Identifier: journalofroyalso1915roya (find matches)
Title: Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Transactions Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Proceedings and transactions Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Proceedings and papers
Subjects: Ireland -- Genealogy Ireland -- History Societies, etc Ireland -- Antiquities Societies, etc
Publisher: Dublin, Ireland : The Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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that of a mitred abbot,on account of the authority he was to exercise over the rehgioushouses. To complete the reform at Derry a church was built outside theabbey precincts to serve the spiritual needs of the secular population.It was named Teampull M6r, the great church, though its lengthwas but 90 feet,^ unwarrantably extended by Colgan to 80 paces(passus), or 400 feet. The TeampuU Mdr became afterwards thecathedral church of Derry. Its site is now occupied by a Catholicparish church, popularly kno-vra as the Long Tower, from a towertraditionally stated to have been a round tower, which stood heredown to the end of the 17th century.* A further reform of the abbey was made in 1397 by PrimateColton, who ordered all suspect jDersons to be removed from theprecincts, and the abbot and canons to return to the observance of a 1 Annals of Ulster, a.d. 1162 ; Four Masters. 2 Ordnance Memoir of Londonderry, p. 21. 3 Annals of Ulster : wrongly 80 feet in Four Masters.* Ordnance Mernoir, p. 25.
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212 ROYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF IRELAND common life. In connexion with this visitation mention is madeof chambers and other accommodation for guests, the choir of theabbey church, a dormitory and a rerectory.i The abbey had, how-ever, entered on a period of decay. In 1412 it was so muchimpoverished through long wars and other calamities that its inmatescould not be duly maintained.^ In 1423 its buildings were reducedto manifest destruction and ruin by continual wars and deadlyenmities in those parts.^ A hundred years later the position onlyof the church could be traced.* The explosion of an English powder-house in 1567,^ and the works of Sir Henry Docwra in 1600, wroughtfurther havoc.^ The plan of Docwras fort,^ reproduced in theOrdnance Memoir and one of Derry in Facsimiles of National MSS.show what may be recognised as a side of the claustral buildings,that peece of an ould monasterie mentioned in Philhpss report, longe before the bumeing of Derry by them repaired and yetmayntej

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