis, a quo Sliabh Mis, a person, . . . 335 
 
 Mu, prefix, force of, 110 
 
 Mobiu, St., of Iniscouscry, 379 
 
 Mocaoniog, St., 377 
 
 Mochaoi, St., 10, 78, 144, 148, 188, 189, 190 
 
 Mochoemog, St 216,286 
 
 Mocholmoc, St., (see Colman,) 17, 104, 110 
 
 Mochumma, St., 45,236,376 
 
 Mochumog, St., 115,381 
 
 Mocorne 26, 206 
 
 Modhairn, Modiiorna, Modhurna, .51, 206 
 
 Moduinus, St., 19, 378 
 
 Mogh Corb 368 
 
 Moin-in-chatha, where, 266 
 
 Moira, (seeil/ao-/< /?a//0 • • 369,-378.381 
 Molioba, St., .... 316, 376, 379, 381 
 
 Molusk, parish of, 8, 262 
 
 Molyn, John, 218 
 
 Monachs, a tribe, 355, 366 
 
 Monadoire-lothair, battle of, ... . 339 
 Monasterlea. See Greij Abbey. 
 
 Moneketone, 14 
 
 Mongan, 214, 304 
 
 Mouketone, 68 
 
 Monkstown, 14, 69 
 
 Mons Mis. See Sliabh Mis. 
 
 Montgomei-y MSS., cited, 14, 17, 347, 383 
 
 Montiaghs, 49,292,317 
 
 Monticulus, or earthen fort, .... 143 
 Mor, wife of Bresal Mac Briuin, . 280, 386 
 Morann, bishop of Nendrum, .... 149 
 
42.3 
 
 Page. 
 Morna, and Morne. See Mourne. 
 Moses, books of, ti-adition concerning, 131 
 Moville, abbey of. See Magh Bile. 
 
 Mountain, The, 292, 293 
 
 Mount Sandal, 324, 342 
 
 Mourne, in Antrim, (see Magheramorne,) 269 
 
 , in Down, barony of, (see Boirche,) 26, 
 
 205-210, 365 
 
 , in Monaghan, now Cremourne, 203 
 
 Mowbray, tuogb of, 332 
 
 Moygoish, in VVestmealh, 387 
 
 Moylinny, territory of, 62, 70, 266, 267,279- 
 281, 296,343,366, 386 
 
 Motjndele, 20 
 
 Muadan, 79, 283 
 
 Muckamore, priory of, 97, 384 
 
 , appropriations of, 53, 59, 63, 66, 
 
 67, 70, 89, 98, 181 bis, 264, 271, 302 bis. 
 
 ■ , priors of, . . . 98, 374, 384 
 
 , registry of, 98 
 
 Mucknoe, abbey of, 146 
 
 Mugdorna .26, 205, 269 
 
 Mugmore, 32, 96 
 
 Muillean Loingsiochain, 340 
 
 Muinreamarius, (seeBochaidh Muin-ream- 
 
 har,) 323 
 
 Muintir (see Familia), meaning of, 133, 362 
 
 Brain, 386 
 
 Cally, 303, 345 
 
 Lis Aodha, 361 
 
 Murigan 345 
 
 Rividy, 302, 343 
 
 Tanilaclita Laoigh, .... 297 
 
 Muirbolc Paradisi, 232 
 
 Muirchertacb O Brian, 173 
 
 OCarrioll, 147 
 
 Muireadhach, . 201 
 
 Muinderg, .... 202, 333 
 
 , son ofEochaidh, .... 354 
 
 Page. 
 
 Muireadhach Tireach 363 
 
 Muirgelt, legend of, . . 55, 265, 266, 378 
 
 Muirgen, St., 376, 378 
 
 Muirtheimhne, 339, 365 
 
 Mulclireives, family of, 34S 
 
 Mulholland, family of, . . . 370, 373-373 
 
 Mullaslee, now Muldersly, 271 
 
 Munerie, or Mynerie, tuogh of, . , . 332 
 
 Muratori, 0/3e/'e, cited, 153 
 
 Murbulg, . . . .27, 154, 252, 321, 340 
 Murgal, ofReachrann, .... 249,380 
 
 Murlough, 27, 154, 252, 282 
 
 Muscriffhe Breo2:ain, 18 
 
 Myn river, now the Main 335 
 
 N. 
 
 Naas, Adam, 88 
 
 Nadsluagius, 247 
 
 Nangle, William, 23 
 
 Nappan, 87 
 
 Nasad, St., 11,3, .380 
 
 Nathi, St., of Cuil Fuitherbe, . . . .379 
 Nedrum, (see XeJidrum,) . 10, 166, 168, 171 
 Nehemias, or Neim, St., . > 231, ,322, 378 
 
 Neim, a woman's name, 336 
 
 Nendrum, . 10,63, 144, 148, 166,168,171 
 
 , history of, 187-197 
 
 , superiors of, ... . 148-130 
 
 , two places of this name, . .190 
 
 Nepotes. See Hi/. 
 
 Neutone, 12 
 
 I Nevoracum, or Newry, 116 
 
 Newcastle, 184 
 
 Newry, .... 116,316,318,333,331 
 
 , charter of, cited, 93, 1 17, 148, 293, 
 
 .306, .351, .358 
 
 , river of, 253 
 
 Newtown, county of, 9, 22, 363 
 
424 
 
 Page. 
 
 Newtown, in Lecale, 168, 171 
 
 Newtownards, parish of, ... 13, 14, 15 
 
 , priory of, .... 13, 101 
 
 Newlownbreda 15 
 
 Niall Glundubli, 355 
 
 . sonofAodh 355,362 
 
 , son of Dubhthuinne, 356 
 
 , son of Eochaid, 356 
 
 Nicholas, St., cliurches of, .... 24,61 
 Nicholson, Historical Library, error in, . 98 
 
 Niellus, St 38 
 
 Nilteen, Grange of, 65, 69 
 
 Nister, 114 
 
 Norden's Map, . 252, 277, 283, 331, 348, 385 
 
 Notyngham, Robert, 23 
 
 NychoU, Sir, of Kilkennan 271 
 
 Nyvorcyntracta, or Newry, . . . .117 
 
 C). 
 
 O, meaning of the prefix, . . . .82, 370 
 
 OAiteidh, 350, 351, 367 
 
 OBiedran, James, 26 
 
 OBrien, Irish Dictionary of, 7, 75, 200, 367 
 
 , topographical errors of, . 206, 281 
 
 OByrnd, John, 106 
 
 O Cahan, 286, 296, 374 
 
 OCairill, family of, 360 
 
 OCoinne, 367 
 
 OColcan, Cormac, 74 
 
 OColtaran, family of, 368 
 
 OConnmaigh, family of, 360 
 
 () Conor, Charles, of Ballynagar, his Dis- 
 
 .serla'Jo7is cited, 319 
 
 , Doctor, his Rer. Hib. Script. 
 
 cited, 13, 41, 68, 78, 117, 135, 137. 141, 
 
 146, 173, 352 
 , errors of, 63, 97, 149, 183, 
 
 Page. 
 
 OCorpmacan, Ocean, 93 
 
 OCorre, Nellanus, 374 
 
 O Coyne, Magonius, 79 
 
 OCreichim, 361 
 
 Octavian de Palatio, (see Registry,) . . 103 
 O Domhnallain, family of, . 295, 296, 297 
 ODonnellus, Life of St. Columbkille, 221, 
 245, 252, 273, 291, 321 
 O Donovan, Joiin, Esq., M. R. L A., his 
 
 services (o Irish literature, . . 92, 287 
 , Ills Battle of Magh 
 
 Rath, 16, 93, 116, 142, 143, 253, 270, 352 
 , Circuit of Muircear- 
 
 tach, 62, 72, 253 
 
 , Contributions to Dub. 
 
 P. Journal, 93, 1 16, 282, 287, 296, 329, 340 
 
 , Hy-Fiachrach, 22, 46, 
 
 183, 326, 330, 339 
 
 , Hy-Many, 30, 31, 95, 
 
 199,362 
 
 , Irish Grammar, 85, 292, 
 
 370, 385 
 OD(jrnan, James, Charles, . . . 314,384 
 ODrene, bisiiop of Moville, .... 152 
 
 O Dubayn, Patrick, 108 
 
 j ODubhagain, family of, 30 
 
 I , Topographical Poem of, 206, 
 
 213,228,296,367 
 
 OEathachda, 359 
 
 Oegedchar, of Connor, 241 
 
 , ofNendrum, 149 
 
 Oenacan, of Down, 145 
 
 Oentraib, now Antrim, ... 63, 277, 278 
 
 Officel, or official, 108-110 
 
 OFlaherty, Ogygia of, cited, 213, 214, 233, 
 253, 319, 335, 336, 349, 352, 379 
 
 __, Ogygia Vindicated, . 319, 329 
 
 , West Connaught, .... 303 
 
 202,239,241,273,281,334,-339 i O Flaithrigh, Cuuladh, 356 
 
425 
 
 Page. 
 
 OFlailhri, Cuuladh, 336 
 
 O Flinn, family of, . 83, 295-297, 342, 387 
 
 OGairbith, family of, 367 
 
 OGibellain, Maurice, 109 
 
 OGillamyr, John, 63 
 
 O Hagan, family of, 115,294 
 
 O Haidith, or 6 Haitidhe, . 350, 351 , 367 
 
 O Hainbith, family of, 368 
 
 O Hede, 351 
 
 O Hegirthay, Nicholas, 374 
 
 O Hele, . ' 78, 262 
 
 O Heochadha, family of, . 223, 356, 367 
 
 O Heran, John, 26 
 
 O Inmainen, 370 
 
 O Kellaid, Patrick, 313 
 
 O Kellies, tribe of, 368 
 
 O Kerawolen, Bricius, 110 
 
 O Kerney, James, 257 
 
 O Kylt, ' 89, 262, 374 
 
 O Labhradha, family of, . . 358, 367, 369 
 
 OLachlainn, 370 
 
 O Laghnan, Donat, 27 
 
 OLannub, John, 308,312 
 
 O Lavrey, or O Lawry, . . 358, 367, 369 
 Olcan, St., . . 80, 90, 238, 243-245, 376 
 Olchu, son of Cairbe Riada, . . 320, 321 
 Olderfleet, castle and haven of, 54, 55, 265 
 
 Oldforge, 46 
 
 Oldstone, castle of, 332 
 
 Oldtown, 66 
 
 O Lethlobhair, family of, . . . 355,367 
 Ollar, now the Six-mile Water, . . . 266 
 Ollarba, now the Lame River, 54, 55, 252, 
 
 265-267, 377 
 OLoingsigh, family of, . 278, 341-343, 367 
 
 O Lourada, Gillananiemh, 358 
 
 O Lynnan, Patrick, 85 
 
 O Maccrela, or O Mackerrell, 1 12, 306, 313 
 O Mahallon, Bryan Boy, ... 98, 374 
 
 Page. 
 
 O Maoiltealcha, Dermod, 361 
 
 O Maolcallann, 370 
 
 O Mathgamhna, family of, . 356, 362, 367 
 
 OMeaig, 15 
 
 OMellan, 371-374 
 
 Journal of, . . . . 331,389 
 
 O Molstaygh, John 115,313 
 
 O Morna, territory of, in Lecale, . 367, 368 
 
 O Morrey, Donald, 263 
 
 OMostead, 105,210,312 
 
 O Mulchallynd, Patrick, 373 
 
 O Mulynga, Marcus, 35 
 
 O Murry, family of, 105,312 
 
 O Musty, family of, 312 
 
 ONeill, family of, 15, 79, 89, 265, 284, 296, 
 
 300, 301, 343, 347 
 
 , two great branches of, 343 
 
 Ordination. See Bishop. 
 Ordnance Survey Memoir of Temple- 
 more, 252,257,295 
 
 , Maps of Antrim and 
 
 Down, errors and omissions of, 52, 87. 89, 
 
 171, 212, 218, 268, 281, 285, 301, 331, 334 
 
 O Reilly, Irish Dictionary, . . 86,150,200 
 
 , Irish Writers, 133 
 
 Orior, anciently Airthear, 235, 236, 350, 364 
 
 O Robhartagh, of Connor, 242 
 
 ORonaga, or ORuanadha, family of, HI, 
 
 192, 210,312,313 
 
 OScula, Flann, 140 
 
 OShieghell, 107,312,313 
 
 Othewer, Villa, 56 
 
 O Turtray, (see Hy- Tuirtre,) .... 295 
 Oveagh, Oveh, (see Iveagh,) . . 165, 304 
 Owen, Aneurin, his " Ancient Laws, &c., 
 
 of Wales", 389 
 
 Owen Glan Rawre, 335 
 
 Myn 335 
 
 na View, 269 
 
426 
 
 Page. 
 Oweyn, Patrick, 27 
 
 P. 
 
 Pang, Adam, 262 
 
 Paper, early specimen of, 382 
 
 Parish, derivation of word, 140 
 
 Park, tuogh of, 332, 333 
 
 Parochial Survey, Mason's, cited, 48, 73, 81, 
 108, 283, 298,316,331 
 
 Pascua, Pastura 166 
 
 Patrick of Galloway, 325 
 
 , St., his death and burial, 203, 222, 
 
 223-229 
 
 , churches of, . . 7, 41, 75, 87 
 
 Paul, bishop of Connor, .... 88, 257 
 
 Perquisitum, 98, 100 
 
 Peter of Douach, 90, 256, 258 
 
 Petra, a name of Carrickfergus, . 62, 160 
 Petrie, his Essay on Tara, 125, 221, 224, 225 
 
 , Round Towers, 34, 45, 64, 197, 224, 
 
 226, 267, 285, 370 
 Petty, Sir William, his Maps, 195, 211, 212, 
 
 334, 384 
 
 Philip de Erdeslye 177 
 
 Picti, Pictores, (see Cruitkne,) 267,319, 336, 
 
 337, 340 
 
 , country of, 336 
 
 Pilgrimage, places of, ... 84, 88, 207 
 Pinkerton, his Vit;c Antiquae cited, 140, 385 
 Plebania, signification of term, . 208, 209 
 
 Pliny, Nat. Hist., cited, 288 
 
 Poets, proscription of, 338 
 
 Pollard, Thomas, 37, 159, 257 
 
 Portaferry, village of, 24 
 
 Portcamman, 77, 263 
 
 Portglenone, ancient name of, ... 301 
 
 Portmore lough, 49 
 
 Portmuck, 38, 271 
 
 Page. 
 
 Portros, or Portrush 72, 76 
 
 Portrossce, 76 
 
 Pra^montre Canons, houses of, . . 274-276 
 Pratum bourn. See Cluain Daimh. 
 Prebenda, peculiar use of term, . . 36, 37 
 
 Prebenda Bricii Ojfkialis 108 
 
 Prebendaries. See Carncaitle, Connor, 
 
 Dromara, Dunsford, Killroot, Bashar- 
 
 kin, St. Andrews, Talpeatown. 
 Precentor of Connor, 263 
 
 of Down, 178 
 
 ofDromore, 314 
 
 Prene, Primate, 157, 218 
 
 Princeps or Abbot, . . . .145, 150, 247 
 
 Procuraliones, 98 
 
 , history of, . . . 99,100 
 
 , in Dromore diocese, 315-318 
 
 Proketour, WiUiam, . . . 60,259,271 
 Province, The, (see Coi'cid,) . . 357, 362 
 Proxies. See Procurationem. 
 
 Prynne, Records, cited, 28, 41, 91, 155, 173, 
 
 228, 256 
 Psallor. See Solar. 
 
 Ptolemy, Geography of Ireland, . 270, 273 
 Pulcherius, St., .... 115,216,286 
 Purchase, derivation of word 100 
 
 Q. 
 
 Queur, 70 
 
 Quinlin, 25, 21 1 
 
 R. 
 
 Racatt, 29, 178, 215 
 
 Rachrainn, now Rathlin, . 249, 292, 324 
 
 , abbots of, . . 248-250, 332 
 
 , now Lambay, 292 
 
 , now Rathlin in Lough Neagh, 292 
 
427 
 
 Page. 
 
 Radcliffe, Thomas, 308 
 
 Rademan, 216 
 
 Radulphus, bishop of Down, .... 165 
 
 Radulphus de Ireton, 92 
 
 Raholp, chapel of, 39, 142, 164, 168, 170, 223 
 
 Ralfetotia 18 
 
 Raloo, parish of, 53, 262 
 
 Ramoan, parish of, . 79, 263, 284, 322, 386 
 
 Rani's Island, 48 
 
 Ranish island, 171, 193 
 
 Bansevyn, now Island Magee, . 58, 270 
 
 , Ecclesia Sti. Johannis de, 58, 59 
 
 Rasharkin, parish of, ... 90, 263, 340 
 
 , see lands of, . . . . 239, 260 
 
 Rashee, parish of, .... 68, 250, 263 
 
 Bassci, 68 
 
 Rassie, 276 
 
 Rath, 27, 170 
 
 , signiBcation of the word, . . . 235 
 
 Rathaine 380 
 
 Rathairthir 286 
 
 Rathbacain, 264 
 
 Rathbachall, 264 
 
 Rathbeg, 240, 278, 279 
 
 Rathbethech, 354 
 
 Rathbreasal, synod of, 139, 141, 162, 251, 
 
 253, 307 
 
 Rathcabain, 84, 345 
 
 Rat heath, 28, 215 
 
 Rathcavan, parish of, 84, 263 
 
 Ralhchealtair, 142, 225, 354 
 
 Rathchimbaoith, 270 
 
 Rathcolpe, . . 38, 142, 165, 168, 170, 223 
 
 Rathcona, 84 
 
 Rathcro, 204, 341 
 
 Rathcroich, 204 
 
 Rathcuinchedha, 270 
 
 Rath-easpuic-Innic 251, 339 
 
 Rathelang, 54 
 
 3 
 
 Page. 
 
 Rathenaich, 80,245,247 
 
 Ratheochuil, 345 
 
 Rathgorman, 185, 186 
 
 Rathkelter, 143,165,225 
 
 Rathlin Island, (see Rachrainn,) . 288-292 
 
 Rathlung, 52 
 
 Rathlury, now Maghera, . . . 27, 241 
 
 Rathmesk, 48, 172 
 
 Rathmohan, 78, 284 
 
 Rathmolyn, 32 
 
 Rathmore, 68 
 
 , of Magh Lemhna, . . . .281 
 
 , of Magh Line, 70, 278-281, 386 
 
 , of Port Ros, 76 
 
 Rathmudain, 79, 284, 322 
 
 Rathmugia, 80, 243 
 
 Rathmuighe-aonaich. See Rathenaich, 
 Rathmullan, parish of, . . . 33, 37, 178 
 Rathmurbhulg, .... 154, 165, 207 
 Rathsithe, now Rashee, . 68, 250, 263, 338 
 
 Rathsyne, or Ballyrashane, 74 
 
 Rathtemayn, 216, 358 
 
 Raughlins. See Rathlin. 
 
 Ravel River, 71,302,334 
 
 Raynoke, Walter, 24 
 
 Reachrainn, Rechrainn, Rechrea, Reclaindi. 
 
 See Rathlin. 
 Red Bay, castle and tuogh of, . . . . 332 
 Red Branch, or Creeve Roe, 142, 213, 367 
 Refections, an ecclesiastical duty, 101, 179 
 Reginald, bishop of Connor, 60, 192, 256, 274 
 Registry of Muckamore, 3, 5, 53, 59, 64, 65, 
 
 68, 91, 98, 180, 262 
 Primate Cromer, 23, 62, 74, 79, 
 
 107, 111, 112, 115, 116, 160, 177, 210, 308 
 Dowdall, 30, 36, 51,56, 
 
 62, 81, 82, 85, 105, 106, 177, 230. 262, 314 
 
 Fleming, 31, 36, 108, 
 
 110, 112, 113,210,213 
 
 I 2 
 
428 
 
 Page. 
 
 Registry of Primate May, -26, 35, 36, 37, 43, 
 
 92, 158, 159, 210, 218, 229 
 
 Octavian, 25, 26, 30, 
 
 35, 43, 78, 81, 86, 112, 276, 308, 313, 384 
 Prene, 15, 26, 36, 37, 
 
 39, 46, 63, 72, 85, 89, lOG. 108, 1 1 1, 115, 
 
 116, 157-159, 177, 210, 219, 262, 316, 373 
 Swayne, 24, 27, 105, 
 
 no, 112-116, 176, 186, 218, 264,294, 309 
 
 Svveteman, 177, 209, 
 
 312, 318, 382, 385 
 
 Rencady, 8 
 
 Renles, 38 
 
 Rensevyn. See liansevyn. 
 
 Report of Eccles. Inquiry in 1806, . 81,85 
 
 1833, 11,104,261 
 
 1836, . . 219 
 
 of Irish Record Commission, 332, 347 
 
 Reuda, (see Riada,) 319 
 
 Riada, Cairbre, 319,320 
 
 Riagail, St 32, 380 
 
 Riagan, son of Aireamhan, .... 362 
 
 Rice, family of, 348 
 
 Riciiard Fitz Alan, 168 
 
 Masculus, 194 
 
 Richardson, Great Folly of Pilgrimages, 88 
 Ricnea, Rikina, (see Rathlin,) . . . 288 
 
 Riegal, St., of Bangor 379 
 
 Rigan, bishop of Dromore, .... 306 
 Righfada. See Riada. 
 
 Ringdufferin, 185 
 
 Ringhaddy, 9, 10, 185 
 
 Ringreagl), 43, 219 
 
 Robert de Flemeng, 256 
 
 de Pyncebek, 177 
 
 filius Serlonis, .... 165, 270 
 
 Rochfort, Robert, 160 
 
 , Simon, Constitutions of, . .128 
 
 Roe, the River, 141,252,321 
 
 Page. 
 Roger de Cestria, 166,191 
 
 de Croft, 194 
 
 de Dunesford, . . . 36,191,192 
 
 de Preston, 324 
 
 Roger estone, 10, 198 
 
 Ronan Finn, St 313,340,378 
 
 , son of Bee, 297 
 
 Rone, 20 
 
 Ros 34, 230 
 
 Ros Bearaigh, 340 
 
 Rosercan, 90, 340 
 
 Ro-sglansce, 32, 165, 168, 178 
 
 Ros na Riogh, in Shevny, 366 
 
 Rosreiick, 74, 263 
 
 Rosroylocke, 76 
 
 Russ, John, 156, 176 
 
 Ross Righbhuidhe, 206, 369 
 
 Ross, St., of Down 142,377 
 
 Ross, chapel of, . . . 36,179,219,230 
 
 , diocese of, . 127 
 
 Ross Bennchuir, now Rossmanagher, . 200 
 
 Rosxerkan, 88 
 
 Rossglass, . . 33, 165, 168, 171, 178, 219 
 
 Roth, Corniac, 210 
 
 Rotheacht, King uf Ireland, .... 286 
 
 Rough Forth, a hamlet, 66 
 
 Round Tower of Antrim, 63 
 
 of Armoy, 80 
 
 of Down, . . 41,230,385 
 
 of Drumbo, 45 
 
 of Maghera, .... 28 
 
 __ of Magheramesk, ... 48 
 
 ofNendrum, . . 10,196 
 
 of Ram's Island, ... 48 
 
 Round Towers, Petrie's Essay upon. See 
 
 Peine. 
 Route, territory of, 52, 72, 78, 90, 328-334 
 Row, or Rowbane, chapel of, . . 21, 379 
 Rowatt, Archibald, 263 
 
429 
 
 Page. 
 
 Ruanus, 207 
 
 Rubha, orRue, 21,379 
 
 Rudraighe Mor, ...... 213, 352 
 
 Rufin, St., of Bangor, 377 
 
 Rural Deanries in Connor, . 51, 62, 71, 82 
 
 in Down, . 2, 8, 16, 26, 44 
 
 , anciently small sees, 124, 128 
 
 , distribution into, late in 
 
 its introduction into Down and Connor, 128 
 — , anomalous disposition of, 52 
 
 Ruse, meaning of, 6 
 
 Ruta, An. See Route. 
 Rymer, Foedera, cited, 83, 91, 156, 173, 228, 
 256, 296, 324, 325, 339, 352, 357 
 
 S. 
 
 S, an accidental prefix, 32 
 
 Saballum, 178,220 
 
 Sabhall, in Armagh, . •. . . 
 
 , in Lecale, (see Saul,) 
 
 Sac. See Sake. 
 
 St. Andrew, priory of, . . 
 
 's, of Killandrews, 
 
 , prebend of, . 
 
 Bega, or Bees, priory of, 
 
 Brigid's of Carrickfergus, 
 
 Down, 
 
 Drummaul, . 
 
 Kilbride, . . 
 
 Kilbroney, . 
 
 — Cedma's of Inver, . . 
 
 — Colman's of Dromore, . 
 
 — Colman's of Kilkeel, 
 
 Killcolmuck, 
 
 Killroot, 
 
 Magheralin, 
 
 — Colmanellus', of Ahoghill, 
 Muckamore, 
 
 . 220, 221 
 40, 220, 224 
 
 18, 382 
 . 187 
 
 79, 187 
 . 190 
 . 276 
 . 232 
 . 86 
 . 64 
 . 116 
 54, 55 
 . 104 
 . 210 
 . 17 
 
 60, 259 
 . 110 
 . 88 
 - 98 
 
 Page. 
 St. Columb's, of Newtown, 14 
 
 — Comgall's, of Bangor, 13 
 
 _ Cunning's, 53, 263, 338 
 
 — Cuthbert's, of Dunluce, ... 77, 263 
 
 — Donard's, of Rath, 27 
 
 — Enan's, of Druimindich, . . 79, 285 
 
 — Fechtany's, of Culfeightrin, . . . 79 
 
 — Finian's, of Greencastle, .... 31 
 
 Kilmilcon, 313 
 
 Moville, 151 
 
 — Inn's, of Moira, 378 
 
 — James, of Murlough, 283 
 
 — John's, of Carrickfergus, .... 61 
 
 Down 230 
 
 Jerusalem. See Hospitallers: 
 
 . Killyglen. 53 
 
 Ransevyn, 59 
 
 , Whitechurch, 271 
 
 — Kelan's, ofKilclief, .... 39,217 
 Laurence's, of Maudone, .... 65 
 
 — Malachi's, of Crumlin, 45 
 
 Down, 43 
 
 LismuUen 37 
 
 — Mary's, of Ardglass, 35 
 
 Ardkeen, 21 
 
 Ballochaneir, 207 
 
 Ballyrashane, .... 74 
 
 .-Carrickfergus, . 60,274,276 
 
 Coleraine, 248 
 
 Desert, 95 
 
 Doagh, 67 
 
 Down, 232 
 
 Drumnedergel, .... 64 
 
 — — _ Glenarm, 51 
 
 Haytown, 15 
 
 Knockagar, 40 
 
 Muckamore, 98 
 
 Mary Magdalene's, of Ringreagh, 43, 230 
 
 — Nicholas', of Ballyphilip, .... 24 
 
43° 
 
 Page. 
 St. Nicholas', of Carrickfergus, . ... 61 
 Down, .... 218,232 
 
 — Patrick's, of Ballyclug, 84 
 
 ■ Coleraine, 75 
 
 Down, 41 
 
 Glenarm, 87 
 
 Kilpatrick, 185 
 
 Skerry, 83 
 
 liie 'White Ford', . . 7 
 
 — Peter's, of Kilclief, 218 
 
 — Saviour's, of Connor, .... 85, 262 
 
 — Tassach's, of Raholp, . . . . 39,142 
 
 — Thomas', of Down, 231 
 
 Sake 167, 325 
 
 Salanga, a mountain, 27 
 
 Salanus, 27 
 
 Sa/oM-er, 52 
 
 Samuel, bishop of Dublin, 147 
 
 Sancles 184 
 
 Sanctus Boscus, now Holy wood, . 12, 170 
 
 Sandal, Robert de 68, 262 
 
 Saran, St., of Bangor, 379 
 
 Saranus, . . 213, 214, 236, 247, 338, 353 
 
 Saul, abbey of, 40, 223 
 
 , appropriations of, 21, 31, 39, 
 
 41, 187 
 
 , parish of, ... . 40, 178, 220-223 
 
 Saide, 40 
 
 Saurin, Dr., bishop of Dromore, . 103, 303 
 
 Savage, family of, 205,281 
 
 Saval 22 1 
 
 Saval Bregagh, 223 
 
 Scandal, King of Dalaradia, .... 245 
 Scannlan, of Down, . . . 144, 145, 140 
 
 Scarba, island of, 291 
 
 Scatrick, island of, . . . 170, 171, 185, 193 
 Schire Arcaile, or Phadruic, . . .82, 84 
 
 Schinch, 82 
 
 Scholasticus. See Ferleighind. 
 
 Page. 
 Schools attached to monasteries, . 146, 189 
 Scolaighe, superior of Down, .... 146 
 Scoti, or ancient Irish, 135, 149, 195,250,279, 
 
 339 
 Scotland, anciently called Alba, . 289, 320 
 
 , colonized by Scots from Ireland, 319 
 
 , New Statistical Survey of, . .291 
 
 Scott's, Sir Walter, Lord of the Isles, . 291 
 Scribe, office of, honourable, . 149, 150,307 
 Scribhneoir, signification of, . . 145, 150 
 
 Serin Columkille, 329 
 
 Scrope, John, Thomas, .... 36, 308 
 
 Seacash, 183 
 
 Seacon, 317 
 
 Seafin, 317 
 
 Seagoe, parish of, . . . . 107,108,317 
 Seal, Episcopal, of Carlisle, .... 92 
 
 , of Dromore, .... 308 
 
 Sean Domhnach, '286 
 
 Seapatrick, parish of,.. . 1 06, 309, 311,317 
 Sedna ODeman, of Nendrum, . . . 150 
 
 , St., of Kill-aine, 377 
 
 Sedulius, 312 
 
 Segene, St., 249, 379, 380 
 
 Sely. See Cely. 
 
 Semne, territory of, . . . 270, 339, 366 
 
 Senanus, St., of Inis Allich, .... 238 
 
 Senior, son of Mac Molua, 147 
 
 Serland, William de, 66 
 
 Servitiuvi, 72, 74 
 
 Sessio Patricii. See Suidhe Phadruic. 
 
 Seudna, 321 
 
 Seven Churches, 107, 294 
 
 Seward, Gazetteer and Topografliia, . 365 
 
 Sgathdeirge, now Scatrick, 186 
 
 Shanbally, 66 
 
 Shane's Castle. See Edenduffcarrick. 
 
 Hill, 268 
 
 Shankill, in the Ards, 22 
 
431 
 
 Shankill, or Belfast, . 
 , in Kilmegan, 
 
 — , in Loughinisland, 
 
 Page. 
 
 6, 183-185, 272 
 
 .... 208 
 
 . . . .216 
 
 , or Lurgan, 312,31.3 
 
 Shesk River, 284 
 
 Shiel, a family name, . . . 110, 1 13, 312 
 
 Shilvodan, grange of, 302 
 
 Ships, anciently small and portable, 111, 290 
 Shirley, E. P., Esq., M. P., his History 
 
 of Farney, cited, 340, 363 
 
 Shrine of St. Comgall, . . 15-3,206,359 
 
 Slirule, 42 
 
 Siadhal, family of, 110,312 
 
 Sidhe, signification of, 69 
 
 Sil-noiridhin, 303 
 
 Sinell, St., ofMoville, .... 152,380 
 Singingtown, or St. Johnstown, . 74,263 
 
 Sinodalia, 100 
 
 Siol Cathusaigh, .... 295, 297, 387 
 
 Siollan, of Bangor, , 376 
 
 , of Moville, . . . 152, 379, 380 
 
 Sith, meaning of, 22 
 
 Sithe, 22, 23 
 
 Sitric, King of the Danes, 93 
 
 Six-Mile Water, . . 62, QQ, 68, 268, 269 
 
 Skerry, parish of, 83, 263 
 
 , see lands of, 259, 260 
 
 Slan, signification of, . 23, 206, 222, 236 
 
 Slane, 23, 178, 271 
 
 Sleniish. See Sliabh Mis. 
 
 Sliabh Beatha, 190 
 
 Calann, now Slieve Gallon, . . 293 
 
 Cuilinn, now Slieve Gullion, 304, 350 
 
 Mis, 83, 84, 335, 340 
 
 na-mbhan-finn, .... 108, 317 
 
 Slanga, 154, 155 
 
 Slieveanee, 335 
 
 Slieve Croob, 273 
 
 ^Donard, 207 
 
 Page. 
 
 Sliocht Bryan Boy, 348 
 
 Darnings, .348, 360 
 
 Henrickies, 195, 348 
 
 Hugh Brick, 348 
 
 Kellies, 348 
 
 Neales, 347 
 
 Owen Mac Quin, 348 
 
 Sloghnamorra, 289 
 
 Slut, and its compounds. See Sliochl. 
 
 Snamh-aignecli, bay of, 252 
 
 Snamh-each, 114,252 
 
 Snorro, Saga of, cited, 265 
 
 Sobhairche, a quo Dunseverick, . 252, 286 
 
 Sodan, 30, 302 
 
 Soke, 167,325 
 
 Solar, parish of, . . . 52,260,261,263 
 
 Somerset, Simon, 177 
 
 Somerwell, William, 24 
 
 Sorley Boy Mac Donnell, . . . 328, 329 
 Speed's Theatre, referred to, . 48, 277, 345 
 Spelman, Glossary, quoted, 
 , Concilia, . . 
 
 100,145,209 
 
 129, 137, 147 
 
 34, 218, 276 
 
 Spital, or Hospital, . . . 
 
 Stackallen, 32 
 
 Staglireel, 32 
 
 Stagnum Juvenci, or Vituli. See Loch 
 Laoigh. 
 
 Stanley, William, 158, 176 
 
 Starely, 33 
 
 State Papers, cited, 72, 252, 325, 328, 331 
 Statutes, Irish, referred to, 85, 86, 180, 302 
 
 Stechian, 33, 164 
 
 Steeple or Round Tower, 63 
 
 , used as a depository for valuables, 1 1 1 
 
 Stegrel, 33, 165 
 
 Stillingfleet, Antiqq. Brit. Ch., cited, . 207 
 
 , Duties of Par. Clergy, . . 209 
 
 Stillorgan, 32 
 
 Stion, 33, 178, 215 
 
432 
 
 Pa 
 
 se. 
 
 Stiwaid, John, 36 
 
 Stoke Courcy, priory of, 382 
 
 Stone, Guy, Esq., of Comber, . . . . 317 
 
 Straney's Spital, 34 
 
 Strangford Lougli, (see LocA Cuara,) . 165 
 
 Strath Padruic, 323 
 
 Strohull, 42 
 
 Struell 42,163 
 
 Struthair, signification of, 42 
 
 Stuart, Dr., History of Armagh, cited, 253, 
 
 273, 339, 348, 369 
 
 , in Newry Magazine, . .119 
 
 Styoun, 32,33,215 
 
 Suairieach, St., 110,377 
 
 Suibime, abbot and bishop of Down, . 145 
 
 , son of Colnian, 340 
 
 Suicer, Thesaurus Ecclesiasticus, cited, 140 
 
 Suidhe Gobha, 107 
 
 Fionn, 317 
 
 Phadruic, now Seapatrick, .106 
 
 Suilech, or Swilly, 245 
 
 Swayne, Primate, 218, 318 
 
 Svverdes, John, 177 
 
 Synodals, an ecclesiastical duty, 101, 102,384 
 Syth, 22, 179 
 
 Tacniacremye, 52, 87 
 
 Talacorre, 80 
 
 Talanosk, 2 
 
 Talarusk, 6 
 
 Talbelona, 20 
 
 Talbot, family of, 20, 56 
 
 Talbotstown, 20 
 
 Talpestone, 20,179 
 
 Tamhnach-naomh, 217 
 
 Tamlacht, 179,207 
 
 Tamlacht Bo, 300 
 
 Page. 
 
 Tamlacht Gliadh 253 
 
 Killietragh, 300 
 
 Lege, 297 
 
 Menan, 113 
 
 Umhuil, 113 
 
 Tanist, signification of, 204 
 
 Tara Bay, 25 
 
 Tassach. St., of Raholp, . 39, 142, 223, 377 
 
 Tavnaghmore, 303 
 
 Tawnacimeeve, or Saintfield, .... 217 
 Tawnatalee, now Ballymore, .... 297 
 
 Tawne, The 348 
 
 Taylor, Bishop Jeremy, . . 72, 103, 372 
 
 Teach Dabeog, 376, 378 
 
 Teach-da-gobha, 107, 317 
 
 Teach Eoin, 33, 379 
 
 Teachgowo, now Seagoe, 
 
 108,317 
 
 Teach Mic Ninneadlia, 340 
 
 Tealach-na-lurgan, 362 
 
 Tegln-ula, Teighriola, 32 
 
 Tern, or Theame, or Thiem, what, 167, 325 
 Temnen, St., of Linnduachaill, . . . 379 
 
 Templastragh, 285 
 
 Templecormac, 49 
 
 Templecorran, parish of, 57, 58, 261, 263, 346 
 
 Templecowey, 25 
 
 Templecranney, 24 
 
 Templecrone, 19 
 
 Temple-effin, 271 
 
 Teniple-eglish, 303 
 
 Templetinn 26 
 
 Templegovvran, 119 
 
 Temple-I-corran . 57 
 
 Templeigerin, 119 
 
 Teniple-I-Gormagan, 263 
 
 Templekenny, 25 
 
 Templemoyle, .... 82, 97, 105, 303 
 
 Templemurry, 97 
 
 Templenageeragh, 32 
 
433 
 
 Page. 
 
 Templenelafin 59, 271 
 
 Templeoughter, 51, 87, 299 
 
 Templepatrick, in Antrim, ... 5, 65, 66 
 
 , in Coleraine, .... 75 
 
 , in Down, 17 
 
 Tener, 24 
 
 Tenths, Papal, farmed, 62 
 
 Teoffigalta, now Magherafelt, .... 374 
 
 Terra OCormaic, 117 
 
 Terrier of Down and Connor, cited, 2, 3, 7, 
 
 18, 34, 36, 39, 42, 43, 47, 48, 50, 74, 75, 
 
 77, 81, 95, 101, 102, 141, 207, 259, 283 
 
 Testamentum Patricii, . . 222, 225, 371 
 
 Thady, bishop of Dromore, 308 
 
 Thalascheagh, 14 
 
 Thanelagh, 48 
 
 Tbioll, orToU 167,325 
 
 Thomas, bishop of Linnduachaill, . . 307 
 
 de Bredon, 21 
 
 de Galloway, 324 
 
 le Taillour, 30 
 
 macUchtry, .... 248,324 
 
 or Thombe, Letys, .... 218 
 
 Thoskart 71,324 
 
 Thurstaynistone, 24 
 
 Tiberius, bishop of Down and Connor, 160, 
 
 229, 258 
 Tickmacrevan, parish of, 51, 87, 263, 299, 338 
 Tigernach. See Annals. 
 
 , of Boirche, 378 
 
 , of Dromore, 307 
 
 Tigh Eoin, 33, 379 
 
 Tiobrad, St., of Moira, 381 
 
 Tiopratte, son of Nuadhat, 241 
 
 Tiprad Innse, 222 
 
 Tipra Phadruic, 323 
 
 Tirechan, Life of St. Patrick, . . 224, 245 
 Tirenna, in Donegal, .... 80, 245 
 Tin, St., of Rubha, 379 
 
 Page. 
 
 Toberdowney, 68,316,383 
 
 Toberglorie, priory of, 231 
 
 Tobermony, 163 
 
 Todd, bishop, . . 103, 105, 172, 177, 178 
 , Rev. J. H., D.D., his Introduc- 
 tion to the Obits of Christ Church, 
 cited,. . . 123,130,188,211,239,335 
 
 . _, Nicholas, Samuel, . . . 262, 263 
 
 , William, 314 
 
 Toiseach, signification of, 295 
 
 Tomaltach, son of Cathal, 357 
 
 , son of Inrechtach, . 341,354 
 
 Tomianus, St., of Armagh, 149 
 
 Tomultacii Nepotes. See Hy- Tomaltach. 
 Toome, .... 86, 184, 293, 300, 345 
 
 Torannan, St., of Bangor, 379 
 
 Torburg, 252 
 
 Torr Head, 252, 283 
 
 Tort, signification of, 293 
 
 Toscard, 248,324 
 
 Tower of London, Rolls of, cited, 15, 22, 33, 
 
 60, 67, 98, 155, 157, 164, 170, 176, 177, 
 
 205, 229, 230, 256, 275, 281, 288 
 
 Toy and Kirkland, 186 
 
 Transactions of Down and Connor Church 
 
 Architecture Society, . 10, 76, 190, 207 
 Translation of the bodies of the three Pa- 
 tron Saints, at Down, 227 
 
 Trasnagh, island of, 171, 193 
 
 Treasurer of Connor, 263 
 
 of Down, 178 
 
 of Dromore, 314 
 
 Tredagh, or Drogheda, records at, 1 69, 174 
 Treha, or Trega, St., of Ard-Trea, . . 294 
 
 Tremfade, 181 
 
 Trian Congaill, a territory, ... 56, 344 
 Tributes of the Princes of Uladh, . . . 363 
 Trinity College, Dublin, MSS. in Library 
 
 of, cited, 100,262,316,365 
 
 K 
 
434 
 
 Page. 
 Tripartite Life of St. Patrick, cited, 35, 40, 
 
 124, 127, 137, 148, 150, 188, 203, 214, 235, 
 236, 244, 247, 286, 293, 322, 337 
 , date of its 
 
 composition, 203 
 
 Triucha-ched-na-soillshe, or Lecale, . . 203 
 
 Trosnan, 25 
 
 Trostan, 25, 178, 284 
 
 Trystry, Stephen, 43 
 
 Tuagli, a woman's name, 341 
 
 Tuaigh Inver, where, 341 
 
 Tuaim. See Toome. 
 
 Tuaisceart, 71 
 
 , bishop of, 324 
 
 , Erenn, .... 252,324,387 
 
 Tuaithratlia, now Toora, 80 
 
 Tuan, son of Cairioll, .... 207, 377 
 
 Tuath ONinneadha, 340 
 
 Tuathal, son of Feradach, 249 
 
 , son of Maolruba, 305 
 
 Teachtmar, 266 
 
 Tuiach, 6, 322, 338 
 
 Tuhich Dallain 115 
 
 Tuiach Garaisg, 340 
 
 Tuiach Lis, (see Tulli/lish), . . . .316 
 Tuiach Ruse (see TuUyrunk), .... 6 
 
 Tullaghgore 81,263 
 
 Tullaghoge, rural deanry of, . . 294, 296 
 Tullylish, parish of, . .304,314,316,318 
 Tullynacross, . . 112,163,172,307.310 
 Tullynakill, parish of, 10, 168, 171, 191, 197 
 
 Tullynespick, 168,171 
 
 Tullyrusk, parish of, . . . 6,44,180,185 
 
 Tuogh, meaning of term, 388 
 
 s, in Clannaboy Lower, . 344—346 
 
 the Glynns, . . . . 332,333 
 
 the Route, .... 330-332 
 
 Tureagh, 54 
 
 Turtere, Turtria, .... 82, 83, 88, 294 
 
 Pa^e. 
 
 Turtrye, deanry of, 82 
 
 Twescard, deanry of, 70 
 
 Tyrella, parish of, 32,165,380 
 
 U. 
 
 Ua and its compounds. See O. 
 
 Uachaill, signification of, 110 
 
 Uachtar, in composition 25 
 
 Uachtairtire, in Down, 351 
 
 Ua n-Earca Chein, 339, 364 
 
 Uchdearg, 204 
 
 Uchtred or Gotiired, 324 
 
 Ui and its compounds. See Hij. 
 Uibh Eachach, now Iveagh, 108, 113, 114, 
 
 348-352 
 Uladh, bishops of, .... 140, 147, 148 
 
 . extent of, 352 
 
 , families of, 367-369 
 
 — . kings of, . 202, 353-363, 367-369 
 
 , tribes of, 358-366 
 
 , tributes of, 363-366 
 
 Ulderfleet Haven, * 265 
 
 Ulfkelsfiord 386 
 
 Ulfreksfiord, bay of, 265 
 
 Ulster, Earl of, 166 
 
 , Treasurer of, 91,155 
 
 Ulster, Inquisitions cited, 30-34, 40, 47. 49, 
 
 73, 77, 87, &c. 
 Ulster Visitation of 1622. See Visitation. 
 
 Ultonia, Archdeacon of, 177 
 
 Umgall, parish of, 4 
 
 Uroneca, bishop of Iveagh, . . 192,307 
 Usslier, Archbishop, his Antiqq. Brit. Ec. 
 cited, 40, 56, 60, 80, 84, 97, 104. 123, 124, 
 129, 144, 174, 220, 222, 227, 292, 304, 329, 
 337, 384. 
 
 Sylloge, 127, 128, 136, 
 
 139, 146, 149, 173,255 
 
435 
 
 Page. 
 Usslier, Archbishop, Treatise on Corbes 
 
 and Herenach, 114 
 
 Utfangthef, 167,325 
 
 Uvehe. See Iveagh. 
 
 V. 
 
 Vadum 6,184,262 
 
 VaHis Angelorum, a name of Bangor, . 199 
 
 , Salutis. abbey of, 274 
 
 Vallum monasterii, 196 
 
 Veter'i Villa, Ecclesia de, 66 
 
 Vicar General, office of in Ireland, 109, 110 
 
 Villa AdcB Corry 68 
 
 Villa Agustini, 68 
 
 Villa Bilesa, 178,215,216 
 
 Villa de Westone, 6 
 
 Villa Henrici, 6 
 
 Villa Hibernicorum, 168 
 
 Villa Hugonis de Logan, . . 64,65,194 
 
 Villa Nova, 13, 171 
 
 Villa Othewer, 56 
 
 ViUa*Richardi Albi, 178, 198 
 
 Villa Rili, 28 
 
 Villa Roberti, 4 
 
 Villa Rogeri, 11, 198 
 
 Villa Walleri de Loga?i, ..... 66 
 
 Vinnoc, St., 339, 379 
 
 Virgil, Aeneid of, cited, 99 
 
 Virgilius or Fergil, 132 
 
 Viride Castrum (see Greencastle,) . . 178 
 
 Viride Lignum, 116,316,318 
 
 Visitation, Episcopal, of Deny, in 1397, 
 
 cited, 23, 199 
 
 of Down and Connor in 1622, 
 
 cited, 23, 41, 73, 74, 76,78, 81, 88, 100, 
 
 146, 169, 170, 213, 260, 288, 294, 301, 307 
 1633, 
 
 cited, . . 43, 76, 77, 81, 215, 289, 301 
 
 Page. 
 Visitation of Down and Connor in 1661, 
 
 cited, 74 
 
 1664, 
 
 cited, 301 
 
 1679, 
 
 cited, 301 
 
 Visitations, Episcopal, ancient rule of, 98, 99 
 
 , charges at, . 99-102 
 
 , modern custom of, 100 
 
 Vituli Lacus (see Loch Laoigh,) . . . 60 
 
 Vivian, Cardinal, 227 
 
 Volcan, John, 308 
 
 Vow, a burial ground in Finvoy, . . . 384 
 
 W. 
 
 Walafridus Strabo, cited, 226 
 
 Walrann, prior of Neddrum, .... 193 
 
 Walshestown, 40 
 
 Walter de la Hay, 167, 258 
 
 Ward, note of, in Acta Sanctorum, 239, 246 
 Ware, Sir James, his Bishops, cited, 43, 88, 
 
 95, 100, 103, 117, 143, 185, 248, 253, 257 
 
 , his Opuscula, cited, . 137 
 
 , his MSS. cited. See 
 
 Clarendon MSS. 
 Wartre, Nicholas, bishop of Dromore, . 308 
 Waterford, a small diocese, . . . .127 
 Watertirrye, a territorj% . . . 214, 351 
 
 Wauerantone, 14 
 
 Webbe, Nicholas, William, .... 314 
 
 Wells, Holy, 31, 32, 42, 84, 88, 116, 212, 
 
 222, 232, 236, 276, 316, 323 
 
 Welsh families in Ireland, 326 
 
 Werburgh's,^ St.^ oC Chester,. . ;. &'l,' 174', 175 
 Whale, ca-ight in '^Carliiigforcl ^lyiiugli,' 206, 
 '••'"' ' * [,.,> ^ s ',20?, 95-9 
 Whale, Mild,'-', \ \. ! .^> .''.; '/., '. ,. 252 
 White, i-din\'/v:of, I V .' . .' .' 'l85, 205 
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436 
 
 Page. 
 
 White Abbey, 277 
 
 Whitechurch, or Whitekirk, 26, 59, 179, 271 
 
 White's Country, 185 
 
 Whytington, 30 
 
 Wilkins' Concilia, cited, . 128, 129, 135, 137 
 William de Etleshale, . . . . 174,176 
 
 de Hay, 256 
 
 de Hodierne, . ... . . .382 
 
 de Longadell, 270 
 
 de Portu Regio, . . . 256, 258 
 
 de Welles, 332 
 
 Williamson, Map of Down, . 46, 21 1, 212 
 
 Witter, parish of, 24, 25 
 
 Woddeborne. See Woodburn. 
 
 Wokingis Fyrth, 265 
 
 Wolderfirth 265 
 
 Wolsey, or Volsi, Richard, . . . 257, 258 
 
 Wolverflete, 265 
 
 Wood, churches constructed of, 195, 217 
 
 Woodburn, priory of, . -. . . 61, 275 
 
 Page. 
 Woodburn, priory of, abbots of, . 160, 275 
 
 • , appropriations of, 54, 
 
 59, 63, 64, 67, 68, 74, 78, 271, 275 
 Wood of Ulster. See Killultagh. 
 Wulfrichford, bay of, . . . 265, 324, 325 
 
 Wyne, William, 88 
 
 Wytiketona, 30 
 
 Y. 
 
 Yew, St. Patrick's, . . . . . . .118 
 
 Ynes. See Inch. 
 
 Ynver, Capella S. Mari(p de, .... 54 
 
 York, St. Mary's of, . . . 190, 191, 192 
 
 , "Historical Description of", cited, 308 
 
 Ywen, 68 
 
 Zabulum, or barn 220 
 
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