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Show MONASTERY SITE IS LOCATED IN IRELAND BELFAST, Sept. 1. The site of one ef th earlieat christian monaateries In Trsland haa been found at sfahee island. Htranftford !ough, near Hel-fssl. Hel-fssl. The ruins have been Identified aa those of Nendrum monastery, men-tinned men-tinned In Mulrcha's "Life of St. Patrick." Pat-rick." wrlttsn before 491 A. D. Intensive excavatlona have been carried car-ried nut and valuable material. Including Includ-ing soms stones wllh writing, ths exact ex-act meaning of which has not yet been eacerta'ned, have been unearthed. Rome of the writings are believed to be ot Uenlsh origin. In Oedes "Kccleslsstlcat History It Is recorded thst In 414 rope Honorlus wrote to certain bishops of the Irish church shout the Paschal controversy and Pelagian hereey. and one of the bishops mentioned In thle letter Is Cromous. bishop of Nendrum. Th Inland of Nendrum was afterwards nsmed Maheo, after a bishop -of the monsaterv. |