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A few years ago the gable with a round arched window was 

 still standing, and it is much to be regretted that such an 

 interesting relic should have been allowed to fall. According 

 to Mr. R. M. Young, who made some measured drawings of it 

 a year or two previously, the date would appear to have been 

 of the 13th century, but he states that two carved heads were 

 built into the wall under the window, which were in all 

 probability fragments from an earlier building. A hillock in 

 the churchyard marks the site of a cromlech, so that sepulture 

 in this spot dates back to prehistoric and pagan times. Several 

 of the gravestones bear inscriptions of considerable age, one of 

 Richard Person has on it the dates of 1647 and 1651. 



The party then proceeded to the fine sepulchral mound in a 

 field not far distant, where an admirable photographic group 

 was taken by one of the members, the mound and its clothing 

 of dark fir trees standing out well against the sky. Whether 

 this Dun or mound is the true "Knock" which gives a name to 

 the district, or whether the hill on which the graveyard is located 

 has a better claim to the title, is a point for discussion, but they 

 certainly both together indicate that this townland was a centre 

 of human interest in very early times. So far as is known the 

 interior of this mound has never been properly examined, nor 

 have any relics of interest been found there. A tradition how- 

 ever is extant that some workmen commenced excavations here 

 once for buried treasure, but a whirlwind having been aroused 

 by the affronted genii of the place, their tools were whisked 

 away, and the search was never resumed. A pleasant ramble 

 through the lanes, and a climb up Castlereagh hill brought the 

 company to the site of Conn O'Neill's Castle. The veritable 

 stones that sheltered the famous Conn are still there, but alas ! 

 they now form the wall that encloses the bare and naked site 

 alone. Who has not heard the story how the thrifty bailiff pulled 

 down the Castle so as the more economically to build the wall 

 with which he had been instructed to enclose the relic ? The 

 church adjoining forms a very conspicuous feature in the 

 landscape for many miles round, and in the graveyard is a 



