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Before leaving Aghaderg a short business meeting was held, 

 at which Mrs. Lindsay, Miss Mawdsley, and Mr. W. H. Kirkpatrick 

 (seniors), and Miss May Patterson, Miss G. Hall, Miss B. Mayne, 

 and Miss K. Stephenson (juniors) were elected members. In a 

 few appropriate sentences Mr. W. J. C. Tomlinson, on behalf of 

 the Club, thanked Canon and Mrs. Lett for their hospitality, and 

 afterwards the party drove to Banbridge, returning by 5-45 train 

 to Belfast. 



gawley's gate and selshan (lough neagh). 



The third excursion of the Summer session took place on 

 19th June, and the arrangements were made by Mr. W. J. C. 

 Tomlinson, who also acted as conductor for the day. Forty-two 

 members and visitors travelled by the 9-30 a.m. train to Lurgan, 

 and here cars were in waiting and were immediately mounted, 

 when the six miles' drive north to Gawley's Gate, on the shore of 

 Lough Neagh, began. The main north road to Aghalee and 

 Antrim was taken to Whitehall Corner, just short of the village of 

 Aghagallon (the field of the gallaun or standing-stone), when an 

 abrupt turn was taken to the left and westward, the Lagan Canal 

 crossed, and the road pursued to Derrymore (Daire-more, the 

 great oak wood). 



On reaching Maghernagaw a brief halt was made at the 

 ancient cemetery. Little is known of the church that once stood 

 here. Dr. Reeves supposes it to have been the " Capella de 

 Thanelagh," of the " Pope Nicholas Taxation " record. From the 

 remnants of the church foundations in the churchyard it would 

 appear that the edifice, rectangular in form, measured forty-nine 

 and a half feet by twenty. In the cemetery is a large flat stone 

 known as the Saint's Bed. O'Laverty says the holy man whom 

 tradition connects with the stone was variously named : St. Gaw 

 and St. Mogawoge being the commonest forms. The Saint's well 

 is near by. The cemetery, which is in a rather dilapidated 

 condition, is used only by the "natives" of the district, who cling 



