large ship-yards, tanneries, rope and canvas manufactories, glue-works, soperies, tobacco manufactories, &c. &c. SEPTEMBER. The New Institution of the Ulster Society for promoting the education of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind, opened for the reception of pupils. Belfast contained nineteen National schools, in addition to many private seminaries. 1846. New House of Correction, Crumlin-road, Belfast, finished and opened for the reception of prisoners; it is built on the model of the London prison at Pentonville, and is capable of containing three hundred prisoners. Belfast Bank erected on the site of the Old Exchange, in a classic and elegant style. A new court-house erected at Ballymena. The interior of this building is most conveniently constructed; no other building in the county, of the same description, is capable of affording so much accommodation. The wooden boxes, or stables, in front or along side the bench, being at once wellarranged and roomy. The whole of the interior forms an oblong parallelogram, with entrances to the boxes from the side, as well as from the body of the court. It is capable of containing 1,500 persons, with a small gallery along the back wall, facing the bench. The Gothic windows in the sides, are found to answer their purpose well, and two fire places on either side, with grates, the lower bars of which are placed at a height of seven feet from the ground, add, in the winter season, considerably to the comfort of the place. APPENDIX. ACHADIIDUBTHUIGH : In Magh-li, a small territory, near the river Bann; St. Goar, or Guar, the son of Colman, who was surnamed the Big to distinguish him from another St. Goar, the son of Lasrum and surnamed the Little, was abbot of this ancient monastery in the seventh century, and is still the patron saint of it; the festival day is held on the 22d of January. ACHADHNACILL; A church in Dalreida; it was formerly known by the name of Achadhcinn, or Achadhkind, and was built by St. Patrick, who appointed one of his disciples, St. Cathub, the son of Fergus, abbot ; he died, April 6th in the year 554; we are told in M'Geoghegan's annals, that at his death this saint was 150 years old. The place is now unknown. ANTRIM; From which the barony and county are named, and is variously written by ancient writers. Durtract, a disciple of St. Patrick, founded an abbey at Aondrium, or Entrumia. 493 or 496. The abbot St. Mochay died the 23d of June. 638. Cridan died at Indroim in Ulster. 642. The Bishop St. Croman died on the 6th of January. 658. St. Cumineus, bishop of A'Endrum, died on the 1st of July. 679. Died the abbot Maney. 746. Died St. Moclimarchar, bishop of Ectrumensis. 766. Died St. Failbeus, abbot of Erdamensis. ARDMACNASCA, On Lough-Laoigh, Laisrean, the son of Neasca and abbot of Hy, was founder and abbot of this abbey; he died the 25th of October, about this year 650, and is patron of the place. BOITHBOLCAIN; A church near Connor, founded by St. Bolcain, a disciple of St. Patrick. BONAMARGY; A small monastery was built here, in the fifteenth century, for Franciscan friars of the third order. This monastery is said to have been founded by M'Donnell, whose family settled in this county he 15th century, and were afterwards ennobled. This monastery in and its possessions were granted to the founder's family; and the abbey became the burial place of the M'Donnells. CARRICKFERGUS, On a remarkable bay of the same name. 1232. The foundation of a monastery here, for Franciscan friars, is fixed in this year, but it is a matter of doubt who was the founder ; some say the famous Hugh de Lacy, Earl of Ulster, according to others O'Neil. 1243. This year the Earl of Ulster, and Gerald Fitzmaurice, and Richard de Burgh were interred here. 1408. Hugh M'Adam Mac Gilmore, the fell destroyer of forty sacred edifices, fled for refuge to an oratory of this church, in which he was soon after massacred by the English colony of the name of Savage. As the windows of this building had been formerly robbed of their iron bars by his sacrilegious hands, his pursuers found a ready admission to him. 1497. Neile M'Caine O'Neil reformed this friary to the order of the strict observance. 1510. This monastery was in such high repute, that a general chapter of the order was held in it this year. At the suppresion of religious houses, this monastery and its possessions were granted to Sir Edmund Fitzgerald, who assigned the same to Sir Arthur Chichester, ancestor to the Marquis of Donegall. This nobleman, who was several times lord deputy of Ireland, erected a noble castle on the site of this monastery, about the year 1610. CLUAIN OR KILCLUAIN, Was an abbey built by St. Olean, in the early ages of christianity; it is now, according to Colgan, a parish church near Connor. CONNOR; A small town in the barony of Antrim, and a bishop's see united to Down. 506. The bishop Enos M'Nessa, died on the 3d of September, on which day his festival is held. Others place his death in the year 513. The feast of St. Mainend, of Cluain-Connor, is observed on the 16th of September, but we are not informed at what time he lived. 537. Died the bishop Sugadius. 658. The Bishop St. Dima Dubh died this year, far advanced in the vale of life. His festival is held here on the 6th of January. 771. Died Anfceally, abbot of Coynre and Lynnealla. 865. Died Aidhecar, abbot of Coynre and Lynnealla, or Condoir and Lannela; he was a bishop and a learned chronologer. 949. Died the abbot Flannagan M‘Alchon; he was abbot also of Muckamore. 1038. Died Cudenius, the professor of Condoire. 1063. Eochad, another professor, died this year. Ancient ecclesiastical writers name it Cluain-Connor, Coinre, Condere, Condoire, Connery, and Conry.. DOMNACHBRUIN, Was built by St. Patrick, in the terrritory of Hy-tuirtre. It is now unknown. DOMNACHCOINRE, Was built by St. Patrick, in Cathrigia, or Machairedna-Morna, a territory in Dalriada. Colgan thinks it probable, that this was the church now called Kildomnach. The two Saints Conann are patrons of it. It is now unknown. DOMNACHCOMBUIR OR CONNOR, Was built by St. Patrick, it seems to be a parish church in the diocese of Connor, now called Magh-combuir. It is at present unknown. DOMNACHFOTHAIRBE, Was founded by St. Patrick in Hy-tuirtre. Now unknown. DOMNACHLIBEIR, Was also built by St. Patrick in the same territory, and is likewise unknown. DOMNACHMQELAIN, Built by the same saint in the same territory, and is also unknown. DOMNACHMOR, In Magh-damhorna, in Dalreida. St. Patrick built a church here; it is, as Father Colgan observes, either the chapel called Kildomnach, or the parish church called Rathmor. DOMNACHRIASCAIGH, Was built by St. Patrick, in Hy-tuirtre; it is now unknown. DOMNACHRIGHDUIN; Another church founded there by the same saint,-unknown. DOMNACHSAINRE, Founded in the same territory by St. Patrick,-also unknown. DRUIMINDEICH, In Dalreida; this abbey owed its erection to St. Patrick, about the year 460. He placed St. Enan over it; it is at present unknown. DRUIN LA CROIX, In the diocese of Connor; an abbey was founded here for Premonstrant or White canons; it was a daughter of the abbey of Dryburgh, in Scotland; see Goodburn. GLEANINDEACHTA; In the territory of Frian-conguill; this valley still retains this name, says Father Colgan, in the diocese of Connor. St. Patrick founded a church or abbey in that part of the glin called Machairemorna or Mudhorn. GLENARM; A monastery was built here for Francisean Friars of the third order, in the year 1465, by Roberst Bisset, a Scotchman.—This monastery, and the lands belonging thereto, were granted to Alexander M'Donnell, ancestor to the Earls of Antrim; there are still some remains of this building in the bay of Glenarm. GLUAIRE, In the territory of Latham, in Dalriada. St. Patrick built a church here in which rests St. Molassius; this place is now unknown. GOODBORN OR WOODBORN, Not far from Carrickfergus ; a priory, dedicated to the Holycross, was founded here for Premonstre or White canons; it was a daugh ter of the abbey of Dryburgh; probably this may be the same with Druin la croix before mentioned. The Bissets, a powerful family in the neighbourhood of Athol in Scotland, being principally concerned in the murder of Patrick, Earl of Athol, were obliged, in the year 1242, to abandon their country and take shelter in this kingdom. Alan de Galvia, Duncande Carrig, and the Bissets from Scotland, had lands given them by Henry III., some of these probably founded this priory in atonement for the murder of that Earl. In 1326, friar Roger Outlaw, prior of the Hospital of Kilmainham, and lord chancellor of Ireland, granted a lease of certain lands to Longadel Manster, and dates the grant, "apud abbatiam de Woddeborne." Gillerata M'Cowagh, the last abbot, resigned into the hands of the king's commissioners, on the 1st day of March, 1542, the 34th year of King Henry VIII.; the abbot was then seized of a certain parcel of land lying round the priory, and of the rectory of Entroia, and the tithes of sixteen townlands belonging to the rectory of Killaboy, in the Rents, the rectories of Cnolille and Cormony, in the same country, and the tithes of two townlands in the island of Magee, viz.-Ballypor magna and Ballypor parra. IMLEACHCLUANN, In the territory of Semne in Dalaradia, St. Patrick built an abbey here for St. Colman; Colgan supposes it to be the same as Kilchluana, or Kil-choemhain, in Hy-tuirtre, it is now unknown. KELLS OR DISERT, Four miles north of the town of Antrim. Killach son of Conmagius, an anchorite of Disert Killaigh, died in the year 828. A priory for regular cannons was erected on the site of this ancient cell, under the invocation of the virgin Mary, before the arrival of the English in this kingdom, by O'Brian Carrog.-Murtagh |