No More Learning

37 According to the Irish Tripartite Life.
3^ It is remarked by Colgan, that a St.
Cennanan was venerated, at the 26th of
March, while, a St. Cillen, son of Tolodh- ran, of the Desies in Munster, had his feast for the same day. Yet, on account of the latter and his locality, Colgan thinks it not likely those saints could be the two Connen- nans here noticed.
39 According to the Latin Tripartite.
^° According to the Irish Tripartite.
^' According to the Latin Tripartite.
Colgan remarked, that this name was obso-
lete, but he conjectured the church here
noticed to have been Kill-Domnach. This
latter name, even, has become obsolete at
present. Dr. Lanigan does not credit the
statements made, that St. Patrick founded
all the churches, mentioned in his Acts . He
thinks it probable, the church of Domnach- feet high, and three in thickness. There
Murlough venerated,
"
*3 See Rev. Dr. Reeves' Ecclesiastical
Antiquities of Down, Connor and Dromore," Appendix Z, pp. 284, 285. Incorrectly does Archdall make this an abbey, erected by St. Patrick, about A. D. 460. See "Monasticon
Hibernicum," p. 6.
^® About twelve perches north of it are
several large pillar stones, lying prostrate. The chapel, here, is vulgarly called Gobbin's HeirCastle. Seeanimperfectaccountofit, in William Shaw Mason's " Statistical Account, or Parochial Survey of Ireland,"
thought at the 25th of March.
"
of Parish of Ramoan," No. xxii. , p. 506.
^7 It is now under cultivation. To the south-east is a long cave, running north- wards, in the wall of which are two stones, and according to a report of the tenant of the land, one had a crucifix carved on it, and the other had a cross.
*^ Killeena is not shown on the Ordnance
Survey Maps, but the place is marked as Gobbin's Heir Castle, on Sheet 9, for the county of Antrim. The term Castle is a complete perversion, however, since every feature of the spot is indicative of a purely ecclesiastical character. The two first words are a corruption of JobAn fao]a, or " Goban the Artificer," of whom an interesting
*'
Ec- clesiastical Architecture, and Round Towers of Ireland," part ii. , sect, iii. , subsect. 3,
account is given by Dr. Petrie, in his
PP- 385. 3S6, 404, 405-
''s In Glenshesk, a little west of the river,
which bounds the parish, and on a little eminence, are the remains of an ancient chapel, 28 feet 9 inches long, and 15 feet wide, in the clear. The walls are about 10
6so LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. [March 17.
or Fiachrius,5' was set over Cuil-Ech-trainiijS^ which was also called Cowlo-
feghraine,S3 and Kilfeutre,54 It is at present Culfeightran,ss in the county of Antrim. 5^ After crossing the Bush River,57 Patrick also visited the ancient
fortress, called Dun-Sobhairce,52 or Duin Sebuirgi,59 and which has been identified as Dunseverick,^° on a steep rock, three miles east of the Giant's Causeway, and on the northern coast of Antrim County. St. Patrick's well was shown there, and he left a blessing upon it, as also upon the old fort,^' which is now replaced by a more recently-erected castle,^^ on a most romantic site, and yet is it crumbling to decay, as a hoary ruin. About one mile eastwards from the old ruined Castle of Dunseverick, and near the sea-shore, are two burial-grounds, with the ruins of a church, on one of those enclosures. The church is popularly known as Dunseverick,^3 but marked on the Ordnance
seemstohavebeenanarrowwindow,inthe east gable, as also in the north wall, near the altar end, and in the south wall. The font, together with some dressed sand-stone quoins, had been carried away to a field at some distance. Drumeeny is described, on the " Ordnance Survey Townland Maps for the County of Antrim," Sheet 9.
5° According to the Irish Tripartite Life,
5' According to the Latin Tripartite Life. His feast day has been assigned, to the 28th
of September, by Colgan.
5= Its name is thus derived, Cmt eAdc-
Ofplumycrests, andburnishedmuskets shine ;
Anon they flit, and lawns and woods
arise.
Chariots and steeds, and towers that
reach the skies ;
Now fades the scene, and bounding in the
breeze.
Embattled navies sweep the azure seas ; Sail crowds on sail, the boiling wake
grows hoar.
And whitening surges climb each sculp-
l\Anii,
" the corner of the
tured prore. —
strangers. "
53 In the Registry of Cromer, at p. 453, where it is called the Rectory of the parish
church of St. Fechtany.
s* In the Taxation of Pope Nicholas IV. ,
compiled for the year 1306.
55 The old church stood here, in the
townland of Churchfiekl, called Maghera- lemple, in the Down Survey. This build-
ing, with the exception of the east gable, nearly entire, has been demolished ; but, sufficient traces of the foundation remain, to show that it was of very large dimensions. The area of the old church, and the ceme- tery, are now in pasturage. Archdall makes this church, Kilitragh, four miles south of
"
Ballintoy. See MonasticonHibernicum,"
p. 9.
5* See Rev. Dr. Reeves' "Ecclesiastical
Antiquities of Down, Connor and Dro- more," n. (s), p. 79.
57 Formerly called the Buas. To it, under the poetic name, Bosca, Dr. William Hamilton Drummond alludes, in his inte-
resting Poem, "The Giant's Causeway,"
book ii. , the pp. 37, 38, being
Gone is the from the view,
pageant !
vanished
frequent scene, :. ; its mouth, o—f the illusive forms, to
to be
on the remarkable rock beside the sea-
which he thus refers
coast.
"
Supposed to have been built, by the
:
Smooth glides the skiff, and up the rust- ling sand
Rolls the light surge, by Bosca's magic strand.
Where gay Morgana and her fairy train Sport with the senses of the wondering
swain;
Raised by her power, he sees a warlike line
^^
M'Quillans, and afterwards to have been occupied, by the O'Cahans, or O'Kanes.
*3 The accompanying sketch, drawn on the spot by the writer, June, 1879, has been transferred to the wood, by William F.
Like the thin vapour, or the morning dew. "
5^ For an interesting account of Dun Sob- hairce, with a view of the mediasval castle, and its identification, by John O'Donovan, see the " Dublin Penny Journal," vol. i. , pp. 361 to 363. The place is said to have derived
its name from Sobhairce, a King of Ireland, living here, about A. M. 3668. He is said to have been slain, within this fortress, by Eochaidh Echchenn, King of the Fomo- rians, or sea-pirates. "Book of Lecan," fol. 123.
59 Thus is it called, in an ancient Life of St. Patrick, as found in the Book of Armagh.
See Sir William Betham's "
Antiquarian
Researches," vol. ii. Appendix, pp. 34,
35-,
°° See a beautiful engraving of Dunseve-
rick, in Mr. and Mrs. Hall's " Ireland : its Scenery, Character," &c. , vol. iii. , p. 174.
^' Of some traces are this,
Wakeman, and it was engraved by Mrs. Millard. TheinteriorofDunseverickold
church—which is quadrangular in shape— measures about 16 paces in length, by about
yet
found,
March 17. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. 651
Survey Map, on the townland of Templastragh, and now in the parish of Ballintoy,baronyofCarey. ^* There,St. Patrickrestedonastone,afterwards called by his name. ^5 There he is said to have consecrated as bishop, St. Olcan,whomtheIrishApostlehadpreviouslyunderhistuition. ^^ 'phgfQj-g.
Dunseverick old Church, County of Antrim.
going places all seem to have been situated, in the ancient territory of Cath-
rigia, or of the Cathraighe, a sept, formerly occupying the modern barony of Cary,^7 in the northern part of Antrim County.
The force of early associations, no doubt, gave the Irish Apostle an interest, altogether special, in the religious condition of Dal-riada,^^ where he
had now founded so many churches. ^9
6 paces in width : the walls were about 3 feet in thickness. A ruined eastern window is seen, but opposite on the west, no trace of a doorway can be observed, as the building iswhollywreckedonthatend. Thestones used are rudely dressed, and many are of Cyclopean size. The coast limestone has been used. The adjoining graveyard on the south is crowded with graves, and somewhat detached, there is another much-used burial- ground ; both cemeteries have been lately
From the heights of Slieve Mish, on
land Maps for the County of Antrim," Sheet 3.
with low stone walls. A curious
*** In the Latin and Irish
Tripartite Lives,
enclosed,
old carved stone, with apparently the this division seems, occasionally, to have rude figure of a cross, at one end, has been incorrectly confounded with Dala-
been built into an angle of the west wall, and probably at no very remote date. Those old cemeteries are on a rocky plateau, not far from the cliffs of the northern Atlantic Ocean.
^* See the site of those objects, noticed in the text, on the "Ordnance Survey Town-
radia ; and, perhaps, a certain confusion of
sequence, in the events narrated, may be traced.
*9 In his "Monasticon Hibemicum," Archdall has unauthorizedly converted many of these into monasteries.
7' After the beginning of the ninth century,
*5 Regarding this object, there is now apparently no popular tradition.
^SeeSirWilliamBetham's"Antiqua-
rian Researches," vol. ii. Appendix, p. 33. ^^ The reader will find a full descriptive account of its civil and ecclesiastical divi-
"
sions, in Rev. Dr. Reeves'
Antiquities of Down, Connor and Dro- more," Appendix Z, pp. 281 to 288.
Ecclesiastical
652 LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. [March 17.
its southern bounds, where he was a slave for seven years, his eyes had ranged over its extent ; perhaps, too, the business of his temporal master had frequently obliged him to visit, in person, several of its districts. Now, however, he was about to revisit the surviving friends in and the familiar scenes of Dal-Araidhe,7° that large region in the east of Ulster, and which
the territory of Dalaradia was associated
with the names of Lethlobhar, now Lawlor, and Ua Loingsigh, or Lynch ; both families having sprung from Fiacha Araidhe. Soon after the Anglo-Norman invasion, the Eng- lish obtained a footing within this territory. Afterwards, it is frequently alluded to in our Annals, as Trian Congaill, or "Con- gall's portion," supposed to have been de- rived from Congall Claen, King of Uladh, in 637. Towards the close of the sixteenth century, this territory is presented to notice, as having merged, under a chief of the O'Neills, into the denomination of Clanna-
"
in Holywood, Dundonald, and in the adja-
centpartofNewtownards. NorthClanna-
boycomprisedtwentysub-divisions, called
Tuoghs or Cinements, thus distinguished :
I. The Tuogh of Clanaghartie contained
the whole parish of Kilconriola, and that
adjacent portion of Ahoghill, which lay eastwards on the Main Water. 2. The
Tuogh of Muntercaille, or the tribe of Kelly, contained that part of Ahoghill parish, which lies west of the l\Iain Water. 3. The Tuogh of Muntir Rividy contained the
parishes of Drummaul, Shilvodan, and that part of Connor, south of the Kells' Water, with those parts of Ahoghill and Antrim, which lie in Upper Toome. 4. The Tuo^h na Fuigh, called "the Feevah," or the woody district, contained the parishes of Duncane, Cranfield and Ballyscullion Grange. 5- The Tuogh of Mutitertnun'^an
boy, from cIaii ^o-o bui-oe, or
of Yellow Hugh ;" and, it was even sub-
divided into Upper or South Clannaboy,
which lay southwards of the River Lagan,
and was exactly commensurate with the
modern baronies of Upper and Lower
Castlereagh, in the county of Down, while
Lower or North Clannaboy extended from
the Ravel River southwards to the Lagan,
containing the modern baronies of the two
Antrims, the two Toomes, the two Belfasts,
Lower Massereene, and the county of Car-
rickfergus, in the county of Antrim. Of parish of Skerry, as the River, which
the former, the following sub-districts are
bounds it on the south. 7. The Tuogh ne Keart contained the parish of Ballyclug,
Children
mentioned: I. Castlereagh covcv^r\. 's,QA. \\\ixX.
part of Knockbreda parish, which lay in the
vicinity of O'Neill's castle. 2. Les Gillach-
re-tves de la Gallagh comprehended a portion
of Knockbreda, lying between Castlereagh
and the Lagan. 3. Shit Neales, from of Moylinny contained the parishes of Sliocc, "the family" of Neales, embraced
the parishes of Drumbo, Saintfield, Kill- any, with parts of Kilmore and Knock-
breda, as also sucli portions of Blaris, Lambeg, and Drumbeg, as lie within the
barony of Upper Castlereagh. 4. Les Mulchreives de la Tazvne, a family called
Mulchreeves, occupied the west side of Knockbreda, from Ballymacarrett south- wards. 5* '''^^ ^//<^ Henrickies, probably
"
Antrim, Donegorc, Kilbride, Nalteen, Rashee, Ballycor, and Doagh, forming the modern barony of Upper Antrim. lo. The
derived from sLiocc enyM Caoic,
Henry the Blind," occupied part of Kil- linchy and Kilmood in Lower Castlereagh, adjoining a small portion of Killinchy and Kilmore, \. hich they held in the Upper barony. 6. The Slut Kellies, a family originally settled near Drumbo, occupied the greater part of Comber and TuUynakill. 7. The Slut Hugh Bricks, from sliocc Aoxt b^AOAC, "family of freckled Hugh," held the N. E. portion of Combre, the S. W. of Newtownards, and the S. E. part of Dun- (lonald. 8. The Slut Bryan Boye occupied live townlands, in the N. E. of Holywood parish. 9. The Slut Durnings and Sluk Owen MacQuinn occupied some townlands
Tuogh ofKillelagh contained the Grange of Muckamore, and the northern two-thirds of Killead. 11. TheCinamentofKibnachevet contained the southern part of Killead parish. 12. The Tuogh of Maghery-tnoj-ne contained the parishes of Inver, Glynn and Raloo. 1 3. The Tuogh of Braden Hand, or Broad Island, was a territorial name for Templecorran parish, which, with Kilroot, constituted this district. 14. The Tuogh oj Ballinlyny comprehended the parishes of Ballylinny, Umgall, Ballymartin, Temple- patrick. Ballywaiter and Molusk. 15. The Cinament of Ballinoivre ^\'as represented by the present parish of Ballynure. 16.
The Cinament of Carntall, Monksland and Car- neinoney contained the united parishes of Coole and Monkstown, in the present parish of Carnmoney, together with the townland of Carntall, in the parish of Bally- linny. 17. Tuogh Cinament zoxAoXnQ. di \\\& northern portion of Shankill parish, or from Benvadegan, now the Cave Hill, to
tribe of
or the tribe of Murrigan, comprised the parish of Rathcavan, with its district of Glenwherry. 6. The Cinament of Ktiock- boynabrade has its name preserved in the townland of Knockboy, and in the word Braid, which is used to denote as well the
and that portion of Kells, in the pai^ish of Connor, north of the Kells' Water. 8. The Cmament of Duogh Connor contained the sixteen towns of Connor. 9. The Tuogh
March 17. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. 653
extended from Newry,7' in the south of Down County, to Slemish mountain, in the Lower Barony, and in the county of Antrim. Here, Caelbadh^^ had been King of Uladh,73 or circumscribed Ulster, for fifteen years,74 and he ruled over Ireland, it is stated, for one year. 75 This monarch had twelve sons. In the Acts of St. — and noticed as his
three of
those sons are mentioned however their relationship seems to have been
more remote. 7^ These are called, Saran,? ? Connla,? ^ and Nad-Sluagh. 79 A
prince, named Saran, is said to have succeeded his father Caelbabh, as King of Uladh. ^° However, during Saran's^^ term of rule, Patrick arrived in the principality of Dalaradia ; but, the saint was treated with contumely and in- sult, by that prince. He was a fierce pagan, and a man of depraved morals, while he seems to have been unscrupulous, in his modes of action. Our saint determined that he would found a place, where, according to the Irish Tripar-
" "^^ tite Life, Lathrach-Patraic, or Patrick's site
was shown the Latin ; but,
Patrick, contemporaries,
"
time, here was pointed out Slan,^* the name given to a well, which Patrick dis-
Tripartite calls it Lettir-Phadruic, signifying,
Patrick's slope. " ^3 In after
Belfast. 18. The Tough of the Fall, alias,
Mylone, contained the southern portion of
Shankill, and the parish of Drumbeg, in
which Belfast is now situated. 19. The living, over eighty years after his death,
Cinament of Dirrevolgie, alias, Fealottgh,
was made up of those parts of Derryaghy,
and of Lambeg, and of Drumbeg, which
are in Upper Belfast Barony. 20. The pars, iii. , cap. Ixxvii. , pp. 371, 372.
Cinament of Clandermot comprised the parish of Tullynisk, three townlands of Derryaghy, and the east portion of Camlin. SeeRev. Dr. Reeves'"EcclesiasticalAnti- quities of Down, Connor and Dromore," Appendix GG, pp. 343 to 348.
7' The parish of Newry is partly in the baronies of Oneilland West and Upper Orior, and this is described on the " Ord-
nance Survey Townland Maps for the ''
^^ He is said to have reigned over it, for twenty-six years. He was ancestor to the Macartans of Kinalarty, county of Down.
7** HewasancestortoMagenisofIveagh, inthesamecounty. Severalofhisdescend- ants were also kings of Uladh, and St. Fergus, Bishop of Down, who died in 583, was his great-great-grandson.
79 He is said to have been grandfather to
St. Cairbre, Bishop of Coleraine, hereafter
CountyofArmagh, Sheets9,22,26,29;
as, also, partly in the baronies of Upper
Iveagh, and the Lordship of Newry, and
this portion is shown, on the "Ordnance llAch, or "Battle of Magh-Rath," p.
Survey Townland Maps for the County of Down," Sheets 35, 40, 41, 46, 47, 50, 51. The town itself is shown, on the foregoing
Sheets 26, 46, 50.
7' He was the son of Crunn Badhrai, and
the grandson of Eochad, from whom the territory of Ibh-Echach, or Iveagh, in Ulster. The baronies of Iveagh, in the
county of Down, are comprised within this
old territory. See an account of this terri-
tory and its history, in Rev. William brother or a relation to Saran, Conla and ''"
Reeves' Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Nat-Sluagh. See Ogygia," pars, iii. ,
Down, Connor and Dromore," Appendix HH, pp. 348 to 352.
73 The extent of this province, and its history, are very minutely set forth, by the Rev. Dr. ^Reeves. See i^/</. , II. , pp. 352 to369.
7* He was of the Ruderician race of Ulster.
75 He was slain, by Eochaidh Muighm- headhoin, in A. D. 357. See Dr. O'Dono- van's " Annals of the Four Masters," vol. i. , pp. 124, 125, and nn. (t, w), ibid. Un-
cap. Ixxvi. , pp. 371, 372.
'^^ Now Glenavy, near Lough Neagh, and
in the barony of Upper Massereene.
^i Jocelyn seems to allude to this place,
in these words, "qui Elom dicitur. "
*** Colgandeclares,heisunabletoidentify this spot ; but, he remarks, in Dal-aradia, and in Hy-Tuirtre, in the diocese of Connor, there were three miraculous wells, fre- quented by pilgrims, and by the people ; one of these was in the parish of Schire (Skerry) Patrick, another in the parish of
less there be a mistake in this date, or a link in the genealogy wanting, it is difficult to conceive, how his sons could have been
and when St. Patrick had now visited Ulster.
7^ See Roderick O'Flaherty's "Ogygia,"
mentioned,andfromhimalsodescended,it
is stated, the celebrated ^ngus the Culdee.
^°
330. *'
According to Roderick O'Flaherty s opinion, this Saran was fourth in descent from Caelbadh ; being the son of Mannius, son to Fathad, son of Conall, son to Cael- badh, King of Ireland. This Saran is said to have held the principality of Dalaradia, about the year 474. Bracan, called the son of King Caelbadh, and grandfather to St. Cathan, the son of Muadan, was either a
See John O' Donovan's CacVi inuigbi
654 LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. [March 17.
covered. There, too, Daniel, distinguished as Patrick's Angel, and who was
from his short " "a dwarf/' rested from his called, stature, Abhac," signifying
well-spent life. Hence, as we are told, this church was denominated Lann- Abhaic,^5 or " the church of the dwarf. "^^ It is now a parish, in the diocese
of Connor, and denominated Glenavy, at present. ^7 While, our saint was preparing for the erection of a church, here, Saran seized his hand to expel him from the place. Then Patrick predicted, that the dynast should be ex- cluded from Heaven, and that his land even should be taken from him, during his lifetime, as a just retribution for the insult and injury he had per- petrated. While St. Patrick was engaged on his holy mission in Dal-aradia, he resolved to found a church, in that place, where Cill-Glas^^ was afterwards pointed out, but he found the people there hostile. He was repelled from
the at first he succeeded in his spot, ; but, finally
attempt, longedtohim,inaftertime. Helefttwoofhispeoplethere,andtheseare
called, Glaisiuc, or Glassicus,^? and Presbyter Liber. 5° Regretting the dis- courteous and unworthy conduct of his brother, Saran, another of Caelbadh's sons, Conla9^ made an offer of his possessions and services. 9* He received Patrick with humiUty, and gave him Domhnach-Combair,93 now known as Comber. 94 AndPatrickblessedhim,anddeclaredthatkingsandchieftains should be of his race for ever. 9s
Our saint founded a church, or a cell, while he was in Dalaradia, at
Creamclioill (Cranfield), and a third in the town of Connor.
^5 As the Britons usually called their
churches, by the denomination Lann, so it
has been inferred, by Colgan, that its patron
must have been a Briton, by birth, or, at
least, that he had been educated in Britain.
*°
See Colgan's "Trias Thaumaturga," n. 219, p. 183.
where it stands, the River Enler enters StrangfordLough. Afulleraccountofit will be found, in Rev. Dr. Reeves' " Eccle- siastical Antiquities of Down, Connor and Dromore," Appendix G, pp. 197 to 199. It was sometimes called Kill-Cumber. See ibid. , GG, n. (r), p. 338.
93 Colgan states, that this was a church, in his day simply called Comur, and that it was in the diocese of Down and Connor. See "Trias Thaumaturga," n. 142, p. 114. Elsewhere, he incorrectly states, that it was Mag-Commuir, a monastery of Regular Canons, in the tenitory of Delmunia, in
®7 The letter g having been prefixed by
the English settlers ; but, in Pope Nicholas'
Taxation (1306) it was simply called Len-
newy. See Rev. Dr. Reeves' " Ecclesias-
tical Antiquities of Down, Connor and
Dromore," n. (k), p. 47. Also, Appendix the Diocese of Connor. Ibid. , n. 211, p.
S, pp. 236, 237.
^ The modem name for this church has
not been discovered, but, Colgan has placed it, in the diocese of Down.
"
9' Jocelyn incorrectly calls him CoUadius.
9^ It is now known as Comber, the head of a large parish, in the baronies of Upper and Lower Castlereagh, and shown on the " Ordnance Survey Townland Maps for the CountyofDown,"Sheets5, 6, 9, 10, li, 15, 16. The town itself is in the Lower barony, and on Sheet 10. It is situated, towards the north-west end of Strangford Lough, and the name is thought to have been derived, from the Irish word coniAiv, which means "a confluence;" because
183.
9* So far as an inference can be drawn,
from his gift of land to St. Patrick, he seems to have been a chief over part of southern Dalaradia.
95 The Catalogue of the Ulster kings states, that no less than eight of them de- built it for St. Glassan. See Monasticon scended from this Conla, namely, his son, Hibernicum," p. 8. Euchod, besides Congal, Cu-Cuaranan, 5° Colgan has made some ineffective Tomultach, Moelbressail, Lethlobhar, Longsech,andhissonAldus. Thisshows, it is thought, how true the prediction of St.
^ No doubt, the church had been called after this saint ; but, Archdall unautho- rizedly asserts, that St. Patrick specially
guesses, to discover the identity of these,
with corresponding names, entered in our Calendars.
Patrick had proved to be.
9^ Colgan leaves, to those well versed in
Irish antiquarian lore, the province of de- termining, whether this could have been
Rath-more, a parish church of this region, or a chapel, called Kill-Domnach. How- ever, the name of Domhnach Mor is now obsolete. See Rev. Dr. Reeves' " Eccle- siastical Antiquities of Down, Connor and Dromore," n. (a), p. 51, and Appendix U, pp. 269, 270, GG, p. 338, and nn. (t, u), also p. 346.
and the be • place
March 17. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. 655
Doinhnach-mor,5S in the plain, called Damhorna,97 sometimes named98 Mac- haire-Morna,99 or more correctly Machaire Dha-morna, now Maghera-
morne,^°° a territory, lying to the south of Larne town/°^ in the County Antrini. '°2 St. Patrick also built a church, at Rath Sithe,^°3 now Rashee
parish,'°4 in the barony of Upper Antrim, where an ancient episcopal See ap- pears to have existed. '°5 There, the servant of God left two of his people. No traces of a church now remain, in that spot, although the ancient cemetery is much used, as a place for interments. He also erected the church, called Kill-chonadhain, or Tulach,'°^ or Telach-Conadain,^°7 which is supposed to be, the chapeiry of St. Cunning,^°^ in the parish of Carncastle,^°9 near Larne. "° Hebuilt,. likewise,atGluarie,"^inLatharnaorLarneterritory,"^ and now known as the church of Glenarm,"3 or Tickmacrevan. "+ This place is
97 The Irish Tripartite Life has Magh- Damhairne.
9^ By Colgan, elsewhere. See "Trias
Thaumaturga," n. 88, p. 177. Primate feet, are yet to be seen, in the townland of Dowdall's Registry of the year 1546, Saint Cunning. The Calendar of the slightly departing from the Irish mot)Ai|vn,
or Modhorna, calls it Morine.
99 The Terrier has noticed this place, as the Deanery of Mauchrimorne.
'°°
It adjoins the parish of Inver on the south, and this district now gives name to an estate in the parish of Glynn. On ac- count of its having been pronounced Mourne, this place has been sometimes confounded with the mountainous region of Mourne, in the county of Down. The name of the Antrim plain of Mourne has been preserved in Lough Mourne, a lake ninety acres in extent, and situated in the north- eastern part of Carrickfergus parish. See
" Ordnance Survey Townland Maps for
the of Sheet The County Antrim," 46.
Tuogh. of Maghery-mome contained the parishes of Inver, Glynn and Raloo.
'°' The parish of Larne, in the barony of Upper Glenarm, is shown on the "Ord- nance Survey Townland Maps for the County of Antrim," Sheets 35, 40. The
town itself is shown on the latter Sheet.
tending from the town of Larne northwards along the coast, was so called. A view and description of scenes here are given in the " Dublin Penny Journal," vol. ii. , No. 64, PP- 93> 94- The original name of the town and harbour was Ollarba ; and, this is found to have been afterwards
'°^
"
corrupted, into Ulfreksfiord, Wulfrichford, Wulvriche- ford, Inver, Inverth, Ulderfleet Haven,
In this district, placed in Dail-na-
quoe est contra mare in Aquilonali
raidhe,
provincise plaga Ultorum," the celebrated St. Comgall, Abbot of Bangor, was born. Vita S. Comgalli, in the "Liber Kilkenni- ensis," of Marsh's Library, Dublin.
'°3 It means, "fairy rath," showing how ancient is the Irish popular belief, in those
imaginary beings. A charter of James I. annexed this parish, called Rathsith, to the Prebend of Carncastle.
'°* See it described, on the " Ordnance
Survey Townland Maps for the County of Antrim. " Sheets 38, 39, 44, 45. The town- land of Rashee is on the latter Sheet.