78 The Martyrology of
Aberdeen
says at vij.
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9
, chap.
Four vol. Masters,"
ii. , pp. 916, 917. 4»See ibid. , pp. 936, 937.
50 He was son ofToirdealbhach O'Brien.
** In this epistle, he speaks concerning the Cathedral Church of St. Barr, and enume-
vi. , to
vii. , pp. 387 405.
S5 See Harris' Ware, vol. of Cashel," p. 467.
i. ,
" Archbishops
See Rev.
"Church of History
Malone's Ireland," chap, i. ,
576 LIVES OF THE IRISH SAIATS.
[September 25.
building houses and constructing other necessary matters on said land, which is described as lying in length, between the greater church on the east and the episcopal court on the west, and in breadth between the royal road on the south, and the way which led to that court on the north. s6
The See of Cork had been united with that of Cloyne, by a provision of Pope Martin V. ,57 when both Sees became vacant, by the death of their respec- tive Bishops. Before the close of 1430, Jordan, Chancellor of Limerick, was advanced to the canonically united bishoprics; but he did not obtain the restitu- tionofthetemporalitiesuntilthe25thofSeptember,1431. 58 QueenElizabeth, who had already appointed William Lyons, a native of Chester, to be Protestant bishop of Ross, on the nth of November, 1583, gave him the Sees of Cork and Cloyne in commendam, to be held during her pleasure. Afterwards, by
a patent, dated May 17th, 1586, the three Sees of Cork, Cloyne and Ross were united in his favour. 59 In the time of William Camden, this city was surrounded by a circular wall, and having the river intersecting and bounding it. Then, it was principally distinguished by one large and direct street, having connecting bridges over the Lee. It was also a celebrated emporium of commerce. 60 The church of St. Finbar is marked on a of 61 a
Map Cork, by French artist, and it was taken about a. d. 1650. This Map is found in a collection of 116 coloured plans of the fortifications of various places in England, France, the Netherlands and Germany. 62 Both the Map, and a photographic enlargement from it of St. Barie's church, appear in the "Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society," with some notices of St. Fin Barr, written by the Rev. James A. Dwyer, O. P. , and
63
Vice-President of that
The Bollandists had promised, in an earlier part of their great work, to
institute an enquiry at the 25th day of September, as to whether one saint or two different saints, bearing the name of Barr, should be venerated at this
date. The editor Suyskens accordingly fulfilled this promise, by pronouncing the distinction of St. Barr, Bishop of Cork, venerable among the Irish, with
society.
St. Barr, a bishop of Cathay, in Scotland, and reverenced among the people 6
of North Britain. * However, it is now well established, that the names
but one and the same
honouredbothinIrelandandScotland. 66 ThefestivalofSt. Barr,Bishopof Cork, is usually set down at the 25th of September, in both counties. Thus,
s' This charter was given at Cork, on the
morrow of the Purification of the Blessed
Virgin Mary. Anno 1328, 2nd. Edward 3. See Richard Caulfield's " Annals of St. Fin
Barre's Cathedral, Cork, p. 7.
57 lie was Sovereign Pontiff from
November nth, A. n. 1417, to the 20th of
represent
person.
February a. d. 1431, when he died of vol. iii. , No. 31-33, July-September, 1897.
apoplexy. His career is set forth in the
Second Series, pp. 292, 293.
6* In a certain MS. Life of our Saint, or
rather in a discourse regarding Finbarre, Suyskens tells us, that he is called Macu-
linus. On what authority, however, this
" Ili^toria Ecclesiastica Veteris Testamenti," of R. P. Natalis Alexander, tomus xviii. , Saeculum xv. , cap. i. , Art. iii. , pp. 399 to 406.
Cork, p. 223.
•°See "Britannia," Division, Hibernia
vulgo Ireland. Momonia, Anglice Mounster, p. 38.
6s
See Bishop Forbes' "Kalendars of Scot-
Novique
5*See Harris' Ware, vol. i. , "Bishops of is not known. See "Acta Sanctorum,"
Cork," p. 562. tomus vii. , Septembris xxv. De S. Barro s* See Archdeacon Henry Cotton's " Fasti vel Finbarro Ep. Corcagiensi in Hibernia,
Ecclesiae Hibernicae," vol. i. , Bishops of sect, i. , num. 2, p. 142.
6* The saint had been present
6l d'Irhnde. "
Headed "Plan de Corcke Ville
6l
Museum, and it is noted among the Addi- tional Manuscripts 1 1564, Art. 28.
6i See an interesting Paper, on the " Per- manent Influence of the Religious Orders,"
This is to be found in the British
tish Saints," pp. 275, 276.
<* "
See Bishop Challoner's Britannia Sancta," part ii. , p. 142.
September 25. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS.
577
at the vii. of the October we find the name of Barrind Kalends,
6? in the Manuscript Martyrology of Tamlacht in the Book of Leinster codex, and
also in the the Rev. Dr. copy published by
Kelly.
68 The Feilire of
iEngus
commemorates with an eulogy the feast of Barre of Cork, at the 25th of
September. ^ Regarding him there is a comment,? that he was of the seed
of Brian, son of Echaid Muidmedon, and in Achad Cille Clochair, or
Drochait in Aird Ulad on this day with Bairre. The Martyrology of
1
Marianus O'Gorman? has the festival of chaste Bairre from Corcach, at the
25th of September. In the Kalendar? 2 and Martyrology73 of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Dublin, the festival of this saint is entered at the same day. In the anonymous Calendar of Irish Saints published by O'Sullivan Beare, we find at the same date, St. Barms. 74 In t—he Martyrology of Donegal, at
marked at the vii. of the October Kalends, corresponding with the 25th of
—ntioned in St. Barr's Life which
the day already me corresponds
with the 25thofSeptember thefeastofSt. Bairre,BishopandConfessorofCorcach, in Munster, will be found. There, too, we are told, that Christ himself con- ferred the degree of bishop upon him, as is evident from his Life. 75 In ScotlandhehascommemorationsinvariousCalendars; thesuppositionbeing, that he was a native of that country, and a bishop of Cathania, or Caithness. In the Scottish Kalendar De Nova Farina, the Feast of St. Barr, Bishop, is
6 The Kalendar of the Aberdeen has the Feast of St. Breviary
September. 7
Fymberri,Bishop,atthesamedate. ? ? Atthe25thofSeptember,heiscom- memorated in the Martyrology of Aberdeen,78 but here there is a distinction between St. Finbarr, bishop of Cathinensis, Scotland, and St. Finbarr,79
67 In Irish written, bAprrttro Co^cAige.
68
There written, Barrinn Corcaighe. See p. xxxv.
episcopi et confessoris. "—"The Book of
Obits and Martyrology of the Cathedral
Church of the Holy Trinity," editedbyjohn
Clarke Crosthwaite, A. M. , and Rev. Dr.
James Henthorne p. Todd, 69.
TM Thus, at the vii. Kal. Octobris " Et in :
Hiberni—a ; sancti episcopi et Confessoris Barri. " Ibid. , p. 161.
? 4 See " Historiae Catholicse Ibernise Com- pendium," tomus i. , lib. iv. , cap. xi. , P. 5i-
69 It is thus registered in the Leabhar
: Braec copy —
Lacleij\ eurebi
SAervAf cech jrleit) for\cr\<\it>
bol/icVi
£eit bAipr*e o Cojacai^.
inpr» rer\cAij;
Thus translated by Dr. Whitley Stokes —
? s In a note on this
passage,
the Rev. Dr.
:
1' WithEusebius whofreed followers, every
banquet from excess, with the festival of t—he
loving, the feast of Barre of Cork. " Life,
" Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy,"
copies in existence. The Life, however, which is referred to here is that in Insh,
which is preserved amongst the Irish MSS.
at Brussels, and in the collection of the
Irish Manuscript Series, vol. i. , part i. the Calendar of Oengus, p. cxxxix.
On
70 See ibid. , cxlvii.
"p. —
"
71 In the Felire Hui Gormain," edited Royal Irish Academy. " The Martyrology
by Dr. Whitley Stokes, the Irish lines run thus :—
Bairre caid o Corcaig, rium suas cusin sarthir,
uair blaithmin fri boctaib.
The following is an English translation :
"Chaste Bairre from Corcach (went)
of Donegal," edited by Drs. Todd and
before me up to the great country, for (he
was) smooth and gentle to the poor. " To illam gentem celestis vite pabulo refertam
this the commentator adds, that he was a holy bishop and confessor, and that his great country was Heaven. See pp. 184, 185.
Deo reddidit acceptabilem. "
79 There also we read: "In — Ybernia
Sancti Barri episcopi et confessoris,'
73 Thus, at the vii. Kal. Octobris : Vol. IX—No. 10.
u
Barri
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries I O
"
Bairre's miraculous consecration is given in
Reeves observes,
The of St. legend
his Latin of which there are
several
Reeves, pp. 258, 259.
76 "
See Bishop Forbes' Kalendars of Scottish Saints," p. 75.
77 Sec ibid. , p. 121.
78 The Martyrology of Aberdeen says at vij. Kl'. Octobris : — " Sancti Fimbarri episcopi Cathinensis qui diem ibidem clausit extremum cuius vite temporaneia ferocem
"
of Scotland," vol. ii. , p. 268.
Corcaige
578 LIVESOETHEIRISHSAINTS. [September25 bishop of Cork, in Ireland. In Adam King's Kalendar,8° at the 25th of
we find " S. Bane first of Cathenesse and Confess entered, Bishop
September,
vnder King Malcolme ye 3. " Thomas Dempster, in his Scottish Menology, mentions the name of St. Barr, in three different places : at the 23rd of
August,
September,
day following,
81 at the
82 and also at the
83 an
have perished. He has another entry respecting a bishop Barr, venerated
;
Confessoris. "—Bishop Forbes' " Kalendars
Fortitudine Scotorum," lib. iii.
of Scottish Saints," p. 209.
90 There he has :
"
S. Barrus seu Finlarrus
At this day, we read —
In Scotia Barrese episcopi et Confessoris. " Ibid. , p. 212.
Confessor et pus Cathanesise. "
91 In this work, we read Barrese episcopi et Confessoris. "
92 In the margin he remarks, this saint,
called Finbar, in French, is denominated
Barrius, in Latin.
93 There the following entry occurs :
83 There we read: "In Cathenes Barri, seu Findbarri, episcopi undecumque sanctis- simi, qui —etiam Hirlandiam praedicatione illustravit. " Ibid. , p. 212.
84 Dempster says that Barrus was accept- able to that King on account of his saintly
:
" In Hibernia,
of
24th
assumed Barrus or Fimbarrus, a bishop of Caithness, which, with his usual inventive genius, he states to have flourished in the year 1079, under the Scottish King Malcolm III. 8* He also makes this St. Barrus the author of certain works for which titles are found,85 but whose authentic Acts, he states,
" in Hibernia," at the 10th of 86 at the September. Again,
of
25th Septem-
ber,^ he has an entry from the Scottish Calendar and
Breviary.
88 David
Camerarius has different days for a festival of a Barrus or Finbarrus, a Bishop
and Confessor one of these at the 6th of 8? and another at the
makes mention of him, at the of 25th
: being June,
29th of September. ? We find, that Greven, in his additions to Usuard,
September ;
his General Martyrology, written in French. He tells us, more particularly,
that the saint was bishop of Cork, which was a suffragan S—ee to that of Cashel,
Canisius as found in both of —
the holy bishop and Confessor Barr, in Ireland. Again, in the Florarius
Manuscript Catalogue of Saints, there is a notice concerning him, with other saints, inserted at the 25th of Septembers His festival has been assigned to the same date by nearly all modern writers ; as for instance, by Bishop
2
in Munster. 9 In the German
Martyrology
editions, already quoted, and at the same date there is mention regarding
Challoner,94 Rev. Alban Butler,95 Rev. Dr.
80 " 88" See Bishop Forbes' Kalendars ot
Lanigan,9
6 Archdeacon
Henry
Scottish Saints," p. 163.
In Cathnesia S. Barri episcopi. "
89 Thus recorded: "Hoc autem die S. Finbarrus Episcopus et Confessor. "—" De
" Barreae episcopi et 82 "
:
81 There we read
— Item beatorum et Confes- life uti in ejus Vita Turgotis retulit. " episcoporum
""
*'
Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Scotorum," tomus i. , lib. ii. , num. 135, p. 76.
" Synodum Ecclesiae suae,
sorum Bane Barciani, et Gerardi, qui extitit de Ordine Minorum. " To this observation, the Bollandist editor adds: " Quid tamen sibi velint, non video. De Gerardo Ordinis Mino- rum consule, si lubet, Prretermissos hoc die ; verum cum hie non fuerit episcopus dicendus est Florariiauctor Barram et Barcianuni duos diversos episcopos credidisse, sed quis ille
8s These read
lib. i. , Epistolas ad varios, lib. i. , Exposi-
:
tionem Psalterii, lib.
Canonum sacrorum, lib.
Caerimoniis Epistolam ;
cus Canisius Alcuini Scoti nomine publicavit, cum S. Barri opus esse ipsum nomen prae- fixum in bibliotheca regia testetur, et viri pii cura, qui pereuntem sanctissimi antistitis memoriam
i. Collectionem
i. De Baptismi quam male Henri-
hisce — sect, restituit, apicibus operum
mecum pridem communicatis. " Ibid. , pp. 76, 77-
86
For this statement, he quotes Martyr- ologium Subensi, and Catalogum Sanctorum Hiberniae.
'« See " A Memorial of British
87 In his notes, we find that this same saint
is called Findbarnus ; but, it is more pro- Scottish churches. See Britannia Sancta," bable, Dempster wrote Findbarrus. part ii. , pp. 142, 143.
(lege Finbarrus)
primus episco-
Q1 as likewise in Castellane,
—Acta
tomus vii. , Septembris xxv. De S. Barro
Barcianus sit, nescio. "
vel Kinbarro Ep. Corcagiensi in Hibernia,
num.
i. , 3, 4, p. 142.
Piety," p. 135. There, however, he is distinguished from St. Barrus, called first bishop of Caith-
ness in Scotland, at this same date; although in an earlier work, there is but one Barrus mentioned, as venerated in the Irish and
"
Sanctorum,"
September 25. I LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. 579
8
Cotton,97 R. Chambers^ Miss Mary Francis Cusack,99 Rev. S. Baring-
100 101
Gould, and in the "Dictionary of Christian Biography. " Philip
Ferrarius, who inserts the names of many saints, not found in the Roman
"
Martyrology, has a notice concerning a bishop Barr, venerated
102
in Scotia,"
at the 22nd of August.
There are many places in Ireland especially in the south called
—
honour of our saint. In the County of Cork a Kilbarry was about one mile outside the city to the north. *°3 Another was near Dunmanway, while another
was near Fermoy. 104 There is a Knockbarry, near Liscarroll, in the County ofCork. Alsothereis aKilbarryadjoiningatE. CastleCor. 10' Thefollow- ingwerewithintheCountyofCork. InKilbrinparish,dioceseofCloyne, the Catholic Church is dedicated to St. Finbar. 106 Also in Ballingeary, the parish Catholic church is dedicated to St. Finbar and St Ronan. 10? In the
parish of Castlelyons and barony of Condons and Clangibbon, the townland of Kilbarry is to be found. 108 The Catholic church at Castlelyons is dedicated to St. Finbar. IQ9 There was a 110 in the of Kilbrin,
—
Kilbarry, and they are said to have been thus denominated formerly in
barony of Duhallow. In the parish of Fanlobbus," barony of East Carbery
(West Division) there is a townland called Kilbarry.
112
In the parish of
Templemartin,
1 ^ and
barony
of
Kinalmeaky,
there is a
Kilbarry. "*
In the
parish of Kilmoe,"5 barony of West Carbery (West Division) there is a town-
land known as 6 There is a townland called in the
Kilbarry. " Kilbarry"? parish of Ballinadee, and barony of West Muskerry. There is a Kilbarry
8 in the
of West
There is a parish called Kilbarry" in the barony of Gaultiere, and County of
of
"
95 See Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs,
and other principal Saints," vol. ix. , Septem- ber xxv.
96 See " Ecclesiaslical History of Ireland,"
vol. ii. , chap, xiv. , sect, iv. , p. 315.
97 See " Fasti Ecclesise Hibernicse," vol.
and
107 Information communicated by Very Rev. Patrick Hurley, P. P.
I0* It is marked on the " Ordnance Survey
Townland Maps for the County of Cork," sheet 36.
109 Information communicated by Very Rev. Patrick Hurley, P. P.
110 See " Ordnance Survey Townland for the County of Cork," sheets 16, 24.
111 There are remains of a church and grave-yard. The Catholic parish church is dedicated to St. Finbar. Information communicated by Very Rev. Patrick Hurley, P. P.
townland,"
parish
Inchigeelagh
barony
Muskerry.
i. , Bishops of Cork, p. 215.
97 See "The Book of 380.
Days,"
vol.
ii. , p.
Maps
"See "The
History
of the
City
and
County of Cork," chap, iii. , p. 41. ico «
gee jjves of the Saints," vol. ix. , September 25, pp. 377, 378.
101
Article by the Right Rev. Alexander Penrose Forbes, Bishop of Brechin, vol. i. ,
pp. 266, 267.
1,2 " Marked on the
102
For this statement, he cites the Meno-
sheets 107, 12c.
113 The Catholic Church there is dedicated
to St. Finbar. Information communicated by Very Rev. Patrick Hurley, P. P.
114 Marked on the "Ordnance Survey
Townland Maps for the County of Cork," sheet 96.
113 The Catholic Church there is dedicated to St. Finbar. Information communicated by Very Rev. Patrick Hurley, P. P.
116 See "Ordnance Survey Townland Maps for the County of Cork," sheet 147.
"7 See " Ordnance Survey Townland Maps for the County of Cork," sheet 83.
logium Scoticum, and the Martyrologium Canisii. But the Bollandist editor, Suyskens, could not find such an entry in Dempster at that day, nor in the Menology of Camera- rius, nor in the German Martyrology of Canisius, edited at Dillinga, in the years 1577 or 1599-
103 In the parish of St. Anne's, Shandon,
barony of Cork and Municipal Borough. See "Ordnance Survey Townland Maps
for the County of Cork," sheets 63, 74.
104 See John Windale's Manuscript,
already quoted, at p. 757.
1,8 Noted on the " Ordnance Townland Maps for the County of Cork," sheet 82.
"»See "Ordnance Survey Townland
105 See 758.
John
Windale's
Manuscript, p.
Survey
196 Rev. PatrickHurley,P. P.
Information communicated by Very
Kilbarry parish 1
Ordnance Survey Townland Maps for the County of Cork,"
58o LIVESOFTHEIRISHSAINTS. [September25.
Waterford. Thereisanother called parish
Kilbarrymeaden
120inthe of barony
Decies without Drum, in the same county. It seems probable both were named
after our saint. We are told, that in the seventh century the monks of St.
Finbarr, near Cork, founded a small abbey for Canons Regular of St. Austin,
121
at Aghamore. This was situated towards the western extremity of
Kilcroghan parish, in Dunkerron barony, county of Kerry. It is built on a small island, near the mouth of Kenmare river ; but, at low water, it is accessible by land from the neighbouring shore. The old walls are often
beaten both by winds and waves.
122
This old ruin is celebrated, m—oreover, as
forming a portion of the property, and standing near Darrynane once the residence of Ireland's illustrious Liberator, Daniel O'Connell. 12* His wife'sandmanyofhisancestors'remainsrestwithinitsburialground. The
I2
surrounding scenery is uncommonly grand and romantic. * According to
of
Kilbarron,
bears his name ; the church there is given as Oil barfinn in an ancient
126 map.
The memorials of St.
Four vol. Masters,"
ii. , pp. 916, 917. 4»See ibid. , pp. 936, 937.
50 He was son ofToirdealbhach O'Brien.
** In this epistle, he speaks concerning the Cathedral Church of St. Barr, and enume-
vi. , to
vii. , pp. 387 405.
S5 See Harris' Ware, vol. of Cashel," p. 467.
i. ,
" Archbishops
See Rev.
"Church of History
Malone's Ireland," chap, i. ,
576 LIVES OF THE IRISH SAIATS.
[September 25.
building houses and constructing other necessary matters on said land, which is described as lying in length, between the greater church on the east and the episcopal court on the west, and in breadth between the royal road on the south, and the way which led to that court on the north. s6
The See of Cork had been united with that of Cloyne, by a provision of Pope Martin V. ,57 when both Sees became vacant, by the death of their respec- tive Bishops. Before the close of 1430, Jordan, Chancellor of Limerick, was advanced to the canonically united bishoprics; but he did not obtain the restitu- tionofthetemporalitiesuntilthe25thofSeptember,1431. 58 QueenElizabeth, who had already appointed William Lyons, a native of Chester, to be Protestant bishop of Ross, on the nth of November, 1583, gave him the Sees of Cork and Cloyne in commendam, to be held during her pleasure. Afterwards, by
a patent, dated May 17th, 1586, the three Sees of Cork, Cloyne and Ross were united in his favour. 59 In the time of William Camden, this city was surrounded by a circular wall, and having the river intersecting and bounding it. Then, it was principally distinguished by one large and direct street, having connecting bridges over the Lee. It was also a celebrated emporium of commerce. 60 The church of St. Finbar is marked on a of 61 a
Map Cork, by French artist, and it was taken about a. d. 1650. This Map is found in a collection of 116 coloured plans of the fortifications of various places in England, France, the Netherlands and Germany. 62 Both the Map, and a photographic enlargement from it of St. Barie's church, appear in the "Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society," with some notices of St. Fin Barr, written by the Rev. James A. Dwyer, O. P. , and
63
Vice-President of that
The Bollandists had promised, in an earlier part of their great work, to
institute an enquiry at the 25th day of September, as to whether one saint or two different saints, bearing the name of Barr, should be venerated at this
date. The editor Suyskens accordingly fulfilled this promise, by pronouncing the distinction of St. Barr, Bishop of Cork, venerable among the Irish, with
society.
St. Barr, a bishop of Cathay, in Scotland, and reverenced among the people 6
of North Britain. * However, it is now well established, that the names
but one and the same
honouredbothinIrelandandScotland. 66 ThefestivalofSt. Barr,Bishopof Cork, is usually set down at the 25th of September, in both counties. Thus,
s' This charter was given at Cork, on the
morrow of the Purification of the Blessed
Virgin Mary. Anno 1328, 2nd. Edward 3. See Richard Caulfield's " Annals of St. Fin
Barre's Cathedral, Cork, p. 7.
57 lie was Sovereign Pontiff from
November nth, A. n. 1417, to the 20th of
represent
person.
February a. d. 1431, when he died of vol. iii. , No. 31-33, July-September, 1897.
apoplexy. His career is set forth in the
Second Series, pp. 292, 293.
6* In a certain MS. Life of our Saint, or
rather in a discourse regarding Finbarre, Suyskens tells us, that he is called Macu-
linus. On what authority, however, this
" Ili^toria Ecclesiastica Veteris Testamenti," of R. P. Natalis Alexander, tomus xviii. , Saeculum xv. , cap. i. , Art. iii. , pp. 399 to 406.
Cork, p. 223.
•°See "Britannia," Division, Hibernia
vulgo Ireland. Momonia, Anglice Mounster, p. 38.
6s
See Bishop Forbes' "Kalendars of Scot-
Novique
5*See Harris' Ware, vol. i. , "Bishops of is not known. See "Acta Sanctorum,"
Cork," p. 562. tomus vii. , Septembris xxv. De S. Barro s* See Archdeacon Henry Cotton's " Fasti vel Finbarro Ep. Corcagiensi in Hibernia,
Ecclesiae Hibernicae," vol. i. , Bishops of sect, i. , num. 2, p. 142.
6* The saint had been present
6l d'Irhnde. "
Headed "Plan de Corcke Ville
6l
Museum, and it is noted among the Addi- tional Manuscripts 1 1564, Art. 28.
6i See an interesting Paper, on the " Per- manent Influence of the Religious Orders,"
This is to be found in the British
tish Saints," pp. 275, 276.
<* "
See Bishop Challoner's Britannia Sancta," part ii. , p. 142.
September 25. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS.
577
at the vii. of the October we find the name of Barrind Kalends,
6? in the Manuscript Martyrology of Tamlacht in the Book of Leinster codex, and
also in the the Rev. Dr. copy published by
Kelly.
68 The Feilire of
iEngus
commemorates with an eulogy the feast of Barre of Cork, at the 25th of
September. ^ Regarding him there is a comment,? that he was of the seed
of Brian, son of Echaid Muidmedon, and in Achad Cille Clochair, or
Drochait in Aird Ulad on this day with Bairre. The Martyrology of
1
Marianus O'Gorman? has the festival of chaste Bairre from Corcach, at the
25th of September. In the Kalendar? 2 and Martyrology73 of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Dublin, the festival of this saint is entered at the same day. In the anonymous Calendar of Irish Saints published by O'Sullivan Beare, we find at the same date, St. Barms. 74 In t—he Martyrology of Donegal, at
marked at the vii. of the October Kalends, corresponding with the 25th of
—ntioned in St. Barr's Life which
the day already me corresponds
with the 25thofSeptember thefeastofSt. Bairre,BishopandConfessorofCorcach, in Munster, will be found. There, too, we are told, that Christ himself con- ferred the degree of bishop upon him, as is evident from his Life. 75 In ScotlandhehascommemorationsinvariousCalendars; thesuppositionbeing, that he was a native of that country, and a bishop of Cathania, or Caithness. In the Scottish Kalendar De Nova Farina, the Feast of St. Barr, Bishop, is
6 The Kalendar of the Aberdeen has the Feast of St. Breviary
September. 7
Fymberri,Bishop,atthesamedate. ? ? Atthe25thofSeptember,heiscom- memorated in the Martyrology of Aberdeen,78 but here there is a distinction between St. Finbarr, bishop of Cathinensis, Scotland, and St. Finbarr,79
67 In Irish written, bAprrttro Co^cAige.
68
There written, Barrinn Corcaighe. See p. xxxv.
episcopi et confessoris. "—"The Book of
Obits and Martyrology of the Cathedral
Church of the Holy Trinity," editedbyjohn
Clarke Crosthwaite, A. M. , and Rev. Dr.
James Henthorne p. Todd, 69.
TM Thus, at the vii. Kal. Octobris " Et in :
Hiberni—a ; sancti episcopi et Confessoris Barri. " Ibid. , p. 161.
? 4 See " Historiae Catholicse Ibernise Com- pendium," tomus i. , lib. iv. , cap. xi. , P. 5i-
69 It is thus registered in the Leabhar
: Braec copy —
Lacleij\ eurebi
SAervAf cech jrleit) for\cr\<\it>
bol/icVi
£eit bAipr*e o Cojacai^.
inpr» rer\cAij;
Thus translated by Dr. Whitley Stokes —
? s In a note on this
passage,
the Rev. Dr.
:
1' WithEusebius whofreed followers, every
banquet from excess, with the festival of t—he
loving, the feast of Barre of Cork. " Life,
" Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy,"
copies in existence. The Life, however, which is referred to here is that in Insh,
which is preserved amongst the Irish MSS.
at Brussels, and in the collection of the
Irish Manuscript Series, vol. i. , part i. the Calendar of Oengus, p. cxxxix.
On
70 See ibid. , cxlvii.
"p. —
"
71 In the Felire Hui Gormain," edited Royal Irish Academy. " The Martyrology
by Dr. Whitley Stokes, the Irish lines run thus :—
Bairre caid o Corcaig, rium suas cusin sarthir,
uair blaithmin fri boctaib.
The following is an English translation :
"Chaste Bairre from Corcach (went)
of Donegal," edited by Drs. Todd and
before me up to the great country, for (he
was) smooth and gentle to the poor. " To illam gentem celestis vite pabulo refertam
this the commentator adds, that he was a holy bishop and confessor, and that his great country was Heaven. See pp. 184, 185.
Deo reddidit acceptabilem. "
79 There also we read: "In — Ybernia
Sancti Barri episcopi et confessoris,'
73 Thus, at the vii. Kal. Octobris : Vol. IX—No. 10.
u
Barri
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries I O
"
Bairre's miraculous consecration is given in
Reeves observes,
The of St. legend
his Latin of which there are
several
Reeves, pp. 258, 259.
76 "
See Bishop Forbes' Kalendars of Scottish Saints," p. 75.
77 Sec ibid. , p. 121.
78 The Martyrology of Aberdeen says at vij. Kl'. Octobris : — " Sancti Fimbarri episcopi Cathinensis qui diem ibidem clausit extremum cuius vite temporaneia ferocem
"
of Scotland," vol. ii. , p. 268.
Corcaige
578 LIVESOETHEIRISHSAINTS. [September25 bishop of Cork, in Ireland. In Adam King's Kalendar,8° at the 25th of
we find " S. Bane first of Cathenesse and Confess entered, Bishop
September,
vnder King Malcolme ye 3. " Thomas Dempster, in his Scottish Menology, mentions the name of St. Barr, in three different places : at the 23rd of
August,
September,
day following,
81 at the
82 and also at the
83 an
have perished. He has another entry respecting a bishop Barr, venerated
;
Confessoris. "—Bishop Forbes' " Kalendars
Fortitudine Scotorum," lib. iii.
of Scottish Saints," p. 209.
90 There he has :
"
S. Barrus seu Finlarrus
At this day, we read —
In Scotia Barrese episcopi et Confessoris. " Ibid. , p. 212.
Confessor et pus Cathanesise. "
91 In this work, we read Barrese episcopi et Confessoris. "
92 In the margin he remarks, this saint,
called Finbar, in French, is denominated
Barrius, in Latin.
93 There the following entry occurs :
83 There we read: "In Cathenes Barri, seu Findbarri, episcopi undecumque sanctis- simi, qui —etiam Hirlandiam praedicatione illustravit. " Ibid. , p. 212.
84 Dempster says that Barrus was accept- able to that King on account of his saintly
:
" In Hibernia,
of
24th
assumed Barrus or Fimbarrus, a bishop of Caithness, which, with his usual inventive genius, he states to have flourished in the year 1079, under the Scottish King Malcolm III. 8* He also makes this St. Barrus the author of certain works for which titles are found,85 but whose authentic Acts, he states,
" in Hibernia," at the 10th of 86 at the September. Again,
of
25th Septem-
ber,^ he has an entry from the Scottish Calendar and
Breviary.
88 David
Camerarius has different days for a festival of a Barrus or Finbarrus, a Bishop
and Confessor one of these at the 6th of 8? and another at the
makes mention of him, at the of 25th
: being June,
29th of September. ? We find, that Greven, in his additions to Usuard,
September ;
his General Martyrology, written in French. He tells us, more particularly,
that the saint was bishop of Cork, which was a suffragan S—ee to that of Cashel,
Canisius as found in both of —
the holy bishop and Confessor Barr, in Ireland. Again, in the Florarius
Manuscript Catalogue of Saints, there is a notice concerning him, with other saints, inserted at the 25th of Septembers His festival has been assigned to the same date by nearly all modern writers ; as for instance, by Bishop
2
in Munster. 9 In the German
Martyrology
editions, already quoted, and at the same date there is mention regarding
Challoner,94 Rev. Alban Butler,95 Rev. Dr.
80 " 88" See Bishop Forbes' Kalendars ot
Lanigan,9
6 Archdeacon
Henry
Scottish Saints," p. 163.
In Cathnesia S. Barri episcopi. "
89 Thus recorded: "Hoc autem die S. Finbarrus Episcopus et Confessor. "—" De
" Barreae episcopi et 82 "
:
81 There we read
— Item beatorum et Confes- life uti in ejus Vita Turgotis retulit. " episcoporum
""
*'
Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Scotorum," tomus i. , lib. ii. , num. 135, p. 76.
" Synodum Ecclesiae suae,
sorum Bane Barciani, et Gerardi, qui extitit de Ordine Minorum. " To this observation, the Bollandist editor adds: " Quid tamen sibi velint, non video. De Gerardo Ordinis Mino- rum consule, si lubet, Prretermissos hoc die ; verum cum hie non fuerit episcopus dicendus est Florariiauctor Barram et Barcianuni duos diversos episcopos credidisse, sed quis ille
8s These read
lib. i. , Epistolas ad varios, lib. i. , Exposi-
:
tionem Psalterii, lib.
Canonum sacrorum, lib.
Caerimoniis Epistolam ;
cus Canisius Alcuini Scoti nomine publicavit, cum S. Barri opus esse ipsum nomen prae- fixum in bibliotheca regia testetur, et viri pii cura, qui pereuntem sanctissimi antistitis memoriam
i. Collectionem
i. De Baptismi quam male Henri-
hisce — sect, restituit, apicibus operum
mecum pridem communicatis. " Ibid. , pp. 76, 77-
86
For this statement, he quotes Martyr- ologium Subensi, and Catalogum Sanctorum Hiberniae.
'« See " A Memorial of British
87 In his notes, we find that this same saint
is called Findbarnus ; but, it is more pro- Scottish churches. See Britannia Sancta," bable, Dempster wrote Findbarrus. part ii. , pp. 142, 143.
(lege Finbarrus)
primus episco-
Q1 as likewise in Castellane,
—Acta
tomus vii. , Septembris xxv. De S. Barro
Barcianus sit, nescio. "
vel Kinbarro Ep. Corcagiensi in Hibernia,
num.
i. , 3, 4, p. 142.
Piety," p. 135. There, however, he is distinguished from St. Barrus, called first bishop of Caith-
ness in Scotland, at this same date; although in an earlier work, there is but one Barrus mentioned, as venerated in the Irish and
"
Sanctorum,"
September 25. I LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. 579
8
Cotton,97 R. Chambers^ Miss Mary Francis Cusack,99 Rev. S. Baring-
100 101
Gould, and in the "Dictionary of Christian Biography. " Philip
Ferrarius, who inserts the names of many saints, not found in the Roman
"
Martyrology, has a notice concerning a bishop Barr, venerated
102
in Scotia,"
at the 22nd of August.
There are many places in Ireland especially in the south called
—
honour of our saint. In the County of Cork a Kilbarry was about one mile outside the city to the north. *°3 Another was near Dunmanway, while another
was near Fermoy. 104 There is a Knockbarry, near Liscarroll, in the County ofCork. Alsothereis aKilbarryadjoiningatE. CastleCor. 10' Thefollow- ingwerewithintheCountyofCork. InKilbrinparish,dioceseofCloyne, the Catholic Church is dedicated to St. Finbar. 106 Also in Ballingeary, the parish Catholic church is dedicated to St. Finbar and St Ronan. 10? In the
parish of Castlelyons and barony of Condons and Clangibbon, the townland of Kilbarry is to be found. 108 The Catholic church at Castlelyons is dedicated to St. Finbar. IQ9 There was a 110 in the of Kilbrin,
—
Kilbarry, and they are said to have been thus denominated formerly in
barony of Duhallow. In the parish of Fanlobbus," barony of East Carbery
(West Division) there is a townland called Kilbarry.
112
In the parish of
Templemartin,
1 ^ and
barony
of
Kinalmeaky,
there is a
Kilbarry. "*
In the
parish of Kilmoe,"5 barony of West Carbery (West Division) there is a town-
land known as 6 There is a townland called in the
Kilbarry. " Kilbarry"? parish of Ballinadee, and barony of West Muskerry. There is a Kilbarry
8 in the
of West
There is a parish called Kilbarry" in the barony of Gaultiere, and County of
of
"
95 See Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs,
and other principal Saints," vol. ix. , Septem- ber xxv.
96 See " Ecclesiaslical History of Ireland,"
vol. ii. , chap, xiv. , sect, iv. , p. 315.
97 See " Fasti Ecclesise Hibernicse," vol.
and
107 Information communicated by Very Rev. Patrick Hurley, P. P.
I0* It is marked on the " Ordnance Survey
Townland Maps for the County of Cork," sheet 36.
109 Information communicated by Very Rev. Patrick Hurley, P. P.
110 See " Ordnance Survey Townland for the County of Cork," sheets 16, 24.
111 There are remains of a church and grave-yard. The Catholic parish church is dedicated to St. Finbar. Information communicated by Very Rev. Patrick Hurley, P. P.
townland,"
parish
Inchigeelagh
barony
Muskerry.
i. , Bishops of Cork, p. 215.
97 See "The Book of 380.
Days,"
vol.
ii. , p.
Maps
"See "The
History
of the
City
and
County of Cork," chap, iii. , p. 41. ico «
gee jjves of the Saints," vol. ix. , September 25, pp. 377, 378.
101
Article by the Right Rev. Alexander Penrose Forbes, Bishop of Brechin, vol. i. ,
pp. 266, 267.
1,2 " Marked on the
102
For this statement, he cites the Meno-
sheets 107, 12c.
113 The Catholic Church there is dedicated
to St. Finbar. Information communicated by Very Rev. Patrick Hurley, P. P.
114 Marked on the "Ordnance Survey
Townland Maps for the County of Cork," sheet 96.
113 The Catholic Church there is dedicated to St. Finbar. Information communicated by Very Rev. Patrick Hurley, P. P.
116 See "Ordnance Survey Townland Maps for the County of Cork," sheet 147.
"7 See " Ordnance Survey Townland Maps for the County of Cork," sheet 83.
logium Scoticum, and the Martyrologium Canisii. But the Bollandist editor, Suyskens, could not find such an entry in Dempster at that day, nor in the Menology of Camera- rius, nor in the German Martyrology of Canisius, edited at Dillinga, in the years 1577 or 1599-
103 In the parish of St. Anne's, Shandon,
barony of Cork and Municipal Borough. See "Ordnance Survey Townland Maps
for the County of Cork," sheets 63, 74.
104 See John Windale's Manuscript,
already quoted, at p. 757.
1,8 Noted on the " Ordnance Townland Maps for the County of Cork," sheet 82.
"»See "Ordnance Survey Townland
105 See 758.
John
Windale's
Manuscript, p.
Survey
196 Rev. PatrickHurley,P. P.
Information communicated by Very
Kilbarry parish 1
Ordnance Survey Townland Maps for the County of Cork,"
58o LIVESOFTHEIRISHSAINTS. [September25.
Waterford. Thereisanother called parish
Kilbarrymeaden
120inthe of barony
Decies without Drum, in the same county. It seems probable both were named
after our saint. We are told, that in the seventh century the monks of St.
Finbarr, near Cork, founded a small abbey for Canons Regular of St. Austin,
121
at Aghamore. This was situated towards the western extremity of
Kilcroghan parish, in Dunkerron barony, county of Kerry. It is built on a small island, near the mouth of Kenmare river ; but, at low water, it is accessible by land from the neighbouring shore. The old walls are often
beaten both by winds and waves.
122
This old ruin is celebrated, m—oreover, as
forming a portion of the property, and standing near Darrynane once the residence of Ireland's illustrious Liberator, Daniel O'Connell. 12* His wife'sandmanyofhisancestors'remainsrestwithinitsburialground. The
I2
surrounding scenery is uncommonly grand and romantic. * According to
of
Kilbarron,
bears his name ; the church there is given as Oil barfinn in an ancient
126 map.
The memorials of St.
