The of 1 at the 10th of records the name
Martyrology
Tallagh, June,
ofSeinbeirech,ChuileDremni.
ofSeinbeirech,ChuileDremni.
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6
Aidus.
'* The ruins of an old church yet lie within Rathlihin townland, in Killoughy parish.
An enclosed cemetery now surrounds them.
Only a few years back, the plan
—re But the stones—
and form of the old chapel we distinguishable. excepting
someofthoseinthewestend weretorndown,andusedinbuildingawall roundthecemetery. Thechurchwastwenty-twofeetsixinchesinwidth;" and it measured about 60 feet in length, so far as could be calculated by the writer. At the western gable, on the inside, there was an apartment, with a coved stone roof, extending the whole breadth of this edifice. Mortar still remaining on the roof shows, that it had been built over wicker-work. How- ever, it is now greatly injured, owing to an act of Vandalism which the people of that neighbourhood allowed to be perpetrated over twenty years ago. A pious person having bequeathed a small sum of money to have a wall erected round the exposed graveyard, a stonemason contracted —for its erection, and
then
tolerably per- Excepting the coved- roof chamber or cell, nearly every other part of the church has been removed, and even a considerable portion of that has been destroyed, as we were assured on the spot by a guide, who was cognizant of the facts we have already related. The east gable has been pulled down to within a few feet
of the soil on the outside ; interiorly, it supports one side of the coved-roof. 16 A small fragment of the north side wall stands. '7 The fine limestone of the district had been used in constructing the entire building. Immediately south of the churchyard, there is a very remarkable moat, which like so many of its class in Ireland appears to to have been in great part the work of human hands. Advantage had been taken of a natural eminence, to scarp it into an
artificial and a symmetrical shape, probably to place a fortification on the upper surface. About a quarter of a mile to the same side of it, Lady Well l8 is
hea
down the old church walls
—t once
to
fect so that their materials were used for his purpose.
Townland sheet 24.
for the
' 5 to the Rev. According
proceeded
pull
Maps
King's County,"
Anthony Cogan, in his valuable work, "The Diocese of
" See Archbishop Ussher's " Britanni-
carum Ecclesiarum Antiquitates," cap.
Meath, Ancient and Modern," vol. ii. , chap, xix. , p. 514. and n. ibid.
,6
The other side seems to have sprung from a transverse wall, as we have been in- formed; and even portions of that division remain, to attest the correctness of this in- formation,
1 This is represented in the foreground of the accompanying sketch, taken on the spot, the 9th of August, 1888. A great gap occurs in the side of the vaulted structure, within the old church, where the division wall once
xvii. , p. 498. ""
See Rev. Anthony Cogan's Diocese of Meath, Ancient and Modern," vol. Hi. , chap, lxxv. , p. 618.
13 See Colgan's "Acta Sanctorum Hiber- nue," xxviii. Februarii. Vita S. Aidi Epis. et Confessons, cap. iv. , v. , vi. , pp. 418. 419.
M He is venerated at the 28th of Feb- ruary.
June io. ]
LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS.
613
seen, towards the east by south of this church. 10 It was dedicated to the
Blessed Virgin, and it used to be frequented, on the 8th of September, one of her festivals. 20 On an eminence near the old church stands a castle in ruins, which tradition says had been built by O'Molloy, to whom also the erection of the church is ascribed. " The memory of the Patron Saint Illadan was held in great veneration, at Rathlibhthen church, for many centuries after his death,
Rathlihen Old Church, King's County.
andevenuntilthetimeofColgan; whotellsus,thatthestatueofSt. Illand, with a mitre on its head, and a crozier in hand, was to be seen there in his day. This image, however, shared the fate of many other venerable remains of Christian art, it having been broken by modern sectaries, before the middle oftheseventeenthcentury. " Thesaint'sstatue,withanepiscopalmitreon its*head and a crozier in its hand, long remained in this church, and it was to be seen there towards the close of the last century, but the head had been broken off by sacrilegious hands. 33 In 1838, Thomas O'Conor could obtain no information about the statue of St. Iolladhan, and as may supposed still less can any tradition about it be recovered at the present time. The year of
crossed the church's width. Behind the south side wail appears the top of a very
now
Lady-day became the patron day in the parish
40 See Rev. " Diocese of Anthony Cogan's
and
nished over in great part with aged haw-
thorns. In the far distance are the Slieve xix. , sect. 5, p. 514.
high
evidently
ancient
mound,
gar-
Bloom Mountains. The writer's sketch has been transferred by William F. Wakeman
" This opinion still holds sway in the
" See " Acta Sanctorum Hiber- Colgan's
xxviii. Februarii. Vita S. Aidi, niae," Epis.
et Confessoris, n. 7, p. 422.
23 See " Monasticon Hiberni- Archdall\
cum," p. 404.
to the wood,
engraved by
Mrs. Millard.
keeps sentinel,
18 A
and a wall encompasses it.
very aged
ash tree
19 Mr. Thomas O'Conor
han was altogether forgotten there, while
says,
"that Iollad-
of Killoughey. "
Meath, Ancient and Modern," vol. ii. , chap,
neighbourhood.
614 LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. [June io.
this saint's death is not known ; but, his festival was kept, on the ioth day
of June,24 probably that of his death. We find a feast set down, in the
of 25 at the ioth of 26 in honour of Illadan mac Martyrology Tallagh, June,
Eucdoch o Raith Liphiten. We are told, moreover,2? that Marianus O'Gorman and a commentator on St. yEngus 28 have the festival of Illand Hua Eochaidh, on the same The of a9 records
day. Martyrology Donegal him,atthesamedate,underthetitleoflolladhansonofEochaidh. Under
the head of Rath-Libhthen, Du—ald Mac Firbis enters Iolladan, descendant—
rathershouldhebestyledson ofEochaidh,andabishop,atJuneioth. 1
3° His festival is entered in that copy of the Irish Calendar^ compiled for use of the Irish Ordnance Survey, at the iv. of the June Ides, or ioth of this
month.
Article II. —St. Sanctan, or Santan, Bishop. Veneration was
given on this day, ioth of June, to Sanctan or Santan, a bishop, as we find
entered in the of 1 and of 2 It has been con- Martyrologies Tallagh, Donegal.
jectured^ that the prtsent St. Sanctan may have been identical with a young man, who was rescued from captivity, by St. Fechin,4 Abbot of Fore. s Ano- ther conjecture may be quite as correct, viz. , that he was connected with Kil-
near Bohernabreena,6 near the head waters of the River — Dodder,?
Kilnasantan was — who granted by Archbishop Comyn
nasantan,
Luke, 10 this church to St. granted
of Dublin.
built and endowed St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin 8
Patrick, and confirmation of that grant was made by Pope Celestine II I. ,9 in
county
the tiqi. In year
1231, Archbishop
Patrick's Cathedral, on demise of Andrew de Menavia, the holder of it as a
In 1 ' it was returned as wasted the O'Tooles, and in prebend. 1306, by
1326, the English sheriff describes it, as belonging to the manor of Tallagh, but
*4 See Father Sheerin's posthumous work 166, 167. The more modern hand adds
'•
edited by Father Ward,
Martyris Inclyti, Archiepiscopi Dublinensis, Mechliniensium Apostoli," . Sic. Dissertatio
num. Q. P- -'
e l>at"a S. Rumoldi, sect. 9,
Rev. . . . .
26 Or iv. of the Ides. Uv, p. xxu.
*5 Edited
«> See Colgan's
copy
manufac„e a on t]ie ] g
Dodder mills, valley,
by
"
Acta Sanctoru.
: ' xxviii. Februarii, Vita S. Aidi il^er-
nae,
et Confessoris, n. 7, p. 422.
ha bueAciiAc, " road of the from Britons,
Sancti Rumoldi
the references to Mar. and M. Taml.
Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
flourishing ; CSj i}] eacn
,
28 This however is not to be found in tne toK,cn ,-ia bpeAcnAC, "house of the Bri-
of his " Feilire," as edited by Whitley S:okes, LL. D.
2»
Edited by 1p
30 See " Proceedings of Royal Irish Aca-
Irish Mam^cript Series, vol. 1. ,
demy,"
part i. , pp- 124, 125.
31 There we meet. " 1oUat>a» ua eACAi-o e&rP o Uaic tibcen 1 VeapAlb CeAU 1
the margin,
, j
18 He ruled over the See of
Com- In * note on I find this Uaic bbcen identi-
rnroe. Ordnance Survey Office Copy, mon Place Book F, p. 54-
Harris Nicolas'
Chronolog; g> See Sir . u c YotHistory'»,"
p- 2°? ;
fied as " Rathlihen or Rathlen, in the parish a, of Killoughy, King's County, barony of A. D. 1228 to A. I. . 1255. See
Rev. Dr. J Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
^^ ^ him, in John D Alton s Men,
Archbishops of Dublin, pp. 90
" See John D Alton s " Hisf o
Article ii. — Kelly, p. xxvi.
Edited by
fh County of Dublin," p. 755- r£ of tne
to the College of St.
3
4 See his Life in the First Volume ofthis
work, at January 20th, Art. ii.
5 See "Acta S. inctoium Hibernian," xx.
Januarii. Secunda Vita S. Fechini. cap. xxxvii. , and nn. 27, 28, pp. 137, 138, 142.
6 Some think the derivation lo be boliAp
By Colgan.
were in a irt of t! )e iast the present, am. . (iedined in the beginnin- of
. .
appeared. jiave now ai lllost j,s.
8 About the year
Ware, vol. i. , "Archb. ,,^ gee Harris,
P- 3*5- oprs of Dublin," s He ruled from 1191 to i
"
century,
but t
>ate jn the latter
.
greens, &c,
4
-
'
June io. ]
LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. 615
" within the lying
therefore waste and 12 the unprofitable. During
Irishry,"
border wars of the middle ages, the exercise of Divine service in it was ren- dered difficult to the settlers. l3 In the sixteenth 1* it
English century, ceased to be a church for worship, a chapel having been erected at a place called by the Irish Templeogue, or " the new church. " The old church of Kilnasantan is now a ruin ; but it measured about 18 paces in length by 5
in breadth. Although built at a very early period, and in a sequestered spot,
1 *
its walls exhibit no skill in contemptible
in this
were rude and broken granite crosses on the piers of its entrance, a large broken font inside the gate, and some tombs of the last century, uniformly
and grotesquely sculptured.
Article III. —St. Sen Berach, of Cuil-Drephni, Countv of
Sligo.
The of 1 at the 10th of records the name Martyrology Tallagh, June,
ofSeinbeirech,ChuileDremni. Elsewhere,thisplaceis spokenofmoreat
Inthe of 2 atthesame Martyrology Donegal,
wefind
entered,
brated battle was fought, between Diermaid, King of Erin, with his people, and the kinsmen of Colum Cille, with the Connachtmen on the other side, to avenge the son of the King of Connacht, who was under the protection of St. Columkille. We have already treated about this matter in his Life, 4 as also alluded to the false judgment said to have been given against him for thetranscriptionofSt. Finnen'sbook. s CuleDrebene,6ascalledbyAdam- nan,? was situated in the territory of Cairbre.
Article IV. —St. Forchellach or Faircheallach, of Fore, County
length.
Sen Berach, of Cuil-drephni. Between Druim chliabh, now Drumcliff, and Sligeach, now Sligo,3 in Connacht, Cuil dreimne is situated. Here the cele-
of Westmeath. On the 10th of in the June,
of
1 Tallagh, appears
Martyrology thenameForchellach,ofFobhair,orFore,ashavingbeenvenerated. This
place is situated in the barony of Demifore, and in the county of Westmeath. An interesting account of this place has been left us, by Sir Henry Piers of
Tristernagh,
and written in 1682. 2
He relates a said to have been miracle,
" See ibid. , p. 763.
13 See an account of this ancient church, in William Monck Mason's valuable work,
"
History and Antiquities of the Collegiate and Cathedral Church of St. Patrick near Dublin, from its Foundation in 1 190 to the
"Antiquities of Ireland," vol. i. , pp. 53 to 55.
* See in the present volume, Art. i. , at
June 9th, chap. vii.
s In a note by Dr. Todd at this word,
Book, he says :
l* 6"
year 1819," book i. , chap, xi. , pp. 74, 75. An Inquisition of 1547 finds annexed to
this church a demesne of 100 acres, ing to the "economy of St. Patrick's. "
15 See William Monck Mason's "History
and Antiquities of the Collegiate and Cathedral Church of St. Patrick near Dublin, from its Foundation in 1190 to the year
*
Est locus hie in
Colgan has it : regione
book i. , — xi. , p. 1819," chap, 74,
and n. (a), p. 31. — Article iv.
n. (1). Article hi, Edited by Rev. Dr.
*
Edited
Rev. Dr.
Kelly, p. xxvi. 32
Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp. J. 66, 167.
3 Threebeautifulcopperplateengravings, with a ground plan of Sligo Abbey, drawn by T. Cocking and Bigari, appear in Grose's
See Major Charles Vallancey's "Collec- tanea de Rebus Hibernicis," vol. i. , num. i. , "ChronogrnphicalDescriptionoftheCounty
of Westmeath," p. 65.
belong-
Carbriae in Connacia non a— procul Sliguensi
masonry.
Early
century
date,
"
nelf. sLife of Columba, lib. ii. , cap. 1. "
oppido, versus Aquilonem situs. "
"
See the story in O'Don-
Trias Thaumaturga," Quinta Vita S. Columbse,
n. 3, p. 452.
7 See Rev. Dr. Reeves' Adamnan's
"
Life of St. Columba," Prsefacio ii. , p. 9,
Kelly, p. xxvi.
3 See Ussher's
"
Primordia Ecclesiarum
by
616 LIVES OF THE IklSH SAINTS. [June to.
wrought there, by St. Fechin, the founder; while the same tradition is yet vividly remembered in the neighbourhood. There was a mill here, into which women must not presume to enter, and formerly it was not less respected than one of St. Fechin's churches. 3 This mill is said to have been hewed out of thesideofarock,bySt. Fechin'sownhands. GiraldusCambrensisrelates4 certain miraculous punishments inflicted on those, who profaned this place. 5 There is yet a mill at Fore, turned by a rush of water from the Benn, and it is still called by St. Fechin's name. 6 The Martyrology of Donegal,? at this same date, enters Faircheallach of Fobhar.
Article V. —St. Ferdomhnach, of Tuam, County of Galway. 1
[Eighth Ce>itury. ~] In the Martyrology of Tallagh, at the ioth of June, the simply entry of S. Ferdomnaigh occurs. His place is set down, in a later record. Atthesamedate,intheMartyrologyofDonegal' his—nameisgivenasFer- domhnach, of Tu—aim-da-Ualann. This latter spelling sometimes rendered Tuaim-Daolann is only another form for Tuaim-da-ghualann, now Tuam,
the seat of an Archbishop's See, in the County of Galway. In the Annals of the Four Masters,^ this saint's death is recorded at a. d. 777 ; but, more correctly, as we are told, it should be at the year 782/ Under the head of Tuaim-da-Ualann, and for June ioth, Duald Mac Firbis enters Ferdomh- nach (i. e. , the son of Caomhan), bishop of Tuaim-da-Ualann, anno Domini 781. 5 From the middle of the sixth century to his time, the names of his predecessors in the See of Tuam have passed away from our records.
Article VI. —St. Ainmire, or Ainmirech, of Aileach, County of Donegal. Veneration was given$ on this day, ioth of June, to Ainmirech
1
peninsula
in the county of Donegal. The Irish word Ainmire is said to have an identi- cal meaning with the Latin word Animosus. 3 Again, in the Martyrology of
Donegal,* the name Ainmire, of Aileach, is entered at the same date.
Article VII. —Reputed Feast for the Translation of the Relics of St. Patrick, St. Columba and St. Brigid. A Manuscript, classed B 1, 3, has an office for the Translation of the Relics of St. Patrick,
Britannicarum, cap. xvii. , p. 943. 382, 383. , and n. (e), p. 381.
44 SeeGiraldi Cambrensis "Opera," vol. v. ,
of Ailich, according to the Martyrology of Tallagh.
This place, formerly
is nowknownas 2 in the very celebrated, Elagh,
of and Inishowen,
edited by James K. Dimoek, M. A. " Topo-
grapliia Hibernica," Dist. ii. , cap. lii. , liii. , "
p. 134. Also, Expugnatio Hibernica," lib. ii. , cap. xxii. , pp. 354, 355.
See ibid.
s See "Proceedings of the Royal Irish
Academy," Irish Manuscript Series, vol. i. ,
5 See Messingham's Sanctorum," p. 432.
"
Florilogium Insuloe
6
See Rev. A. Cogan's "Diocese ofMeath,
For an interesting account of the Anti- quities of this place, the reader is referred to the Memoir of the City and North- Western Liberties of Londonderry," Ancient, sect. 2, pp. 217 to 236.
3 One bearing this name is known to have
in written the Acts of St. Brigid. See the
Second Volume of this work, at the istday
of February, Life St. Brigid, chap. i.
4 Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
164, 165.
Ancient and Modern,"' vol. hi. , chap, lxxiv. ,
pp. 562 to 565.
i Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
164. i65. Article v.
—
Edited by Rev. Dr.
Kelly, p. xxvi.
2 Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
166, 167.
3 See O'Donovan's Edition, vol. i. , pp.
part i. , pp. 130,—131.
Article vi. Kelly, p. xxi.
"
'
Edited by Rev. Dr.
June io/j LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS.
617
St. Columba and St.
at the 10th of 1 It June.
to the
At this same date, the Bollandists have entered the Festival of St. Patrick's Translation in Scotia, on the authority of Greven, Canisius and Ferrarius, while they remark that it was celebrated with an
2
Article VIII. —St. Rethach, Son of Coemhan.
—re But the stones—
and form of the old chapel we distinguishable. excepting
someofthoseinthewestend weretorndown,andusedinbuildingawall roundthecemetery. Thechurchwastwenty-twofeetsixinchesinwidth;" and it measured about 60 feet in length, so far as could be calculated by the writer. At the western gable, on the inside, there was an apartment, with a coved stone roof, extending the whole breadth of this edifice. Mortar still remaining on the roof shows, that it had been built over wicker-work. How- ever, it is now greatly injured, owing to an act of Vandalism which the people of that neighbourhood allowed to be perpetrated over twenty years ago. A pious person having bequeathed a small sum of money to have a wall erected round the exposed graveyard, a stonemason contracted —for its erection, and
then
tolerably per- Excepting the coved- roof chamber or cell, nearly every other part of the church has been removed, and even a considerable portion of that has been destroyed, as we were assured on the spot by a guide, who was cognizant of the facts we have already related. The east gable has been pulled down to within a few feet
of the soil on the outside ; interiorly, it supports one side of the coved-roof. 16 A small fragment of the north side wall stands. '7 The fine limestone of the district had been used in constructing the entire building. Immediately south of the churchyard, there is a very remarkable moat, which like so many of its class in Ireland appears to to have been in great part the work of human hands. Advantage had been taken of a natural eminence, to scarp it into an
artificial and a symmetrical shape, probably to place a fortification on the upper surface. About a quarter of a mile to the same side of it, Lady Well l8 is
hea
down the old church walls
—t once
to
fect so that their materials were used for his purpose.
Townland sheet 24.
for the
' 5 to the Rev. According
proceeded
pull
Maps
King's County,"
Anthony Cogan, in his valuable work, "The Diocese of
" See Archbishop Ussher's " Britanni-
carum Ecclesiarum Antiquitates," cap.
Meath, Ancient and Modern," vol. ii. , chap, xix. , p. 514. and n. ibid.
,6
The other side seems to have sprung from a transverse wall, as we have been in- formed; and even portions of that division remain, to attest the correctness of this in- formation,
1 This is represented in the foreground of the accompanying sketch, taken on the spot, the 9th of August, 1888. A great gap occurs in the side of the vaulted structure, within the old church, where the division wall once
xvii. , p. 498. ""
See Rev. Anthony Cogan's Diocese of Meath, Ancient and Modern," vol. Hi. , chap, lxxv. , p. 618.
13 See Colgan's "Acta Sanctorum Hiber- nue," xxviii. Februarii. Vita S. Aidi Epis. et Confessons, cap. iv. , v. , vi. , pp. 418. 419.
M He is venerated at the 28th of Feb- ruary.
June io. ]
LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS.
613
seen, towards the east by south of this church. 10 It was dedicated to the
Blessed Virgin, and it used to be frequented, on the 8th of September, one of her festivals. 20 On an eminence near the old church stands a castle in ruins, which tradition says had been built by O'Molloy, to whom also the erection of the church is ascribed. " The memory of the Patron Saint Illadan was held in great veneration, at Rathlibhthen church, for many centuries after his death,
Rathlihen Old Church, King's County.
andevenuntilthetimeofColgan; whotellsus,thatthestatueofSt. Illand, with a mitre on its head, and a crozier in hand, was to be seen there in his day. This image, however, shared the fate of many other venerable remains of Christian art, it having been broken by modern sectaries, before the middle oftheseventeenthcentury. " Thesaint'sstatue,withanepiscopalmitreon its*head and a crozier in its hand, long remained in this church, and it was to be seen there towards the close of the last century, but the head had been broken off by sacrilegious hands. 33 In 1838, Thomas O'Conor could obtain no information about the statue of St. Iolladhan, and as may supposed still less can any tradition about it be recovered at the present time. The year of
crossed the church's width. Behind the south side wail appears the top of a very
now
Lady-day became the patron day in the parish
40 See Rev. " Diocese of Anthony Cogan's
and
nished over in great part with aged haw-
thorns. In the far distance are the Slieve xix. , sect. 5, p. 514.
high
evidently
ancient
mound,
gar-
Bloom Mountains. The writer's sketch has been transferred by William F. Wakeman
" This opinion still holds sway in the
" See " Acta Sanctorum Hiber- Colgan's
xxviii. Februarii. Vita S. Aidi, niae," Epis.
et Confessoris, n. 7, p. 422.
23 See " Monasticon Hiberni- Archdall\
cum," p. 404.
to the wood,
engraved by
Mrs. Millard.
keeps sentinel,
18 A
and a wall encompasses it.
very aged
ash tree
19 Mr. Thomas O'Conor
han was altogether forgotten there, while
says,
"that Iollad-
of Killoughey. "
Meath, Ancient and Modern," vol. ii. , chap,
neighbourhood.
614 LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. [June io.
this saint's death is not known ; but, his festival was kept, on the ioth day
of June,24 probably that of his death. We find a feast set down, in the
of 25 at the ioth of 26 in honour of Illadan mac Martyrology Tallagh, June,
Eucdoch o Raith Liphiten. We are told, moreover,2? that Marianus O'Gorman and a commentator on St. yEngus 28 have the festival of Illand Hua Eochaidh, on the same The of a9 records
day. Martyrology Donegal him,atthesamedate,underthetitleoflolladhansonofEochaidh. Under
the head of Rath-Libhthen, Du—ald Mac Firbis enters Iolladan, descendant—
rathershouldhebestyledson ofEochaidh,andabishop,atJuneioth. 1
3° His festival is entered in that copy of the Irish Calendar^ compiled for use of the Irish Ordnance Survey, at the iv. of the June Ides, or ioth of this
month.
Article II. —St. Sanctan, or Santan, Bishop. Veneration was
given on this day, ioth of June, to Sanctan or Santan, a bishop, as we find
entered in the of 1 and of 2 It has been con- Martyrologies Tallagh, Donegal.
jectured^ that the prtsent St. Sanctan may have been identical with a young man, who was rescued from captivity, by St. Fechin,4 Abbot of Fore. s Ano- ther conjecture may be quite as correct, viz. , that he was connected with Kil-
near Bohernabreena,6 near the head waters of the River — Dodder,?
Kilnasantan was — who granted by Archbishop Comyn
nasantan,
Luke, 10 this church to St. granted
of Dublin.
built and endowed St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin 8
Patrick, and confirmation of that grant was made by Pope Celestine II I. ,9 in
county
the tiqi. In year
1231, Archbishop
Patrick's Cathedral, on demise of Andrew de Menavia, the holder of it as a
In 1 ' it was returned as wasted the O'Tooles, and in prebend. 1306, by
1326, the English sheriff describes it, as belonging to the manor of Tallagh, but
*4 See Father Sheerin's posthumous work 166, 167. The more modern hand adds
'•
edited by Father Ward,
Martyris Inclyti, Archiepiscopi Dublinensis, Mechliniensium Apostoli," . Sic. Dissertatio
num. Q. P- -'
e l>at"a S. Rumoldi, sect. 9,
Rev. . . . .
26 Or iv. of the Ides. Uv, p. xxu.
*5 Edited
«> See Colgan's
copy
manufac„e a on t]ie ] g
Dodder mills, valley,
by
"
Acta Sanctoru.
: ' xxviii. Februarii, Vita S. Aidi il^er-
nae,
et Confessoris, n. 7, p. 422.
ha bueAciiAc, " road of the from Britons,
Sancti Rumoldi
the references to Mar. and M. Taml.
Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
flourishing ; CSj i}] eacn
,
28 This however is not to be found in tne toK,cn ,-ia bpeAcnAC, "house of the Bri-
of his " Feilire," as edited by Whitley S:okes, LL. D.
2»
Edited by 1p
30 See " Proceedings of Royal Irish Aca-
Irish Mam^cript Series, vol. 1. ,
demy,"
part i. , pp- 124, 125.
31 There we meet. " 1oUat>a» ua eACAi-o e&rP o Uaic tibcen 1 VeapAlb CeAU 1
the margin,
, j
18 He ruled over the See of
Com- In * note on I find this Uaic bbcen identi-
rnroe. Ordnance Survey Office Copy, mon Place Book F, p. 54-
Harris Nicolas'
Chronolog; g> See Sir . u c YotHistory'»,"
p- 2°? ;
fied as " Rathlihen or Rathlen, in the parish a, of Killoughy, King's County, barony of A. D. 1228 to A. I. . 1255. See
Rev. Dr. J Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
^^ ^ him, in John D Alton s Men,
Archbishops of Dublin, pp. 90
" See John D Alton s " Hisf o
Article ii. — Kelly, p. xxvi.
Edited by
fh County of Dublin," p. 755- r£ of tne
to the College of St.
3
4 See his Life in the First Volume ofthis
work, at January 20th, Art. ii.
5 See "Acta S. inctoium Hibernian," xx.
Januarii. Secunda Vita S. Fechini. cap. xxxvii. , and nn. 27, 28, pp. 137, 138, 142.
6 Some think the derivation lo be boliAp
By Colgan.
were in a irt of t! )e iast the present, am. . (iedined in the beginnin- of
. .
appeared. jiave now ai lllost j,s.
8 About the year
Ware, vol. i. , "Archb. ,,^ gee Harris,
P- 3*5- oprs of Dublin," s He ruled from 1191 to i
"
century,
but t
>ate jn the latter
.
greens, &c,
4
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" within the lying
therefore waste and 12 the unprofitable. During
Irishry,"
border wars of the middle ages, the exercise of Divine service in it was ren- dered difficult to the settlers. l3 In the sixteenth 1* it
English century, ceased to be a church for worship, a chapel having been erected at a place called by the Irish Templeogue, or " the new church. " The old church of Kilnasantan is now a ruin ; but it measured about 18 paces in length by 5
in breadth. Although built at a very early period, and in a sequestered spot,
1 *
its walls exhibit no skill in contemptible
in this
were rude and broken granite crosses on the piers of its entrance, a large broken font inside the gate, and some tombs of the last century, uniformly
and grotesquely sculptured.
Article III. —St. Sen Berach, of Cuil-Drephni, Countv of
Sligo.
The of 1 at the 10th of records the name Martyrology Tallagh, June,
ofSeinbeirech,ChuileDremni. Elsewhere,thisplaceis spokenofmoreat
Inthe of 2 atthesame Martyrology Donegal,
wefind
entered,
brated battle was fought, between Diermaid, King of Erin, with his people, and the kinsmen of Colum Cille, with the Connachtmen on the other side, to avenge the son of the King of Connacht, who was under the protection of St. Columkille. We have already treated about this matter in his Life, 4 as also alluded to the false judgment said to have been given against him for thetranscriptionofSt. Finnen'sbook. s CuleDrebene,6ascalledbyAdam- nan,? was situated in the territory of Cairbre.
Article IV. —St. Forchellach or Faircheallach, of Fore, County
length.
Sen Berach, of Cuil-drephni. Between Druim chliabh, now Drumcliff, and Sligeach, now Sligo,3 in Connacht, Cuil dreimne is situated. Here the cele-
of Westmeath. On the 10th of in the June,
of
1 Tallagh, appears
Martyrology thenameForchellach,ofFobhair,orFore,ashavingbeenvenerated. This
place is situated in the barony of Demifore, and in the county of Westmeath. An interesting account of this place has been left us, by Sir Henry Piers of
Tristernagh,
and written in 1682. 2
He relates a said to have been miracle,
" See ibid. , p. 763.
13 See an account of this ancient church, in William Monck Mason's valuable work,
"
History and Antiquities of the Collegiate and Cathedral Church of St. Patrick near Dublin, from its Foundation in 1 190 to the
"Antiquities of Ireland," vol. i. , pp. 53 to 55.
* See in the present volume, Art. i. , at
June 9th, chap. vii.
s In a note by Dr. Todd at this word,
Book, he says :
l* 6"
year 1819," book i. , chap, xi. , pp. 74, 75. An Inquisition of 1547 finds annexed to
this church a demesne of 100 acres, ing to the "economy of St. Patrick's. "
15 See William Monck Mason's "History
and Antiquities of the Collegiate and Cathedral Church of St. Patrick near Dublin, from its Foundation in 1190 to the year
*
Est locus hie in
Colgan has it : regione
book i. , — xi. , p. 1819," chap, 74,
and n. (a), p. 31. — Article iv.
n. (1). Article hi, Edited by Rev. Dr.
*
Edited
Rev. Dr.
Kelly, p. xxvi. 32
Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp. J. 66, 167.
3 Threebeautifulcopperplateengravings, with a ground plan of Sligo Abbey, drawn by T. Cocking and Bigari, appear in Grose's
See Major Charles Vallancey's "Collec- tanea de Rebus Hibernicis," vol. i. , num. i. , "ChronogrnphicalDescriptionoftheCounty
of Westmeath," p. 65.
belong-
Carbriae in Connacia non a— procul Sliguensi
masonry.
Early
century
date,
"
nelf. sLife of Columba, lib. ii. , cap. 1. "
oppido, versus Aquilonem situs. "
"
See the story in O'Don-
Trias Thaumaturga," Quinta Vita S. Columbse,
n. 3, p. 452.
7 See Rev. Dr. Reeves' Adamnan's
"
Life of St. Columba," Prsefacio ii. , p. 9,
Kelly, p. xxvi.
3 See Ussher's
"
Primordia Ecclesiarum
by
616 LIVES OF THE IklSH SAINTS. [June to.
wrought there, by St. Fechin, the founder; while the same tradition is yet vividly remembered in the neighbourhood. There was a mill here, into which women must not presume to enter, and formerly it was not less respected than one of St. Fechin's churches. 3 This mill is said to have been hewed out of thesideofarock,bySt. Fechin'sownhands. GiraldusCambrensisrelates4 certain miraculous punishments inflicted on those, who profaned this place. 5 There is yet a mill at Fore, turned by a rush of water from the Benn, and it is still called by St. Fechin's name. 6 The Martyrology of Donegal,? at this same date, enters Faircheallach of Fobhar.
Article V. —St. Ferdomhnach, of Tuam, County of Galway. 1
[Eighth Ce>itury. ~] In the Martyrology of Tallagh, at the ioth of June, the simply entry of S. Ferdomnaigh occurs. His place is set down, in a later record. Atthesamedate,intheMartyrologyofDonegal' his—nameisgivenasFer- domhnach, of Tu—aim-da-Ualann. This latter spelling sometimes rendered Tuaim-Daolann is only another form for Tuaim-da-ghualann, now Tuam,
the seat of an Archbishop's See, in the County of Galway. In the Annals of the Four Masters,^ this saint's death is recorded at a. d. 777 ; but, more correctly, as we are told, it should be at the year 782/ Under the head of Tuaim-da-Ualann, and for June ioth, Duald Mac Firbis enters Ferdomh- nach (i. e. , the son of Caomhan), bishop of Tuaim-da-Ualann, anno Domini 781. 5 From the middle of the sixth century to his time, the names of his predecessors in the See of Tuam have passed away from our records.
Article VI. —St. Ainmire, or Ainmirech, of Aileach, County of Donegal. Veneration was given$ on this day, ioth of June, to Ainmirech
1
peninsula
in the county of Donegal. The Irish word Ainmire is said to have an identi- cal meaning with the Latin word Animosus. 3 Again, in the Martyrology of
Donegal,* the name Ainmire, of Aileach, is entered at the same date.
Article VII. —Reputed Feast for the Translation of the Relics of St. Patrick, St. Columba and St. Brigid. A Manuscript, classed B 1, 3, has an office for the Translation of the Relics of St. Patrick,
Britannicarum, cap. xvii. , p. 943. 382, 383. , and n. (e), p. 381.
44 SeeGiraldi Cambrensis "Opera," vol. v. ,
of Ailich, according to the Martyrology of Tallagh.
This place, formerly
is nowknownas 2 in the very celebrated, Elagh,
of and Inishowen,
edited by James K. Dimoek, M. A. " Topo-
grapliia Hibernica," Dist. ii. , cap. lii. , liii. , "
p. 134. Also, Expugnatio Hibernica," lib. ii. , cap. xxii. , pp. 354, 355.
See ibid.
s See "Proceedings of the Royal Irish
Academy," Irish Manuscript Series, vol. i. ,
5 See Messingham's Sanctorum," p. 432.
"
Florilogium Insuloe
6
See Rev. A. Cogan's "Diocese ofMeath,
For an interesting account of the Anti- quities of this place, the reader is referred to the Memoir of the City and North- Western Liberties of Londonderry," Ancient, sect. 2, pp. 217 to 236.
3 One bearing this name is known to have
in written the Acts of St. Brigid. See the
Second Volume of this work, at the istday
of February, Life St. Brigid, chap. i.
4 Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
164, 165.
Ancient and Modern,"' vol. hi. , chap, lxxiv. ,
pp. 562 to 565.
i Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
164. i65. Article v.
—
Edited by Rev. Dr.
Kelly, p. xxvi.
2 Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
166, 167.
3 See O'Donovan's Edition, vol. i. , pp.
part i. , pp. 130,—131.
Article vi. Kelly, p. xxi.
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617
St. Columba and St.
at the 10th of 1 It June.
to the
At this same date, the Bollandists have entered the Festival of St. Patrick's Translation in Scotia, on the authority of Greven, Canisius and Ferrarius, while they remark that it was celebrated with an
2
Article VIII. —St. Rethach, Son of Coemhan.
