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SATURDAY, ‘DECEMBER 26, 1840.
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VOLUME I.
THE CASTLE OF TERMON liIAQltATH, COUNTY OF DONEGAL.
‘Is a recent number of our journal we called the attention of
our readers to the littlefapprcciated beauties of Lough Erne ;
and we now present them with another vista of that delightful
locality in connection with the Castle of Termon Magrath, or
ermon, as it is more usually called, which is situated at its
northern extremity, in the county of Donegal. Considered as
asheet of water, the lower lake appears from this side to the
greatest advantage; but its distant shores are but little im-
proved by plantations, and consequently look comparatively
leak and barren. In the immediate vicinity of our subject,
‘however, the scenery is of the rich eliziracter for which Lough
rue is so remarkable, the shores of the lake being fringed
with the plantations of the glebe of Tem lecarn and those of
ll aterfoot, the beautiful seat of Colonel arton.
The Castle of'1'ermon is situated in the parish of Temple-H
“"71. about half a mile to the west of the pleasant and im-
proving little town of Pcttigoe, which, if it had a comfortable
""3. would be a good station for pleasure tourists wishing to
(“Joy the scenery of the lower Lough Erne and that of Lough
erg, with its celebrated purgatory of St Patrick.
' .'The foundation of this castle, according to popular tradi-
“On. is ascribed to the celebrated Malmurry, or, as he was
usually called, Myler Magrath, the first Protestant Bishop of
Clogher; and there is every reason to believe this tradition
correct. The lands on which the castle is situated ancient]
constituted the Termon of St Daveog of Lough Derg, of wide
the Magraths were hereditarily the termoners or churchWor-
dens ; and of this family Myler Magratli was the head ; so that
these lands properly be onged to him anteriorly to an grant of
them derived through his bishopric. He was originally a
Franciscan friar, and being a man of distinguished abilities,
was advanced by Pope Pius V. to the see of Down; hut hav-
ing afterwards embraced Protestantism, he was placed in the
see of Clogher by letter of Queen Elizabeth, dated 18th May
1570, and by grant dated the 18th September, in the same
car. He remained, however, but a short time in this see, in
which he received but little or nothing of the revenues, and in
which he was probably surrounded by enemies even among
his own kindred, and was translated to the archbisho rie of
Cashel on the 3d of February, in the year followinrr. I e died
at Cashel at the age of one hundred, in the you 1622, and
was interred in the choir of that ancient cathedral, whe.re.a
splendid monument to his memory still exists, with a. Latin
inscription penned by himself, of which the following quaint
translation is given in Hai-ris’s “fare :-
Patrick, the glory of our isle and gown,
First ut zi bishop in theses of Down. I
I wish that I, siiccecdirg him in place > .
A: bishop. had an equal share of gram.” 3 ‘ " '
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