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BOUGHT FROM GIFTS

FOR THE PURCHASE OF ENGLISH

HISTORY AND LITERATURE

"Subscription or 1916"

ULSTER JOURNAL OF ARCHEOLOGY

VOL. VII

Ulster Journal

ARCHiEOLOGY

Volume VII

i'CAW, STEVENSON & ORR, LIMITED
THE LINENHALL PRESS

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
^ SEP 271917

SUBSCRIPTION OF 1916

ULSTER JOURNAL

ARCHiEOLOGY

Vol. VII. JANUARY, 1901. No. i.

Hrtbur ©'IRcill, tbc Jiisb 1barpei\

By FRANCIS JOSEPH BIGGER, m.r.i.a.

RTHUR O'NEILL was born in the year 1734 at
Drumnaslad, near Dungannon, in the county of Tyrone
— a district still full of poetry and genius. Having lost
his sight by an accident when two years old, he was
early put under the instruction of Owen Keenan, the
blind Romeo of Killymoon, with a view to music as
a means of livelihood. At the age of fifteen he com-
menced his own career as an itinerant harper, making his first journey to
Hugh Boyd's of Ballycastle, in the county of Antrim. By the time he was
nineteen years old, he had gone the circuit of the four provinces, and had
been brought in contact with almost all the chief families both of English
and Irish descent in the country. He continued to lead the same sort of
life until the year 1807, when, on the establishment of the Belfast Irish
Harp Society, he was unanimously elected the resident master of that
institution. His memoirs, dictated by himself, abound in curious and
interesting particulars, and have been largely used in the compilation of this
work. Although his peregrinations extended over all Ireland, his principal
haunts were in the southern counties of Ulster, particularly in Cavan, where,
during the ten years preceding his election as master of the Belfast school,
his permanent headquarters were at Colonel Southwell's of Castle Hamilton.
With Philip Reilly of Mullough, in the same county, he made it a point to
spend his Christmas holidays; and at the time of his removal to Belfast, had
thus celebrated eighteen successive festivals in the house of his friend. He
was also a great favourite of the famous Charles O'Connor of Belanagar, in
the county of Roscommon, and spent much time in his house. From the

2 ARTHUR O'NEILL, THE IRISH HARPER.

conversation of this celebrated man, he had acquired a good knowledge of
Irish history, on which he prided himself fully as much as on his abilities as
a harper. He was a remarkably pleasant companion, abounding in anecdote,
and could play both backgammon and cards with great dexterity. He was
proud of his descent, and had the hand of the O'Neills engraved on his coat
buttons, which were of silver, and of half-crown size.

When the Harp Society fell to the ground, O'Neill retired to his native
county, where he continued to receive an annual stipend from some lovers of
native music in Belfast until his death, which took place near Dungannon in
1818, in the eighty-fifth year of his age.^

The Belfast Harp Society paid O'Neill an annuity of ^30 till his death.
Bunting says : '* The affairs of the Society were under the government of a
committee, treasurer, and secretary, yearly chosen by the members at large.
For some years the number of subscribers fluctuated between 100 and 120;
the greatest sum paid in one year being ;^i5o. During the six years of its
existence, the expenditure amounted to ;^95o."

O'Neill taught James MacDonnell, m.d., to play the harp when a lad, and

for two years he resided in the MacDonnell home, leaving it in 1780 on the

death of Dr. MacDonnell's father. In a letter written to Bunting- in 1838,

MacDonnell says :

Bki.fast, November <?, 1838,
Mv DEAR Mr. Buntinc;,

In compliance with your request, I furnish you with some particulars of my
acquaintance with Arthur O'Neill, the Irish harper, from whom you procured some informa-
tion prior to your first publication. My father, who had a great fondness for music, selected
O'Neill as the most proper person he then knew to teach his children, and he lived in our
house for two years in this capacity; but my father's death, in 1780, put an end to this study,
which we found very difficult, on account of the teacher being blind. At that period almost
all harpers were blind — this profession having been humanely reserved as a provision for the
sons of reduced gentlemen who happened to be blind, a calamity then much more common
than at present, owing to the improvement in the treatment of smallpox. During the two
years he lived in the house, he was treated as a poor gentleman, and had a servant.

He was a man of strong natural sense, pleasing in his manners, and had acquired a con-
siderable knowledge of the common topics, so that be could acquit himself very well in mixed
society when encouraged to converse. He had, according to the custom of these itinerant
musicians, travelled several limes over all Ireland, and became thereby acquainted with
several of the principal families who were in the habit of entertaining such persons ; among
these there were some Protestant families, but the harpers frequented mostly the houses of
old Irish families who had lost their titles, or were reduced more or less in their estates.
These they would visit once in two or three years, and remain from a week to a month in
each house; and it was generally a day of rejoicing among the young and the old when one
of those itinerants appeared.

As to the character of O'Neill, I found him 'a perfectly safe companion, a man of
veracity and integrity, not at all addicted to boasting or pretending to anything extraordinar}'.
He never affected to compose or alter any tune, but played it exactly as he had been taught
by his master, Hugh O'Neill, for whom he always expressed great veneration.

^ The Ancient Music of Ireland. Kdward Bunting. Dublin, 1840. Papo So.
'-^ Ibid. , page 60.

ARTHUR O'NEILL, THE IRISH HARPER. 3

I think, therefore, you may rely with the greatest confidence upon any information he
gave you as to the technical names of the strings and parts of the harp, and names of the
different notes, or strokes upon the harp. He was as incapable, as he would have been
disinclined, to have invented these terms, which I think of great consequence, as connected
with the literary history of music; and if in the course of human events your singular
ingenuity, zeal, and success in discovering those ancient airs shall be the means of preserving
O'Neill's name also from oblivion, it will always gratify me to remember that I was the
means of introducing you to each other.

And I am, dear Bunting, most sincerely yours,

J. MacDonnell,

A very large part of the information about the harpers in Bunting's book
was derived from O'Neill, as he appears to have been their chief chronicler
and historian.

In speaking of the festival at Granard in 1781,* O'Neill says :

The harpers present were Charles Fanning, Patrick Kerr, Patrick Maguire, Hugh
Higgins, Charles Berreen, Rose Mooney, and O'Neill, from whom we have the following
characteristic account of the meeting : "Charles Fanning got the first premium, ten guineas,
for 'The Coolin'; I got the second, eight guineas, for the 'Greenwoods of Truagh' and
* Mrs. Crofton'; and Rose Mooney got the third, five guineas, for * Planxty Burke.' The
judges at the first ball were excellent, and there was some difficulty in deciding the first
premium between Fanning and me; but in consequence of my endeavouring to appear on
this occasion in my very best, they decided in favour of Charles, who was careless in his
dress, saying at the same time that he wanted money more than I did : however, I received
many handsome verbal compliments. To the best of my opinion, there were at least 500
persons at the ball, which was held in the Market-house. A Mr. Burrows was one of the
stewards: he was a tolerable judge of music, and was so angry at the decision of the premiums,
that he thrust his cane through one of the windows. "

The second ball, which was held on the 2nd of March in the succeeding year, was still
better and more numerously attended than the first ; but the decay of the harp at this time
appears strongly from the fact, that, notwithstanding the celebrity of the first meeting, two
new candidates were all that presented themselves in addition to those already enumerated.
The names of the new comers were Edward McDermott Roe and Catherine Martin. The
premiums were adjudged as before. Mr. Dungan himself came from Copenhagen to be
present at the last Ixill, which was, in consequence, the most splendid of the three.

The only new names on the list of harpers on this occasion were Laurence Keane and
James Duncan. Unfortunately, the meeting appears to have been marred by private
jealousies, which had so disheartening an effect on the munificent originator and patron, that
he did not afterwards attempt the renewal of these interesting assemblies.

O'Neill, with his usual simplicity and quaintness, thus describes the last harpers' ball at
Granard: *'A gentleman, named Miles Keane, railed uncommonly about the distribution
of the premiums (they were adjudged as at the first and second meetings), and swore a great
oath, that it was the most nefarious decision he ever witnessed. I don't know what he
meant, but he used the expression. Lord and Lady Longford attended this ball, and the
meeting was vastly more numerous than at either of the two former ones. Quality (persons
of rank), forty miles round, attended, and there was not a house in the town but was filled
with ladies and gentlemen, and the town was like a horse fair, as there was not stabling for
the twentieth part of the horses that came. There were at least 1,000 people at the ball.
In consequence of the harpers who obtained no premiums having been neglected on the
former occasions, I hinted a subscription, which was well received and performed ; and
indeed, on distributing the collection, their proportions exceeded our premiums."

1 Bunting's Ancient Music of Ireland, 1840, page 61.

4 ARTHUR O'NEILL, THE IRISH HARPER.

At the Harp Festival held in Belfast in 1792, O'Neill played "Green
Woods of Truagh," author unknown, and " Mrs. Crofton," by Carolan, and
was awarded the second premium of eight guineas for the "Green Woods of
Truagh." He contemplated with grief the extinction of the old strains which
had delighted the Irish nation for so many years. He called them, with tears
coursing down his cheeks, "the dear ! dear ! sweet old Irish tunes."

The date of O'Neill's death given by Bunting cannot he the correct one,

for we find in the Belfast Netvs- Letter of 5 November, 18 16, the following

paragraph :

Died, a few days ago, at Maydown, in the county of Armagh, Mr. Arthur O'Neill,
Professor of the Irish Harp, at the advanced age of 90 years. O'Neill was a pleasing
companion, full of anecdote and historic information. He was a perfect reservoir of the
ancient Irish harmony. Many of our national airs would have been lost but for his retentive
memory and pure taste. His performance on the harp was unrivalled, but he adhered
tenaciously to the genuine style and simple taste of the Irish musical compositions, rejecting
with disdain the corrupt ornament with which it has been loaded by modern performers.
Like Ossian, Carolan, and Stanley, he was blind. In Irish genealogy, in heraldry, and in
bardic lore, O'Neill was pre-eminent. He was better than all this — "an honest, worthy
man."

On the preceding ist March, the same paper contained an advertisement
of a "Concert for the benefit of Arthur O'Neill, to be held in the Exchange
Rooms, on to-morrow (Saturday), 2nd inst," etc., which, unfortunately, proves
that the harper must have been in poor circumstances at the time, and that his
friends in Belfast were doing something to relieve his necessities.

Bunting says : " But, more than anything else, the conversation of Arthur
O'Neill, who, although not so absolute a harper as Hempson, was more a man
of the world, and had travelled in his calling over all parts of Ireland, won and
delighted him. All that the genius of later poets and romance writers has feigned
of the wandering minstrel was realized in this man. There was no house of any
note in the North of Ireland, as far as Meath on the one hand, and Sligo on
the other, in which he was not well known and eagerly sought after. Carolan
has been his immediate predecessor, and those who have taken any interest
in the life of the elder minstrel will readily recognise the names of Charles
O'Connor of Belanagar, Toby Peyton of Lisduff, James Irwin of Streamstown,
Mrs. Crofton of Longford, Con O'Donnell of Larkfield, Squire Jones of
Moneyglass — not to detain the reader with a longer enumeration — all of whom
are to be found among th6 list of O'Neill's friends and entertainers. He had
also, when a youth, been through the South, where his principal patron was
the famous Murtagh Oge O'Sullivan of Bearhaven, a man who led quite the
life of an old Irish chieftain, and whose memory is still vividly preserved in
the lays and traditions of the county of Cork. O'Neill was of the great
Tyrone family, and prided himself on his descent, and on supporting, to some
extent, the character of a gentleman harper. Although blind from his youth,
he possessed a surprising capacity for the observation of men and manners.

ARTHUR O'NEILL, THE IRLSH HARPER.

He had been the intimate friend of Acland Kanes, who had played before
the Pretender, the Pope, and the King of Spain. He himself had played
on Brian Boru's harp, strung for the occasion, through the streets of Limerick,
in the year 1760. In a word, he was a man whose conversation was enough
to enamour anyone of Irish music, much more one so enthusiastic in
everything Irish as the Editor." ^

These extracts include practically all that is known of this once celebrated
harper, whose music for over half a century had delighted nearly every house-
hold in the North of Ireland.

In Bunting's Music of Ireland^ published at London in 1809, there is
a small engraved portrait of O'Neill on plate iv, and a still smaller one given
in the 1840 edition on page 80. The beautiful portrait presented to each
subscriber with this number of the Journal- was engraved by Thomas Smyth,
of J. & T. Smyth, engravers, etc.,
Belfast, and reflects the highest credit
on his artistic taste and ability. It
represents a similar appearance to the
portrait in Bunting's second collection
(Edinburgh, 18 14), and is doubly
interesting as being an accurate portrait
of a harper long connected with Bel-
fast, executed by an artist of the
same city. The engraver has supplied
the following interesting information :
" O'Neill's harp is still preserved in
the Belfast Museum, and had sub-
sequent to O'Neill's death been in the
possession of Edward Lindsay, the
eccentric seedsman, of Donegall Street,
who once gave a performance upon it
at one of the weekly meetings of the
Anacreontic Society, held in their
music hall, Arthur Street. He could
play pretty well, and was, I think, a
member of the committee of the Harp
Society."* Thomas Smyth lived for

HOUSE OF THE BELFAST HARP SOCIETY,
CROMAC STREET, BELFAST.
From a Drawing by Tkomas Smyth,

1 Bunting, 1840 ed. . pages 3. 4.

• Portraits of Irish harpers are comparatively few. At Ardrie there are those of Arthur
Quinn, Carolan. Arthur O'Neill, £>enis Hempson, fcxlward Murney, and a '* Blind Harper," name
uncertain, but like Hempson in his youth. — r. J. B., editor.

> Bunting sa^s : ' ' This Society had the credit of preserving the Irish harp from being, perhaps,
for ever lost ; as it appears that, six years afterwards, the new Society, instituted in 1819 by the
bount3r of friends in India, discovered no harpers in Ireland, save those who derived their
education from Arthur O'Neill, master in the first school. About the same time a Harp Associa-

6 ARTHUR O'NEH.I, THE IRISH HARPER.

sixteen years in Cromac Street, at first next door but one to the Society,
and afterwards directly opposite, and so had the full benefit of their
practices. Valentine Rennie was O'Neill's successor, and was often in his
father's house; and he still remembers him so well, that he has drawn a
pretty exact portrait of him. Rennie died in the late thirties, and was

succeeded by Jackson, his pupil. The last pupil he remembers was Samuel
Patrick, whose brother was an engraver, a shopmate of his own. When
the Queen's Island was a park, Samuel Patrick had a small hut on it,
in which he gave performances on the harj), and he also played in the
Botanic Gardens.

Patrick Malion wrote in 1871: "Arthur O'Neill was buried in Eglish
graveyard, three miles south of Dungannon. It is to be regretted that no
stone marks his grave, nor is the spot where his remains are interred generally
known, That he died in the house of some poor relative is scarcely to be
doubted, as his family were driven from their ancient home in the townland
of Glenarb, near Caledon, on the banks of the Blackwater."

Their house was burned during a party disturbance, when religious
animosity ran high in the district, and a favourite instrument of the bard's

tion was founded in Uubliit, but it diil not sULceeii." Tiie tirtil meeting of the |New| Irisli Harp
Society was held in Ihe Kxchange Koouis, Belfast, on Friday, 16 April. 1819, The firil leacher
wu Edward M'Bride, 1819-1822 ; lohn Ward, secretarv. 1823-1837, Valeniine Rennie, teacher,
1838, 1839, James Jackson, when ii cii.il out from wanl of 'funds. Subscriptions ivere forwarded from
Irishmen iti India, through J. Williamson Fulloii of Calotlla. Upwards of one thousand British
pounds were received by Heiuy Joy of Belfast, and Robert Williamson of Lambee House, on
behalf of the Sociciy.- I. W. Ward.

THE PRESBYTERIAN CONGREGATION AT PORTAFERRY. 7

was lost in the conflagration, and never forgotten by the peasantry when
telling of the wrecking of the O'Neills of Glenarb.

It is still believed in the parish that O'Neill was buried in the middle of
the graveyard, beside a broken stone, which, however, cannot now be found.

*' The harper sweet, whose magic notes
Throughout the land were known,
Neglected sleeps in a tranquil grave
Without a cross or stone."

SKAL OF BELFAST HARP SOCIETY.

Zbc IPreebpteiian Coudredation at portaferrp,

in tbc aiDes of tbc (County? of Down,

about tbe ^cav 1625.

By HUGH BOWDEN.

[The editor hiis often lxx:n blamed for not publishing certain contributions and occasionally
for allowing others to appear. He risks both censures by printing this notice verbatim et
literatim. It was written about the year 1825 for the Rev. John Orr, then minister of Portaferry.
The writer was a *' full farmer," who resided at Bally ward, and was an elder in the congregation.
The original MS. was placed in the hands of the editor by a grandson of this clergyman. It is
a characteristic piece of Scotch- Ulster writing, expressing clearly the phraseology, manners, and
local religious differences of a distinctive portion of the community. — Kd.]

ONGREGAT'ION of Portaferry, the Prodestan name of
the parish is Ballyphillop, and the two little parishes
of Slanse and Ardquin, is unighted with it.

The Revd. James Armstrong wass Menister, his
family was not verry fortunate, in his time proclamation
for Morage was useual in the house of Worship, and
not since, in his time a lease wass granted of the house
and study house for ever, in trust for the congregation, by the late Pattrick
Savage Esqr. at five shillings a year. In his time likewise a galrey wass

8 THE PRESBYTERIAN CONGREGATION AT PORTAFERRY.

erected in one of the isles, and the stipend was colected off the seatholders in
money, which is still the practise, the number of Elders, from eight to twelve.

Soon after Mr. Armstrong's death the congregation invited Revd. Dr.
Dickson, from the parish of Glastrey formerly Ballyhalbert, and he wass
installed, supose 45 years ago, his stipend agreead on wass j£to a year, but
some time after it was reased to ;£^8o, and he got sum presents beside, he wass
taken up and made a prisnor of by Goverment, emeaditly before the Rebellion
broke out. Duering his impresinment we ware suplied by the presbytery. A
great Majoraty of the people wishd. to continue longer under suplies, but sum
wass complening for want of a regular Menister, and sum Menisters of our
Presbytrey, insisted on us to chuse one, as we had no chance of ever getting
Dr. Dickson back to us.

We met by publick apointment to chuse a Menister, Mr. Morland wass
proposed and sackendid, to be invited for a months preaching, their was sum
opessition however, but when the people devided their number wass so few
their wass little farther notice taken off it, and Mr. Moreland preached four
Sundays, and wass verry muck liked. But during that time the small oposition
got a powerfull assistance, from Mr. Patt. Galaway, who was a Agent to
Andrew Nugent Esqre., seneschal of his manor and a Lieutenant of the
Yeomen.

Mr. Sinclair came and poled the Congregation and alowed that Mr.
Moreland was fearly elected and allowed him to be our constant suply untill
ordaind. Mr. Galaway to prevent that locked the Meeting house and carried
away the key — on the prinsaple that his father and Mr. Armstrong took out the
joint lease in trust and his father wass the survivor but he soon found he wass
wrong, for their wass a Deed of Pardition drawn in behalf of the Congregation.

And when the Presbytery came to ordain Mr. Moreland they indavered
all they could to prevent it, and made grate vants that they would get the
ordinnation laid aside, that they would send three commisinors to the Synod
for that purpose, we sent three commisinors w^ith Mr. Moreland to the Synod,
but the other party did not apear, I have reason to belive if the had they
would have got a good toung thrashing, by these differant defeats their pride
was so hurt, that they carried on a sort of persicution against Mr. Moreland
or his interest all his days.

THE

STEWARTS OF BALLINTOY:

WITH NOTICES OF

OTHER FAMILIES OF THE DISTRICT

IN THE
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.

By the Rev. GEORGE HILL.

COLERAINE:
JOHN M'COMBIE, 7, MEETING-HOUSE-STREET.

1865.

Zbc Stevoarte of Ballintoi?-

( Continued from page 22 jy vol, vi. )

**Out of monuments, traditions, private recordes, fragments of stories, passages of
bookes, and the like, we doe save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time." — Bacon^s
Advance metit 0/ Learning.

[The extreme scarcity of this pamphlet— the writer's first work— renders a reprint most desirable. A few
notes and some corrections have been made under the guidance of the Rev. George Hill, who was able to
revise the proofs of a work written by him thirty-five years ago. — Euitok.]

'^'HE custom of exacting "duties" in addition to the rent was general over
V^ the estate, and regularly enforced. The following is a list of the duties
which were collected, or taken in kind, about the year 1720 ;

Barony of Dun luce.

Names of Tenants,
Peter Buirell, of Stanalim

Hugh Edgar, of Ballytibbert
John MacLeagh, of Cloughcorr
James Moore, of Bally nacreem ore
Aichd. MacColman, Park
Francis MacNaghten, Salmon Fishing 01
Portneen

Mrs. Ann O'Cahon, Ballyemon
Capt. James Stewart, Corkey

Amount of Duties,

Ten bushells of Oates, 6 Days' Work and
6 Hens. No money in lieu of Duties

A barrell of Wheat

12 bushells of Oats and 6 Trusses of Straw

2 Barrells of Wheat and a Bowie of Oates

6 Bushells of Oates

Ye best salmon yt is taken in any of the
said Ports every day that fHsh is taken
for kettlefish, and a barrel of good,
sufficient, merchantable salmon fish, Lon-
don gage, yearly

12 Bushells of Oates, and one four year old
unshorn mutton

Ten Horses and Carrs (rather their work
for a specified number of days)

THE STEWARTS OF BALLINTOY.

Daniel Shawbridge, Salmon Kishinjj of ye
River Bush

John Stewart, Leotrini
William Stewart, Kcrvecruinc
John Wilson and Partners

All Salmon Fish taken there till Easter,
and 2 Salmon every day that ftish is
taken from Easter to the end of the
Season

One Bowie of Oates

Two Days' Work, Man and Horse

Liberties of Coleraine.

Hugh Allison, Island Kflacky

Edmond & Widow Nelson, Maghereboy

William Glen, of Maghremenagh

William Houston, Maddebainey

David Kerr, B. (jelagh

Robert Kerr, Cappagh

Mrs. Mary M*Cartan, B.nagg

James MacCoUum, Carnanrigg

Hugh MacMuUan, Ballylagan, nowpossed.

by Charles M'Claine
Hugh Moore, Bally velton
James and Rob. Nelson, Craigstown

Hugh & Thos. Reed, and Andrew Hunter,

Corstowne, Kill, or rather Keel
Lieut. John Stewart, B. lease

William and Adam Smith, Galvally, com-
monly called Narc
Rachel Todd, Maddebainey

A Bowie of Oates

12 Bushells of Oates, and 4 Days' Work of

Man and Horse
One Bowie of Oates and 4 days' Work of

Man and Horse
One Bowie of Oates
2 Bowles of Oats
6 ffat Muttons
24 Bushells of Oates
One Bowie of Oates

One Bowie of Oates
12 Bushells of Oates
Bowie and halfe of Oates, and 4 days'

work, Horse and Man
Bowie and halfe of Oates, 12 Pullets, and

6 days' work of Horse and Man
36 Bushells of Oates, 2 dozen of Pullets,

and 12 days' work of Man and Horse

Halfe a Bowie of Oates
One Bowie of Oates, and 4 days' Work ol
Man and Horse

Sir Hcrculs Langford's

Tents.

pay

yearly

26 days' Labr. of Man and Horse out

the following lands:

The 2 Kilgreens

4 Horses and Men

The 2 Cloyfins

4 Horses and Men

The 2 Bally versal Is

4 Horses and Men

The 2 Ballyndreens

4 Horses and Men

The I Drumduoin

2 Horses and Men

The I Liswatick

2 Horses and Men

The I Ballylagan

2 Horses and Men

The I Ballynagg

2 Horses and Men

The above work was

reed.

7br I)

^21, Leading Hay to B

Town and Demesnes of Bali.ymoney.

William Glass, Lislagan

James Black Henry, Lislagan

Neil MacCooke and Danl. Craig, Bally-
brack

Gill. MacFfall and Danl. Nickle, Lislagan

James Randall, James Calvell, and Adam
Neill, Droghdult

One Bowie of C>ates yearly
One Bowie of Oates

6 Bushells of Oates
12 Bushells of Oates

12 Bushells of Oates

THE STEWARTS OF RALLINTOY.

I I

Barony of Carey.

Hugh Boyd, Drimvillen
Hugh Boyd, Drumnacross, and ye parcel
of Land called Altanum (now Altneanum)
Jonn Campbell, Lismureity
Peter Jollie, Drumnakill
Alex. MacAuley, Drumnagee
Charles MacAlister, Carnduffe

John MacDonnell, Coolnagappage
Cormac MacCormack, Creevagh
Manus O'Cahan, Ballynalea
Widow O'Cahan, Island MacAUan
Edward O'Cahan, Ardehanan
Daniel Stewart, Ballynalea
Andrew Stewart, Drumnagola

One Bowie of Gates at December, yearly

One Bowie of Oates

A Bowie of Oates

12 Bushells of Oates

12 Bushells of Oates, and 2 good ffat

muttons
Half a Bowie of Oates
3 ffat Pulletts

11 Bushells of Oates and a Mutton
3 ffat Pulletts

A Bowie of Oates

12 Bushells of Oates
A Bowie of Oates

Island of Rathlin.

Townland of Kenramer
Ballygial

Killpatrick
Ballynavargan
Ballycarey
Ballynoe
Kankiel

More to be paid by the Inhabitants of the
Island yearly

f )

>»

»»

))

24 Pulletts and 10 Sheep
24 Pulletts and 10 Sheep
12 Pulletts and 5 Sheep
24 Pulletts and 3 Sheep
12 Pulletts and 5 Sheep
24 Pulletts and 10 Sheep
24 Pulletts and 8 Weathers

19 Sheep

Barony of Kilconway.

Rev. Walter Linn, Munineagh

James Henry and W^m. Glass

Pait. and Owen Magee, Ballynagabbogc

James MacHenry, Ballyroacalrdick

Alex. MacCollum and James M' Lough lin,

Lignamanoge
Thomas MacNaghten, Gallanagh
John MacDonnell, Ballylig

Avrey O'Cahan, Broughmore
Roger O'Hahan, Kilmandum
Patt. Orr, Tullynewy

Andrew Rowan, Clke., Tenement in Old-
stone or Clough

A Mutton when demandd
Two Bowls of Oates
12 Horses and Carrs
A bowle and 2 of Oates

A Bowie of Oates

One ffat beefe yearly, and 3 ffat muttons

A bole and ^ at 10 bushells to the bole,

and 12 good Pulletts
One bole of Oates
6 Bushells of Oates
A bole of Oates

15 days' work of Man and liorse

Alex. Stewart, who died in 1742, had married his kinswoman Anne,
daughter of John Stewart, of Fortstewart, Jamaica, with whom he received
a large dowry. By this lady, who was highly accomplished and remarkably
endowed by nature, he left one son and two daughters. His son, Alexander
T. Stewart, was surnamed Graceless in his own neighbourhood, from his
extravagant manner of living. His mother wrote a clever jeu d'tsfirif, in
which she introduced her son as Roderick Random^ an epithet sufficiently

12 THE STEWARTS OF BALLINTOY.

significant as to his character and habits. He was not wanting, however, in
public spirit, and it would appear that he exerted himself on several occasions
for the improvement of his native district. In 1757, he petitioned the Irish
House of Commons for aid in assisting to open coal mines at Ballintoy,
stating that he had "discovered a large body of coals in his lands there, great
quantities of which had been exported to Dublin and other parts of the
kingdom " — that he had "expended ^500 in an attempt to construct a quay
at Ballintoy, but was not able to proceed with the work unless aided by
Parliament; that such structure, when completed, would be of .great advantage
to the kingdom in general, and to the North of Ireland in particular, the same
being the only harbour of safety between Lame and the Lough of Derry."
To accomplish this work, he asked for the sum of ;^2,ooo from the public
purse. His petition was referred to a committee of sixty members, which
committee, after examining three witnesses (viz., Daniel MacCollum, John
MacCay, and Thomas Moon), reported that there was a " large fund of coal in
the colliery of BalHntoy, that a safe and commodious harbour might be made
there, and that the sum of ;^2,ooo should be granted for that purpose." This
sum was voted for the purpose above-mentioned. In 1759, Mr. Stewart
petitioned again, stating that he had expended ;£^ 1,734 on the works, and
asking for ;^ 1,2 34 to complete the quay. The committee reported favourably
on this application also, and with this grant ended the project of a quay and
colliery at Ballintoy.

Stewart was soon afterwards obliged to sell his entire property in Ballintoy,

for which he received ^20,000 from Cupples of Belfast. The latter

resold it, for the same sum, to Dr. Fullerton, a native of the Route, who
had realized an ample competency in the West Indies.^ On the sale of
Ballintoy, Stewart went to reside on his estate of Acton^ where he died. By
his wife, who was a sister of Sir Hugh Hill, of Derry, he left one son, Alexander,
who might also have been appropriately named Graceless^ as he lived riotously,
mortgaged the family property, and died in poverty, at Drumbanagher, about
the year 1790. He was unmarried, and with him ended the main line of
a family, which, for upwards of two centuries, held a leading position in the
county of Antrim. -

But it ought to be mentioned that there are traces, in this parish of
Ballintoy, of another family which latterly spelled the name Stuart^ and which
was supposed to be descended from an earlier founder than John Stewart, the
first hereditary sheriff of Bute. Of this family was Alexander Stewart, who

^ See note, page 84, vol. vi.

* This gentleman's reckless career may be imagined from tlie fact that his intimate associates
in Dublin were the notorious Whaley and Maguire, the former of whom, for a bet, leaped from
a window on to the top of a mail-coach passing at full speed. Maguire was so accomplished as a
duellist, that it was said he could snu^ a candle, without extinguishing it, with a pistol ball.
Stewart's armorial bearings were the same as those of the Bute family. The motto is Avito viret
hoHort ("He flourishes with ancestral honour ").

THE STEWARTS OF RALLINTOY. 1 3

owned considerable property in the townlands of Kilmahamoge and Ballinlea,
and who died in 1723. He married a Scottish lady named Elizabeth Eraser,
and, by her, left one son, Walter, and two daughters. Walter's first wife was
a lady of the MacCarroll family, once so influential on this coast (see
page 147, vol. vi), and his second wife was a daughter of the house of
MacNeill of Clare, or Dunananney, near Ballycastle. By the latter he left one
son, John, who married a lady named Simpson, of Bowmore, in Isla. He died
soon after his marriage, leaving one son, the late John Stuart of Kilmahamoge,
then only a child of six years old. The latter was removed to Scotland by his
grandmother Simpson, and brought up by the old lady in the hope that he
would adopt the military profession, as he had uncles and grand-uncles in the
army, and as she, being a Campbell nearly connected with the Duke of Argyle,
could have easily procured for her grandson a good position. But his family
sympathies and traditions were entirely opposed to the policy of his kinsmen,
the Campbells, who had always strenuously devoted themselves to the interests
of the House of Hanover; and he, therefore, preferred returning to hi^ native
place, and to a humbler, but more peaceful lot. This gentleman exhibited,
in a remarkable degree, the fine personal lineaments of the early Steward race
from which he was descended. His motto was — Non nos a regibus sed reges
a nobis ("Not we from kings, but kings from us") — thus implying that his family
was a branch of that ancient line which had given kings to the Scottish and
English thrones. The founder of the Kilmahamoge family was supposed to
have been Walter Stewart, the son of Sir John Stewart, who was slain, fighting
on the side of Wallace, at the battle of Falkirk, in 1298. At all events, the
late John Stuart, of Kilmahamoge, was always careful to mark the distinction
between his own descent and that of the other Stewarts of Ballintoy, and had
no ambition to be supposed as, in any degree, connected with the family
of Bute. It is curious that the Christian names, Archibald and Christian^
formerly so common in almost every branch of the Bute family, were never
known among the Stuarts of Kilmahamoge. The use of Christian names, or
their absence, sometimes truly indicates the family descent.

The Kilmahamoge Stuarts claimed kindred with Bernarda, the lady buried
in the chancel, and the following inscription on a tablet in the southern
wall of Ballintoy Church, also records the names of some members of this
family :

'*Here lyeth the body of Alexander
Stewart, who departed this life, Octol)er
the 20th, 1723, aged 78 years.
Also, the body of Elizabeth Stewart,
alias PVaser, who departed this
life May ye 12, 1734, aged 8a years.
Also, their son IValter Stewart,
who departed March ye 6th, 1762."

14 THE STEWARTS OF BALLINTOY.

The foregoing sketch is but very imperfect, embodying only a few scattered
gleanings picked up from various sources, but principally from traditions and
original manuscript papers. There are several connexions of the old Stewart
families still residing in the Route and elsewhere, and, probably, much more
ample materials might be found in their possession] than what have now been
submitted. There were members of these families, prominent and influential
in their generations, who have not been even named in this notice, simply
because nothing of their personal history is known to the writer. Among
such may be particularly mentioned the names of Alexander Stewart, who was
High Sheriff for the County of Antrim in 1639; Charles Stuart, who was so
actively engaged in 1688 ; and another Charles Stuart, whose death is mentioned
about the year 1720, in a manuscript written by John O'Neill, of Shane*s Castle.

APPENDIX.

The following extract, from the MS. Volume lettered Antrim (F. 3. 9.
1562.) in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, refers to the massacres
mentioned at page 78, vol. vi, as occurring in, and near Ballymoney:

"The Examination of James MacDonnell, of Ballymanagh, Cooper, taken
1 2th day of March, 1652. Who being duely sworne and examined saith. That
he dwelt at Portnaw and wrought there upon his sd trade at the beginning of
the rebellion, That all the Irish on the West side of the Bann being in rebellion,
and the English and Scotch who formerly dwelt there and could not escape
being murdered, as he heard, Archibald Stewart raised a regiment and leagured
at Portnaw, to keep the Bannside; That Allester MacColl MacDonnell and
Tirlagh Oge O'Cahan had command of two companies of the sd regiment,
and that they and their men being Highlanders and Irish, upon the second
day of January, 1641, before day, did fall upon seaven or eight of the British
regiments, who also kept the Bannside and lay in their quarters at Portnaw,
some quarter, half-mile, or mile distance one from another, and murdered them
all to a very few who were saved by their old Irish acquaintance. That this
examinate was taken prisoner by the said Allester MacColl and Tirlagh Oge's
followers the same morning and stript, but his life was saved by one Neile
Modder MacMullan, his neighbour; That after he was taken prisoner, the said
Allester MacColl and Tirlagh Oge with all the whole Irish of the country, who
after the said murder did rise with them, with a great multitude of Irish under
the command of John Mortimer and other Irish officers who came over the
Bann, marched into James MacColl MacDonnell's house at the Vow, neere the
Bannside, where they drew up their men, and he, this examinate, being carryed
along as prisoner, and having some acquaintance with the said James MacColl
MacDonnell, he desired him to save this examinate's wife's life, who answered
he could not save his owne wife, if they would kill her; That thence the whole

THE STEWARTS OF BALLINTOY. 1 5

Irish, on both sides the Banna there present with their wives and children,
feareing the remnant of Stewart^s Regiment, as he conceived, kept together
and marched into the Crosse and sett the towne on fire and killed all the
British they could lay their hands on, save a very few who were spared by their
acquaintance, but afterwards if they went but out of their acquaintance sight,
tliey were killed by others of the Irish. That from the Crosse they marched
unto Ballymoney, and came there in the evening of the day the murder was
committed, and burnt the Towne, and murdered the British not fled thence,
without distinction of age or sexe; That one Donnell Gorm MacDonnell, of
Killoquin in Maheresharkin, being with the Irish army, there took notice
of this examinate, and told the Irish that he would make use of the examinate,
and soe sent him the next day back againe with his tenants unto his owne
house at Killoquin; That he saw ly dead in the way as they returned, at least
one Hundred men, women, and children, of the British, which had been
murdered the daye before, and yt he believes many were killed, on both sides,
the way they returned. That the said Donnell Gorm MacDonnell did not
returne unto his owne house until two or three days after yt ; That all the
O'Haggans went over the Banne from their own houses, in the absence of
Stewart's Regiment, which went to Magherehoghill, (Ahoghill) or the Braid,
except Brian O'Haggan then sicke; That he staid at the said Donnell Gorm
MacDonnelFs House about a fortnight, and in that time he saith he oftentimes
heard the Irish call him Captain, and further he saith not.

"H. CooTE." " Richd. Brasier, Major.

The following is a full copy of the**' Baptismal Register" of the family of
Alexander Boyd, of Clarepark, referred to at page 85 (note), vol. vi :

1. *' Mary was born 9th November, 1736; mother Wilson and sister
Duncan, godmothers, and brother Boyd, godfather.

2. Margaret was born 7th January, 1738; Mrs. MacAulay and sister Ann
I^oyd, godmothers, and archdeacon Boyd and brother Wilson, godfathers.

3. James was born 28th March, 1739; sister Ann Boyd and Mrs. Wray,
godmothers, brother Charles Boyd., and cousin Wm. Boyd, now High Sheriff
of ye county of Antrim, godfathers.

4. Rose was born 5th March, 1740 ; Mrs. MacNeile, of Drumawillen, and
sister Wilson, godmothers, Mr. William Hutchinson and Daniel Boyd,
godfathers.

5. Ann was born 13th March, 1741; sister Orr and Mrs, Harrison, of
Churchfield, godmothers, John Cuppage, Esq., and brother Ezekiel Wilson,
godfathers. Brother Boyd stood for Mr. Cuppage, ye Rev. Mr. Dinison for
brother Ezekiel, and Mrs. Wray for sister Orr.

6. Alexander was born ye 14th June, 1742 ; Miss Ann Catherine Jackson
and sister Nelly Wilson, godmothers, Counsellor Alexander MacAulay and

1 6 THE STEWARTS OF BALLINTOY.

Jackson Wray, godfathers. Wni. Boyd, of Drumawillen, Esq., stood for
Mr. MacAulay.

7. Eliza Wilson was born ye i6th July, 1744; mother Wilson was
godmother, brother Hugh Boyd and Alexander MacAulay, Esq., godfathers.

8. Elinor was born ye 28th July, 1745 ; Mrs. Jean' Stewart and sister Nelly
Wilson, godmothers, brother Charles Boyd and brother Wilson, godfathers.

9. Hugh was born ye 2rstof November, 1746; sister Charlotte Orr was
godmother, brother Hugh Boyd and brother William Wilson, godfathers.

10. William was horn ye 29th of March, 1748; his uncles, Wm. Boyd, of
Cullybackey, and Wm. Boyd, of Drumawillen, Esqrs., godfathers, and Mrs.
Stewart, of Ballintoy, godmother.

11. Leonora Boyd was born May 13th, 1749 ; Doctor Stewart, of Ballintoy,
godfather, Mrs. Wray, of Shelfield, and Mrs. Harrison, of Mallindober, were
godmothers.

12. Davys Boyd was born August i6th, 1750; his uncle, Davys Wilson,
Esq., and the Rev. Mr. James Smith, of Armoy, godfathers, and Miss Critty
Close, his godmother.

13. Alexander was born on Wednesday, ye 22nd January, 1751, N.S. ;
my daughter, Molly, his godmother, her aunt Boyd stood for her, Archdeacon
Smith and Richard Jackson, Esq., godfathers. Brother Hugh Boyd, and his
son, William Boyd, stood for them.

Drumawillen, mentioned in the foregoing paper, is near Ballycastle, and
Mallindober, m.ore correctly Mallintober, is in the neighbourhood of Bushmills.

Note by the Rev. W. T. Latimer.
While making a search very lately in the Office of Records, Dublin,
I happened on a copy of the petition presented in 1663 by Archibald Stewart
to Ormonde. Thinking that it might be of interest to your readers in connec-
tion with the reproduction of Rev. George Hill's valuable pamphlet, I asked
T. A. Groves to transcribe it. This he has done, and I now forward a copy
for publication.

Thk Petition of Archibald Stewart to Ormonde in 1663.

Carte Papers ^ vol. 33.

To His Grace James, Duke of Ormonde, Lord Lieutenant General of Ireland, and
General Governor of the said Kingdom. The Humble Petition of Archibald Stewart
Humbly Sheweth, —

That he makes bold to represent to your Grace, how he hath been used by the Scottish
Army and the Usurpers, before and since your Grace left this Kingdom.

In the year 1643, your Grace was pleased to grant him a Commission to raise a Troop
of Horse, and a Foot Company, and your Grace assigned him his own lands for quarters
for them.

Your Petitioner raised them, and went to the Field, and joined with Major General
Monro, to serve against the Common Enemy, according to your Grace's order, and was upon
the Field with them from June till the last of October.

THE STEWARTS OF BALLINTOY. 1 7

When your Grace's Petitioner came ofi" the Field, he was denied quarters for one man
by Argile's Lt. Colonel, which forced your Petitioner to disband his men, after all the charge
he was at in raising of them.

In the year i6..., he was the means (by God's Providence) to break the said Regiment
of Argile's, and procured 500 men of the said Regiment to join with Sir George Monro, to
go to England upon Duke Hamilton's engagement, under the command of your Petitioner's
son-in-law, Major Alexander MacAuley, for which, after the Duke was broken at Preston,
your Grace's Petitioner was prosecuted by Argile's Ll. Colonel before the now Duke of
Albemarle, then Commander of Ulster, and was brought to a Council of War, held at
Belfast, for life and estate, as the Lord Conway and Major George Rawdon can testify.

In the year 1656, The Barony of Cary, which was made over by Lease for 99 years in
the year 1637 by the now Marquis of Antrim to your Grace's Petitioner and others for their
security for their engagement for the said Marquis his debts, which your Petitioner was in
possession of, and did manage for himself and his Co Lessees, was taken out of his possession
by Miles Corbetl, then Chief Baron, by reason of the annexed Examinations, being declared
a Delinquent for opposing Sir Charles Coote, then President of Connaught, when he took in
Coleraine, in the year 1649 j and was laid out by that .Government to the Regiments of Horse
and Foot belonging to Fleetwood ; and his Freehold House of Ballintoy was given out to Sir
William Petty.

In the year 1657, he petitioned Henry Cromwell and the then Council, to be admitted
to a Composition, according to their own Ordinance made in the year 1654, as all other
Protestants were admitted by them, but was absolutely denied, which no Protestant in
Ireland was denied, to be admitted to his composition, except your Grace's Petitioner, And
all the reason that Corbett did give for this, his unjust act, was, that, a Barony was too great
a Command for a Stewart amongst them, especially for him of whom they had such a
character.

The Lord Massereene, getting an Adventurer's L<jtt of i,2CX5 acres in the Barony of
Dunluce, your Petitioner having £$0 a year in the said Lott, His Lordship entered upon it,
and keeps it yet from your Grace's Petitioner, under pretence of his Delinquency, and says
he will not jjart with it, untill he get reprizals, although your Petitioner be a Protestant.

May it therefore please your Grace, since it hath pleased God to restore unto us our King,
and your Grace our former Governor, your Grace's Petitioner's sufferings being for his loyalty,
Either by your Grace's immediate Order, to restore your Petitioner to his just right and
interest in the Premises, or, to recommend him to the Commissioners now appointed by His
Majesty for determining of Claims.

And, that your Grace may be pleased to look upon him in times coming as a Sufferer for
His Majesty,

And he Humbly Prays, etc.

Sonic notes on tbe Hicbitectural an6 nDonumcntal

■Remains of tbe ®I& Hbbe? Cburcb of Banaor,

In tbe Counts of H>own.

Bv KKANCIS JOSKPH BIGGKR ash IIKKUERT HUGHKS.
( Cenlinved Ji om pagi 204, vet. vi. )
E were long unable to find any reference to Beatrix
Hamilton, and thought Ihat perhaps she was connected
with the local family of Hamilton; hut we are now
satisfied that she was the first wife of Robert Blair,
minisler of Bangor, at the time of her death.

In Blaii^s Lift [Edinburgh, 1754; page 57] it is
slated that Blair was married to " Beatrix Hamilton,
a very gracious, modest, and wise woman, descended from the family of
Barduie." The tombstone, however, makes no mention of her husband
by name, and we could find no local reference or tradition connecting this
monument with the wife of the minister of Bangor.

HERE LYETH THE BODY OF M"? lOHN
BLACKWOOD OE BALLYLEIDY WHO
DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE iL^f OF JULY
1720 ANNO ^.TATIS 58 HERE

LYETH THE BODY OF M".= ANN
BLACKWOOD WID^ WHO DEPARTED
THIS LIFE THE 12^" SEP" 1741 ANNO
/ETATIS 68

THB JOHN BLACKWOOD STONK.

MONUMENTAL REMAINS OF OLD ABBEV CHURCH OF BANGOR.

20 MONUMKNTAI. REMAINS OF OLD AtiBEV CHURCH OF BANGOR.

In the floor of ihe chancel are two Blackwood armorial stones — one
to the memory of John Blackwood of Ballyleiiiy, and the other to the memory
of James Blackwood, merchant, aiid Provost of Bangor. The Christian
name of the latter has been broken off, but is well known, and the arms
are supported by the initials J.B. The c|Uaint rhyming epitaph on the
body of the stone preserves the memory of a remarkable man ; but we have
not been able' to make out the fifth word of the fifth line, nor was it
decipherable fifty years ago.

The third stone on the chancel floor refers to another I'rovost of Bangor —
James Hamilton, who died in 1649. The body of this stone has also a
remarkable rhyming eulc^y, in which Bangor is described as a city — purely

a poetic license.' At a later date, the death of John 'I'aggart is recorded
in incised letters, and this on the part of the stone where the arms are
usually sculptured. We have now no means of ascertaining the connection,
if any, between John Taggart and Provost Hamilton; but we have seen a
usurpation of an old Hamilton stone before, and this may be another of
the same class.- The James Blackwood, the James Hamilton, the William
Stennors, and the William Stevnstone stones are all cut in large raised
letters, the names and dates being inscribed around the mai^ins, with the
arms and rhymes in the centre portion, and are as good as the best of the
seventeenth-century period to be found in Ulster.

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MONUMENTAL REMAINS OF OLD ABBEY CHURCH OF BANGOR,

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ti MONUMENTAL REMAINS OF OLD ABBEV CHURCH OF

Adjoining the south wall of the tower of the church, in the graveyard, is a
flat tombstone, bearing the Hamilton arms and a remarkable Latin inscription,
here reproduced. There is no name or date upon the stone, but Harris
describes it as belonging to Alexander Hamilton, a dissenting minister
of Bangor. We have no corroboration of this. The arms, it will be noted,
are charged with a crescent, the cadency mark of a second son. Close
beside it, against the south wall of the tower, the Beatrix Hamilton stone
originally stood.

Hie abavis atavis et avo sic patre creatus
presbyteris Sanctis presbyter ipse jacet
annos si spectes juvenum flos excidit atsi
aut studia aut mores transiit ille senex
Which may be translated :

" Here lies a presbyter [or priest] himself, sprung from great-great grand-
sires, great-great-great grand-sires, as well as from a grandfather and father
(who were] holy presbyters. If thou considerest years, he perished a youth ;
but if either acquirements or virtues, as an aged man he departed,"

In the chapel at Clandeboye there is preserved a red marble slab
which was brought from the old church of Holywood. The inscription is too
much worn to be rubbed for an illustration, but the arms were capable of
being reproduced, and we have imitated the lettering as nearly as possible
in print on the following page.

MONUAbkTAI. remains of old ABREV church of BANGOR. 33

Hie REQViES II AlEXANDER HAMMIITONVS

DOMA OMNIA VIRTVS
HEER LAYETH THE BODY OF CAPTAIN
AIEANDER HAMMIITON THE SECON"
SON OF PATRICK HAMMllTON OF INNER
WEEKE IN THE KINGDOM OF SCOTIA""
WHO WAS THE SIX BROTHER OF lAMES
LORD VISCOVNT CIANEBOY
HE MARRIED MARY READING THE
EIDEST DAVGHTER OF WILIIAM
READING ESQS BY WHOM HE HAD
ISSVE ONE SONE AND TWO DAVGH
TERS VIZ PATRICK MARY X
EliZABETH.

DNIH SAIXOd AaS SAAl^IOW

HAMILTON MONUMENT IN CLANUBEtOVI CHAPKL.

14 MONUMENTAL REMAINS OK OLII AllBKV CHURCH OF B.INGOR.

In the graveyard, to the east of the church, is a Blackwood enclosure, con-
taining three plain upright slabs, and a square monument with marble sides.
Upon one of the slabs the Blackwood arms are engraved, similar to the stone
already described as being in the chancel of the church. The following are
the inscriptions on these stones :

Here

lyeth

the

body

Isabe

lla

Blackwood

Alias White

wife

lames

Blackwood ir

Bangor

Gen^

who

departed this

life

lun

5''' 1

7?y

aged

years

Here

lyeih

body of

la'

Black

wood

who

departed

tliis

life

Decer

15'" I

749 aged

year

Here

lyes

the

body

Mis'

Susa

ackwood

who

departed

his

life Oci'

the

22I

1766

Here

l.iel'

the

Body

Will?

Blackwood

Bangor

Gent-

Who

dep^

this

life y

7'"

March

1787

aged

years.

Also

the

body

of his

wife

Ann'

Blackwood

alias

Jackson

who

parted this

life J

an! 30 .

181

4 age

90 years

MONUMENTAL REMAINS OF OLD ABBEY CHURCH OF BANGOR. 25

Here Lyeth y Body of

\P lOHN BLACKWOOD MERC
IN BANGOR WHO DEPARTE
THIS LIFE NOV* 22? 1759
AGED 77 YEARS.
ALSO THE BODY OF HIS
IMUC^ MIS^ ANN BLACKWOO
AGED 17 YEARS.

ALSO THE BODV
OF HIS WIFE M**.^ AGNES

alias Pinitstan (?)

BLACKWOOD WHO DEPAR

TED THIS LIFE THE 5^" OF AGU
1778 AGED 71 YEARS.

Here lyeth the body of
M' lohn Blackwood son to

lames Blackwood in Bango
Gen* who departed this

life luly y 20*^'* 1732 aged
1 2 years.

u
Here lyeth the body of Isab

Moatt Alias Blackwood

Wife to the late Capi". lam

Moatt who Departed this Lif
Feb i8»'' 1798 Aged 44 Years
& Afo here lieth the body of
Rachel lackson Blackwood
who departed this life Oct
the 28*'' 1828 Aged 62 years.

26 MONUMENTAL REMAINS OF OLD ABBEY CHURCH OF BANGOR.

The following inscriptions are cut on the square monument. The east
side bears the following :

Sacred

to the memory of

John Blackwood

late of Bangor

in I he County of Down

Esquire :

died iQ*** October 1825

Aged 94 years

The north side bears the following :

During a long life

he maintained

the character of

a truly honest & upright man

and died

much esteemed & respected

by all

who knew him

The west side bears the following :

This monument

was erected by his nephew

John O'Reilly Blackwood

as a

grateful tribute

his memory

1834

The south side bears the following :

Died on 25^" Deer. 1885

John O'Reilly Blackwood

aged 82 years.

Died on the nth October 1898

The Rev. John O'Reilly Blackwood

Vicar of Bally waiter

aged 49 years.

MONUMENTAL REMAINS OF OLD ABBEV CHURCH OF BANGOR. 3J

Close to the road wall, west or the church, are the two stones of the
Ho^e and Barkley families, here represented. Only portion of the Hogge
crest remains, but sufficient to identify it as similar to the charges on the
shield.

'^>, €1^^

miii

Here lyeth the body of MT William
Hogge of Rathgil who depart
ed this life the 29 of Septemb'
1704 and ajr^ed 59 years

Here lyeth the body of M' Tho
mas I..eech of Rathgill who dep

arted this life y' 4 of Februar

1756 aged 72 years

Here lyeth his wife Letitia
Leech alias Hogge who dcpa

rted this life y' ti of July

1749 aged 7a years.

MONUMENTAL I

-: OF OLD ABBEV CHURCH OF KANUOR.

Here lyedi the body of M' lames

Barkley of Belyselloch who depar

ted this life the 17'" of Agust 1710

aged 64 year.^

Also his tuu sons and on daughter

lames Student of Divinity who died

July the 16 1693 aged iS years

Alex' Councel in law who died Octob'

the 28 1705 aged 28 years

Ann who died I'ebr. the 30. 1705 aged

33 years

MONUMKNTAL KEMAINS OF 01.11 AHIIEY CHURCH OF BANCOR. 11)

The following inscri|nion is cut on a large slate lable-tomb east of the
church :

Here lyeth the body of Hugh
Nicolson of Ballenaghie, Gent
and the body of his wife Isabel
Orr, who survived him many
years and died Anno Domini 1696
Also the body of their grand-
son Hugh Ni CO I son of Ballow
Gent. elder son of William
Nicotson of Ballow Gent, and
his wife Eleanor Dunlop he
was born iV Nov.' 1 697 anil
died 25"' August 1723

Here lieth the body of M' Hugh
Nicholson . eldest son of Will"'
Nicholson of Ballow Gent, and
his wife Mary Whyte ; he died
anno domini 1743 . aged 17 years
and the body of his sister Mar-
garet . wife of Robert Steele
Gent ; she died 22"^ May 1805
and the body of her son Robert
Steele of Belfast Gent. Attor-
ney who was born 22":' March
1775 and died in December 1806

30 MONUMENTAL REMAINS OF OLD ABBEY CHURCH OF BANGOR.

This inscription is cut on a large flat tombstone, lying to the east of the
church in a neglected way. The lettering is turned down, but we had it
raised, with considerable difficulty, in order to copy it

Here lyeth the body of

William Hamilton of Belymulin

Who departed this life y 28

y
day of Febr 17^ aged 63 years

Here lyeth ye body of Alex' Ham

ilton of Bellysalagh who depar

e d

ted this life y 28 of Oct' 1733 age 46 years

Here lyeth ye body

of George Covili died

ye 21 June 1753 aged 73 years
Here lyeth the body of
Margret Spence wife to

George Colvill in Bangor
who departed this life

the 19 Oct 1740 aged 60
years.

Born to acourse of manly Action free,
I dauntless trod ye fluctuating sea,
In PomPous war or happier peace to bring
Joy to my fire and honour to my King ;
And much by favour of the (lod was done
Ere half the term of human life was run.
One fatal night, returning from the bay
Whence- British fleets ye Gallic lands survey,
Whilst with warm hope my trembling heart beat high,
My friends, my kindred, and my country nigh,
Lasht by the wind, the waves arose & bore
Our ship in shattered fragments to the shore
There ye flak'd surge opprest my darkening sight,
And there my eyes for ever lost the light.

Captain George Colvill, of the private ship
of war Amazon, and only son of Robert Colvill, of
Bangor, was wrecked near this ground, 25th
Feb., 1780, in ye 29th year of his Age.

MONUMENTAL REMAINS OF OLD ABBEY CHURCH OF BANGOR.

The foregoing inscription brings to mind a heroic chapter in the history of
Bangor. In 1778 the privateer "Amazon" was fitted out by local enterprise
to fight against the enemies of the country, with Captain (George Colvill as
commander, having fourteen six-pounder guns on board. She successively
engaged the enemy off Bangor in the September of the following year, when
several of her crew were killed in action, after a desperate fight lasting many
hours. On the 25 February, 1780, she was totally wrecked in Ballyholme Bay
during a fierce storm, when all her crew perished. Some of her timbers can
still be seen at low water, and one of her guns is preserved at Rathgael.*

Not far from the east end of the church, where the oldest stones are
found, is one with the following inscription, curious in several ways. Not
only is the occupation of James Armure given as a " Taner," but to the day
of his death is added the hour of the ** clok " and the day of the week. His
working tool is also shown, and a very quaint rhyme.

HERE . LYETH . THE . BODY . OF

lAMES . ARMVRE

LAT . TANER

IN . THE . PEARISH . OF . BANGOR

WHO .
VVPON

DEPARTED . THIS . LIF
THVRSDAY . THE . 20

OF . IVN . AT . 12 . OF . THE . CLOK
1672 . AND . WAS . OF . AG . 71

FROM . EVIL . TO . COM . THE . LORD
DOTH . SOM . TRANSLAT . VNTO
HIS . GLORIE . TH.\T . THEY . MAY
SING . TO . HIM . THER . KING .

THOSE
STORIE- .

SONGS

HOLIE

On a flat stone, half-buried in the earth, the following inscription is cut,
with a crest in an ovaL In 1795 Bangor must have been a port of some
importance, as it had a revenue officer, who carried on his duties at the old
castle, which still stands at the harbour.

1 For a full account of the " Amazon." see a paper by the Editor in the Bti/ust Evening Telegra/^h
of 4 May, 1900.

MONUMENTAL REMAINS OF OLD AHBKY CHURCH OF BANGOR.

ERECTED IN MEMORY OF
JOHN BLACKBURN ESQ« LATE REVENUE
OFFICER OF BANGOR WHO DEPARTED
THIS LIFE 25'" NOV. 1795 AGED 76

YEARS
Also the Remains of John Boyd of Bangor
Who departed this life 17"' July 1822 Aged 70
Years also his Wife Eleanor Boyd alias
Blackburn who departed this life 17^** Feb
1823 aged 65 (?) years.

The following inscription is carved on a stone at the road wall west of the
church. Unfortunately, no dates are added of these three Dissenting ministers
of Bangor. The caution given might properly be. applied to all the graves
in the churchyard.

Here Lies the Bodys of

The

Rev*' Ciilbert Ramsay

Rev'! James Ramsay

Rev'' Robert Hamilton

And

his Wife M" Mary Hamilton

Posterity are desired to take care
that the ASHES of the DEAD in
This Burial place May not be
Disturbed by ftrangers

MO.VUMENTAL RKMAINS OF OLD ABBEV CHURCH OF BAKGOR.

Here lieth the body of

Archiliel Wilson of Conlig

Who departed this life June
The 26 in anno 1798 Eg. 26 yr

Morn Not deer Trends tho Im no

Tho I was martred your eys before
1 am not dead but do Sleep hear
And yet once more I will apeer

That is when time will be no more
J\\'hen the! be Judged who falsly sore
And them that Judged will Judged be
Whilhcr Just or on Just then thel see

Purpere deer frends for that grate day

When death dis sumance you away

I will await ayoul with due care

Id heven with Joy to meet you there

The above " Archibel Wilson " was one of three insurgents who were hanged
at the pier of Bangor on the z6[h of June, 1798, It'is stated he went to the
gallows on his bare knees, singing psalms, and died declaring his innocence.
The rudeness of the inscription here recorded will be observed, and the
quaint manner in which the implements of his trade are depicted.

MONUMENTAL REMAINS OF OLD ABBEY CHURCH OF BANGOR.

Adjoining the little gate opening into the south side of the graveyard is
a flat stone, with the following very curious inscription, composed by the
deceased, Susanna Nicholson, some years prior to her death :

Susanna Jacksons
Dust lys here
Who Jesus Christ
As God did fear

John says that Jesus
Christ is the true Ciod
And that three are
One he doth record

Its the White Stone
With the New Name
To know Jesus Christ
is the I Am

The three in one
And one in three
Fm gone to praise
through Eternity

I Tim 3 . i6
John 5 . 23

John V . 20
& Ver. 7

Rev . 2 . 17
Rev . 3 . 12
Exod 3 . 14

Mat .28.9
John ID. 30
Rev . 5-12

Said S. alias Nicholson

wife to Hugh Jackson of

BallywooUy composed the

above 1757 and died 14*^ Novr. 1775

aged 46 years

and Hugh Jackson died the

17'!" December 1800 aged 84

years also their daughter Sarah

Jackson who died 30*!* Jan^ 181 2 aged 83 years.

MONUMENTAL REMAINS OF OLD ABBKY CHURCH <

SBAL OF JOHN KBNRDV, ABBOT OF HANGOR ABOUT 1395.

The above seal, referred to in volume i, p^e 46, is that of John Kennedy,
abbot of Bangor in 1395, and bears the Kennedy arms at the base; namely,
a chevron beftveen three cross crossUts, fitche} These are similar to those
borne by Kennedy, Earl of Cassilis, in the kingdom of Scotland, with the
addition of a double tressure ftory counter-flory. These arms are also borne
hy the Kennedys of Cultra. The same arms without the bordure are
quartered upon the family shield at Bangor Castle, by right of the marriage
of Nicholas Ward (horn 1630) to Sarah Buckworth, R. E, Ward of
Hanger Castle informed us that these were the Buckworth arms.' In
Maralin churchyard we found a buried portion of a tombstone with these
same arms (which we hope subsequently to reproduce), but without any
inscription whatever. Anthony Buckworth- was minister of Marahn during
the Commonwealth, and Theophilus Buckworth was Bishop of Dromore (in
which diocese Magheralin is) from 1613 until 1660, covering the time of the
ministry of Anthony Buckworth. We know that Bishop Jeremy Taylor,
Bishop Buckworth's successor in the See, was resident at Maralin, and his
predecessor may also have resided there. This stone, from its cutting and
appearance, is evidently of seventeenth-century date.

It would be interesting to know what connection, if any, there was between
the Kennedys and the Buckworths, and also between the wife of Nicholas

Ward and Buckworth, minister of MaraUn, or Theophilus Buckworth,

Bishop of Dromore; also, whether the armorial stone at Maralin marks the
grave of the former minister of the parish or the bishop of the diocese.

1 The br.iM natrii of this Kal wu found >t Saul Abli*y, County Down, and ii now in (hi Rsirat
% We lind rnnt Ihe litt in the Record OfHce, Dublin, n»d« i6jr4i, ihM jCfo and Lbe lilhu wn< ^tltOMd

36 MONUMENTAL REMAINS OF OLD ABBEV CHURCH OF BANGOR.

Buckworth's name is not given in the list of clergy in leavens M. Ewart's
Ditietsan Handbook; nor, we regret to have to add, is the stone well preserved
or cared for, but we trust to have this remedied in the near future.

The worthy Dean of Down has done great things for Bangor in the
erection of his magnificent new church. May we hope that he and his vestry
will still care for the old abbey and the monuments within its walls, preserving
them from ruin and decay, and handing them down as an honoured memory
to future generations ?

In conclusion, we may add that we have a great numl>er of family notes
relating to the older inhabitants of the parish of Bangor, also numerous title-
deeds and copies of wills kindly placed at our disposal by Mrs. Agnes
(Rose-Cleland) Browning (who has rendered us much assistance otherwise);
but it would take another paper to do them justice, and entail more time and
research to record ihem properly than we can at present spare. The old and
remarkable sundial, dated 1630, has also to be figured and described in a
future paper. Meantime any corrections or additions from subscribers will
be gladly welcomed.

ttbc poetrip of
MUIfam iJamilton ®mmmon&, S).D., nD.'R.3.H.'

By SAMUEL shannon MILLIN.

" Kait land of lephyrs, while life's currenls flu"-.
Warm in my htart the love of Ihee shall glow i
Thy winding vales, thy lakes of crystal sheen.
Thy mountains covered wilh perennial green.
Thy woods, the cauracls, and billowy sea,
Yes, even thy weeping sky has joys for me. '"

Tht Giani 'i Cauitviay.

Thus spake Wiliiam Hamilton Drunimond in the year i8ii, when he
published his poem The Giant's Causeway; and no words, however eulogistic,
could more faithfully portray the writer than these words of his own.
Scholar, poet, philanthropist, he had ever a deep admiration for the land of

1 Rev, W. H. rJnimmond. born M LiU-ne, .VuKiiM, 177B : son of Sureeon Dnimmond of ihu
koViil Navy ; Minister of the Second Congregation, lielfast, 1800-1815 ; Minister of Strand Sireel,
Dublin, 1S15-1865 : died 16 October, 1865 ; buried Mount Jerome, Dublin.

38 THE POETRY OF WILLIAM HAMILTON DRUMMOND.

his birth, and he used his every effort to arouse a Hke admiration in his fellow-
countrymen. Born at Larne, and nursed amid the romantic glens of Antrim,
the scenes of his childhood became the exciting cause of his poetic genius.
Thus we often come across loco-descriptive sketches of places that had become
hallowed in his estimation. The cromleac in Island Magee, where the
youthful Drummond rambled amidst the loveliness of Nature, is described as
follows :

** Raised on a slope once crowned with waving wood,
Unsheltered now, and bare his altar stood ;
Three pointed crags the ponderous load sustain,
Unhewn, sonorous, of basaltic grain, ]
Work of gigantic hands ; and spread around
A stony circle marks the mystic ground. "

The Giant^s Causeway.

Then later on, when the youth had attained to man's maturer age, and
the scenes of his childhood were changed for those of the sighing lover, we
have the poet pouring forth his soul to the dearest spot on earth :

" Klow, Lagan,* flow : though close thy banks of green,
Though in the picture of the world unseen ;
Yet dearer to my soul thy waters run
Than all the rills that glide beneath the sun ;
For first by thee my bosom learned to prove
The joys of friendship and the bliss of love ;
No change of time or place shall e'er dispart
Those ties which Nature twines around my heart.
Flow on, fair stream — thy gathering waves expand,
And greet with joy the Athens of the land."

The GianCs Caustway.

Endowed with a mind alive to the perception of the beautiful, he became
an enthusiastic admirer of Nature. He studied carefully " that elder Scrip-
ture," which to him was no foreign tongue, and the lesson it imparted to his
mind was —

** In all we see an Omnipresent God ;
And every cause in Nature's ample reign
Forms but a link in that unmeasured chain.
Which holds earth, seas, and skies, and worlds unknown,
Hung in stupendous poise from God's eternal throne. "

The Giant^s Causeivay.

It has long since been a source of regret to the student of Irish history
that the poetic imagination has not more often thrown the mantle of fiction
around the achievement of our early forefathers. Dark though the past
history of Ireland may be, there are pages which record her glory, and which
are a fitting theme for the poetic genius. The example of Burns and Scott in
singing the glories of Scottish history is worthy of imitation : and he would be
a bold critic who would assert that Ireland is lacking in the material for such
romance. The politician, perhaps, is too apt to denounce the attempt unless
the sentiment is in complete accord with his particular views ; but the more

THE POETRY OF WILLIAM HAMILTON DRUMMOND. 39

benevolent reader can excuse the warmth of poetical diction, when the evils
complained of have, to a large extent, ceased to exist.

Drummond has recorded in verse two great events in the past history
of Ireland ; viz., the overthrow of the Danes by Brian Boroihme, Monarch of
Ireland, on Good Friday, 1014 a.d., at Clontarf; and Bruce's invasion
of Ireland in 131 5 a.d. As he says in the former of these poems :

*' May sage history's voice,

Fraught with the wisdom of a thousand years,

Teach not in vain, whence springs a nation's good

And whence her misery. Let Erin learn

Not on the past, but on the days to come,

To found her glory."

Clontarf,

In the latter of these poems we have recorded an event which would
naturally appeal to Drummond; for it was in Wyking's Frith (now Larne
Harbour) that Edward Bruce landed at Olderfleet, with his armaments from
Ayr, on 25 August, 131 5, to assist an oppressed people in throwing off the
yoke of a common enemy. The story is a short one. The Scots, headed by
Robert Bruce, had overthrown the English at Bannockburn. The conquest
of Ireland appealed to the chivalrous spirit of Edward Bruce, and he willingly
accepted the offer to become the monarch of Ireland. Landing at Larne, he
carried his victorious arms to the gates of Limerick. " But robbery, confla-
gration, and murder are not the means of subduing nations, much less of
securing their gratitude and loyalty. The horrible barbarities of the Scotch
army soon alienated the minds of his Irish allies, and gave them alarming
proofs of what they were to expect from a change of masters. When the
frogs besought a new king from Jupiter, the stork came and swallowed them
up. The Scotch thistle was to Ireland as the bramble which threatened to
send forth fires that would devour the cedars of Lebanon." ^

Bruce's reign was of short duration ; for, encountering Lord John Birming-
ham at Faughard, near Dundalk, the erstwhile monarch of Ireland fell,
surrounded by the bravest of his troops.

** Noble Bruce ! though revenge may disturb thy low bed,
And impotent malice wage war with the dead.
Thy worth, valiant prince, Erin's bards shall proclaim,
When the caoinan they sing to their chiefs of high name
Who share in thy slumbers — for though Erin's harp
Breathes her feeling of wrong loud, indignant, and sharp,
Within it a soul great and generous lives.
Which ardently, kindly, and nobly forgives,
That e'en to her foe a due trophy will raise.
Laud the merit she loves and be just in his praise.
'Tis the part of presumptuous upstarts to tread
On the fallen — the ass kicks the lion when dead."

Bruce^s Invasion.

* Preface to Bruce' s Invasion.

40 THE POETRY OF WILLIAM HAMILTON DRUMMOND.

In both of these poems Drummond regarded war as a blessing, in so far
as it *' dissevers the chains that would nations enslave." All the horrors of
war sink into insignificance when the armed legion raises the sword against
tyranny and state pestilence. He sang of the "virtuous love of independence"
after the French were defeated at Trafalgar, and the liberty of Europe was
saved from the despotism of Napoleon. He had the utmost regard for **the
ennobling cause of liberty"; and although he sang of his country that

** For her no Wallace drew
The independent sword : no dauntless Tell
E'er bent the patriot bow of liberty,"

it was not with the intention of arousing the baser passions of his fellow-
countrymen. Nothing was more foreign to his nature.

"What land more blest than Erin, did the love
Of man with God's co-operate to bless."

Clontarf.

That was the keynote of his earliest poem, The Man of Age ^ written in 1 797,
on the eve of the Rebellion : and a quarter of a century later he wrote those
words, pregnant with political wisdom :

** Ye statesmen, peers, and great ones of the land,
Think kindly of the worth of Erin's sons,
With all their claims of nature, country, blood,
Upon your patriot love. Around them pour
The light of truth divine ; dissolve the chains
That cramp their spirit, new incentives give
To industry ; inspire the virtuous love
Of independence, and on home bestow
Your hearts and minds, your love and energy,
But ill bestowed on thankless alien lands."

Ciontarf.

His greatest poem is, undoubtedly, The Giant's Causeway ^ which is more

than a description of the stupendous scenery of that wonderful creation of

nature.

** Great fane of God ! where Nature sits enshrined
Pouring her inspiration o'er the mind."

The reader has only to glance through the poem to see how that enthusi-
astic feeling, which so eminently contributes to the formation of the poetic
character, has carried him into topics like the ancient flourishing state of
learning in Ireland. Nor is it to be wondered at ; for the Antrim coast is rich
with relics of a bygone age, all of which receive the poet's passing considera-
tion. Bun na-Margie and Dunluce Castle, both of which are "bowed beneath
the withering arm of fate," are each the subject of much careful reflection.
The pre-historic remains recall to his mind " the sage, his soul high panting
with prophetic rage."

THE POETRY OF WILLIAM HAMILTON DRUMMOND. 4 1

" Here, too, his sacred lore the Druid taught,
Here breathed the fires of elevated thought,
Th' undaunted spirit of the martial strife,
The proud, heroic, generous scorn of life ;
Bold in the faith that death dissolves the ties
Which hold the soul's pure essence from the skies."

After dealing with the popular theory of **th' untutored swain, To wonder
prone, and slave to error's reign," Drummond gives us a scientific disquisition
on the volcanic formation, which, it is said, brought him into correspondence
with the leading geologists of the day.

In Bruc^s Invasion we have one of the finest descriptions of a battle,
from the moment when

** Front to front lower the foes— and now small is the space
Between — when they pause and look face upon face,'*

down to the decisive moment when (speaking of Bruce and Maupus)

** In one direful struggle they fell face to face,
And still they lie twined in an iron embrace."

But the poem is full .of interesting passages. Thus :

** Wide unfurled o'er the host Erin's standard is raised ;
In its emerald grain the gold harp shines emblazed :
Gallgrena, the sun-burst, that standard they name,
For it glitters in fight like the Sun's bursting flame
Through the dark broken clouds— seems the harp to be strung
With his beams, and by spirits aerial rung.*'

In this poem we have a beautiful description of the bards who, on the eve
of battle, stimulated the warriors with their spirit-stirring ode.

" Lo ! the sword-girded bards by that standard are seen
With harps in their hands, closely cinctured in green,
Or in robes snowy-white shot with crimson and blue,
Clasped by bodkin or brooch of the topaz's hue.
The gold-wrought barrad round their temples they wear.
And dark in the wind floats their long raven hair.
On their arms jewelled bracelets, and massy and long,
Round their necks golden chains, splendid honours of song ;
'Tis theirs with high thought warrior breasts to inspire,
High thought of high daring, the muse and the sire."

The function of these minstrels was to arouse the spirit of patriotism in
the breasts of the sons of Erin, by recording in verse the heroic actions of
their fathers. We have a fine illustration of one of these spirit-stirring odes,
written in ^vt, stanzas, which is deserving of a high place in the national
literature.

42 THE POETRY OF WILLIAM HAMILTON DRUMMOND.

** For your dear loved Erin's right,
Fame, and maiden's love ye Bght,

Let your deeds heroic prove I

Just your claim to maiden's love.
Now for altar, country, life,
Father, mother, children, wife.
Bliss, and glory, nerve each heart,
Ex}ge the steel and point the dart.

On them, men of Erin, dash !

Greet them with the target's clash.

Lance's dint and sabre's flash ! "

The space at my disposal will not permit of going into many of the poetic
beauties which flowed from the pen of Dr. Drummond, which can only be
thoroughly appreciated by a careful reading of his various poems. But I can-
not conclude without referring to an ode which he wrote to a young Irishman
who fell at the Battle of Trafalgar, whose heroic deeds have thus been
recorded :

" First brave Adair their ruthless vengeance feels.
And o'er the deck in life's last effort reels.
From Erin's Isle, and Antrim's happy clime,
Whose vales romantic, and whose shores sublime,
Oft charmed his soul — the youthful warrior came,
Fired with high hopes of never-dying fame ;
Nor vain his ho|>es, though fate had sealed his doom
In life's gay morn, or manhood's opening bloom ;
The moulded lead impetuous winged its way,
Rushed through the brain, and tore his life away.

O happy youth ! Thrice happy thus to die,

Blest in the ennobling cause of liberty.

For thee shall Lagan's nymphs their chaplets twine,

With Nelson's honours joy to mingle thine ;

And Erin's bards in fame-inspiring lays,

Shall fire their youth to emulate their praise."

List of Poetical Works by William Hamilton Drummond.

Juvenile Poems. By a Student of the University of Glasgow, 1795.

HiBBRNiA. A Poem. Belfast : A^. Siar Office, 1797. 8vo. 24 pages.

Man of Age. A Poem. By Wm. Hamilton Drummond. Belfast, 1797. Dedicated to
Edward Jones Agnew, Esq. 8vo. 20 pages.

Man of Age. A Poem (four lines from Hayley quoted). The Second Edition, with improve-
ments ; to which is added "The Sighs of Genius," an Elegiac Ode, occasioned by the
death of Robert Burns, the Ayrshire Poet. By William Hamilton Drummond.
Gla^ow, 1798. 8vo. 90 pages.

THE POETRY OF WILJ.iAM HAMILTON DRUMMOND. 43

The Battle ov Trakai.i.ar. A Heroic Poem, By Kev. William Hamilton Dnimmond,
Member of ihe Lilerary Suciely of Belfasl. Belhsl, 1S06. Smyth & Lyons. 8vo.
VIII a.n<i 124 pages.

A Tkanslatioh Of the Kikst Book or T. Luukkteus Cakits of The Nature of
Things. Edinbu^h, iSoS. izmo.

The Giant's Causeway. A Poem. By William Hamilton Urammond, d.d. Belfast;
Joseph Smyth, 1811. 8vo. 204 pages.

An Elegiac Ballad on the Death of the Princess Charlotte of Walks.
Dublin, 1S17.

Who are the HAfPV? A Poem on the Christian Beatitudes. With other Poems on
Sacred Subjects. By William Hamillon Drummond, li.D., .m.r.i.A. Dublin, 1818.
Svo. 165 pages.

Clomarf. a Puem. Dublin, 1822. l8mo. 83 pages.

Brucb's Invasion ok Ireland. A Poem. Dublin, 1826. i6mo. 114 pages.

The Pleasures of Benevolence. A Poem. By William HamiEton Drummond,
D.D., M.R.I. A. Dublin, 1835. Svo. 163 pages.

Ancient Irish Minstkblsy. By William Hamilton Drummond, d.d,, m.r.i.a. Dublin,
1853. lamo. 292 pages.

The Preacher. A Poem in Three Cantos. Published after his death in a Book of
Sermons ; with Memoir by Rev. J. Scott Porter. 1867. 8vo. 38 pages. London and
Edinburgh.

Zbe Ibistorv of Il^iian parish, in tbc Hrcb-Oiocesc
of Hnuaab,

IFi/A Hoticts oj tht O'Neills and nthvr iet>-it<iri:tl families, tlu /•urochial clergy,

eccksiaslieal temains, and copies of diiaiments relating to the district.

liv Tim I,A1T-: Rii;nT Kkv. Wll.l.IAM KKKVES, Bishioi' OK Down

( Hilliirle iiupiiMislied. ) ( Ctiiilitiuc.l fmm fag^ 217, vol. vi. )

[The nianuscripls of ihis wmk have been plafeil in Ihe hands i>( the edilor by ihe
eovernors of the Armagh Library, and by Sir James H. Slrunye, Baronet, of Tynan Abbey,
r'urtunalely. the work was ainiosi ccnnpleled by itie lale bisho]) ; nevcrlheless, the editor
craves the indulgence of the reader for any errors which may creep info the text, and for
the arrangement of the malier, Tn follow in ihc wake of Dr. Kccves, alid not fail, is no
light lask.]

N 1514, the Shane, son of Con Bacagh O'Neill, was

settled in Cluain Dabhaill, in or near this parish.

The Four Masters at this year record an irruption made

by Hugh, son of Donnell O'Neill, and Con, son of

Niall, into Cliiain Dabhaill against Shane, son of Con,

on which occasion they burned Shane's town, and

drove away the " prey of y' country " before them.

He survived this disastrous event but three years; and at 1517 the Annalists

present his obit, in these words: "Shane the son of Con son of Henry son of

Owen O Neill, a son of a lord, the most affluent and wealthy of his lime in

Ulster, died."

He left a son Henry, who is described as of Drommortie, or Kenard. In
1526 he accompanied O'Neill in an unsuccessful expedition to LiJford, where
he was taken prisoner by Manus O'Donnell. His wife was 3 daughter of
Magcnis of Iveagh, and by her he had a son, also called Henry, but with the
addition of Oge, or junior, to distinguish him from his father,'

This Henry Oge O'Neill," being a near kinstnan and close neighbour of
the great Earl of Tyrone, is first introduced to notice by an English writer
as an adherent of his more powerful chief, and as being condemned of treason
for the part he took in the second O'Neill rebellion (1596)^ (Moryson, i, i.,
p. 16).

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THE HISTORY OF TYNAN PARISH. 45

The military quota which he was bound to supply to his superior was
50 foot and 30 horse soldiers (Dymock, p. 30), which was within the
capabilities of his chieftaincy,^ for "Henry Oge's countrie" is returned as able
to furnish 200 foot and 40 horse {idid,, p. 7^). This was 1599 (Moryson, i, i.,
p. 33).*^ He continued till 160 1^ to be one of O'Neiirs captains; but the
rebellion being virtually extinguished by the victory of the English in that year
at Kinsale, and the power of O'Neill to force obedience being broken,"*
Henry Oge wisely submitted to Queen Elizabeth ; and in 1602 received from
Her Majesty, among the last acts of her reign, a. general pardon, extending
to his wife Catharine; his sons, Turlogh Oge and Con Boy; his chaplain,
Cownaght O'Kinan; and a multitude of his subordinates, among whom the
name 0*Hugh is the most frequent.^

In the instrument of his pardon he is described as of Portienuligan (now
Portnelligan), where the castle, which had been dismantled in 1531, was again
made habitable, and where he probably fixed his temporary residence, his
other castle of Kenard being too near his fallen chief, or possibly unfit for
occupation by the damage it had sustained in the recently concluded war.

Portnelligan was certainly a place of importance at that date, for in many
of the old maps of Ulster it is set down with a mark of distinction ; in fact,
it was the head-quarters of his Armagh possessions, which comprehended all
the barony of Turanny, except the Primate's lands, and the Grange of
Cortynan.

The Tyrone portion of his estate lay contiguous on the north side of
the Blackwater, and extended over the territory of Munterbirn,^ a large tract,
nearly conterminous with the parish of Aghaloo.

1 3 Sept.| 1595. Henry Oge O'Neaie (inUr alios) was, for form of law, indited though absent, and con-
demned judicialfy of treawn in the Co. of Ix>uth, near the borders of the north (Moryson, p»rt ii., lib. i., c. i.,
p. lO). Henry O^e in his country had 300 foot and 40 horse (/A, p. 32). Henry Oge MacHenr>' MacShane,
100 foot (t^., lib. ii., c. i., p. lao).

2 1600. ** At this tyme there was a plot for Tyrone's head, the managing whereof was committed to Sir
Ric. Muryson. Governor of Dundalke, wnither Sir Wm. Godolphin was sent with his troop of horse to second
this plot, which took not the wished effect; ihe undertaker, Henry Oge O'Neaie, tailing in his courage or in
his faith" (Moryson, part ii., lib. i., chap. 2, p. 89). Set* Mech.in'% Fate and Fortunes 0/ Uugk^ Eart
0/ Tyrone^ p. 3.

3 Feb. 10, t6ox. Lord Dunsany to Sir kol)ert Ceyll : " But now to my great comfort and hope I pro*
cured (with all circumstance of secrecy & oaths) the matter to be broken to one ^reat nobilitie & valure
amongst them: promisynge unto him the place j^ honor for his reward whose ambition tooke the sooner and
faster hould thereof, became his birth dooth in a »ort warrant him to succeed as being lineally descended from
the cheefe house ; and for as much as the matter take wished-of-feet som others mijs^ht labour for the honour of
the project, may please you to understand Henry O^e Mc Henry McShane is the man being lineally
descended from Con O Neyle. This my proceedings I have imparted to my I^rd Deputie which I hope in
God will take effect " {Lift 0/ Flor. MacCartky (London. 1867), p. 463)

4 He was married to a daughter of Hugh the Earl. At 1594 we find "Tyrone's son in law Henry Oge
mc Henry mc Shane " (Carew, i , p. 98). Referred to in a document of 1608, showing Tyrone's alliances with
the northern lords (Cal. S. P., Jac. i., vol. i., p. 570).

5 Aug. 9. In 1602, Henry Oge declared by an interpreter that he was opposed to the late rebellion.
He had rendered good service to the Government by revealing all Tyrone's practices with the King of Spain.
He was weary of the tyranny of Tyrone, if he mignt see a possibility of keeping himself from it (Carew, i.,
p. 300). Aug. 24, 1603.— Lord Mountjoy reports that " Henry Oi;e sends me all good advertisements and
advises me in good courses to overthrow Tyrone" (Carew, i., p. 314).

6 See Four Masters, 1172, iii., p. 7; 1208, p. 159; 1355, p. 607; 1372, p. — . There was another Muinier
Birn in County Roscommon (1355, p. 607). Ui Briuin Archoill, the descendants of Brian of Archoill, son of
Muircabach Meith, ancestor of Ui Meith (MacFirbi% p. 309). In St. Patrick's time the Oirghialla had
possessions in Tyrone {Book of Rights, pp. 151, 247). After Hy Tuirtre, S. Patri. visited Aquuonaris Hy
Briuin ubi Domnach airther CTrip., iii., x, p. 149a). Colgan identifies this with Muinter Birn (p. i8a. n. 2),
and Domhn.ichairther with Achaah lougo or logo {ib.y n. 3). Ahallowe at Kinard, Vis. 1622. The Primat.
Regrs. call Aghaloo, Eccl. 5, Patricii de Achaiunga. John O Corra, prior of the Colidei of Armagh, was
rector before 141 1. In 1637, the R. and V. of Aghaloo were appropriated to the Aichdeaconry.

46 THE HISTORY OF TYNAN PARISH.

Soon after his pardon, he transferred his residence to Tyrone, and
alternately occupied his castle of Kenard and his island fortress of Drora-
morrie,^ which was situate close to it on the north-west. The tenure also of
his estates was changed from an Irish to an English title; for King James
being desirous, on his accession to the throne of England, to concih'ate the
native chiefs who were in submission, accepted the profession of his allegiance,
and, with the advice of the Privy Council of England, gave orders, by privy
seal, dated the i6th of September, 1603, for the issue of letters patent to
confirm him in the enjoyment of his extensive property.-

The honour of knighthood also was conferred upon him,^ and in 1605
he was appointed Sheriff of the county of Armagh. Owing to the unsettled
state of the country, just sobering after the excitement of a protracted rebellion,
in which the habits of industry were, during a long period, exchanged for those
of idleness and adventure, the duties of his newly-created office, unlike the
official routine of a modern shrievalty, were such as to demand the exercise
of the utmost vigilance and exertion.

The following commission, dated the nth of May, 1605, while it proves
the confidence which was reposed in him, will serve to illustrate the state of
the country at ihis time and the powers with which he was invested :

The King to Sir Henry O^e O'Neale, Sheriff of the County of Ardmaugh. — Forasmuch
as the wicked malicious and disordered nature of sundry persons being of vile and base con-
ditions, not having whereon to live and therefore lesse carefull of their allegeancc and
obedyence, doth re<^uire that we should correct and represse the same by some more speedier
and sharpe meanes then other comon lawes; and considering our marshall lawe and ordered
thereof to l>e muche necessary for the reformation of the naught ie liveres and ydle vagabonds
as doe not cease to disquiet our leige j^ople; Know ye that we, having conceived good
opynion of your circumspection, industery, knowledg, and indifferency, with assent and
consent of our right trusiie and well beloved Sr Arthure Chichester, knight, lord deputie
generall of our realme of Ireland, doe give unto you the said Sr Henry Oge O'Neale full
power and authority by these presentes, to trie, search out, and examen, by all waies and
means convenient after the order of our marshall lawe the disorders and offences comitted
within the county of Ardmaughe by suche naghtie and idle persons. And if you shall upon

1 Hugh O'NeiU's su)>nui».sion to lac. I., dated 8 April, 1603: "Before his submission the Earl was
p.mUed bv the Lo. Dep. & Council to be restored to his title of Earl and all his lands that he enjoy'd by
virtue of his Letters Pat. s^^e only that country now possess'd by Henry Oge O'Neill, and the Kues potsess'd
by Turlough mc Henry which were exempted and reserved in his Majesty's power to dispose of. Henry Oge
O'N. & TurlouRh McHenry were promised these countries (to hold immediately of the Queen) long since at
the time of their coming in."(Cal. S. P., Jac. 1., i., pp. 13, 14). Apr. 19, 1604.— Sir John Davys writes:
"The Earl takes lease of other men intermixed with the lands of TerlouKh McHenry, who is now exempted
from his seignory & comand, to the end as Davys hears, he may make a quarrel & controversy with Tirlough "
(/V'/</., p. z6o). Druimorraig, in O'Mellan's Journal, p. 13. In Inq. No. 6, car. i., the townland is called
Drommore a/ias Kynard. O'Mellan. at 14 July, 1642, <ays of the En^lisli generals: "They burned Drum-
morraigh. the seat of Sir Phelim O'Neill, and all his plate. Ceonnaird was burned precisely on Sunday.
It continued to be occupied so late as 1650 by Sir Henry Oge's grandson Sir Phelim Roe, for James 3d baron
of Strabane joined Sir Phelim in rebellion in the island of Drummurragh " (Atch. Lodge, 5, 115). In the map
of 1609, in the townland of Kinard, the castle on the mainland is shown, and near to it is a round lake,
in the middle of which is an island having a solid square castle. The Ir. War of 1641, at 1650, says:
" After Charlamount was taken and Sir Phelemy retired to the island of Kinard" (p. 133).

2 To Henry Oge O'Neale of Drommorrey in Co. Tyrone, Knt., was granted, 12 June, in 1605, pursuant
to Privy Seal of i6th Sept., 1603, and according to certain instructions on behalf of said Henry, inter alios^
sealed by the Queen of the Council of England — the entire country or territory known by the name of
llenry Oge his country, possessed by the said Henry O'Neale in Ulster, with all lordships, castles, manors,
etc., excepting all monasteries and other ecclesiastical and spiritual possessions, all which premises with these
exceptions were lately granted to Hugh, Earl of Tyrone. "To hold for ever at rent of one horse and 9 spurs
or £to Ir. at his election (Erck, Calend., i., p. 304). Gal. Pat., Jac, i., p. 75a.

% Knighted xa Oct., 1604, by Lord Deputy Sir A. Chichester (Carew Papers, Calend. vol., p. 384).

THE HISTORY OF TYNAN PARISH. 47

such triall ami search finde any suche person or persons lo be fellones, rebclles, enemycs, or
lo be otherwise notorious evill dooers, or that any shall be by order of our marshall lawc
convicted Ix'forc you of or for any such crynic or oftence, then in every such case, wee doe
by theis prcsentes give unto you full power and auclhorotie to proceede by thorder, of, and
according the course and ryte of our marshall la we to the judgment, condemnation and
punishment, of seich jierson or persons by death, or otherwise, as the nature, qualitye, or
qualityes of this or theire offences cann merit or deserve. Willing neverihelesse and com-
mannding you that you doe not in anywise attempt to extend or execut this your aucthoritie
and power for our martiall law to, against, or uppon any person or persons that hath or
have of estate, of inheritance or freehold, in use or possession in his or theire owne right
or of the right of his or theire wife or wifes, lands, tenements, or rent to the yearly value of
XI* above all chardges or that hathe or have goods and chatteles moveable or unmoveable
to the value of XL li or that is of good or honest name within the stiid county, unlessc the
same person or persons soe being be found or taken with the maner, or lo l^e dulie convicted
in maner aforesaid of any offence or offences soe comitted ; and to doc such other things as
you are directed to doe, and to execute by certayne instructions hereunto anexed, signed by
our said Lord Deputie. Wee doe straightley chardge and comannd you that you doc with all
diligence attend your said chardge, and dulie, justelie and indiferently execute the same in
all points in forme before prescribed.

We doe lickwisc give our high comannd ment by theis presentes unto all our faithfull and
loving subjectes that they and every of them lo whome in this case it shall or may appertaine,
shall be obedient and answerable to you in and aboute the just and due execution of the
premises, as they will answere for the contrary. And our further pleasure is, and soe we
require you that you certefie our said Deputy monthelie of your proceedinges in the premises,
ami that this your aucthoryty to contynew during pleasure.

Superscril>ed, Arthurk Chichrstkr.*

On the 12th of June, in the same year (1605), letters patent were passed
confirming to him^, under the designation of " Sir Henry Oge O'Neale of
Drommorrey, in the county of Tyrone, Knight,"* the entire country or
territory known by the name of " Henry Oge his countrie," * excepting all
spiritual and ecclesiastical rights and possessions ;^ which premises or country
are excepted out of the patent lately granted to Hugh, Earl of Tyrone, to
hold in capiie^ by the service of one knight^s fee, at the rent of one horse and
two spurs or 40 shillings Irish at his election.^

In this instrument the estates are granted in general terms, without any
specification of the component parts. These, however, were fully set out in
two Inquisitions — one of Armagh and the other of Tyrone — held almost
concurrently in 1609, after the death of the possessor.

1 OriKinal Fiaot enrolled in Chancery.

2 r6o8. About plantation of the lands of Henry Oge, Carew vol., p. t6. 1608. Land^ granted to
Sir Henry Oge containing 4,900 acres, ibid.y p. 21. In the Inquisition of 1O09, .imong the exceptions to the
forfeited lands in the county of .Armagh. The inheritance of Sir Henry O^ CNeale, Knt., in Toughrany
barony {jpidt Pynnar, p. 61). Is also as regards Tyrone at the end of its Inquisition.

.S Moryson, p. 116.

4 Carte absurdly calls this " Henry Gage's country" in his Life 0/ Ormond^ i*! P* 158 ! ^"(1 Warner,
blindly following him, describes it as the whole territory called ' Gage's country '" [^History 0/ RibtUion^
p. 29). Dr.^ O'Conor {Hittorical Address, part ii., p. 298) falls into the same error, which can be traced
downwards in more recent publication**.

6 Among these was the Grange of Clonarb, on the west side of the Blackwater (Tyrone, O.S. 67),
now the townland of Glenarb, which is a great perversion, because the site of its cemetery is on the top
of a hill. It belonged to S. Peter's and S. Paul's of Armagh, and i< mentioned in the Irish Calendar at
May 17.

6 Pat. Rolls of Jac. i. (Calendar, p. 75a); Erck's Repertory, vol. i., p. 204. The patent does not specify
the denominations, but in his grandson's renewal we find an exact recital.

48 THE HISTORY OF TYNAN PARISH-

In the early maps of Ulster the territory of Munter-Birn is designated
'* Henry Oge m*" Henrie his countrie," and Otranye, now Turanny, at the other
side of the river is marked " Harrie Oge's lands, m*" Harrie m*^ Shane m*" Con
O'Neale."

Thus favoured by the Crown, and now placed in a condition of
greater security than he had previously enjoyed, he proved as zealous a
supporter of the English cause as he formerly had been its adversary, of which
he gave satisfactory, though to himself fatal, proof in 1608, when, instead of
siding with his neighbour, Brian Oge MacMahon, * who had espoused the
cause of Sir Cahir O'Dogherty, he placed himself and his men under the
command of Sir Richard Wingfield, the English Marshal, and marched with
him into Donegal to oppose the insurgent chief.

The issue of the expedition, as it regarded him, is thus related by Philip
O'Sullivan, in whose narrative the reader will observe the temper of a bitter
enemy to the English rule as the inflated siyle of a pompous writer:

'* From tiurb Castle the Marshall proceeded to plunder and lay waste the lands which
0*Docharty possessed. To counteract this measure, O'Docharly led a lx>dy of 1,500 men-
at-arms to the neighbourhood of the place where the standing camp of his enemy had been
pitched. Most of the Marshall's soldiers were Irish and Anglo-Irish catholics, who, being
ill instructed by the priests of the English faction, considered that they might lawfully Rght
for a protestant prince against the catholics, provided that in spirituals they held no com-
munion with the heretics. Among the chiefs of which party was Henry O'Neill, surnamed
Junior, who on previous occasions had fought against the heretics with fidelity and the
utmost zeal.

** At a place called Keannmhuir,'"^ O'Docharty, with 500 armed men, made a nocturnal
attack upon the wing of the camp where Henry was posted. Scaling the rampart on a
sudden, he slays the sentinels and guards ; instantly he surrounds and sets fire to the nearest
tents ; he deals death in all directions. Presently he bursts into the tent of Henry,'* whither
the soldiers of the King, only half awake, had betaken themselves in consternation and
helplessness from the carnage of the other tents. Henry cheers on his men, and exhorts them

1 Riian-na-Sawagh (Nn Samtath) MacMahon of Clonleeee, near Glaslough, in Upper Trough Inq.
Armagh, 5 Apr., i6<^. Amone the jurors were Con O'Neill of Pallany, Patrick Oge Mcrarltne of Drum-
nahunshon, Donnell mc James O'Hugh of Droir.goose, Owen mc Hugh O'Neill of Tuoaghy, Donell O'Casy
of Tynan, Oonogh MacParson of the same. Found that Brian Oge MacMahon entered into rebellion with
Sir Cahir O'Dognirtee and others at I.isglin and other places and times in the county of Armagh with
banners openly displayed, 15 Sep., 1608, and was slain at Cargagh-Hugh in Mulliade in the same county,
13 March, 1608/9 — ^^'* P^t., Jac, i. p. 158a. So also in Inq. Armagh, No. i., Jac. i., Hrian Oge McMahowne
al vocat. Brian na Lavagh McMahowne de Clonleagh. Lisglinin Toaghie, etc. See Monagnan Inq., No. a,
Jac. i.

"1 Now Kinnawear, near Kilmacrenan, "Canavogre Wood," Aug. i, 1608 (Cal. S. P., iii., p. i)
Ceann Magair {Ftmr Masters^ 70a, 919, 1392, 1461, 1522, 1561, 1603).

3 1608, June 14, Sir A. Chichester writes: "Sir Henry Oge O'Neale has been slain by O' Doghertie's
people as he lay in a quarter by himself, with his own company^ without the camp, where he kept no watch.
Three or four of his men were killed with him, and his son, with some others, was dangerously hurt. The
news has just been brought by a young son, who was present and escaped" (Cal. S. P., Jac. L, p. 559).
As soon as Sir Henr^- O'Neill was slain, a kinsman of his put himself into army and macle claim of that
country after the manner of Tanistrie, not by the law but by the sword, which has been their custom; and
it will involve new labour upon them to suppress him ; so soon one mischief succeeds another in his
accursed Kingdom (Jbid.^ p. 560). 1608, June 15, Sir A. Chichester reports the close pursuit of
O'Dogheriie in Fawnett, and Sir Henry Oge O'Neill's death, which he regrets, as having been a loyal
subject and an orderly lord {ibid., p. 564). 1608, July 3, Sir Thomas Ridgway writes: "As he told them
of the success of their journey he may not omit the disaster of the same, which was only one, viz. the
killing of Sir Henry Oge O'Neale: who, after their retuin from marching, desiring for his better ease to
take the benefit of an old house some small distance from their other cabins and tents, in the camp, desired
to be quartered there, which at hio importunity was granted to him ; where thro' the negligence of his
company, who kept no good watch and guard about the quarter (a comon fault with the Inshry not to
observe any discipline) he was assaulted in the night, and tho' ihey took the alarm even without their clothes
for the sake of expedition, yet before they could come to his rescue, he was killed, but not altogether
unavenged, for (besides some killed in the place) in pursuit of them the tracks of blood shewed that his
blood was not the only blood spilt" {ibid., p. 603).

THE HISTORY OF TYNAN PARISH. 49

to defend ihemselves and avenge the massacre n( their comrades. Most valiantly he sustains
the onslaught of his foe, and lends help to those in danger. On the other side, O'Docharty
urges on his men with constant encouragement to the encounter, spreads fresh terror among
the panic stricken, and draws closer on near to Henry, whose voice he had recognized as he
cheered on his men. Henry's men gave way to the catholics, who were assailing them on
every side; and he himself,^ fighting to the last, falls covered with wounds. The survivors
fly to the front of the camp, which was the Marshall's quarters. A general panic seizes him
and the entire army ; some abandon the camp, and betake themselves to flight, and all are
ready to fly, when O'Docharty, fearing lest his men might not be able to hold their ground,
orders the signal to be sounded for retreat.

" Terrified by the loss he had sustained, the Marshall^ retires from the open country to
for'ified stations. O'Docharty next proceeded to the villages belonging to Henry, which he
plundered and laid waste ; and having made his way on boats and rafts across the lake of
Dnimorry to the island that was therein, he stormed and plundered this stronghold."'

Sir Henry Oge O'Neill having thus, by the sacrifice of his life and the
consequent damage of his property, given undeniable proof of his merits as a
loyalist, bequeathed to his family the strongest claims upon the consideration
of the English Government ; and hereby it came to pass that, at the critical
moment, when the name of O'Neill was a signal for proscription, and the
property of an O'Neill a fit subject for confiscation, the estates of this chief,
so closely allied by blood and family connection to the prime mover in the
late rebellion, escaped the general forfeiture, and was transmitted/ without
the loss of an acre,* to the immediate members of his family.

Throughout the whole county of Armagh, there were but three exceptions
among the native proprietors^ to the general forfeiture; and one of these was
found, in the Armagh Inquisition of 12 .\ugust, 1609, to be the " inheritannce
of the heires of Sir Henry Oge O'Neale knight deceased in the barony of
Toaghrany"; while in the county of Tyrone there was but one, "the lands
heretofore granted unto Sir Henry Oge O'Neale and his heires by letters
patent." ♦»

In order to ascertain the contents and limits of the estate of which the
deceased knight had been seized, the usual process of Inquisitio post mortem

1 O'Doghertie's bastard brother, who had fallen upon the Marshal's army in the nij;ht, and had &1ain
Sir Henry Oge O'Neill {^Ulster foumat of Archffolo^y (old series), iii., p. 169).

2 1608, June 18, Sir A Chichester reports: "Forces of O'Dogherty scattered — has entered Tyrone
with 400 lignt men, where he has preyed ii. burned a towne near Ardmaghe. Learns that the town burned
was Kinard, Sir Henry Oge's chief place. They tried to force his castle, but without success. All this is
only to draw the soldiers out of Tyrconnell, but be will go down himself towards the borders with his own
100 foot & 30 hotse," etc. (iV'iV/., p. 568). Then follows a full account of O'Dogherty's auxiliaries. They
took lately a prey of 80 cows from Ardmap;h and 100 from Henry 0);e, who is now with the Marshal
{Jbid.y p. ^69). 1608, June 24, O'Dogherty is in the glenns oT Tyrone amongst the Clan Donnels. After he had
burned Sir Henry O^e O'Neales town, it is reported that he would have burned the town of Dungannon,
a matter which he might easily have done, etc. (f^<V/., p. 572). O'Dogherty fled on the 9th June, 1608.
On the 5th of June, the night being Sunday, Sir Henry Oge was slain (Jbid.^ p. 590). <)'Dogherty was
»lain at Kilmacrenan, Tuesday, July 5, 1608, being defeated by the Nfarshal {ihid., pp. 607-9).

:l Translated from the Historic Catholica Hihtrnia CotH^ndium^ by Philip O'.Sullivan Beare, p. 211
(or p. 274, ed. Kelly).

4 In the project for the Plantation of Ulster, among the exceptions in the county of Armagh are—
"The lands granted to Sir Henry Oge contain 4,900 acres" (Harris's Hibtmica, p. 61).

5 Tyron. "All the temporall land escheated to the Crown by the outlawry of the late Earle excepting
only two ballybataghs, which were granted to Sir Harry Oge O'Neale by his Majestie." Sir John Davys,
8 Aug., 1608 (Ulster Jour. 0/ Arch, (old series), vol. iii., p. 170).

6 The other two were Sir Tirlagh mc Henrie O'Neale in the barony of the Fues, and Patrick McPhelemy
O'Haolon in the barony of Orier.

50 THE HISTORY OF TYNAN PARISH.

was resorted to; and accordingly, on the 6th of April, 1609, the following jurors
were sworn to inquire truly on what day and year, and in what place,
Sir Henry Oge O'Neale, Knight, late of Dromore, or Kynard, died, and of
what lands, tenements, or hereditaments, in the county of Armagh, he was
then seized: — Donogh Oge McMurfie of Ferteall, gentleman; Terlagh
McTeggart of Ardmagh, Con McTurlogh O'Neale of Pallany, Neale
O'Callaghan of Doores de la F'ughes, Donell Mcjames O'Hugh of Dromgoes,
Donell McCasey of i'eynorre, Donagh McE. Parson of the same, Henry
McOwen Moyle O'Hugh of Lysdrombrasyne, Patrick Oge McParlan of
Drommyn McHunshon, Donell O'Neale Mc Henry of Ballyneune, Carboy
Oge McCann of Kill-ne-murtee, Ardell McHugh McManus of Carnlogh,
and Owen Boy McMurphie of Mullaghbane. Who found that the said Henry
of Drommore, otherwise Kynard, was seized of all the towns and lands of
Towaghrany, in the barony of Towaghrany, containing three ballibetos of land,
making forty-eight towns or balliboes of land : to wit, the towns and lands of
Ballynametragh-otragh, i balliboe; Ballynametragh-itragh, i balliboe; Lislony,
I balliboe: Breaghwye, i balliboe; Mullin, i balliboe; Tullyglishmaglaghod,
I balliboe; Cowlchil, i balliboe; Corfeaghnan, 1 balliboe: 2 towns of TuUo-
brick, 2 balliboes; Killikananan, i balliboe; Rathtrillich, i balliboe;
Sn. Tullagh, i balliboe; Dromgarne, i balliboe; Ardgonnell, i balliboe; Sea-
chony, or Nacknocklane, i balliboe; Gortfaddy and Sheregh, i balliboe;
Ryne, i balliboe; Crann, i balliboe: Nunshoge, i balliboe: Cavandugyn,
I balliboe; Kiltuberred, i balliboe; Dowgery, 1 balliboe; Mulloghmary,
I balliboe: Insula de Purtenelegan, i balliboe; Lyslangely, 1 balliboe;
Castrum de Ballino, nigh the town and land of Kryvekeran, i balliboe;
Tulloglosseogone, i balliboe; Dromnaherery and Dromnonory, i balliboe;
Shitrim, i Inlliboe; Katy, 2 balliboes; Carriglaghan, i balliboe; Knoch and
Drommokykeene, i balliboe; (ilasdromyne, i balliboe; Racmmner, i balliboe:
Crossdallagh, 2 balliboes; the circuit of land of Caranogh, containing 8
balliboes, commonly called Carronarronagh, Tullyety, Tullyantlysny, Lurga-
boyny Carany, Corcloghill, Bally naneffeston Logydawe, and Carrigboylan.

That Brian and Con O'Neill received and possessed the issues and profits
of said lands from the time of Sir Henry's death till the present. And further,
that the said Sir Henry was slain in the service of the King by his enemies
and rebelles on the 25th day of June, 1608. And that Phellemy Roe O'Neale
is nearest of kin, and lawful heir of the said Henry, being son and heir of
Turlogh, deceased,^ his son and heir. And that said Phellemy Roe O'Neale,
at the time of his grandfather's death, was six months and two years old.

The family of Sir Henry was at this period peculiarly circumstanced. There
were two widows surviving; namely, Catharine Butler, his own wi e, and
Catherine, or (?athleendry Neill, relict of his late son, Turlogh Oge.

1 He died <ome lime I.etweeti 160; ;ind 1608.

THE HISTORY OF TYNAN PARISH. 51

Of his sons, Turlogh Oge, the eldest, died in or before 1608, and the
survivors were Brian and Con, who had custody of the estates; Henry and
Cormac, or Charles : besides whom there was a daughter, also Catharine, the
wife of Art O'Neill of Tassagh.

Turlogh Oge, some time about 1601, married Catharine, or Cathleen,
daughter of Sir Turlogh O'Neill of the Fews, by whom he left two children,
Phelemy Roe and Turlogh Oge, or Roe.

Some time after his death, but previously to 1613, she married Robert
Hovenden, son of Henry Hovenden, the prime favourite and counsellor of
Hugh O'Neill, the great Earl of Tyrone, by whom she had a son, Henry, who
died in 16 — ; and Alexander, who was born about 16 19, became a captain
under his half-brother. Sir Phelemy, and lost his life during the war in
1 64-.

Phelemy Roe, son of Turlogh, son of Henry Oge,^ was born about April,
1602, and was brought up under the eye of his stepfather, Robert Hovenden.
When he was ten years old, there was a King's letter (dated March 31, 1612),
to accept from him, as grandson and heir of Sir Herrry Oge O'Neill, Knight,
lately slain in the wars against O'Dogherty, a surrender of his lands, and to
divide the same among the male issue, legitimate and illegitimate, of the said
Sir Henry, with life estates of part thereof to the widows of Sir Henry and
of his eldest son.

This arrangement was the result of a proposition of Sir Arthur Chichester,
delivered to the English Privy Council about Christmas, 1610: "That the
I^ord Deputy and the Commissioners may have a general warrant to dispose
of Sir Henry Oge's country, which is thought to be a safer way than reciting
every man's name and his quantity of land in the King's letter."

To which the Council returned answer: "Granted, with this caution, that
it be distributed to the issue male of Sir Henry Oge and his heirs. His
Majesty's warrant for this purpose is procured and sent herewith." This was
received the 19th of May, 161 1.'-

The King, by letter to Sir Arthur Chichester of May 3, 161 1, **Authorizes
him to distribute the lands of Sir Henry Oge among his issue male and their
heirs, by grants under the Great Seal, to be held according to the articles of
the new plantation."

In 1612, March 31,^ the King writes to Sir Arthur Chichester: "Sir
Henry Oge O'Neil, Knight, lately slain in the King's service against the
traitor O'Dogherty, being possessed of lands in the counties of Tyrone and
Armagh, under letters patent, which ought now to descend to his grandchild,

1 His grandfather was killed slh of June, 1608, at which time Pbeliin was six years and two months old.
This would put his birth at 5th April, 1602. The Patent of Dec, 1613. gives his mother ten year^' enjoy-
ment of part of the estate, with reversion at their expiration to her son Phelim, i.e., on his coming of age;
for 1613 + 10 is = 1602 + 21.

2 Cal. S. P., Jac. i.. vol. iv., p. 40.

3 Ihifi.f p. 44. At p. 207 in a li^t of the natives who received said grants in Tyrone.

his surviving heir; bul the King being informed I'y his (Sir Arthur Chichester's)
letters, that ii would tend to tlie quiet of those p.irls if the said lands were
divided in some convenient manner amongst the issue male of the said Sir
Henry, to which his said heir will consent, he (Sir Arthur) is authorized to
accept the surrender of the heir, and by letters patent to divide the said lands
among the issue male of the said Sir Henry (legitimate or illegitimate) as he
shall think fit, to be held by each of them and his heirs, for ever or for such
estate and at such rents and services as he shall think fit. He is also to
assure to the wife of the said Sir Henry Oge and to the wife of his eldest
son, deceased, such parcel of the premises during their lives as he shall think
til.'>

f Tt bi tontinued. )

'Ulleter Biblioarapbij-

By E. R. McC. Dix.
Article IIL — Continued from vol. vt\ page 246.

ARMAGH (Supplemental).

|NCE my last article was written, three additional items
of Armagh printing have been found, which are now-
given in the subjoined list ; also much fuller particulars
of four of the items already given have been obtained,
and are therefore justifiably repeated. I am indebted to
James Buckley for the first item in this list, obtained
through the courtesy of Pickering & Chatto.
Through the courtesy of Professor MacMaster, the librarian of Magee
College, Derry, I was afforded the fullest opportunity of examining and noting
the fourth item in this list, which is, so far, the earliest Armagh-printed
pamphlet I have met or handled.

It will be observed, however, that some of the titles suggest earlier works
or editions. The first item, for example, is the "second Extract." There
must have been, therefore, a first. Such, if printed in Armagh, may yet be
found on further research.

arma(;h.

1745. A Friendly Admonition to all persons of the Romish Persuasion in

Ireland, being a 2d. Extract from Reason's Tribunal, etc. A single
sheet, printed on both sides.

[Pickering & Chatto, London. (In Col. C^rant's
collection of Irish broadsides.)].

1746. A Sermon Preached in the Meeting-House of Armafrh^ December 22

1745, on occasion of the Present Rebellion. Published at the
Desire of the two Independent Companies of Militia belonging
to Armagh to whom it was preached. The Revd. John Max-
well, M.A. 4to. 16 pages. William Dickie.

[Magee College, Derry.]
1 75 1. Wm. Dickie,

N.B. — C^otton, in his Typographical Gazetteer (2nd Series, page
10), mentions the name of this printer as established in Armagh
this year, but gives no items of his printing.

1764. A Sermon Occasioned by the Death of the late Reverend John

Maxwell, Preached at Armagh The 25th of December 1763;

and Published at the Desire of some who heard it. Revd. James

Moody. William Dickie, 4to (cut down), 7^8 by 4^^ ins.

20 pages.

[Royal Irish Academy, Halliday Pamphlets, 318/1.]

54 ULSTER BIBLIOGRAPHY.

1786. A Letter To the Reverend Doctor Cr-wl-y, Priest of the Parish of

A H. Containing Remarks on a Sermon Lately Published

by him ; With a few Observations on the Lying Account of the
Conversion of Adam Ohver, Annex'd to said Sermon. By a
Parish Clerk. T, Walsh. 8vo. 36 pages and paper wrapper
(coloured). Sigs. a — c, 6.

[E. R. McC. Dix.]
N.B. — 1 have also a copy of the "Sermon" printed the same
year ( 1 786), but no place or printer's name is given. From the type,
paper) etc., I would, however, judge it to be also Armagh- printed.

1798 (?). The Great Necessity of Itinerant Preaching, a Sermon delivered in
the New Meeting House in Armagh Oct. 10, 1798. The Revd.
George Hamilton. i2mo.

[The Shirley Library at " Lough Fea," Carrickma-
cross.]

1799. The Flying Angel. A Sermon delivered in the New Meeting House,
Armagh, May 27, 1799. The Revd. Wm. Cooper. T, Walsh^
English Street. 12 mo.

[The Shirley Library at " Lough Fea," Carrickma-
cross.]

1799. Wexford Cruelties, being a Narrative of (his) Sufferings and Provi-
dential Escapes, etc. Charles Jackson. i2mo. 71 Waish^

English Street.

[Trinity College, Dublin, Press A, i, 11.]

N.B. — Bound with the foregoing is The History oj the Rebellion
which broke out in Ireland^ in tfu month of May lygS, etc., with
separate title-page and pagination (42 pages). No place or
printer's name is given, but it has the same date (1799), and is
apparently from the same press. The signatures also seem con-
tinuous.

STRABANE.

I was much pleased to learn from the Rev. W. T. Latimer's contribution
to the Journal (vol. vi, page 183) of another Strabane-printed book. This
furnishes us with the name of another printer, the " successor," apparently,
of John Bellew. It would be of advantage to know the size and number of
pages of the book. Perhaps this could be supplied.

I have also to report the following addition to the list. It is now in my
possession.

1786. Peeping Tom of Coventry. A Comic Opera, etc. John O'Keefe.
John Bellew^ of Shakespeare's Head. 8vo (cut down). 32 pages.
Sigs. A — B, 8.

ULSTER BIBLIOGRAPHY. 55

ULSTER BIBLIOGRAPHY.
By a. Albert Campbell.

The follov\ing should be added to E. R. McC. Dix's list {a/Ue vol. vi, pp. 3 and -246):

Armagh-Printed Books.
(From Wilherow's Hist, and Lit. Memorials^ etc.)

179S. The CJreat Necessity of Itinerant Preaching. A Sermon delivered in the New

Meeting-house of Armagh, at the formation of the Evangelical Society of Ulster,

on Wednesday, loth of October, 1798. With a short Introductory respecting the

Establishment and first attempt of that Society. The Rev. George Hamilton,

Minister of Armagh (second congregation). T, Stevenson. 8vo. Pp. xvii and 36.

[Price 6d. hp. ]

[Assembly's College, Belfast.]

1799. The Duty of Preaching the Gospel to the Poor explained and recommended.
A Sermon preached before the General Synod of Ulster at their Annual Meeting
in Lurgan, on Tuesday, the 25th of June, 1799. The Rev. Thomas Cuming,
M.A., Minister of 1st Armagh. 8vo. 40 ]>])•

STRABANE-PRINTKI) Hooks.

1779- The Advantages of a General Knowledge of the Use of Arms. A Sermon preached
before the Strabane, Finnwaier, and Urney Volunteers, and the Strabane Rangers,
in the Meeting of Urney, Octol)er 10, 1779. The Rev. Andrew Alexander,
A.M., Minister of Urney. James Blyth. 4I0. 32 pp.

[Assembly's College, Belfast.]

1779. An Inquiry whether and how far .Magistracy is of Divine Appointment," and of the

subjection due thereunto. A Sermon preached in the Old -Bridge Meetinghouse

near Omagh, the 14th of November, 1779, before the Omagh and Cappagh

Volunteers. The Rev. Hugh Delap, Chaplain to the Cap|>agh Volunteers.

James McCreery. 4to. 23 ])p.

[Assembly's College, Belfast.]

1780. The Nature and Hai)py Eflects of Civil Liberty considered ; in a Sermon preached

before Colonel Stewart, Lieutenant-Colonel Charlton, the Strabane Volunteers,
.Strabane Rangers, and Urney Foresters, on Sunday, 19th March, 1780. The
Rev. William Crawford, a.m.. Minister at Strabane. 26 \y\^.

1788. Ministerial Responsibility : considered in a Sermon preached before the Rev. Sub-

Synod of Derry, May 8, 1787. The Rev. Hugh Hamill, Minister at Donagheady.

35 PP-

[Regarding *' McMain," about whose name E. R. McC. Dix appears to be
doubtful. Professor Witherow, from whose Historical atui Literary Memorials of
Presbyterianism in /r^/fl«</ ( Belfast, 1879-80) the foregoing references have been
obtained, gives '* A Tianslation of Osterwald's Dissertations. By the Rev.
John McMain, Minister at Donagheady.'']

1789. The Larger Catechism : First Agreed upon by the Assembly of Divines at West-

minster, and approved of by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

John Bellew. i6mo.

[A. A. Campbell, i

ULSTER BIBLIOGRAPHY.

GOLDEN CHAIN

FOUR LINKS

To draw poor SOULS to their desired
HABITATION.

Or, The

Four Last Things briefly discoursed of,

VIZ.

Death

•J-.

most certain.

Judgment

must strict.

Hell

most dismal.

Heaven

most delightful.

7<7 which is added^

Wholesome Instructions to Young and Old in
order to prepare themselves for their latter End :
and to avoid all sinful Allurements ; which usu-
ally obstruct that great and necessary Work of
SALVATION.

With some necessary Directions to die well, in or-
der to avoid Hell, and to obtain Heaven.

Strabane: Printed in the Year 1 790.
Demy i8mo. 24 pp. [A. A. Campbell.]

1 795- Prophetical Extracts, particularly such as relate to the Revolution in France, and the

Decline of the Papal Power in the World. Selected from the Writings of

Goodwin, Jurien, Usher, Brown, Love, Knox, Willison, More, and Gill.

8vo. 16 pp.

[A. A. CampbelL]

ULSTER BIBLIOGRAPHY. 57

ARMAGH.
By Rf:v. W. T. Latimer, b.a.

In reference to the article by E. R. McC. I)ix, dealing with Ulster Bibliography (vol. vi,
I>age 246), permit me to say that the celebrated Brief Survey of Rev. Dr. Thomas Clark was
printed in 1751 l)y William Dickie oi .Armagh. It consists of 104 pages (7 by 4^ inches),
very closely printed, and is a most interesting publication, as it throws great light on the
object of the Seceders in coming to Ireland, and on the state of matters in the Synod of
Ulster at that period. I send you an exact copy of the title-page for publication.

Brief Su^^cy

OK SOMK

PRINCIPLES
Maintained, l)y the (Jkneral Synod of Ulsprr,

AND

PR.ACTICES
Carry 'd on by several Members thereof.

Wherein is made evident, That said Synoii have Judicially A/^ptoveJy
of several Principles^ known by the Xame Ne:U'Light : And that not
a few of its Members are many Ways disorderly in their conduct.

Also, that the AssocicUe JudicaXories in Scotland, are by .
Messrs. K'ing and Lyndy &c very unjustly charged with Irregularity^
in granting Supplys, to some Congregations in Ireland: And
further, that by said Authors, they are falsely accused with
the Errors of Antiuotnianism^ and Universal Hedemplion^ ^Sr*^.

The "Whole being
A Reply to a late Printed Missive^ from the Rev'd NU
James Orr, at Cockle- Hill and County of Armagh ^ or
his Amanuensis,

By a Probationer, belonging to the Afsoc, Presb of Glasgow,

Whereunto is annex'd an Afpendlx,
Containing a few Marks, whereby Persons may easily perceive
the Difference, between an honest Subscribing CalvinisCs
sermon, and a New- Light- Man's Discourse.

Prov. xviii. 17. He that is first in his own cause see met h Just :
but his Neighbour cometh and searcheth him.

I Pet iii. 25. Be ye ready always, to give a Reason of the
Hope that is in you.

Armagh Printed and Sold by William Dickie, also by M^ Samuel
Adams Merchant in Monaghan, M^ /ohn Anderson
in Six-mile-cross, M^ fames Paterson in Maghera,
and by M^ James Hutcheson in Dromore, &c, 175 1.

Hrmorial Sculptured Stones of the County HiUrim.

By FRANCIS JOSKPH BICG1-:R ani> HERBERT HUdHES.

( Coiitinutd frosi page 244, vol. vr.}

Carncastle pacisb CbuccbsatO.

TWEED.

Here

lyelh

1 h e

hn dy

John

Tweed

u h

died

hell 2

1719

aged

ars

Also

M..^re

\'ounj:

Who

died

Jan

,11..

1740

aged

years.

wife

Roberl

Twee<t

RLNEWEU TLU THE MJEMORY
uf Arcliil.[ald TJw«e.l of

DUUMAIN who died l</" Keli.

iSoo , ngL-d 93 yeiir.s

ami of JANE TWEEI' his wife
aged iOJ years iliai 17"' iJec 1815
ALSO OF AKCHIBALD TWEED
their son who died 14"' July 1816.
aged 68 years

The above arms are worn aw-ay. The date (1831) was cut at a later period.

ARMORIAL SCULPTUREI

HE COUNTY ANTRlfc

WILLSON-CAl.UWELL.

THIS STONK IS EKECTEU BY JAMES
WILLSON IN MEMORY OK HIS WIFE

JANE CALDWELL WHO DEPARTED THI

LIFE 27T-L JULY lSoo AGED 72 YEARS.

THE ABOVE NAMED JAMES WILI.SON

DIED THE loT' JANUARY iSio AGED ^l VEARS.

Alio Iheir son THOMAS , wko died on

the 14''' December 1841 aged 82 yeits.

lyeth
body of
WilMD

Feb e"-

Aged 42 years

SCULPTURED STONES OF THE COUNTY ANTRIM

-iam Wy-

ihis life till- J4"' of February 1777

Here ly elh ihc

Body .. f

Hugh Young

who departed ihis life the K.

Aug' 1799 »««* 72 years

also his vtiit Judith Higgin<K>n

who died on the y' of Felirt

1801 aged 62 years

Also their Hon Thomas Vounf:

who died the 5''' July 1S18 aged 51

Vears

ARMORIAL SCULPTURED STONES OF THE COUSTY ANTRIM.

Here lyeth [he body nf
lame!; Whitrj- who died
Sep', ifi 1757 aged 66

The atHJve is from a large flat slab lying to the west of the church. The
arms are very much worn away, and there is no inscription. The charges as
shown may not be quite correct

UECHARI) COX ROVVK.

Thr following is a Co])}' "f the inHTiiHion laltl} cul [>
Belfasl actor. The monumenl lies flaf on Ihe Gra-s
the nave of Newtownbreda Parish Church.

Richard Cox Rowe

a celebratol conicJian.

II Iteifasl
niveraally ailiiiireil

'111 lheSevenlhorM;iy
MDCCXCIt,

'■Otea.ler. it talents couhi ever l>q^ilc
Thy i«som of cares, an.l insltiiot ihce the while ;
If e'er thnii wast charni'd from (lull anguish nnil woe,
fay a «j;h at a ilebl oV-r the relicks of Ki.we."

The total cmt of this re-cuiting amounted to ^^i Js., anil was iMiil by the following;
Walter tl. Wilson of Itelvoir I'ark, Isaac W. Ward, W. J. Laurence, Robert May. Thoniat
Smyth, Thomas McCowan, lleibL-rt Hughes, and Francis Joseph Uii^er. The inscription wic
quite worn away in vime (ilaces, and -some words could only have been restored by the
I old copy preserved by Isaac W. Ward.

Till- ^t.^.■AK■n^^■R moni'mknt.

liv I UK KlMrilK.

This lengthened insrriptinn .m a recumU-nt slab in I,ayde Abbey, al Ciishendall, nas almost
obliterated. An exact ci>py is given in vol, v, |iage 38, The total eii|wnse amounted ti:
£i los., and this has been discha^ed Ijy Geiirfie O'Neill, the Rev. W, P. Carmody, Mi«
MacNeile, and Krancis Joseph Bigger.

THK MACrWIS ARMOIUAL STON'K.
llv THK p;nrroR.
This smne with ihe Magennis arms -the only one in all Iveagh— was broken inlo pieces, anil
one small jxirlion lost, ll lies cli>se lo ihe eaKi n:xi\ of Ilie ol.l church of Cloncluff. near
Hilllown, in the rjiocese of Droinore. County Down. Il has now been mostly carefully
re-laij on a sobd stone lied, Ihe missinR |w>tiion re|il*ce(l by slone exactly siniilai tu the
older portions, and the inscri|Xion re.cui. The t.ital expense, amounting to ^l I los., was
Iwrne by the Right Honorable the Baron Iveagh. At the same time the adjoining lomb of
Bjiaired and cleaned. I am writing a short paper on this
is » copy of the arms and the inscription ;

IIEia-: LVKTII TEIK HODV

Ol-' CAPT« ARTHUR MAC.I^NIS WHO l»l

PARTKI) THIS I.IFK THK is^h daV OI-

ANNO nOMINI I7J7 IN THK V-

VKARS OK HIS AtiK.

HKRK LVKTII THK BODV OF MRS.
C.\THKKIN MA(;KNIS ALIAS HAL,.
THE WIKK Of CAPT^ ARTHUR
\IAGEXJ-i OF CAHRAH WHO DEPA
RTKl) THIS LH-'K V« iztH DAY OF X-i
I7r3 IN V« V<. V1-:ARS OK H!R AGE.

TMEv liANGOK MO.VU.MKNTS.

Hv TIIK KtilTi-lR.

As Mated in this Jonriml (vol. vi, \age 194, .'fi/.j. I linil ihe .Master..\lasr)n stone and the
Stevenson stone cleaned, rc|iaired, and re.laid olose to ihe chancel, in the Abbey Church
of Bangor, County Down. I also had the Beatrix Hamilton monument brought into the
rhnrch from Ihe oiilsicic, where it had alnnni weathered away, and carefully btnit against
the chancel M'all. The missing letters have been painted on. The two cross-slabs haie also
lieen built into the wall clos<^ at hand, and ihuspteserved from destruction. Ihis has cost
about £$, which has been fully defrayed by W. F. C. S. Corry, John Horner, a Friend,
and Francis Joseph Hig[;er. The unique " sun.dial " cross hat also been careftilly erected in
the rockery at Ihe Ca.,lle by I^rd ClanmorrU.

64 MISCELLANEA.

THE I AMES HOPE MONUMENT.
By the Editor.

This monument, erected by public subscription at Molusk, County Antrim, has been re-cui
and cleaned. The following is the inscription. The last six lines have now been added.

.Sacred
to the memory of

James Hope

who was born in 1764 and died in 1847

one of nature's noblest works

an honest man

steadfast in faith and always hopeful

in the divine protection
in the best era of his country's history

a soldier in her cause
and in the worst of times still faithful to it

ever true to himself and to those

who trusted in him lie remained to the last

unchanged and unchanp;eab1e

in his duty

Also his wife Rose Mullan

Born 3 December 1770 died 25 May 1830

Also his sons

Robert Emmet Hope lx)rn 11 A])ril 181 2 died 23 May 1864

Henry Joy McCracken Ho|:)e bom 16 Jan. 1809 died 19 Jan 1872

Also his father and mother John Hope and Sarah Speers.

The expense of the above was borne by a relative. At the same time the adjoining
obelisk, also erected by public subscription to Luke Mullan Hoj^, the editor of The Rushlight^
was cleaned.

It will thus be observed how much has been done, and all cheerfully paid for. How
much more remains to be done?

REPLY -MS. NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY TO LEGALE.

By J. ViNYCOMB, M.R.I. A., AND THE Rf.V. \V. T. LaTIMER.

In vol. ii, page 73, of the old series of the Ulster Journal \\ill be found **An account of
a Journey of Captain Josias Bodley into Lecale in Ulster, in the year 1602-3," printed in
Latin, with English translation, and occupying twenty-two pages in parallel columns, with
explanatory notes, followed by five pages of remarks — ** to be concluded in the next number,"
but which does not seem to have been carried out, as we failed to trace it again. This
Josias Bodley was the youngest son of John Bodley, whose eldest son was Sir Thomas
Bodley, founder of the library at Oxford called by his name.

ULSTER JOURNAL

Archaeology

ISalli^QaU!^ Castle.'

B* THB LAT« Rbv. CLASSON porter.

HIS castle, which stands at the head
or Ballygally Bay, on the Antrim
coast road, about half way between
Larne and Glenamn, was built in the
year 1615. The date of its erection
is fixed by the following inscription,
which may still be seen over the old
entrance doorway :

1625.

CODIS . PROVIDENS ■ tS . HV
INHERITANS.

Above this inscription is an armorial escutcheon, exhibiting at the lop the
letters I.S. and I.E., which were the initial letters of the names of James Shaw,
by whom the castle was built, and of Isabella Brisbane, his wife. The shield
bears the arms of the Shaw and Brisbane families.

James Shaw, the builder of Ballygally Castle, was a native of Scotland.
He came from Greenock, where his ancestors for many generations had been
the lairds of Greenock. Their genealogy has been traced by competent
authorities up to Macduff, who was Thane of Fife in a.d. 834. The descendants
of the elder branch of the Shaws of Greenock still live on the banks of the
Clyde. For many years past they have borne the name of Stewart in addition to

■ This is a repriot of an article from ttie Lame Reporter, wbich appeared in 1S84, and now

66 BALLVGALLY CASTLE.

their original name of Shaw, and their present head and representative is Sir
Michael Robert Shaw Stewart, Bart., of Ardgowan, near Greenock.

Of this ancient Scottish family, James Shaw, afterwards of Ballygally, was
a younger son. Like many other cadets of Scottish families in those days,
he came to Ireland to push his fortune: He had been apparently in this
country before the year 1606. This, however, was perhaps only on a visit to
friends and relatives. But in t6o6 he seems to have come over with the
view of making Ireland his future residence-

His first Irish location was on
the lands of his brother-in-law,
Sir Hugh Montgomery of Braid-
stane, who had married his sister,
Elizabeth Shaw, and who had got
from King James extensive grants
of land in the district which is
I called "the Ardes," in County
Down. But James Shaw did not
stay long in that locality. In the
course of a few years he left the
County Down.and came toCounty
Antrim, In 1613 we find the
name, "John Shaw of Rallygally,
Gent.," on a County Antrim jury.'
James Shaw's second and per-
manent Irish settlement was in the
parish of Cairncastle, which lies
between the towns of Lame and
Glenarm. There he got consider-
able grants of land, not, however,
direct from the Crown, but from
the Earl of Antrim, the Crown
tenant. That nobleman had, by
letters patent granted in 1603,
THE DOOR— BALL VGA Li,v CASTLE. come into posscssion of a large

tract of territory, which might be roughly said lo extend from Lame to Coleraine
along the coast, and for a considerable distance inland. Out of this Crown
grant his lordship made several sub-grants of lands in perpetuity, at low rents,
to gentlemen who were called "freeholders," but who were practically the
proprietors of the lands which they held. One of these gentlemen free-
holders was James Shaw of Ballygalty,

irsi gave John a5 Ihe builder of 1h(
o James in his own mitnuscript,— Ed,

regard 10 the Chrislian n^unes Jan
■ " ■ his own copy of ih

BALLYGALLY CASTLE. 67

The lands in Caimcastle, which the Shaw family got in this way from the
Earl of Antrim, were conveyed to them by two different grants. One grant
was made, i Feb., 1634, to "John Shaw, the elder, of Ballygellie, in the
county of Antrim, gentleman," of "all that eighteen score acres of land in
Ballygellie, aforesaid, Tarnemoney, Nogher, Carncaslen, and Corcermain," to
hold for ever in fee farm, at the yearly rent of twenty-four pounds sterling.
Another was made, 8 Aug., 1637, almost exactly similar. A grant had been
made on 21 Feb., 162 1, to "John Shaw, the younger, of Carnefenoge, in
the county of Antrim, gentleman," of " the six score acres of Carnefenoge,
and the four score acres of the north part of Corcormehan, and the south
part of Ballyreddie," to hold for ever in fee farm, at the yearly rent of
j£^3 '3s. 4d. sterling. We can find no record of a grant of Ballygally made
at the time of the building of the castle. The exact relationship between the
two John Shaws to whom these two grants were severally made we do not
know; but, in all probability, John Shaw the younger was the son, although
perhaps not the eldest son, of John Shaw the elder.

On the lands of Ballygally thus granted, the Shaws proceeded to build
the castle, which is still standing, and of which we are now to speak. The
precise year in which they began this work we cannot tell. The stones with
which the castle is built are said to have been brought from Scotland; but
this is not so, as they are mostly local. Some of the cut stone may have been
so brought. The date over the doorway (1625) was probably the date of its
completion. It was built on the model of the French chiteau: a style of
architecture which had been introduced into Scotland during the reign of Mary,
Queen of Scots, who, as the wife of the Dauphin of France, had resided for
some time in that country. The characteristic features of this class of buildings
are fully exhibited in the high walls, the steep roof, the dormer windows, and
the corner turrets (sometimes disrespectfully called "pepper-boxes"), which are
still to be seen in Ballygally Castle. This was the style of architecture which
was almost invariably adopted by the Scottish settlers in Ulster in the
seventeenth century. The old castle at Kilwaughter, on the site of which
the present modern castle has been built, was originally of the same form of
structure, and probably of much the same size, as the castle which the Shaws
built at Ballygally. The English settlers, on the other hand, generally built
their residences in the shape of " bawns," the remains of one of which may
be seen in Dalway*s stable-yard at Bellahill, near Carrickfergus.

At the time when Ballygally Castle was built, the country round about it
was in a very unsettled condition. It was, therefore, built so as to serve for
a place of defence as well as of residence. Its walls were about five feet thick,
and were perforated with loop-holes for musketry, whilst its corner turrets, or
flanking towers as they might be called, were furnished with apertures for a
similar purpose. The stairs in the inside of the building were of stone, and

68 BALLYGALLY CASTLE.

spiral. Through the outer hall ran an open stream of water for the use of
the inmates in case of siege, and above the dormer windows were some
carvings, which, having been lately cleaned and renewed, are still traceable.
The other windows of the castle, as they appear at present, are modern.

Outside of Ballygally Castle there were originally two courtyards, the one
within the other, and both were surrounded by high walls. The extent of
the outer courtyard is indicated in the present day by two circular stone
pillars, with conical tops, which are still standing a few perches up the road
leading inland from Ballygally, and on which one of the gates of the outer
courtyard was hung. This outer wall ran round the entire precincts of the
castle until at either end it came to the sea, which was, of course, the boundary
in that direction. The extent of the inner courtyard is marked by two square
stone pillars, surmounted by round stone balls, which are at the present
entrance gate, and also by a single pillar of a similar description, which has
been left standing at the road side, whilst its companion pillar was knocked
down to make way for the present shore road.

Within the premises thus enclosed there were erected domestic office-
houses of various kinds. These office-houses were much more numerous and
extensive than the present circumscribed area around the castle would lead
one to suppose. They comprised stables for a considerable number of horses,
coach-houses, byres, and sheep-pens, together with a brew-house and a dove-
cot Immediately outside of the outer courtyard there were a wash-house
and a scutch-mill, whilst in the little glen on the other side of the river, which
runs close to the castle, there was a corn-mill. This latter mill was supplied
with water brought from Weyburn by a mill-race through a field, which from
that circumstance is still called "the Race-park"; in the same way as an
adjoining field is known as " the dam meadow,'' from its having been the site
of the old mill dam. Another field near the castle is called " the Coach
Green," either because it was there that the family coach was kept, or because
it was to that open space that the coachman was obliged to bring that vehicle
when he wished to turn it, seeing that such an operation could certainly not
have been performed on any road that was then at Ballygally.

We have seen that Ballygally Castle was built for purposes of defence as
well as residence; and it was not long until its services in the former capacity
were put in requisition. When the wars of 1641 broke out, it was one of the
few places in County Antrim which was strong enough to afford shelter to
the Protestants. At the beginning of the rebellion, its owner, James Shaw,
who had succeeded his father, John Shaw, determined to provide as well
as he could for the safety of himself and of those who were dependent upon
him. With this object in view, he collected within the walls of his castle
at Ballygally his servants and as many of his tenants and neighbours
as he could accommodate, and, closing his castle gates, stood manfully

BALLYGALLY CASTLE. 69

at bay. Being called over to Scotland about Christmas in 1641, he left
this castle, with its little garrison, in charge of his agent, James Cromie of
the Droagh. Shaw had a son, John Shaw; but that gentleman was, at
the time we speak of, an officer in the regular army, and as such was
serving with his regiment in the town of Antrim, which was then besieged by
the Irish. But for this circumstance, we are sure that Captain John Shaw
would have taken the command of the fortress at Ballygally when his father
was obliged to leave it and go to Scotland.

At the time when Shaw closed his castle gates against the insurgents
in 1 64 1, there was an Irish garrison stationed at Glenarm, which was the
source of terror to all the Protestants of the neighbourhood. The soldiers
of this garrison, being horsemen, scoured the country in all directions; and
often, but vainly, tried to force an entrance into the castle of Ballygally,
whose inmates they kept in a state of continual alarm. On occasions of this
kind, these horsemen are said to have committed great atrocities. One of
their exploits is detailed in an official document of the period. Amongst the
Protestants who were shut up at this time in Ballygally Castle were John
Jamieson of Ballygawn and his family. Provisions being scarce, this
John Jamieson one day sent his two sons and his daughter to his barn,
which was about three-quarters of a mile distant from the castle, to fetch corn
for their subsistence. Whilst they were on this errand, the party were set
upon by six horsemen from Glenarm, who pursued them for their lives. One
of the lads escaped by plunging into a river, which the horsemen could not
cross; but the other lad and his sister were taken, and brought into Glenarm,
where the former was hanged over the bridge, and the latter was kept a
prisoner for six or seven weeks. It is further stated that on the same occasion
this party took a young boy called William Hunter, whom they brought with
them to Glenarm, and there drowned him, keeping him under water with
their pikes till he died. In fairness, we must add that the garrison of Bally-
gally were not slack in making reprisals for this sort of work. They also had
horses, on which they often rode out of their quarters for a considerable
distance, partly for the purpose of fetching in victuals out of the country, but
partly also for the less innocent purpose of "doing service" (as it was called)
"upon the Irish"; that is, killing as many Irish as they could fall in with.
In these retaliatory expeditions the garrison of Ballygally were generally
joined by another party of Protestants from the neighbourhood, under the
command of Captain John Agnew of Kilwaughter, who had married Eleanor
Shaw, the daughter of the first Squire of Ballygally.

In course of time, the rebellion was stamped out, principally by the iron
heel of Oliver Cromwell. But under the rule of the English Commonwealth,

Shaw of Ballygally was as near losing his castle and estate as he had

been during the rebellion. Shaw was a Presbyterian, and it is well known

7© BALLYGALLY CASTLE.

that the Ulster Presbyterians of his day could never be brought to acknow-
ledge allegiance to the Cromwellian Government. The consequence was that
in 1653 the Protector conceived the idea of transporting those opposed to
him out of the Northern provinces, where they were a thorn in his side,
to the province of Munster, where he thought they could not cause him
so much annoyance as they had hitherto done. In pursuance of this plan,
lists were made out of the Northern Presbyterians who were to be thus
transported. On the list for Glenarm barony appears the name of James
Shaw of Ballygally; and as that gentleman was then a person of considerable
note and influence, he, in conjunction with Sir Robert Adair of Ballymena,
was appointed by the Parliamentary Commissioners to go to Tipperary
to inspect the lands which were destined for the reception of himself
and his neighbours. Nothing, however, eventually came of this notable
scheme; and, therefore, Shaw was not, at this time, transported to Tipperary,
but was allowed to continue in possession of his castle and estate at
Ballygally.

In 1 64 1 Ballygally Castle had, as we have seen, been attacked and
successfully defended. About 1680 it was again attacked and actually taken.
On this latter occasion the capture partook more of the nature of a burglary
than of a regular onslaught. It took place under the following circumstances.
The forfeitures which followed the wars of 1641 had left the sons and other
dependents of the dispossessed Irish proprietors in a state of utter destitution.
Hitherto those people had lived in idleness, as hangers-on with their respective
chiefs, spending their time in shooting, hunting, hawking, and fishing. Now,
however, all this was put an end to. Being, therefore, " to dig unable, and to
beg ashamed,'' many of them took to reprisals, as they got the opportunity,
on the houses of the English and Scotch settlers by whom they had been
supplanted in their lands. Men of this class were popularly called "Tories"
(a name which had then a very different signification from what it has now);
and we are told that it was "by Tories of Londonderry" that Ballygally
Castle, though said to be then " a strong house," was, at the period above
referred to, "robbed and plundered." To the present day tradition always
speaks of Ballygally Castle having been on this occasion " robbed by gentle-
men." And "gentlemen," so far as their Irish rank was concerned, "the
Tories of Londonderry," by whom that feat was performed, most probably
were. But the gentility of persons of their class was very little regarded by
their triumphant enemies. These "gentle" robbers, whenever they could be
caught, were most ungently treated. People were paid for killing them, in
the same way as money used to be given for the head of a wolf or other wild
beast. In the Records of County Antrim Grand Jury there are, about this
time, many presentments of different sums (generally ^^5) to be paid to
different people "for killing a Tory." Under these circumstances, it is not

BALLYGALLY CASTLE. 7 1

likely that " the Tories of Londonderry," when, about 1680, they got possession
of Ballygally Castle, would continue there for any length of time. They
would probably content themselves with sacking the building, and then return
to the woods and fastnesses from which they had issued on their marauding
expedition.

A few years after the "robbing" of Ballygally Castle, as above described,
the inmates of that mansion were once more put into a state of the greatest
terror and alarm. It seemed as if the days of 1641 were coming back again.
In 1689 a rumour spread over the Province of Ulster, and was generally
believed, that, on the 9th of December in that year, there was to be a general
massacre of the English and Scotch in that part of Ireland. The .trepidation
which this rumour caused in every English and Scotch residence in the province,
and, amongst others, doubtless in the castle of Ballygally, has been well
described by Lord Macaulay in his history, where he says: ** Every large
country house became a fortress, every visitor who arrived after nightfall was
challenged from a loop hole or barricaded window, and if he attempted to
enter without pass -words and explanations, a blunderbuss was presented at
him. On the dreaded night of the 9th of December there was scarcely one
Protestant mansion, from the Giant's Causeway to Bantry Bay, in which armed
men were not watching, and lights burning from early sunset to the late
sunrise." The alarm proved to be unfounded, and Ballygally Castle was not
at this time disturbed. But this would not have been long the case if King
James had succeeded in his contest with King William; for amongst the
persons who were attainted for high treason by King James's Irish Parliament
in 1689, and whose possessions were declared to be forfeited, was Captain
Patrick Shaw of Ballygally, who was said to be then in Ireland.

After these wars and rumours of wars in connection with Ballygally Castle,
it is pleasant to come to a more peaceful incident in its history. Towards the
middle of the eighteenth century a considerable addition was made to the
castle buildings. The Squire of that day, Henry Shaw, had married a Miss
Hamilton, of the family of Sir John Hamilton of Donemana, in County
Tyrone. This lady had two sisters, one of whom had been married to the

last Lord Slane, and the other to a Nixon of County Fermanagh. Both

of these ladies, having been left widows without families, came to live with
their sister, Mrs. Shaw, in Ballygally. As Mrs. Shaw had several children,
the old castle was found to be too small to meet the requirements of so large
an addition to the family, more especially as Lady Slane and Mrs. Nixon
doubtless brought with them a retinue of servants, as became ladies of their
rank and position. It was, therefore, found necessary to build an addition to
the castle. This was done at the west corner, and the two buildings were
connected by a passage which led from the one to the other. This additional
building was sometimes called "the new room," and sometimes "Madam

72 BALLYGALLY CASTLE.

Nixon's room." It is now separate from the castle, and is occupied as a
dwelling-house by the tenant of the castle farm.^ We may mention that the
names of Lady Slane and Madam Nixon are still associated with Ballygally
in another way. A few perches outside of the present entrance to the castle
there was formerly a well, which, in honour of Lady Slane, was called
"My Lady's Well"; and at the foot of Ballygally hill there still is another
well which was called " Madam Nixon's Well," in honour of the lady of that
name. Madam Nixon died at Ballygally, and for many years it was said that
she haunted the castle, walking about the passages at night, attired in a silk
dress, and amusing herself by knocking at the doors of the different rooms.
Latterly, the old lady has not been heard of at Ballygally.

So late as the close of the eighteenth century, Ballygally Castle was again
used as a fortress. The circumstances under which this anachronism was
perpetrated were so very peculiar that we are tempted to lay them before our
readers. In doing so, we shall somewhat encroach on what ought to be the
sacred ground of family history; but we believe that there is not a person now
living whose feelings will be hurt by the relation of the following curious
story, which we heard many years ago, on indisputable authority, and for the
truth of which, therefore, we think we may venture to vouch. At the period
to which we now allude, the proprietor of Ballygally was John Shaw, the
third of that name who had occupied that position. This John Shaw had
married a cousin of his own, a Miss Hamilton, by whom he had no family.
Being thus without issue, he had, many years before his death, adopted as his
heir Henry, the eldest son of his brother, William Shaw. This boy, when
he was only nine or ten years of age, he had brought to Ballygally, and there
educated as the future inheritor of his estate.^ John Shaw had a sister married
to a Dr. M*Cullough, who lived in Lame, but was not a native of that town.
This Dr. M'CuUough, during his visits to Ballygally, did all he could to turn
his brother-in-law against his nephew and destined heir. In this he seems to
have succeeded. At length, he one day persuaded John Shaw to accompany
him into Larne, professedly only to stay over one night. On the following
morning Shaw was so ill that he could not be moved. His nephew and
other friends, hearing of his illness, called at Dr. M'Cullough's house to
inquire after him, but were never allowed to see him. In the course of five
or six weeks, after his removal to Larne, Dr. M*Cullough went out to Bally-
gally, and, in the absence of Henry Shaw, took possession of the castle, and
left a person in charge to keep it for him. It then transpired that John
Shaw was dead, and that on the very night after his death he had been buried
at midnight in the churchyard of Cairncastle, with no persons at his funeral

* This house has been recently rebuilt. — Ed.

* The celebrated David Manson lived for some years in Ballygally Castle as a tutor, where
one of the rooms was long called David Manson' s room.

BALLYGALLY CASTL£. 73

but those that were necessary to inter him. Dr. M'CuIlough also produced a
will, which he alleged had been made by the late John Shaw, and by which
that gentleman's entire property of every kind was left to him (Dr. M*Cullough).
On the strength of this will, Dr. M'Cullough took possession of the estate,
as he had already done of the castle, of Ballygally, and Henry Shaw, who
had been the heir-presumptive, was ousted from his expected home and
inheritance. His recovery of either was a matter of considerable difficulty.
His re-entry into the castle was effectually barred by Dr. M'CuUough's
seneschal, who kept constant watch and ward at one of the windows with a
loaded blunderbuss, and the estate could only be got by a tedious process of
law. But to the law Henry Shaw did appeal; and in due form commenced
legal proceedings for the ejection of Dr. M'Cullough from the castle and
estate of Ballygally. These proceedings lasted for three or four years.
During that time Dr. M'Cullough remained in possession of the Ballygally
estate; and as the owner thereof dt f<uto^ if not dt jure^ he granted to the
tenants of some of the best farms thereon leases of their holdings, in
perpetuity, at low rents, in consideration of their giving him sums of money
wherewith to defend the suit which had been brought against him by the
young heir. At length the case came on for trial at Carrickfergus in 1790,
and had been at hearing for some days, when Dr. M*Cullough's lawyers
proposed a compromise. To this proposal Henry Shaw, most unfortunately,
and contrary to the advice of bis counsel, acceded ; whereupon it was agreed
between the litigants that Dr. M^CulIough should give up quiet and peaceable
possession of the castle and estate of Ballygally to Henry Shaw, and for
so doing should receive the sum of ^^4,000. It was also a part of the
arrangement that the leases which Dr. M'CuUough, during his possession of
the estate, had given to many of the tenants, in the way above described,
should, if otherwise valid, not be impugned by Henry Shaw. This was the
beginning of the end of the Shaws of Ballygally. When, in fulfilment of this
disastrous compromise, the young heir (then 30 years of age) got possession
of his estate, he got it not only burdened with a heavy debt, but also with its
rental reduced by about one-half, by the leases in perpetuity which Dr.
M'Cullough had granted to many of the tenants. Leases of that kind had
been previously too often given ; but this wholesale alienation of the best part
of the property put the tombstone over the family and the estate. We may
add that Henry Shaw, even when he got possession of the castle of Ballygally,
did not make it his residence. He lived at Weyburn, in the house of the
Rev. John Lewson, Presbyterian minister of Caimcastle, whose daughter he
had married, and only came down to the castle to look after the adjoining
farm, which he held in his own hand.

Henry Shaw died in 1799. He left an only son, William Shaw, the last
Squire of Ballygally, who, at the time of his father's death, was a child of six

74 BALLYGALLY CASTLE.

years of age. On attaining his majority, he took possession of the home
of his ancestors, which he improved in various ways, and made more suitable
for a modern residence than it had hitherto been. Unfortunately, he did not
long continue in Ballygally. He was induced to embark in business in
Belfast ; and, setting the castle and farm to a tenant on lease for thirty-one
years, he went to reside as a merchant in the Metropolis of Ulster, where he
succeeded so badly that in 1820 he sold his estate for ;^ 15,400 to the late
Jones Agnew, whose heir is now the owner of Ballygally. On the expiration
of the lease granted by William Shaw, Ballygally Castle was for several years
occupied as a coastguard station. It is now occupied by the widow and
family of the writer of the present sketch of its history.

Sometimes the castle of which we have been speaking is called 0'Halloran*s
Castle, and many people evidently think that it was once occupied, if not
indeed actually built, by a man of that name. But this is a most egregious
error. Such a person as 0*Halloran never had any connection with Bally-
gally. Indeed, such a person as O'Halloran never lived. The mistake has
been caused by Dr. M*Henry's novel of that name, where the hero is
represented as living at Ballygally. But only in the imagination of our late
talented fellow- townsman did such a man as O'Halloran ever live there, or
anywhere else. Of all perverts of history, historical novels have been the
worst. If Ballygally Castle is to be named after any person, it ought certainly
to be called Shaw's Castle, after the family by whom it was built and occupied
for 200 years.

We have now nothing more to say with respect to the castle of Ballygally;
but, with respect to the family whose residence it was for so many years, we
may be allowed to add that they long occupied a good position among the
gentry of Ulster, and that they intermarried with some of the most respectable
families in the North of Ireland. Their matrimonial connections included
the Uptons of Castle Upton (now Lord Templetown), the Hamiltons of
Castle Hamilton, the Stewarts of Killymoon, the Agnews of Kilwaughter,
and many others. A gold watch and a diamond ring, which were given to
Mai^aret Upton on her marriage, in 1660, to James Shaw of Ballygally, were
kept .as heirlooms in the Shaw family, and as such were handed down to the
eldest daughter of the house from generation to generation. There is now
no such daughter. The last Squire Shaw was an only son, and died unmarried.
His four sisters are also dead. So far, therefore, as the name is concerned,
there is now no Shaw of Ballygally, either male or female. But the blood of
the old stock is not extinct. It still runs in the veins of a highly respectable
Scottish family, the Brisbanes of Brisbane, in Ayrshire — one of whose paternal
ancestors, James Shaw of Ballygally, on marrying in 1657 his cousin,
Elizabeth Brisbane, took the name, and inherited the estate of Brisbane
of that ilk.

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The following architectural descripiion of the castle has been written and
the accompanying plans and drawings made by VV. J, Fennell, m.r.i.a.I, :

The house or castle — for it is a blend of both, being built in times when
men's houses were in reality their castles, and had to be defended as such —
presents a bold, solid-looking appearance from every point of view. The
south-east sides are those which catch the traveller's eye first, and arrest
attention with their defiant and masculine appearance. The cai

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no cultured detail, but has a stately dignity of its own, from its size and
strength, and the old-time quaintness of the angle turrets, the high-pitched
roof, and the small windows— the smaller ones like peep-holes timidly ventur-
ing to look out

The plan of the house may be taken as a rectangle with a flanking square
tower at the north-east angle, built for the important purpose of containing
the entrance and the stairs. The latter are of stone and unusually wide and
spiral, communicating with each of the four floors. They are well lighted by
windows of small dimensions, widely splayed on the inside of the walls, whose
great thickness gives the splay a fine effect, and is a means of dispersing the

76 BALLYGALLV CASTLE.

light, while it had the advantage of covering an enemy in time of attack. The
door was on the land side of this lower, and a reference to the plan will show
how well it was covered by the loop-holes, which in times of quietude served
as windows. These and some others still remain unaltered. The door was
dressed with roughly-moulded stones, and has still the old square lintel con-
taining its pious motto and the date of its erection — 1625 — over which the
armorial panel is placed in its true and proper position.

It will take the investigating visitor some time to discover this door and
its dressings, as they are covered in by modern additions, the door itself
now forming an inner one to the stairs. The present hall-door is modem ;

•Boiwper- "'" -Etornpe^

its position in all probability being once occupied by a small window or loop-
hole. The same may be said of all the existing windows on every floor, as
they have been enlarged to come into touch with modern ideas of comfort :
we may perhaps except the dormers, considering them as old ones out of
the reach of danger.

On the ground floor the points of interest are the unusual thickness of the
wall which once held the great open fire-place, the stairs, the loop-holes, and
the old well, now closed up, but two centuries ago a most necessary possession
inside a castte. All the floors, or rooms, are low in height, and have little
or no evidence of sub-divisions, the present arrangement of rooms dating
possibly from the time the house passed into the family of the present
occupiers.

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The great thicknesses of the walls demand attention, and can be seen best
in the pTesent drawing-room window recesses. These walls are built of rude
masonry, boulder-stones being pressed into service, and the thickness has
afforded opportunities of forming cupboards and one fairly large store.

The angle turrets now form cosy nooks in the bedrooms, but when their
loop-holes were open they had a stem reality of purpose, and, completely
commanding the wall faces on every side, afforded an ample means of pro-
tection, while in their more peaceful functions they are refreshing features
of quaintly-fashioned detail While they remain, the eye will never weary of

rthe building ; but, remove them, and it will become
comparatively unnoticed and uninteresting.
The hatched portion of our
plan shows the recent additions,
and it may safely be considered
that the garden wall and its tur-
ret and the gate piers grew as
adjuncts with the advancing times
of peace and security. It may
also be considered fairly certain
that the approach from the land
side for long after 1615 was by a
bridle-path only, and that one of
the chief highways to it was the sea
MOULDING. jjj^j breaks within a few yards of it.

2)catb of fl>alacb^ III,, Kisbop of 2)own.

Bv THB Rbv. JAMES O'LAVERTV, p.p.. m.r.i.a.

|HERE is in the library of the Marquis of Villoulrey,
Chateau de Plessis, Villoutrey, Maine et Loire, the
manuscript "Memoires Historiques du pais d'Anjou
et du Dudi6 de Beaufort," by Dubenson Aubenay,
written in the seventeenth century, but without a date.
In tiiese Memoirs, at page 3, is the following entry :
"Ex Kalendarioi Sancti M auric i i— Mai us— Kal. 3. —
Malachias Lugdunensis Episcopus et Arniachan etectus, qui venlens ad regeni
Anglorum obiit Andegavis et sepultus in ecclesia nostra juxia altare Sanctse
Fidis (?)" ["April 29th — Malachias, Bishop of Lyons {Lugdunensis recle
Dunensis, of Down), coming to the King of the English, died at Angers, and
was buried in our church, near the altar of St. Faith."] The Memoirs, at page
laa, have the following entry: "In that same division, about the north of the
transept of St. Maurice's, is the tomb of Jean Michel, Bishop of Angers,
renowned for his sanctity, on which account the chapel of the transept is
commonly called the Chapel of Jean Michel. When they were taking down
an altar of the chapel about Easier of 1639, they found the tomb of a Bishop,
supposed by some to be an Archbishop of Lyons, Malachy, who, having come
to Angers to visit the King of England, died there, and was buried in the
Church of St. Maurice, near the altar of St. Foy, of which the obituary of
St Maurice's (Cathedral of Angers) makes mention. There were some
remains of the chasuble and the episcopal robes, but they fell into dust when
they were handled, and it was with difficulty that some of the canons were
able to preserve some little pieces out of curiosity. . . . The canons
caused the tomb to be carefully closed up."

■ The Kaiindarium of a church always enleted the dale of Ihc chit, or dealh. of a person
whose body was inlened in the church, in order that prayers might be offered up for the soul on
the anniversary of the obit. Si. F.iiih, or Fides, virgin and martyr, suffered a most glorious

coast of France, and devotion to her was inlToduced into England by the Normans. Tlie Chnpel
of St. Failh, in the crypt of St. Paul's, in London, was famous, as Dugdale, in Ihe history of that
church, relates. There is also Ihe well-known Chapel of St Faith in Westminster Abbey.

DEATH OF MALACHY III., BISHOP OF DOWN. 79

These interesting " Memoires Historiques " ^ throw a flood of light on the
history of Malachy III., Bishop of Down. The Bishop's name in his own
language was Echmilidh ("horse soldier"), pronounced nearly Aghilly, a name
which occurs among the chiefs of the MacCartans; but in all the public
documents that have come down to our times, he signed his name Malachias.
He became Bishop of Down in the year 117 5. Two years afterwards John
de Courcy invaded Ulster and made himself master of Downpatrick. In one
of the attempts of the Irish to drive out the invaders, the Bishop was made
prisoner, but was released by the intervention of the legate Vivian. Malachy
joined with De Courcy in many changes made in the arrangements of the
diocese. De Courcy destroyed the Abbey of Erenagh, in the parish of
Bright, and expelled its monks ; but, to make amends to God, he rebuilt the
Abbey of Inch for Cistercians, whom he brought from England. He rebuilt
the Cathedral of Down, but caused the Bishop to expel the Prior and convent
of secular canons who formed the chapter, to make room for Prior William de
Ethesdale and a convent of Benedictine monks, whom he imported from
Chester, and whom Bishop Malachy constituted the new chapter of his
cathedral. On this chapter Malachy conferred see lands of the diocese of
Down. By another charter he conferred on the monks of St. Bees, on the
coast of Cumberland, the church in Mahee Island, in Lough Strangford,
together with two-thirds of all the benefices and lands belonging to that
church — these lands constitute the valuable estate at Castle Espie, at present
belonging to the representatives of the late James Craig, Esq. — together with
Ballynoe and Leggamaddy, in the parish of Bright, and other lands. This
was possibly the effect of Norman dictation, though he says, or is made to say :
"I, Malachy, by the grace of God, Bishop of Down, not being compelled
by anyone, but through devotion to the Lord, by spontaneous will have
conferred," etc. Ware states that his successor, Ralph, Abbot of Melrose, in
Scotland, was appointed in 1202, though the Annals of Lough Ke record his
death under the year a.d. 1204 — '* Echmilidh, son of the Comarb of Finnen,
Bishop of Uladh (Down) died" — and the Anjou documents assign the 29th of
April as the day of his death. In those documents he is designated as
Archbishops-elect of Armagh. According to Ware and all the published Irish
Annals, Primate Tomaltach O'Connor died in 1201. That learned prelate
and Malachy, Bishop of Down, induced the Cistercian monk Jocelin to write
the Life of St. Patrick. Upon the death of the Primate, a great dispute arose
concerning the election of his successor. According to Ware, the disputants

1 Early in December, the Rev. T. Houdbine, Professor of History in the Institution Libre de
Combree, Maine et Loire, wrote to the Most Rev. Dr. Henry that there was an entry, in the
Kalendarium of the Cathedral of Angers, of the interment of Malachias, Bishop of Lyons
(Lugduneiisis), who, having been elected Archbishop of Armagh, came to Angers to the King of
England, and died there. The learned professor, knowing that no Archbishop of Lyons had t^n
elected to Armagh, concluded that Lugdunensis was a mistake of some transcriber for Dunensis.
P^e Houdbine has kindly sent me a full transcript of the manuscript. The Kalendarium of the
Cathedral has been destroyed.

8o DEATH OF MALACHY III., BISHOP OF DOWN.

were Simon Rochford, Bishop of Meath; Ralph le Petit, Archdeacon of Meath;
and Humphrey Tickbull, or de Tikebull : each of whom pretending to be the
person on whom the election fell It is impossible to believe that these
foreigners were the persons selected by the electors of Armagh. '* On August
15th, 1202, King John renewed an appeal before the Legate, then in Ireland,
against the Bishops of Clogher, Clonmacnoise, Kells, and Ardagh, the
Archdeacon of Armagh, and others, who had shown a manifest desire to
work against the King's right respecting the vacant church of Armagh "
(Sweetmaris Calendar^ vol. i). King John conferred the Archbishopric on
De Tikebull on the 4th of May, 1203 9 ^^^ ^^ ^^^ 22 nd of the same month he
sent mandatory letters to the Bishops of the province of Armagh, that Eugene,
called " the elect of Armagh/' had, against the King's consent, and after the
King's appeal to the Pope, gone to Rome to secure his promotion, and
commanded them, if he should return, not to receive him as Archbishop.
That Eugene, "the elect of Armagh," was Echdonn (Latinized Eugenius)
MacGille Uidhir, whose election was confirmed by Innocent III. ; and he
ruled the See of Armagh till his death, in 12 16, in Rome, when he was
attending the Fourth General Council of Lateran. In no document preserved
in these countries does the name of Malachy III. of Down appear as having
been put forward by any section of the electors for the vacant Primacy ; yet
from the Anjou documents it would seem that he was even styled the " Elect "
of Armagh. It is not likely that the uncertainty that clouds the last years of
the life of Echmilidh, or AghoUy, of Down, will ever be removed.

Kronse OcsscI foun& near ausbcn&all, Co, Hntrim.

Bv THB Rev. VV. P. CARMODY, Rector or Connor.

aHIS bronze pot was discovered by Patrick MacKillop of
Foriff, near Cushendall, in February 1895: it remained
in his house till quite recently. 1 heard of it from
Miss K. MacDonnell of Cushendall Cottage Hospital,
who asked me to see it and procure it for her. I am
unable to say to what period it belongs. It cannot be
classed as prehistoric, though it is undoubtedly some
centuries since it was in use.

It was found 18 inches beneath the surface when making a drain
in the townland of Knockans, just at the foot of Lulrg-edan, in that damp,
heavy soil described locally as "lough till." The legs, which are massive,
appear to be both riveted and soldered ; the joints are not riveted, but
soldered. There are several holes in it about the size of a pin-head, and
marks where other such holes have been soldered. The diameter at the
lip is 9 inches; at the centre, 11 inches; the height is ci^ inches, and
the weight 14 lbs.

It is the first bronze vessel found in this locality that I am aware of, and
there is no remains of a former residence in the immediate neighbourhood
where it was found It is too modern to suppose that it tumbled down
from the rath on the summit of Luirg-edan. Patrick MacKillop and his
neighbours seem to have satisfied themselves that it was one of the cooking
utensils used In Red Bay Castle, about two miles away, when it was inhabited ;
and though it would be very difficult to prove this, it is possible that it may
belong to that period. If this conjecture be true, it is now restored to the
MacDonnell family, being in the possession of Miss K. MacDonnell, in
the beautiful Cottage Hospital at Cushendall, and is highly treasured by her.

Some fflotes on tbc ©l& Jiieb "Svoeat* bouses"
at assaroe, IBall^sbannoii ; aiiD l?tnlouab, Co. Xcitrim,

anO on several 'Ku&e Stone ■flDoimments near BunOoran
and fiall^Bbannon.

By F. W. LOCKWOOD.

DO not remember this interesting class of structures

to have been noticed, at least in the new series of

the Ulster Journal. A number of them have been

described in the R.S.A.'s Journal for January 1890.

S, F. Milligan meiitJons one near Blacklion, Co.

Cavan ; one near Maghera, Co. Derry ; and another

near Pomeroy, Co. Tyrone. His informant, regarding

the latter, stated that his father remembered three or four others in that

vicinity. These all seem to have been long disused ; but S. F. Milligan states

in a note that another one of which he had . been (old, in Co. Cavan, was at

that time still sometimes used in the cure of rheumatism.

The one at Assaroe is an interesting specimen, and varies slightly from
some others described, in that it is scarcely large enough to hold more than
one person at a time. It is an irregular circle in plan, having an inside
diameter of no more than 3 ft. 6 in. in one direction, by 3 ft. 3 in. in another.
The height inside is rather more than some described, being 5 ft. it in. The
door, which has sloping jambs, is very small, only i ft. 7 in, high, by i ft.
10 in. wide at the top, and i ft 11 in. at the bottom, so that access was
impossible except upon hands and knees : rather trying we would think for a
rheumatic patient. The upper stones of the chamber slope gradually inward,

NOTES ON OLD IRISH " SWEAT-HOUSBS," ETC 83

and arc closed with a dag in the centre. The walls, of rough stone without
mortar, are 18 in. to 20 in. thick. The whole structure bears the appearance
of great age, being covered with elder bushes, and a very old thorn-tree, split
into two parts, and itself covered with ivy of great age.

There is a curious projecting buttress of rough stone, about 6 ft, in length,
which looks as though it had been built to support the trunk of the thorn-tree,
which has fallen over, as it Is certainly not required for the support of the house
itself. The building stands at the corner of a field, the stone wall of which seems
to have been diverted to pass round its back. A large hole has been broken in
the side, which now forms a second irregular entrance. In several other
places the house was near a pool or stream, so that after the sweat a plunge-
bath could be taken. There is nothing of the sort at Assaroe, unless at the
distance of two tields the Abbey mill dam served that purpose.

The other house is in (he townland of Brookhill, about a mile beyond the
village of Kinlough, Ca Leilrira, upon the old Manor Hamilton road, it is not
quite so perfect as the one at Assaroe, having the back built against a bank, so
that debris has fallen and partly blocked up the sides. Like Assaroe, an opening
has been broken in the wall higher than the door, the stones from which
partly block up the door and cumber the interior. The Internal diameter is
about 4 ft. by 3 ft ti in., and the height, so far as the stones inside would
permit of measurement, about 5 ft. 10 in. ; the door is about the same size as
at Assaroe. Hugh Allingham, M.R I.A., to whom the discovery of both these
is due, states that an old man in the vicinity remembers this one being used.
On inquiry, 1 found that this man Is since dead, but I was directed to another
old man of eighty who lives near, and who pointed out the place. He did
not seem, however, to remember much about its use. A farmer, whom I met
on the road, crossed the field with me to see the house, and stated that when

84 NOTES ON OLD IRISH " SWEAT-HOUSES, ETC.

it was used " very near a cart load of turf " was put in and lighted. On inquiry
as to a pool or plunge-bath, he pointed to a small rivulet near, from which
water could be obtained for that purpose, but his knowledge appeared to be
traditional, and he did not seem to know whether such a bath was a customary
tinish-up or not.

Neither S, F. Milligan nor his informants mention pouring water on ttie
heated stones to generate steam, thus making a vapour as well as a sweat
bath ; but Hugh AUingham informed me it was done at Assaroe. George H.
Kinahan also, in referring to one destroyed over forty years ago by the
revenue officers near the village of Glentidaly, Co. Donegal, mentions the
use of steam, and also of a plunge-pool in an adjoining stream.

Governor Roosevelt, in his Winning of the iVest, vol. i., p. 162, quotes
from a narrative of the Kentucky pioneers of the middle of last century as
curing one of their number by an "Indian sweat," and in explanation refers
to the Indians of the West as building and using little sweat-houses at the
present day.

After Colonel Wood-Martin's elaborate papers on the rude stone monu-
ments of Sltgo, and the numerous notes contributed by George H, Kinahan
and others upon many in Co. Donegal, but little may seem to remain to record
upon this subject. There yet remain, however, a few in the vicinity of Bally-
shannon, which, though mentioned by Hugh Allinghani, who has missed but
little in his history of Ballyshannon, have apparently never yet been figured,

NOTES OK OLD IKISH " SWEAT-HOUSES," ETC. 85

and a most interesting group in the Co. LeitHm, near the coast beyond
Bundoran, which has, so far as we can learn, never been either publicly
figured or even noticed. Several also in the same district, described by Colonel
Wood-Martin, have been so inadequately figured that a fuller representation of
them may perhaps be pardoned.

About three miles from Bundoran, and one from the village of Tullaghan,
in the townland of Wardtown, in the narrow tongue of land that Leitrim
sends down to the sea, and close to the shore, there lies within the narrow
space of two small fields a group of stone monuments, some of which
present very curious features. These do not appear as yet to have been

1 „,^ii^^

f ^1

NOTES ON OLD IRISH " SWEAT- HOUSES," ETC.

anywhere recorded, for Colonel Wood-Martin seems to have overlooked
them. The one nearest the shore, which stands by itself (fig. i), is a fine
example of the cromleac type of "giants' graves," a partly sunk chamber
with a large cap-stone. In the same field is one (fig. a) which may fairly
be described as a regular cromleac, with a large cap-stone resting upon two
upright stones. A few yards from this, in the same field, is a group of
stones (fig. 3), none of them rising much above the surface, which presents

some difficulty of interpretation as to whether it should be described as a
many-chambered single monument, or as a group of some seven or eight
contiguous chambers.

In the next field is another type of monument (fig. 4), a double chamber
with no trace of any covering stone or stones, but with a pillar or head-stone at
one end, which now stands about six feet above the surface (fig. 4a). In the same

NOTES ON OLD IRISH " SWEAT-HOUSES," ETC 8?

field is another (fig. 5), The stones are all greatly slanted in the same
direction; and, as will be seen by the plan, it looks as if several had been
removed. There is another set of slones built into the wall near No. 2, but they

appear too imperfect to need much description, though apparently of the
cromleac type. There is a pillar-stone close lo the shore, about two fields
nearer to Tullaghan.

The next group that claims our attention lies close to the cliff near that sham
antique, "Cassidy's Castle," beside the footpath between Bundrowse and
Bundoraii. These are figured by Colonel Wood-Martin ; but as his figures give
a rather misleading impression of the surround-
ings, we may record them here. The one (fig. 6)
on the edge of the cliff is a very typical "giant's
grave," and is surrounded by a stone circle, two-
thirds of which still remain. It is doubtful
whether Colonel Wood-Martin's suggestion that
the circle was once complete, but has been
removed by encroachment of the sea, is correct ;
though as some quarrying still goes on near,
part of the cliff may well have been undermined.
The grave, however, is by no means in the
centre of the circle, but forms rather one of the
foci of an elongated ellipse. Is it permissible
to suggest that the hero may have had his
chambered tomb placed upon the exact spot,

NOTES ON OLD IRISH "SWEAT HOUSES," ETC.

close to the edge,
where he fell, and
there may never,
therefore, have been
space for a complete
circle of stones round
the central monu-

In the field close
by the adjacent house
is a flat mound, and
in this the curious
arrangement of tow
stones (fig. 7) noted
by Colonel Wood-

^liii^^

On the grounds of the Finner
Camp there are stated to be a num-
ber of remains, but the writer has
been able to find only three of
them; viz., a chambered cam and
two rude "giants' graves." This
earn (fig. 8) has been the subject of
questions in Parliament, for its partial
demolition was attributed by certain
of those who were "agin the
Government" to the Royal Engi-
neers, who took charge of the
camp. They appear, however, to
have been innocent, for it was

Martin. He states that ten
stones are still in position; but
the "general view" given by
is misleading, for there

^ are really sixteen stones, which
form two, and not one, tri-

\angular chambers. In sum-
mer, when the grass is long,
perhaps this is less easily
noticed. What is apparently
a true pillar-stone is in the
same field.

BUNDROWSB

NOTES ON OLD IRISH "SWEAT-

partially demolished, long ere the ca.nip was formed, by a contractor whom
the landlord, — FfoUioit, employed — it is said to protect the antiquities
from depredation — and who began to use the earn Tor a quarry.' Upon
the exposure of the sepulchral chamber and the discovery therein of human
, before the landlord could stop further depredations, a number of

roughs from Ballyshannon, seeking for reputed treasure, had done consider-
able damage to the remains. During the military occupation no further
damage has apparently been done. Near the cam is the "grave" (fig. 9),
which does not call for any special remark. Another one, near the military
wagon camp, is practically an underground chamber : the stones are now very

90 NOTES ON OLD IRISH " SWEAT- HOUSES, ETC

irregular, and ir there was ever a cap-stone or stones, they are no longer
to be seen.

There does not appear now to be any other of the remains upon the camp
ground referred to in the R.S.A.I.'s Journal for September 1896.

On the way to Coolmore, between three and four miles north of Bally-
shannon, are two very fine structures of the largest type of "giants' graves."
Fig. 10, at Coolmore, close to the road to that place, has, or had, two very
large cap-stones: cne of them is still in position, the other lies flat beside it
A carman recently informed us that (he man who " tumbled it," in search of
treasure, died not long after, and he hinted that all these places were
"watched" (by invisible guardians), to protect them from desecration. When
searching for this monument, we made inquiry of an old man upon the road

as to a "giant's grave" anywhere near. He did not seem to know about a
giant's grave ; but, said he, " Did you ever hear of Finn ma Coul 7" " Oh yes,
many a time," we replied. " Well," he said, " people say he was buried there,"
pointing to the monument which happened to be in the next field. Half a
mile nearer Ballyshaniion.in the townland of Corker, and two or three hundred
yards up a cross road to the west, lies the nionutncnl (fig. 1 1 ), one of the lai^est
of its class, the total length being forty-three feet, and most of the covering
stones are still in situ. Access can still be obtained to one of the chambers
formed underneath. Both the foregoing are mentioned in Hugh AUingham's
history of Ballyshannon, and our apology for trespassing upon what is legiti-
inatety his domain is, that his valuable little book contains no plates.

NOTES ON OLD IRISH " SWKAT-HOUSES, ETC. 9I

In this vicinity are also several good specimens of the cashels or stone-
built circular forts. Doubtless the abundance of material may have had a
good deal to do with the use of stone instead of earth for these structures, but
this scarcely explains the fact that within close proximity to each other the
majority should be of earth, whilst one or two, not to be specially distinguished
on account of size, should be of stone. On the road from Ballyshannon to
Coolmore, not long before you reach the ruins of Kilbarron old church, and
turn off towards the giant's grave shown in fig. ii, is a small fort, in the
townland of Creevy, named in the six-inch ordnance map the " Park Fort,"
This has a very perfect rampart of stone about fifteen feet thick, and at present
five or six feet in height, with an inside diameter of forty-three feet In spring
the interior is a perfect paradise of wild flowers— primrose and anemone, blue-

bells and white starwort — to be followed a little later on by wild rose and
woodbine, amidst masses of tall bracken. Close to the giant's grave, on the
summit of a rocky eminence, is another stone fort — Carrickacullen. On the
roadside is another natural curiosity, round which tradition lingers. This is
an ancient and very large wind-swept thorn-tree, whose branches have all been
bent over before the Atlantic blasts, so as to form a dark, cavernous chamber,
within which the belated wayfarer, it is said, may see the fairies dancing in the
twinkling gleam of their magic candles.

We hope on a future occasion to furnish some particulars of the O'Clerys'
rocky fortress of Kilbarron Castle, and also of the old church where, in ancient
times, they probably worshipped.

91 NOTES ON OLD IRISH " SWEAT-HOUSES," ETC.

We have purposely avoided mentioning any of the monuments in County
Sligo described by Colonel Wood-Martin, but visitors to Bundoran, especially
cyclists, should not miss a visit to Cliffoiiy, seven miles along the main road to
Sligo. The magnificent giant's grave mentioned by Colonel Wood-Martin, in
the townland of Cartronplank, can easily be found by taking the cross-road
from the centre of the village towards Ben

Gulban (Bulben) — famous to every Irish _ . _

naturalist — and the grave is about half a
mile distant, on the left-hand side, and
the width of one field from the road. It
is formed of very massive stones, with a
large headstone at the western end 7 feet
6 inches long and 6 feet 6 inches high,
and the grave measures altogether about

25 feet in length. Close to the village is |

also St. Brigid's well, a very interesting little
structure. There are several rude crosses
cut on the steps leading to the water, and
the whole is much dilapidated and covered
with brambles, upon which are hung the
usual assortment of rags. The curious
incised cross (ftg, 12) is now placed against
the enclosure of the wall, evidently not in F'e"" "■

its original position.

[It u with pleasure we learn (hat a n«w history of Ballysha

bullous from the pen of Hugh

Ungham.-ED.J

^be Ulstori? of ?E?nan partsb, in the Hrcb'&ioccsc
of Hrmafib,

With notices of the O'Neills and other territorial Jamilits, the parochial clergy,
ecclesiastical remains, and copies of documents relating to the district.

( Hitkrrit uttpabtishid. ) ( Centinutd from page $'■)

[The manusciipls of thn work have been placed in the hands of the editor by Ihe
governors of the Armagh Library, and by Sir James H. Slronge, Baronel, of Tynan Abbey.
fortunalely, the work was almost completed by the late bishop ; nevertheless, the editor
craves the indulgence of the reader for any errots which may creep into the text, and for
the arrangement of the matier. To follow in ihe wake of Dr. Reeves, and not fail, is no
light task,]

CORDING to these instructions, patents bearing dale
the 14th of December, 1613, were granted to vari.ous
members of the family, assigning them their several
proportions in the manner following ; '

"To Catherine ny Neale, late wife of Terence of
Tirlagh Oge O'Neale, and now wife of Robert
Hovenden, gent., in Mointerbirne territory, Drom-
murre, Kinard, and eighteen other denominations— total, 760 acres. In
Mourany territory, Corrafinghna {now Corfehan), Coolekill, Killcanaoan (now
Tiiidletown), and fourteen other balliboes, containing a total of 1,600 acres.
To hold to her own use for the term of ten years, remainder to Phelemy Roe
O'Neill, son and heir of said Tirlogh, and his heirs.

"Also to the said Catherine, in Moynlerbime territory, twelve denomina-
tions — total, 310 acres — to hold to her own use for life, remainder to her son
Phelemy Roe O'Neale and his heirs for ever. Total rent, ^£4 14s. od. English.
The whole is created the Manor of Kinard, with 500 acres in demesne; with
power to create tetiures, hold court baron, hold a Monday market at Kinard,
and a yearly fair on loth and i ith of June, court of pie powder and usual
tolls, to hold in capite by the service of a knight's fee.

"Grant to Tirlogh Oge O'Neale,* gent, in Tourany territory, Comafefie,
Cornagillagh, and Kilcame, TulHbrich-itragh and Tullybrich-utragh, each a

94 THE HISTORY OF TYNAN PARISH.

balliboe — total, 400 acres; rent, 8 shillings English, to hold in capite by the
40th part of a knight's fee.

"Grant to Brian McNeale Roe O'Neale in Towrany, Rane, Aghatoure,
and Cran, each a balliboe — total, 200 acres; rent, 4s. — to hold for life,
remainder to said Tirlagh and his heirs by 40th part of a knight's fee.

"Grant to Bryan O'Neale, gent., in Moynter-birne, ten denominations —
total, 480 acres. In Tourany territory, Portanellaghan (now Portnelligan),
and 14 other balliboes — total, 1,500 acres — to hold by one knight's fee.

"Grant to Neale O'Neale in Tourany, Mollaghknoch and two other
balliboes — total, 300 acres. And in Moynterbirne, i balliboe, 60 acres; rent, 8s.

" Granted to Charles O'Neale in Tourany, Cargagh, Mullilary, and Datene-
namanragh, each i balliboe — total, 300 acres. And in Moynterbirne,
I balliboe; rent, 6s.

" Grant to Con Boy O'Neale, in Moynterbirne, ten denominations — total,
460 acres. In Tourany, Ballynametagh-itragh and Oughtragh Lisnone (now
Lisloony), and four other balliboes — total, 700 acres; total rent, ;^2 2s. od.
English — to hold for ever by one knight's fee.

"Grant to Hugh O'Neale, in Moynterbirne, 2 balliboes — total, 120 acres;
rent, 4s. — by 40th part of one knight's fee."^

This disintegration of the estate seems to have been hard dealing with the
heir-at-law, who was now a minor; and it is probable that, by assignment or
other means, the whole came into his possession when he attained his
majority.

It is stated by Carte that after Phelim " came of age, he was desirous of
a new grant, in which all lands mentioned in Sir Henry's patent in general
terms should be specially named; and accordingly upon a report of the
King's Council, on May 6th, 1629, a new Patent was ordered, vesting in him
all his grandfather's estate in the manner and form he desired." ^

On the 1 2th June, 1630, by patent of Charles I., livery of the possessions
of Henry O'Neill of Drommore, otherwise Keynard, was made to Phelim
Roe, his grandson, and special service and meane rates, in consideration of a
fine of ;£'42 los.^

Of the early life of this remarkable man we know but little more than
what is recorded by Sir John Temple, who, writing in 1646, while Sir Phelim
was yet alive, states that "his education for a great part of his youth was in
England ; that he was admitted a student of Lincoln's Inn, and there trained
up in the Protestant religion, which he soon changed after, if not before, his
return into Ireland; lived loosely, and having no considerable estate by reason
of the great engagement upon it, became of very little esteem in all opinions."

1 Calendar of Pat., Rolls of Jac. i., an. ii, pp. 26a, 263.

2 History of tfu Life o/JamtSt Duke of Ormond, vol. i., p. 158.
8 Pat. Roll, 6 Car., i., a pt. fac. (Calend., p. 547).

THE HISTORY OF TYNAN PARISH. 95

Nalson^ described him as "Sir Phelomy O'Neil, called by the Irish
Phelony Roe O'Neil, Captain General of all the Rebels, and Chieftain of the
O'Neills, O'Hagans, O'Quyns, O'Mellans, O'Hanlons, O'Corrs, McCans,
McCawells, MacEnallyes, O'Gormelays, and the rest of the Irish Sept in the
counties of Tyrone and Ardmagh."^

His estate was certainly a very noble one when he first entered on its
enjoyment, and it was not till he alienated a large portion and saddled the rest
with encumbrances that it was reduced to the condition which Temple
describes. The same writer states that, to improve his income, he, as well as
many others of the prime leaders in the rebellion, had, not long before 1641,
" turned their Irish tenants off their lands, as some of them said to me (when
I enquired the reason of their so doing) even to starve upon the mountains,
while they took in English, who were more able to give them much greater
rents, and more certainly pay the same."^

From 1632 out he was obliged to raise large sums on mortgages and
assignments, the former to his moneyed English and Scotch neighbours,
and the latter to his kinsmen and partisans. Among his mortgagees was the
Rev. William Fullerton, Prebendary of Loughgall, who was murdered on his
way to Portadown ; Hugh Echlin of Tynan, who was put to death at Armagh ;
and Lieutenant James Maxwell, by whose cruel butchery'* "Sir Phelemy paid
him ^"260 which he owed him."

The alienations of his property proceeded at such a rate that, in 1641, at
the outbreak of the rebellion, all that remained to him of the Turanny, or
Armagh, portion of his estate, was the four towns of Carnagh, at the extreme
south of the barony. Carte attributes a large share of his disaffection to the
embarrassments produced by his reckless extravagance: "Entering upon his
estate before he had discretion enough to manage it, or to conduct himself,
he ran into all the follies and extravagancies of youth; and having thereby
contracted a heavy debt, and niortgaged in a manner all his estate, was the
more liable to receive those impressions, and engage in those measures which
the other conspirators suggested to him. Old Tyrone had died, a.d. 16 16,
and his son had no children ; so that Sir Phelim, as the nearest to them in
blood, and the greatest in interest among the O'Neills, saw himself in a fair
way of being set up as the head of that family, and of succeeding to those
vast possessions, and that absolute power which the O'Neills had been used to
occupy in Ulster."^

1 History 0/ the General Rebellion in Ireland, p. 40 (6th ed., Dublin, 1724). Copied in Carte's Lt/e
0/ Ormondy vol. i., p. 158.

2 Impartial Collection, vol. ii., p. 888.

3 Impartial Collection, vol. ii., p. 15.

4 Dr. Robert Maxwell's deposition.

5 Li/e 0/ Ormondf vol. i., p. 158.

96 THE HISTORY OF TYNAN PARISH.

His first wife was a daughter of Sir Con Magenis of Iveagh, who died in
1641,^ shortly before the outbreak of the rebellion.

Both portions were consolidated by Lord- Deputy Wentworth, in 1634, in
the person of Robert Maxwell, afterwards Bishop of Kilmore, the purchaser
of Farnham, and the real founder of the family which bears that title. In
1638, by patent of Charles I., the consolidated rectory and vicarage became
the corps of the Prebend in the cathedral deriving its name from the parish.

Such is a sketch of the ecclesiastical condition of Tynan. If ever it had
a religious house, it was situated beside the site of the present church. But
the present name of Tynan Abbey has no ecclesiastical pretensions whatsoever;
it is not even in the townland of Tynan, nor was there ever a religious edifice
near it The townland is called Muchlough; and when a residence was built
there, in the seventeenth century, it obtained the more euphonious name of
Fairview, which, however, gave place, about 1813, when the Gothic front was
added, to the name of Tynan House, and the latter by degrees assumed its
religious complexion, which, to the eye, is admirably sustained, for within the
demesne are to be seen three stone crosses of great antiquity and beauty,
none of them natives of the ground, but brought thither from places of
exposure and injury, and by wise forethought deposited in positions of safety
and honour.

[It is hoped at some future time to give a full illustrated description of the Tynan Crosses,
and some further notes of Bishop Reeves. — En.]

Notes by Tenison Groves, Monkstown, Co. Dublin.

Rev. John Ayton was ordained on 4 December, 1655, by Henry Leslie, Bishop of Down
and Connor (ReyneWs Dtrry).

No. 203, Order dated 5 January, 1657-8 : ** That Mr. John Ayton be appointed
Minister of the Gospel, at Tynan, Co. Armagh, at ;f 100 yearly salary, from 25 September
last, on Report dated 18 August last of the Committee for the Approbation of Ministers, in
his favour, and on Certificates as to his Conversation."— G7////w^«w^a//// Order Book ^ A/21,
No. 203, in Record Office, Dublin.

Order dated 30 May, 1662, made on the petition of James I>ownham, clerk : " That the
Sheriff of County Armagh shall put the said James Downham into possession of the Townland
of Ma DAN, the Glebe of Derranoose, in County Armagh ; and the Townland of Dromad-
MORE, County Armagh, the Glebe of Tynan."— Printed page 305, vol. \^ Journals of the
Irish House of Lords.

Will signed 7 November, 1751 ; proved 22 January, 1752, in Armagh, of Elizabeth
Greer of Mowillan, in Derrynoose parish, County Armagh, widow of James Greer, of the
same, who held a farm on ** toties quoties " lease from the lessees of Trinity College, Dublin,
in Mowillen, which descended to his son, Robert Greer. She wills : ** Item, I order and my
Will is that my son Robert make good the Article of the Meeting House Park to the
Trustees of the Congregation of Dissenters in Toaghy, at sixteen shillings a year."

leuire

and to be buried on the Sunday following, this being on a Saturday, and desiring me in all kindness tQ
come to the burial" {Naison^ ii., p. 549). Copied by Carte, vol. i., p. 161,

flDc^aIs of the Tfllstcr IDoUmtcers.

By ROBERT DAV, f.s.a.

Umbnaclov IDoluitteere.

N the Journal of the Cork Historical and Archxological
Society, vol. iv, p. 189, a silver award by Colonel
P. Alexander to a member of the "Aughnacloy
Battalion" is published, and is here reproduced, as it
will serve to illustrate another medal of its companion
corps, the "Aughnacloy Volunteers." This being slightly
older, I shall place it first It is of silver, 2^ inches in
diameter, engraved, and enclosed within a struck rim of chased work,
representing a continuous chain of shamrocks, a g;old ring forming the
suspender.

Obverse : In the centre of a circular band, inscribed " Aughnacloy
Volunteers, mdcclxxxii," the harp crowned. Outside this, upon a powdered
groundwork, another wreath of sixteen shamrocks, forming a border cor-
responding in character with the rim. Reverse ; " Merit rewarded &
encouraged by Capt" Tho* Forsyth, adjudged to P. W. M'Dermolt"

gS MEDAi.S OF THE ULSTER VOLUNTEERS.

The second medal has the Irish halt-mark of 1783. It is engraved, and
in the rorm of a cross within a circle. It is 2 inches in diameter, the limbs
of the cross, and the circle that encloses them, being ^ inch wide, with four
open spaces between.

Obverse : Upon the circle a wreath of laurel and "Aughnacloy Battalion."
On the perpendicular limb of the cross, a harp, and banner having the motto
" Liberty," and on the projecting, flat, pierced suspender, three shamrocks.
Across the horizontal arm, "Rewardof Merit," Reverse: On the circle,
"The Gift of Colonel P. Alexander," and the initials of the recipient, "T. K.";
and on the cross, the Irish hail-marks, with the date letter N for 1783, and
the engraved date, "a.d. 1783."

So far, I have failed lo find a record of the uniform worn by the
"Volunteer" Corps, but the "Battalion" had scarlet uniforms with white
facings. In the list of delegates who composed the Grand National Con-
vention, there were five from Tyrone, among whom was Colonel Jamtt
Alexander. This may be a misprint, as I can find no officer of that name in
command of any of the Irish Volunteer Corps. It is therefore possible that
Colonel P. Alexander, who commanded the Aughnacloy Battalion, was the
delegate mentioned.

Later on, in 1798, when the Volunteers of " '82 " no longer existed, but
whose good works followed ihem, another Volunteer Corps was raised in
Aughnacloy, whose officers were Captains N. M. Moore and Edward Moore,
Lieutenants Frederick Speer and Samuel Johnson. The commissions of the
first three are dated June 1798 ; and of the last named, November 1803.

MEDALS OF THE ULSTER VOLUNTEERS. 99

Hcd0 IDoIunteers.

A silver, circular, and engraved medal, i^V i^*^^ 'i diameter, with loop.

Obverse: A harp in the centre of a sunburst, and below, 1781, "Ards
Volunteers." Reverse : " Tho' Mooney, the Gift of CoD P. Savage, Comm*
Battalion."

This medal is devoid of ornament, save in the rim, which is bardered with
a rayed and dotted device of delicate design.

In the pubhshed list of the Volunteers, it is called "The Ards Battalion.
Colonel, Patrick Savage."^ At a meeting of the Corps in the County Down,
April land, 178a, Colonel Savage in the chair, it was unanimously resolved —
" That the manly, laudable, and moderate Resolutions of the Ulster Volunteers,
met at Dungannon, have our warmest approbation, and that we most heartily
accede to them ; with pleasure we accept of their invitation, and think
ourselves honoured by being admitted members of so truly acceptable a body.

Pat Savage."

(Bolt) /l^e^a[ of tbe H>ercs Hrttllers.

In the sale at Debenham's, on 15 January, 1901, a gold medal of the
Derry Volunteers was acquired by me. It is pear-shaped, and engraved on a
sunk centre, enclosed by a struck and chased floral border, with loop to
correspond, and measures 2x1^ inches. It is of fine gold, and weighs
exactly one ounce.

Obverse: On a mound, a cannon with sponge, and pile of round shot;
above, a harp and shamrocks encircled by a garter, inscribed "Artillery

I Resolutions of ihc Volunieers, clc. , E>ut>lin. 1763,

MEDAI5 OF THE ULSTER VOLUNTEERS.

Comp'"; over all, a Royal Crown and "The Volunteers of Derry,"
Reverse : " Presented to M' R^ Dempsey for Skill in Gun Drill & Firing, at
the Annual Practise, 1 782."

At that time. Deny possessed three recorded regiments of Volunteers ; viz..
The I^^ondonderry Fuziliers, 14 June, 17781 uniform scarlet, faced blue;
Lieutenant, A. Scott ; Adjutant, Henry Delap. The Londonderry Independent
Volunteer Company i Captain, J. Ferguson. The Londonderry Regiment,
commanded by Colonel John Ferguson.

This gold medal adds to the Derry list an Artillery Company, but possibly
it was embodied in, and formed part of, the latter Regiment. The prefix of
" Mr" to the recipient of the reward is occasionally found on the medals of
the Irish Volunteers : for instance, " Mr John Boyle " on that of the KilcuUen
Rangers, "Mr John Stacey" on one of the Cork Volunteers, and "Mr P.
Twigg " upon a medal of the Ballyroom Cavalry,

These all illustrate in some manner the status of the men who formed the
rank and file and troopers of the Volunteers of '8z. They must have been of
independent means, or otherwise they could not, in the first place, have
provided their own uniforms and equipments; and again, have afforded the
time to render themselves perfect in military exercise, training, and the use of
rifle, lance, and sword. If further proof were needed, we have as the winner
of the Newry medal {vide vol. iv, part 3, p. 77), "P. Hanlon, Esq.," and on
the medal of "The Loyal & .Ancient Horough of Bandon Bridge," known as
" The Derry of the South," we have the following legend : " Given by Ensign
I^ane to Richard Kelly, Esq., for a shooting tryal wiih ball, July 17th, 1778."
The designations "Mr." and " Esquire" had some significance in those days.

MEDALS OF THE ULSTER VOLUNTEERS. lOI

I am indebted to F. C. Crossle, m.d., Newry, for the following extract from
Gordon's Newry Chronicle^ 9 July, 1778 :

** Derry, July 3, 1778. — Wednesday last being the anniversary of the memorable battle
of the Boyne, the same was observed in this city with uncommon demonstrations of joy. In
the morning a flag was displayed on the top of the new Spire, and the bells were rung ; at
one o'clock the first volunteer company marched into the Dimond, and fired three vollies ;
after that the second independent company paraded through the streets in their new uniforms,
from thence proceeded to the new town hall, where they were sumptuously entertained by
their worthy and spirited captain, William Leckc, Esq ; and the evening concluded with a
ball and a grand exhibition of fire works.

List of the officers chosen by the volunteer company of Derry :

John Ferguson, Esq ; captain ; John Coningham, Esq ; second lieutenant ; William
Swettenham, Esq ; third lieutenant ; Thomas Venables, Esq ; adjutant ; rev. Roger Blackall,
chaplain; Gardiner Gordon, M.D. surgeon, M! James Alchison, secretary and treasurer. —
Uniforms, scarlet coats faced with black velvet, white waistcoat and breeches, edged with
black.

Second company. — Prentice boys of Derry. William Luky, Esq ; captain ; Stephen
Bennet, Esq ; first lieutenant ; Eneas Murrey, Esq ; second lieutenant ; George Geedstanes,
Esq ; third lieutenant ; Roger Murrey, Esq ; fourth lieutenant ; rev. Thomas Hamilton,
chaplain ; William Patterson, M.D. surgeon. — Uniform, scarlet coats, light infantry fashion,
faced with blue, white waistcoats and blue.

Third company. — Londonderry Fusileers. Thomas Bateson, Esq ; captain ; Daniel Patter-
son, Esq ; first lieutenant ; Alexander Scott, Esq ; second lieutenant ; Dickinson Coningham,
Esq ; third lieutenant ; rev. Harrison Balfour, chaplain ; Ham. Maginness, apothecary,
surgeon ; Alex. Fletcher, secretary and treasurer. — Uniform, scarlet coats faced with buff,
buff waistcoats and breeches.''

©olO /IDc&al ot tbe flewrs IDolunteers.

In vol i, p. 77, 1898, of this Journal, a silver medal of the Newry
Rangers is figured, and reference is made to the ist and 3rd Battalions of the
Newry Volunteers. A medal of the 2nd Battalion, which is not named in
the Voluniter^s Companion^ has since then been added to my collection, and
is here illustrated.

It is oval, of i8-carat gold, weighing 1 oz. 6 dwts., engraved, having a
struck and chased rim, and loop. It measures 2 5^ inches by i J^, and like all
the gold medals of the Volunteers is of superior workmanship.

Obverse: Upon a mound, a lion rampant holding a shield and garter,
inscribed, ^^Audentes fortuna juvaf' ^ (" Fortune favours the brave "), and close
to the hind feet of the lion a live shell and pile of round shot. In the
background are two banners in saltire, having in the open space between
the flagstaffs a harp, and above, "Ix)yal Newry Volunteers"; below, "2".?

1 A very similar sentiment, but in different words, is conveyed by the Strokeslpwn Gold
Medal, " Fortuna Favet Fortibvs" (" Fortune favours the brave ").

MEDALS OF THE ULSTER

Comp'" Reverse: "The Gift of the Officers to Serg' A. Michel, as a
Reward for his efforts in Drilling & Instructing the Company, March 1784."

Lc.-Col. Gaskell has also in his collection another medal of the " Newry
Infantry Regt." It is of silver, oval, struck and engraved, with massive floral
border, and loop of a shell pattern.

Obverse : On a sunk centre, a rifleman at attention. On the background,
on the right, a hill with four tents upon it ; on the left, a hill with a square
target; above, "G. R."; below, a scroll inscribed "Newry InP? Regt."; legend,
" The Volunteers of Ireland." Reverse : " Presented to Ensign G. Foy for
merit in the annual trial, C. F. Platoon firing, August 1786."

The gold medal represents the Newry Volunteers 2nd Company. The
silver medal belonged to the Newry ist Regiment, or Newry Legion,

Tfllster BibUoflrapb?.

Bv E. R. McC Dix.
AkTICLE IV. — Continued /ram page 57.

MONAGHAN.

the following contribution to the books and pamphlets
printed in this town, there will he found some literary
items not yet noted of either Strabane or Armagh.
These are, first, the fourteen song-books discovered by
James Buckley in the British Museum, and, secondly,
a weekly literary journal.

It will probably be found, as search progresses,
that each town's bibliography indicates special features or cha met eristics
of its own, showing the different dispositions and tastes of its inhabitants.

Many of the titles of the songs or ballads show a local origin which adds
much to their worth. The Irish titles, or words, of three or four appeal to
Gaelic scholars, and deserve translation. The songs of a nation, or people,
are valuable in every way.

The literary journal has been hitherto little, if at all, noticed, and deserves
careful examination, and, indeed, an article to itself, outside the province of a
mere bibliographer. Its brief records of marriages and deaths of Monaghan
people are alone sufficient to make it worth preserving.

I am indebted to A. Albert Campbell for drawing my attention to Professor
Witherow's work, Historical and Literary Memorials of Presbyterianism in
Ireland {2 vols,), which contains much to assist the compiling of Ulster
Bibliography,

It is entirely owing to James Buckley's research and labour that the
full particulars of the song-books appear. I have also to thank VVm. Ritchie
Sharpe for lending for inspection, through the Rev. J, Orr, his unique copy
of vol. i. of Goggin's Ulster Journal. This privilege I obtained through the
aid of the Rev. R. S. Maffetl.

The library of the late Sir John T. Gilbert has only Just been handed
over to the Corporation of Dublin, and will not be available to readers for a
considerable time yet. I have therefore at present only the very meagre title
of the 17th item in the following list. I believe there was a second
Monaghan edition in 1S14. The author was William Moffet, according to
the British Museum catalogue.

I04 ULSTER BIBLIOGRAPHY.

[1770.] A Sermon preached October 24, 1770, at Newbliss, at the Ordination
of the Revd. Samuel Rutherford [i Tim. iv. 12]. The Revd.
John Rogers, m.a. William Wilson, 8vo. 32 pp. (unfinished).

[Magee College, Derry.]

1787. Dialogue between Students at the College; which contain a Defence
of the leading Doctrines of Christianity ; also showing their
tendency to promote Holiness; interspersed with philosophical
observations. The Revd. John Rogers, m.a., Minister of Cahans.
1 2 mo. 104 pp.

[Assembly College, Belfast]

1787. Song Book, with Woodcut on front page.

The Musical Piper, or, Mathew Malone the Peace Maker.
To which are added

I. Squire Raynold's Downfall. 11. An Answer to Shawn Ouge a

Glanea. III. Live and Lov (sic), IV. The Goblet of Wine.
8vo. 8 pp.

[British Museum.]

1787. Song Book, with Woodcut on front page.
Daniel M*Clean*s Guacing Instrument.
To which are added

II. The Trump-case. III. Squire Raynold's Downfall.

IV. The Goblet of Wine. V. Lovely Molly.
8vo. 8 pp.

[British Museum.]

1787. Song Book, with Woodcut on front page.
Hush Cat From under the Table.

To which are added

II. Tweed-side. III. Live and Love. IV. The Goblet of Wine.

V. Castle Berry. VI. The Venus of Longford.
8vo. 8 pp.

[British Museum.]

1788. Song Book, with Woodcut on front page.
The Coughing Old Man.

To which are added
I. Timothy Gunning's Lamentation. II. The Peep-of-Day-Boys.

III. Serenade.
8vo. 8 pp.

[British Museum.]

ULSTER BIBLIOGRAPHY. I05

1788. Song Book, with Woodcut on front page of a ship in full sail.
Young Squire Reynolds's welcome home to Ireland.

To which are added
II. Larry's Ghost. III. De Night before Larry was stretch'd.
8vo. 8 pp.

[British Museum.]

1788. Song Book, with Woodcut on front page.
The Turf, and Reading Made Easy.

To which are added
II. Pharlha Nhe Kilthee Bawn. III. North Country Beauty.
8vo. 8 pp.

[British Museum.]

1788. Song Book, with Woodcut on front page.
The Irish Robber's Adventure.
To which are added

II. The Elegy on the Death of Captain Allen.

III. Pharlha Nhe Kilthee Bawn.
8vo. 8 pp.

[British Museum.]

1788. Song Book, with Woodcut on front page.
The Disapointed Maid ; or the Breeches.

To which are added

II. The Flower of Tyrone. III. The Coching (sic) Old Man.

IV. Wandering Sailor.
8vo. 8 pp.

[British Museum.]

1789. Song Book, with Woodcut on front page.

A New Song call'd Cooleen Bawn. II. Mr. Doyle.

III. North Country Beauty.
8vo. 8 pp.

[British Museum.]

1789. Song Book, with Woodcut on front page of a lady seated by a window
reading a book.
An Answer to the Phoenix of Ulster.
To which are added

II. Ulster's Complaint against Bankruptcy.

III. Reill/s Praise of his lorely Molly.
8vo. 8 pp.

[British Museum.]

Io6 ULSTER BIBLIOGRAPHY.

[1790?] Song Book, with Woodcut on front page.
An Answer To Stauka an Vauraga.

To which are added
II. Johnny and Nelly. III. The Phoenix of Ulster.
IV. The Banks of the Dee.
John Brown, 8vo. 8 pp.

[British Museum.]

[1790?] Song Book, with Woodcut on front page.
The Answer to Shawn ouge a Glanea.

To which are added
II. The Yorkshire Conflict. III. The Phoenix of Ulster.
IV. The Rambling Journeyman.
John Brown, 8vo. 8 pp.

[British Museum.]

[1790?] Song Book, with Woodcut on front page.
The Dhooraling.

To which are added
II. The Merry Man going to his Grave. III. Auld Robin Gray.
IV. The Maid's Lament.

John Brown, 8vo. 8 pp.

[British Museum.]

[1790?] Song Book, with Woodcut on front page.
The Manual Exercise.

To which are added
II. Davie Williamson. III. The Merry man going to his Grave.
IV. The Tobacco Box.

** Printed by John Brown^ where Chapman and Dealers can be

well assorted with Books, Pamphlets, Ballads, Black and Coloured

Pictures, Hardware, &c., on Moderate terms."

8vo. 8 pp.

[British Museum, 11622 Lf. 34 (1-38)]

N.B. — All the fourteen foregoing song-books are bound in one
volume, with many similar items printed elsewhere.

1795. Description of the Western Isle. 8vo.

[The late Sir J. T. Gilbert's Library.]

ULSTER BIBLIOGRAPHY. I07

1795- ^^ Shaking &» Translating of Heaven and Earth, A Sermon
preached before the Honourable House of Commons in Parliament
assembled April 19-1649. By Dr. John Owen. To which are
annexed, Prophetical Extracts; particularly such as relate to the
Revolution in France and the Decline of the Papal Power in the
Worlds selected from the writings of Woodwin, Jurieu, Usher, &c.
1 2 mo. Iv. + 42 pp. + 13 pp. (y. Brown ^ Bookseller.) Folds in
sixes. Paper cover.

[Magee College, Derry.]

1796. This is the earliest date of printing mentioned by Cotton in his
Typographical Gazetteer, 2nd series; but he gives no printer's
name or item of printing.

1799. Goggin's Ulster Magazine. A Weekly Journal. S. Goggin, Monaghan.
Long 4to. 880 pp. (?) Vol. I.

[Wm. Ritchie Sharpe, Aughnaseda, Monaghan.]

N.B. — Each weekly number has two signatures of 4 leaves
(or 8 pp) each; total, 16 pp. This volume is not complete. It
begins at p. 73, sig. k, being part of number for January 12th,
which would indicate that the journal first appeared on 15th
December, 1798. The last number in this volume is for December
14th, and -begins at sig. 5M, p. 833. The last page is 840.
There would therefore appear to be two numbers wanting ; i.e.,
for 21st and 28th December.

1800. Goggin's Ulster Magazine. A Weekly Journal. S. Goggin, Monaghan.

Long 4to. 832 pp. Vol. IL The first number in this volume is

for January 3rd, and the first page is paged i. The last number

in this volume is that for December 5th, and its last page is **83o"

(a misprint for 832). There may be two or three numbers

wanting.

[National Library (Joly).]

N.B. — No place or printer is given, but this Magazine was
undoubtedly printed in Monaghan or its neighbourhood, judging
from internal evidence, etc.

Stephen Goggin was a printer in Monaghan in 1803.

Io8 ULSTER BIBLIOGRAPHY.

STRABANE (Supplemental).

I subjoin pajfticulars of another work of Strabane printing lately acquired
by me.

1780. A Letter to the Right Honourable Lord North^ on his Propositions
in favour of Ireland. Francis Dobbs, Esq., b.l. James Biyth.
Large Svo. 20 pp. Folds in twos, or folio wise. (Query 4to, as
much cropped on right side.)

I also wish to acknowledge with hearty appreciation A. Albert Camp-
bell's valuable additions to my list in the last number of this Journal. It
is very pleasing to me to observe that three of the items on his list are in
his own possession. The edition of the Larger Catechism is a very interesting
and rare item.

ARMAGH (Supplemental).

The Rev. W. T. Latimer's contribution to Armagh printing is of special
interest, and is perhaps the item on which Cotton based his date of earliest
Armagh printing.

Erratum.

The word "fourth" in the last article (supplemental), is an error for
"second."

Note by Rev. W. T. Latimer.

In reply to the question of E. R. McC Dix (page 54), permit me to say
that the pamphlet of Rev. Wm. Dickey, printed in 1793 by John Alexander
of Strabane, is 6^ by 4^ inches, and contains 24 pages.

FRANCIS DAVIS.
Bv John Vinvcomb, m.r.i.a.

Of the many poems wtilten upon the death of oui late Queen, nothing has appeared equal
to " Leaves from out Cyprus ani! our Oak," by Francis Davis ("The Bel fast man"), upon the
death of the Piince Consort ; which, for sinking poetic merit and sympalhelic feehnp, is
beyond praise. This beauliful poem was recalled to my mind by what at first sight seemed
an almost parallel thought, uttered by a savage chief when told of the death of " The Great
While Queen," recently quoted in the press : " When we look at the heavens to.nighl, we
will see another star." The analogy, however, is more remote than ! ihoughl. I will quote

A cry went up before the Lord — a cry
-Sudden and sharp, as when a mother's eye
Turns back on flames where still her babe's a-bed : —
" O God — the Prince is dead ! "
It spake upon the lightning's wings,

And spread ;
It broke upon the sleep of kings

With dread ;
The Arab heard il, where he leant

Over his desert bed ;
The Indian where his bow was bent-
Each bowed. One said ;
' ' Behold a star is shed ! "

The other :
"The While Chiefs heart was red-
Wail for our brother !"
The poem extends over 92 pages, was published anonymously by MacMillan, and called
Ibrlh ihe highest praise on all sides. One of the most eminent authorities wrote M the
lime : " Of the thousand -and ^one elfusions on the death of Prince Albeit, It is no wonder
that so few possess any merit, or will be read and remembered by anybody ; but this work
stands a whole head and shoulders above the ranks of mediocrity." Dr. Craik, Professor of
English Literature, Queen's Collate, Belfast, who introduced the work lo the publishers,
referred to it as "of very remarkable merit indeed ; full of deep and tender thought, as well
as &ncy and of music "; and again he says : " A born poet — there is in it both the soul and
form of poetry ; (he feeling of the artistic in ihe expression and the nuisic, as well as the
' shaping spirit' of imagination, and the fire of passion."

Giltilten said of il ; "More delicate loyalty, more refined sympathy, she (the Queen) has
never met: in all her life ; and then it is Itebly tine, as set in such glowing and elegant verse,
'like apples of gold in a network of silver.'"

Francis Davis in this poem certainly appears in his highest effort. Il might well call
forth the expression of astonishment from a high critical authority at Ihe extraordinary merit
of the work. " I do not understand," he writes to Dr. Craik, " how his appearance above
the horiion should have been delayed till now, that he comes into the blue with so much
light." Belfast citiiens have certainly reason lo be proud thai such a poet lived, and Ihoughl,
and died amongst them.

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many of whom were men of note in their day and generation. Kirkpatrick and Kennedy,
Bryion and Drummond. whose portraits are each reproduced, were names of no mean weight
in ihe growing town of Belfast, and helped much to build up its present character. Eilracls
from their literary works and details of the same are copiously given, whilst (he old meeting-
house is carefully illustrated, and all the records relating to il clearly set down. We heartily
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would not be acceptable without many modifications to the Catholic public, for whom the
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under contribution, more especially those relating to the ill-fated Robert Emmet. Many rare
- and lovely portraits have been reproduced with facsimile signatures, and documents dealing
with the short life-history and sad death of the Irish patriot, some of them new to us and to
Ireland (having been long treasured in exile by this affectionate family), have been fully
referred to. Dr. Emmet has effected a work which will form a lasting monument of a race
whose fate was so intimately linked with that of Ireland, and of which he is by no means
the least worthy member.

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The Alexandra College Magazine (Dublin : December 1900) contains an excellent and
appreciative memoir of the late Miss Margaret Stokes, enriched by a photograph of her taken
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The Leisure Hour for August 1900 and January 1901 contains well-illustrated descriptive
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The Derry Standard for 12 November, 1900, contains a lengthened article on '* Faughan-
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December 1900 contain an article made up of copious extracts, entitled ** Belfast, as described
by travellers," ranging in time from 1670 till the present day.

The Genealogical Magazine for February and March contains exhaustive articles on the once
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the last century.

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given of those who qualified to teach Irish at the examination held last July. Belfast has
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ULSTER JOURNAL

Archaeology

Vol. VII.

JULY, 1901.

No. 3.

^wo (Tloabec IRelics.

By THE Rev. J, E. MacKENNA, m.r.i.a.

^be Cloober Cross-

HE casual visitor to the National Museum, Kildare Street,
Dublin, cannot fail to observe that a number of the
finest specimens of early Irish metal-work which grace
that unique collection have come from the diocese of
Clogher.

The antiquary's acquaintance with the acts of Clogher
saints, who were distinguished as metal-workers, prepares
him for the rich harvest of ecclesiastical shrines reaped by Petrie and
O' Donovan in Moraghan and Fermanagh, and it will prevent his being
surprised to learn that these eminent pioneers failed to glean the last sheaf. ^

Some time ago, an old Fermanagh-man presented the Rev. Edward Quigley,
c.c, Ederney, with one of the most interesting reliquaries brought to light in
Ireland within the past century. He at once presented it to the Very Rev.
Dr. Mulhern, St. MacCarten's Seminary, Monaghan, for the Diocesan Museum.
Through the latter gentleman's courtesy, I am enabled to give the readers of the
Ulster Journal a brief description of it.

1 St. Dengha, or Dageus, the founder and patron of Inniskeen (Co. Louth), a kinsman of St.
Molaise of Devenish, was a renowned metal-worker. Colgan, quoting the Calendar of Cashel, says
of him: "Fabricavit CCC campanas, CCC peda pastoralia, . . . fuitque primarius S.
Kierani faber," St. Senach, the founder of Derrybrusk, on the shores of Lough Erne, a relative
of St. Columba, was a famous metal-worker {vide Trias Thaumat, p. 431).

cross, measuring a feet 9^ inches
inches across ihe arms. The
l^ inches in width and r^ inch

g illustrations, reproduced from
iviate the necessity of anything
lescription.

The ground- work of the
cross is oak, plated with
bronze The ornamenta-
tion, which was superim-
posed on this plating, is
very interesting. The lower
f the shaft, under the cross-tree,
:s by 2^ inches, is divided into
prominent ribs, each about
the upper panel iliere is a fine
elief, with embossed figures of
and St. John riveted on, on
hese figures are faint traces of
upon the ground. The attempts
e time after time to clean and
ave removed all possibility of
lignificance. Underneath the
ramidal piece, held in its place
1 forming a base for the cross:
d a chin inset of some kind,
on.

■ three panels on the front con-
bishops, abbots, and abbesses.
measure i ^ inch in height, are
It strips of bronze, three on each
i laid vertically in the panels,
in the centre, where they are
Their edges at top and l)oitom
e ribs, which form the panels ;
ley are caught under the fluted
le front and side plates. Only
■en figures remain. Scarcely a
in the panel under the cruci-
he figures in the lower panel are
n the panel immediately over it,

it appears at least probable i
were alike.

The upper figure to the left is
and having a crozier in his right

To his left is an abbess w
staff in her right hand. Imir
there is, to the left, an abbot with :
a crozier ij] his right hand ;
and lo the right, another
ecclesiastic, vested in a
cope, and holding a roll
of paper in his right hand.
On either side, and on
a level with his head, there is
most figure in the panel lo the
with a nimbus. With his left Ji
cross over his shoulder, and on
His right hand is raised as if bt
towards him. The remaining I
practically obliterated.

The front of the shaft abov
into two panels. In the lower <
tion of the four upper figures
• described. The upper panel
beautiful cashat-shaped boss, w
the divergent pattern shown in tl

The front of each of the arr
panels. On each of the inner
S3. Columba, Patrick, and Bcig
occupies the centre, stands un<
canopy. In his left hand he I
of an early Irish type, and his r
the act of benediction. SS. (
have each a nimbus, and a cro;
The two outer panels are repe
panel of the shaft.

' To avoid confusion, it is well to li
helween a ■"ctoiier" nnd a "p.-istoral !
belongs officintly lo orchbi&hops and bish

bishops and bishops carried it in Ihe le

in right hand. The croiier, a cross oi
staff, is never carried by an archbishop oi
before Ihem by one of ihe inferior clergy.

THE ri noHER c

ii6

THE CLOGHER CROSS,

The back of the cross exhibits a very interesting specimen of the fretwork
that we are familiar with on the back of the Stowe Missal and the Columbian
Shrine. The illustration obviates the necessity of a lengthened description.

The two sides are divided into panels corresponding with the panels of
the front. The first, second, and fourth panels, going upwards to the arms, con-
tained each three figures. The third panel on either side was filled with the

THE DEUS BOSS ON THK FRONT OF CROSS.

Anglo-Norman symbolical floral ornamentation that covers the sides of the
head, and the upper and lower portions of the arm of the cross. It is a com-
bination of fern, oak leaf, and acorn, with an occasional trefoil thrown in.

The six angles at the top and extremities of the two arms were finished
with strong plaques, firmly riveted through the entire thickness of the cross.

SECTION OF CROSS SHOWING THE BOSSES.

THE CLOGHER CROSS. I17

The two on the top remain, as shown in the illustration. One of them is
slightly displaced ; the others are missing, but the rivets which once held them
in their place remain.

The plaques on the edges, the ribs which cut up the front and back into
panels, and the figure of Christ in the crucifixion, were plated with silver, but
most of it has been rubbed away. There are faint traces of an inscription in
Irish characters on the two lower ribs between the panels on the front : only
two letters of it can be deciphered.

THE AMEN BOSS FROM TUB BACK OF CROSS.

The reliquary which forms the central boss measures s inches in diameter.
The details of its ornament are shown in the accompanying illustrations.
They are particularly interesting as illustrations of the debasing influence of
Anglo-Norman ideas on Irish art.

The interlaced work on the front of the boss consists of four beautifully-
worked capitals — DEUS (God). The four interlaced letters in the correspond-
ing spaces on the back spell AMEN. The pattern in the central space
of the back is made up of two bands interlaced into six loops, intended.

Ilg THE DOMNACH AtRGID.

probably, as a symbol of the attributes of God. ^Vithin one of these
loops there is an interlaced Rgure of eight, the symbol of regeneration ; in
another there are two hearts entwined. The remaining four have floral
designs. The six spaces between these loops and the circle which
encloses them, have each a triquelra knot, a symbol of the Trinity The
interlaced panels on both front and back were richly gilded, and the ribs
which separated them were plated with silver. In each of these ribs, on the
front, there is a circular opening, J^ inch in diameter. Two of these are
filled with a dark-blue paste. The two discs forming the reliquary are kept
in their place by four neatly wrought pieces in the four angles of the cross :
two of these, at opposite angles, are hinged to the front disc and doubled over
the edge of the back one ; the other two are hinged to the back disc and
doubled over the edge of the front one. This cross was preserved, uniil aliout
thirty yearsago, in Gewalt Church, about a mile from the present Toora Church.
In the absence of any written account of it, and of any tradition
about it, I am unwilling to attempt to put its date in figures. The decidedly
Gothic character of its floral ornamentation would assign it to a period later
than that of the Cross of Cong (a.d. i 153), but the style in which its Irish
xecuted forbids us to attribute it to a very much later date.

Vat Bomnacb airgib.

lEW, if any, readers of Carleton's Trails and Stories of the

\ Irish Peasantry have ever closed the volume without

j expressing a desire to know the authentic history of the

■ Donagh, around which he has woven one of the most

characteristic products of his imagination. His story

is familiar in every Irish household; but the history ol

the venerable shrine that gave it a name is unknown.

The results of the labours of Drs. Pelrie and O'Curry, who tried to elucidate

its history, are buried away under the dust of undisturbed repose, on the

shelves of libraries to which the average reader has not access. The writer

of this sketch aims at putting in popular form what the antiquary has been

able to glean from the shreds and fragments which go to make up the

Donagh' s history.

Our Irish forefathers, a thousand years ago, were far in advance of their
time. They were thoroughly imbued with the modern bibliomaniac's horror
of " cutting and binding." On the Continent, copies of the sacred Scriptures,
missals, and antiphonaries — especially if they belonged to a patron saint — were
furnished with bindings so ornamental and costly that they were frequently

THE DOMNACH AIRGID. I 19

considered a sufficient ransom for a monarch ; while in Ireland they were
regarded as far too sacred to be entrusted to the sacrilegious hands of the
bookbinder — far too precious to be rendered more valuable by the addition
of gold and diamonds. They were left untouched, or placed in shrines on
which the artist's skill was freely lavished. Long ago, almost every Irish
church was provided with a costly reliquary and a Cumdach; i.e., **a case
made of gold, embossed bronze, or silver, in which a copy of the Gospels and
other sacred writings were enclosed, and which was generally ornamented in
the richest manner and inlaid with precious stones." Three of the oldest of
these shrines now known to exist belonged to the diocese of Clogher : the
Domnach Airgid^ the Cumdach Molaise^ and the Lough Erne Shrine}

The Domnach Airgid is one of the most interesting Irish ecclesiastical
relics in existence; and the first place, in point of time, must be assigned to
the venerable manuscript which it contained.

When St. Patrick found St. MacCarten, his strong man, breaking down
under the weight of years and the trying labours of his mission, and no longer
able to bear him on his broad shoulders, he resigned to him the See of Clogher,
which he had already established and got into working order, and sought for
himself " fresh fields and pastures new *' in the vicinity of royal Emania. It
is thus the ancient life of St. Patrick, attributed to St. Evin, records the
generous recognition by Ireland's Apostle of the merits of his trusted
co-adjutor : " After some days he [St. Patrick] appointed St. MacCarten to
the episcopal See of Clogher, which is not far distant from the metropolitan
See of Armagh, and with him left a certain silver shrine, popularly called the
* Domnagh Airgid,' which the man of God received from heaven, when coming
to Ireland." 2

As it stands at present in the National Museum, the Donagh is an oblong
box, measuring 9 ins. long by 7 ins. wide and 5 ins. high. It is in reality
composed of three different boxes : the inner one of yew, the second or middle
one of copper plated with silver, the third or outer one of silver plated with
gold. The yew box is probably the contemporary of the MS. it contained.
There is no means of fixing the date of the second or middle box : the scroll-
work with which it is ornamented may belong to any period between the sixth
and twelfth centuries : we are inclined to assign it to the early part of that period.
St. Evin, who wrote in the seventh century, speaks of it as a Silver Shrine ;
and it is only the silver ornamentation on the second cover that could justify
that appellation. The inscription on the outer cover fixes its date : " Jobs :
O'Karbri: Comorbanus : S: Tignacci : Pmist"; i.e., John O'Carbary,
successor of St. Tigernach, allowed (this shrine to be made). The
name of the maker is also recorded : " Joannes : O'Barrdam : Fabricairt " ;

1 See Devenish: Its History, Antiquities, and Traditions, pp. 30-41.
* y'ide Tr. Tha. , p. 149, and Acta Sanctorum, p. 738.

i e., John O'Bardam made (this shrine). John O'Carbary,
St. Ttgernach, in the abbey of Clones, died in 1353.

The ornamentation on the outer cover of the Domnach is amongst the
finest specimens of Irish fourleenth-century symbolism exiant. On the top is
a figure of Christ in alto relievo, with figures of eleven saints in basso relirpo.
Over the crucifixion is a dove (the Holy Ghost) enamelled in gold, and a
reliquary covered with a crystal, "which," says Petrie, "probably contained
a portion of the true cross." Immediately over this is a shield on which the
instruments of the Passion are emblazoned in blue and red paste ; and above

this again there is another reliquary, similarly covered with a crystal, but of
smaller size. The eleven figures are arranged in four oblong compartments.
In the lower right hand compartment we have the three patrons of Ireland ;
SS. Columba, Brigid, and Patrick. St. Patrick is vested in chasuble and mitre.
In his left hand he holds a crozier, and his right hand is raised in benediction.
In the compartment immediately above this are figures of the apostles
SS. James, Peter, and Paul. The fact that the abbey of Clones was dedicated
under the invocation of SS. Peter and Paul probably accounts for the

THE DOMNACH AIRGID. 121

departure, in this instance, from the usual custom of selecting the three
chosen apostles (Peter, James, and John), when only three are represented.
St. Peter is in the centre.

" Two keys he bore of metals twain.
The golden opes, the iron shuts amain."

In the upper compartment, to the left, is the Blessed Virgin, seated with
the Divine Infant on her knee, and St. Michael bearing a shield and spearing
a dragon. Two-thirds of the fourth compartment are taken up with a bishop,
seated, in the act of presenting a Cumdach to an ecclesiastic: a commemora-
tion of the presentation of the Domnach to St. MacCarten i^idt Acta Sanet.,
p. 738). The remaining portion of this compartment is occupied with a female
figure in the habit of a nun, and pressing her right hand upon her heart. There is

FROST OP THE "DOMNACH AIRGID."

nothing to justify us in giving her a name, and nothing to stand in the way of our
believing that it represents St. Fanchea of Rossory, near Enniskillen, a native of
Clogher, and a near relative of St. Tigernach or St. Dymphna, also a native
of Clogher, whose memory has ever been revered in the diocese.

The front of the shrine is divided into three circular compartments, and
in the centre of each is a crystal covering a reliquary. They are surrounded
with figures of animals, and conspicuous among the latter are four horsemen
bearing swords. "These," says Petrie, "exhibit with minute accuracy the
costume ofthe nobility in Ireland in the fourteenth century"; and he adds that
he could not divine their significance. He had evidently forgotten that "a
plumed knight, mounted, sword in hand," was, at an early period, adopted as the
insignia or arms of a section of the M^uires of Fermanagh. The introduction

122 THE DOMNACH AIRGID.

of this device was probably intended as a compliment to the Maguires in
return for a generous subscription towards the expenses of the shrine.

One of the sides is divided into three compartments. On the ground
of the centre one are engraved a monk in the attitude of prayer and an

THE DOMNACH AIROin. 12^

acolyte swinging two censers. Between them is a figure of St. Catherine,
in relier, crowned and bearing her wheel. In the compartment to lier left
there is a seated figure holding a small cross in his left hand (see illustration).'
On the ground are engraved acolytes swinging thurihles. The bench on
which this figure is seated is of peculiar design, and resembles that on which
the Blessed Virgin is seated, on the top of the shrine. The remaining
compartment on this side has, in relief, a figure of St. John the Baptist,
bearing in one hand a figure of the I..amb. and in the other a scroll, with the

inscription " Ecce Agnus Dei." On the field to his left is engraved a
figurt; of Herodia's dancing daughter, holding a dish, which contains the
Baptist's head.

The bottom of the shrine is ornamented with a large cross, on which are
traces of an inscription in Gothic characters. Only one word is legible :
Cloacbac.

124 THE DOMNACH AIRGID.

The accompan3ring illustrations, made from recent photographs of the
shrine, render more detailed description unnecessary.

The workmanship throughout is of a very high order. The human figures
are well proportioned in all their parts; and although they cannot be regarded
as perfect models of " the human form divine," they are a decided improvement
on the figure subjects on most contemporary shrines.

Dr. Petrie, after a careful examination of //u Domnach and its contents,
concludes that it embodies the identical reliquary given by St. Patrick to
St. MacCarten, because

(i) The name Domnach, by which it is known, and which is used only in
connection with St Patrick's time, is only once applied to a reliquary — the
one given by St Patrick to St MacCarten.

(2) The size and form of the box show clearly that it was intended to
receive a book, and the natural inference is that it contained a MS. which
belonged to the saint

(3) Within this box is found a manuscript apparently as old as the days of
the saint

What reason, then, can there be for supposing that it is not a MS. which
St. Patrick brought to Ireland with him — the one for which the yew box was
originally made ? It is not improbable, as Petrie adds, that the existence of
the MS. was unknown to the biographers of SS. Patrick and MacCarten, who
speak of it as a reliquary only. The outer cover was not made to open, and
the relics deposited in it were not brought into Ireland earlier than the
twelfth century.

It would be difficult to account for the preservation of the Domnach
through the various fires that devastated Clones, if we did not know that, like
the Bachall-Iosa and the Canon- Phadruigy it had its special Maer^ or keeper,
whose honour and endowments depended on its safe custody ; whose most
vigilant care was bestowed upon it ; and whose responsibility was enhanced by
the spiritual terrors which menaced any dereliction of duty in the conservation
of an object whose guardian saint was believed to resent, as a personal injury,
any affront which was offered to the trust

When the Rev. John Groves wrote an account of the Domnach for Shaw
Mason's Parochial Survey of Ireland in 18 19, **it was kept near Brook-
borough, in the direction of Fivemiletown."^ In 1832, Smith, bookseller,
Dublin, bought it from an old woman named Maguire, near Enniskillen, in
whose possession it had been for some years. Colonel Westenra (afterwards
Lord Rossmore) purchased it from Smith for ;^3oo, and in 1847 handed
it over to the Royal Irish Academy on the payment of that sum. In '1891 it
was removed with the Academy's Collection of Antiquities to the National
Museum of Ireland, where it still remains. The precious manuscript it enshrined

1 Vide Mason's Parochial Survey, vol. iii, under Errigal-Keeroge, p. 163.

THE DOMNACH AIRGID. 1 25

is classed 24, Q. 23, in the Library of the R.I. A. It is written on thick vellum,
on ruled lines, and appears to have consisted originally of about 1 50 folios,
measuring 9 inches by 6^ inches. Only 39 folios remain, and these are in a
very fragmentary state. There is but one column of twenty-one lines on each
page, written in a regularly- formed semi-uncial character. There are no
corrections or interlineations except such as are in the hand of the original
scribe, and he does not appear to have been a careful copyist, as he frequently
omitted whole verses. The absence of corrections by later scribes points to
the great reverence with which the MS. was regarded, as a relic of Ireland's
Apostle, by those who were privileged in having some part in its preservation
through the vicissitudes of fifteen centuries.

The average Irishman who takes any interest in Irish antiquities may sneer
at Carleton's estimate of the Irishman's reverence for the Domnach, He is
welcome to his sneer; but let him turn to page 146 of vol. ii of the State
Papers y and he will find that, on 19th March, 1529, the Government officials
set the seal of their authority upon this reverence.

Cbutcbwarbens of tbe partsb of Kangor,
Co. ©own.

Bv THE Rbv. CHARLES SCOTT, m.a.

ME time ago the edkor handed to me some (

from Visitation Records which were made, no doubt,

Tor legal purposes : they relate to Bangor ; but there

are also some relating to Killcoo, Cairncastle, Ballin-

derry, Donaghadee, Ardkeen, Saintfield, St. Andrew's,

Killyleagh, Killead, and Comber. It is only in the case

of Bangor that the churchwardens are mentioned. As

these are the men of most prominence in the parish, such entries are of great

local interest. The entries are sometimes in Latin, but most of the later ones

are in Enghsh. Bangor, in the first entr)', is marked as a vicarage. This is,

however, a mistake, as it was an impropriate curacy; that is to say, the whole

tithes (rectorial and vicarial) had belonged to a monastery, and at the

dissolution had passed to a lay grantee, who was responsible for the salary

of a curate to perform the spiritual duties. Many of the largest and most

important parishes in Down and Connor weie in this position : a mere

pittance remained available for the support of the parish i

CHURCHWARDENS OK IIANGOR.

1720 Edward Symson, James Hamilton.

1721 James Blackwood, Alex. Hutching.

1730 Thomas Cowdan, Francis Nicholson.

1731 James Blackwood, Ninian Tate.

1732 James McHutcheon, James McGibbon.

1733 Thorn. Cowdan, James Martin.
"735 James Crawford, Robert Adair.

1737 Alex. Hamilton, Joseph Rankin.

1738 G. C. Purse, James Blackwood.

1739 William Bryson, Alex. White.
1742 Alex. Hamilton, John Magown.

1744 James Blackwood, Charles Brett.

1745 James Blackwood, Charles BretL

1747 Robert Blackwood, James Blackwood.

1748 Robert Blackwood, James Blackwood,

CHURCHWARDENS OF THE PARISH OF BANGOR, CO. DOWN. \ 2^

1752 Hugh Jackson, William Nicholson.

1753 Michael Echlin, Patrick Clcland.

1755 Robert Blackwood, Esq.; Alex. White.

1756 George Leech, Robt. Millar.

1758 Henry Warring, Esq.; John Blackwood.

1759 Henry Warring, Robert Blackwood, Esq.

1760 Henry Warring, Robert Blackwood, Esq.

1761 Robert Blackwood, Esq.; Henry Waring, Esq.

1762 Henry Warring, Esq.; Robt. Blackwood, Esq.

1 763 Sir Robt. Blackwood, Henry Waring, Esq.

1764 Sir Robt. Blackwood, Henry Waring, Esq.

1765 Henry Warring, Esq.; Sir Robert Blackwood.

1766 Sir Robert Blackwood, Henry Warring, Esq.

1767 Henry Warring, Esq.; Sir Robert Blackwood.

1768 John Blackwood, Patk. Cleland.

1769 John Blackwood, Patk. Cleland.

1770 John Blackwood, Hugh White.

1 77 1 Hugh White, gent.; John Blackwood, Esq.

1772 John Crawford, William Gibson.

1773 James Gray, James Johnson.

1774 James Gray, James Johnson.

'775 Sir Jobn Blackwood, Robert Stewart, Esq.

1777 Sir John Blackwood, David Kerr, Esq.

1778 Hugh Jackson, Pat. Cleland.

1779 Hugh Jackson, Pat. Cleland.

1780 James Gray, Hugh White.

1 78 1 Hugh White, Esq.; James Gray.

1782 Hugh White, Esq.; James Gray.

From 1720, Robert Hamilton appeared as vicar, and John Seyers as
parish clerk.

1730 — James Clewlow is entered as curate. A note is made: "Vicarage
House formerly kept in repair by y" mini; but now out of repair." There is
also a Latin entry: "Domus aedificand, et reparand."

1755 — James Clewlow, "cur. improp!," excus!.

1747 — It is noted that John Kell is schoolmaster.

1752 — Peter Winder is curate, and it is noted: "An impropriate cure in
the presentation of the Earl of Carrick and Mr. Justice Ward. Church in very
good order. Parsonage. 1 2 acres of Glebe Terrier to be made. Registry
book. Chalice, & Paten. 20 communicants. Charles McCarol, English
schoolmaster.'*

1759 — Peter Winder excl "sick of gout." 1761 — "Infirm."

Sir 36aac TMHUson, m.S).

Bv JOHN J. MARSHALL,

This eminent physi-
cian belonged to the
north of Ireland,
having been born in
the townland of
Drummsk, in the
county of Armagh,
in the year 1757.
Descended from
an old north-of-
Englaiid stock, Ihc
family at this time
had acquired some
landed property in
the county, of which
pari was let, and the
remainder kept in
their own hands for
farming purposes.
The grandfather of
the subject of this
SIR ISAAC WII50N, M.n, mcmoir was Alex-

ander Wilson; and
we have no record of whether he had any other family than one son, named
John Wilson, who married Elizabeth White, or, as in those days, she was
called Betly White. It would appear that she had been an orphan ; as the
family tradition runs, that "she was reared in the house of a Presbyterian
minister, who lived in a townland near Blackwateriown." John Wilson and
Betty White had a family of eight sons and daughters, of whom Isaac was
the second son.

He studied for the medical profession, presumably at Edinburgh : Scotland,
in his day, being the place to which north-of- Ireland students resorted to
complete iheir studies for the medical profession and Presbyterian ministry.
He entered the British navy as a surgeon on the ship with the Duke
of Clarence, afterwards William IV. The prince being seized with a

SIR ISAAC WILSON, M.D. 1 29

dangerous fever, Doctor Wilson attended him during his illness ; and to the
doctor's care and skill the prince attributed his recovery, and remained ever
after his friend.

With his professional advancement, Doctor Wilson did not neglect his
family, one of whom, Adam, was an insurgent in 1798. A price was set upon
his head, and he lay concealed for months in Drumsollin churchy3.rd, food
being conveyed to his hiding-place by his sister Nancy (or Anne). At length
the hardships he endured affected his health, and he became dangerously ill,
so that there was nothing for it but to risk discovery by removing him to his
mother's house. A servant, " one Pat Carbery," betrayed him to the soldiers,
who surrounded the house, demanding him as a prisoner.

His mother came out, and said : " I promise that my son shall surrender
for trial ; but should Pat Carbery ever stand in my sight, I will shoot him
like a dog" : and well it was for Pat that no harm befell Adam Wilson, whose
mother was a woman high-spirited and determined enough to have kept her
word.

Adam Wilson was tried in the old court-house of Armagh, and acquitted
upon the first charge. A friend of standing in the county had a horse in
waiting, and by some means smuggled him off. He escaped to France, and
from that country to America. Afterwards when the excitement of the
insurrection had blown over, his brother, Doctor Wilson, gave him the position
of mate on a trading vessel owned by him, but even here ill-luck still followed,
for the vessel was wrecked, but he was fortunate in being able to swim ashore,
his box of clothes luckily also being ihrown upon the beach by the waves.
This was sufficient experience of a seafaring life, and he now returned to his
native Drumrusk, where his brother, the doctor, still befriending him, he was
supplied with sufficient funds to lend money and discount bills. He married
a lady of some property near Enniskillen, by whom he had one son, John,
and a daughter.

The sun of royal favour continued to shine on Doctor Wilson, and he
was sent privately by the King to report on the health and constitution of
the Duchess of Kent,^ previous to her marriage, which he did favourably,
becoming afterwards domestic physician to the Duke of Kent ; and it was in
virtue of this position that he officiated at the birth of the Princess Victoria,
afterwards Queen. The following is a copy of the bulletin issued announcing

the event : Kensington Palace,

May 24th, i8ig.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent was safely delivered of a princess this morning
at a quarter past four o'clock. I. WI LSON.

(Signed) D, D. DAVIS.

1 Victoria Mary Louisa, fourth daughter of the Duke of Saxe-Saalfield-Coburg, and widow
of Emich Charles, Prince of Leiningen, married to Jidward Augustus, Ihike of Kent, at
Coburg, 39th May, 1818.

SIR J

: WILSON, M.D.

On the 9th day of June, 1828, Doctor Wilson, now a successful and
wealthy member of his profession, had from Garter, King of Arms, a confirma-
tion of the family arms, with additions relating to his services and achieve-
ments, in the following terms :

To All and Singular to whom these presenls shall come :

Sir George Nayler, Knight Garter, Principal King of Arms, and Ralph Bigland, Esquire,
Clarenceaui, King of Arms of Ihe South East and West Farts of England from the Kiver
Trent Southwards, send Greeting—

Whcreoi, Isaac Wilson, Doctor of Physic, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in
Edinburgh, Fellow of ihe Medico-Chirurgical Society ot London, Physician to the Royal
Naval Hospital al Haslar, Dotneslic Physician 10 His late Royal Highness the Duke of
Kent and now one of the Physicians to Hei Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, second
son of John Wilson, late of Drumrusk in the County of Armagh, Gentleman, deceased and
Grandson of Alexander Wilson of (he same place, Gentleman, also deceased, descended from
an ancient family in the North of England, which bore for their armorial ensigns a Wolf
Salient oh a Chief, a Fleur de lis between two Etoiles, the memorialist requests (he favor of
His Grace's warrant (o conlirm such arms and cres( allusive (o his medical service in (he
Navy as may be deemed proper to be borne by him and his Descendants, and by the
Descendants of his said Grandfather, Aleiander Wilson of Drumrusk, aforesaid, Gentleman,
deceased, with due and proper differences according (o Ihe Laws of arms. And forasmuch,
as the said Earl Marshal did by Warrant under his hand and seal bearing da(e (he second day
of June, Ins[an(, authorise and direc[ us to grant, exemplify and conlirm such Arms and
Crest accordingly.

Kruwye Ikenjort that We, the said Garlor and Clarenceaux, in pursuance of His Grace's

Warrant and by Virtue of (he Letters Patent of our several offices to each of us respectively

granted under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, have

devised and do by these Presents grant, enemplify

and conlirm unto said Isaac Wilson, the Arms

following, that is to say. Ermine a Wolf Salient Vett,

supporting with (he forepsws a Staff entwined with

a Serpent proper, be(ween two Fleur de lis in Chiei

and a Trefoil in base of the Second Chief wavy Sable,

(hereon a Naval Crown Or between two Etoiles

Argent, And for the Crest on a Wreath of the

Colours, a Demi Wolf Vert gorged with a Naval

Crown Or charged on the shoulder with an Etoile

Argent, in the mouth a Trefoil Vet(, and supporting

a Staff enlwbed wi(b a Serpent as in the Arms, as

the same are in the margin hereof more plainly

depicted, to be borne and used Forever hereafter by

4£^ V him, the said Isaac Wilson, and his Descendan(s,

^_^A '7^ and by the Descendants of his said late GrandlBtber,

"■^ is' Alexander Wilson, deceased, with due and proper

_ _ _ differences according to the Laws of Arms.

In Witness whereof, We, the said Garter and
Clarenceaux King of Arms, have (o these Presents
subscribed our names and affixed (he seals of our
several offices this Ninlh day of June, in the Ninth
day of (he Reign of our Sovereign Lord, George the Fourth, by the Grace of God, of (he
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and in the year
of our Lord one (housand eight hundred and twenty-eight.

(Sipiedj RALPH BIGLAND, Clarenceaux King of Arms,
(Signed) GEORGE NAVLER, Gar(er.

SIR ISAAC WILSON, M.D. I3I

The Princess Victoria, when she succeeded to the throne, on the demise ol
her uncle, William IV., was neither ungrateful nor unmindful of her old
physician. Her Majesty presented him with a portrait of herself set in
diamonds, and ** was graciously pleased /^r^^^^Z/K to confer the honour, degree,
and dignity of a Knight Bachelor of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland upon Isaac Wilson, Esq., Doctor of Medicine, at St James's
Palace, on the twenty-first day of February, One thousand eight hundred and
thirty-eight," being the first knighthood bestowed by the young Queen.

Doctor (now Sir Isaac) Wilson, in addition to his medical degrees, was a

fellow of the Royal Society. He held the appointments of Physician to the

Royal Naval Hospitals at Plymouth and Haslar. Although an old man when

knighted, he lived to wear his title almost seven years, and died unmarried,

his fortune going to his relatives. The announcement of his death in The

Times of December 12th, 1844, is as follows :

On the 2nd inst., at B(^or, in his 88th year, Sir Isaac Wilson, M.D. and f.k.s.,
for many years physician to the Royal Naval Hospitals at IMymouth and Haslar, and
domestic physician to their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Kent.

Announcements of his death also appeared in T/i€ Annual Register^ The
Gentleman^ s Magazine^ and Illustrated London News,

In his will,^ which is dated June ist, 1839, he is described as of Fareham,
in the county of Southampton. It was proved January 23rd, 1845.

It is a curious fact that none of the publications mentioned supply any
biographical details of one holding such a distinguished position, while an
important professional journal like the Medical Times does not even notice
his death.

He was buried in Oving churchyard, about two miles from Chichester,
England, and a suitable monument erected to his memory.

In compiling this sketch of Sir Isaac Wilson, the writer, in addition to
personal knowledge, being a collateral descendant, is indebted to Doctor John.
S. Crone, London, also to his friend and kinsman, William Wilson Hanna,
who possesses the original Confirmation of Arms, for the copy, as well as the
portrait of Sir Isaac Wilson.

Any additional information will be gladly welcomed by the writer, or by
the editor of this Journal.

1 In the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.

Tfllstcr IBibltOflrapb?.

By E. R. McC. DIX.

ARTICLE M .—Continued from pat^e loS,

DERRY.

N submilling now a list of Derry printing, a more particular

introduction than usual Is desirable. At the outset, it

is necessary to point out that the first two items are only

(onjeeturally ascribed to Deny. As regards the first, it

should be remembered, as supporting the opinion of

the British Museum, that printing-presses were then of

moderate dimensions and weight, and that printers

moved from one place to another more easily and more often than nowadays.

William IV. had, it is said, a movable printing-press with him when he came

to Ireland for his ofi^cial printing ; * and too little research has yet been made,

I think, in Irish bibliography to pronounce definitely that there was no printing

in Derry in 1689. This last observation applies with yet more effect to the

second item. It is taken from Professor Witherow's valuable work. Historical

and Literary Memorials of Preibyterianiitn in Ireland, but he does not give

the place of publication. His quotations from it were given him by a friend ;

and Dr. Reid in his History, vol. iii, p. 175 (1867), expresses a doubt as to

its having been printed in Derry, and rather suggests Belfast. The librarian

of the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh, has been unable up to the present to

find the original referred to by Professor Witherow or his friend.

Even omitting these two doubtful items, we find that there was printing in
Deny earlier than in any other town in Ulster, save Belfast, though there
are wide gaps between some of the items, which it may be hoped will be filled
in time through further research.

This list is also a larger one than has yet appeared ; and though mainly
of a theological character, three of the items which relate to the famous siege
of Derry — one in verse and two in prose — are of special historical value and
interest.

James Coulter, at present, holds the honourable position of Derry's first-
known printer. It is of interest to note that printing had flourished in Deny
at least 31 years before any newspaper appeared.

The names of the printers and the sizes of some of the items are at present
lacking, and also their present owners, but perhaps these particulars can be

' Vidi Preface to Suppleniem lo J. Anrierson'i Cat.ilogue of Early Belfasl Primed Books
("894).

UI^TER BIBLIOGRAPHY. 1 33

supplied by some of the readers of the Journal who may possess the works or
^ have access to copies. The more complete the list can be made the better.

[1689?] N.B. — In the Catalogue of the British Museum, under England,

Part I (Proclamations), Col. 255, appears "An Abstract of the

^ King & Queen's Declaration [of 22 Feb., 1688, s. sh. fol.]," which

is conjecturally located to " Londonderry," and dated " 1 689."

1724. A Seasonable Warning from the Synod of Londonderry, met May 12,
1724, to the several Congregations within their bounds, against
the errors and immoralities of the present age.

[Fide Wither owy ist Series, p. 284.]

1 731. A Good Conscience a necessary Qualification of a Gospel Minister.
A Sermon preached at Antrim, June 15th, 1731, at a General
Synod of the Protestants of the Presbyterian persuasion in the
North of Ireland. [Heb. xiii. 18.] Revd. William Boyd,' m.a.
i8mo. 30 pp.

[Fide Witherow, 2nd Series, p. i.]

H 1741- The Scriptural Doctrine of Original Sin Asserted and Explained.

A Sermon Preached the Second Lord's Day of July, Anno
Dom. 1740. The Revd. Samuel Dunlop, m.a., Dissenting
Minister of Letterkenny. (James Coulter.) 12 mo. 26 pp.

i^ Folds in fours.

[Magee College, Derry, 3. F. 17 (2).]

1744. Some Queries offered to the Consideration of the Revd. Mr. Thomas

Nairn and his Admirers. i8mo. 16 pp.

[ F/^^ Witherow, 2nd Series, p. 322.]

1745. A Seasonable Warning & Exhortation from the Presbytery of letter-

kenny to Protestant Dissenters in their bounds. The Revd.
William Laird. (John Loivis.) 8vo. 8 pp.

[King's Inns Library, Dublin, 441.]

1764. A Sermon preached from Rom. v. 7, showing the difference that is

betwixt a Good Moralist and a Godly Man. By a Lover of

' Evangelical Preaching. (Revd. John Holmes, m.a., Minister of

Glendermot.) i8mo. 22 pp.
I [Vide Witherow, 2nd Series, p. 108.]

1 77 1. Some Remarks upon the Revd. James Hull's Synodical Sermon. By
Rehem Tamin (Revd. John Holmes, m.a.) 24 pp.

[Vide Witherow, 2nd Series, p. 108.]

1 Minister of Mourea^h.

134 ULSTER BIBLIOGRAPHY.

1772. A Sermon preached in the Cathedral Church at Londonderry on

Sunday, September, 13th, 1772, Before The Judges of Assize and

Gentlemen of the County there assembled. The Very Revd.

Thomas Barnard, Dean of Derry. {George Douglas^ in the

Diamond). 4to. 22 pp. Folds in twos, or foliowise. Paper

cover.

[Royal Irish Academy, Tracts, Box 249/2.]

1772. Duignan's Answer to Grattan. 8vo.

\^Vide Sale Catalogue of Charles Sharpe (1834),
p. 47, item 1 1 32.]

1772. Homesius Enervatus : a Letter addressed to Mr. John Holmes,

containing (I") An Essay on Church Communion ; (II**) The

Terms of Church Communion held by the Reformed

Presbetery Vindicated; (III*') Grounds of Separation from the

Synod of Ireland; And (IV^'^'y) Animadversions upon a Pamphlet

entitled A Testimony, etc., written by Mr. Holmes, Minister at

Glendermod. [Rev.] William James, Minister of the Gospel, [at

Bready Reformed Presbyterian]. (Catherine Stevenson.) 12 mo.

92 pp.

[The Assembly's College, Belfast.]

1772. The Derry Journal.

(et seq.) [Fide Madden's Irish Periodical Literature and

Cotton's Typographical Gazetteer.]

1776. Two Sermons (Psa. ex. 3; Rev. iii. 23). Revd. James Poulson.
(James Blyth,) 4to. Preface, 4 pp. + 42 pp.

[Advocates' Library, Edinburgh.]

1783. The Charter-Party of the Equitable Annuity Company of the City of

Londonderry. (G. Douglas.) 8vo. 2 leaves + 42 pp. + i leaf.

Folds in fours.

[E. R. McC Dix]

1787. A True Account of the Siege of London-Derry. By the Rev. Mr.
George Walker, Rector of Donaghmore in the County of Tyrone
and late Governor of Derry in Ireland. To which is added
Sir John Dalrymple's Account of the Siege of Derry and the
Battle of the Boyne. 3RD edition. (G, Douglas.) i2mo.
104 pp. Folds in sixes.

[National Library, Dublin (Joly Collection); and
Count Plunkett, Dublin.]
N.B. — Query : Was there a second " Derry " edition in 1786 ?
Vide Preface to above.

ULSTER BIBLIOGRAPHY. 1 35

17S7. A Sermon preached on the nth of Feb. 1787 on the Occasion of the
death of the Rev. Andrew Ferguson late Presbyterian minister of
Burt [The Revd.] Andrew Alexander.^ (G.Douglas,) 13 mo.

30 PP-

[The Assembly's College, Belfast]

1789. The Blessedness of those who Die in the Lord. A Sermon preached
at Aghadowey, the last Sabbath of July 1788, on the death of the
Rev. Samuel Hamilton, and published at the request of that
Congregation. [Rev. xiv. 1 3.] The Re vd. James Elder. ^ i2mo.
24 pp. \yide Witherow, 2nd Series, p. 276.]

1789. Gratitude to God for His Goodness. A Sermon preached at Finvoy
on Thursday, the 23d. day of April, 1789, being the National
Thanksgiving for his Majesty's recovery, and published at the
request of the Audience. [Psa. cxii. 8.] The Rev. James Elder.
1 2 mo. 24pp.

\yide Witherow, 2nd Series, p. 276.]

1 789. The Poliorciad or Poems on the Siege of Derry. Written for the

Prize Medal Seventh December 1788. 8vo. 4 leaves + 1-70 pp.

^ Folds in fours. (No printer's name.)

[British Museum ; Trinity College, Dublin, QQ. i, 68;

Linen Hall, Belfast; Royal Irish Academy,

Halliday Pamphlets, 665/2.]
^ With

1790. Poem (separate pagination, and register not consecutive). 8vo.

I leaf + 1-42 pp. 4- 1 leaf. No title-page.

[Trinity College, Dublin, QQ. i, 68; Royal Irish
Academy, Halliday Pamphlets, 665/2.]

1792. A Test of Roman Catholic Liberality submitted to the Consideration

of both Roman Catholics and Protestants. By a Citizen of
London-Derry. (G, Douglas.) 8vo. 34 pp. Folds in fours.

[Royal Irish Academy, Halliday Pamphlets, 613/10,
&c. (3 copies); Trinity College, Dublin, Gall.
C. 1 1, 27 ; Cork Diocesan Library ; E. R. McC.
\ • Dix.]

1 793. A Sermon preached in the Cathedral of St Columb's Derry on Friday^

igth Aprils i793, The Day Appointed By The Royal Proclamation
' for A General Fast The Revd. John Hume, a.m.. Dean of Derry.

(G. Douglas.) 2ND EDITION. 8vo. 28 pp.

[Royal Irish Academy, Halliday Pamphlets, 639/12.]
Query. — When and where was the ist edition printed?

1 Minister of Urney. • Minister of Finvoy.

136 ULSTER BIBLIOGRAPHY.

1793. Translation of the Charter granted by Charles II. To the Mayor and

Community and Citizens of the City of Londonderry^ carefully
compared with the Original in the Rolls Office, Dublin, and
published by the direction of the Chamber of Commerce, London-
derry. (No place or printer.) 8vo. 4 leaves + 108 pp. Paper

cover.

[Royal Irish Academy, Tracts, Box 290/7.]

N.B. — This is conjecturally attributed to Derry.

1794. Derriana. A collection of Papers relating to the Siege of Derry and

illustrative of the Revolution of M.DC.LXXXVIII. The Rev.
John Graham, m.a. Svo. Collation, Title-leaf and another
unpaged + i - xii + Title-leaf ** Account of Siege " (Walker) -f-
iv -H 78 + Title-leaf of " Narrative " (Mackenzie) 4- xii + 210 pp.

[Royal Irish Academy, Halliday Pamphlets, 665/1 ;

Royal Irish Academy, Halliday Books ; Trinity

College, Dublin, QQ. i, 68 ; National Library,

Dublin (Joly Collection) ; British Museum.]

Edited by (G, Douglas). (This is a volume of pamphlets

printed at different times and now collected under a general title.)

1794. A Collection of Psalms & Hymns proper for Christian Worship. In
Two Parts &c. {G. Douglas in the Diamond.) VI + 194 pp. H-

vi. (5 A X 3i)

[Magee College, Derry.]

1797. A Sermon preached in the Cathedral Church of St. Columb, Derry,
Feb. 1 6th, 1797, l'^^ ^^^.y appointed for a General Thanksgiving
to Almighty God for the Providential Dispersion of the Fleet of
Our Enemy and the Discomfiture of his dangerous designs on this
Nation. The Revd. John Hume. (J. Buchanan &* IV. McCorkell.)
i2mo. 26pp. (Folds in fours.)

[Royal Irish Academy, Halliday Pamphlets, 734/6.]

STRABANE (Supplemental).
The following additional item is added to the list :

1789. The Gentle Shepperd; a Scots Pastoral Comedy with New Songs.
(John Bellew. ) 1 2mo. Over 6 2 pp. Folds in sixes. Sigs. A - F i .
Imperfect.

[F. J. Bigger ]

ULSTER BIBLIOGRAPHY.

»37

MONAGHAN (Supplemental).

I am indebted to the Rev. R. S. Maffett of Sandymount for the following
addition to the list :

1 79 1. The Protestant Dissenter's Catechism. Samuel Palmer. Over 32 pp.

[yide Barwick's Treatise on the Church, Belfast

(1813X P- 36.]
N.B. — There were many editions of this work, including one

printed in Belfast.

Having been very kindly afforded a special visit to the library of the late
Sir John T. Gilbert, now the property of the Dublin Corporation, I am now
able to give fuller particulars of the seventeenth item in my last article.

1 795- Hesperi-Neso-Graphia ; or, A Description of the Western Is/e In
Eight Cantos. By VV. M. (James IValker.) i2mo. Title-leaf
+ 48 pp. Folds in sixes.

N.B.— W. M. is said to be " William Moffat."

a Xl0t of tbe 3u0ttce6 of tbe l^eace in tbe
several Coimttes of Jrelanb In 1797*8.

From "The Gentlem

! A/manaik, compiled by John Watson Stbiva
mr Lord 1797 & '98. Dublin."

Eart of Cavan

Lord Vise. Dungannon

I^rd Vise. O'Neill

Lord Vise Castlereagh

Rieh. Vise. Chetwynd

Hon. Chich. Skeffington

Hon. Geo. C. Stapylton

Riehard Dobbs, Dean of Connor

The Mayor of Carriekfei^us

The Sovereign of Belfast

Henry Reynell, clerk

Stewart Bankes

Rowley Heyland

Chas. Hamilton

Conway Rich. Uobbs

Wm. Watts Gayer

Richard Magennis

John Staples

Alexander Macauly

Jackson Wray

John Richardson

William Moore

E. Davys Boyd

Francis Shaw

Phil. Johnson, clerk

George Macartney, clerk

Chas. Richardson

John Cromie

Wm. Traill, i.l.d.

Robert Stewart
M.-Gen. Richard While
John Hodges, clerk
W. P. Keating Trench
Joseph Hardy
Robert Gait
George Bristowe
Richard Babington, clerk
Sampson Moore
James Stew. Moore
James Durham
Jackson Clarke
William Brownlow
Poyntz Stewart
Philip Stewart
Doherty Gorman
Stafford Gorman
Thomas Andrews
James Jones
John Forsyth
James Torrens, clerk
Geoi^e Burleigh
John Gage Lecky
George Moore
Robert Gage
Robert Waddell
Courttand Skinner
Col. James Durham
Brig. -Gen. Nugent

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE IN SEVERAL COUNTIES IN 1 797-8.

139

Robert Rowan
Thomas Morris Jones
Wm. Legg
John Brown
George A. MacCleverty
Alexander MacManus
Clotw. Rowley
James White
James Watson Hull
David M*Killop
Chas. Rankin
Langford Heyland
James Watson
Richard Jerv. Ker
Wm. Bristowe, clerk
Wm. Adair

John Hamilton O'Hara
Thomas Banks
£dm. Alex. MacNaghton
Wm. MacCleverty, clerk
Samuel Allen
John Long, clerk
James Lendrick
Roger Moore
David Babington
E. Davys Boyd, jun.
Wm. Moore
Waddel Cunningham

Col. Lucius Barber
James Stewart
Holt Waring, clerk
Robert Trail, clerk
John Montgomery
Edward McGildowney
M.-Gen. Gerard Lake
B.-Gen. Geo. Nugent
Charles Leslie
Matt. Ankettle
George McKay
Andrew McNevin
Hon. Wm. Lumley
Charles Smith
Dan. Seddon
George Smith
Alex. Nairne
William Campbell
Hon. David Leslie
Thomas Babington, clerk
Hon. John Knox
Robert Kingsmill
John Sheil
John Todd
William Stewart
George Hutchinson
George Gamble

CAVAN.

Earl of Bellamont
Earl of Farnham
Earl of Enniskillen
Earl of Bective
Lord Viscount Maxwell
Lord Viscount Cole
Lord Glentworth
Sir Robert Hodson, Bt.
Sir John Meredith, Bt.
Sir Robert Baxter, Knt.

A. N. Adams, clerk
Wm. Stephens
Christopher Palles
Joseph Story, clerk
Wm. Hales, clerk
Wm. Faris
Thomas Nesbitt
Albert Nesbitt, clerk
Wm. Sneyd, clerk
Nathaniel Sney

140 JUSTICES OF THE PEACE IN SEVERAL COUNTIES IN 1 797-8.

Hon. Henry Southwell
Hon. John Knox
Provost of Belturbet
Dive Downes, clerk
Theophilus Clements
Richard Hassard
John Ennery
Dawson Crowe, clerk
James Young, jun.
Jason Hassard
Robert Faris
James Fleming
Humphrey Nixon
Ralph Hinds
John Baker
Oliver Nugent
John Elliot
Mich. Nugent
Thomas O'Reilly
Andrew Bell
J. Cottingham, d.d.
Robert Burro wes
Theophilus Fenner
John Faris
John Caulfield, clerk
Henry Clements
Wm. Webb
Coyne Nugent
James Butler Pratt
George Nixon
Brinsley Nixon, clerk
Benj. Adams, clerk
John Richardson
Patrick Smyth
Wm. Gresson
Ralph Dawson
Sam. Madden
Francis Saunderson
Brogh. Newburgh
John Maxwell
Wm. O'Brien
Wm. Somerville

Thomas Berry

Robert Hume

Thomas Barnes

James Young

Norman Steele

Stewart Adams

Wm. Mayne

Major-Gen. R. Whyte

Wm. Stewart

John Hopkins

Henry St. George Cole

James Hen. Cottingham

Walter Jones

Robert Saunderson

James Saunderson

Christopher Broden
John Tatloe
James Stafford
Thomas Clendinning
Andrew Palles
James O'Reilly
Major-Gen. Peter Craig
Edward Mulloy
Irwine Johnston
Francis Whyte
John Bell
Caleb Barnes
William Thomas Monsell
William Wilson
Maj. John Peyton
William Betty
Jason Crawford
Alexander Nairne
William Smith
John Moutray Jones
Thomas Brunker
Edward Anderson
John Welsh
Maj.-Gen. Gerard Lake
Francis Haldron
Samuel Adams

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE IN SEVERAL COUNTIES IN 1 797-8. I4I

FERMANAGH.

Earl of Ross

Earl of Bellamont

Earl of Enniskillen

Earl of Erne

Lord Vise Cole

Hon. A. Cole Hamilton

Hon. Sam. Lowry Corry

Hon. John Knox

The Provost of Enniskillen

Mervyn Archdall

Abraham Creighton

John Nixon, clerk

Jason Hassard

John Ennery

Edward Barton

Howard St. George, clerk

Hugh Mt. Gomery

John Watkins

Thomas Smith, clerk

James Hastings, clerk

Wm. Stewart

Wm. Treddennick

Robert Weir

James Lendrum

Samuel Madden

Francis Brooke

John Richardson
Fitzm. Caldwell
Wm. O'Brien
Gorges Darcy Irwine
Henry St George Cole
John Hawkshaw
Hugh Maguire
James Armstrong
George Nixon
Henry Leslie
M.-Gen. C. Crosbie
Robert Hassard
George Leslie
Patrick Dundass
William Elliott, clerk
Nathaniel Sneyd
Thomas Hudson, clerk
John Wright, clerk
John Caulfield, clerk
John Nepb. Belches
William Barton
Maj. Gerard Lake
John Hill, clerk
William Owens, clerk
Richard Archdall, jun.

Bvmortal Sculpturcb Stones of tbe Count? Hntttm.

By FRANCIS JOSEPH BIGGER and HERBERT HUGHES.
( Ceittinutd from page 61.)

Bntrim parisb.

QUOS TEGIT HOC MARMOR SUNT CINERES
MEMORABILIS WILHELMI ADAIR, VENERANDI

PATRIS I'ATRISSANTIS FILLH ; (^lUEM OB EGREGIAS
TAM NATUK.K yUAM GRATI.E L>OTES KAMA
VIVUM CELEBRAVIT, AMISSUM LUGET EC

CLESIA i IN CUJ US EMOLUMENTUM, PIE AC
ERUDITE DOCENDO, PRUUENTER KEGENODO,

VIRILITER MUNIENDO, TOTUS INCUliUIT

ET POST(JUAM PRECIBUS, PR.KCONIO

CONCIUO & SANtT.E VIT.E EXEMPLO

BALVEASTON NOVEM HANC VERO URBEM

OCTO ANNIS ir.LUSTRASSET ; TANDEM NON

SINE COMMUNI DISPENDIO, RENITENTIBUS

PIORUM VOTIS, SUORUM AUTEM HEU ! CITIUS
COMPOS. VITAM ^ETERNAM INCHOAVIT

DIE FEBRUARII 1698 .ETATIS HUM 48

The above is cut on a large flat slab, close to the north wall of the
church, near the west porch.

SCULPTURED STONES OF THE COUNTY ANTRIM I43

COLLING WOOD.

x<rx

Quinque pedes B.b Hoc mnro
Depo^Ue sunl Reliquiae

Re vend Perci Collingvfood
Nuper parochiarum

Uc Julianslown Moorechnrcli
Ardcalh et Timoole

in Diocj^i Midensi

obiit 30 Die November

Anno Doiii 1731

.€ut S3

The above is on a. slab built into the north wall of church, close to the
est end.

■ 44 ARMORIAL SCULPTUKED STONES OK THE COUNTV ANTRIM

Brmos patteb.

CLARK.

1i«

Cap'

Here

Remains of

Alex: Clark

died (he ' 19^

day of April 1786

aged 56 years

also of his son Robl
Clark who i:»ed Ihe &

day of Decern: 1785

aged 20 years

This Stone is built into the churchyard wall, west of the Round To

lielh Lhp body
of Mr George Dunlop
late of Chalham Hal!
who died the 26^!' day
of July 1778 aged 63

years also his son

Samuel who Died the
I3t day of June 1775
aged 29 years

This stone is built into the wall at the north-east corner of the churchyard.

ARMORIAL SCULPTURKD STONES OF THE COUNTY ANTRIM. 14S

JSalKitDerr^ parlsb.

MiDDLB Church.

here lyeth )■* boily of Marip'et
Tstna] who departed ihis life in ihe
as'.'' year iif her age the J'J' of
January 1679 as also

ihe body of ML John Talnal «ho
depatteil ys life In ye 65'i' year
of his ase on Ihe i&i' of NoL 1691
here lyelh the body of Mrs Jane
Clow wife of Mr William Clo!se
who deporled this life ihe
14!'' of Aprile 1731 aged 66 years

This large stone lies flat on the south side of the old middle church It is
broken across, and is evidently of Scrabo sandstone.

146 ARMORIAL SCULPTURED S

F THE COUNTY ANTRIM.

The above arms are cut on the back of a small thick yellow sandstone, in
a sunk oval. Around the upper edge of stone " Memento Mori " is cut.
The inscription is upon the face.

33al[sliniie? parieb.

ALEXANDER.

Here
THK bo

lyelh
-dy

Jamc

Alexa

-nder

who

died

in Feb

l?70 »fied 61
Eliiabeth Hughes,

years Also
who d

•ed II- May 1779
U(e wife 10

aged 30 yea
John Alex*

ARMORIAL SCULPTURED STONES OF THE COUNTY ANTRIM.

Here lytth

the body ofWillitm

BirroD of L M o i n e

who depar ted ihis

life Mar 35^ 1798

XallswiUin partsb.

BOYD.

To . the . memory . of . Andrew
Boyd husband to lean

Boyd . in . Bully m'^illuan nan
who departed . this . life

y . 30 . tioa I7J4

in . y ■ 56 ■ year . of . his
age and lyeth iniecd

here . also . I . child Andrew

This Stone stands gainst the south wall inside the ruins of the old church.

148 ARMORIAL SCULI'TURED STONES OV THE COUNTY ANTRIM.

ROSS.

Here lyeth the inler
red body of M[ L' ] Doro
thea Ross wife I0 Mr
John Ross of Ihe town
of Colemiiie Mercliant
Who (lepiirled htr

ni'>rlHl life ihe lUh
day of l>eeember anno

year of her n^e

The remarkable mantling will be observed, and the position of the c
at the base. There may have been a second crest on the left side. The a
are Ross, impaled with (?), which would account for the two crests.
STIRLING.

The motto is undecipherable.

Beneath this Stone lies the Body of

JAMES STIRLING ESQ
Who Departed this Life at

Ballylagan
on the 4'.'.' Day nf August iSlo Aged
75

F THE COUNTY ANTRIM.

IttlbdDe parisb.

• ALLEN.

Herein is deposited the remains ot Mr John
Allen of liashee who departed this life the
10''' of April 174Z in Ihe 9<)"' year of his age whose
Eminent Virtues and Extensive Charities have
left ■ lasting tnonument of his Character
Here also is deposited the remains of M^*
Mary Allen his Daughter in law who departed
this life (he II'" of December 17JO aged 35 y
four of her children who died young
Herein is also interred the remains of Jane
Allen alias Smith relict o( the above John
Allen who dep"* this life April 14 1711 Age
Sj years. Also (he remains of her grand
daughter Jane Allen who dcp"' this life 15
June 1763 aged la yeais
John Allen of Kashee died tS'" May 17S4
aged 72 years. Also Christian Allen alias Russell
his wife 23"' April iSoi aged 6S years

John Allen of Collin
died 26"" Sepr 1847 ■ aged 7 years

Mary Allen died 6"^ Febry 1S54 aged Sz years

John Gillilan Allen of Collin
died 31" July 1861 aged 47 years

Jane Allen alias Gillilan relict of John Allen of Collin died 30(h'
March 1S64 aged 7S years Hei remains lie in- the adjoining grave.

These arms are sunk in a circle Oti a large flat stone in the old graveyard.

150 ARMORIAL SCULPTURED STONES OF THE COUNTY ANTRIM.

BLAIR.

body of John Bl>

ir who died Oc^

ifi 1730 aged 47

years & hU wife
Janel Linn who died Jan icfl' 1730
aged 55 yeais alio 3 children vii
Jane Mary & Calhrine also Jane Rod
gers wife to William Blair who died
June 7$ 1749 aged 37 years also th-
eir a children John & Jane also THI
foresaid William Blair who died
9 Oct 1786 ^ed 84 years.

These arms are well cut on a slate.

fttlraudbts parfsb.

BRADY.

ARMORIAL SCULPTURED STONES OP THE COUNTY ANTRIM. I5I

JAMESON.

The arms on this stone are very much worn, the inscription is almost
undecipherable, and the motto quite sa The name and date alone can be
traced with certainty.

Het« lyeth the body of
Archibald Mooie who di
ed Aug" Ihe 5"" 1771 Aged [ ]
years. As also Here lyelh
the body of Mary Neat
his wife who died Ap'.
the 3'' 1759 Aged 67 years
AUo WiUUm Moore

who died June the jo'''
1765 Aged 82 yeart. Lllie
wise John Moore who
died April the 4"' 1769 A
ged 78 yeurs

, SCULPTURED STONES OP THE COUNTY ANTRIM,

Xambeg pacisb.

WOLFENDEN.

Here lyelh the Body

of Mrs Elitabelh Wolfenden
Daughler of M. Richard Woirenden
of Lambeg Linen Draper

who departed this lite the 2"^ day of
May 1744 in (he 40"* of her age

The above is the only armorial stone in Lambeg churchyard. It lies flat
an enclosure on the north side of the church.

Xoudbguile parteb.

MacDONNELL.

Uanie] and Knbert
M'Donnel's Bury
-ing place of Car

Here lielh the

body of Mary M'

Donnell who de

parted this life

the 14"' day of
March 179] aged
74 years

These arms are not quartered in the usual way, but are sunk in the shield.

ARMORIAL SCULPTURED STONES OF THE COUNTY ANTRIM. 1 53

McCOLLUM.

Inter'd Here the Remains of
Arch'* M*=Collum Esq' who Died
the 5*»» October 1799 aged 88 years
Also His Wife Margaret McCollum
Who Died the I2»'' August 1801 Ag'* 82
Likewise Esther Kind ell Daughter
to the above Arch'^ & Margaret M*=

CoUum Died the 27*'* Decern 1806 Ag

L64
And also Alex' Kindell who Died
the 14th Janry 1808 aged 64
This Stone Erected to their Memo
ry by Alex' Kindell Esq' Surge
on to his Magesty's Forces and
Director of Hospitals to the Portu
guese Army during the Late
Campaigns on the Continent

1815

154 ARMORIAL SCITLPTURED STONES OF THE COUNTY ANTRIM,

Aagberagall partsb.

WATSON.

To the memory of

JAMES WATSON

who died iwh September 1772 aged 77 years

A tnie man and a friend to his country
This Tomb is most piously dedicated by his affectionale
Daughleri, MARGARET REDMOND and ELIZABETH BOVES
at a testimoDy of their love and grief

"Blessed are the dead thai die in the Lord
that they may rest from their labour, and their
works do follow them."

The remains of ihe Ule JAMES WATSON Esqr.
of Brook hill, Grandson of the above named
JAMES WATSON are also deposited in this vault
He died znd September iSjo in Ihe 84lh year of
his age, universally respected and beloved

This is a large raised alUr tomb at the east end of the church. The a
are cut in a circular sunk panel.

ARMORIAL SCULPTURED STONES OF THE COUNTV ANTRIM.

/DucHamore pacisb.

WAUGH-

[H]ere lyeth y Body of Nalha[n]

[iel] Waugh Who Died Jan y tyj;

'75' Aged 19 years
The above arms are beautifully cut on slate, but are very small, the whole
panel being only 1 2 inches by 7 inches. On this account, it has not been
reduced proportionately with the other rubbings. It is alone in the old
churchyard at Muckamore.

SbanMII pacisb,

CARSON.

THIS

STONE

BELONGS

WILLIAM

CARSON

HEAR

LtVETH]

4 OF HIS

cniLDKEN

WILLIAM DEPARTED

THIS LIKE MARCH V it

1735 AGED 13 YEARS

I B™*en. ]

This is the only armorial stone we could find in the old parish graveyard,
Shankill Road, Belfast. It is well cut in a curious design on slate, but is much
broken at the top and bottom.

S6 ARMORIAL SCULPTURED STONES OF THK COUNTV ANTRIM.

The Oi.[> Poorhousb Cemetery, Belfast.
LENNOX.

Here lyelh the Body of
Robert Letinox of Bel fait
Mercliatit who departed
this life the 17- of February
'73 J =fied Ti years
Here lyeth bis
first wife Ann Drennan Lecky
His children by hiii second
wife Ann Lennox alias
Conyngham Here lyeth also
bis third wife Martha Hamil-
ton daughter of John Hamilton
Esq who was Burgess and
.Sovereign of Belfast who

This is a remarkable stone, in that it is one of the few remaining monu-
ments from the old Corporation Churchyard in High Street, Belfast, having
been removed here for safety at the time of the desecration of the latter in
1830. Numerous notes regarding it will be given iti due time.

ARMORIAL SCUI.PTURKD STONES OF THE COUNTY ANTRIM

Sttctte parlsb-

McCOrXUM.

this Stone was Erecled
lo the memory ol randil

McColluni luLe uf Allaim
nuin who depaitnl this
life on ilie :;"' day oi
October 1 805 aged 89

This is a very rude stone — rude in every particular. It stands within the
walls of the old church.

(To bt cettliitutJ. )

HORSK.RACING IN ANTRIM IN 1710.

Thc follD<

; from the "Irish Ci'

No. 4475, in ihe Record Office, Dublii
Co. Dublin: " Letter dated 23 Sep.,
enclosing following List of Subscribers for 1
/. s d

20 o o Lord Antrim

5 □ o Mount Alexnnder

40 o o Massereene

500 Mary Smith

IS o O Clot : Slteffington

I 3 o Wm. Jickson

500 Clol : Upton

I 3 o Fra : Bulk

18 6 Ed : MacNaghten
on 6 Jno. Stewart

1 6 O Fra : MacNaghten
I 3 o Wm. Rodman
one Mich: St. Uwreno
I 3 o Jno. MacLoane

z 6 o H : Stafford

O II 6 Jno. MacLachlm

on 6 Jno. Biysnn

t 3 o Geo : Wilson

360 Alex : Cornwall

130 Jno. Fordice

o iS 6 Jno. Robison

O 10 10 Sam. Guest

O ti 6 Jam: Dullice

The above
in Ihe county. Perhaps
Danagor is a fairly large <

Wm. Stewart, jun

Wm. Whitby

Jno. Cook

Hei : Rowley

Ja ; Crafford

Geo : Duflield

interesting from thi

e one can say where Ibis
adjoining Antrim parish.

il Miscellaneous Correspondence," Carlon 32,
been copied by Tenison Groves of Monk-itown,
no, of Lord Massereene to Joshua Oawson,
Plate, to be run at Dunegore co. Antrim.
C % d

093 Arth : Kenner
o J 5 Dan t MacAuley
o 10 10 Willm. Moorhead

S 1} Wm. MacConchy

1 3 o Wm. Stewarl Duff
1 3 o Math r Wilson

I 3 o Jno. Hayly
on 6 Thos. Stewart
093 Pelr. Matson
o 10 10 Fra : Kume
060 Robt. Welsh
o s ° Jno- Gray
10 10 Thos. Adair

iS 6 Hen: MacCulloch

1 3 o J. William
on 6 Rich; Jackson
on 6 Tho: Jackson
093 Wm. Johnston

O 10 10 Robt. CUrkmass
093 Thos. Bell
on 6 Jno. Clark
093 Jam: Bell
o 10 o Jno. Nabb
130 Alei : Hanah

10 o Jno. Campbell

1 17 o Jno. O'Neill, esq
I 3 o Dav : Cunningham
140 Wm. Herdman
3 i; 6 Jno. MacMullan"

ames given, many of which are still represented
was situated ; Ihe parish of

-Ed.

DAVID MANSON. SCHOOLMASTER.
Thb following supplemental note to the rrference to David Manson, page 71, has been
supplied by Isaac W. Ward :

David Manson was the ion of John Manson and Agnes Jamison, and uai bom in the
parish of Caimcastle in Ihe year 1726. In his eighth year he had an attack of rheumatic
fever, which left him in delicate health ever afterwards.

MISCELLANEA. 1 59

His mother was a good scholar and taught him, and he soon became proficient in English.

He was invited to teach the children of Shaw at Ballygally Castle (this was probably about

1740). From the progress he had made in learning by the mild manners of his mother's
instructions, he thought of imitating the same plans with the children at Ballygally, which had
been suggested by his mother's tender affection, with the additional improvement of teaching
when he played with the children. This was the foundation of the first rudiments of his
''-Play School," as it might be termed, which he afterwards instituted in Belfast in 1754.

After teaching a short time at Ballygally, he removed to Larne, where he taught the

English language, improved himself in writing, in arithmetic, in the practical branches of

mathematics, and in the rudiments of Latin, at the school of Robert White, afterwards

dissenting minister of Templepatrick. He died 2 March, 1792, in his 67th year ; his father

died after him in the same year, aged 93.

Bblfastibnsis.

CURIOUS FORM OF BETROTHAL IN ANTRIM.

(Advertisement in the Belfast News-lMter of 10 March, 1801, from the Sporting Magazine

of April 1 80 1.)

Copied by thb Rbv. W. S. Smith.

** Co. Antrim, \ By W. Miller, Esq., one of his Majesty's Justices of Peace for

to wit. J the said County.

This day John Wilson of the town of Antrim, Hosier, came before me and voluntarily
made oath on the Holy Evangelist, that he is promised by mutual consent, to Elizabeth
Brady / daughter of the late John Brady of Antrim, to marry her, and none other, the 6th
day of September, 1799 ; and she likewise bound herself in the same contract, at the same
time, to marry no one but me ; and deponent farther sayeth not.

Sworn before me this 28th day of February, 1801.

John Wilson.

W. MiLLBR."

ARTHUR O'NEILL, THE IRISH HARPER.

Since writing the article on O'Neill (page i), I have perused a rare volume of Ulster poetry.

The Bard of Erin, by James MacHenry, Belfast, 1808, which contains **An Ode on

Leaving Mr. O'Neill, the harper playing several of our most beautiful ancient airs." The

volume is dedicated to ** The Society for Reviving the Irish Harp." The Belfast Magazine

for 1809, vol. ii, page 136, gives a review of this volume, which contains the following

references to the harpers that may be of interest : ** In the Notes, Arthur O'Neill is described

as the only harper in Ireland. Patrick Quinn of Portadown has, perhaps, superior merit to

O'Neill. There is a harper in Drogheda ; another, a female, in Dublin ; and, doubtless,

several in the south and west."

F. J. B.

IRotcs anb (Sluci-ks.

(Suerles.

In the Uhler Journal, vol. ii, p. 1S4, I was informed Ihal John Vesey, who I believe to
be my ancestor, was the first Mayor of Belfast in the year 1613, but since that lime, nearly
live ynrs ^o, I have never been able (o make out Anything more about him. I shall feel
ohliged to any reader of your Journal who can tell me who this Vesey was, to what English
family he belonged, where he lived in Ulster, and whom he married. I believe that he musi
have been fiither of the Rev. Thomas Vesey of Coleraine, who is so often mentioned in Reid's
History of the Ulster Presbyterians. I must add (hat the origin of the Irish Veseys in
Lodge's Peerage appears to he alli^ether fabulous.

DOMINICK Brownr, Christ church. New Zealand.

A tombstone in Ballinderry churchyard bears the following inscription : " Here lieth
the body of Mr. Thos. Johnston of Portmoie, who departed this life jolh July iSoo in the
90th yr of his age. He was descended from Hon. and Revd. Thos. Johnston 3rd son of the
Earl of Annandale in Scotland, who was rector of Drumgoolan and Vicar of Ballynahinch
Co. of Down, in the reign of King Chas Isl."

Now the difliciilLy about this statement is (hat James Johnstone, Earl of Hartheld, was
created Earl of Annadale with the precedency of Harlfield by King Charle.i II. in 1661.

A. B.

Sun-WOrsblp In Ireland.— Dr. Joyce, in his valuable work Orit^n and History of
Irish Namts of Plates, ind series, p. 132, makes the following assertion : " We have a native
literature, chiefly in manuscript, most ancient and most extensive ; we have numerous
biograpbiesof the first preachers of Christianily in Ireland, in which we find descriptions of
various pagan rites and superslilions, which these good men encountereil in their progress
through the country; but no one has been able to find in all these writings, one sentence
asserting that Ihc people worshipped the sun, or an expression that could in the least justify
anyone in believing that sun-worship ever prevailed in (his country." Is this correct ?

Rev. Peter Bristow, M.A., according to Cotton, was son of Roger Brislow ; Iwtn in
Co. Antrim, and when eighteen years old entered T.C.U. May nth, 1719; MA. in 1761 ;
Vicir Choral of Cork in 1731; in '741 Rector of St. Paul's, C^irk ; in 1751 Vicar of Bally-
ceard ; and also in 1761 Rector and Vicar of Agabulloge, diocese of Cloyne; all of which lie
retained until his death, which took place in January 1769, at Bath. Author of a comely,
"The Harlequins": London, 8vo, 1753. What was his Co. Antrim connection? I have
not been able to get any answer (o this query. C. S.

QobanS.^The white cliffs of Islandmagee, acing Carrickfergus Bay, are called the
Gobbins; more correctly, I think, spelt Gobans. Can it be that this word means " the white
island of the sea"? The appearance of the place would beat out thai interpretation. Go
means sea, ban white, and i might be the contraction of inis, an island— Go-h«n-inis. This
occurred 10 me lecenlly ; and as i( is not given in Joyce's Irish Names, I would like the
opinion of others on the subject. f. J- B,

THli BAN(;OR SUNDIAU

ULSTER JOURNAL

Archeology

Vol. VII.

OCTOBER, 1901.

No. 4.

Zbc Sun-'Mal at Banaor, (tonnti? Down*

By FRANCIS JOSEPH BIGGER, M.R.I.A.

The old sun-dial from the Parish Church
of Bangor is still preserved at the castle,
and has been placed at our disposal to
illustrate and describe. Its appearance was
new to us, as we had never before seen one so
elaborately carved on both sides, nor one
with so many quaint inscriptions. The

illustrations show both
sides as they now appear,
a few words being un-
decipherable; but we
have been able to restore
most of the worn ones.
It is of slate, the letter-
ing finely and beautifully cut, its
size being 15^^ in. by 13^ in. and
5^ in. thick. Originally it was
I doubtless placed against the south
I side of the church tower in a
' sloping position (see illustration),
the outside circular edge tending
upwards at a considerable angle, so that in summer the sun would record
upon its upper face, and in winter upon the lower face. The gnomon is now
gone, and so is the circular disc which fitted into the centre, as can be seen

A^DiAL
D*GN0M0N.3t3

•Ilk

BANGOR SUN-DIAL: PROBABLE SITUATION
ON CHURCH WALL.

l62 THE SUN-DIAL AT BANGOR, COUNTY DOWN.

from the cavity still remaining. The centre plate was of bronze or brass, and
revolved systematically, thus recording the time by moonlight when regulated.
The dial was set at such an inclination that it would be parallel to the plane
of the equator, being an equinoctial one, as the sun moves in the plane of
the equator at those seasons. The gnomon would be a vertical pin stuck
through the centre of the plate. The centre disc would have twenty-four
hour divisions upon it, and would show the hour by moonlight if the XII line
was set opposite the moon's age, as shown on the inner ring of figures on the
dial. At the new and full moon the XII line would be north and south, and
agree with that on the sun-dial in the outer rings, and each day between it
would have to be set back about forty minutes. The next ring space in the
dial shows the points of the compass, with the names of certain sea-side places
beside them; and probably when the movable lunar disc was set to the
moon's age, the hour of high-tide at the various places named would appear
opposite their names on the lunar disc. The remaining rings on this upper
side are quite simple : months and days, Zodiacal signs and degrees j hours,
degrees, and hours again. All these records make the dial a peculiarly
appropriate one for the parish church of a place like Bangor, on the edge of
the coast much frequented by " those who go down to the sea in ships."
Around the base half of the circle is the inscription :

QUOD SIBI HlQ GERIT PRESENTIS TEMPORE UITiE
HIC SIBI MESSI ERIT CUM DICITUR ITE VENITE.

Which we translate:

What one does here in the present time of life will be
as a harvest to himself, when it is said, "Go — Come";
viz., "Go, ye cursed," etc., and "Come, ye blessed," etc.

Across the right-hand corner is inscribed the old quatrich :

THIRTIE DAYES HATH SEPTEMBER
APRIL, JUNE, AND NOUEMBER
FEBRUARIE HATH 28 ALONE
AND ALL THE REST 30 AND ONE.
1630 DEC
DEO.

The outer marginal line runs :

HOC AQUINOCTIALE HOROLOGIUM SOLIS LUNiB
MARIS CURSUM CONTINENS AB JOHNNE BONAR
AERyE P.EDONOMO DESCRIPTUM AC SCULPTUM FUIT.

Which we translate :

This equinoctial dial, containing the course of
the sun, moon, sea, was drawn out and graved
by John Bonar of Ayr, pedagogue.

— — I

THE SUN-DIAL AT BANGOR, COUNTY DOWN. 1 63

The left-hand corner reads :

SI SIT CLARA DIES MARIA PURIFICANTE
MAJOR ERIT HYEMSET PEJOR QUAM FUITANTE
LAMBERT GREG NI NOX EST iEQUATA diei
UITUS LUCIA SUNT DUO SOLSTITIA.

dogs dales be
gine Julie
et end in
aug.

The translation of this is :

If the day is fine on Mary's Purification,^

Greater will be the winter and worse than it was before.

At Lambert and Gregory,^ the night is equal to the day,
Vitus and lucia are the two solstices.

It is interesting to note that the Feast of the Purification of the B.V.M.
is given as a date in the Puritanical times (1630), when this sun-dial was made,
although such holidays had been expunged from Scottish reckonings; and, as
we will hereafter show, this was the work of a Scottish sculptor.

On the under or winter side there was also a lunar disc. The semi-
circular hour and month rings are similar to those on the upper side, but
serve only for the winter half of the year, when the day is only twelve hours
long or less, so that the half circle is sufficient. The months from
[Sep]tember until Mar[ch] are shown, and the signs of the Zodiac from Libra
until Pisces, as well as the figures, similar to the upper side. It may also be
noted that on both sides, when the signs of the Zodiac are named, the signs
themselves are also added. Along the base is the date 1630, Dec : and the
following couplet :

NEC QUiB PR/ETERIIT RURSUM REVOCABITUR UNDA:
NEC QUiE, PRiETERIIT, HORA REDIRE POTEST.*

Which reads :

Neither will the wave which is passed be recalled again,
nor can the hour which is past return.

1 The Feast of the Purification is the and February. This couplet is equal to the ordinary
rhyme which everyone knows :

" If Candlemas day be braw and clear,
There'll be twa winters in the year."

Candlemas day is the ist February ; and, of course, would have the same meteorological signifi-
cance as the 2nd February.

• Saint Lambert's day, 17 Sept. , and Saint Gregory's, 12 March, were the two equinoxes ;
Saint Vitus, i^ June, and Saint Lucia, 13 December, were the two solstices (old style). This
couplet is mentioned by Hans Wormins in Fasti Danici, 1642, as common.

* These lines are from Ovid de arte Amandi III ; but the last three words should be " labilis
hora redit."

164 THE SUN-DIAL AT BANGOR, COUNTY DOWN.

One of the most remarkable rhymes appears at the top of the under or
winter side. It runs as follows :

I The oreades thai hants on mearoks tnote 2 and satyres tripping aye from hill to hill 3 admiring ph«bus
I ours ; and plurbes lote ; 4 the edub caldy quhairofe they had tw skill 5 then all agreeing with teares yat
did distill 6 ottt our thaire cheeks to mak a bulsrand strand ; 7 the earthe to break, as they war warned
till 8 be ar lodge voice, at key loch brook me j and. 9 out thrrowe my center a gnomon they tnade
stattd, 10 at morning, noon, and even of air lengthe, 1 1 the zodiac signs weell till un
stand 12 with lequinox and solstices, the strenghte 13 sen phcebus hter
brings trouble caire (Sr* toy II: 14 pray unto god, to settd a better soy 11.^

The above is given in lines as engraved, but the lines in which it was
originally written are indicated by the numbers.
Immediately below this is written :.

To god only wise, be glory through jesus christ for ever amen

and around the centre panel :

laus honor imperium domino,
(Praise, honour, and power to God.)

Around the thickness of the outside circular edge is the following quota-
tion from Scripture, in one line :

THE SUNNE SHALL BE TURNED INTO DARKNESSE AND THE
MOONE INTO BLOOD BEFORE THE GREAT AND TERRIBLE
DAY OF THE LORD COME.

The engraver of this sun-dial was a pedagogue : that is evident from
his I^tin. He has used numerous old saws and texts, and has made some
himself. His *'Aerae" for "of Ayr" is perhaps unique, and puzzled us for
some time ; but full confirmation came on examination of that remarkably
fine book, CasUliateJ and Domestic Architecture of Scotland (vol. v, page 439),
where an almost exactly similar dial is illustrated, the work of this same John
Bonar of Ayr.^ This dial is at Kenmure Castle, in Kircudbright, and bears date
1623, or seven years earlier than the Bangor one. It is a double slab, and
thus not so interesting as the Bangor one, which is engraved on the two
sides of one slab. It is larger in size, being 24 inches by 2o)4 inches, but of
the same shape ; the inscriptions and style of engraving quite similar, so that
no one could mistake that the one hand did both. This goes to prove the
very close relationships existing between the Lowlands of Scotland and Ulster
at this period. Whether Lord Clandeboye had some connection with Ken-
mure Castle and saw John Bonar's work there, or whether he knew the erudite
pedagogue himself and considered his skill in horology would be a benefit to
Bangor or not, will probably never be known.

1 There are several words in this which we arc unable to obtain the meaning of, such as
mearoks, edub, bulsrand strand, arladge.

' Very little is known of this man. He may have been, and doubtless was, a certain
" Maister of the Grammar Scoole at the Burgh of Air," who was cited to appear before the Privy
Council in 1621 in regard to his dealings with the " buikes intituled God and the King in Englishe,
which had been entrusted to him for selling to his "skolleris. " — Records of Privy Council, vol. ii,
1619-1622, p. 601.

THE SUN-DIAL AT BANGOR, COUNTY DOWN. 1 65

John Bonar did not repeat himself in his texts or poetry ; for we find on
the Kenmure dial a poem similar in its references, but quite different, from
that on the Bangor one. It reads as follows :

QUHAIR MERROK MONTANE MOUNTES FRA THE WOLD
A LAPICIDE DID RAISE ME FRA THE RUITE
TWYSE NYNE THOWSAND OF MILES PHOEBUS IS ROLD
THE NATURALL DAY TO RINE ON ME BUT BUITE
QUHEN HE WALD FEED ON VENISON AS FRUITE
THEN CAPRICORN WITH HORNS DOES HIM EFFRAYE
HE HAISTES SYNE TO LEIFF ON LAMPETTS RUIDE
OUT THROUGH THE SIGNS WITH CANCER FOR TO STAVE
QUHEN ARIES AND LIBRA MAK's DERAYE
IN SABLE WEE-D FOR PHAETON HIM CLEEDS
ENDYMIONS SPOUS THAT LIQUID FEELDS ARAVS
PORTUMNUS SOJORS TEACHES HEER THAIR MEEDS.
LET ALL ESTAITS MY MUISSINGS HEERON SKANCE ;
EARN BY MY SHADE OF WARDLIE GLEE THE GLANCE
LAUS HONOR IMPERIUM DOMINO. AMEN.

Whether these two effusions were the work of John Bonar or not, we
cannot say. They seem, however, to be of an earlier dialect than that used
at his time. Perhaps some reader of the Journal would enlighten us as to
this, or even tell us exactly where they do emanate from.

As it is, the sun-dial preserved at Bangor is the most valuable and remark-
able we have ever seen in Ireland, and forms another record from a place
where we have unearthed several valuable relics of the past.

Notes on other sun-dials will be gladly welcomed by the editor. We were
much assisted in the elucidation of this stone by Lewis Evans, f.s.a., who
has done much good work on English sun-dials, and is an expert on the
subject. Our young friend, Samuel Turner, ably assisted us in the reading
of the much-worn inscriptions. The illustration is from a photo, by Robert
Welch, with the lettering strengthened from careful readings.

^be agitewe in County Hntrfin.

Bv JOHN M. DICKSON.

T is not unusual to find on mountain tops certain hardy

plants not related to any species now to be found

growing on the lower ground within hundreds of miles.

These isolated growths, botanists tell U5, do not owe

their position to accident: they are survivals from the

ancient flora that formerly covered all the district when

its conditions were very different from those prevailing

at the present day. A somewhat similar survival may he observed in the

name oi Agnejv's Hill, a mountain lying five miles west of Larne, so-called

after an ancient family, now almost forgotten in County Antrim, yet whose

broad estates once included the baronies of Larne and Glenarm, as well as

the present parishes of Cairncastle and Kilwaghttr.

Though, owing to the incursions of marauding Scots, those extensive
possessions have shrunk to the present estate of Kilwaghtcr, now held by a
descendant in the female line, the Agnew family is still represented in the
baronetage of Scotland, and has the unique record of having held, for
upwards of five hundred years, the hereditary sheriffdom of Galloway.

A history of these sheriffs, published about forty years ago, by Sir Andrew
Agnew, is full of information concerning political and social life in Scotland
ever since the time of Bruce. It is very interesting to many of us in Ulster, as
presenting authentic specimens of the rock from which we were hewn; and
as it contains several references to doings of the family in Antrim, these may
still have sufficient local interest to excuse their reproduction in the pages of
this Journal.

As early as the tenth century, we find several branches of the family of
D'Agneaux on the rolls of the nobility of Normandy ; the branch from which
sprang the Antrim family having held estates in the arrondissement of
Bayeux, and being distinguished as Lords De Lisle and D'Auval.

While, in all probability, some cadet of this family may have accompanied
the Conqueror, the first authentic notice of the name in English history is
that of Sir Philip D'Agneaux, who joined King Henry IL on his Irish
expedition in 1171; and five years later, when Sir John De Courcy (having
quarrelled with the viceroy, Fitzaldelme) came to Ulster to hew out a princi-
pality for himself. Sir Philip D'Agneaux was one of the twenty-two Anglo-
Norman knights who threw in their lot with the hold adventurer.

THE AGNEWS IN* COUNTY ANTRIM. 167

The " White Knight " seems to have been well suited by nature for the
role of filibuster, as we learn he was " verie tall and mightie and of a singular
audacitie ; he would be first in the field and foremost in the fight, and were
the enterprize never so perillous yet he would give the adventure."

On this occasion, we learn further, that, **by his wise conference and
witty persuasions he allureth and enticeth to him even such as were the
valiantest, honestest and chosen men of them all : and having so gotten into
his company two and twenty gentlemen and above three hundred others, he
boldly enterelh and invadeth the province of Ulster." On the complete
success of this bold invasion, De Courcy, although in reality a rebel, was
created Earl of Ulster by the King; and his followers had the lands won by
their swords granted to them and their heirs for ever.

Among these, D'Agneaux received for his portion the lordship of Larne
(or ** Lairn" as it was then spelt). Here he settled, and here his descendants
dwelt : and as those states that have no history are said to be the happiest,
we may assume they prospered : at least, no record of their doings remains to
us during the century next following.

But more stirring times were at hand. When, in 1375, the northern lords,
impatient of the English yoke, and preferring to have a king of their own
among them, invited Edward Bruce to come over, and promised him their
support, we find the Lord of Larne very prominent. He was the first to
meet Edward when he landed at Olderfleet, and fought by his side through-
out the three years of his uneasy rule in Ireland.

Carrickfergus Castle, being held at the time for the English, was a thorn
in the side of Bruce ; and as it gave access to reinforcements from England,
it was closely invested, and as stubbornly defended. During the siege, the
garrison resorted to a device to replenish their larder, that might be charac-
terized as " slim " in the slang popular at present, and certainly carried to an
extreme length the doctrine that " all is fair in love and war."

When the siege had lasted several months, the garrison agreed to surrender
the castle on a certain day if not relieved in the meantime ; and the appointed
day having arrived, they sent word to the besiegers to send a detachment to
take possession, and threw open the gates. When the detachment proceeded
to enter, and when eight of the Scotch soldiers had already entered, they
suddenly closed the gates ; and having disarmed the luckless eight, and put
them in irons, they announced their intention to defend the castle to the last
extremity. Soon after, the castle had to surrender in reality ; but not until
the garrison, in the words of the ancient record, "for want of other vittels
were driven to eate leather and the eight Scots which they had taken prisoners.*'

From the precedence given in this chronicle, the leather would seem to
have been tried first ; but whether it was preferred as being less tough than
the highlanders, is not stated. It cannot have been from motives of humanity.

1 68 THE AGNEWS IN COUNTY ANTRIM.

as the poor Scots had clearly been entrapped on purpose to be eaten. The
most charitable explanation may be that a short course of leather, while it
sharpened the appetites of the garrison, at the same time blunted any scruples
they may have entertained as to fraud or cannibalism. The weak point,
however, about this expedient for re-victualling seems to be that it could
hardly be repeated : at least, not with Scotchmen !

When, in 13 18, Edward Bruce lost his kingdom and his life on Faughard
Hill, the northern lords retreated with their Scottish auxiliaries, under Ran-
dolph, Earl of Moray, who, soon after gaining Scottish soil, became Regent
during the minority of David 11. Many warm friendships had been formed
between those who had been brethren-in-arms for three years ; and for some
time after, the northern Irish lords naturally turned to the Scottish court for
the advancement that they could not hope for at home. There do not
appear to have been general confiscations of the estates of those who had
participated in Bruce's attempt : at least, there were none in the case of the
Lord of Larne. That there were not was probably because the bleak and
inhospitable hills of Antrim offered no inducement to the Anglo-Norman
nobles, who found themselves on the winning side, to exchange for them the
rich pastures of the English pale.

Among the friendships referred to, was one between the son of the Lord
of Larne and Alexander, the natural son of Edward Bruce, who, on his return
to Scotland, was appointed, in succession to his father, Lord of Galloway,
and had the keeping of the castles of Wigtown and Lochnaw. It was not
surprising that young Agnew should cross the Channel to visit his friend, thus
established in the Rhinns of Galloway, within sight from the Irish shore ; nor
was his visit unwelcome, as we find it stated in Sir George Mackenzie's MSS ,
**In the reign of King David 2nd a son of ye Lord of Lairn (alias ye Lord
Agnew) gott keeping of the King's Castell of Lochnaw and was made heretable
Constable y.rof." Having shown " bravery and spirit " in this office, Agnew
was shortly after appointed Sheriff of Wigtown, the sheriffship to be a
hereditary gift.

To hold the King's commission among the wild Scots of Galloway, in the
fourteenth century, was no sinecure, and doubtless required both "bravery
and spirit " ; but there were other and more serious difficulties to be faced.
The Douglass maintained in the south of Scotland an imperium in imperio^
that, from time to time, made little of either the King's authority or that of
his sheriff.

In 1390, the Black Douglass, assuming sovereign powers in the southern
counties claimed, (ist) that all charters whatsoever should be delivered up to
himself, and new ones of his own accepted in their place; and (2nd) that all
land-holders should pay him black-mail for his protection.

Agnew having refused to submit to these terms, Douglass laid siege to the

THE AGNEWS IN COUNTY ANTRIM. 1 69

castle of Lochnaw. Though the Laird of Lochnaw could not cope single-
handed with Douglass, his castle being situated on an island and difficult
to reduce, he was able to make such terms, that he was allowed "to depart in
peace," and to take his possessions with him. With his family, therefore, and a
few retainers, he turned sorrowfully to seek shelter from his kinsmen in Antrim;
this misfortune of the great-grandson of the first Agnew of Lochnaw being thus
summed up by Sir George Mackenzie : " His great-grand-child was opprest
by the Earl of Douglass, by whom the castle of Lochnaw was bio wen up."

Young Agnew, finding the position of a poor relation in Antrim rather
irksome, shortly afterwards repaired to the Scottish court at Perth, where he
was kindly received by the aged monarch, Robert IIL, who made him a
" scutifer," or equerry : a position, unfortunately, more honourable than
remunerative : but while there, he was fortunate in gaining the friendship of
the Princess Margaret, who afterwards became the wife of Archibald (the
Tyneman), son of the Black Douglass. After the death of her husband, this
lady, being confirmed in the lordship of Galloway, was able to reinstate her
friend, the young equerry, in all his former honours and emoluments in
Wigtownshire, who soon after married her niece (daughter of the Princess
Mary), quite in the style of the conventional melodrama: and as we learn
that " the Lady of Lochnaw the following year presented her husband with
a son and heir," we may assume that "they lived happily ever after."

We hear nothing more of the doings of the family in Ireland until 1576,
when the redoubtable Sorley Boy (or Yellow Charles) MacDonnell, the
founder of the Antrim family, appeared on the scene, with such a following,
that he overpowered all resistance, and seized the lands bordering the sea,
right down to the lough of Larne, leaving Agnew merely a nominal possession
of the inland portion of his property, now the Kilwaghter estate. Nor did
the Agnews ever regain the property thus wrested from them. Though Queen
Elizabeth despatched the Earl of Essex against Sorley Boy, he made good his
new acquisitions at the point of his sword : and being forced to make a virtue
of necessity, " the good Queen Bess was graciously pleased " to confirm the
bold freebooter in the possession of what she found herself unable to take
from him ; thus following the example set by King Henry IL in his dealing
with De Courcy four hundred years before. But human nature is a very
constant quantity ; and at all times we find that " success is virtue, and
misfortune blame." In both these instances, the moral aspect of the question,
and the rights of those found unable to defend themselves, received just as
much consideration as they probably would in this present year of grace : no
more, and no less.

From this time forward, the headquarters of the Agnew family were in
Wigtownshire ; the fragment remaining of their Antrim property being held
by lease from the Earl of Antrim, and let to under-tenants.

lyo THE AGNEWS IN COUNTY ANTRIM.

We find, in the year 1636, an interesting letter from Sir Patrick Agnew of
Lochnaw to the Earl, relative to the renewal of his lease of Kilwaghter, in
which, while very polite to his over-lord, he cannily conveys his indifference
about the property : doubtless, by way of indirectly deprecating any undue
advance in the rent on the renewal. As the letter is a gem in its way, we
give it verbatim as it appears docketed in Lord Antrim's handwriting :

Sir Patrick Agnevfs letter submitting to my courtesie,

I ressaveit ane letter from your servant John Agnew [probably the sheriff's factor or
chief tenant] showing me that your Lordship was appointit with your tenants of the Barony
of Glenarm upon Monday the seventh of this instant August, which gladlie I wold have kept
gif it had been but to have come (according to my bounden dutie) to kiss your L. hand, but
there is ane appointment and reference between the Erie of Cassilis and me at Mayboll the
nynth of this month which I must keep in regard the reference is in the friend's hands and
the Erie will be there and gif I should not keep the day our reference will expire. I have
been more considerate in your L. good mind towards me nor all my Les is worth, lx)tt how-
soever my Les is absoluttlie in your L. power : doe as it shall please your Lordship, for it
was mor out of the luff I carrit to your Lordship's nobill Father than for any gan I haiff.
But as I have ever had that luff and respect to your Lordship and all yours, I am confident
of your Lordship's good and generous dealing with me, and I shall ever prove a thankful and
true servant to your L. and shall procure to your L. thanks from some of your honourable
friends at Court for your L. fair dealings with me. So in this and all other things being
willing to obey your L. to do qwhat you command, I am, yr Lordshipp's humble servant,

Patrick A(;ne\v.

The result of this correspondence was a lease, dated April 14, 1636, of
the lands "according to the ancient bounds and limits of the same as the
said Sir Patrick now enjoys the same," for the term of threescore and seven-
teen years, "he [Sir Patrick] alway delivering to the said Earl yearly the sum
of twenty pounds stg., and as much good clear oats as any twenty acres within
the Barony of Glenarn will yield, also, upon demand, the sum of three pound
sterling current and lawful money, . . . and the said Earl shall and will
warrant the premises to the said Sir Patrick Agnew against all persons what-
soever."

Little did the signatories to this lease think that, before six years had
passed, the Earl of Antrim would be quite unable to keep the promise so
lightly given, and that the English crown itself would be equally unable to
" warrant the premises to Sir Patrick Agnew."

On October 22nd, 1641, took place the great rising of the native Irish to
recover possession of their land, and the Scotch and English settlers were
fleeing from the country districts on all sides, to the seaports and walled
towns. The tenants on the Kilwaghter estate were no exceptions : they
betook themselves with all possible speed to Lame, as the nearest shelter ;
nor for four years after did they venture back, during which time all contracts
were void. Larne, at this time, was hurriedly fortified, and held against the
insurgents ; and the sheriff's agent and kinsman, Captain Agnew, was placed
in command, proving that the family influence was still considerable.

THE AGNEWS IN COUNTY ANTRIM. 171

Ten years after, when Cromwell had quenched the flame of rebellion in
blood, a. new danger appeared to the Scotch settlers in the north ; this was
the ascendancy of the Independents ; the animosity between whom and the
Presbyterians, rising to such a height, that the commissioners of the Com-
monwealth (being themselves Independents) resolved to end the strife by a
scheme no less radical than " the removal of all the popular Scots out of
Ulster"!

In pursuance of their resolution, the commissioners issued a proclamation
in 1653 announcing their intention of transplanting the leading Presbyterians
of Antrim and Down into Munster; their list of two hundred and sixty
including Patrick Agnew, the sheriff's agent ; Francis Agnew, another of the
clan ; James Shaw of Ballygally, and Sir Robert Adair of Ballymena.

Among those who used their influence with Cromwell to listen to calmer
counsels were the sheriff and his son ; and their exertions were so successful,
thai this wholesale transplantation scheme was abandoned. In the following
year, when a commission sat in Belfast "to enquire into the state of Ulster,"
we find that Sir Patrick Agnew was able to sustain his title to the lands held
under the lease of 1636 mentioned above; and after this time we hear of but
one further visit of the head of the Agnew family to Ireland, and this time of
an agreeable and festive character, when, in 1655, Sir Andrew Agnew (son
of Sir Patrick) came over to Kilwaghter, and in view of returning prosperity
the visit was made the occasion of some jollification among his tenants, as an
entry appears in the factor's accounts for 1656, " For drink last summer when
your worship was here " !

NoTl.— The surname Agnew, in the north of Ireland, does not necessarily imply descent
from this Norman slock ; the Celtic sept O'Goeeve having been Anglicized Agnew. These
O'Gneeves, 1 find, on the authority of Reeves, were hereditary bards to the Clannaboye
O'Neills,

irilflter Kiblloavapb?

Bv i:. R. McC. DIX.

ARTICLE V\,—CoHlinued from pai^e 137.

nOWNPATRICK, UUNGANNON, AND HILLSBOROUGH.

a HE eighteenth-cenlury items printed in these three towns
which have come under my notice are, as will be seen,
very few indeed. They are, ihert^fore, given together, and
barely furnish sufficient material for a single article.
It seems most probable that much more printing took
place in Downpatrick than is given here, unless we are
to assume that the two items were only publiihed there,
but printed elsewhere, because no printer's name appears on either. Further
research will doubtless clear up this matter.

As regards the first and second items under the sub-heading of Hills-
borough, it must be frankly stated that no printer's name is given on either,
and that in both the catalogue of the Linen Hall Library, and the valuable
one compiled by John Anderson, the second item is claimed for Belfast.
It is clear from the first item itself that the musical portion (forming most of
the work) was printed from plates engraved in London ; but the letterpress
portion may have been printed at Hillsborough, which is given as the place
of publication. When we find from the third item that in 1790 there was a
primer at work in Hillsborough, it is not unreasonable to hold that he may
have printed the second item. Tiiere were sometimes local or social reasons,
as well as political, for the printer not giving his name to some of the publica-
tions from his press.

As regards the Dungannon items, no question arises, though the first item
has not yet been traced to its present owner or resting-place.

I am indebted to A, A. Campbell for the first item of Dungannon printing,
and to James Buckley for obtaining for me the particulars of the two Down-
patrick items.

DOWNPATRICK.
1754. Memoirs of the late Ignoble and Dishonourable R(ober)t S(cot)t,
unworthy Representative for the Borough of N(ewry). A broad-

[Amongst the Collection of Irish Broadsides, etc,
of the late Colonel Francis Grant : now with
Pickering & Chatto, London.]

ULSTER BIBLIOGRAPHY. 173

[1756?] The Last Speech, Confession and Dying Words of B(o)w(e)n

S(out)h(wel)l, Representative in Parliament for the B h of

D n; who was executed the 8th of January, 1756, for

violating his Faith and Honour ; and basely betraying the Trust
reposed in him by his Constituents. A broadside.

[Amongst the Collection of Irish Broadsides, etc.,
of the late Colonel Francis Grant: now with
Pickering & Chatto, London.]

DUNGANNON.
1797. A New Treatise of Gunnery in theory and practice, explained and
demonstrated from the laws of gravitation and motion, showing
the manner of ascertaining all necessary requisites of the Art by
sundry methods never before published, being the most extensive
in theory, and the best adapted to practice of any book of the
kind now existing, by John Hagan, Teacher of the Mathematicks.
( William Canning,) 8vo. 160 pp.

[Vide Letter of "W., Belfast," in Tyrone Constitu-
tion of 15th May, 1 89 1.]

1799. A Sermon preached at Bray,^ before the Orange-men, of Killyman,
Stewartstown, Cookstown, Pomeroy, and Coagh Districts. On the

i First day of July O.S. being the Anniversary of the Battle of the

Boyne. The Revd. Thomas McKay, m.a.. Minister of the Gospel,
at Bray. (Psalm cxii, 6.) (William Canning,) 8vo. 24 pp.
Sigs. A in 8 and B in 4. In paper wrapper. (7^^ x 5.)

[Magee College, Derry.]

1800. Hallelujah or The Christian Psalter; Vindicating the Propriety of

Worshipping Jehovah, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, in Psalms,
Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, collected from both the Old and
New Testament, especially the latter. A Minister of the Gospel
in connexion with the Evangelical Society of Ulster. ( Wm,
Canning,) i2mo. 60 pp. (Folds in sixes.)

[Magee College, Derry, 3 F. 11.]

HILLSBOROUGH.
1786. Six Anthems performed in Hillsborough Church, the music composed
by Michael Thomson, Mus. D. 4 leaves + 30 pp. Oblong fol.
loj X 14. "Hillsborough, Printed for the Author, January
^ 2^' 1786, Pr. 15s."

[Linen Hall Library, Belfast. (Oblong 4to.)]
N.B. — The music is printed from plates by Ash by, 86, King
Street, Cheapside, but the list of subscribers is not.

1 Now Brigh, Co. T3Tone.

174 ULSTER BIBLIOGRAPHY.

1790. Anthems, &c., as performed in Hillsborough Church. The Music
composed by Michael Thomson, Mus. D., and others. (Words
only.) 8vo. 8J x 5^. (Cut down.) 32 pp.

[Linen Hall Library, Belfast]

N. B. — No place or printer is given. It may have been printed
in Belfast.

1790. A Letter from Lord de Clifford to the Worthy and Independent

Electors of the Town of Downpatrick^ With Pertinent Queries

to the Electors of the County of Down. (Charles Price ) 8vo.

24 pp.

[Royal Irish Academy, Halliday Pamphlets, 576/3;

and King's Inns Library, Dublin, NN. 6 14a.]

DERRY (Supplemental).

I am indebted to James Buckley for the following additional item :

1798. Standing Orders for the Yeomanry Corps of Ireland. (/, Buchanan
and W, McCorkelL ) 8vo. 9 leaves. Verso of title-leaf and of last
leaf blank. Two folding forms for returns inserted.

[British Museum, 8827, aaa43 (i).]

STRABANE (Supplemental).

I am indebted to A. A. Campbell for the following additional item :

1790. The Children's Catechism, or, an Help to the more easy Understand-
ing of the Doctrine taught in our Confession of Faith and
Catechisms, Larger and Shorter. Humbly offered for instructing
the Young and Ignorant. The Revd. John Muckar§ie, Minister
of the Gospel at Kinkell. An entire New Edition, corrected and
enlarged. With an Appendix, containing advices to Parents
and Children. (/, Bellew,) i6mo. 40 pp.

[A. Albert Campbell]

ERRATA,

For "William IV." in p. 132, read "William III."

Omit from "1794, Derriana," etc., the Rev. John Graham, m.a. He
was not the author of this "Derriana," but of one published in Deny in
1823.

ULSTER BIBLIOGRAPHY. 1 75

HewtB printiitij.

By Rev. W. T. LATIMER, b.a.

I possess a copy of an interesting pamphlet by Dr. Crossle, issued in
1897, which contains a list of Newry-printed publications. The following
may be added to that list. Some of them I possess myself; the names of
others I have met in Witherow's Memorials^ or in the Magee College
Catalogue.

1772. A Sermon occasioned by the death of the late Rev. George Richey;
preached at Donaghmore by Samuel Barber, Minister of Rath-
friland. Pp. 27.

1775. Truth Restored, or the New Mode of Swearing Religious Oaths by
Touching and Kissing a Book examined. By William Stavely,
Minister at Ann's Borough, near Belfast.

1777. Thoughts on Burke's Letter to Lord Bristol. By the Earl of
Abingdon.

1779. A Narrative of the late Proceedings of the Presbytery of Root, &c.

By the Rev. James Poulson. Newry: Printed for the Author, and
sold by Daniel Carpenter and Joseph Gordon. Pp. 24. There
is no date ; but the Presbytery, whose proceedings are criticised,
met in 1779, and an advertisement on the last page regarding
another work by the same author proves that the pamphlet was
issued in that year. The book advertised is " The Memorials
of a Seven Years' Tour through Ireland, and a Visit to Scotland,
&c. By Rev. James Poulson." I wonder has any reader of the
Ulster Journal of Archaology seen this work.

1780. The Protestant Volunteer Characterized, &c. A Sermon preached

December 21, 1779, at Donachloney, to the Volunteers of that
Congregation. Published at the desire of the Company. By
James Carmichael, Minister at Donachloney. Pp. 48.

1780. The Obligation Men are under to Exert themselves for the Defence of
their Country. A Sermon preached before the Clare Volunteers
on the 9th of January, 1780. By Samuel Livingstone, Minister
at Clare. Pp. 32.

1782. Sermon occasioned .by the death of the late Rev. George Ferguson.
Preached at Markethill, 23 June, 1782. By Samuel Sloane,
Minister at Markethill Pp. 31.

[1811 ?] The Two Sons of Oil, or the Faithful Witness for Magistracy and
Ministry, &c. By Samuel B. Wylie, a.m. Pp. 96. There is no
date; but the name of the owner was written in 181 1, and
there is an allusion to 1797 as past.

176 ULSTER BIBLIOGRAPHY.

1815. Apology for Lay Preaching. By Mat. Lanktree.

1 8 16. The Clerical Review. An Allegory. By M. Buchanan.

181 6. A Discourse upon the Self-existence of Jesus Christ. By the late

Rev. William Romaine, m.a.

181 7. The Methodist Ministry Defended,

1823. A Sermon on the Church. By Rev. David McKee.

1834. The Scripture Doctrine of the Unity of God. By Rev. John
Mitchell. Pp. 89.

1834. Speeches in Ban bridge on National Education.

1835. '^^® Sect Everywhere Spoken Against. By Rev. John Mitchell.
1 841. Answers to Reasons of Dissent from Union.

1850. On the Practice of Christianity. By Rev. David McKee.

The Minutes of the Secession Synod, between 1830 and 1839, were
printed at the Telegraph office; and it is possible that other issues of the
same official document may have been products of the same press.

With regard to Strabane printing, I find that the Minutes of the Synod
of Ulster in 1789 contain an allusion to a notice published in the Strabane
News Letter during the previous year.

Barly Strabane mewspapers anO HDagasines.

By a. ALBERT CAMPBELL.

The Strabane Journal^ or The General Advertiser was established in May,
177 1. It appeared every Monday, and consisted of four pages; size,
18 in. X ii\ in. ; four columns to the page. John Alexander was printer,
publisher, and probably editor. His successor appears to have been James
Elliott, who is named as printer in March, 1801. The earliest copy which
I have seen (2 May, 1785) is in the possession of Daniel MacAnaw, Strabane
whose collection of old Strabane newspapers and magazines is most valuable
and unique; his latest copy is dated 2 March, 1801. It may be mentioned
in passing, that the first Derry newspaper — The Derry Journal — did not appear
until June, 1772.

The Strabane Magazine^ published monthly, first appeared in December,
1799. Daniel MacAnaw has an imperfect copy of vol. i (Dec, 1799 — Dec,
1800). Up till July, 1800, the title was The New Magazine, Each number
consisted of forty-seven* pages ; size, 8 J in. x 5 in. (cut down in binding).
There is no indication of its price, or where or by whom it was printed :
probably it possessed a cover, removed in binding, which would have given
this information; but there is no reason to doubt that it was produced in
Strabane.

BRONZE VESSEL FOUND AT BLACK ABBEY. 1 77

The Strabane Neivs-Lettery printed and published every Monday by John
Moore, Main Street, Strabane, first appeared in April, 1805. It consisted of
four pages; size, 2o| in. x 12^ in. ; price 4d. Daniel MacAnaw has only one
copy — 10 December, 18 10.

The Strabane Morning Post, printed and published every Tuesday by
Carroll & Foster (afterwards Carroll & Gray), was established in March, 181 2.
It had four pages, of four columns each; size, 20^ in. x i2J^ in. ; price 5d.
The Post was in existence in 1833, and probably lived till 1840, or later.

The Christian Enquirer, price id., first appeared on Tuesday, 8 May,
1827. It was printed and published monthly by Cowper Walker, Castle
Street, Strabane. Daniel MacAnaw has vol. i (May, 1827 — April, 1828).

£ron3e \De00eI founb at Blach Hbbei?, Co. Z)owiu

By JAMES ARTHUR GIBSON.

This bronze pot was turned up,

about eighty years ago, by my

great-grandfather, James McKee,

while ploughing on his farm at

Black Abbey. I am told it is a

perfect specimen of its kind. It is of graceful

appearance, and the workmanship is good, with

an evident desire for artistic effect. The legs

and handle are neatly soldered on to the body,

which is a piece of one casting. It stands

8 inches in height ; measures 5 j4 inches across

the lip; while the handle is 7>^ inches, and the

legs 3 inches long.

It must have lain where it was unearthed
from at least the middle of the sixteenth century : and how much longer than
that, since the monks of the abbey had it in use^ who can tell ?

It was given by my great-grandmother to my sister, with the stipulation
that it was to remain in the old farm-house during my great-grandmother's
life, as otherwise the luck might go ! It now occupies an honoured place in
my study, and often sets me thinking of the time when Ireland was great
among the nations.

Note.— In Harris's D<non (page 55), the finding of a " Tea Pot " similar to the above is thus
recorded : "A Bell Mettle Pot about eight Inches high, made in the Form of a Jug standing on
three Feet, with a Spout projecting out of the Side like a Tea Pot and a Handle on the opposite
part, was found in tne Year 1722 twelve Feet deep in the Bog of Bally Murphey near Gray Abby
on the estate of William Montgomery who lately made a Prraent of it, as a Piece of Antiquity to
the University of Dublin, where it now remains among other Curiosities." — Ed.

Frcm Dtawings by F. W. LtKkwood.

(Ste pnet 18 1. >

By F. W. LOCKWOOD.

" Gray, gray is Abbey Assaroe, by Ballyshanny town,

li has neilher door nor window, the walls me broken down ;
The carven stones Jie scattered in briar and nettle bed.
The only feel are those th.il come at burial of the dead.

The elder-lree and lighlsome ash across the portal Rrow,
And Heaven itself is iion ihe rooforAhtiev Ass-irm-. '

aINCE the above lines were written, it is probable ihat the
destruction or the ruins has continued, and nothing
now remains /« li/u except portions of the west and
south walls of the nave. As the interments in the
graveyard have spread close up to the inside of these
walls, and a mill, possibly of Cromwellian times, is built
up against the south and west sides, it would be quite
impossible by excavations to trace out the site and dimensions of the choir or
of the conventual buildings. In all probability, these conformed to the general
arrangements of the Cistercian Order, to which the abbey belonged.

The town of Ballyshannon, closely adjacent to which the abbey lies, was
planted by English settlers in the reign of James I., and incorporated by him in
the year 1613. The builders of the town ofthat and subsequent periods would
appear to have quarried largely amongst the abbey ruins, to which in great part
must be attributed their present dilapidated condition. Fortunately, a consider-
able number of the moulded and carved stones has been built into the wall which
now encloses the graveyard, and it is from the study of these stones that we
may now derive some idea of the style and character of the original buildings.
As Hugh Allingham, m.r.i.a., has treated of the history of the abbey in
his history of Ballyshannon, and promises a fuller narrative of the district at
an early date, the historical portion of the present paper will not claim to be
either specially authoritative or exhaustive, but merely give enough to explain the
present condition of the remains, and to make the relations of the abbey to
the surrounding district intelligible.

Hugh Allingham considers — and the probabilities of Ihe case bear out his
conclusion — that the cell or cave on the bank of the stream, immediately below
the abbey, was the spot in the "wilderness " referred to in his life as visited
by SL Patrick, of which more later on. It is sufficient here to point to tbe
probability of this having been a place of sanctity from the earliest days of

l8o REMAINS OF THE ABBEY ASSAROB, BALLYSHANNON.

Christianity in Ireland. The name of Assaroe appears to have been given
first to the well-known falls at Ballyshannon — Eas Aodha Ruaidh, the cataract
of Red Hugh ; and in the records is applied indiscriminately to the falls, the
town, and the abbey. According to the ** Four Masters," the abbey was
dedicated to "God and St, Bernard," in the year 1 184, by Flaherty O'Mulderry,
whose family appear to have been the princes of Tirconnell, or Donegal, before
the O'Donnells, who became so famous in the succeeding centuries. In a
footnote to the first published edition, 1845, Bryan Geraghty, the editor, states
that the abbey was founded by Roderick O'Cannanan, a prince of Tirconnell,
A.D. 1 178 ; but he does not quote his authority : for our purpose, however, the
difference is immaterial.

All the fragments that now remain to us clearly denote that either date
may be correct, and that the abbey must have been a fine specimen of the latest
phase of the Irish Romanesque, with, it may be, some admixture of the Transition
style, which the Anglo-Normans were then introducing into the eastern parts of
the island in such buildings as Christ Church and St. Patrick's, Dublin, and Inch
and Grey Abbeys in the county of Down. As the stone (No. 23) from the
south wall of the graveyard, which we have selected for the title-piece of our
plate, indicates, there must have been some work introduced to the building
of a later date, but to what extent is impossible now to determine. Another
indication of the extent and richness of the buildings may be found in a
quotation that Hugh Allingham gives from Guthrie's Gazetteer^ zbouX 1776,
which says : " Near Ballyshannon are[the remains of the abbey of Ashrow; some
of the gilding in the vault of the cloister is still visible."

Allingham also quotes from an Inquisition of the 31st Elizabeth, that the
abbey was possessed of the village known as Abbey Island, in which was
a cemetery, a church and steeple, partly roofed with shingles, and partly thatch ;
ruins of a dormitory, and three other stone buildings, and four small cottages.
Abbey Island is still the name of the small townland, which consists of the
abbey ruins and graveyard, with two or three small fields, which the diversion
of the Two Mile Water into a mill race and pond now, as then, forms into an
island The roof of thatch and shingles may not appear to savour much of
magnificence, but the date, we may note, is the year after the Armada ; and
this part of the county, which is less mountainous than the other parts of
Donegal, had become at that time the debatable ground between the
English and the Clan O'Donnell. In 1587, Hugh Roe O'Donnell had been
seized by the Lord Deputy Perrot at Rathmullen, on Lough Swilly,
and we find them in 1592 in occupation of the Abbey of Donegal, and
that Ballyshannon Castle, which was still held by the O'Donnells, must have
been at least in a state of partial siege. Under these circumstances, it may
not be surprising that the abbey should have fallen into the disrepair which the
action of the English and Scottish settlers in the succeeding reign made complete.

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REMAINS OF THK ABBEY ASSAROE, BALLYSHANNON. l8l

The exact position in the building of some of the stones figured in the
plate must remain conjectural; but the reference which we append gives the
present situation of the stones, and offers the best guess which the writer can
give as to their original purpose.

REFERENCE.

I. In north wall of graveyard. Query, from chancel arch.

Corbel to arch or vaulting.

Jamb of door.

Door or window jamb, or (query) cornice.

Capital (inverted) of door jamb shafts, of
chancel arch.

Bases to door shafts,
do. do.

Capital (inverted).
9. South wall of graveyard. Door jamb.

10. In wall beside walk to holy well (Tobernaboghilla) on shore or

Abbey Bay. Has a later look than some of the other work.

11. St. Patrick's Oratory (Catsby). This will be referred to later on.

12. On headstone to "Hugh Diuer" (Dwyer?) in graveyard. This is

presumably not very old, but is so exactly like some very ancient
crosses — Antrim Round Tower, and St. Feelim's Church, Fore, West-
meath, for instance — that it is reproduced here to elicit comment
It is socketed into Hugh Diuer's stone, which bears date 1797 ; but
can it have been borrowed from some older place ?

13. In south wall of graveyard.

14. Do. do. Query, eave course.

15. Do. do. do.

■ 16. Forms one of the steps of stile in north wall.

17. In south wall.

1 8. Do. Probably eave course.

19. Do. Possibly corbel table below eave.

20. Do. Door jamb.

21. Do. do.

2 2. North-east angle of wall. Capital (inverted).

23. In south wall. Appears like window tracery of later date, perhaps
fifteenth century. Towers of this date were often added to the early
abbey. Can this have been in the "steeple" mentioned in the
Inquisition of Elizabeth's time ? Perhaps, however, it looks more like
the work over a door or in some mural tomb of that period.

Any description of Assaroe Abbey would be incomplete without some
notice of the curious cave on the bank of the stream, which is known locally

l82 REMAINS OF THE ABBEY ASSAROE, BALLYSHANNON.

as " Catsby," but which we have referred to as ** St. Patrick's Oratory." It is,
unquestionably, of great age. A ledge or seat runs round it ; and on the
eastern side is a sort of altar, containing two buUauns, or hollows, perhaps for
baptism : the larger one for water, and the smaller, about the size of a hand,
for salt. According to Hugh Allingham this place was associated with a still
more interesting ceremonial. Before the English had built their bridge over
the rapid Erne, and whilst yet the abbey was the most sacred place of inter-
ment for a wide tract of country, many funerals would come by water from
the southern side of the river. Their most convenient point of embarkation
from the farther side still bears, traditionally, the name of Port na morrow, or
"port of the dead." According to custom, the funeral procession, as it rowed
across the broad estuary, was voiceless, the silence broken only by the slow
and solemn tolling of the abbey bell. Then, as they landed upon the shore
of the little abbey bay, and began to wend slowly up the narrow glen, the
wild Irish lament burst out with a double vehemence for having been so long
repressed. Hence the mouth of the glen has obtained the name of Lugna-
nore (Lug na n'deor), or "the hollow of the tears." The body was borne to
Catsby, and there the funeral prayers were recited before its interment in the
graveyard above.

Not far from the mouth of this glen, bubbling out from a hollow of the
rock several feet below high-water mark, is the holy well called Toberna-
boghilla. From the ist to the 15th of August, "Patrons" still profess to be
held here ; but they have dwindled of late years to very small dimensions
indeed. It must still be visited, however, though with some secrecy, by a
considerable number of devotees, for the adjacent bushes are covered with
a number of rags, to be reckoned almost by the thousand, of all- the colours
of the rainbow — red, white, blue, green, and black. The fresh colour of many
of the rags shows that they could not have been long there; but, although the
writer paid several visits during the " Patron " days, he was unable to see any
devotees making their rounds.

Not far from the eastern end of the site of the abbey is another well
named after St. Patrick. This traditionary title to a certain extent confirms
the association of his name with the adjacent cave, a rock-hewn chapel.
A few rags may still be seen upon the bush beside the well, but it does not
appear to have been visited of late years by anything hke the number that
have gone to the well upon the shore.

It would be difficult now to trace the other buildings referred to in the
Inquisition of 1589. It is curious that no reference is made in that to a mill
or mills, as we may feel almost sure that the monks used their water-power
for this purpose. There are now four mills adjacent to the site. Of these,
in the writer's opinion, the oldest is the one shown in the plate, now used
only as a flax store. The little bridge, with pointed arch, in the back-ground

REMAINS OF THE ABBEY ASSAROE, BALLYSHANNON. 183

was undoubtedly the work of the monks. Apparently, at the time of the
final desecration of the abbey, early in the seventeenth century, a mill was
erected up against the south wall of the abbey nave, at which time no doubt
the stream was diverted to run close under the west gable. This mill has
become in its turn ruinous, but two mills lower down — one for corn and
another for flax-scutching — are still worked.

Among the records which relate to the abbey, we note the following. The
Prince of Tirconnell, Flaherty O'Mulderry, by whom the abbey was dedicated
in 1 1 84, appears to have died, thirteen years later, in the monastery at Inis
Saimer, the small rocky island just below the falls at Ballyshannon. All trace
of whatever religious buildings were ever on this island has long been lost.

Very soon after the death of O'Mulderry, the O'Donnells must have
become rulers of Tirconnell, and it is their name and fortunes that we find
chiefly associated with the history of the abbey, until in the end they and it
fell together. It was the O'Donnells, as early as a.d. 1200, who fought a
battle at Ballyshannon, in which they were victorious over the O'Rourkes of
Breff'ny (now Leitrim). In 1241, Donnell More O'Donnell, lord of Tirconnell,
died at Assaroe in the monastic habit, "victorious over the world and the
devil," and was buried there with great honours. It is noteworthy how many
of these chiefs^— O'Donnells, O'Neills, and others — after a life spent in warfare,
as their bodily powers failed, assumed the monastic habit, and died, as the
contemporary chronicles record, "victorious over the world" and in the odour
of sanctity. In 1247, his successor, Malachy O' Donnell, was killed whilst
resisting an English expedition under Maurice Fitzgerald, which penetrated as
far as Ballyshannon. This can have been only a flying visit, for the English
practically held no power north of the lower Erne until the end of the reign
of Elizabeth. In 13 19, Thomas O'Heraghty, abbot of "Assaroe, died. In
1333, Thomas O'Donnell, abbot of Assaroe, was elected Bishop of Raphoe.
In the same year, according to the Four Masters, Hugh O'Donnell, lord of
Tirconnell, Kinel Moain, Inisowen, Fermanagh, North Connacht, and Breff'ny,
and heir to the Crown of all Ulster, " the most dreaded and formidable to his
enemies, the most distinguished man of Western Europe for hospitality and
benevolence, died, after gaining the palm of victory over the World and the
Devil, in a monastic habit at Inis Samer, and was buried with great honours
and solemnity in the monastery of Eas Roe." So record the Four Masters;
but then we must remember that the O'Clerys were henchmen of the
O'Donnells, and the deeds of the clan are always glorified in their pages. It
is a naive comment upon this that their next lines relate how O'Donnell's
two sons, Conor and Art, fought as usual for the succession until Art was
slain. For the remainder of this, the fourteenth century, the fortunes of the
O'Donnells appear to have been at low water. In 1359, Conor O'DonnelFs
son John was defeated by the O'Connors of Sligo, with the loss of chiefs such

184 kEMAINS OF THE ABBEY ASSAROE, BALLYSHANNON.

as O'Doherty and MacSweeney, whose names are still current in this district.
In 1377 the monastery of Assaroe was burnt, though evidently not demolished,
otherwise all the remains which now exist would hardly be of twelfth-century
work. In 1388 the O'Donnells were defeated at Assaroe by the O'Connors,
with the loss of many chieftains — Gallaghers and others of names still
familiar about Ballyshannon. In 1390 the O'Connors of Sligo penetrated
past Assaroe to the castle of the O'Clerys, three miles distant upon the coast,
which they demolished

In 1423, we find another O'Donnell dying in the monastic habit at Assaroe,
after having " gained the victory of extreme unction and repentance." All
through this and the next century we find the O'Donnells, with some fluctu-
ations, and an occasional treachery on the part of some discontented and
ambitious scion of the family, waxing strong, and claiming, and in part holding,
a lordship over a considerable part of Ulster and northern Connacht They
seem to have been a strong, capable, and energetic race, able to hold their
own in the incessant wars that in those times prevailed. Their military art
was no mere " scuffling of kites and crows," but was based on principles that
even yet are not always practised in the armaments of modern Europe. It
was an O'Donnell who put in practice the idea of a small, compact, well-
equipped, and highly- trained and mobile force, and with three hundred men
(two hundred and forty foot and sixty horse), in 1495, marched right across
Ulster, plundered the glens of Antrim, and evaded or defeated more than five
times his own number of opponents. It was another O'Donnell who in 1522,
when all the forces of Tyrone and Connacht were arrayed against him, feeling
himself outnumbered, used the mountains east of Barnesmore as a bulwark,
and the gap itself as a covered way of communication behind them, and
moving first leftwards, struck at and defeated his enemies, and then moving
through the gap and passing the Erne at Ballyshannon, overran Leitrim and
Sligo, and by a series of bloodless manoeuvres compelled the retreat and
practical submission of his foes.

If we are to judge the somewhat partial "Annals," the greatest of the
O'Donnells was Hugh Roe, who died in 1499, in the 79th year of his age, and
44th of his government. He died in his castle of Donegal (which preceded
the present Elizabethan one), and is described as being lord of nearly all Ulster.
** During his time," say the Annals, so firm was his rule that " no watching was
kept, and the people only closed the doors to keep out the wind."

He was the founder of Donegal Abbey, a patron of learning, and, says the
Annalist, to him was applicable the title of "Augustus of North- West Europe."
Could panegyric have gone further? But be the faults of the O'Donnells what
they may, let us remember that they were the friends and patrons of the
O'Clerys, and for a century protected and encouraged the members of that
remarkable family, which enjoyed the prosperity and shared in the fall of the

;

THE LORD DEPUTY AND BEN MADIGHAN.

1 8s

great chiefs of Tirconnell. It is by no means the least interesting feature of
the graveyard at Assaroe, that although all trace of the tombs of such of the
O'Donnells as are buried there is now lost; yet the slab that marks the last
resting-place of two of the immortal masters, the O'Clerys, is still to be seen.
It bears the date 1666. Antiquarians owe it to the pious zeal of Hugh
AUingham that it has been disinterred frbni its covering of sods and moss,
the broken fragments neatly pieced together, and that it can once more be
seen by those who care for the memorials of Ireland's past.

Zbc %ovt> Deputy? ant) £en nOaMoban (dave Ibill)

in 1556-

|HE following is from the S/afe Paper Calendars ( Carew
MSS.y 1315-1574)'}

"On Wednesday 7 July 1556 My Lord Deputy
[the Earl of Sussex] removed from Lisen Rie [?] and
camped at Magre Blarras^ by a river called Vene
Laggan and a church on the hill called Church of
Blarras, and this day we came through a great pass
called Kelleultahe [Killultagh] being the space of two miles of length, through
which pass My Lord Deputy, Sir Henry Sydney, Sir William Fitzwilliam with
'the rest of the army marched on foot all in armour. On Thursday the 8*''
My Lord Deputy removed from Maghre Blarras and camped that night
underneath Banne Vadagane [Ben Madighan, now Cave Hill] by Lisse-
toUoh Arde beyond Bellefarst. And this day we came through a pass called
Bellaghlisle Clehan [? Ballydrain] a little from the Church of Dromme by a
river called Laggan."

I have little doubt but the camp " underneath Ban Vadagane by Lisse-
toUoh Arde " was the large square fort in Wallace's fields, close to the castle
wall on the Antrim Road, Belfast, and opposite the new church of St. Peter.
The description exactly suits. The adjoining townland was Listollard,^ com-
prising Parkmount, now Donegall and Ashley Parks. This earthwork has the
appearance of sixteenth-century construction, and so has a similar one in
Fortwilliam Park.** What a grand sight this must have been on what is now
a grazing field — the Lord Deputy, his officers, and pursuivant (Athlone was
the chronicler), and men-at-arms, "all in armour"! This is one of the most
remarkable incidents in our local history, and yet how few are aware of it.

F. J. B.

1 Copied in O'Laverty's Down and Connor, vol. ii, page 251.

> Blaris Moor, near Lisburn, a favourite camp, much in use up till 1798.

• Liss-toll-gard. the fort of the head garrison.

■* See Belfast Naturalist Field Club Proceedings, series ii, vol. iv, part i, page 71.

^be 1)i0tor^ of ^^imn Ipavidb, iit the HicboMocede
of Hrmaab.

AnniTCONAL Notices bv JOHN J. MARSHALL.

N the valuable history of Tynan Parish, by the late Bishop
Reeves, an interesting incident has been overlooked,
throwing, as it does, a light upon the state of the country
at the time of its occurrence, when inter-lribal war was
the normal state of affairs, not only in Tyrone, but all
over Ulster; or, indeed, all over Ireland.

In the Parliament which met at Trim, from June
lath to 2ist, 1542, "Connatius O'Neile, Chief of his nation, appeared before
Sir Anthony Sentleger and others in the great Parliament there holden, and
accused Felim O'Neile, called Felim Roe, and his kinsmen, and Captain
MacDonnell of divers spoils, murders and other misdeeds committed against
him, since he submitted to the King, before the Deputy and Council at Port-
more ; and on the other hand the same Felim accused Lord O'Neile or_
similar wrongs; both parties submitting to the order of John Allen, Chan-
cellor; Edmund, Bishop of Kilmore; Oliver Plunkct, Baron of Louth; William
Bermyngham ; Thomas Cusacke of Cosingeston, Master of the Rolls ; John
Travers, Master of the Ordinance ; and George Dowdall, Clk., late Prior of
Ardee ; or if these should disagree, to the order of the Lord Deputy," '

The arbitrators evidently went carefully over the numerous charges and
countercharges which each party brought against the other, giving judgment
on either side according as they found the charges to be proven or unproven ;
the interesting portion of the judgment being item seven, which is brief, but
very much to the point.

" 7. Lord O'Neile offended in entering into the Church at Tenan, and in
taking thence the goods of Owen Yneyle. He shall make full restitution."

This raises the question, did Tynan Church in earlier times possess the
tight of Sanctuary ?

That Tynan was at an early date Termon lands is evident from the entry
in the Annah of Ulster, under the year 1072, recording the death of Maelmuire
MaMuirecan, Aircindechof Tuidhuidha; and in 1607,^ Sir Arthur Chichester,
in a despatch to the Privy Council, asking His Majesty's direction in the

" Cal. Carav MSS. • Co/. S.P.I.

THE HISTORY OF TYNAN PARISH. 1 87

matter of the claim of that grasping prelate, the Bishop of Clogher (George
Montgomery), to all the Termon lands in the adjoining county of Monaghan,
after describing their original purpose of hospitality, goes on : " But in former
times were wont to be sanctuaries, places of refuge and safety for all parties
and their goods in time of war amongst the nation themselves."

This would seem, therefore, sufficiently conclusive proof that Tynan, at a
very early date, had these sanctuary rights; and that, when the original monastic
foundation gradually disappeared, and Tynan became converted into a parish
church, the people, with that conservatism which is a marked feature of Irish
religious life, still adhered to the old custom of right of Sanctuary ; and this
right, in all probability, continued to be respected till that — in his day — modem
iconoclast. Con O'Neil, took by the strong hand the goods which Owen
Yneyle had placed, as he thought, in safety in the church at Tynan, for which
conduct the short and sharp sentence was: " He shall make full restitution."

Of all the O'Neills who ruled at Kenard, none figures more largely in the
State Papers and despatches of the times than Sir Henry Oge O'Neill ; and his
statesmanship in preserving his patrimony appears to have equalled his valour
in the field. Holding as a feudatory under Tyrone, he followed the fortunes
of his chief until they began to wane during the vigorous administration of
Mountjoy, when, by a timely adherence to the side of the Government, he
secured the grant of his lands, holding directly under the Crown, it being the
policy of the English Government, in all cases where practicable, to render the
inferior chiefs independent of their feudal lords.

The Earl of Tyrone was not the man to see what he considered his rights
slip from his grasp without a struggle; and, in addition to his altercation with
the Bishop of Clogher, had also differences with Sir Henry Oge and Sir
Tirlagh McHenry O'Neill As the Lord Deputy (Sir Arthur Chichester),
writing to Salisbury, under the date of July 3rd, 1605, states that "he
proposes to draw near the border of Ulster on the nth inst. to settle some

disputes between the Earl of Tyrone and others and likewise

in determining the controversies, and in certainly meering the lands between
his Lordship, Sir Turlough McHenrie, and Sir Henrie Oge O'Neale, together
with other business within his country," is informed that "the Earl labours by
all means possible to draw these to forego their patents and hold directly
under him, as they had been accustomed ; from which he [Chichester] will
endeavour as fast to dissuade them."

This journey was performed by the Lord Deputy; and in his account^ of
it, under the date of September 30th, he and the Council, " by their order,
established Sir Henry Oge in all the lands he was possessed of at the time of
his first submission to the Lord Lieutenant [Mountjoy], being two ballibetoes
in Tyrone, adjoining the river Blackwater on the north side, called Mointer-

J Cal. S.P.I,

1 88 THE HISTORY OF TYNAN PARISH.

birne, and three ballibetoes in Tourannie, on the south side of that river, in '

performance of the true meaning of the Lord Lieutenant's promise and words
passed to the said Sir Henry."

Each of these ballibetoes is noted as containing 960 acres, large measure.

This proceeding of the Lord Deputy was highly distasteful to the Earl of
Tyrone, who makes it the ninth ^ item of his articles of complaint against the
Government. He therein states that he brought a suit against Sir Henry Oge
O'Neill, in the King's Bench, for a parcel of land called Tohrannie, which
His Majesty's grant to Sir Henry did not bear ; Tyrone's contention being
that when he made his peace with the Government, he was only in possession
of the Minterburn part, and that the three ballibetoes of Tyranny were not
known by the name of " Henry Oge's country"; consequently, the grant of the
Armagh portion did not hold good. He further complains that the Lord
Deputy and Chancellor, contrary to the due course of law, commanded that
the same should be again stayed, while any man, no matter what his degree,
obtained the extremity of the law against him. 2 The lands, consequently,
remained in Sir Henry Oge's family until forfeited by Sir Phelim in the
rebellion of 1641.

The Lieutenant Robert Cowell who is mentioned by Dr. Reeves as
tenant of lands in Tynan in 16 15, had from James L, on the 26th October,
1609, a ** grant of a daily pension of 8/- Irish to Lieutenant Robert Cowell, j

which had been granted to him by Queen Elizabeth during life." * It was d

probably the same Robert Cowell, who, by deed dated 13th, James I.,
alienated the Castle Shane* property to Joshua Downing of Dublin.

Dr. Robert Maxwell, afterwards Bishop of Kilmore, who is mentioned as
being Rector of Tynan from 1624 to 16 — , has the date of his presentation
by the Crown, in full right, entered under the date of November 22nd, 1625.^

The only notice of a Presbyterian meeting-house existing in Tynan parish,
in the diocesan records, occurs in a rental of 1724, where it is observed:
" On one of the towns of this holding in the parish of Tynon is a Presbiterian
Meeting-house."

The meeting-house is that now known as Lislooney (the Fort of O'Looney),
called by the name of the townland in which it stands, and which takes its
name from the splendid double-ringed fort crowning the hill overlooking
Tynan. The congregation worshipping at Lislooney, and known since 1742 ,

by that name, was scattered over a wide district, embracing portions of
the counties of Armagh, Monaghan, and Tyrone, and was known as the

1 Cal. S.P.I. , 1607, p. 377.

' In a marginal note on another copy of the despatch of September 3olh, 1605, previously '

quoted, it says : "But in this we must for many respects assist him [Sir Henry Oge]."

8 Cal. Pat. Rolls, Jac. I., p. 153.

* Shedan, alias Shean, in the county of Monaghan. — History of Monaghan , by E. P. Shirley.

» Cal. Pat. and Close Rolls, Car. L

THE HISTORY OF TYNAN PARISH. 1 89

congregation of Kinaird (now Caledon), this being the principal place in the
district. This application of the name of a neighbouring town to a congre-
gation worshipping in an adjoining parish has led to error and confusion on the
part of those unacquainted with the details of local topography when dealing
with the early history of the congregations into which the district then covered
by Kinaird congregation became afterwards divided.

It is to be regretted that there are no congregational records dating back
farther than 1836. Tradition says that all the books of the congregation
were burned about this time; and the same authority is also responsible for
the statement that there was a congregation here about the time William III.
landed in Ireland, which is probable enough, as we find an official notice^ of it
in 1691, when "Timothy Grier appeared before the General Synod of Ulster,
which met at Antrim, as a Commissioner to seek a supply of preaching some-
times till they would be in a capacity to offer a competent maintainence to a
minister of their own." To this the Synod agreed, on condition "y* each
supplier be allowed ten shill : a sabbath." A supply was accordingly named
for the second Sabbaths of October, November, December, and January:
after that they were to apply to the Presbytery of Antrim. In the following
year (1693) they were further supplied; and then "the Synod leaves their
further supply to the Meeting of Antrim who seem engaged somewhat
towards their settlement."

The next notice of it is amongst the thirteen congregations which were to
meet at Stonebridge, three miles from Clones, when, in 1 702, the Presbytery
of Tyrone was divided into two — Monaghan and Tyrone.

The Kinaird congregation at this time embraced a large district in the
counties already named. In the county of Armagh it took in the southern
portion of the barony of Tyranny, and as far as Eglish in the northern
portion ; took in a large slice of the barony of Armagh, extending to within
about a couple of miles of Armagh city, and a like distance from Keady.
In the county of Monaghan it took in the barony of Truagh; and in Tyrone,
in addition to the territory of Minterbum, it extended to within about two
miles of Aughnacloy.

The Rev. William Ambrose is recorded as minister of the congregation
as early as 17 10, and even then must have been a man of some standing, as
we find him, in 171 1, nominated for the moderatorship of the General Synod
of Ulster. The district described was much too large for one man to have
the pastoral oversight of ; and, evidently, the people were not satisfied with
their religious arrangement, for at the General Synod which met at Antrim,
June 23rd, 17 13: "A people in Trewgh, a part of the congregation of
Kinnaird, in the Preby of Monaghan, & Com : of Bills appeared by their
Comm", Mr William Johnston of TuUy ; Henry Gillespie, James Widney, and

1 fiecords Gen. Syn. Uist,

190 THE HISTORY OF TYNAN PARISH.

John Stewart, who produced a supplication, wherein they desired to be erected
into a congregation distinct from that of Kinaird."

"Likewise a people of Caledon, & Committee of Bills, supplicated by
their Commissioners, Mr. James Agnew,^ and Mr. James Culton,^ in which
supplication it is desired that the petitioners be erected into a distinct
congregation from that of Kinaird."

" Next a people of Minterbirn, & Committee of Bills, supplicated by their
Comm", Cap*' Cochren, Mr. Alex'- Pringle,^ with others, the congregation of
Kinaird may continue as it is : that their Meeting house be not removed, for
which they gave reasons in their supplications."

Here was a very pretty congregational mix-up; and the Synod very
naturally wished to hear what the Rev. William Ambrose, the minister, had
to say on the subject. He threw cold water on it; believed the desired
erection would not have funds to support it ; that the congregation of Kinaird
was sinking; and that the desired erection would be prejudicial to the
congregation of Monaghan. To this the Commissioners from the Truagh
district of the congregation replied that they were six miles distant from
Caledon, and that they in no way depended on the Monaghan congregation
for support.

The Synod decided to appoint a committee of two ministers and a ruling
elder from each Presbytery to inquire into and report on the matter; the
committee to meet on the second Tuesday of August next, at four o'clock p.m.,
in the meeting-house of Kinaird (Lislooney), and ordered the Presbytery of
Monaghan to prepare the affair for the committee.

The decision of this committee was to erect a congregation in Truagh,
which is now known as Glennan congregation, and another in the territory of
Minterburn, about two miles beyond Caledon, which is called Minterburn;
and by this means preserved the old territorial designation of the district,
which but for this would otherwise be lost, as many of our interesting ancient
place names have been.

This arrangement came before the General Synod, which met at Belfast,
June 15th, 1 7 14, for confirmation, and there was the usual shoal of petitions.

After all parties had been heard and all the papers considered, a select
committee was appointed, which framed the following overture upon this
affair :

" OVERTURE.

" I. A line of the following towns to divide Aghalow [now Aughnacloy
congregation] from Minterbirn, to begin at Crilly, Glendavagh, Glenkeen,

1 There is a tombstone in Benburb churchyard to William Agnew of Dyan, who died in
1747. He was probably of the same family, as Dyan was in the district which petitioned to be
erected into a separate congregation. — See Afemoriais of the Dead, vol. iii.

* There is a Culton family, probably descendants of the James Culton here mentioned, still
connected with Minterburn.

9 Pringles are still connected with Minterburn.

THE HISTORY OF TYNAN PARISH. 191

TuUybleety, Bohard, Legane, Rahaghey, are all to be joined to Minterbirn,
and John Moor to be left to his choice whether he joined Minterbirn or
Aghaloo ; which said towns, with the entire Manor of Minterbirn within the
compass of the Blackwater, shall be made one congregation for Mr. Ambrose,
the stipend whereof amounting to his first Quota.

" 2. Scame,^ Giroch or Truagh congregation, is to continue exactly as the
Committee of Kinaird did erect it, excepting that none shall be left to have
their Liberty, but all within the county of Monaghan toward Corr Bridge^ to
be members of that Congregation.

" 3. The scattered wings in the County of Armagh shall be joyned to the
adjacent Congregations of Armagh, Minterbirn, Benburb, Keady and Truagh,
by perambulation by authority of this Synod."

This overture was carried, and a committee for the purpose of perambula-
tion appointed to meet on the last Tuesday of July at Tynand ; and further,
it was ordered " that all the arrears due to Mr Ambrose [Kinaird, now Lis-
looney], and Mr Boyd [Rev. Baptist Boyd of Aghaloo, now Aughnacloy
congregation], be paid before the Preb^ plant them."

By this arrangement the Tynan congregation, which worshipped at
Lislooney, was wiped out, and the people of the County Armagh portion,
which forms the present Lislooney congregation, joined on to whichever of
the existing or new congregations that happened to be most convenient to
them ; and as showing the discipline then enforced, they were not allowed
to choose which congregation they would join, but had to attend the one to
which they were assigned. This alteration by the Synod of the arrangement
by the committee, which had met at Lislooney in the previous August,
appears to have been unsatisfactory to the parties concerned, and in particular
the Rev. . William Ambrose, who "heavily complained that he was by this
Overture taken away from his friends, and those who adhered to him, and
put upon a people with whom he can propose little ease or comfort."

The reasonableness of this complaint was recognised by the Synod ; and
he was asked if he preferred that the arrangements of the committee, which
had met at Lislooney, should be carried out, and to this he readily assented.
With some slight modifications, this arrangement was carried out. One of
these was, that the two miles to be allowed to the Rev. William Ambrose, on
the Minterburn side, should be two English miles from his own house, which,
presumably, must have been in or near Tynan. This would take in the town
of Caledon and about half a mile beyond ; and this, roughly, is the boundary
between the congregations of Caledon (a more recent erection) and Minter-
burn at the present day. It was also ordered "that Captain Cochren, Mr

^ ScAib tiA 5c^epA( = the shallow ford of the sheep.

* Corr Bridge, over the Blackwater, on the road from T>'nan to Glasslough. Dr. Maxwell,
rector of Tynan, states in his deposition that Protestants were massacred here m 1641.

192

THE HISTORY OF TYNAN PARISH.

Alexander Pringle, Mr Ferns, and Mr Luckie be allowed to join with Mr
Ambrose during his life**; which last two persons were allowed to join only
on condition that the Presbytery of Monaghan gave Truagh congregation an
equivalent for them out of Middletown side. Captain Cochren and Alexander
Pringle would probably have belonged to Minterburn new congregation but
for this special provision. However, this part of the arrangement depending
upon the life of the minister, was easily carried out, as the Rev. William
Ambrose died in the latter part of the same year (i 7 14) : his death, no doubt,
hastened by the worry consequent upon the breaking up of his congregation.

(To he continued.)

with Mr
join only
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;ation bot
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'. William
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jregation.

prceb^terian Hbbresscs to Iking 3amc9 IL

in 1687-

HE following documents are taken from the Ash MSS.,
printed privately in 1890. They are well worthy of
reproduction, and will serve to show the true spirit
of the times. They are referred to in Reid's History,
but not quoted ; only favourable deductions drawn,
which the documents themselves scarce warrant They
are not mentioned in the Rev. Thomas Hamilton's
History ; and the Rev. W. T. Latimer only incidentally refers to them. — Ed.

TAe humble Address of the Presbyterians, Presented to Y'- KING by Mr
HURST, Mr CHESTER, Mr SLATER, Mr COX, Mr ROSS WELL,
Mr TURNER, Mr FRANKLINE, Mr BE ALL, and Mr REY-
NOLDS, with HIS MA'^'^'^ gracious answer,

MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MA^'^— To believe the thankfulness of our
hearts, beyond any expressions of our lips and pens, for your most gracious
declaration for liberty for us in the worship of God, which, we trust we shall
ever value above our property, as that, without which we could enjoy nothing
which we call our own, without the greatest uneasiness imaginable. But your
Majesty, having in the same declaration, also secured that unto us, both by
your royall word and act, what could your Majesty have done more for us, or
what is left for us further to ask of y* King ? And for as much as it hath
pleased your most excellent Majesty to give this passport to your poor
subjects so long tossed with tempests, and justly lo believe that loyalty is not
intailed to a party, as we hope we shall ever justifie y' credit which your
Ma**" charity in that point hath given us.

So we shall not cease to bow our knee to y* God whom we serve, and by
whom kings reign, beseeching Him to recompence this royal favour to your
Ma***, with length of days, uninterrupted health, felicity in your royall rela-
tions, success in your great councills and affairs, and finally, with y* glorious
liberty of the sons of God, heartily crying, as with one voice—" Let y* King
Live for Ever."

Subscribed on the behalf of ourselves and the rest of our pswation, 1687.

The KING^S Answer in reply to the preceding Address,

Gentlemen — I have already found two good effects of my declaration :
the easing and relieving my subjects you spake of, and my restoring God to
y* empire over conscience. It has been my judgem* of a long time that none
has or ought to have any empire over the conscience but God,

194 PRESBYTERIAN ADDRESSES TO KING JAMES II.

I understand there are some jelusies among my subjects that I have done
this in a design, but you look like gentlemen of too great ingenuity to enter-
tain any such suspicion.

Gentlemen, I protest before God, and desire you to tell all manner of
psons of all pswasions as you have opportunity to converse w*** them, y* I have
no other design than I have spoke of.

And now, gentlemen, I hope to live to see the day when you shall have
Magna Charta for y* liberty of conscience as you have had for your property.

And, gentlemen, doc you so preach to your hearers as they may be good
Christians, and I make noe question but they will be good subjects.

Anno 1687.

The following document is the King's reply to another Presbyterian
address. We regret the address itself is not given, as it would be of value to
compare with the former one.

A Coppy of an Answerd which HIS MA^'^ JAMES IL gave to Mr ALSOP
and others who Psented their Presbyterian^ s Address.

I do confess I am somewhat affected with the ingenuous gratitude and
thankfulness of my dissenting subjects, and shall take care to defend them
from all psecution for conscience sake; and that you had that liberty no
sooner, is highly owing to y^ unwearied sollicitations of some men who, I am'
afraid, mistake their true interest, and have taken wrong methods to unite
Protestants and heall theire great divisions in the nations. But I think I am
not bound to be led by them who I see are wholly devoted to theire own
interest, nor can I understand, by all the power they have made, that grace
and favour to you will be a breach of any promise I have made to them, so
as to undoe-them, as they tell me, for lett men's mistakes be what they will
concerning my pson and governm*, I resolve to keep all in peace. There
shall be no psecution in my dominions if I can be informed of it ; truly, my
judgem' is as farr against psecution for conscience sake in meer matters of
Religion, that if ever I shall see cause to change my religion, I shall never be
of that party who think the only way to advance their churches is by undoeing
those who differ from them in small matters, as I find is confessed by all in
y' nation.

Now, to give men liberty to choose for y^selves what Church they have
communion w*** for their edification, I am ignorant what Church this would
truly prejudice or undoe. And as for you that are dissenters, lett there be
noe reflections on y' ancient goverm* of y® nation, nor disloyal principles and
expression vented in yo"^ assemblies, and then you are all tolerable enough to
me and my goverm*. And so I bid you farewell, desiring as much your
happiness and wellfare as any others of my subjects, and pray live in peace
among y'selves.

Diecovcri? of an IHnftnovpn /ort on Ben ADaMaban

(Cave 1)iU).

By FRANCIS JOSEPH BIGGER.

R many years past, when walking beneath the crags of
Ben Madighan, north from the public way on the old
bridle-path to Collin Ward, I have observed, in a peaty
meadow close behind the residence of James Grant,
in the townland of Ballygolan, a circular conical mound,
more noticeable in the winter than at other times. No
map — not even the new 25-inch ordnance — gives any
indication of it ; yet to me it had the appearance of an old fort, or perhaps a
crannoge, in what was a swamp *many years ago. The "oldest inhabitant''
had no information on the subject, so I was fortunately driven to a careful
examination in order to verify my opinion, and in this I was ably assisted by
Herbert Grant, a son of the proprietor. The site is in a slight hollow, with
the high cliffs of the hill to the south, a gentle elevation, followed by a steep
declivity to the north, forming a sufficient saucer to contain a bog, or even a
lake, before modern drainage was carried out. The soil around is still peaty
and damp, and a copious spring is near at hand. The views on all hands are
wide-stretching and magnificent. Behind, towering like an Alp, is MacArt's
Fort ; in front, stretches Carnmoney Hill, one of the drums of which is capped
by Dunanney ; in the valley between lies the fort of Drumnadrough : four
forts in all. These form a straight line across the valley leading to Glen-
gormley from the White House, down the centre of which flows the
Glass-na-breadan to the sea, supplying many factories with water on its way.
These forts are almost equi-distant ; but wanting this newly-found one, there
would be a gap between that of Drumnadrough and MacArt : with it, the
chain is complete across the valley, all in a direct line. I lay some stress
upon this, as I do not consider such an arrangement accidental. At present,
this fort is almost circular, about 70 feet in diameter, and 4^ feet to its highest
point. My investigations consisted of cutting four trenches, about two feet
wide and four or five deep, right through the site of the fosse and the inside
ridge, each of which, and the material thrown out, I examined with care.
Damp peat constituted the fort, mingled with stones and much decayed
timber of different varieties, including fir, birch, and oak. Some pieces
showed working in different ways, partly by blunt tools. After the first
glance, I at once decided that it was undoubtedly an ancient place of residence.
The soil had a disturbed look, not like natural deposit ; and then evidences
even more reliable were turned up. Ashes were rather abundant, and some
burnt bone, of what animal I cannot ascertain. Fragments of pottery were
also numerous, but none sufficiently large to enable me to form an accurate
idea of the size of the vessels. A few had the appearance of burial-urns, but

196 DISCOVERY OF AN UNKNOWN FORT ON BEN MADIGHAN.

most of domestic vessels, similar to those found in crannoges, of the bronie
age. One lai^e piece shows an indented ornament on the tip, and a similar
ornamental band around the neck : this is part of a comparatively large
vessel. Portions of a base were also found, and another lip with wavy
ornament, and one with a similar top. Other lips are plain, graduating
thicker towards the centre of the vessel The accompanying drawings
accurately represent several of the fragments found : the material of which
they are in general composed is fairly coarse and well burned. One fragment
shows appearances of having been turned on a wheel. It may be of later

FRAGMENTS

date. A " Dane's pipe," the bowl of the usual globe-shaped type, was also
found. All these finds have been presented to the Free Library for
preservation. There can be no doubt that Dunna-Grant— for so this fort has
now been named — was an ancient habitation in use for long ages, in pagan or
early Christian times, and adds another interest to our far-famed hill of caves,
upon whose sides so much of our local history has been enacted. I am
indebted to W. J, Knowles and George Coffey for confirmation and advice
in regard to the pottery and other articles found and here recorded.

BlooD'0 plot in 1663-

By Rev. W. T. LATIMER, b.a.

BOUT two years after the Restoration, a plot was formed
against the Government by one Thomas Blood, who
had been an officer in the King's army, but his associates
were generally Cromwellians. Blood's brother-in-law,
the Rev. William Lecky, son of the Rev. Rober,t Lecky
of Trisernagh, and one of the nonconforming Presbyterian
ministers in County Westmeath, entered actively into
this conspiracy. The Revs. Andrew McCormick and John Crookshanks
were privy to the plot, but it does not seem that they gave much active
assistance. The matter was broached to the Revs. John Heart, John Greg,
and Andrew Stewart ; but they refused at once to have anything to do with
a movement likely to become disloyal and dangerous.

An informer, named Philip Alden, kept the authorities constantly informed
of everything done by the conspirators, who were arrested on the morning of
the day on which they were to attack Dublin Castle. Blood escaped, but
Lecky was captured and executed. Andrew .McCormick and John Crook-
shanks escaped to Scotland, where they were killed in the Pentland
insurrection.

Some time afterwards, Blood made an attempt to murder the Duke of
Ormonde, being instigated, it is said, by the King's favourite, Buckingham.
Blood, assisted by several desperadoes, seized Ormonde, and was taking him
away, in order to hang him at Tyburn, when the Duke was rescued by his
own servants. The next exploit of Blood was an attempt — very nearly
successful — to carry oflf the Crown and State jewels from the Tower. Being
arrested, King Charles not only pardoned him for all his crimes, but bestowed
on him a considerable estate, which certainly renders the King's connection
with this desperado exceedingly mysterious.

The Government, as a result, believed that all the northern Presbyterian
ministers were concerned in the plot. Acting on this informgition, ten
Presbyterian ministers were imprisoned in Carrickfergus, seven in Carlingford,
and two in Dublin.

It was with regard to this matter that Hugh Montgomery, the first Earl of
Mount Alexander, a few weeks before his death, wrote the accompanying
letter to Ormonde. Montgomery had himself taken the covenant, but was
then a Conformist, and advised that the Presbyterian ministers be sent out of
the country. He exercised his influence, however, to protect some of them,
probably at the request of his mother, who had been married to General
Monro ; and in this letter he evidently does his best to persuade Ormonde

198 iJLOOD'S PLOT IN 1663.

to give the Ulster Scots the benefit of the indulgence that had been already
granted.

Cartt Papers, volume 33, page 18.

1 Lord Mount Alexander to Ormonde, 1663.

May it please your Grace.

I have been so little while in this country, that
I cannot give your Grace any good account of it,
only I am confirmed, more and more, in my former judge-
-ment, that it will never be fitt to suffer the
pretended Ministers to live amongst them,
for whilst they can have the least hopes, by stealth or
otherwise, to hear them, they will never come to
public service, unless they do it as they did last
Sunday, to see so ereat a stranger as I am.
If it succeed so, this next Sunday, I think I must go
in procession from church to church, to convert the
people, and so turn a kind of small St. Andrew,
and convert my countrymen.

They complain, that the Bishop's Courts will take no
notice of the Proclamation of Indulgence,
and the Sheriff of this county told me, that he could not,
by his Oath, forbear executing any, ^' vrytes de excomunicato
capiendo " unless they be superseded by the Chancelor.
Now my Lord, though I cannot promise that the Indulgence
will have its desired effect, yet the Honour of the Board
being engaged, and the people being under so great poverty,
that I could not have believed it, but that I see it.
And that now, the 4 Subsidies and other public charges,
are just now to be levied from them, my humble opinion is.
That, by some Letter to the Bishops, they may be moved
to command their Officers and Courts to forbear,
and that the Lord Chancelor take effectual course as to
the Sheriffs ;

else the people will be abused, and the benefit of the
Declaration given only to such as shall bribe their inferior
officers, as Parators, Bailiffs, and subsheriffs,
and indeed, my Lord, this calls for a speedy remedy.

Next, my Lord, I find that, both here and in co Antrim,
swords have been taken away from many, and from some of
quality and honest men, to their great affliction.
And that at Belfast and other places, where Garrisons are,
when the Officers are a little merry, or take the humour,
they disarm any Gentleman that brings a sword to town,
upon no account but that they are Scotch,
and this is often done by some who oppressed them formerly,
because of their being for the King, which makes it the
more greivous.

These ways much dissatisfies those who were honest of that
Nation, and discourages others from being gained.
I beg your Grace's Directions in these, and likewise
in restoring the Firearms,

for being a General Officer, the i^eople make application
to me, and I am shy to do anything, without first
aajuainting your Grace.

I am informed by the Governors of Carlingford and
Carrickfergus, that the continuance of the imprisoned
Ministers there is very inconvenient to them both ;
I humbly offer, that your Grace will be pleased to Order,
That all such who will give bonds, as Mr Drisdaile hath done,
may have passes to go, and those who will not,
may be removed to more convenient prisons, and be
provided with some maintenance.

* This letter was copied from the transcript in the Record Office, Dublin, by Tenison A.
Groves.

blood's plot in 1663. 199

I have blazed about Mr Stewart's and Mr Greg's guilt
in this plot, and hope it may do good, for I find
already, it lessens ttiem extremely in the esteem many
had of their honesty.

I am certain Mr Blood, is, or hath been very lately,
lurking in the county Antrim, I have some confidence
to give your Grace a good account of him speedily.

I doubt not but your Grace will remember
the Letter you promised to send in my behalf for the King's
Signature, with that character of me as you shall judge
fitt for.

May it please your Grace,

your Grace's most faithfuU, most dutifull,

and humble servant, Mount Alexander.

Newtown, 7 Augt. 1663

Earl of Mount Alexander. Rec. 10 Aug., 1663; dated 7 Aug., 1663.

An article on the above subject appeared in the Northern Whig, 15
August, 1901. It bears more bias however, and treats Bishop Jeremy Taylor
unjustly. The plotters were much more numerous, and the conspiracy more
widespread amongst the northern Presbyterians than the writer of the article
seems to think. (See Montgomery MSS., p. 248, note 15.)

Montgomery was an ardent Churchman — of this there can be no doubt —
but he never unfairly sided against the Presbyterians ; although, when they
had the upper hand during Monro's regime, they accused him of unfaithful-
ness ; and when a prisoner in Cloughoughter Castle, ** denounced judgment
upon his person, his family and all his party,'' in a most inquisitorial way,
because he would not accept of their religious opinions.

We grow weary of this class of local religious history, of which Reid and
Killen were the founders, and the Revs. Thomas Hamilton and W. T. Latimer
the faithful followers. It is neither honest nor true. We have abundant
proof of this in records and MSS. in our possession and at our disposal, which
have come to us ex-officio ; and at some future time, when our leisure is longer,
we intend to summarize these evidences. We understand the Rev. W. T.
Latimer has a new edition of his history in the press, so we would like him to
take notice of our intentions. If he sets matters right, as he has an oppor-
tunity of doing — our material having been at his disposal, and our advice
tendered — well and good ; but if not, we shall be forced to do so ourselves.
A historian of the Presbyterian body need not necessarily be one with an
anti-episcopal brief in one hand and a muck-rake in the other, villifying and
abusing his opponents all the time, or else picking out all the personal
calumnies of centuries. Suppressing faults on their own side, and magnifying
the blemishes in their opponents, so freely indulged in by some writers, must
cease, or they will be caught in their own trap. Let those who attempt to
write about the events of the past, do so in a candid, honest spirit, free from
suppression of truth, from bias and bigotry, — " nought extenuate and nought
set down in malice." — £d.

WILLIAM M'CLEVERTY OF GLYNN, CO. ANTRIM.
Whilst in ihe Cathedral or [he Holy Trinity, Wa.ierforc1, last Augiial, I caiiie across the
rulluwing inscriplion relating to a County Anlrim man. The M'Clevertys resided il (Itynn,
near Larne. An old arniorial tombstone in the pari!Ji churchyard there denotes Iheir burial-
place. James McHenry, in his O' Halloraii, depicts one of them as a yeoman magistrate in
a discreditable light. The monument is of white marble', and is placed on the west wall of
the nave. Below the inscription is a globe, surmounted by a ship.

This monument is erected to the Memory of
W"' M'CLEVERTY, Es^j"'
of the County of Antrim.
lie was one of those who accompanied Commodore
(aDer wards Lord) Anson in bis memorable
Expedition round the world where his Naval
Abilities early recommended him to that
Nobleman's friendship Under whose

Patronage he was raised to . Ihe rank of
Post Captain in the Royal Navy in which
Character he added lustre to the British Flag
and achieved eminent Services to his

King and Country
In private life he was eminent for every Virtue
firm to his work & steady to his Trust
inflexible to ill and obstinately Just
After a Life devoted to his Country, he died
in an honourable old Age lamented by
a numerous &. respectable acquaintance
at Waterford the Itf" of December 1779

Aged 63 years F. J. R

Note. — There is in the Library at Ardrie, a copy of Borlase's Rtfiiclions upon Ireland, with
Ibe autograph "G.' A. McCleverty, Glynn."

THE BUCKWORTH ARMS AND FAMILY.

At page 35 we mention an armoria! stone nilh the Duckworth
arms, which we found in Maralin churchyard, not knowing
whether it denoted the burial-place of Theophilus Buck-
worth, Bishop of Dromore, or that of Anthony Buckworlh,
minister of the parish. We are now satisfied it is the Inllcr ;
for Ware, mYivi Prelates of Ireland {V>>Mm, 1704], at page 69,
records "Theophilus Buckworlh Born at White-Hall near
Wisbeck in Cambridgeshire . . . died in the same house
wherein he was born in 1652, aged 72 years." So it is
more than likely be was there interred. We may, therefore,
lake it that this monument marks the grave of his younger
TUB BUCKWORTH KtHf, IN brolhcr Aothony. The following two communications

Frtiiitni*iHgt,t.%K.'tiiiii.ii. Confirm us in this, F.J. B,

" I am much interested in reading the queries as to the connection between the Buck-
worlh and Ward families at page 35. I find in Foster's Baronetage, iSSi, under 'Buckworlh

MISCELLANEA. 20l

Heme Soame/ the arms of Buck worth given as * sable, on a chevron between 3 cross
crosslets fitchie argent, an ermine spot ' — a coat, save for the metals tinctures and ermine
spot, exactly identical with that shown on the seal of John Kennedy, Abbot of Bangor,
circa 1 395.

''Foster gives the following information about Theophilus Duckworth and his younger
brother Anthony :

"Theophilus Buckworth, B.D., Trin. Coll, Cantab., Bishop of Drdmore, 1613-1652,
friar of Armagh, baptised 8 Jan., 1580, buried 8 Septr., 1652, having married Sarah, dau.
of Arnold Ussher and sister of James, Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of Ireland, 1625/55,
and had 3 daughters.

** Anthony Buckworth, of Dromore, Ireland, and afterwards of Birmingham, Norfolk,
ancestor of Buckworth of Tipperary (only son of Sir John Buckworth, Knt., Alderman of
London). Theophilus and Anthony are stated to be the second and third sons respectively
of Richard Buckworth of White Hall and Fitton, Co. Cambridge, who md., 17 Aug., 1593
(i^^* ^573)» Rose, dau. and coheir of Skegness of Skegness, Co. Lincoln.

"I find amongst my notes the following additional information about Theophilus
Buckworth and his daughters :

"Theophilus Buckworth, rector of Creggan (a living belonging to the Priory or College
of Armagh), before the year 1625, was afterwards Bishop of Dromore. His will, dated
15 August, 1652, mentions his 3 daughters and coheirs, viz.. Rose, then the wife of Toby
Poyntz ; Sarah, then the wife of Nicholas Ward ; and Anne, apparently unmarried.

" I have a further note that it was Theophilus Buckworth who commenced the building
of Dromore Cathedral.

"The Nicholas Ward, born 1630, who married Sarah Buckworth (before 15 August,
1652), was the eldest son of Bernard Ward, born 1606, died 1667, who married, after
August, 1634, Anne, the widow of Edward Smith of Moyry, Co. Armagh, the eldest son of
Anthony Smith, and daughter of Major Richard West of Ballydugan, near Downpatrick*,
* of a good family in England,' M. P. for Downpatrick, married 161 3 ; High Sheriff of the
County Down in 1610.

" The only daughter of Nicholas Ward by Sarah Buckworth, who was married, was
Mary Ward, who married her cousin, Tichborne West of Ash wood, Co. Wexford, and by
him had numerous issue.

" Bernard Ward's sister-in-law was Magdalen West of Ballydugan, who married
Hercules Dobbs, died 1635, the ancestor of the Dobbs family of Castle Dobbs.
"Mallow." "Erskine E. West.

• • • • •

"According to Bedford's Blazon of Episcopacy^ 2nd edition, London, 1897, page 197,
the arms of Dr. Buckworth, Bishop of Dromore, were * sable, a chevron, between 3 crosslets
fitchy ai^ent.' He was a Cambridgeshire man. Fellow of Trinity Collie, Cambridge, and
was Bishop of Dromore 1613, until his death in 1652, aged 72, at Cambridge, in the house
in which he had been born. He married Sarah, daughter of Arland Ussher and Margaret
Stanyhurst, and sister to Dr. James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh. By her he had three
daughters. I suppose that one of them married Ward ; but the Memoir of the Bangor
Peerage does not state the fact, and inquiry would be very interesting.

"Anthony Buckworth of Magheralyn is mentioned in the Privy Council Records
(Cromwellian period), Ireland. He may have been a relative of Bishop Theophilus Buck-
worth, as Magheralyn was the residence of the Bishops of Dromore.

" Ball- Wright, in his Ussher Memoirs^ page 85, says that Anthony Buckworth married
Sarah Birmingham of Ballogh, Co. Dublin. Sarah Birmingham was sister of Dr. James
Ussher and of Mrs. Theophilus Buckworth. I need not mention the relationship to
Bishop Erne.
"22, Eccles Street, Dublin." " W. A. Rbynell.

We hope to have this very interesting monument properly conserved, and the editor
invites subscriptions for that purpose. — Ed.

202 MISCELLANEA.

HANCOCK-NEILSON MONUMENT.

In the interior of the old abbey at Howth, County Dublin, I found this inscription to a
County Antrim man, and a daughter of the celebrated Samuel Neilson of Belfast :

to the ^

William John Hancock

youngest son of John Hancock

of Lisbum in the County of Antrim

He died at Sutton on the 29th of Augt 1848

in the 37th year of his age

&c.

On a slab beneath

Also

sacred to the memory of

Mary

his wife youngest daughter of

Samuel Neilson

of Belfast who died

the 27th day of July 1857

aged 61 years

&c.

ELLIS WALKER.

On 20 August, 1691, was licensed, and before 13 April, 1692, was published, at eighteen-
pence, in sheep, the following little book; *'*' Epicteti Etuhiridion Made English^ In A
Poetical Paraphrase. By Ellis Walker Of London- Derry. London, Printed by Ben.
Griffin for Sam. Keble. 1692. 8vo." The work is dedicated by the author to his
" Honoured Unkle, Mr. Samuel Walker, of York"; to whom he had "fled for shelter, at
the breaking out of the present Troubles in Ireland." It has commendatory verses by
Joshua Barnes, Em. Coll., Camb., 28 Sept., 169 1 ; by Will. Peirse, Em. Coll., Camb.,
28 Sept., 1691 ; by Ezekiel Bristed, M.A. ; by M. Bryan, LL.D., Oxon, 17 Sept,, 1691 ;
and by William Clark, Kath. Hall, Camb. Barnes, of course, is a well-known name ; Bristed
became a clergyman in Sussex ; the others I have not traced.

This Ellis Walker is doubtless the man who graduated B. A. at Trinity College, Dublin,
in the spring of 1681, and seems to have taken no other degree there. He is not among the
holders of preferment recorded in Cotton's Fasti, Both the connection with Derry, and that
with York, suggest that he was of the same family as Rev. George Walker, D.D., the hero
of Derry — probably a son ; but I find no mention of a son of that name, or of any brotlier
of Rev. George Walker, in Dwyer's very full notes to his edition (1893) of Walker's publica-
tions. It is there said that Rev. George Walker had several sons, four of whom were in
King William's service. The names of only two, John and Alexander, are given.

Another (probably the second) edition of the EftchiridioHy 1697, i2mo, is entitled as by
Ellis Walker, M.A., omitting the reference to Londonderry. This edition includes a Life of
Epictetus, evidently not by Ellis Walker ; has appended a "Table of the Chief Matters";
and has prefixed a frontispiece, engraved by T. B., representing Epictetus in his Roman
habitation, with a view of Rome above (not the Rome of Epictetus, for the dome of St. Peter's
is a prominent object), and a motto beneath, assigned to Vincent Obsop, (meaning Alsop).
Editions of 1702, i2mo, and 1708, i2mo, are in fact re-issues of the 1697 edition, with some
few corrections, but in the main they are not reprints. In 1716, i2mo, appeared a very

KOtES AND QiJEklES. 263

pretty reprint : the frontispiece is re-engraved by W. E., but has the same outline, and the
same error of Obsop, for Alsop. Another, a very poor edition, appeared at Dublin, 1724,
l2mo, without frontispiece. In 1737, i2mo, appeared a reprint of the 1716 edition, not so
neat, with the same frontispiece, by W. E.

All the London editions were published by Sam. Keble, and I suspect that the lx)ok was
his property, and that he added the M.A. without authority. Ellis Walker was not a
graduate of Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Glasgow, or Aberdeen.

His version is by no means ill done ; and it would be interesting to know more of him,
and especially to make sure of his connection with the hero of Derry.

Alex. Gordon.

Botes anb (Siuedes.

This column is open to readers desirous of obtaining or imparting information on questions of
interest and obscure points of historical lore relating to the district.

'RepUee to Queries.

The BristOW Family.— in reply to query, page 160, the Rev. Peter Bristow, M.A.,
son of Roger Bristow, who was of Orbally, County Antrim. Roger, the father, died in
1745, and left four sons and one daughter ; he had also a brother, Peter, who was a colonel in
Lord Donegairs re^imsnt, and died in 1703. Roger's eldest son, Charles, was a captain ; the
second son, Rev. Skeffington Bristow, Vicar-General of Connor and Prebendary of Rasharkin,
died at Hazelbrook, Co. Antrim, 7th May, 1797, in his 95th year ; the third son, Samuel, of
Birchhill ; the fourth son, the above Rev. Peter Bristow, died at Bath in 1769, unmarried. The
only daughter, Dorothy, married Rev. Joseph Finiston, Vicar of Antrim. The Rev. Wm.
Bristow, Vicar and Sovereign of Belfast, was the second son of the above Rev. Skeffington
Bristow, and was born in 1736. He married Rose Gary, of Marlborough Street, Dublin, in
1 77 1. From the above genealc^, the Rev. Peter Bristow was uncle to Rev. Wm. Bristow,
Vicar of Belfast, who died in 1808. " Belfastiensis."

The ''Friends" at Moyallen.— In the Journal, vol. vi, page 250, ** Notes and
(Queries," the Rev. E. A. Myles, Rector of Tullylish, Co. Down, requests information con-
cerning the first settlement of " Friends" at Moyallen, Co. Down. I am not aware of his
having obtained this information, and have now pleasure in answering his question. My
maternal ancestor, Alexander Christy, born 1642, came over from Scotland with his family,
and settled at Moyallen, Co. Down, about the year 1675, where he acquired some property,
and carried on a considerable linen industry. He became a Quaker ; he and his family
being amongst the first members of the Society of Friends at Moyallen. Some of his
descendants are members of the Quaker body at Moyallen at the present day. His grand-
son, Thomas Christy, born at Moyallen in 171 1, granted the land for and built the present
Friends' meeting-house at Moyallen. This Thomas Christy left two daughters— Hannah,
l)orn 1748, and Mary, born 1750, at Moyallen — his only son, Thomas, having been drowned
between Holyhead and Dublin, whilst crossing from school in England. Hannah Christy
married Joseph Wakefield of Moyallen. Their eldest son, Edward, married Marian
Charlotte Watson of Brookhill, near Lisbum, who was the only sister of the late well-
known James (** Commodore") Watson of Brookhill, an account of whose sculptured
armorial tombstone in Magheragall churchyard has been given in page 154. It was this
Edward Wakefield married Marian Charlotte Watson, who rode the celebrated race at the
Maze racecourse, about the beginning of the last century, against Dean Blacker of Carrick-
blacker, Co. Armagh; and for many years a sign hung over a public-house in Lisbum repre-
senting *' The Quaker and the Dean " riding the race. Thomas Christy's second daughter,
Mary, was married to Joseph Phelps of Limerick, who was also a member of the Society of
Friends. Thomas W. Pim.

IReviews of ffioohs.

PuHica/iuHi having any bearing uptta livai tnal/ers, or upon Irish or getural AHtiquarian
Bovii or AHicles for Kn-ieu' to be senl to Ihe Editor.

Proieedinss of the Royal /ri'i/i Aeademy. Dublin, 1901. I'rice 10/6. " Irish Typographical

Botany." By R. L. Praeger. Thiid Series. Volume vii.
Allhougb ntrt strictly within the scope or our pages, yet we cannot pass over this volume
without awarding the highest praise to its caieful and painslaking compiler. In our own lines
we have had much pleasure in working side by side with R. L. Ptat^er on many occasions,
and we know Ihe lime, Ihc diligence, and the love he has expended upon this work. Every
mountain and valley in Ireland has been traversed by him ; every river and lake crossed.
For all time (his volume will remain as a monument to his leal in the cause of Irish Natural
History.

Third Series, Volume vi. No. 2.— This part contains a carefully -drawn -up report by the
committee appointed to investigate Ihe Ginnor ogams recently discovered by the rector,
the Rev. W. P. Carmody, and first recorded in Ihe pages of this Journal.

The Nerlhern Whig of 30 August, 1901, contains an article by ihe Rev, W. T. Latimer
on "Ecclesiastical Censures in the Presbyterian Church." It deals largely with the Session
Book of Templepatrick Congregation, which we notice elsewhere. The present article
eliminates the features we so strongly object to, which were given fully before Ihe Antiquaries.

The Ifiliuss of 10 September, 1901, contains an article from the same pen on the " Royal
Bounty," being the Government grant to support Presbyterian ministers compounded by the
Church Act of 1869.

* * * *

The same writer contributes an article on " Irish Nonconformity in 1672," in the Northeni
fTJt^f of 19 September, 1901.

n of Ferns Cathedral has called forth this little brochure from the cultured pen
of Ihe Rector of Cloncgall, our esteemed host on many occasions, A long history is here
condensed for popular use, and is made a cover for a charitable appeal.

The Journal ef the IJmeriek FieU Club. Vol. ii. No. 5. Price 2/6.

Like that of Bellast, the Limerick Club comprises archnxilf^ in lis programme. Such
subjects as "Townland Names," " E^rly Christian Architecture," "Kitchen Middens,
Co. Clare," by our own Miss Knowles, and the " Cromwellinn Settlement of the County,"
go far to fill the volume of a very excellent Society doing good work.

REVIEWS OF BOOKS. 205

The Finding of the Book^ and other Poetns, By William Alexander, Archbishop of Armagh.
London: Hodder & Stoughton. m.c.m. Price 6/-.

The Primate adorns what he touches, be it prose or poetry ; so this edition of his poems is
truly welcome. In the " Death of Archbishop Malachy," we read :

" And sorrow wsis in that Cistercian home —

Sorrow untuned the chant of choir and priest.
Only one tasted of Christ's honeycomb.
One only knew the fulness of the feast.
All Saints to Malachy was but the small
Dim vesper of his glorious festival.

• • • •

** Only the Abbot softly said—* Behold,
Life is a sea, whose waters ever swing ;
A wood, whose leaves, like bells, are ever toird.
A tranquil God makes tranquil everything.
Here is no trembling leaf, no wrinkling wave.
But such serenity as sleepers have."

The sweet singer's L'Envoi is a prayer whose answer is, we feel, assured.

** What if the flowers should breathe again, the tide
Tumble sonorous on a strand divine ? "

Journal 0/ the Waterford and South-East of Ireland Archaologicdl Society, Vol. vii. No. 26.
Price 2/-.

** Ancient Guilds of Watprford" and a paper on " Lismore " are well worth perusal ; but the
** Siege of Dunboy" pleases us most, with the charm of a recent visit to Berehaven still upon
us ; not but what we prefer the simple story of ** Murty Oge O'SuUivan and John
Prixley," as told in the All Ireland Review of 21 September, 1901. By the way, this paper
(the A,LK.) is fllled with the most valuable historical accounts of the men and times of
Ireland, and is well worthy of the most general support. It costs only one penny per week,
and can be had at Thompson's, Donegall Place, Belfast, or through Eason, or ordered direct
from Sealy, Byers & Walker, Dublin. A Northern page is to be a new feature in its pages.

:{( sfc ^ :|c

The Gailliv, Galway : Philip O'Gorman. 1901. Price 2/-.

This illustrated history of Galway deals largely with its numerous religious houses. The
chapter on the Corporation Books, by W. F. Trench, opens up many curious vistas in the
doings of one of the oldest chartered bodies in Ireland. The initials given from this source
are wonderful works of art— a perfect jargon of Celtic, heraldic, and German ideas.

The Journal of the Galway Archaological Society. Vol. i. No. 2.

This second part surpasses the first in many respects. The new covet reflects the

greatest credit on John Vinycomb, the designer. Its Celtic borders and motto, and bold

heraldic corners, are a fitting case for much excellent material. Of the six articles of almost

equal merit we do not wish to particularize, as our love for Galway might carry us over too

much space.

* * * ♦

Journal of the Royal Institute of Cornwcd I, Vol. xiv. Part 2. 1 90 1.

We always look forward with interest to a perusal of these proceedings, as they are so
frequently enriched by the writings of the Rev. S. Baring-Gould. Over fifty pages are
occupied with a continuation of his article on *' Cornish Dedications of Saints/' so full of
valuable references to the student of early Irish ecclesiology.

2o6 REVIEWS OF BOOKS.

The Antiquary for October 1901 contains a well-written article on " The Ancient Barony
of Leallach Eachach," by the Rev. J. B. MacGovern, one of the sept of the territory written
about. The Bell of St. Mogue is fully described in this paper.

The Reliquary for July 1 90 1 contains a pleasing article, fully illustrated, on " Celtic Bells
with Ornament,*' by that distinguished antiquary, J. Romilly Allen ; some of the illustrations
being from photographs supplied by R. Welch of Belfast.

The Hill of Tara. By the Very Rev. Abraham Dawson, Dean of Dromore. 1901.
Dublin. Price 4d.

This is a short sketchy account of a visit to Tara, interwoven with some of the history of that
deserted royal residence, whose very foundations are not allowed to rest in peace, the soil
of which is now to be sold as a grazing farm.

First Donegore Presbyterian Congregation Bazaar Book. June, 1 90 1.

This is a sketch of the history of this congregation and its ministers, by the Rev. James
Heron, D. D. We have been forced to find fault with booklets issued on similar occasions ;
but for this we have nothing but commendation, treating as it does of a long story, from times
prehistoric to the new manse. The illustrations are excellent, and the detailed information
accurate and reliable.

* * * *

The Presbyterian Congregations of Bally money. By the Revs. A. H. Dill, James B. Armour,
D. D. Boyle, and Jehn Ramsay. London : Percy, Lund, Humphries & Co. 1898.

We would not have liked to miss this book for several reasons. In the first place, the
illustrations are as good as we have ever seen, and the text is compiled in a most commendable
manner. Each minister and congregation receives a full notice, and this has been no light
task in a period extending over well nigh three hundred years. A fair-nunded, truthfiil record
is given of the vexed periods in the seventeenth century, reflecting the greatest credit on the
reverend writers, who have not allowed themselves to be carried away by the usual vitriol
which so freely flows when describing those times. Altogether, this book is a most
excellent one.

^ 9l( 3k 9|e

Half-Hours with the Old Boatmen on the Barrow, By P. 0*Leary.
A " Bresna ''from Brandon Hill, By Kate 0*Leary.
Annals of Graig Abbey, By William O'Leary.

These little pamphlets by the O'Leary family mark a new epoch in Irish book-making, and
we welcome them heartily. From the quaint little town of Graig-na-managh, by the banks
of the lovely Barrow, with its mutilated abbey, more destroyed in its restoration than its
decay, these pages emanate from a cultured family, who love every stone of their ancient
ruins, every river view, and every mountain-top. We spent a pleasant day with them ; and
we appreciate their worth, and admire their laudable efforts to do something to stem the ever-
rising tide of apathy and ignorance in regard to all one sees around telling of the past.

The recent dispute in regard to the ownership of the old Brown Linen Market,' in Donegall
Street, Belfast, called forth articles on its history in the News- Letter q{ 17 and 23 August,
1901, the latter from the well-known pen of '* Belfastiensis."

REVIEWS OF BOOKS. ao;

A Ctntttry of CtHgrtgalicHalism, The Story of Don^all Slreet Ind«pendenl Cbngr^ation,
Bel&st. By James A. Atchbald. Belfest : Williaia W. Cleland. Printed for private
circulation.
Tb« cultured pen of the writer has presented dry htA% in a most palatable rorm. To write a
history where (here was no history has been accomplished in this case with credit and satis-
fiu:lion. We cannot have loo many of luch books ; for it is astonishing how quickly events are

fo^otten in connection with congregations and churches when not so recorded. The fluctu-
ating . history of this body is described with great minuteness, evident care, and perfect
nnlHasedness, enhanced by many personal details of its ministers and principal adherents.

Ireland: Industrial and Jgrim/hiral. Dublin : Alex. Thorn & Co. 1901. Price a/6.
This is a most comprehensive volume : a catalf^ue and a hbtory of Irish industry and
products. Geology, minerals, soils, flora, etc, all have chapters. The diflerenl societies of
education and their work are dealt with at length. The museums, libraries, and industries
are described in a way never before attempted ; whilst the illustrations and Celtic borders are
new 10 Government publications. A new era with the new century has surely dawned in this
department. This.will be a most valuable book of reference for all who lake an interest in
the many new movements inaugurated in Ireland of recent years.

* * * *

Tit EarlitU Dublin PrinHng^. By E. R. McC. Dix. Dublin: O'Donoghue & Co,

Price I/-.
E. R. McC. Dix, who has done much for Irish Biblii^raphy, gives us in this pamphlet a most
interesting and valuable account of the earliest books printed in Dublin. It contains a /ac-n'ofi'/i:
of the title-page of a very rare Irish pamphlet published in 1571, hiring an " Alphabet and
Catechism" in that language. This, however, is not given as the first specimen of Irish
printir^. Twenty years previously (1551) 7'hc Boti af the Comuioa Praier and Adminis-
IracitH of Iki Sactaititnlts had been published, which the writer tells us is " known and
accepted " as the first Dublin -printed book. Besides the list of books, E. R. Dix has given an
interesting and valuable account of Humphrey Powell, William Kearney, and John Pranke,
who were pioneers of the printing-trade in Ireland. There are also two interesting appendices,
transcribed by Professor Mahafly from the originals in the archives of T.C, U. Altogether,
this pamphlet is a valuable contribution (o Irish Bibliography. W. T. L.

208 REVIEWS OF BOOKS.

KoycU Society of Antiquaries, * * The Old Session Book of Templepatrick. " Part 3, Vol. xxxi.

The September Journal of this Society is, as usual, filled with valuable papers and notes ; but
there is one continued paper in particular we must dwell upon : ** The Old Session Book of
Templepatrick Presbyterian Congregation." This book has been long known to us and to
all local antiquaries. Its features of value have already been fully set out in local histories,
and also in a paper read before the Antiquaries by the late Rev. Geo. T. Stokes. To go
further, none dared or deemed advisable until the present publication. Our disgust cannot be
disguised. For what useful purpose has all this been printed ? Does time afford any excuse
for tearing off the mantle which covered the sins of our forefathers ? To know that "Andrew
Teggart his standing is continued till it shall please the lord to move farder u|X)n his heart,"
and such like cant and immorality, can serve no good purpose ; nor to find two " barges "
calling each other *'Hell sows," and to know that the same was repeated in the meeting-
house before the Session. Will our own " Police Intelligence " of the worst class be worth
reprinting affer two hundred and fifty years ? The whole system was a tyrannous and disgusting
one in the extreme. But why prolong the agony ? VVe are all painfully aware that our
Scottish forebears were the scum of that nation to a large extent, and their morals of a low
order ; much of which is still with us, as reference to the County Court records of such places
as Belfast, Ball}nnena, or Newtownards will satisfy anyone, where actions similar to those
recorded from Templepatrick, when Presbytery ruled in Ulster, are most frequent, and a
byword. Need we dwell upon our shame when we have little amendment to place beside it?
Trifling breaches of the fourth commandment are tried and punished with similar severity
to flagrant abandonments of the seventh, forcing the superficial reader to think that every
home in Ulster in 1649 was far from moral. We may next expect to have the old Com-
munion Seasons explained, when eighty quarts of wine were consumed at the one service, a
veritable drunken oi^e being the result, as occurred in this same place. The custom of an
adjoining congregation in keeping a k^ on a shelf in the vestry for the inspiration of the
minister could also be expatiated on, and the name given ; or the ordination at Antrim, when
51 bottles of wine and \^\ gallons of whiskey were consumed, might be detailed, giving the
fuir names of the ministers, elders, and others (the account of which *' jamboree" is still
extant to the minutest item), showing that each guest averaged 10} glasses, not allowing for
any temperate members. The conclusion of the whole matter is this : if such details as those
given from Templepatrick are to be recorded from the other old congregations in Ulster — and
they were all alike — with the names of the unfortunate delinquents, many of whose descend-
ants are still resident in the same places, then local history will have a new charm for the
scandalmonger and the afternoon-tea gossiper ; an added piquancy will he given to life in the
village circle, and the fresh shame of yesterday will only be in a literal sense history repealing
itself. We know of what we write, and speak as one having authority. • Our own relations
were on the Session — fortunately not on ** publick confession " — and we take it as a serious
offence for a stranger to step in, without any justifiable public grounds whatever, and publish
what no newspaper of the present day should print. If a single case had been given, leaving
the reader ab uno disce onmeSy no one could have complained ; but to repeat the old Ulster
story ad nauseam^ without any variation, is an intolerable act, even for one who doubtless
meant to inflict no injury upon his own denomination. — Ed.

v«

IN DEX

ULSTER JOURNAL OF ARCHEOLOGY.

Vol. VIL

PAGE.

A GNEW family i66
** Amazon,'' wreck of, at Bangor ... 30
Antrim, justices of ... ... ... ... 138

Antrim parish, armorial stones ... ... 142

Ards volunteers ... ... •■•99

Armagh, books printed at ... 53-55. 57i 108

Armoy, armorial stones 144

Arms, Buckworth ... ... ... ... 200

Armorial sculptured stones 58,142

Assaroe abbey 179

Assaroe, monuments at ... 82

Aughnacloy volunteers 97

BALLINDERRY, armorial stones ... 145

Ballygally castle 65

Ballin toy, Stewarts of 9

Ballylinney, armorial stones 146

Rallyshannon, Assaroe abbey 179

Ballyshannon, monuments at 82

Bally willan, monuments at 147

Barkley monument 28

Bangor, churchwardens of 126

Bangor sun-dial 161

Bangor abbey church 18

Bangor, abbot of 35

Bangor seal 35

Bangor monuments 63

Belfast, armorial stones 156

Belfast harp society 2

Ben-Madighan 185

Ben-Madighan, unknown fort on 195

Betrothal in Antriiti 159

Bigger, Francis Joseph, editor, papers by, I, 18,

58, 62-64, 65, 142, 159, 160, 161, 185, 195,
199, 200

Bibliography, Ulster 53, 103, 132, 172

Bishop Malachy of Down ... 78

Blood's plot 197

Blackabbey, bronze vessel found at 177

Blackwood monuments

Bodley family

Howden, Hugh, paper by
Boyd family of Ballycastle

Bristow family ..

Bronze vessel from Cushendall

Buckworth family

Bunting, Edward

CAVA N, justices of
Campbell, A. Albert, paper
Cave Hill, Lord Deputy at ...
Cave Hill, unknown fort on ...
Carmody, Rev. W. P., paper by
Camcastle, armorial stones ...

Celtic letters

Cistercian abbey

Clogher cross

Colville, Captain, of the ** Amazon
Cromleacs at Tullaghan
Cross inscribed at Cliflbny

Cross, Clogher

Cushendall, bronze vessel found at

PAGE.

... 18, 19, 24

• • • • • • ^4

• • • Vat I

... ... 15

160, 203

... ... ol

55, aoo

))

139

55. 176

... 185

... 195

... 81

... 58

116, 117

... 179

• • 113

... 30

... 04

... 92

... 113
... 81

DAY, Robert, paper by . .
Davis, Francis, poet ..
Derry artillery volunteers

Derry, printing in

Dickson, John M., paper by ..
Dix, E. R. McC, pa]3er by ..

Domnach Airgid

Downpatrick, books printed in

Drummond, William Hamilton, poetry of ... 37

Dungannon, books printed in 173

... 97

... 109

... 99

... 132, 174

... 166

53» 103. 132, 172

■ •• ••. I lo

• •• ••• h J £

FENNELL, W. J., note by
Fermanagh, justices of . .

75
141

INDEX.

GIBSON, Jas. Arthur, paper by ...
Gobans, Island Magee
Gordon, Rev. Alexander, note by ...
Ciroves, Tenison, notes by

PAGE.

... 177

... 160

... 202

... 96

HANCOCK monument . . .
Harper, Arthur O'Neill

Hamilton monuments.

Hillsborough, books printed in
Hill, Rev. George, paper by ...

Hogge monument

Horse- racing in Antrim
Hope, James, monument
Hughes, Herbert, papers by ...

.. 202

«. 159
21-23

... 27

.. 158
■ 64
18, 58, 108, 142

JAMES II., Presbyterian addresses to ... 193
Johnstone, Earl uf Annadale 160

Justices of the peace 138

KILBRIDE, armorial stones 149

Kinlough, Co. Leitrim, monument at 82

Kilraughts, Co. Antrim, monument at ... 150

Kilwaghter, Agnews of 166

LAM BEG , armorial stones 152
Latimer, Rev. W. T. , note by,

16, 64, 175, 142, 197, 207

Latimer, Rev. W. T., paper by 57

Lecale, journey to 64

Lfx:kwood, F. W., paper by 82, 179

Loughguile, armorial stones 152

MACDONNELL, Dr., letter from
Mahee Island

Malachy III., Bishop of Down
Manson, David, schoolmaster

Magheragall, armorial stones

Muckamore, armorial stones

Millin, Samuel Shannon, paper by ...

Montgomery of the Ards

Magennis monument

Moyallen, Friends at

Miscellanea 62, 109,

Monuments, rude stone

Monaghan, books printed at

Marshall, John J., paper by ...

McArthur monument

McCleverty inscription

McKenna, Rev. J. E., paj)er by

• 79
... 78

72, 158

... 154

... 155

••■ 37
... 197

... 63

... 203

158, 200

... 82

103, 137
... 186
... 62
... 200
... 113

NEILSON monument
Newry volunteers
Newry, books printed in

Nicolson monument

'Ninety-eight, Archibald Wilson of
Notes and queries

PAGE.
... 202
... lOI
... 175
... 29

••• 33
160, 203

O'LAVERTY, Rev. James, paper by ... 78

O'Neill, Arthur, the Irish harper i, 159

PIM, Thomas W., note by 203

Portaferry Presbyterian Congregation 7

Porter, Rev. Classon 65

Pottery, ancient 196

Presbyterian congregation at Portaferry ... 7

Presbyterian congregation at Tynan* 188

Presbyterian add ress to James II 1 93

Presbyterian historians 1 99

/QUAKERS at Moyallen 203

p ENNIE, Valentine 6

Review of books :

Secofid Congregatioti^ Belfast 110

Stuarfs Historical Memoirs of Armagh i to

The Emmet Family in

Alexandra College Magazine ill

Leisure Hottr m

Irish Weekly m

Derry Standard m

Irish Presbyterian m

Genealogical Magazine in

Galway Archcrological and Historical

Society m

Open Window 112

Society for the Preservation of the Irish

Language 112

Library of the Nore 112

Proceedings of Royal Irish Academy . . . 204

Northern Whig 204

Witfuss 204

History of Ferns Cathedral 204

foumal of the Limerick Field Club ... 204

Finding of the Book 205

Journal of Waterford Archaological

Society 205

Phe Gailliity Galway 205

/ourttal of the Galway Archaological

Society 205

/oumal of the Royal Institute of Cornwall 205

view of books (toittiiuud) :

The Antiquary 206

Tkt Reliquary 206

The Hill of Tara 206

First Doiugorc Prisbyteriaii Cangregatien ao6

Prtshylirian Cengrigalien, Ballymonty ao6

Annals b/ Craig Aiiey, cle, ... ... xob

A Century ef Cengrtgatienalism . . . 107

Ireland, Industrial and Agricultural ... JOJ
The Earliest Dublin PrintiAg ..

■ Old

. 308

Keyrell, Rev. W. A., nole by
Keeves, Bishpp, papers by
Roe, Richard Cox, actor

SAVAGE of Ards
Seal of Bangor abbot ...
Shankill, armorial stones
Shaw family of Ballygally
Skerry, armorial stones
Scott, Rev. Charles, paper by
Smith, Thomas, engraver, note by

Smiih, Rev. W. S.,noleby ...
Slone monuments

.. 159

Strabane, books printed at,

54. 55. '08.
Stewarts of Ballin toy

Sun-dial, BaiiRor

Sweat-houses

136, 174, 176

160

161

■ Tynan, parish of

188

-44.93. "86

^rESEV family

V Vinycomb, John, notes by

160

... 64, 109

Volunteer medals

WALKER, Ellis, of Derry aoi

West, Erskine E., nole by 301

Ward, Isaac W., " Bel fastiensis," notes by,

Wilson, Sir Isaac iz8

Xi0t of 5lIU0tration0.

PAGE.

^ Arthur O'Neill

House of the Belfast Harp Society ...

Valentine Rennie

Seal of Belfast Harp Society ...

Bangor Armorial Stones

Bangor Corporation Weights and Measures

Abbot of Bangor Seal ...

Interior Bangor Abbey Church

William Hamilton Drummond

Armorial Sculptured Stones, Co. Antrim

Magennis Arms

>/Shaw*s Castle, Ballygally

The Door, Ballygally Castle

Map of Ballygally Castle

Plans, Ballygally Castle

Dormers, Ballygally Castle ...

Bronze Vessel from Cushendall

Sweat-house, Assaroe ...

Sweat-house, Kinlough

7
i«-33

• 35
- 36

• 37
58-61

.. 63

.. 65

.. 66

• 75
.. 76

.. 81

.. 82

•• 83

PAGE.

Cromleacs, etc., at Tullaghan, Co. Leitrim 84-87

Stone Circle, Bundrowse 88

Carn and Grave at Finner Camp 89

Cromleac, Coolmore ... 90, 91

Incised Cross, Cliffony ... ... ... 92

Volunteer Medals 97-102

Organ of the Second Congregation, Belfast 1 10

The Clogher Cross 114-117

The Domnagh Airgid ... ... ... 120-123

Sir Isaac Wilson ... ... 128

Arms of Sir Isaac Wilson ... ... 130

Armorial Sculptured Stones, Co. Antrim 142-157

•^ Bangor Sundial 161

Bronze Vessel, Blackabbey 177

Assaroe Abbey ... ... ... ... 178

Pottery from Ben- Madighan 1 96

Buck worth Arms ... ... ... ... 200

Tabernacle in Donegall Street, Belfast ... 207