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part of them had all the appearance of human bones, 

 and fome of them fo fmall that they muft have belonged 

 to an animal not larger than a middle fized dog. The 

 mount, in which thefe bones were found is very curious, 

 being furrounded by a ditch and rampart, with an ad- 

 vanced work to the eaft like that at Dromore, and a 

 regular glacis in the front, containing near an acre of 

 ground : to the fouth there is a fmall river, with a com- 

 munication from the rere of -the mount, which in this 







place can only be afcended by a winding path, by no 

 means difficult to defend j the whple work muft have 

 been conftrufted by perfons, who were no mean profi- 

 cients in the fcience of defence, previous to the inven- 

 tion of cannon. 



SECT. 3. Monaftic Antiquities. 



THAT the county of Down pofTeffed confiderable 

 monaflic eftabliftiments, the numerous ruins of reli- 

 gious buildings fufficiently fhew. Mr. Archdall, in his 

 Monafticon Hibernicum, enumerates thirty-fix places 

 where diftincl foundations of the different orders 

 exifted, befides the abbies, priories, &c. dependant on 



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the greater eflablifhments, of which the moft ancient is 

 Downpatrick, it having been founded by the tutelar 

 faint of this kingdom in the fifth century, who was 

 tuned there it is fuppofed in the year 493. Some idea 



may 



