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fully done. St. Patrick likewife founded the abbey of 

 Saul, where he is faid to have died in his I aoth year ; 

 of this monaftery confiderable ruins are ftill to be feen. 

 St. Patrick alfo founded an abbey at Drumboe. Saint 

 Colman was the founder of an abbey at Dromore, in 

 the fixth century, of regular canons 5 Doftor Burke 

 alfo mentions a monaftery of Francifcans. 



The moft refpectable foundation after Down, in 

 point of wealth, was Bangor, an abbey of canons re- 

 gular, founded in the year 555, by St. Congall, who 

 was born in Ulfter of noble parentage. This abbey 

 nearly if not fully equalled that of Down; for, in an 

 inquifition held in the reign of James I. it was found 

 that the laft abbot, William O'Dorman, in the 3 ad of 

 Henry VIII. poflefled thirty-one townlands in the Ards 

 and upper Clanebois, alfo the Grange of Earbeg in the 

 county of Antrim, the two Copland iflands, three rec- 

 tories in Antrim, and three in Down, and what feems 

 very curious, the tithes of the ifland of Raghlin or 

 Raghery, likewife a townland in the Ifle of Man. The 

 number of monks belonging to this houfe are faid to 

 have been two or three thoufand ; nine hundred are 

 faid to have been deftroyed by pirates in one day. Part 

 of the- ruins flill exift, and the traces of the foundations 

 {hew it to have been of great extentj the windows 

 were of the ancient Gothic kind. 



Moville, a monaftery of Auguftin canons, was alfo 

 remarkable for the autiquity of its foundation, as well 



as 



