ThisparishreachestoToome,andit was
situated
within the ancient of 22 The festival of our
Whether this had been the date for her death, or the 8th of July, has not been determined.
Whether this had been the date for her death, or the 8th of July, has not been determined.
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7
, July 8, pp.
195, 196.
to the
conveyed Bollandists through Father Stephen White, as found among the Manuscript collections
of the Irish Franciscans at Louvain.
"
of some shipwrecked foreign rovers, massa- cred in Earl Hako's reign. And the legend that grew up around them is—a distant echo
"
of the legend of St. Ursula. " Lives of the
Saints," vol. vii. , July 8, p. 197.
13 He cites Canisius as an authority, but
neither he nor Greven specifies the exact
number of companions.
I4 Acurious was that in Legend current,
the extreme parts of the north of Europe, and
among the Scritefings, seven men lay sleeping in a certain cave beside the ocean. Opinions
differed regarding them, some holding, these sleepers should awake and preach to that people before the end of the world. But, others said they were some of the eleven thousand virgins whose company separated,
11 Such was a statement
12
The bones discovered were probably those
The Rev. S. Baring-Gould remarks :
Their Legend states, that during the reign
had
rock. There, too, miracles were wrought.
See Pertz's " Monumenta Germanise Histo- rica," tomusix. , p. 302.
and some of these
been wrecked on that
1 68 LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. [July 8.
11
Catalogus aliquorum
Sanctorum Hiberniae," there is no mention of these
holy virgins and martyrs ; but, in the second edition enlarged, he notes at the 8th of July St. Summiva with seven companions in Norway. *3 We are told, that in 1170, the relics of St. Sunnifa were brought from Selja to Ber-
1*
Dempster falsely cites Canisius, for the seven female companions of St. Summiva, virgin. The body of St. Sunnifa is alleged to have been deposited in a large and hand- some shrine, over the high altar of Christ Church, in Bergen. On the 8th of July—probably the day of St. Summiva's demise—the Norwegians
annually celebrated Mass in her honour. 1'
Article V. ^-St. Trega, Virgin and Patroness or Ardtrea Parish, County of Londonderry. {Fifth Century'. ] St. Tiega had a feast on this day, in the place and parish called after her Ardtrea, partly in the barony of Dungannon, County Tyrone, but chiefly in the barony of Loughinsholin, and
gen, by the Bishop Paul, chaplain to King Eysteinn.
of 1 The county Londonderry.
parish 2
of which she was lies on the patroness
north-west border of Lough Neagh, the largest inland lake of Ireland. It seems to have been Colgan's intention to treat about her,3 on two different days consecrated to her memory, viz. : on the 8th of July, and on the 3rd of August. The Bollandists have a notice, at the present date, regarding St. TreaofArd-Trea. 4 St. Trega,TrehaorTrechawasdaughtertoCarthennus, the minor dynast of that country, called Hy-Tuirtre,5 near Slieve Gallion, and on the borders of Lough Neagh. This prince was son to Ere, son to Eochad, son to Colla Huaish,6 the monarch of Ireland, in the year of Christ 326. 7 ThemotherofthissaintwasnamedMugania,descendedfromFear- gus the Great, prince of Dalaradia. Her father and mother, with their house-
embraced the faith of Christ.
when he passed Toome ford, and entered the country of Hy-Tuirtre. Car- thennus was named the Minor, to distinguish him from an elder brother, bearingasimilarname,calledCarthennusMajor. Thislatterwouldnotem-
hold,
They
were
baptized by
A. Worsaae's "Account of the
's See
Danes and Norwegians, in England, Scot-
*
122 to
7 Duald Mac Firbis thus traces the origin
t>a iiiac
ccAi-umec CappcAinn locA|:eAbuilpAcr\A
Cope fro SbiAb a n-'oeAf o ccait> in
Cuir\c r\e ti, acur- Acur* Acup pp. pn Luij\c,
Wales, Scotland, and Ireland," printed cor\c§AbAil ConAille mui|\ceinne (cope
a. d. 1497. 'ono Ainm no gAbAil) &c. " The following
J. J.
125.
land and — sect, Ireland,"
—" CoUIa
v. , p. 333.
Article v. Adescription ofit may be found in the "Parliamentary Gazetteer of
family
:
UAip cjva SLiad
Ireland," vol. i. , pp. 66, 67.
a A curious of its is to be legend origin
is a translation of the Irish: Colla Uaishad two goodly sons, viz. , Earc on the North of the Mountain, from whom descend the Mac Cartains of Loch Feabhail and
It was by him [Fiachra] that Conail—le
Muirthemne [Louth] was first appropriated Tort being a name for seizure," &c. See Rev. Dr. Reeves' "Ecclesiastical Antiqui- ties of Down, Connor and Dromore," Ap-
pendix BB, pp. 292, 293.
8 See an account of this incident, in the
Third Volume of this work, at the 17th of
March, Art. i. Life of St. Patrick, chap. xv.
found, in Caxton's "History of England, ""
3 See Trias Thaumaturga," Sexta Vita
S. Patricii, n. 97, p. 113.
4 They add : "de qua ait Sirinus, viden-
dum diem in. —
Augusti lendariis prsetcrita est. "
rum," tomus ii. , Julii viii. termitted saints, p. 533.
[Foyle], Fiachra Tort on the South of the Mountain, from whom descend the Hy-Tuirtre, and the Fir-Li, and the Fir-Luirc, and Hy-Mac Uais.
5 The descendants of Fiachra Tort, son to
Colla Huaish, were called U1 Cuir\Cj\e.
From him the territory which they occupied received its name.
6
feated the Ultonians at the battle of Cain- Eacha-lethderg, A. D. 331. He assumed the
sovereignty of Ireland in the year 323, and he held it until 326. See Dr. O'Donovan's "Annals of the Four Masters," vol. i. , pp.
:
This monarch with his two brothers de-
sed et hrec aliis Ka-
"
Acta Sancto- Among the pre-
of this
rhAice. bAif . 1. eAj\c yjma
U1 tTlAC Uai|\ Ay Ler-itie ceAtmA t>eA|MiAt>
St. 8 Patrick,
a cuai-6 o
July 8. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. 169
brace the Gospel, but rather he treated St. Patrick with insult and reproach, driving him forth from the country in which he ruled. This joined the terri-
tory of his younger brother. Hereupon, St. Patrick predicted, that the youngerCarthennusshouldonedayenjoythetyrant'sinheritance. Hehad
unjustly expelled the prince from his dominions, lest this junior might succeed to any portion of his paternal possessions. The journey of our Irish Apostle to
this part of the country is thus minutely described in theTripartiteLife; from the territory of Dalaradia his travels lay through Fersait-Tuama,* in the district of Hi-Tuirtre, and for forty days he remained in a place called Finnabhuir,10 wishing at that beautiful site " to establish his cathedral See. " It is described as having been near the mountain Callann towards the east and Lough Neagh towards the west. This seems, however, to have been an accidental reversal of the proper order. St. Trega was born at the time when St. Patrick baptizedherfather'shousehold. 1* Shereceivedhernameandthesacrament of regeneration, likewise, through the instrumentality of that great Apostle. He predicted, at the same time, the future sanctity of the child, and the con- secration of her virginity to God, at a subsequent period. The people of Hy- Tuirtre region, moved by the example of their dynast, and enlightened by Divine grace, received the faith of Christ at the same time, from our Irish
Apostle. By pious exhortations and labours, he endeavoured to strengthen the foundations thus laid, and to nurture germs of salvation, already planted in the minds of his neophytes. The father of St. Trega was distinguished for piety and devotedness to all his Christian engagements, and for the munifi- cencewithwhichhebuiltandendowedchurches. Sevenmoftheseareparti- cularly noted, as having been commenced by St. Patrick. • Some of these churcheshavebeenidentified. 16 Thus,theDomnach-Fainreisknowntobethe
1
present Donaghenry, ? a parish in the county of Tyrone, near Lough Neagh.
18
Domnach-Riascaigh is the present Donaghrisk,
a townland in the parish of
9 This denomination signifies "the cross- have existed besides those of Clonmacnoise, ing of Tuaim. " It is identical with Toome Glendalough, Clonenagh, &c, There were Bridge over the River Bann, in the parish seven churches founded by St. Patrick in of Duneane. By the Irish Annalists, it is Keenaght, of which Boith- Domnach, now called Uuaim, and it gives name to a barony. Bandony, was one. See Colgan's "Trias This passage of the Bann is at the issue of
the river, where it leaves Lough Neagh.
10 It is rendered " albus compus," in
Latin. See Colgan's "Trias Thaumaturga," Sexta Vita S. Patricii, cap. xciv. , p. 87.
11
Thaumaturga," Vita Tripartita S. Patricii, pars, ii. , cap. cxix. , p. 145.
There were several places bearing this
name of Fionnabhair in Ireland. One of Righdhuinn, Domnach-Brain, Domnach-
these was near the Abbey of Mellifont. See
moelain, et Domnach-libeir. " See ibid. , cap. cxxxviii. to cxl. , p. 148.
l6
By Rev. Dr. Reeves in his invaluable historical and topographical work, intituled " Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Down, Connor and Dromore," Appendix BB, p. 294, n. (b).
Ijr It was formerly within Domnaghfenre and Dompnachfionnray, in the ancient regis- ters of Armagh.
,8 In the Taxation of Armagh diocese A. D.
1291, Donagheresca occurs as the name of an independent church. In the ancient Registra of the diocese, it is called the rec-
of and
tory Domnaghreasca Downaghryeske.
The Dungannon Inquisition of 1609 repre- sents Donaghreiske as a chapel, with two balliboes of Erenagh land thereto belonging,
Its ancient cemetery was the burying-place
O'Donovan's
"
Annals of the Four Masters,"
vol. ii. , p. 1043, and n- ( e) 5 also PP- II24» 1 125, n. (m). There is also one near Clogher, which is thus described by Colgan : "Collis Finn-abhuir in Lemania, quae est regio cam- pestris Tironiae, dicecesis Clocharensis, vulgo
—"Trias Thaumaturga," Septima Vita S. Patricii,
Maglemna aliis clossach, dicta. " cap. iv. , p. 149 and 184, n. II.
"
See Rev. Dr. Reeves' "Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Down, Connor and Dromore," Appendix BB, p. 293, n. (x).
13 See " Trias Colgan's
Thaumaturga," Vita Tripartita S. Patricii, pars, ii. , cap. cxl. ,
p. 148.
14 There are other instances in Ireland,
where we hnd groups of seven churches to
** " Unde in regione ilia septem basilica- rum jecit fundamenta : quarum prisca voca- bula erant Domnach Fainre, Domnach- Riascaigh, Domnach-Fothairbe, Domnach-
iyo LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. [July 8.
Desertcreat, which joins the former parish on the west. Donnabaran, in the deanery of Tullaghoge, washerenach land, and it resembles the name Dom- nach-Brain. T9 TheRev. Dr. Reeveswasunabletoidentifythemodernnames
20
of the remaining churches.
ridge of mountain at the south-west of Loughinsholin barony, in the county ofDerry;whilstEthachisidenticalwiththepresentLoughNeagh. When her father had been restored to his territory, St. Trega received the veil from St. Patrickf1 and,afterwards,shebecamegreatlydistinguishedforfervour and fidelity to engagements with her Divine spouse. In all probability, she founded a religious establishment, in the present parish of Ardtrea, on the north-westborderofLoughNeagh.
ThisparishreachestoToome,andit was situated within the ancient of 22 The festival of our
Whether this had been the date for her death, or the 8th of July, has not been determined.
Article VI. —St. Brogan, of Maethail-Bhrogain, now Mothil, County of Waterford, or Secretary to St. Patrick. The identity of St. Brocanus has been questioned. While some writers deem him to have been the nephew of St. Patrick, and also his scribe ; others hold a
1
different opinion. In the Feilire of St. ^Engus, at the 8th of July, Brocan
the Scribe is invoked, and with a special panegyric. The commentator states, that he was of Moethail Broccain, in Desi, of Munster; but, he has an alternative supposition, that Broccan, Patrick's scribe is meant here ; and, if such be the case, Brechmag in Ui-Forta was his church. 2 In the Martyr- ology of Tallagh,3 at the 8th of July, the name of Broccan, Scribuid, is inserted. According to the Kalendars of Cashel and of Marianus O'Gorman, he was the nephew of St. Patrick, the constant companion in his missions, and travels, as also his secretary. If we consider him to be St. Patrick's nephew, he is alluded to by Jocelyn, where he introduces the Bishops Bro- chadius, Brochanus, Mogenocus and Loman, as having come from Britain, to labour with their uncle, the Apostle of Ireland, in the missionary field, where he sowed the seeds of the Gospel. 4 The feast of that St. Brochan is referred by Colgan, to the 8th of July. 5 According to Cathal Maguire, he was either
of the O'Hagan sept. county of Tyrone, and Loughinsholin in the x« According to the Armagh Register of county of Derry. See Rev. Wm. Reeves'
Swayne,fol. 60.
20 He says, there is not any approach to
them in the lists of parishes, contained in the Armagh Registra.
21
According to the Irish Tripartite Life,
33 " Trecha sive Trega, filia Carthennii, filii Erci, filii Eochadii, filii Coll—ae Huassii colitur in Ardtrea, 3. Augusti. " Colgan's " Trias Thaumaturga," Septima Vita S. Patricii, n. —
as translated by William M. Hennessy for
Miss M. F. Cusack's "Life of St. Patrick,"
angels brought this veil from Heaven, and
placed it on her head down over her eyes,
232, p. 183.
Callann is the same as Slieve Gallion, a high
territory Hy-Tuirtre.
saint was celebrated, likewise, in Ardtrea parish, on the 3rd of August. ^
when Patrick began to raise it up. "Why script Series, vol. i. , part i. On the Calen-
is it not good to bear it as it was placed ? "
"
asked Trea.
Patrick. She never saw anything during her life except what she saw through that veil.
Part ii. , p. 446.
22 Not being of the Ruderician or old
Ultonian stock, the Hy Tuirtre territory ori- ginallylayonthewestsideofLoughNeagh,
and comprehended a considerable portion of the modern baronies of Dungannon, in the
dar of Oengus, by Whitley Stokes, LL. D. , pp. cix. , ex.
2 See ibid. , p. cxvii.
3 Edited by Rev. Dr. Kelly, p. xxviii.
*
See Colgan's "Trias Thaumaturga," Sexta Vita S. Patricii, cap. 1. , p. 76.
5 See ibid. , n. 51, p. no.
It is good, indeed," answered
"EcclesiasticalAntiquitiesofDown,Connor and Dromore," Appendix BB, p. 293.
Article vi.
the Royal Irish Academy," Irish Manu-
6
See "Acta Sanctorum," tomus ii. ,
x
See "Transactions
of
Julii viii. Among the pretermitted saints, p. 533.
July 8j LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. i 7 i
Brocan of Maothal-Brogain, in the Decies of Munster, or Brogan, scribe of St. Patrick. The Bollandists 6 have some notices of St. Brocan, the scribe, at the 8th of July. We are told, that an abbey for Canons Regular of St. Augustine had been founded in the sixth century by a St. Brogan. 7 It stood inMothillparish,countyofWaterford; and,atthedissolutionofmonasteries, it was granted to the celebrated Sir Walter Raleigh in fee-farm. 8 Some few remains of this foundation were traced near the parish church, in the last century. 9 Others deem the foundation to have been for Cistercian monks.
A
scribe, of Maethail-Bhrogain, in Deisi Mumham. This holy bishop is entered in Henry Fitzsimon's Calendar. " He was venerated in Scotland, as we learn
11 from the Calendar of Drummond, * at the 8th of July. *
Article VII. —St. Condmac or Connmach, of Ath-Blair, or Atha Stlain. In the Martyrology of Tallagly at the 9th of July, a festival is re-
is mentioned in St. Patrick's Acts
to be a different individual from the present saint, in the estimation of some persons. At the same date, the Martyrology of Donegal " records Brogan,
St.
Brochanus, bishop,
but, he
appears
corded in honour of Condmac, of Atha Silain.
The place of this saint is
inalaterCalendar. The
at the same date, enters the name as Connmach, of Ath Blair.
2 Under either
differently denominated,
name, the place of this holy man has not been identified.
of
Donegal,
Article VIII. —Festival of Saints Totnanus and Colmanus,
Martyrs. The various Usuard to the 1 have Codices, according Bollandists,
their Festival entered, apart from that of St. Kilian, Martyr, at Wurtzburg;
as werehis in —all thatcanbeknown however, they companions suffering,
regarding them has been already given in his Life the first at this day.
Article IX. —Reputed Feast of St. Adelinus, Martyr. In the Scottish Menology of Dempster, the name of Adelinus, Martyr, and com- panion of St. Kilian, has been introduced, at this date. The Bollandists " merely notice this entry, and refer to their previous commentary on the Acts of St. Kilian for their opinion regarding this statement of Dempster.
Article X. —Reputed Festival of St. Erwaldus, Arnwal, or Arnualis, Disciple of St. Kilian. Owing to the confusion of name,
7 See Archdall's
"
Monasticon Hiberni-
Catholicse Ibernise Compendium," tomus i. , lib. iv. , cap. xii. , p. 53.
I3Thusentered "
: viii. IdusApudHiber-
niam Natale Sanctorum Confessorum Bro- cain et Diarmata. "
I4 See Bishop Forbes' "Kalendars of
cum," for an interesting record of this Abbey,
possessions, pp. 696, 697. See Harris' Ware, vol. ii. , "Antiquities of Ireland," chap, xxxviii. , p. 226. Theassig-
nee was the Earl of Cork.
9 See Smith's "Ancient and Present State
of the County and City of Waterford," chap.
its rulers, and its
8
iii. , p. 91.
10 2
See Colgan's "Trias Thaumaturga," Vita Sexta S. Patricii, cap. ii. , and n. 51, p. 100.
11 Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
190, 191.
12 See " Sanctorum Catalogus aliquorum "
Ibernise," in O'Sullevan Beare's Historice
T
rum," tomus ii. , Julii viii.
Among the pre-
Scottish Saints," p. 17. x
Martyrology
10 ;
Article vii. — Edited by Rev. Dr.
Kelly, p. xxix.
Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
190, 191.
Article viii. — See "Acta Sancto-
termitted feasts, p. 531.
» Article ix. — See
"
tomus ii. , Julii viii. Among the pretermitted
Acta
Sanctorum,"
1 72 LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. [July 8. different Martyrologists assign the feast of this reputed disciple of St. Kilian
1
to various days. Thus, it is at the 19th of January, at the 15th of February, atthe8thofJuly,andatthe2ndofOctober. Whatevermaybethetruthof
that statement regarding his having been the companion of St. Kilian—whose Life is already given on this day—such companionship is not noticed in his Acts, as relating to Franconia or to his martyrdom. The Bollandists, who notice him, at this day, state, that he is undoubtedly one and the same, who has been referred, in the Irish and Scottish Calendars, to the 2nd of October. "
—
the 8th of July, have a notice of Giswald —said to have been a companion of
1 Article XI. Reputed Feast of St. Giswald. The Bollandists, at
St. Disibod—by Camerarius. already given on this day.
3
About him or his cultus nothing more is known, than what has been already" recorded, in the Life of St. Disibod,
Article XII. —Reputed Feast of St. Alganus, Archbishop and
Martyr. In the Carthusian Manuscript Martyrology at Bruxelles, and at the 8th of July, is entered an account of St. Alganus, Archbishop, of the
Island Hibernia, who was martyred among the Umbrani. Nothing more
seems to be known regarding him, and the Bollandists, who have inserted
1
the foregoing account for this day, are at a loss to know whence it had been
derived, as Fitzsimon has it not in his catalogue of Irish Saints, nor has Dempster or Camerarius any similar entry in their Scottish Kalendars.
Article XIII. —Reputed Feast of St. Kilian, Dux, and Uncle to
St. Ursula. ThisfeastofSt. Kiliamis,Dux,uncletoSt. Ursulaandfather
totheholyBrigid,HelenaandSapientia,is enteredbyGelenius,ashaving been celebrated at Cologne, on the 8th day of July. The Bollandists insert this notice, at the same date, and distinguish this St. Kilian from the Martyr
so called at 1 However, Wurtzburg.
finding nothing
more definite
regarding
him, and desiring further information, they defer to the 21st of October any
subsequent notice, when they should have an opportunity of treating about
St. Ursula and her companions.
ArticleXIV. —St. Ribianus,Bishop. FloratiusandHenryFitzsimon,
at the 8th of July, enter a festival for St. Ribianus, a Bishop.
to the
conveyed Bollandists through Father Stephen White, as found among the Manuscript collections
of the Irish Franciscans at Louvain.
"
of some shipwrecked foreign rovers, massa- cred in Earl Hako's reign. And the legend that grew up around them is—a distant echo
"
of the legend of St. Ursula. " Lives of the
Saints," vol. vii. , July 8, p. 197.
13 He cites Canisius as an authority, but
neither he nor Greven specifies the exact
number of companions.
I4 Acurious was that in Legend current,
the extreme parts of the north of Europe, and
among the Scritefings, seven men lay sleeping in a certain cave beside the ocean. Opinions
differed regarding them, some holding, these sleepers should awake and preach to that people before the end of the world. But, others said they were some of the eleven thousand virgins whose company separated,
11 Such was a statement
12
The bones discovered were probably those
The Rev. S. Baring-Gould remarks :
Their Legend states, that during the reign
had
rock. There, too, miracles were wrought.
See Pertz's " Monumenta Germanise Histo- rica," tomusix. , p. 302.
and some of these
been wrecked on that
1 68 LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. [July 8.
11
Catalogus aliquorum
Sanctorum Hiberniae," there is no mention of these
holy virgins and martyrs ; but, in the second edition enlarged, he notes at the 8th of July St. Summiva with seven companions in Norway. *3 We are told, that in 1170, the relics of St. Sunnifa were brought from Selja to Ber-
1*
Dempster falsely cites Canisius, for the seven female companions of St. Summiva, virgin. The body of St. Sunnifa is alleged to have been deposited in a large and hand- some shrine, over the high altar of Christ Church, in Bergen. On the 8th of July—probably the day of St. Summiva's demise—the Norwegians
annually celebrated Mass in her honour. 1'
Article V. ^-St. Trega, Virgin and Patroness or Ardtrea Parish, County of Londonderry. {Fifth Century'. ] St. Tiega had a feast on this day, in the place and parish called after her Ardtrea, partly in the barony of Dungannon, County Tyrone, but chiefly in the barony of Loughinsholin, and
gen, by the Bishop Paul, chaplain to King Eysteinn.
of 1 The county Londonderry.
parish 2
of which she was lies on the patroness
north-west border of Lough Neagh, the largest inland lake of Ireland. It seems to have been Colgan's intention to treat about her,3 on two different days consecrated to her memory, viz. : on the 8th of July, and on the 3rd of August. The Bollandists have a notice, at the present date, regarding St. TreaofArd-Trea. 4 St. Trega,TrehaorTrechawasdaughtertoCarthennus, the minor dynast of that country, called Hy-Tuirtre,5 near Slieve Gallion, and on the borders of Lough Neagh. This prince was son to Ere, son to Eochad, son to Colla Huaish,6 the monarch of Ireland, in the year of Christ 326. 7 ThemotherofthissaintwasnamedMugania,descendedfromFear- gus the Great, prince of Dalaradia. Her father and mother, with their house-
embraced the faith of Christ.
when he passed Toome ford, and entered the country of Hy-Tuirtre. Car- thennus was named the Minor, to distinguish him from an elder brother, bearingasimilarname,calledCarthennusMajor. Thislatterwouldnotem-
hold,
They
were
baptized by
A. Worsaae's "Account of the
's See
Danes and Norwegians, in England, Scot-
*
122 to
7 Duald Mac Firbis thus traces the origin
t>a iiiac
ccAi-umec CappcAinn locA|:eAbuilpAcr\A
Cope fro SbiAb a n-'oeAf o ccait> in
Cuir\c r\e ti, acur- Acur* Acup pp. pn Luij\c,
Wales, Scotland, and Ireland," printed cor\c§AbAil ConAille mui|\ceinne (cope
a. d. 1497. 'ono Ainm no gAbAil) &c. " The following
J. J.
125.
land and — sect, Ireland,"
—" CoUIa
v. , p. 333.
Article v. Adescription ofit may be found in the "Parliamentary Gazetteer of
family
:
UAip cjva SLiad
Ireland," vol. i. , pp. 66, 67.
a A curious of its is to be legend origin
is a translation of the Irish: Colla Uaishad two goodly sons, viz. , Earc on the North of the Mountain, from whom descend the Mac Cartains of Loch Feabhail and
It was by him [Fiachra] that Conail—le
Muirthemne [Louth] was first appropriated Tort being a name for seizure," &c. See Rev. Dr. Reeves' "Ecclesiastical Antiqui- ties of Down, Connor and Dromore," Ap-
pendix BB, pp. 292, 293.
8 See an account of this incident, in the
Third Volume of this work, at the 17th of
March, Art. i. Life of St. Patrick, chap. xv.
found, in Caxton's "History of England, ""
3 See Trias Thaumaturga," Sexta Vita
S. Patricii, n. 97, p. 113.
4 They add : "de qua ait Sirinus, viden-
dum diem in. —
Augusti lendariis prsetcrita est. "
rum," tomus ii. , Julii viii. termitted saints, p. 533.
[Foyle], Fiachra Tort on the South of the Mountain, from whom descend the Hy-Tuirtre, and the Fir-Li, and the Fir-Luirc, and Hy-Mac Uais.
5 The descendants of Fiachra Tort, son to
Colla Huaish, were called U1 Cuir\Cj\e.
From him the territory which they occupied received its name.
6
feated the Ultonians at the battle of Cain- Eacha-lethderg, A. D. 331. He assumed the
sovereignty of Ireland in the year 323, and he held it until 326. See Dr. O'Donovan's "Annals of the Four Masters," vol. i. , pp.
:
This monarch with his two brothers de-
sed et hrec aliis Ka-
"
Acta Sancto- Among the pre-
of this
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U1 tTlAC Uai|\ Ay Ler-itie ceAtmA t>eA|MiAt>
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brace the Gospel, but rather he treated St. Patrick with insult and reproach, driving him forth from the country in which he ruled. This joined the terri-
tory of his younger brother. Hereupon, St. Patrick predicted, that the youngerCarthennusshouldonedayenjoythetyrant'sinheritance. Hehad
unjustly expelled the prince from his dominions, lest this junior might succeed to any portion of his paternal possessions. The journey of our Irish Apostle to
this part of the country is thus minutely described in theTripartiteLife; from the territory of Dalaradia his travels lay through Fersait-Tuama,* in the district of Hi-Tuirtre, and for forty days he remained in a place called Finnabhuir,10 wishing at that beautiful site " to establish his cathedral See. " It is described as having been near the mountain Callann towards the east and Lough Neagh towards the west. This seems, however, to have been an accidental reversal of the proper order. St. Trega was born at the time when St. Patrick baptizedherfather'shousehold. 1* Shereceivedhernameandthesacrament of regeneration, likewise, through the instrumentality of that great Apostle. He predicted, at the same time, the future sanctity of the child, and the con- secration of her virginity to God, at a subsequent period. The people of Hy- Tuirtre region, moved by the example of their dynast, and enlightened by Divine grace, received the faith of Christ at the same time, from our Irish
Apostle. By pious exhortations and labours, he endeavoured to strengthen the foundations thus laid, and to nurture germs of salvation, already planted in the minds of his neophytes. The father of St. Trega was distinguished for piety and devotedness to all his Christian engagements, and for the munifi- cencewithwhichhebuiltandendowedchurches. Sevenmoftheseareparti- cularly noted, as having been commenced by St. Patrick. • Some of these churcheshavebeenidentified. 16 Thus,theDomnach-Fainreisknowntobethe
1
present Donaghenry, ? a parish in the county of Tyrone, near Lough Neagh.
18
Domnach-Riascaigh is the present Donaghrisk,
a townland in the parish of
9 This denomination signifies "the cross- have existed besides those of Clonmacnoise, ing of Tuaim. " It is identical with Toome Glendalough, Clonenagh, &c, There were Bridge over the River Bann, in the parish seven churches founded by St. Patrick in of Duneane. By the Irish Annalists, it is Keenaght, of which Boith- Domnach, now called Uuaim, and it gives name to a barony. Bandony, was one. See Colgan's "Trias This passage of the Bann is at the issue of
the river, where it leaves Lough Neagh.
10 It is rendered " albus compus," in
Latin. See Colgan's "Trias Thaumaturga," Sexta Vita S. Patricii, cap. xciv. , p. 87.
11
Thaumaturga," Vita Tripartita S. Patricii, pars, ii. , cap. cxix. , p. 145.
There were several places bearing this
name of Fionnabhair in Ireland. One of Righdhuinn, Domnach-Brain, Domnach-
these was near the Abbey of Mellifont. See
moelain, et Domnach-libeir. " See ibid. , cap. cxxxviii. to cxl. , p. 148.
l6
By Rev. Dr. Reeves in his invaluable historical and topographical work, intituled " Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Down, Connor and Dromore," Appendix BB, p. 294, n. (b).
Ijr It was formerly within Domnaghfenre and Dompnachfionnray, in the ancient regis- ters of Armagh.
,8 In the Taxation of Armagh diocese A. D.
1291, Donagheresca occurs as the name of an independent church. In the ancient Registra of the diocese, it is called the rec-
of and
tory Domnaghreasca Downaghryeske.
The Dungannon Inquisition of 1609 repre- sents Donaghreiske as a chapel, with two balliboes of Erenagh land thereto belonging,
Its ancient cemetery was the burying-place
O'Donovan's
"
Annals of the Four Masters,"
vol. ii. , p. 1043, and n- ( e) 5 also PP- II24» 1 125, n. (m). There is also one near Clogher, which is thus described by Colgan : "Collis Finn-abhuir in Lemania, quae est regio cam- pestris Tironiae, dicecesis Clocharensis, vulgo
—"Trias Thaumaturga," Septima Vita S. Patricii,
Maglemna aliis clossach, dicta. " cap. iv. , p. 149 and 184, n. II.
"
See Rev. Dr. Reeves' "Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Down, Connor and Dromore," Appendix BB, p. 293, n. (x).
13 See " Trias Colgan's
Thaumaturga," Vita Tripartita S. Patricii, pars, ii. , cap. cxl. ,
p. 148.
14 There are other instances in Ireland,
where we hnd groups of seven churches to
** " Unde in regione ilia septem basilica- rum jecit fundamenta : quarum prisca voca- bula erant Domnach Fainre, Domnach- Riascaigh, Domnach-Fothairbe, Domnach-
iyo LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. [July 8.
Desertcreat, which joins the former parish on the west. Donnabaran, in the deanery of Tullaghoge, washerenach land, and it resembles the name Dom- nach-Brain. T9 TheRev. Dr. Reeveswasunabletoidentifythemodernnames
20
of the remaining churches.
ridge of mountain at the south-west of Loughinsholin barony, in the county ofDerry;whilstEthachisidenticalwiththepresentLoughNeagh. When her father had been restored to his territory, St. Trega received the veil from St. Patrickf1 and,afterwards,shebecamegreatlydistinguishedforfervour and fidelity to engagements with her Divine spouse. In all probability, she founded a religious establishment, in the present parish of Ardtrea, on the north-westborderofLoughNeagh.
ThisparishreachestoToome,andit was situated within the ancient of 22 The festival of our
Whether this had been the date for her death, or the 8th of July, has not been determined.
Article VI. —St. Brogan, of Maethail-Bhrogain, now Mothil, County of Waterford, or Secretary to St. Patrick. The identity of St. Brocanus has been questioned. While some writers deem him to have been the nephew of St. Patrick, and also his scribe ; others hold a
1
different opinion. In the Feilire of St. ^Engus, at the 8th of July, Brocan
the Scribe is invoked, and with a special panegyric. The commentator states, that he was of Moethail Broccain, in Desi, of Munster; but, he has an alternative supposition, that Broccan, Patrick's scribe is meant here ; and, if such be the case, Brechmag in Ui-Forta was his church. 2 In the Martyr- ology of Tallagh,3 at the 8th of July, the name of Broccan, Scribuid, is inserted. According to the Kalendars of Cashel and of Marianus O'Gorman, he was the nephew of St. Patrick, the constant companion in his missions, and travels, as also his secretary. If we consider him to be St. Patrick's nephew, he is alluded to by Jocelyn, where he introduces the Bishops Bro- chadius, Brochanus, Mogenocus and Loman, as having come from Britain, to labour with their uncle, the Apostle of Ireland, in the missionary field, where he sowed the seeds of the Gospel. 4 The feast of that St. Brochan is referred by Colgan, to the 8th of July. 5 According to Cathal Maguire, he was either
of the O'Hagan sept. county of Tyrone, and Loughinsholin in the x« According to the Armagh Register of county of Derry. See Rev. Wm. Reeves'
Swayne,fol. 60.
20 He says, there is not any approach to
them in the lists of parishes, contained in the Armagh Registra.
21
According to the Irish Tripartite Life,
33 " Trecha sive Trega, filia Carthennii, filii Erci, filii Eochadii, filii Coll—ae Huassii colitur in Ardtrea, 3. Augusti. " Colgan's " Trias Thaumaturga," Septima Vita S. Patricii, n. —
as translated by William M. Hennessy for
Miss M. F. Cusack's "Life of St. Patrick,"
angels brought this veil from Heaven, and
placed it on her head down over her eyes,
232, p. 183.
Callann is the same as Slieve Gallion, a high
territory Hy-Tuirtre.
saint was celebrated, likewise, in Ardtrea parish, on the 3rd of August. ^
when Patrick began to raise it up. "Why script Series, vol. i. , part i. On the Calen-
is it not good to bear it as it was placed ? "
"
asked Trea.
Patrick. She never saw anything during her life except what she saw through that veil.
Part ii. , p. 446.
22 Not being of the Ruderician or old
Ultonian stock, the Hy Tuirtre territory ori- ginallylayonthewestsideofLoughNeagh,
and comprehended a considerable portion of the modern baronies of Dungannon, in the
dar of Oengus, by Whitley Stokes, LL. D. , pp. cix. , ex.
2 See ibid. , p. cxvii.
3 Edited by Rev. Dr. Kelly, p. xxviii.
*
See Colgan's "Trias Thaumaturga," Sexta Vita S. Patricii, cap. 1. , p. 76.
5 See ibid. , n. 51, p. no.
It is good, indeed," answered
"EcclesiasticalAntiquitiesofDown,Connor and Dromore," Appendix BB, p. 293.
Article vi.
the Royal Irish Academy," Irish Manu-
6
See "Acta Sanctorum," tomus ii. ,
x
See "Transactions
of
Julii viii. Among the pretermitted saints, p. 533.
July 8j LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. i 7 i
Brocan of Maothal-Brogain, in the Decies of Munster, or Brogan, scribe of St. Patrick. The Bollandists 6 have some notices of St. Brocan, the scribe, at the 8th of July. We are told, that an abbey for Canons Regular of St. Augustine had been founded in the sixth century by a St. Brogan. 7 It stood inMothillparish,countyofWaterford; and,atthedissolutionofmonasteries, it was granted to the celebrated Sir Walter Raleigh in fee-farm. 8 Some few remains of this foundation were traced near the parish church, in the last century. 9 Others deem the foundation to have been for Cistercian monks.
A
scribe, of Maethail-Bhrogain, in Deisi Mumham. This holy bishop is entered in Henry Fitzsimon's Calendar. " He was venerated in Scotland, as we learn
11 from the Calendar of Drummond, * at the 8th of July. *
Article VII. —St. Condmac or Connmach, of Ath-Blair, or Atha Stlain. In the Martyrology of Tallagly at the 9th of July, a festival is re-
is mentioned in St. Patrick's Acts
to be a different individual from the present saint, in the estimation of some persons. At the same date, the Martyrology of Donegal " records Brogan,
St.
Brochanus, bishop,
but, he
appears
corded in honour of Condmac, of Atha Silain.
The place of this saint is
inalaterCalendar. The
at the same date, enters the name as Connmach, of Ath Blair.
2 Under either
differently denominated,
name, the place of this holy man has not been identified.
of
Donegal,
Article VIII. —Festival of Saints Totnanus and Colmanus,
Martyrs. The various Usuard to the 1 have Codices, according Bollandists,
their Festival entered, apart from that of St. Kilian, Martyr, at Wurtzburg;
as werehis in —all thatcanbeknown however, they companions suffering,
regarding them has been already given in his Life the first at this day.
Article IX. —Reputed Feast of St. Adelinus, Martyr. In the Scottish Menology of Dempster, the name of Adelinus, Martyr, and com- panion of St. Kilian, has been introduced, at this date. The Bollandists " merely notice this entry, and refer to their previous commentary on the Acts of St. Kilian for their opinion regarding this statement of Dempster.
Article X. —Reputed Festival of St. Erwaldus, Arnwal, or Arnualis, Disciple of St. Kilian. Owing to the confusion of name,
7 See Archdall's
"
Monasticon Hiberni-
Catholicse Ibernise Compendium," tomus i. , lib. iv. , cap. xii. , p. 53.
I3Thusentered "
: viii. IdusApudHiber-
niam Natale Sanctorum Confessorum Bro- cain et Diarmata. "
I4 See Bishop Forbes' "Kalendars of
cum," for an interesting record of this Abbey,
possessions, pp. 696, 697. See Harris' Ware, vol. ii. , "Antiquities of Ireland," chap, xxxviii. , p. 226. Theassig-
nee was the Earl of Cork.
9 See Smith's "Ancient and Present State
of the County and City of Waterford," chap.
its rulers, and its
8
iii. , p. 91.
10 2
See Colgan's "Trias Thaumaturga," Vita Sexta S. Patricii, cap. ii. , and n. 51, p. 100.
11 Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
190, 191.
12 See " Sanctorum Catalogus aliquorum "
Ibernise," in O'Sullevan Beare's Historice
T
rum," tomus ii. , Julii viii.
Among the pre-
Scottish Saints," p. 17. x
Martyrology
10 ;
Article vii. — Edited by Rev. Dr.
Kelly, p. xxix.
Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
190, 191.
Article viii. — See "Acta Sancto-
termitted feasts, p. 531.
» Article ix. — See
"
tomus ii. , Julii viii. Among the pretermitted
Acta
Sanctorum,"
1 72 LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. [July 8. different Martyrologists assign the feast of this reputed disciple of St. Kilian
1
to various days. Thus, it is at the 19th of January, at the 15th of February, atthe8thofJuly,andatthe2ndofOctober. Whatevermaybethetruthof
that statement regarding his having been the companion of St. Kilian—whose Life is already given on this day—such companionship is not noticed in his Acts, as relating to Franconia or to his martyrdom. The Bollandists, who notice him, at this day, state, that he is undoubtedly one and the same, who has been referred, in the Irish and Scottish Calendars, to the 2nd of October. "
—
the 8th of July, have a notice of Giswald —said to have been a companion of
1 Article XI. Reputed Feast of St. Giswald. The Bollandists, at
St. Disibod—by Camerarius. already given on this day.
3
About him or his cultus nothing more is known, than what has been already" recorded, in the Life of St. Disibod,
Article XII. —Reputed Feast of St. Alganus, Archbishop and
Martyr. In the Carthusian Manuscript Martyrology at Bruxelles, and at the 8th of July, is entered an account of St. Alganus, Archbishop, of the
Island Hibernia, who was martyred among the Umbrani. Nothing more
seems to be known regarding him, and the Bollandists, who have inserted
1
the foregoing account for this day, are at a loss to know whence it had been
derived, as Fitzsimon has it not in his catalogue of Irish Saints, nor has Dempster or Camerarius any similar entry in their Scottish Kalendars.
Article XIII. —Reputed Feast of St. Kilian, Dux, and Uncle to
St. Ursula. ThisfeastofSt. Kiliamis,Dux,uncletoSt. Ursulaandfather
totheholyBrigid,HelenaandSapientia,is enteredbyGelenius,ashaving been celebrated at Cologne, on the 8th day of July. The Bollandists insert this notice, at the same date, and distinguish this St. Kilian from the Martyr
so called at 1 However, Wurtzburg.
finding nothing
more definite
regarding
him, and desiring further information, they defer to the 21st of October any
subsequent notice, when they should have an opportunity of treating about
St. Ursula and her companions.
ArticleXIV. —St. Ribianus,Bishop. FloratiusandHenryFitzsimon,
at the 8th of July, enter a festival for St. Ribianus, a Bishop.
