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CAVAN AND DISTRICT. 

 The Committee selected Cavan as the district for' visitation 

 on this year's "long excursion," which took place on 12-14 July- 

 The members assembled at Belfast Station on the morning of the 

 Twelfth, and took their places in reserved carriages attached to 

 the 8 o'clock train, and their numbers were augmented by some 

 who joined the train at Lisburn and at Portadown. Cavan was 

 reached shortly after 1 1 o'clock, and here the party received 

 further accessions on the arrival of the Midland Great Western 

 train, which conveyed some Dublin and Limerick members. 

 Immediately after arrival lunch was served in the Farnham Hotel, 

 the headquarters of the party during their stay in Cavan, and on 

 its conclusion brakes were in readiness to convey the members to 

 the Cathedral Church of Kilmore. This modern church stands 

 on the site of the Abbey of Cella Magna, founded at an early 

 period by St. Columba. The vestry door of the church was taken 

 from the Abbey on Trinity Island, Lough Oughter, a few miles 

 distant, and forms one of the finest examples of the Hiberno- 

 Romanesque style extant in Ireland. In the adjoining graveyard 

 were interred the remains of the celebrated Bishop Bedell, "the last 

 of the English." After a thorough inspection of the church and its 

 precincts the drive was continued to the demesne of Killykeen 

 where, through the courteous attention of Mr. Travers Blackley, 

 Lord Farnham had granted permission for the afternoon to be 

 spent. In the picturesquely-situated tea-house on the shore of 

 Lough Oughter afternoon tea was served, and the members 

 scattered to indulge in their varied avocations. At 6-30 the return 

 drive commenced, and little more than an hour sufficed to enable 

 all to seat themselves at the dinner-table in the hotel. After 

 dinner the members were conducted to the Gallows Hill, the 

 rounded summit of which is capped with Boulder-Clay and almost 

 devoid of vegetation. From this eminence an extended panorama 

 of the surrounding country was obtained, with the town of 



