SUMMER SESSION. 



The following Excursions were made during the Summer Session : 



On Saturday, 19th May, to 



BALLYCARRY AND REDHALL DEMESNE. 



HE Club opened its series of excursions for the summer 

 session on Saturday, 19th May, the district selected 

 being Ballycarry and Redhall Demesne. The party 

 left Belfast by the twelve o'clock train for Carrickfergus. On their 

 arrival there, cars were awaiting to convey them to Ballycarry; 

 and, passing through the old North or Spittal Gate of the town, 

 and taking the old road by Castle Dobbs and Bellahill, a pleasant 

 drive soon brought them to Templecorran old church. Here the 

 cars were dismissed, and a visit was paid to the church, originally 

 a fine cruciform structure, but which is now in ruins. It and the 

 surrounding graveyard contain many interesting monuments — 

 amongst others that which marks the burial-place of Edward Brice, 

 the minister of the first Presbyterian congregation in Ireland. In 

 the 34th of Philip and Mary a law was passed "against the bringing 

 in of the Scots, retaining or intermarrying with them ;" but such 

 was the state of the country it was necessary to repeal that law, 



