lent paintings, some specimens -of ancient glass painting, and no 

 small variety of pottery. In the grounds there are three very good 

 specimens of ancient Irish crosses ; two of them were removed 

 from Glenart, a few miles distant, and one was taken from Tynan. 

 In their original position they were uncared for, and were falling 

 into ruin ; they are now well protected, and their wanting por- 

 tions made good. This is some slight return for their removal from 

 their original sites — hallowed by the time-honoured associations that 

 hung around them. 



The Abbey demesne .furnishes some remarkably fine examples 

 of trees — ash, birch, and elm. The most remarkable are probably 

 the Spanish chestnut, which are found here in perfection, equal to 

 the oak in the massive growth of its trunk and the bold character 

 of its branches, but surpassing the oak in the glossy richness of its 

 foliage. The rich and secluded plantations, such as are found at 

 Tynan Abbey, afford retreats for some of our rarest songsters ; and 

 the members of the Naturalists' Club were delighted to hear the 

 musical voice of the black-cap warbler, in the plantation stretching 

 by the lake in the Abbey demesne. 



Leaving the demesne, the party drove on to the village of 

 Middleton, and from thence to Rath Trillick, one of the largest 

 cashels in the north of Ireland. In the fifth century it was the 

 residence of the chiefs of Ulster, and was next in importance to the 

 celebrated fortress of Emania, near Armagh, erected 400 years be- 

 fore Christ, as the royal residence of the kings of Ireland, and now 

 know as Navan Fort. Rath Trillick, the fort of the three pillar 

 stones, occupies a site of about three acres, and is surrounded by a 

 double ditch or fosse. The central terreplein or platform, on which 

 the wattled houses were anciently erected, is about an acre in ex- 

 tent, and commands an extensive prospect of the surrounding 

 country, so that the approach of an enemy could be observed from 

 any quarter. This was a point of the greatest importance during 

 the incessant contests that prevailed in the early history of the 

 country. 



From Rath Trillick the party drove back to Tynan, through a 

 very rural district, the inhabitants of which did not seem to be accus- 



