to be possessed of thirty-one townlands in Ards and Upper Clandeboye, the grange of Earbeg in the county Antrim, the two Copeland Islands, the tithes of the island of Raghery, three rectories in Antrim, three in Down, and a townland in the Isle of Man.

The abbey, some of the walls of which still remain, adjoining the parish church, was built early in the twelfth century.

We are informed by Archdall, that it had so gone to ruin in 1469 through the neglect of the abbot, that he was evicted by order of Pope Paul II., who commanded that the friars of the third order of St.Francis should immediately take possession of it, which was accordingly done, says Wadding, by Father Nicholas of that order.

The whole of the possessions were granted by James I.to James Viscount Clandeboye.
Bangor was one of the most celebrated schools in Ireland when this island was said to have been 'the _quiet_ abode of learning and sanctity.' As to the quiet, I could never make out at what period it existed, nor how the 'thousands' of students at Bangor could have been supported.

The Danes came occasionally up the lough and murdered the monks _en masse_, plundering the shrines.