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[Page] 7a Parish of Holywood

The following notice of this Abbey is taken from Chalmers Caledonia Vol. [volume] 3 P. [Page] 149. "In Holywood there appears to have been a cell and a hermit during a very early age: Hence it acquired the name Dercongal which was the usual appelation in the charters and Bulls of the thirteenth century Dair-congal both in the British and the Scots Irish languages signifies the Oakwood of Congal. It, thus appears that a Scots Irish Saint had fixed his residence in the sacred [group?] of prior times, to which he gave his Gaelic name of Dercongal. Neith Keith, nor Spottiswoode, nor Dugdale, seem to be able to fix the epoch, when a house for Premonstratensian monks, was founded on the site of the ancient cell; But this order of monks was, originally created about the year 1120; and there is a monument remaining, which evinces that this Abbey must have been founded before the demise of David I" Note. "One of the bells of this monastery which is still used in the parish church of Holywood appears to have been consecrated, by the Abbot John Wriah in 1154" -


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