CITY OF LONDONDERRY. 
their ancient remains with the name of the most popular, or patron saint of the district. 
Thus we find that the devastation of Thomond, by Red Hugh O'Donnell, at the close of the 
16th century, was popularly supposed to he the effect, not of St. Patrick's, but of St. Columb’s 
curse, in revenge of the destruction of Aileach by the O’Briens, five centuries before. 
There is also an artificial mount twenty-five feet square, and raised about four feet 
from the ground. It is called St. Columb's mount, and was probably the platform on which 
the stone formerly stood. 
Section 2 .—Antiquities.—Christian. 
Ecceesiastical. —The old Church of Killed or Killeagh , (“ Grey Church ”), which 
gives name to a townland, and was formerly one of the five chapels of ease of Temple- 
more, has not been used for divine service since the Reformation, and the foundations only 
now remain. It was of an oblong form, 60 feet by 30; the grave-yard, which is still used by the 
peasantry of the vicinity, is surrounded by an excellent stone wall 7 feet high, which 
appears to be of equal antiquity with the ruined church, there is an ancient gateway, now 
built upon the north-eastern side, 5 feet 6 inches wide, and 5 feet 7 inches high. The grave¬ 
yard contains no inscriptions worthy of notice. 
The Church of Culmore, or properly Cuilmore [the great angle), though a ruin, is of 
no great age, having been built, as we learn from Archbishop King’s visitation book, before 
the late troubles, and burned by King James’s army, since which it has never been repaired. 
It was obviously intended for the use of the Protestant garrison of the fort. This church which 
was of no mean structure, consisted of a nave and transept in the form of a cross, with a 
square steeple at its W. end. Its extreme length was 54 feet, and its breadth in the transepts 
46.—With the exception of the Vf. end, the walls are still entire. According to tradition the 
body of the French general De Rosen was interred here, as well as that of the person who 
killed him—but tradition is most generally a blundering chronicler, and in this instance erred, 
at least in the name,—for De Rosen was not killed, hut the French general Momon fell at 
Pennyburn, and was very probably interred here. It is also said, that divine service was 
performed only twice in the church previously to its destruction. 
Military. The castle of Aileach, or Elagh, though at present but an insignificant rum, 
claims attention, as retaining the name of the ancient fortress of the northern kings already no- 
