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were confirmed in it, this being the last great religious cere- 

 mony associated with its name. With Bun-na-Margie is also 

 closely associated the name of Sorley Boy MacDonnell, who 

 was head of the clan during the latter part of the sixteenth 

 century. Sorley Boy had driven the English from Carrick- 

 fergus; had fought the Queen's forces at Newry; had burned, 

 in his castle yard of Dunanannie, on the point of his sword, 

 the grant of his lands which Queen Elizabeth had bestowed 

 upon him, saying what he had won by the sword he did not 

 intend to hold by parchment. After a wild and stormy 

 career he died in his castle at Dunanannie in 1590, and was 

 buried within the precincts of the abbey. The general archi- 

 tecture of the ruins points to its having been built in the 

 fourteenth century, though here and there later features are 

 to be observed. The present remains of the monastery consist 

 of a large church 99 feet long by 24J feet wide, showing no 

 appearance of division into choir and nave, and void of aisles 

 or side chapels, being a plain rectangular structure, with the 

 great window at the east end and three smaller ones on the 

 south side. The present east window has the look of being 

 inserted at a later date than the building of the church, as 

 evinced by the arch and appearance of insertion on the out- 

 side. On a line with the east wall of the church on the north 

 side are the domestic buildings, consisting of a refectory, with 

 a smaller chamber, doubtless used for general purposes. The 

 cloisters stood at the angle formed by the north wall of the 

 church and the west wall of the domestic buildings; no traces 

 of them at present exist except a few corbel stones and the 

 marks of the line of roof along the walls. Against the south 

 wall of the church stands the slated chapel and vault of the 

 Antrim family. At a distance of 21 yards from the friary 

 in an easterly direction stands the most distinctly picturesque 

 portion of the ruins, the guest-house, gate-lodge, or kitchen; 

 it is two storeys high, the northern gable bearing a high tot- 

 tering chimney of cut stone. A rude old perforated cross 

 stands at the west end of the church, and is said to mark the 

 grave of Julia MacQuillan, the " black nun " of Bun-na- 



