. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. asters tells usthat Farrell Eoe Oge, the son of Farrell Eoe,^ son of Bonough, son ofMurtagh More McGeoghegan, a captain of great repute and celebrity,was killed and beheaded at Cruagh-abhal (now Croughool, in the parishof Churchtown) by the son of the Baron of Belvin and the grandson ofPierce Balton. They carried his head to Trim, and from thence toBublin for exhibition, but it was afterwards brought back and buriedalong with his body in Burrow Cholum Chille. Bean Butler, in liis book on Trim, mentions that there seems to havebeen some
. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. asters tells usthat Farrell Eoe Oge, the son of Farrell Eoe,^ son of Bonough, son ofMurtagh More McGeoghegan, a captain of great repute and celebrity,was killed and beheaded at Cruagh-abhal (now Croughool, in the parishof Churchtown) by the son of the Baron of Belvin and the grandson ofPierce Balton. They carried his head to Trim, and from thence toBublin for exhibition, but it was afterwards brought back and buriedalong with his body in Burrow Cholum Chille. Bean Butler, in liis book on Trim, mentions that there seems to havebeen some old ecclesiastical connexion at one time between Burrow andTrim, as a monastic seal of the fourteenth century was found nearMullingar bearing on the obverse side the inscription, Sigill. S. Marie de Truim, and on the reverse, Si. M. Abb. S. MariedeBurmag., which, he adds, is figured in the Dublin Penny Journal. 1 In 14o4, Farrell Eoe Mageoghegan resigned Ids lordship, and retiied into themoiiastei^- of Durrow Columkille, having lost his A PORTIOX OF TJIE CllOZIEU OF DvHROW. Jour. , vol. ix , pt. i, p. 50. THE TJ:itMOxN OF DURROW. 51 The seal itself was in the possession of Mr. li. jMurray, of Mnllingar, iu1858. It is ascribed by Petrie to the thirteentli centnry, and is now, Ibelieve, in the Museum of the Eoyal Irish Academy. Skction III. Sir Henry Piers, in his History of Westmeath, gives at length aiuU description of what a termon land was:— In time past, he says,it was provided that whoever founded a church should endow theSlime with certain possessions for the maintenance of those who were toattend Gods service therein, insomuch that a bishop might not consecrateany church before an instrument of such a donation was provided by thefounder: . . Hence it came to pass that every church had allottedto it a certain proportion of land (with servants appertaining thereunto)free from all temporal impositions and exactions. . Neither is it tobe doubted, he
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