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There is a tradition that, when the few remaining Canons were driven forth from this monastery, they were harboured by some of the author's ancestors at Ballymagibbon; and upon one of the farms of that property, now called Abbotstown, Father Prendergast resided till the day of his death, at the round age of eighty-eight. He was a very fine, courteous, whitehaired old man--a good specimen of the St. Omers' priest of sixty years ago. He did not nominate a successor, nor was such appointed by any Irish chapter, or by the General Abbot at Rome. Prendergast succeeded Abbot O'Maley. He was the owner of several reliques, which he used to take great pride in showing and explaining to the author, when a boy--the cross of Cong, the shrine of St. Patrick's tooth, and the piece of linen marked with the blood of the martyr, etc.