WE have already stated, that one portion or; the city of Armagh was formerly called Rath-Ardmach, and another Trian-Sassach, or Trian-Sassanach.

Rath-Ardrmach was evidently situated at the summit of the city, and comprised within the inner line of circumvallation, of which we have spoken. Borene-trian-sassanach is merely a corruption of "Bohar-na-trian-Sassanach", the road, high Way, or street of the Saxon district of the city. Botha, a road is pronounced bohar, Na is the particle appropriate to the genitive Case, Trian signifies a third, a district, and a portion; and sassanach is synonymous with Sassach or Saxon a name given to the English by the natives of Ireland. Tradition assigns the place to which we have alluded, as the site of Templum Columkille; and here Rocque places it in his map of the city, published in 1760. We are, however, firmly persuaded that the Culdees possessed another establishment near the site of the old Vicar's-hall, in the rear of Castle-street. Possibly the Templum Columkille noticed by Rocque, was an affiliation of this friary