368 [Proc. B.N.F.C., 



schoolhouse, being one of the first established by Erasmus 

 Smith, deserves some of the credit for this commendable spirit. 

 Near at hand, in the side of a field, the murdered body of the 

 informer Newell, whose fate has not yet been fully written, was 

 thrown into a hole which is still pointed out. One who knew 

 him well wrote of him : — 



He duped his friends, betrayed his native land, 

 Deceived e'en those whose bribes were yet in hand . 



Killmakee (Cill-mac-aedh, the Church of the son of Hugh) 

 being reached, a curious structure, resembling both a stone 

 circle and a cairn, was examined. It consists of 40 large boulder 

 stones, laid in a circle over 70 feet in diameter, the interior 

 being filled with loose stones and earth and planted with trees. 

 After a short time spent at this very perfect and interesting 

 example of the architecture of primitive man, a short drive 

 brought the party to the Royal residence of Rath-Mora of 

 Moylinne, thus completing the Club's visits this season to the 

 three Royal residences in our district in their historical sequence 

 — viz., Emania, Dun-da-leth-glas, (Downpatrick), and Rath-Mora 

 of Moylinne, so called, according to the annals of Tigearnach, 

 from Mora, wife of Breasal, King of Ulster, a.d. 161. It was 

 inhabited by the Princes of Dalaradia. 



Edward, brother of Robert Bruce, King of Scotland, landed 

 at Olderfleet, Larne, on the 25th May, 131 5, with a fleet of 300 

 sail and 6000 Scots, and had in his train a great number of the 

 nobility of Scotland. Bruce waged war in Ireland for three 

 years, and was slain at Faughart, near Dundalk, on the 28th 

 May, 1318. During this time he won eighteen battles, and " he 

 burnt the towns of Downedealgan (Dundalk), Athfirdia (Ardee), 

 and Rath-Mora, and harried and spoyled all Ulster." Since that 

 date Rath-Mora has not been used as a residence. Some mem- 

 bers of the Club partly explored the cave on the western side of 

 the rath, but the place was so filled up with loose stones and 

 earth that the passage was stopped at a distance of about thirty 

 feet from the entrance. The impromptu cavemen were after- 

 wards refreshed with sweetmilk and oatcake by Mr. Campbell, 



