378 St. Patrick's Well. 



one thousand garrons (horses), are reported to 

 have been carried off by the conquering army. 



The appearance of this spot infused more 

 favorable ideas of the improvements in the 

 country than the specimens which we had 

 already seen gave us reason to expect. 



St. Patrick's well, at a short distance from 

 Adair, still continues to be held in high vene- 

 ration for the miraculous curative power of its 

 waters. Credulity may generally be esteemed 

 as the associate of ignorance, and in most cases 

 claims more pity than censure. The exaltation 

 and accession of intelligence to the human mind 

 during the last half century is wonderful. An 

 equal period of time may reasonably be expected 

 to unrivet, if not completely remove, the chains 

 by which the influence of superstition has so 

 long degraded the uneducated. At the southern 

 extremity of the village, a chapel, formerly ap- 

 pertaining to another monastery, was presented 

 by the Adair family, and by them fitted up as a 

 place of worship. 



Oxen are worked by some of the farmers in 

 this neighbourhood. At a little distance from 

 the town are a number of neat cottages, erected 

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