ao 4 STATISTICAL SURVEY 



The caftle of mod confequence in the county, is that 

 of Mountjoy, or Mountjoy-caftle, on the borders of 

 Lough Neagh, which is indeed a fine venerable pile of 

 building. 



From the great number of town-lands throughout 

 the county, of which the word cajlle makes part of the 

 name, fuch as Caftle-town, Caftle-rody, Green-caftle, 

 &c. we have reafon to conjecture, that numbers of 

 cafllcs formerly exifted, of which, at prefent, we can 

 trace nothing but the names. This obfervation is 

 not peculiar to the county of Tyrone ; it is general 

 throughout the kingdom. 



Except old caftles, other ancient buildings are very 

 rare. 



As to monafterics, though a confiderable portion of 

 land is tithe-free, yet I do not recollect having feen 

 the remains of any old monaftery. 



Danifh forts and Druids' altars are very numerous ; 

 th< former are held in great reverence by the common 

 people, in any of which we feldom find the traces of 

 the plough or fpade. The planting of fuch confpicuous 

 fpots would add much to the beauty of the country, 

 and the fencing of them would be attended with very 

 little expence, as they arc fo circumftanced, that the 

 fence is already in a great meafure completed, or at 

 leaft might be made fo with very little trouble. There 

 are few places where trees would profper better, the 

 foil having been originally collected and brought there 



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