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before Lammas; fome to obtain health, and others tq 



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perform their enjoined penances. We muft not omit 

 St. Finian's well, near the race-courfe, nor St. Scordin's, 

 in the vicinity of Killough ; this lafl gufhes out of a 

 rock on the fea-fhore, and is never obferved to diminish 

 in the drieft feafons. 



As the round towers, which are fo frequent in Ire- 

 land, are generally found at no great diflance from the 

 ruins of ecclefiaftical buildings, their place in the anti- 

 quities of this county feems to follow the former fub- 

 jedl of courfe. Until of late, two buildings of this kind 

 were in exiftence, that of Drumboe, and that of Dovvu- 

 patrick ; the firfl is yet (landing ; the latter was pulled 

 down in, the year 1790, to make room for the rebuilding 

 of that part of the old cathedral, next which it flood, and 

 from which it was diflant about forty feet ; the height 

 was fixty-fix feet, the thicknefs of the walls three feet, 

 and the diameter eight feet. When the tower was 

 thrown down, and cleared away 'to the foundation, 

 another foundation was difcovered under it, and run- 

 ning direftly acrofs the fite of the tower, which ap- 

 peared to be a continuation of the church wall, which, 

 at fome period prior to the building of the tower, 

 feemed to have extended confiderably beyond it. This 

 curious circumftance was obferved by feveral gentle- 

 men at the fpring affixes in the above mentioned year. 

 The round tower at Drumboe flands about twenty-four 

 feet north-weft of the ruins of the church ; it is nearly 

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