APPENDIX. 303 



it to a watchmaker in Banbridge for fix guineas; from 

 this perfon the Bifhop of Dromore might have eafily 

 recovered it as treafure trove within his manor j but, 

 to encourage the people in future to bring to him 

 whatfoever they fo found, he was content to purchafe 

 it from the watchmaker at double the price he paid 

 for it. 



In confequence of this difcovery, an enquiry was fet 

 on foot by the Bifhop's defire; from which Dr. Shiel, 

 then vicar-general of Dromore, found, that in the 

 townland of Drumfallagh there had formerly been a 

 monastery of the order of St. Francis ; that after the 

 diflblution of the religious houfes in Ireland there re- 

 mained feveral mendicant friars, who ftill houfed round 

 the ruins of their monaftery, which was fituated about 

 two hundred yards from the old church of Ahaderig, in 

 the fame townland ; the ruins of the church remain 

 until this day, but moft of the ruins of the monaftery, 

 with its choiceft Hones, were removed about an Englifti 

 mile, to the place where the church now ftands. Dr. 

 Shiel found, upon further enquiry from an old man, 

 whofe name was Fegan, and above ninety years of age, 

 that he remembered the walls of this building Handing, 

 to the height of three or four feet, and about ninety 

 feet in length, but that above forty years ago they had 

 been removed to make room for a bleach-green. From 

 this enquiry the fituation of the monaftery of Tamlach 

 Umhail, mentioned by Archdall as unknown, is fully 



' - afcertained. 



