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about the fame antiquity. We are informed, that both 

 were burned by the Iriftx in 1641, and even at that 

 time inhabited. A fourth caftle is faid to have been 

 cear the town, but at prefent we can make out no 

 traces of it. 



Kerlilh caftle, near Drumquin, appears to be very 

 ancient, and is of confiderable extent. 



Two old caftles near Dunnamanagh, in the barony 

 of Strabane. 



Benburb, on the borders of the county, in the ba- 

 rony of Dungannon, appears to be the largefl in the 

 county. It is built on a limeftone rock, upwards of 

 120 feet nearly perpendicular, over the Black-water, 

 which at the caftle forms nearly a right angle, fo that 

 two fides of it were completely fortified by nature. 

 Though the materials for building are here remark- 

 ably good, both lime, fand, and Hone, yet the caftle 

 was but weakly built, the cement was bad, and the 

 Hones commonly of the pebble kind. 



At fome diftance from the caftle, in the village of 

 Benburb, is a^mall ancient building, which appears to 

 have been a watch-houfe belonging to the caftle; this 

 is ftrongly built. Another fmall building, near the 

 latter, feems to have been intended to fupport a fun- 

 dial. 



At Augher, in Sir William Richardfon's demefne, is 

 a beautiful old caftle upon a fmall fcale, which is kept 

 in tolerable prefervatioo. 



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