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The interior is remarkably neat, and kept in a good
state of repair: the choir is tastefully fitted up, and
is used as the parish church, but being found too small
for that purpose, the organ was removed, in 1780, to
the junction of the nave and transepts, by which the
choir has been lengthened 21 feet. In 1829, galleries
were built to accommodate the increasing congregation,
and pews were erected, in 1836, round the communion
table. On the north side of the choir is the entrance
to the chapter-house, which is evidently much more
modern than the cathedral. In the north transept is a
handsome monument erected to the memory of Dr.
Woodward, and in the south transept, one for Dr. War-
burton, both formerly bishops of this see. The transepts
also contain some elegant monuments of the Longfields,
Lumleys, and other families of note. At the village of
Ballycotton, four miles from Cloyne, a new district
church was built in 1835, by subscription, at an ex-
pense of £330: the curate is paid by the dean and
chapter and vicars choral of Cloyne, as appropriators
of this parish, and by the precentor, as rector of Church-
town, the district church being for the accommodation
of both these parishes. This parish is the head of a
R. C. union or district, comprising the parishes of
Cloyne, Churchtown, Kilmahon, and part of Kilteskin;
the chapel at Cloyne is a large, plain, old edifice.
The diocesan school is united to that of Cork. The
Cloyne free school and charity were founded by Bishop
Crow, by will dated Oct. 4th, 1726, in which he be-
queathed the farm of Bohermore, and the small burgage
of Cloyne, for the maintenance of poor Protestant boys,
after paying £8 per ann. to the widows and orphans of
clergymen of the diocese. The present income exceeds
£200 per annum, and ten boys are maintained, clothed,
and educated for three years, at the expiration of which
they are apprenticed, with a premium of £4 each. Six
chorister boys are also educated, supported, and clothed
by the dean and chapter, and 14 free boys of the town
are educated at this establishment. The school-house
was erected in 1814, out of the accumulated funds of the
charity, on land given by Bishop Bennett. There are
also two national schools, in which are 550 boys and 366
girls. A fund for lending sums not exceeding £2 has
long existed in the town, to which Bishop Brinkley con-
tributed £70, and which circulates about £600 annually.
A benevolent society for the relief of sick and indigent
room-keepers is supported partly by voluntary contri-
butions, and partly by the profits and tolls of the fairs and
market, which were transferred to this charity, in 1833,
by the late Bishop Brinkley, and are continued by the
present Bishop of Cork and Cloyne. A fund for relieving
the widows of the clergy of the diocese was established
in 1828, which, in June 1835, had accumulated to £953.
Here is also a parochial Protestant almshouse for poor
persons, who receive a weekly allowance from the Sun-
day collections in the cathedral; also a fever hospital
and dispensary.
Opposite the western entrance to the cathedral is
one of the ancient round towers, which, in 1835, was
surrounded with an iron railing, at the expense of the
dean and chapter, by whom it is kept in repair. This
ancient structure is perfect, except the top: the ori-
ginal building is 92 feet high, and a modern castel-
lated addition has made the entire height 102 feet;
it is quite cylindrical from top to bottom, its uni-
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form diameter being 9 feet, and the walls being 33
inches thick. The tower is divided into five floors
or stages, which are nearly perfect; the upper story
contains a bell, which was presented to the cathed-
ral by Dean Davies in 1683, and hung here, the
cathedral having no bell tower. At that time the
top of the tower was open, and the bell attracted the
lightning, by which it was cracked; the castellated part
was therefore added for its protection. Of the ancient
abbey founded in 707, or the hospital founded in 1326,
there are no vestiges except the lands of the latter,
which are still called the Spital fields. A small castle
was erected here in the 14th century, by Bishop John
de Cumba, but was destroyed by the Fitz-Edmunds
after the Reformation. At Ballymaloe is a curious old
house, built by the Fitzgeralds, who forfeited it in the
war of 1641, and now the property of Mr. Forster; in
the hall are two very large pair of elks’ horns. In the
neighbourhood are several very extensive natural caves
in the limestone district, in some of which are very pure
and beautiful stalactites.
CLUIN.—See CLONEAMERY.
COACHFORD. —See MAGOURNEY.
COAGH, a village, in that part of the parish of
TAMLAGHT which is in the barony of DUNGANNON,
county of TYRONE, and province of ULSTER, 3 miles (S.
by E.) from Moneymore; containing 393 inhabitants.
This place formed part of the estate granted to the Hon.
Andrew Stewart by Jas. I., in 1612, and confirmed by
Chas. I. in 1630. A battle took place here at the ford
of the river, in 1641, when the chapel of Tamlaght was
destroyed by the parliamentarians; and, in 1688, Jas.
II. crossed the river at this place, on his march to the
siege of Derry. The village, which in 1831 consisted of
76 well-built houses, is pleasantly situated on the road
from Magherafelt to Stewartstown, in a fertile vale,
about two miles from Lough Neagh, and on the river
Coagh or Ballinderry, over which is an ancient narrow
bridge of stone of six arches. It is the property of
William Lenox Conyngham, Esq., in whose family the
estate has remained since the year 1663; and was erected
about the year 1728, by George Conyngham, Esq., who
obtained for it a charter for a market and four fairs,
which have been changed to a market held on the first
Friday in every month, for the sale of linens and pro-
visions, and to 12 fairs held on the second Friday in
every month, for horses, cattle, and agricultural produce.
The market-house, a spacious and commodious building,
was erected in 1828, by the present proprietor, who also
built a good school-house and supports a school for
male and female children. The linen market is very
considerable; and the fairs, which are toll-free, are nu-
merously attended. It is a constabulary police station,
and has a penny post to Moneymore. There is a place
of worship for Presbyterians in connection with the
Synod of Ulster.—-See TAMLAGHT.
COAL ISLAND, a post-town, partly in the parishes
of DONOGHENRY and CLONOE, but chiefly in that of
TULLYNISKAN, barony of DUNGANNON, county of TY-
RONE, and province of ULSTER, 3 miles (N. E.) from
Dungannon: the population is returned with the res-
pective parishes. This flourishing trading village is
situated in the centre of the Tyrone coal field, on the
roads from Dungannon to Ballinderry, and from Lurgan
to Stewartstown: it comprises 184 houses, which are