By him it has been trans- Daniel
Halliday
and Charles Halliday.
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7
—I Edited by Drs.
Todd and Reeves, pp.
196, 197.
2
See "Acta Sanctorum Hibernine," xvii. Februarii, Appendix ad Vitam S. Fin- tani, cap. i. , p. 355.
3 Thus : V10VmCA1vl So^ajyc yoclunl- l/iche. See Common Place Book F, p. 63,
the quotation in the text shows, that races had been established there from times re- mote.
* Allusion is made to St. Conleth, first Bishop of Kildare, whose feast was held on the 3rd of May, and whose Life has been in- serted at that date in the Fifth Volume of
in the Royal Iri—sh Academy's Library. this work, Art. i.
*s Article ix. See "Trias Thauma-
According to Dr. O'Donovan's "Annals
turga," Quinta Appendix ad Acta S. Bri- gidse, cap. ii. , p. 629.
2
See Dr. O'Donovan's edition, vol. i. , pp. 512, 513, with notes (a, b), ibid.
3 In Cormac's Glossary, at the word Cuipr\ech, it would seem, that the ancient Irish had chariot races here; and in any case
of the Four Masters," vol. i. , pp. 500,501.
6" SeeRev. Dr. Reeves'Adamnan's Life
of St. Columba," Additional Notes O, p. 391.
7 According to Dr. O'Donovan's " Anna-*
of the Four Masters," vol. i. , pp. 512, 513. 8 The Annals of Ulster have his death,
in the Annals of the Four
270 LIVESOFTHEIRISHSAINTS. [July 18. fixed, in which at Kal. xv. Aug. (18th of July), there is a Feast entered for
1
Article XL—St. Mianach, Son of Failbhe. According to the
1
Martyrology of Tallagh, veneration was given at the 18th of July to Mianach
macFailbe. The O'Clerys state, that he was of the race of Conall Gulban, the son of Niall. Thus, he belonged to the great St. Columkille's family stock. Marianus O'Gorman and Maguire record this saint. 2 The Martyrology of Donegal3 alsorecordshimatthesamedate,asManach,sonofFailbhe.
Article XII. —Feast of St. Christina and her Seven Brothers,
"1
Martyrs. In the Feilire" of St. yEngus, at the 18th of May, the Irish
Church celebrated the Festival of St. Christina and her Seven Brothers, Martyrs. To this are postfixed some comments, to explain who she had been,
2
while traditions regarding her are given.
Lacus Christinas, near Rome, and yet a distance of three days' journey from it, hadbeendenominated. Anotherlegendis,thatsheconstructedacauseway from Rome to Mount Garganus, in which she was aided by a certain wealthy
man, who made proposals of marriage to her, which she would not accept on any other condition. However, when it was finished, the grace of God came upon him, and both served the Lord in continency. At this day, the Bol- landists have no account of this saint and of her seven brothers ; but they have a festival and Acts of St. Symphorosa and of her seven sons. 3 Those Acts appear to have no reference whatever, to what is found regarding St. Christina and her brothers, in the " Feilire " of St. ^Engus.
St. Benin.
ArticleXIII. —ReputedFeastfortheTranslationoftheRelicsof St. Othilia, or Odilia, Virgin and Martyr, at Hoye in Belgium. This
holy^virgin—said to have been one of St. Ursula's companions—is
commemo-
1
rated on the i8th of July, byGreven, Wion, Molanus, Dempster, and others.
It is held to be the feast for some Translation of her relics. While noting it, at
A. D. 869.
"
Cobhthach mac Muredaich,
"May the host of the queen, the sainted Christina, with seven brethren, protect us
Princeps Cille dara dormivit. "—Rev. Dr.
—
the Royal Irish Academy," Irish Manuscript
O'Conor's " Rerum Hibernicarum Scripto-
"Transactions of On the Calendar of
"
res,
Article x.
unto the noble peace. "
J
Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
Juliano, Nemesio, Primitivo, Justino, Stac- teo et Eugeuio, Tibure in Latio. A Pre« vious Commentary in Four sections and thirty-seven paragraphs, by Father John Pinius, S. J. , precedes the Passion, written by some anonymous author, and previously
Article xiii. In his "Menologium
Scotorum,"thus "HuyiOdilia? Ursulanac
:
translatio. "—Bishop Forbes'
tomus iv. , —Anuales Ultonienses," p. 230. .
196, 197. — Article xii.
'From the "LeabharBreac"
l at Kal. xi. Again,
vol.
Jan. , Series, i. , part
i.
there is a feast for St. Bertin, ibid. His chief feast was held on the 5th of September.
Article xi. — Edited by Rev. Dr. Kelly, p. xxix.
a
Quarta Appendix ad Acta S. Columbia, cap. iii. , p. 481.
Oengus, p. cxi.
*
Julii xviii. Dc Sanctis Martyribus Sym- See Colgan's "Trias Thaumaturga," phorosa cum septem Filiis, Crescente,
copy, Dr. Whitley Stokes gives the follow-
ing stanza and its English translation Sloiget) inapgiiA
Snaiopum inp-o pvetvoai Comorxpjppunbnaicnpe In. vp. 1n4 noemoiM,
—
Theodore in his "Acta Ruinart,
:
published by
sincera et selecta. "— See pp. 350 to 359.
It is stated, that from her the
See ibid. , p. cxix.
3 $ce "Acta Sanctorum," tomus iv. ,
"
Kalendars of
July 19. ] LIVESOFTHEIRISHSAINTS. 271
2
refer for further accounts to the 21st day of October, when the general Acts of St. Ursula and of her companion martyrs were to be more fully investigated. That task has been left for the thoroughly learned and able Father Victor De Buck, S. J. , and it has since been com-
pleted in a most exhaustive and wonderfully research! ul manner.
ftuwteent6 JBay of 3ulg*
ARTICLE I. —ST. OSSIN OR OISSEINE, AND FIFTY MONKS, OF TENGAIDH.
the earlier and middle ages of our national church, the social conditions
INand the level of cultivation and knowledge were different from what
they are at present. Since then, they have undergone numerous changes. Menfoundinthemonasticprofessionthenaturalformofareligiouslife; for that it was, which presented to their minds the highest idea of earnestness in fulfilling God's purpose, and their own desire for self-improvement. Now, the world's complicated refinements and enjoyments lead men into its vortex, while hoping at life's close to escape from its entanglements, and to be recon- ciled with the Creator, whose wise designs they have so often frustrated.
At the of the of " a festival to 19th July, Martyrology Tallagh registers
honour Ossin o Thergaidh ocus Coeca Manach imbi. From such an entry,
we should be inclined to suppose, that Ossin must have been an Abbot, and
that he presided over a community of fifty monks, at a place set down as
Thergaidh, but more correctly Tengaidh, as given in the O'Clerys' Calendar. It is difficult to know where this place had been situated. Nor can we find,
among the townland names of Ireland, any near approach to it in spelling or in pronunciation. Among the parishes, however, there is one, denominated Taney2 orTauney,inthehalf-baronyofRathdown,andcountyofDublin. Taken in its simple way, as Tawny orTawna, or Tawny, there are no less than sixteen townlands so denominated in Ireland \ while, in composition, there are one hundred and eleven places having relation besides with these etymons. 3 ThemotherchurchofTaneyorTawny,inthecountyofDublin, was the head of a rural deanery of great extent, and several other chapels were subservient to it/ The Archdeacon of Dublin s possessed the dignity
6
and prebend of Taney, at least from the time of Archbishop Luke, until the
Reformation, when the chapter of the cathedral church of the Most Holy
*
According to the Repertorium Viride of Archbishop Alan,
the present date, the Bollandists
Scottish Saints," p. 206. 2"
See Acta Sanctorum," tomus iv. , Julii xviii. Among —the pretermitted feasts, p. 349.
s In the time of St. Laurence O'Toole, one
p.
xxix. 2
Already
i. Edited by Rev. Dr. Kelly,
allusion has been made to this
was Archdeacon of Dublin.
Article l
—— Torquil evidently of Scandinavian origin
place, in the First Volume of this work, and
at the 23rd of January, when treating of St.
Lucain or Lucan, of Tamnach or Tawny, Art. vii.
3 See " General Alphabetical Index to the Townlands and Towns, Parishes and Baro- nies of Ireland," pp. 850 to 852.
A. D. 1228 to 1255, in John DAlton's " Me- moirs of the Archbishops of Dublin," pp. 90 to 94.
6 See an account of his from episcopacy
7 See William Monck Mason's "
History and Antiquities of the Collegiate and Cathe- dral Church of St. Patrick, near Dublin,"
book i. , chap, ix. , sect, i. , pp. 44 to 46.
272 LIVES OF 7HE IRISH SAINTS.
[July 19.
Trinity had been dissolved by a mandate of King Henry VIII. An Inquisi- tion held in the 38th year of his reign, January 27th, reports the extent and value of the Archdiaconal possessions. At that time, there were six acres of glebe annexed to the benefice, and lying to the east and south-east of the church. ' The Regal Visitation of 16 15 returns the church and chancel to have been then in good repair. It is evident, that the deserted Protestant church there does not date back to that 8 In the
period.
to it are buried Mr. William Halliday, an accomplished Hiberno-Celtic
Taney Church and Cemetery, County of Dublin.
scholar and linguist, with some other persons of distinction. The former Protestant church has been closed for services, since the erection in 1818 of a
more modern one, cruciform and in the pointed style, yet architecturally and artistically very defective. The River Dodder runs for upwards of a mile along the northern boundary of Taney—or as sometimes called—Churchtown parish. The scenery around this locality is highly picturesque and charming. The summits of the Three Rock Mountain and of the Two Rock Mountain are other boundary lines of this parish, while there the surfaces become wild
andrugged,yetpresentingsuperbviews. 10 Ofcourseitcannotbeasserted,that the holy Abbot and his fifty monks had after all any connexion with this place.
Colgan hazards a conjecture, but allowing merely its possibility, that the pre-
8
The accompanying illustration, drawn 9 lie died in 1812, in the twenty-fourth. on the spot by William F. Wakeman, was year of his age. Beside his remains lie taken from the railway embankment near those of his distinguished brothers, Doctor Dundrum.
By him it has been trans- Daniel Halliday and Charles Halliday.
10
ferred to the wood, engraved by Mrs. Mil- See "Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ire-
lard. land," vol. iii. , pp. 310, 311.
graveyard attached
July 19. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. 273
sent Ossin may have been identical with the Bishop Asicus, mentioned by Jocelyn," in his Life of St. Patrick.
It seems quite evident, however, that the present holy man cannot he con- founded with Asicus, the Bishop of Elphin, whose feast has been assigned to
the27thofApril. Atthe19thofJuly,intheMartyrologyofDonegal,"wefind recorded Oisseine, and fifty monks, of Tengaidh. In the Irish Calendar, which belonged to the Irish Ordnance Survey,13 there is an entry of this
T
Oseine, at the xiv. of the August Kalends, * which corresponds with the pre-
sent date. We cannot find any other records, to afford satisfactory informa- tion regarding St. Oissene and his fifty monks of Tengaidh.
Article II. —St. Aedhan, Abbot of Lismore, County of Water- ford. ThenameofSt. Aedhan,AbbotofLismoir,appearsintheMartyr-
1
at the 19th of July. In the list of Aids or Aedhans given byColgan,thepresentholyAbbotisincluded. 2 IntheIrishCalendar,com- piled for use of the Irish Ordnance Survey, at xiv. of the August Kalends, there is an entry of this holy man,3 who is not designated, however, as Abbot. His name also occurs in the Martyrology of Donegal,* at this date, as Aedhan of Lis-mor.
Article III. —St. Ciaran, of Tigh-na-Gortigh. Veneration was
at the of as we find recorded in the of
19th July, Martyrology Tallagh,
of Tigh-na-Gortigh.
Article IV. —St. Cobran, of Cluain. We find registered in the
of 1 that a festival to honour a St. Corbran, was Martyrology Tallagh Guana,
celebrated, at the 19th of July. There is a St. Cobhran, son of Enan, and a brother to St. Moab or Abban, and to a St. Moeldubh. Colgan thinks him to be identical possibly with St. Cobran, venerated in the church of Cluain Enaich, at the 19th of July. * A doubt seems to have been entertained, that the present holy man had been identical with St. Auxilius, a disciple of St. Patrick, and the patron of Killossy, in the county of Kildare, owing to some fancied resemblance of etymology, assimilating both names. 3 This
ology of Tallagh,
given,
to Ciaran o Tigh h. nGortigh. This place to which allusion is made has not been identified. He is entered in the of 3 as
11 See "Trias Thaumaturga," Vita Sexta S. Patricii, cap. cvii. , pp. 89, 90, and n. 122, p. 114.
12 Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
196, 197.
13 Now in the Royal Irish Academy's
Library.
14 Thus : Oifeme ^5«r cao^ao mAnAch
6 UhengAi-on. See Common Place Book F, p. 63.
Article hi. — 1 Edited by Rev. Dr. Kelly, p. xxix.
Article II.
*
tion of the "Martyrology of Donegal, Table appended, pp. 360, 361.
-'
—
pendix ad Acta S. Columbre, cap. iii. ,
p. 482.
3 See Rev. Drs. Todd's and Reeves' edi-
Edited by Rev. Dr.
JCelly, p. xxix.
3 See "Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae," xxxi.
Januarii, Appendix, cap. i. , p. 221. 3 Thus : ^o-OAn l/ior- moir\.
* Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp. 196, 197.
4 Edited by Rev. Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp. 196, 197.
Martyrology Donegal, Ciaran,
2
Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
196, 197. — Article iv.
Kelly, p. xxix. 2"
x
Edited by Rev.
Dr.
See Trias Thaumaturga," Quarta Ap-
5 ByFatherJohnColgan. 6"
See Trias Thaumaturga," Quarta Ap- pendix ad Acta S. Columbae, cap. x. , num.
1
274 LIVESOFTHEIRISHSAINTS. [July 19
saint is noticed in the Martyrology of Donegal/ at the 19th of July. It is supposed,* as an alternative conjecture, that he may have been the son of Enan, and of Micotha, a sister to St. Columkille. The church of Cluain, to which he was attached, is said to have been near Derry. He is classed
6
Article V. —St. Mocolmoc or Colman Mac h. Amla. We find entered
of Tallagh, 1 at the 19th of July, the name of Mocolmoc machAmla. ThetrueandoriginalnameofthisholymanwasColmoc,the mo being prefixed, as a term of endearment. Nor is it easy from the clue
among the disciples of St. Columba.
in the
Martyrology
given by the Martyrologist to find his family pedigree. His time and place 2
are alike unknown. The, Martyrology of Donegal, at this same date, registers Colman,i. e. , Mocholmog.
Article VI. —St. Ferghus. It is recorded in the Martyrology of
1
Tallagh, that a festival, in honour of FergusaSci, was celebrated at the 19th
a
of July. At the same date, the Martyrology of Donegal name as Ferghus.
simply enters his
Article VII. —St. Dimanus or Dimaus. Much uncertainty prevails
regarding the present saint, as may be gleaned from the conflicting statements
that succeed. No less than five different festivals for Dima or Dioma, monk
of Iona, are in various Calendars. The reader is referred to the 22nd of
1
February, for fuller notices. There we have considered his Acts, as relating
to his labours and preaching among the Mercians and Midland Angles.
According to one supposition, he left Ireland, probably in the first instance for Iona, which he left for another mission, and laboured with St. Chad 2
amongtheMidlandAngles. AccordingtoJohnLesley/aholymannamed Dimaus laboured with others to spread the faith in Scotland, during the reign of Donald or Donovald, the fifty-third King of Scotland. On such a state- ment seems to have been built the assignment of a feast for him at this day. By other writers, he is called Dimanus or Dimannus. The Martyrologium Anglicanum assigns a feast to the present day, for Dimanus, whose name is eulogized in the edition of 1608, as also in that of 1640. This pious servant of God is said to have been a disciple to St. Columkille, yet this seems hardly probable, as he flourished at a much later period. According to some writers, his festival is assigned to the present day. He is venerated according to others, on the 22nd of February, on the 8th of April/ on the 19th of June, 5 and at the 16th of November. 6 Dimannus is said to have been an Abbot,
First Volume of this work, Art. i.
3 In his of lib. iv. History Scotland,
*
According to Camerarius.
5 According to Father Hugh Menard's
Benedictine Martyrology.
6 to andtheKalen- According Dempster
dar of Philip Ferrarius.
7 Thus: "19 Die. Sanctus Dimannus
Abbas. Ccelo ipum dedit Strahnauernia Sco- Article VII. — In the Second Volume tiae prouincia sub Christi annum 670. "—
17, p. 488. Article v. — 1
Edited
by
Rev. Dr.
Kelly, p. xxix.
2 Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
196, 197.
Articlevi. ~ Edited
by
Rev. Dr.
Kelly, p. xxix.
3 Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
196, 197.
"
See his Life at the 7th ofJanuary, in the Saints. " Scottish Entries in the Kalcndar
of this work, Art. ix. Bishop Forbes' a
Kalendars of Scottish
July 19. ]
LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS.
275
according to one account. His festival is entered at the 19th of July, by
Camerarius,' who cites King for an authority. The conjecture is, that he
Forbes, the present St. Dimanus is distinguished from the Scottish Diuma, one of the four priests who went a missionary to the Midland Angles, as men- tioned by Venerable Bede. 9 The Bollandists IO have notices of St. Dimanus, at the 19th of July, while they take occasion to rebuke the uncritical habits of the Scottish and Irish hagiologists, when treating about their saints.
Article VIII. —Reputed Feast of St. Bla—an or Blanus, Bishop of Dunblane, Scotland. The present St. Blanus as he is called by Demp-
—
died 670, but on this head nothing certain can be affirmed. By Bishop 8
'
is said to have been the son of an Irish mother, who was sister to St. 2
ster
Cathan, an Irish bishop, who lived in the Scottish Island of Bute. Accord- ing to Camerarius,3 St. Blanus had a feast at the 19th of July. Citing
Dempster and Camerarius for this feast, the Bollandists,'' likewise, enter it, but defer to the 10th of August further notices. The festival of St. Blann has been referred by Dempsters to the 19th of July. The Irish Calendars refer his feast to the 10th of August, where more concerning him maybe found.
Article IX. —Reputed Feast of St.
2
See "Acta Sanctorum Hibernine," xvii. Februarii, Appendix ad Vitam S. Fin- tani, cap. i. , p. 355.
3 Thus : V10VmCA1vl So^ajyc yoclunl- l/iche. See Common Place Book F, p. 63,
the quotation in the text shows, that races had been established there from times re- mote.
* Allusion is made to St. Conleth, first Bishop of Kildare, whose feast was held on the 3rd of May, and whose Life has been in- serted at that date in the Fifth Volume of
in the Royal Iri—sh Academy's Library. this work, Art. i.
*s Article ix. See "Trias Thauma-
According to Dr. O'Donovan's "Annals
turga," Quinta Appendix ad Acta S. Bri- gidse, cap. ii. , p. 629.
2
See Dr. O'Donovan's edition, vol. i. , pp. 512, 513, with notes (a, b), ibid.
3 In Cormac's Glossary, at the word Cuipr\ech, it would seem, that the ancient Irish had chariot races here; and in any case
of the Four Masters," vol. i. , pp. 500,501.
6" SeeRev. Dr. Reeves'Adamnan's Life
of St. Columba," Additional Notes O, p. 391.
7 According to Dr. O'Donovan's " Anna-*
of the Four Masters," vol. i. , pp. 512, 513. 8 The Annals of Ulster have his death,
in the Annals of the Four
270 LIVESOFTHEIRISHSAINTS. [July 18. fixed, in which at Kal. xv. Aug. (18th of July), there is a Feast entered for
1
Article XL—St. Mianach, Son of Failbhe. According to the
1
Martyrology of Tallagh, veneration was given at the 18th of July to Mianach
macFailbe. The O'Clerys state, that he was of the race of Conall Gulban, the son of Niall. Thus, he belonged to the great St. Columkille's family stock. Marianus O'Gorman and Maguire record this saint. 2 The Martyrology of Donegal3 alsorecordshimatthesamedate,asManach,sonofFailbhe.
Article XII. —Feast of St. Christina and her Seven Brothers,
"1
Martyrs. In the Feilire" of St. yEngus, at the 18th of May, the Irish
Church celebrated the Festival of St. Christina and her Seven Brothers, Martyrs. To this are postfixed some comments, to explain who she had been,
2
while traditions regarding her are given.
Lacus Christinas, near Rome, and yet a distance of three days' journey from it, hadbeendenominated. Anotherlegendis,thatsheconstructedacauseway from Rome to Mount Garganus, in which she was aided by a certain wealthy
man, who made proposals of marriage to her, which she would not accept on any other condition. However, when it was finished, the grace of God came upon him, and both served the Lord in continency. At this day, the Bol- landists have no account of this saint and of her seven brothers ; but they have a festival and Acts of St. Symphorosa and of her seven sons. 3 Those Acts appear to have no reference whatever, to what is found regarding St. Christina and her brothers, in the " Feilire " of St. ^Engus.
St. Benin.
ArticleXIII. —ReputedFeastfortheTranslationoftheRelicsof St. Othilia, or Odilia, Virgin and Martyr, at Hoye in Belgium. This
holy^virgin—said to have been one of St. Ursula's companions—is
commemo-
1
rated on the i8th of July, byGreven, Wion, Molanus, Dempster, and others.
It is held to be the feast for some Translation of her relics. While noting it, at
A. D. 869.
"
Cobhthach mac Muredaich,
"May the host of the queen, the sainted Christina, with seven brethren, protect us
Princeps Cille dara dormivit. "—Rev. Dr.
—
the Royal Irish Academy," Irish Manuscript
O'Conor's " Rerum Hibernicarum Scripto-
"Transactions of On the Calendar of
"
res,
Article x.
unto the noble peace. "
J
Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
Juliano, Nemesio, Primitivo, Justino, Stac- teo et Eugeuio, Tibure in Latio. A Pre« vious Commentary in Four sections and thirty-seven paragraphs, by Father John Pinius, S. J. , precedes the Passion, written by some anonymous author, and previously
Article xiii. In his "Menologium
Scotorum,"thus "HuyiOdilia? Ursulanac
:
translatio. "—Bishop Forbes'
tomus iv. , —Anuales Ultonienses," p. 230. .
196, 197. — Article xii.
'From the "LeabharBreac"
l at Kal. xi. Again,
vol.
Jan. , Series, i. , part
i.
there is a feast for St. Bertin, ibid. His chief feast was held on the 5th of September.
Article xi. — Edited by Rev. Dr. Kelly, p. xxix.
a
Quarta Appendix ad Acta S. Columbia, cap. iii. , p. 481.
Oengus, p. cxi.
*
Julii xviii. Dc Sanctis Martyribus Sym- See Colgan's "Trias Thaumaturga," phorosa cum septem Filiis, Crescente,
copy, Dr. Whitley Stokes gives the follow-
ing stanza and its English translation Sloiget) inapgiiA
Snaiopum inp-o pvetvoai Comorxpjppunbnaicnpe In. vp. 1n4 noemoiM,
—
Theodore in his "Acta Ruinart,
:
published by
sincera et selecta. "— See pp. 350 to 359.
It is stated, that from her the
See ibid. , p. cxix.
3 $ce "Acta Sanctorum," tomus iv. ,
"
Kalendars of
July 19. ] LIVESOFTHEIRISHSAINTS. 271
2
refer for further accounts to the 21st day of October, when the general Acts of St. Ursula and of her companion martyrs were to be more fully investigated. That task has been left for the thoroughly learned and able Father Victor De Buck, S. J. , and it has since been com-
pleted in a most exhaustive and wonderfully research! ul manner.
ftuwteent6 JBay of 3ulg*
ARTICLE I. —ST. OSSIN OR OISSEINE, AND FIFTY MONKS, OF TENGAIDH.
the earlier and middle ages of our national church, the social conditions
INand the level of cultivation and knowledge were different from what
they are at present. Since then, they have undergone numerous changes. Menfoundinthemonasticprofessionthenaturalformofareligiouslife; for that it was, which presented to their minds the highest idea of earnestness in fulfilling God's purpose, and their own desire for self-improvement. Now, the world's complicated refinements and enjoyments lead men into its vortex, while hoping at life's close to escape from its entanglements, and to be recon- ciled with the Creator, whose wise designs they have so often frustrated.
At the of the of " a festival to 19th July, Martyrology Tallagh registers
honour Ossin o Thergaidh ocus Coeca Manach imbi. From such an entry,
we should be inclined to suppose, that Ossin must have been an Abbot, and
that he presided over a community of fifty monks, at a place set down as
Thergaidh, but more correctly Tengaidh, as given in the O'Clerys' Calendar. It is difficult to know where this place had been situated. Nor can we find,
among the townland names of Ireland, any near approach to it in spelling or in pronunciation. Among the parishes, however, there is one, denominated Taney2 orTauney,inthehalf-baronyofRathdown,andcountyofDublin. Taken in its simple way, as Tawny orTawna, or Tawny, there are no less than sixteen townlands so denominated in Ireland \ while, in composition, there are one hundred and eleven places having relation besides with these etymons. 3 ThemotherchurchofTaneyorTawny,inthecountyofDublin, was the head of a rural deanery of great extent, and several other chapels were subservient to it/ The Archdeacon of Dublin s possessed the dignity
6
and prebend of Taney, at least from the time of Archbishop Luke, until the
Reformation, when the chapter of the cathedral church of the Most Holy
*
According to the Repertorium Viride of Archbishop Alan,
the present date, the Bollandists
Scottish Saints," p. 206. 2"
See Acta Sanctorum," tomus iv. , Julii xviii. Among —the pretermitted feasts, p. 349.
s In the time of St. Laurence O'Toole, one
p.
xxix. 2
Already
i. Edited by Rev. Dr. Kelly,
allusion has been made to this
was Archdeacon of Dublin.
Article l
—— Torquil evidently of Scandinavian origin
place, in the First Volume of this work, and
at the 23rd of January, when treating of St.
Lucain or Lucan, of Tamnach or Tawny, Art. vii.
3 See " General Alphabetical Index to the Townlands and Towns, Parishes and Baro- nies of Ireland," pp. 850 to 852.
A. D. 1228 to 1255, in John DAlton's " Me- moirs of the Archbishops of Dublin," pp. 90 to 94.
6 See an account of his from episcopacy
7 See William Monck Mason's "
History and Antiquities of the Collegiate and Cathe- dral Church of St. Patrick, near Dublin,"
book i. , chap, ix. , sect, i. , pp. 44 to 46.
272 LIVES OF 7HE IRISH SAINTS.
[July 19.
Trinity had been dissolved by a mandate of King Henry VIII. An Inquisi- tion held in the 38th year of his reign, January 27th, reports the extent and value of the Archdiaconal possessions. At that time, there were six acres of glebe annexed to the benefice, and lying to the east and south-east of the church. ' The Regal Visitation of 16 15 returns the church and chancel to have been then in good repair. It is evident, that the deserted Protestant church there does not date back to that 8 In the
period.
to it are buried Mr. William Halliday, an accomplished Hiberno-Celtic
Taney Church and Cemetery, County of Dublin.
scholar and linguist, with some other persons of distinction. The former Protestant church has been closed for services, since the erection in 1818 of a
more modern one, cruciform and in the pointed style, yet architecturally and artistically very defective. The River Dodder runs for upwards of a mile along the northern boundary of Taney—or as sometimes called—Churchtown parish. The scenery around this locality is highly picturesque and charming. The summits of the Three Rock Mountain and of the Two Rock Mountain are other boundary lines of this parish, while there the surfaces become wild
andrugged,yetpresentingsuperbviews. 10 Ofcourseitcannotbeasserted,that the holy Abbot and his fifty monks had after all any connexion with this place.
Colgan hazards a conjecture, but allowing merely its possibility, that the pre-
8
The accompanying illustration, drawn 9 lie died in 1812, in the twenty-fourth. on the spot by William F. Wakeman, was year of his age. Beside his remains lie taken from the railway embankment near those of his distinguished brothers, Doctor Dundrum.
By him it has been trans- Daniel Halliday and Charles Halliday.
10
ferred to the wood, engraved by Mrs. Mil- See "Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ire-
lard. land," vol. iii. , pp. 310, 311.
graveyard attached
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sent Ossin may have been identical with the Bishop Asicus, mentioned by Jocelyn," in his Life of St. Patrick.
It seems quite evident, however, that the present holy man cannot he con- founded with Asicus, the Bishop of Elphin, whose feast has been assigned to
the27thofApril. Atthe19thofJuly,intheMartyrologyofDonegal,"wefind recorded Oisseine, and fifty monks, of Tengaidh. In the Irish Calendar, which belonged to the Irish Ordnance Survey,13 there is an entry of this
T
Oseine, at the xiv. of the August Kalends, * which corresponds with the pre-
sent date. We cannot find any other records, to afford satisfactory informa- tion regarding St. Oissene and his fifty monks of Tengaidh.
Article II. —St. Aedhan, Abbot of Lismore, County of Water- ford. ThenameofSt. Aedhan,AbbotofLismoir,appearsintheMartyr-
1
at the 19th of July. In the list of Aids or Aedhans given byColgan,thepresentholyAbbotisincluded. 2 IntheIrishCalendar,com- piled for use of the Irish Ordnance Survey, at xiv. of the August Kalends, there is an entry of this holy man,3 who is not designated, however, as Abbot. His name also occurs in the Martyrology of Donegal,* at this date, as Aedhan of Lis-mor.
Article III. —St. Ciaran, of Tigh-na-Gortigh. Veneration was
at the of as we find recorded in the of
19th July, Martyrology Tallagh,
of Tigh-na-Gortigh.
Article IV. —St. Cobran, of Cluain. We find registered in the
of 1 that a festival to honour a St. Corbran, was Martyrology Tallagh Guana,
celebrated, at the 19th of July. There is a St. Cobhran, son of Enan, and a brother to St. Moab or Abban, and to a St. Moeldubh. Colgan thinks him to be identical possibly with St. Cobran, venerated in the church of Cluain Enaich, at the 19th of July. * A doubt seems to have been entertained, that the present holy man had been identical with St. Auxilius, a disciple of St. Patrick, and the patron of Killossy, in the county of Kildare, owing to some fancied resemblance of etymology, assimilating both names. 3 This
ology of Tallagh,
given,
to Ciaran o Tigh h. nGortigh. This place to which allusion is made has not been identified. He is entered in the of 3 as
11 See "Trias Thaumaturga," Vita Sexta S. Patricii, cap. cvii. , pp. 89, 90, and n. 122, p. 114.
12 Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
196, 197.
13 Now in the Royal Irish Academy's
Library.
14 Thus : Oifeme ^5«r cao^ao mAnAch
6 UhengAi-on. See Common Place Book F, p. 63.
Article hi. — 1 Edited by Rev. Dr. Kelly, p. xxix.
Article II.
*
tion of the "Martyrology of Donegal, Table appended, pp. 360, 361.
-'
—
pendix ad Acta S. Columbre, cap. iii. ,
p. 482.
3 See Rev. Drs. Todd's and Reeves' edi-
Edited by Rev. Dr.
JCelly, p. xxix.
3 See "Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae," xxxi.
Januarii, Appendix, cap. i. , p. 221. 3 Thus : ^o-OAn l/ior- moir\.
* Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp. 196, 197.
4 Edited by Rev. Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp. 196, 197.
Martyrology Donegal, Ciaran,
2
Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
196, 197. — Article iv.
Kelly, p. xxix. 2"
x
Edited by Rev.
Dr.
See Trias Thaumaturga," Quarta Ap-
5 ByFatherJohnColgan. 6"
See Trias Thaumaturga," Quarta Ap- pendix ad Acta S. Columbae, cap. x. , num.
1
274 LIVESOFTHEIRISHSAINTS. [July 19
saint is noticed in the Martyrology of Donegal/ at the 19th of July. It is supposed,* as an alternative conjecture, that he may have been the son of Enan, and of Micotha, a sister to St. Columkille. The church of Cluain, to which he was attached, is said to have been near Derry. He is classed
6
Article V. —St. Mocolmoc or Colman Mac h. Amla. We find entered
of Tallagh, 1 at the 19th of July, the name of Mocolmoc machAmla. ThetrueandoriginalnameofthisholymanwasColmoc,the mo being prefixed, as a term of endearment. Nor is it easy from the clue
among the disciples of St. Columba.
in the
Martyrology
given by the Martyrologist to find his family pedigree. His time and place 2
are alike unknown. The, Martyrology of Donegal, at this same date, registers Colman,i. e. , Mocholmog.
Article VI. —St. Ferghus. It is recorded in the Martyrology of
1
Tallagh, that a festival, in honour of FergusaSci, was celebrated at the 19th
a
of July. At the same date, the Martyrology of Donegal name as Ferghus.
simply enters his
Article VII. —St. Dimanus or Dimaus. Much uncertainty prevails
regarding the present saint, as may be gleaned from the conflicting statements
that succeed. No less than five different festivals for Dima or Dioma, monk
of Iona, are in various Calendars. The reader is referred to the 22nd of
1
February, for fuller notices. There we have considered his Acts, as relating
to his labours and preaching among the Mercians and Midland Angles.
According to one supposition, he left Ireland, probably in the first instance for Iona, which he left for another mission, and laboured with St. Chad 2
amongtheMidlandAngles. AccordingtoJohnLesley/aholymannamed Dimaus laboured with others to spread the faith in Scotland, during the reign of Donald or Donovald, the fifty-third King of Scotland. On such a state- ment seems to have been built the assignment of a feast for him at this day. By other writers, he is called Dimanus or Dimannus. The Martyrologium Anglicanum assigns a feast to the present day, for Dimanus, whose name is eulogized in the edition of 1608, as also in that of 1640. This pious servant of God is said to have been a disciple to St. Columkille, yet this seems hardly probable, as he flourished at a much later period. According to some writers, his festival is assigned to the present day. He is venerated according to others, on the 22nd of February, on the 8th of April/ on the 19th of June, 5 and at the 16th of November. 6 Dimannus is said to have been an Abbot,
First Volume of this work, Art. i.
3 In his of lib. iv. History Scotland,
*
According to Camerarius.
5 According to Father Hugh Menard's
Benedictine Martyrology.
6 to andtheKalen- According Dempster
dar of Philip Ferrarius.
7 Thus: "19 Die. Sanctus Dimannus
Abbas. Ccelo ipum dedit Strahnauernia Sco- Article VII. — In the Second Volume tiae prouincia sub Christi annum 670. "—
17, p. 488. Article v. — 1
Edited
by
Rev. Dr.
Kelly, p. xxix.
2 Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
196, 197.
Articlevi. ~ Edited
by
Rev. Dr.
Kelly, p. xxix.
3 Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
196, 197.
"
See his Life at the 7th ofJanuary, in the Saints. " Scottish Entries in the Kalcndar
of this work, Art. ix. Bishop Forbes' a
Kalendars of Scottish
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275
according to one account. His festival is entered at the 19th of July, by
Camerarius,' who cites King for an authority. The conjecture is, that he
Forbes, the present St. Dimanus is distinguished from the Scottish Diuma, one of the four priests who went a missionary to the Midland Angles, as men- tioned by Venerable Bede. 9 The Bollandists IO have notices of St. Dimanus, at the 19th of July, while they take occasion to rebuke the uncritical habits of the Scottish and Irish hagiologists, when treating about their saints.
Article VIII. —Reputed Feast of St. Bla—an or Blanus, Bishop of Dunblane, Scotland. The present St. Blanus as he is called by Demp-
—
died 670, but on this head nothing certain can be affirmed. By Bishop 8
'
is said to have been the son of an Irish mother, who was sister to St. 2
ster
Cathan, an Irish bishop, who lived in the Scottish Island of Bute. Accord- ing to Camerarius,3 St. Blanus had a feast at the 19th of July. Citing
Dempster and Camerarius for this feast, the Bollandists,'' likewise, enter it, but defer to the 10th of August further notices. The festival of St. Blann has been referred by Dempsters to the 19th of July. The Irish Calendars refer his feast to the 10th of August, where more concerning him maybe found.
Article IX. —Reputed Feast of St.
