[7] The _Annals of Ulster_ simply state "for the monks of Ireland did
banish him (Auliv) out of their abbacy, through lawful causes." _The Four
Masters_ tell us it was the monks of Drogheda who had expelled him from
the abbacy for his own crime. A writer in the _Dublin Penny Journal_,
1835-36, says this Auliv was Abbot of the monastery of St. Mary de Urso,
near the West Gate, Drogheda. He quotes some old Annals without
particularising them. And Dalton, in his History of Drogheda, tells us
that Auliv had been Abbot of that same Abbey of St. Mary's, Drogheda, and
was expelled. Dalton evidently confounds this monastery with Mellifont. No
Cistercian Community had power to depose their abbot, such power being
vested in the General Chapter of the Order.
[8] It is not generally known that it was an Irishman who, on the fatal
day of Aughrim, as St. Ruth rode to victory waving his cap, pointed him
out to the gunner whose faithful shot deprived St. Ruth of his head and
the Irish Army of a valiant General.
[9] The Puritans admitted that Sir Phelim O'Neil did not commence his
alleged massacres until after the sacking and burning of Dundalk.
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