I have already hinted my confident belief _that if the ground all, within, and around our pyramids were sufficiently examined_, there would not be wanting indications of subterraneous passages. I am the more confirmed in this, my belief, from the appearances that presented themselves on the demolition of _that_ at Downpatrick, in 1790, “to make room for the rebuilding of that part of the old cathedral next which it stood, and from which it was distant about forty feet. When the tower was thrown down,” continues Dubourdieu, in his _Statistical Survey_ of the county, “and cleared away to the foundation, another foundation was discovered under it, and running directly across the site of the tower, which appeared to be a continuation of the church wall, which, at some period prior to the building of the tower, seemed to have extended considerably beyond it.” With great deference, however, to the authority of so respectable a writer, I hesitate not to proclaim that the second foundation so discovered was _not_ a “continuation of the church wall,” but the remnant of some _pagan_ structure, appertaining to the tower itself--in fact a _Vihâr_, or college for its priests--or else the vestige of some larger temple, and connected therewith, previously existing on the same locality. That this announcement is correct will be apparent, from the _superiority of masonic skill_ exhibited in this _foundation_, as well as in its having been upon a larger scale and ampler dimensions than what the Christian “cathedral” had ever occupied; “in the walls of which,” says my authority, “there are many pieces of cut stone that have evidently been used in some former building. The same circumstance may also be observed in several of the ruined churches at Clonmacnoise.”[192] Nor ought this relic of an ancient pagan edifice to excite our surprise, when we are told that the temple of the “Syrian goddess,” which existed in the days of Lucian, was not that which was originally erected by Deucalion, but one built _many ages_ after, on the _same site_, by Attis, Bacchus, or Semiramis. With the church, therefore, or other Christian edifice, this “foundation” had no relation. St. Patrick was the first who erected one in that vicinity, to which he gave the name of Sgibol Phadruig, or Patrick’s Granary; having been built on the identical spot on which Dichu, son of Trichem, of the tribe of the Dalfiatachs, and lord of the territory of Lecale, had a granary constructed to preserve his corn, before that his gratitude for the saint, by whom he was just converted, induced him to consecrate the place where that event occurred, by raising thereon a house to the God of nature and of harvests. Its situation, be it observed, was “two miles from the city of Down”;[193] different, therefore, from that of the cathedral, as was also its _form_: having been built from north to south, at the solicitation of Dichu himself, agreeably to the plan of the former storehouse.