Mr. W. R. \tpe’s Description of the Mias Tighearnain. 19 
Archdall mentionn the Monasticon, p. 502, that « This friary was erected 
at the extreme end o/rew, a peninsula stretching from the barony of Tirawley 
into Lough-conn. {Leogan was abbot of Lough-conn, and his feast is held 
on the 30th Septeml. In the year 1463 an Act passed enabling the friars of 
the house of Erewe,t Connaught, to receive the sum of five shillings annually 
out of the lands of llymoy.” 
It is also mentied in inquisitions of the 27th of Elizabeth and the 3rd of 
James. 
** A holy well, lled Tobar Tighearnain” (writes Mr. O'Donovan, in a note 
to the poem of the y-Fiachrach, p- 239), “dedicated to this saint, is situated in 
the south of the tnland of Killeen; anda relic which belonged to him, called 
Mias Tighearnain. e. St. Tighearnain’s dish, was preserved for ages in the 
family of O’Flymiwho are said to have been the herenachs, or hereditary war- 
dens, of Errew; t though they held it in the highest veneration, as a relic of 
the patron saint’ their family, they were finally induced, in a hard summer, 
when provisions :re very dear, to sell it to Mr. Knox, of Rappa Castle.” 
Besides the tiquarian interest attached to this curious relic, it is of much 
consequence in i historical point of view, inasmuch as it may yet be found 
referred to in tl unpublished manuscripts; and therefore the Academy should 
carefully preservand record all the circumstances connected with this shrine of 
the Mias Tigheaain. 
Two very aurate drawings of it have been deposited in the pictorial cata- 
logue of the meum of the Academy. 
In the anned plate, figure 4 shews the inferior arm of the cross, the natural 
size; and figw7 is a diagram of a section of the shrine. 
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