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out their extent, amidft the trees, fhrubs, &c. with 

 which they are overgrown; part of the eaft end of the 

 great building is fitted up for a church. In the gar- 

 dens of this abbey is a large well, covered with an arch 

 ornamented with fculpture; this well never fails. 



Inch, or Inifcourcey, oppofite Downpatrick, was 

 founded by Sir John De Courcey, to make his peace 

 with heaven for having deftroyed the abbey of Eryqagh 

 in his wars; he gave it to the monks of the Ciftertian 

 order, and dedicated to the Virgin Mary, on the third 

 of June 1 1 80, and endowed it with-all the pofTeffions 

 of the abbey of Erynagh. Part of the church ftill re- 

 maiqs ; at the eaft end are large windows with Gothic 

 arches, in the north and fouth walls two windows, each 

 of two arches, not much inferior to thofe at the eaft. 



At Newry there was a Ciftertian abbey, founded in 

 honour of the Virgin Mary and St. Patrick by Maurice 

 Me. Laughlin, king of all Ireland, about the middle or 

 latter end of the twelfth century. There was a college 

 alfo, confifting of a warden and vicars choral. Henry 

 VIII. granted them a confirmation of all their poffef- 

 fions in his thirtieth year; the rent four marcs. The 

 epifcopal jurifdidlion, exercifed by the abbot over the 

 lordfhips of Newry and Mourne, is ftill enjoyed by Mr. 

 Needham, defcended from Sir Nicholas Bagnal, to 

 whom this abbey was granted by King Edward VI.; 

 the feal of his court is a mitred abbot in his albe, fitting 

 in a chair fupported by two yew-trees, with this infcrip- 



tion; 



