^ The old church which there remains
measures
51 feet, by 17 feet, 6 inches.
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9
Luke, alluding to the mission of the seventy-two disciples of Christ, it may be inferred, St.
Eunan had been an apostolic man, who propagated the faith among his people.
132 He has a "St. Eunan, first Bishop of
Raphoe in Ireland," under September 7. The monastery founded there by St. Columb, and restored by St. Adamnan, being converted into an episcopal see,—St. Eunan was to it. lb.
pp. 304, 305. 130 "
See Ecclesiastical History of Ire-
land, vol. iii. , chap, xix. , sect, iii. , p. 150. 121 "
See Lives of the Saints," vol. ix. ,
September 23, p. 358.
122 " See
Les Moines d'Occident," tome
v. , liv. xv. , chap, iii. , p. 15. 123 "
124
See Irish Saints in Great Britain," chap, iv. , p. 112.
See Leslie Stephens' National Biography," vol. i. , p. 92.
,2S See "Acta Sanctorum," tomus
Dictionary of
appointed govern
The error about St. Eunan is repeated under St. Adamnan at September 23. In the Irish Calendar appended to the Dublin edition (R. Coyne, 1833) of his valuable book, the same supposed patron intrudes on from S. Eunanus qui primus existimatur another Saint's day. St. Adamnan's bed
vi. ,
Saints, p. 538.
126
li
Septembris xxiii. Among the pretermitted
As we have already seen, Sir James Ware incorrectly distinguishes Adamnanus, "Celebris ille ccenobii Hiensis Abbas,"
hujus sedis Episcopus. "—" De Pnesulibus used to be shown at Raphoe. See Harris
Hibernia Commentarius. " De Episcopus Ware, vol. " i. ,
Bishops
of
Raphoe,'
Rapotensibus, p. 73. p. 270. ""
127 See Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs and
other principal Saints,'' vol. ix. , September xxiii.
"8 See *' Book of Days," vol. ii. , p. 372.
"' See his " Church of
History Brittany,"
133 See Britannicarum Ecclesiarum An-
tiqukates," Index Chronologicus, p. 541.
134 See " De Scriptoribus Hibemise,"
book xx. , chap, xv. , p. 509. 130 See at that date in the
Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis," col. 1666, Lips. , 1722.
Art. xi.
131 In the "Acta Sanctorum," tomus iii. ,
23 Octob. an 704, aetatis suae 74, vel, ut alii, 80. "—" Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum His- toria Literaria," vol. i. Saeculum Monothe-
present
volume,
136 He writes: "e vita die migravit
Septembris, p. 128, they remark, that the
Mass of St. Eunan, Bishop of Raphoe, leticorum, p. 594.
lib. i. , cap. iii. , p. 35.
* 3S See "Commentarius de
September 23. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. 525
mitted a similar obvious mistake, in recording the day assigned for his
death. In the Benedictine Calendar, the festival of St. Adamnan is marked
"
at the 23rd of September. " While Camerarius m—entions a Sanctus
M
Adamnus Episcopus, Northumbrorum Apostolus a man who never
existed—at September, 25th he notices u Sanctus Thevuanus Abbas et Con-
"
that he was Abbot of
1 *8
T 37
Martyrology of Aberdeen at the 23rd of September has set down the festival
of our saint. T 39 The Breviary of Aberdeen places the feast of St. Adamp-
1* Adam
1
have been committed in making him a bishop. ** Aware of those in-
accuracies, Innes says, St. Adamnan was called St. Deunan or Theunan, by
1** Sir Harris Nicholas is said to have collected the blunders of Ireland and Scotland, and to have made a tripartite division of Adamnan's
fessor
at September 2 6th,
adding
Melrose,
The
of
memorate a St. Thewnan, said to have been preceptor to King Eugenius VI. , at this same day. Keith records the feast of a St. Theunan, at the same date. x *3 In a Calendar of the Scotch Prayer Book for 1638, our saint's festival is set down at the 25th of September. An error is also said to
nanus,
at the
23rd
September.
King
the
in his 1*6 I. sanctity by setting calendar,
vulgar.
of — II. Adamnan, Abbot; and III. Thennan, Abbot and 7th September;
at 1*? both of the latter are placed the 23rd of September.
Confessor
The feast of St. Eunan is celebrated on the 23rd of September, as a Double
oftheFirstClass,withanOctave,intheDioceseofRaphoe. Heiscalleda Bishop and Confessor in the Ordo, Breviary, and Missal, used by the Irish Catholic Clergy. Adamnan's name is of unusual form and of unfrequent occurrence, in Irish records. On referring to our Annals and Calendars, there are but three or four instances where it occurs. 1 * 8 To these may be
added St. Adamnan of
Coldingham,
1* who is mentioned Venerable by
Adamnan, bishop and abbot of Rath-maighe- aenaigh (An. Ult. 730 ; Four Mast. 725); and Adomnan mac Alddailedh (An. Ult. 835), Ussher mentions S. Adompnanus as the successor of St. Ciaran in Inis-Aingin, now Hare Island, in Lough Ree in the Shannon (Wks. , vi. , p. 525), and O'Connor borrows from him (RerumHib. , SS. ,vol. ii. , p. 138, n. 42) ; but Ussher seems to have read the name incorrectly, for in the Life of St. Ciaran, whence he derived his informa-
'
Quidam vir de Momonia se —de gente Corcobaiscind, nomine Domnanus. ' Cap. 28 (Cod. Marsh, fol. 147, a. a). Marian Gorman settles the
question: DonnAti pacApc o 1tiip . Aingin
Loch
137 See
177.
"
De Scotorum Fortitudine," p.
138 Thus " Monasteno Mailrossensi diu :
praefuit hie Sanctus. "
139 It says at ix. Kl\ Octobris:
In Scocia Sancti Adampnani abbatis cuius reliquie in sanctaYensi insula mirandis clarent signorum
prodigiis quern Sanctus Columba antequam nasceretur precinebat et —doctorum catholi-
"
cum futurum predicabat. " Proceedings of
the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland," vol. ii. , p. 268.
'*° See Calendar, ix. Kal. Octobris, Pro- pria Sanctorum, Pars Estivalis, (? ) fol. 114, b. a.
141 See Calendar at September 23rd.
142 See " Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Scotorum," torn, ii. , p. 613.
143 See "Scottish Bishops," p. 378 (Edin-
burgh, 1824).
144 Such is the opinion of the Rev. Dr.
Reeves.
145 See " Civil and Ecclesiastical History
of Scotland," p. 300.
146 See "Chronology of History," pp. 132,
tion, the same individual is called
"
147, 173.
,47See Rev. Mr. Reeves' Adamnan's 488. (Ind. Chron. /'—Rev. Dr. Reeves'
" Life of St. Columba," Additional Notes, c, p2 57.
Adamnan's " Life of St. Columba," Appen- dix to Preface, sect. I. Memoir of St.
14" " The Calendars have none our except
Adamnan,
I49 See the Acts of this Saint, at the 31st
Jgj
author. The Annals have, besides St,
n. xl. (c), p.
Eunan, Bishop
of at the Raphoe,
T*x and x*3 com- Dempster
tVib,
' Donnan of Inis- priest,
pop
Aingin on Loch Ribh (Cal. , Jan. 7). The Adamnanus of Inchkethe whom Forduu
makes a contemporary of S. Servanus (i. 6), is by a violent anachronism, intended for our Adamnan ; but Abp. Ussher was too desirous to swell the history of North Britain, when on such authority he repre- sented Odomnanus as an abbot anterior to St. Columba, and fixed his date at the year
'
LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS.
Bede. 1* This latter writer, however, more particularly distinguishes our
saint, in the pages ot his Ecclesiastical
In addition to the places already mentioned, in which Adamnan had
been specially venerated, the following are also associated with his name and memory in the northern province :—The Parish of Bovevagh, in the Diocese of Derry, barony of Keenaght, and county of Londonderry, had St. Eugenius —a Latin form of Eunan***—for patron. Local belief makes St. Ringan, i. e. Ninian, the patron ; but as Colgan lived at a time when local traditions were better preserved than at present, his authority is to be more respected.
^ The old church which there remains measures 51 feet, by 17 feet, 6 inches. ^
5*6
[September 23.
Bovevagh Old Church, Co. Londonderry.
It is surrounded by a grave-yard, which contains no very ancient tombs. 1** Theformandstyleprovethechurchtobemedieval. Theparishliesonthe western side of the river Roe. 1 *6 The parish of Errigal, in the diocese of Derry, barony of Coleraine and County of Londonderry, was formerly called,
Airecal Adhamhnain, or " the habitation of Adamnan. "x 57 Itisnowbestknownthroughitsvillage,Garvagh. ThepresentProtestant parish church stands on a modern site.
" ofJanuaryintheFirstVolumeofthiswork, IS4SeeRev. Dr. Reeves'Adamnan's Life
Art. iii. of St. Columba. " Appendix to Preface, p. 150 See " Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Ixiv.
from its
patron,
xxv.
151 See ibid. , lib. v. , cap. xv. , xvi. , xvii. ,
'ss The illustration is copied accompanying
from a Sketch of George Du Noyer by Gregor Gray, who hns engraved it.
'5* See the "Parliamentary Gazetteer of
Anglorum," lib. iv. , cap.
xxi.
157 See Primate Colton's "
Metropolitan Visitation of the Diocese of Derry, a-d.
Ireland," vol. i, p. 270.
'57 See Primate Colton's
"
M. cccxcvn. ," edited by Rev. Dr. Reeves,
Metropolitan Visitation, of the Diocese of Derry, A. D. M. cccxcvn. ," edited by Rev. Dr. Reeves,
n. (o), p. 85.
,5, See his "Acta Sanctorum Hibernise,
"
Februarii xxii. De S. Malhrigido sive Brigidano, Abbate Derensi et Primate Ardmachano, n. 7, p. 387.
n. (y), pp. 80, 81.
ss It is the one connected with his name
History. '*
1
in the Breviary of Aberdeen :
"
S. Adamp
September 23. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. 527 Several churches and places in Scotland, bore the name of Adamnan.
veneration, in which his
was held— his memory throughout
:
The
the Ythan Mouth, seems to have been the place for Adamnan's chief com- memoration in Scotland. On the estate of Leask, there is another remnant
of a religious house, evidently an old Catholic chapel, as the place where the
altar stood is plainly discernible. It is small, but must be considered a fine
old ruin. 16? It stands in the middle of a small plantation of stunted firs and
alder, on a little eminence gently rising from a swampy bottom, with a rivulet
half it on the south side. It is called Adamnan's 16 ' A enclosing chapel.
parish named Forglen in the north-east angle of Banff, and separated from Aberdeenshire by the Doveran, was formerly called Teunan-Kirk, from a peculiar form of the patron's name. l6a The name of this parish in olden times was St. Eunan, or St. Eunein, after the saint of that name to whom the church had been dedicated. l63 The ruins of the chapel still remain,164 at themouthofarivuletwhichfallsintotheDoveran. Innestakeshimtobe the very same Saint Adamnan, who in Irish is called Ainan, and the day is
l6s Teunan formedfromSaint being
peculiar
adopted country, is evidenced in the following enumeration chapelry Furvie,158 in the parisli of Slains,^ on the east coast of Aberdeen, north of
thesame, the September
twenty-third ;
Ainan, as Trowel and Tantan from Saint Rule and Saint Antony. 166 A
parish called Aboyn, in the South of Aberdeenshire, on the north side of the Dee, had for its tutelar a Saint named Theunan. 16 ? About half-way between Aboyn Castle and the ruins of the ancient parish church, is a large old tree, now called the Skeulan 168 or St. l69 with a well at the foot of it
Tree, Eunan's,
called the Skeulan Well, or St. Eunan's, as known in the eighteenth
—— 1 ? A rock not less than 800 feet above the sea-level on
century. large
one of the braes of Angus, in the parish of Tannadice, ? is called St. Arnold's
Seat. 1 ? 2 Though apparently so far removed, this name has been formed from Adamnan. '73 In the parish of Kinneff, in Kincardineshire, there was
nani abbatis patroni apud Furui Aberdon. l63 See " Old Statistical Account of dyoces. " Propr. S. S. Part. Estiv. , fol 114 Scotland," vol. xiv. , p. 530.
b, a (Reprint), where the name is incor-
rectly given Furni. "
159 In the View of the Diocese of Aber-
deen, it is stated under the parish of Slaines
11
l64 See the " New Statistical Account of Scotland," vol. xiii. , Banff, part I, pp. 83, 87.
l6s In this parish was formerly kept St. Columba's sacred banner, called the Breac- banach ; and he too was regarded as a
of the
See "Collections on Aberdeen and
Here stood of old the parish church of Furvie (dedicated to St. Fidannan, Abbo—t
of I colmkill), overblown by the sands. "
"
Collections," &c, p. 388.
patron l6°
place.
160
still nearly entire, and the walls are over-
:
One gable and gothic window are Banff," vol. i. , p. 509. Spalding Club, Aberbeen, 1843.
with See "New Statistical ivy.
l6? See "Collections of
grown
Account of Scotland," vol. xii.
p. 593.
161 A similar name is
Aberdeen,
Aberdeen," p. l68 See "New Statistical Account of
given
Old Statistical Account, vol v,, p. 276.
Scotland,"
l69 This tree is still held in reverence.
'7° Thomas Innes tells us that he was
to in the it,
vol. 1060. xii, Aberdeen, p.
162 St. Eunan is called Thewnan by Adam
King, in his Calendar, at the 23rd of Septem-
ber. Dempster also calls him Thewnanus,
but disassociates him, at the same date of
festival, from St. Eunan; while his sup- See Civil and Ecclesiastical History of posed St. Thewanus Abbas is called the
preceptor of King Eugenius VI. , and the author of a book, " Quorundam SS. Vitas. " —" Histoiia Ecclesiastica Gentis Scoto- rum," tomus ii. , lib. xviii. , num. 1122, p. 613.
Scotland," Chronological Memoirs, p. 301. I? I In Forfarshire.
I? 2 See " New Statistical Account of Scot-
633.
11
born in Aboyn parish, and he mentions
these objects alluded to as called in his day
St. Eunan's Well, and St. Eunan's Tree. "
land," vol. xi. Forfar, part i. , p. 198.
173 This appears by the following extract
"
from a record of 1527: Et sic eundo
A at
5«8 LIVESOFTHEIRISHSAINTS. [September23.
1
formerly a ruin called St. Arnty's Hill, which is mentioned ? * as St. Arnold's
16
Cell. *? 5 It is stated, ? that St. Adamnan was Abbot in an Island called
Inchkeith, in the Firth of Forth, and lying E. N. E. from Inch Colm, and that
there he received St. Servanus and his companions, when they first came to
Scotland. T 77 The Island of Sanda in the Mull of Cantyre, is said to have
been called Insula 1 ? 8 where Adamnan's cell and that it had been Awyn, was,
1
regarded as a place of refuge for transgressors. i9 According to Father
MacCana, the whole of this island was sacred to St. Ninian, to whose monas- tery in Galloway it belonged, and there was a small building which bore his name. Near it was a repository or sepulchre of fourteen sons of an Irishman, named Senchan, renowned for sanctity. That chapel is now locally called
l8° A stone wall was round that
seven very large and polished stones that covered their venerated remains, and in the centre of those stones, there was an obelisk higher than the human form. lSl There was a denomination of land in the parish of Kilkerran, in
Kilmashenaghan.
in which were
Cantyre, variously
enclosure,
written Killewnane182 and l83 There is a Kilyownane.
called in Dalmeny
l8« near
Here was a chantry of St. Adamnan. 18* At
Linlithgow,
Campsie, in Perthshire, there was a croft of land called St. Adamnan's
186
Acre.
In Ireland, as in Scotland, it is observable, that the dedications of St.
Columba and of St. Adamnan keep very close together. In Ireland, the
churches of Raphoe, Skreen, and Drumhome are said to be founded by the
former, yet under the patronage of the latter. In Scotland, Forglen is St. Adamnan's, but in it were St. Columba's lands of the Banner ; St. Columba's Church of Tannadice has St. Eunan's seat; St. Columba's Church of Belhelvy neighbours to Furvy ; Inis Colm's nearest land is Inch Keith ; and St. Columba's Cramond has Dalmeny next adjoining on the west. 18? The great veneration, in which our Saint was held, both in Ireland and Scotland, is fully proved from the circumstance, that Adamnan was assumed as a Christian and surname, under various forms. Giolla-Adhamhnain, or
versus austrum usque ad caput montis, vocate thecae argentese inclusum, ante hoc bellum Sanct Eunendi's Seit. "—Record of 1527 — religiose servabatur a viro genereso ex Liber Respons, in Scacar. Reg. Scot. 1527- inclyta Mac Donellorum familia. " Could
parish
old Romanesque church.
1539, General Register House, Edinburgh.
174 In the Macfarlane Manuscripts.
175 The Rev. Dr. Reeves puts the query :
this be the reliquary now commonly called St.
132 He has a "St. Eunan, first Bishop of
Raphoe in Ireland," under September 7. The monastery founded there by St. Columb, and restored by St. Adamnan, being converted into an episcopal see,—St. Eunan was to it. lb.
pp. 304, 305. 130 "
See Ecclesiastical History of Ire-
land, vol. iii. , chap, xix. , sect, iii. , p. 150. 121 "
See Lives of the Saints," vol. ix. ,
September 23, p. 358.
122 " See
Les Moines d'Occident," tome
v. , liv. xv. , chap, iii. , p. 15. 123 "
124
See Irish Saints in Great Britain," chap, iv. , p. 112.
See Leslie Stephens' National Biography," vol. i. , p. 92.
,2S See "Acta Sanctorum," tomus
Dictionary of
appointed govern
The error about St. Eunan is repeated under St. Adamnan at September 23. In the Irish Calendar appended to the Dublin edition (R. Coyne, 1833) of his valuable book, the same supposed patron intrudes on from S. Eunanus qui primus existimatur another Saint's day. St. Adamnan's bed
vi. ,
Saints, p. 538.
126
li
Septembris xxiii. Among the pretermitted
As we have already seen, Sir James Ware incorrectly distinguishes Adamnanus, "Celebris ille ccenobii Hiensis Abbas,"
hujus sedis Episcopus. "—" De Pnesulibus used to be shown at Raphoe. See Harris
Hibernia Commentarius. " De Episcopus Ware, vol. " i. ,
Bishops
of
Raphoe,'
Rapotensibus, p. 73. p. 270. ""
127 See Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs and
other principal Saints,'' vol. ix. , September xxiii.
"8 See *' Book of Days," vol. ii. , p. 372.
"' See his " Church of
History Brittany,"
133 See Britannicarum Ecclesiarum An-
tiqukates," Index Chronologicus, p. 541.
134 See " De Scriptoribus Hibemise,"
book xx. , chap, xv. , p. 509. 130 See at that date in the
Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis," col. 1666, Lips. , 1722.
Art. xi.
131 In the "Acta Sanctorum," tomus iii. ,
23 Octob. an 704, aetatis suae 74, vel, ut alii, 80. "—" Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum His- toria Literaria," vol. i. Saeculum Monothe-
present
volume,
136 He writes: "e vita die migravit
Septembris, p. 128, they remark, that the
Mass of St. Eunan, Bishop of Raphoe, leticorum, p. 594.
lib. i. , cap. iii. , p. 35.
* 3S See "Commentarius de
September 23. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. 525
mitted a similar obvious mistake, in recording the day assigned for his
death. In the Benedictine Calendar, the festival of St. Adamnan is marked
"
at the 23rd of September. " While Camerarius m—entions a Sanctus
M
Adamnus Episcopus, Northumbrorum Apostolus a man who never
existed—at September, 25th he notices u Sanctus Thevuanus Abbas et Con-
"
that he was Abbot of
1 *8
T 37
Martyrology of Aberdeen at the 23rd of September has set down the festival
of our saint. T 39 The Breviary of Aberdeen places the feast of St. Adamp-
1* Adam
1
have been committed in making him a bishop. ** Aware of those in-
accuracies, Innes says, St. Adamnan was called St. Deunan or Theunan, by
1** Sir Harris Nicholas is said to have collected the blunders of Ireland and Scotland, and to have made a tripartite division of Adamnan's
fessor
at September 2 6th,
adding
Melrose,
The
of
memorate a St. Thewnan, said to have been preceptor to King Eugenius VI. , at this same day. Keith records the feast of a St. Theunan, at the same date. x *3 In a Calendar of the Scotch Prayer Book for 1638, our saint's festival is set down at the 25th of September. An error is also said to
nanus,
at the
23rd
September.
King
the
in his 1*6 I. sanctity by setting calendar,
vulgar.
of — II. Adamnan, Abbot; and III. Thennan, Abbot and 7th September;
at 1*? both of the latter are placed the 23rd of September.
Confessor
The feast of St. Eunan is celebrated on the 23rd of September, as a Double
oftheFirstClass,withanOctave,intheDioceseofRaphoe. Heiscalleda Bishop and Confessor in the Ordo, Breviary, and Missal, used by the Irish Catholic Clergy. Adamnan's name is of unusual form and of unfrequent occurrence, in Irish records. On referring to our Annals and Calendars, there are but three or four instances where it occurs. 1 * 8 To these may be
added St. Adamnan of
Coldingham,
1* who is mentioned Venerable by
Adamnan, bishop and abbot of Rath-maighe- aenaigh (An. Ult. 730 ; Four Mast. 725); and Adomnan mac Alddailedh (An. Ult. 835), Ussher mentions S. Adompnanus as the successor of St. Ciaran in Inis-Aingin, now Hare Island, in Lough Ree in the Shannon (Wks. , vi. , p. 525), and O'Connor borrows from him (RerumHib. , SS. ,vol. ii. , p. 138, n. 42) ; but Ussher seems to have read the name incorrectly, for in the Life of St. Ciaran, whence he derived his informa-
'
Quidam vir de Momonia se —de gente Corcobaiscind, nomine Domnanus. ' Cap. 28 (Cod. Marsh, fol. 147, a. a). Marian Gorman settles the
question: DonnAti pacApc o 1tiip . Aingin
Loch
137 See
177.
"
De Scotorum Fortitudine," p.
138 Thus " Monasteno Mailrossensi diu :
praefuit hie Sanctus. "
139 It says at ix. Kl\ Octobris:
In Scocia Sancti Adampnani abbatis cuius reliquie in sanctaYensi insula mirandis clarent signorum
prodigiis quern Sanctus Columba antequam nasceretur precinebat et —doctorum catholi-
"
cum futurum predicabat. " Proceedings of
the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland," vol. ii. , p. 268.
'*° See Calendar, ix. Kal. Octobris, Pro- pria Sanctorum, Pars Estivalis, (? ) fol. 114, b. a.
141 See Calendar at September 23rd.
142 See " Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Scotorum," torn, ii. , p. 613.
143 See "Scottish Bishops," p. 378 (Edin-
burgh, 1824).
144 Such is the opinion of the Rev. Dr.
Reeves.
145 See " Civil and Ecclesiastical History
of Scotland," p. 300.
146 See "Chronology of History," pp. 132,
tion, the same individual is called
"
147, 173.
,47See Rev. Mr. Reeves' Adamnan's 488. (Ind. Chron. /'—Rev. Dr. Reeves'
" Life of St. Columba," Additional Notes, c, p2 57.
Adamnan's " Life of St. Columba," Appen- dix to Preface, sect. I. Memoir of St.
14" " The Calendars have none our except
Adamnan,
I49 See the Acts of this Saint, at the 31st
Jgj
author. The Annals have, besides St,
n. xl. (c), p.
Eunan, Bishop
of at the Raphoe,
T*x and x*3 com- Dempster
tVib,
' Donnan of Inis- priest,
pop
Aingin on Loch Ribh (Cal. , Jan. 7). The Adamnanus of Inchkethe whom Forduu
makes a contemporary of S. Servanus (i. 6), is by a violent anachronism, intended for our Adamnan ; but Abp. Ussher was too desirous to swell the history of North Britain, when on such authority he repre- sented Odomnanus as an abbot anterior to St. Columba, and fixed his date at the year
'
LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS.
Bede. 1* This latter writer, however, more particularly distinguishes our
saint, in the pages ot his Ecclesiastical
In addition to the places already mentioned, in which Adamnan had
been specially venerated, the following are also associated with his name and memory in the northern province :—The Parish of Bovevagh, in the Diocese of Derry, barony of Keenaght, and county of Londonderry, had St. Eugenius —a Latin form of Eunan***—for patron. Local belief makes St. Ringan, i. e. Ninian, the patron ; but as Colgan lived at a time when local traditions were better preserved than at present, his authority is to be more respected.
^ The old church which there remains measures 51 feet, by 17 feet, 6 inches. ^
5*6
[September 23.
Bovevagh Old Church, Co. Londonderry.
It is surrounded by a grave-yard, which contains no very ancient tombs. 1** Theformandstyleprovethechurchtobemedieval. Theparishliesonthe western side of the river Roe. 1 *6 The parish of Errigal, in the diocese of Derry, barony of Coleraine and County of Londonderry, was formerly called,
Airecal Adhamhnain, or " the habitation of Adamnan. "x 57 Itisnowbestknownthroughitsvillage,Garvagh. ThepresentProtestant parish church stands on a modern site.
" ofJanuaryintheFirstVolumeofthiswork, IS4SeeRev. Dr. Reeves'Adamnan's Life
Art. iii. of St. Columba. " Appendix to Preface, p. 150 See " Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Ixiv.
from its
patron,
xxv.
151 See ibid. , lib. v. , cap. xv. , xvi. , xvii. ,
'ss The illustration is copied accompanying
from a Sketch of George Du Noyer by Gregor Gray, who hns engraved it.
'5* See the "Parliamentary Gazetteer of
Anglorum," lib. iv. , cap.
xxi.
157 See Primate Colton's "
Metropolitan Visitation of the Diocese of Derry, a-d.
Ireland," vol. i, p. 270.
'57 See Primate Colton's
"
M. cccxcvn. ," edited by Rev. Dr. Reeves,
Metropolitan Visitation, of the Diocese of Derry, A. D. M. cccxcvn. ," edited by Rev. Dr. Reeves,
n. (o), p. 85.
,5, See his "Acta Sanctorum Hibernise,
"
Februarii xxii. De S. Malhrigido sive Brigidano, Abbate Derensi et Primate Ardmachano, n. 7, p. 387.
n. (y), pp. 80, 81.
ss It is the one connected with his name
History. '*
1
in the Breviary of Aberdeen :
"
S. Adamp
September 23. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. 527 Several churches and places in Scotland, bore the name of Adamnan.
veneration, in which his
was held— his memory throughout
:
The
the Ythan Mouth, seems to have been the place for Adamnan's chief com- memoration in Scotland. On the estate of Leask, there is another remnant
of a religious house, evidently an old Catholic chapel, as the place where the
altar stood is plainly discernible. It is small, but must be considered a fine
old ruin. 16? It stands in the middle of a small plantation of stunted firs and
alder, on a little eminence gently rising from a swampy bottom, with a rivulet
half it on the south side. It is called Adamnan's 16 ' A enclosing chapel.
parish named Forglen in the north-east angle of Banff, and separated from Aberdeenshire by the Doveran, was formerly called Teunan-Kirk, from a peculiar form of the patron's name. l6a The name of this parish in olden times was St. Eunan, or St. Eunein, after the saint of that name to whom the church had been dedicated. l63 The ruins of the chapel still remain,164 at themouthofarivuletwhichfallsintotheDoveran. Innestakeshimtobe the very same Saint Adamnan, who in Irish is called Ainan, and the day is
l6s Teunan formedfromSaint being
peculiar
adopted country, is evidenced in the following enumeration chapelry Furvie,158 in the parisli of Slains,^ on the east coast of Aberdeen, north of
thesame, the September
twenty-third ;
Ainan, as Trowel and Tantan from Saint Rule and Saint Antony. 166 A
parish called Aboyn, in the South of Aberdeenshire, on the north side of the Dee, had for its tutelar a Saint named Theunan. 16 ? About half-way between Aboyn Castle and the ruins of the ancient parish church, is a large old tree, now called the Skeulan 168 or St. l69 with a well at the foot of it
Tree, Eunan's,
called the Skeulan Well, or St. Eunan's, as known in the eighteenth
—— 1 ? A rock not less than 800 feet above the sea-level on
century. large
one of the braes of Angus, in the parish of Tannadice, ? is called St. Arnold's
Seat. 1 ? 2 Though apparently so far removed, this name has been formed from Adamnan. '73 In the parish of Kinneff, in Kincardineshire, there was
nani abbatis patroni apud Furui Aberdon. l63 See " Old Statistical Account of dyoces. " Propr. S. S. Part. Estiv. , fol 114 Scotland," vol. xiv. , p. 530.
b, a (Reprint), where the name is incor-
rectly given Furni. "
159 In the View of the Diocese of Aber-
deen, it is stated under the parish of Slaines
11
l64 See the " New Statistical Account of Scotland," vol. xiii. , Banff, part I, pp. 83, 87.
l6s In this parish was formerly kept St. Columba's sacred banner, called the Breac- banach ; and he too was regarded as a
of the
See "Collections on Aberdeen and
Here stood of old the parish church of Furvie (dedicated to St. Fidannan, Abbo—t
of I colmkill), overblown by the sands. "
"
Collections," &c, p. 388.
patron l6°
place.
160
still nearly entire, and the walls are over-
:
One gable and gothic window are Banff," vol. i. , p. 509. Spalding Club, Aberbeen, 1843.
with See "New Statistical ivy.
l6? See "Collections of
grown
Account of Scotland," vol. xii.
p. 593.
161 A similar name is
Aberdeen,
Aberdeen," p. l68 See "New Statistical Account of
given
Old Statistical Account, vol v,, p. 276.
Scotland,"
l69 This tree is still held in reverence.
'7° Thomas Innes tells us that he was
to in the it,
vol. 1060. xii, Aberdeen, p.
162 St. Eunan is called Thewnan by Adam
King, in his Calendar, at the 23rd of Septem-
ber. Dempster also calls him Thewnanus,
but disassociates him, at the same date of
festival, from St. Eunan; while his sup- See Civil and Ecclesiastical History of posed St. Thewanus Abbas is called the
preceptor of King Eugenius VI. , and the author of a book, " Quorundam SS. Vitas. " —" Histoiia Ecclesiastica Gentis Scoto- rum," tomus ii. , lib. xviii. , num. 1122, p. 613.
Scotland," Chronological Memoirs, p. 301. I? I In Forfarshire.
I? 2 See " New Statistical Account of Scot-
633.
11
born in Aboyn parish, and he mentions
these objects alluded to as called in his day
St. Eunan's Well, and St. Eunan's Tree. "
land," vol. xi. Forfar, part i. , p. 198.
173 This appears by the following extract
"
from a record of 1527: Et sic eundo
A at
5«8 LIVESOFTHEIRISHSAINTS. [September23.
1
formerly a ruin called St. Arnty's Hill, which is mentioned ? * as St. Arnold's
16
Cell. *? 5 It is stated, ? that St. Adamnan was Abbot in an Island called
Inchkeith, in the Firth of Forth, and lying E. N. E. from Inch Colm, and that
there he received St. Servanus and his companions, when they first came to
Scotland. T 77 The Island of Sanda in the Mull of Cantyre, is said to have
been called Insula 1 ? 8 where Adamnan's cell and that it had been Awyn, was,
1
regarded as a place of refuge for transgressors. i9 According to Father
MacCana, the whole of this island was sacred to St. Ninian, to whose monas- tery in Galloway it belonged, and there was a small building which bore his name. Near it was a repository or sepulchre of fourteen sons of an Irishman, named Senchan, renowned for sanctity. That chapel is now locally called
l8° A stone wall was round that
seven very large and polished stones that covered their venerated remains, and in the centre of those stones, there was an obelisk higher than the human form. lSl There was a denomination of land in the parish of Kilkerran, in
Kilmashenaghan.
in which were
Cantyre, variously
enclosure,
written Killewnane182 and l83 There is a Kilyownane.
called in Dalmeny
l8« near
Here was a chantry of St. Adamnan. 18* At
Linlithgow,
Campsie, in Perthshire, there was a croft of land called St. Adamnan's
186
Acre.
In Ireland, as in Scotland, it is observable, that the dedications of St.
Columba and of St. Adamnan keep very close together. In Ireland, the
churches of Raphoe, Skreen, and Drumhome are said to be founded by the
former, yet under the patronage of the latter. In Scotland, Forglen is St. Adamnan's, but in it were St. Columba's lands of the Banner ; St. Columba's Church of Tannadice has St. Eunan's seat; St. Columba's Church of Belhelvy neighbours to Furvy ; Inis Colm's nearest land is Inch Keith ; and St. Columba's Cramond has Dalmeny next adjoining on the west. 18? The great veneration, in which our Saint was held, both in Ireland and Scotland, is fully proved from the circumstance, that Adamnan was assumed as a Christian and surname, under various forms. Giolla-Adhamhnain, or
versus austrum usque ad caput montis, vocate thecae argentese inclusum, ante hoc bellum Sanct Eunendi's Seit. "—Record of 1527 — religiose servabatur a viro genereso ex Liber Respons, in Scacar. Reg. Scot. 1527- inclyta Mac Donellorum familia. " Could
parish
old Romanesque church.
1539, General Register House, Edinburgh.
174 In the Macfarlane Manuscripts.
175 The Rev. Dr. Reeves puts the query :
this be the reliquary now commonly called St.
