According to the _Book of Armagh_, written about the year A.D. 807, the doe with her fawn was lying on the very "spot where the altar of the northern church in Ard-Macha now stands;" and Patrick carried the fawn on his shoulders until he laid it "on another eminence at the north side of Armagh where, according to the statement of those who know the place, miraculous attestations are to be witnessed to this day." (Fol 6: b. 2.) The northern church to which the reference is made--built on the very spot where the doe was lying--is generally thought to have been the Sabhall, or Barn, called also the "_Ecclesia Sinistralis_," because it was to the left of the great church, for persons entering the latter from the west. The great church itself known as the _Damhliac_ (Duleek), or the great Stone Church, occupied the site of the present Protestant cathedral; and it is an extraordinary coincidence that the new Catholic Cathedral, the crowning glory of modern Armagh, stands on the opposite hill to the north dwarfing by its majestic proportions the Protestant church--and stands, it is said, on that very "eminence to the north" whither the great apostle carried the fawn on his shoulders! The hunted doe there found rest; and there, too, that other "milk white hind," during the stormy centuries of the past, so often doomed to death, yet fated not to die, was destined to find a refuge and a home. "Great shall be the glory of this last House, more than of the first, and in _this place_ I will give thee peace, said the Lord of Hosts." (Agg. 2, 10.) There were many other ecclesiastical buildings at Armagh, of which we can only mention the names. There was the _Damhliac Toga_, or the "Stone Church of the Elections," on the south side of the Cathedral, but close at hand; there was a _Cloictech_, or Round Tower, at its north-west angle; there was a _Teach Screaptra_, or House of Writings, also within the original rath; and besides the Abbot's House, we hear of the _Cuicin_ or Kitchen, the prison for refractory monks or students, and the _Reilig_ or Cemetery, which was more to the south, but afterwards extended all round the church. It was there that Brian Boru and his gallant son, Murchadh, were interred after the battle of Clontarf in 1014. Maelmuire, the Primate, proceeded with his clergy and relics to Swords, and waked the royal dead with all honour and reverence. Then they carried the bodies to Armagh, and they were both interred in the same new tomb. All these buildings, including the houses for the monks and students, crowned the summit of the holy hill, and were surrounded with a large rath or earthen mound, as well as by a _Fith-nemhedh_, or Sacred Grove, where learning and religion sat side by side enthroned for many centuries in spite of much turbulence and bloodshed.