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we find in the Irish calendars. However, we are informed, that locally a St. Callachan is venerated at a place called Ballyuchtrade, near Middleton,*
in the barony of Imokilly, and County of Cork. He is regarded as one of
the patrons of the diocese of Cloyne, but the date for his feast is not now
remembered. 7 The feast of Ceallachan is to be found in the Martyology of
8
Donegal, at this date.
Article IV. —The Daughters of Cainnech, or Maghlocha, Countv 1
of Tipperary. [Sixth Century. ] According to the manuscript and pub- 2
lished Martyrology of Tallagh, the Daughters of Cainnech) had veneration
paid them, at the 24th of September. The Martyrology of Marianus O'Gorman commemorates the festival of Cainnech's chaste daughters,* at
thissameday. Theglossographeradds,thattheybelongedtoMaighLochas. Their parentage and locality have been fully identified. 6 These holy women were the children of a chieftain who lived in the time of St. Declan,? patron of Ardmore, and whose castle had been saved from fire by the latter. 8 Their
place
was
formerly
called
Magh Locha,9
now
Molough,
10 near the
great
bend
of the River Suir, and not many miles from Clonmel, in the County of
Tipperary. There they seem to have lived in religious retirement, most pro-
bably some time in the sixth century. Of their lives, however, we find no record. Long after that time, their place is said to have been the site for a
nunnery, dedicated to St. Brigid,
11
in the former diocese of Lismore. x
12
It is
;
mentioned by Archdall, as being in the County of Tipperary 3 but, he is
1 wrong in placing it near Carrick-on-Suir. The ruins of the old nunnery * of
Moylough are situated on level ground, about one furlong north of the River
Suir. In the year 1840, two parts of this building remained, viz. , a chapel andalateralhouse; but,fromthefragmentsofwallsaboutthem,itappeared to have been a habitation of considerable extent. The church or chapel
6Itisdescribedonthe"OrdnanceSurvey 7Heis calledDee-ag-lawnbytheIrish-
Townland Maps for the County of Cork," speaking peasantry. See his Life, at the
sheets 65, 76, 77.
7 Information communicated by the Most
Rev. Robert Browne, D. U. , Bishop of Cloyne.
'
CAinnig o TTUislocriA.
2
Edited by Rev. Dr. Kelly, p. xxxv.
3 The genitive case of Cainnech or Can-
dech in Irish is CAtroigh.
4 Thus:—" Luth ingen caid Cainnig. "—
Dr. Stokes' " Felire Hui
Whitley Gormain,"
pp. 182, 183. 5 See ibid.
24th of July, in the Seventh Volume of this work, Art. i.
8 As mentioned in his Latin Life.
'In Irish written mag LacVia, which means " Plain of the Lake. "
8 Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp. 56, 257.
I0 The
is now called
place Moloughabbey,
2— Article iv.
In the Book of Lemster copy we find at this date : planum
in the parish of Molough, Baronies of Iffa
and Offa West, County of Tipperary. "Abbess of Kildare and Patroness of
Ireland. See her Life, in the Second Volume of this work, at the 1st of February, Art. i.
6
By the Very Rev. David Bernard Mul-
Tiprarise. " "Trias Thaumaturga. " Ap-
pendix Quarta ad Acta S. Brigidse, cap. xvi. .
p. 625.
I3 There is another more famous place
bearing the same name near Kilrush, in the
County of Clare. See "Monasticon Hiber-
nicum," p. 669.
I4 It was founded by the Butlera in the
fourteenth century. At the general suppres- sion this nunnery was granted to Sir Henry Radcliff, Termor. See Harris' Ware, vol.
cahy, formerly P. P. of Moyarget, County of Antrim, and a native of the County of Waterford, who departed this life October nth, 1897. He was learnedly versed in the language and historic literature of Ireland.
The writer's attention was first directed to
the matter contained in the text, through a letter received from him, and dated Moy- arget, County Antrim, 27th January, ii.
1890.
D.
I2 "Monasterium de Malach Monialium
— in eadem Dicecesi et Comitatu Augustini
" p. 370.
Antiquities of Ireland," chap, xxxviii. ,
544 LIVES0J<THEIRISHSAINTS. [September24.
remaining was then in a tolerable state of preservation, extending from east to west, and measuring in length on the inside 60 feet, in breadth it was 27
6 inches. 15 Two windows16 were in the east constructed of gable,
feet,
chiselledandbrownishsand-stone. Therewerethreewindowsonthesouth- wall,buttheseweremuchdisfiguredandbuiltupwithroughmasonry. The door-way^ was on the south wall, and at a distance of fourteen feet from the west gable ; it was constructed of chiselled and ornamental lime-stone on the outside, and of chiselled sand-stone on the inside. The west gable had been surmounted by a belfry, having two semi-circular arches, constructed of brownish and chiselled sand-stone. The lateral house extended to the north- west of the chapel, and touching it at the north-west corner. It was fifty-five feet in length on the outside, and twenty-seven in breadth. 18 Its walls were
Molough Church Ruins, Co. Tipperary.
three feet six inches in thickness, and about fourteen feet in height. * In the Martyrology of Donegal,20 their festival is also inserted, at the 24th of
September.
Article V. —St. Cailcon or Caolchu, of Cluana Airthir or Lui-
1
Airthir. The published Martyrology of Tallagh mentions, that veneration
18 In 1840, this latter building had been enclosed and used as a burial-place.
19 See " Letters containing Information relative to the Antiquities of the County of Tipperary, collected during the Progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1840. " Signed : "Antiquities examined by Mr. A. Curry, his notes put into the above form by me. John O'Donovan, Clonmel, September 6th, 1840. " Vol. i. , pp. 59, 60.
20 Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
256, 257.
Article v. — Edited by Rev. Dr. Kelly,
p. XXXV.
'S A faint outline
of this group of ruins has been drawn by George Du Noyer, April 23rd, 1840, and is to be found in the "Tipperary Sketches," Royal Irish Academy, vol. iii. , p. 122. From this the accompanying illustration has been pro- duced and engraved on the wood by Gregor
Grey.
16
They were then so veiled with thick ivy, that, without tearing it off, their exact
given.
17 In 1840, it was nearly destroyed, but
the stones of which it had been formed were lying scattered about on the ground.
dimensions could not be
pencil-sketch
1
1
September 24. ] LIVES OE THE IRISH SAINTS. 545
wasgiventoCailcon,ofCluanaAirthir,atthe24thofSeptember. Asimilar
is in the Book of Leinster
denomination signifying the Eastern Lawn or Meadow has not yet been identified. In the Martyrology of Marianus O'Gorman, Caelchu is mentioned also at this date. The gloss states he was O Lui Airthir, or " from Lui Airthir. "3 He is described more fully elsewhere ; while his name and place are found somewhat differently entered. We find in the Naemhsheanchus a Caolchu, son of Caol, son to Conula, of the race of Ciar, son to Fergus, son of Ross, son of Rudhraighe, from whom the Clanna Rudhraighe descended. We find in the Life of Bairre,4 that there was a Caolchu, in the School of Bairre at Loch Irc,s and that he gave up his church to God and to Bairre. 6 It is likely, observes the Calendarist, that this is the same person, for we find no other of the name mentioned in the Martyrology. Cluain Airthir is mentioned in the Annals of the Four Masters,? and apparently in connexion with other places, known to have been in Scotland. From what has been stated already, Lui-Airthir seems to have been another name for Cluana- Airthir. At this same—date, the of 8 records him as
entry
copy.
Martyrology Donegal Caolchu, of Lui-Airthir and this may be a mistake of the scribe.
"
2 See " Acta Sanctorum," tomus vi. , Sep- tembris xxiv. De SS. Androchio Presb. ,
Thyrso Diacono, et Felice Martyribus apud Sidolocum in Territorio Augustodunensi in
Gallia, pp. 663 to 677.
3 In four sections, and fifty-eight para-
graphs.
•* These are given in eleven paragraphs,
with accompanying annotations. Edited by
4 Chapter x. is quoted.
5 A note by Dr. Reeves, says at Loch Ire: So in the manuscript ; but Lochlrce is the
Article vi. — See Dr. Whitley Stokes' " Felire Hui Gormain," pp. 182, 183.
correct name. The reference in the text, both here and under Bairre, is to the Irish Life of St. Bairre. See under Talmach, Feb. 26, and Modhiomog, Mar. 3. "
6
See his Life in the present Volume, at
the 25th of September, Art. i.
7 See Dr. O'Donovan's Edition, vol. i. ,
n. (d), pp. 224, 225.
8 Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
256* 257. In a note, Dr. Reeves says at
Father Constanti—ne Suyskens, S. J. —
Caolchu : "Opposite this is written in the lish, "noble Androichius with lasting re-
margin by the later hand, Colchus, as the nown. "— Whitley
Latinized form of the name. " The same
Gormain," pp. 182, 183.
2 The Church of Cluain-Airthir—a —
Article VI. —Festival of Felix. In the Martyrology of Marianus
O'Gorman, there is a feast for Felix, at the 24th of September.
1
This is
doubtless the Martyr Felix, commemorated with his companions in suffering
by the Bollandists 2 at this day. A commentary 3 precedes their Acts,*
written by an anonymous author.
Article VII. —Festival of Androchius. The Martyrology of
Marianus O'Gorman records a feast for Androich or Androchius, and with
1
eulogy, at the 24th of September.
Article VIII. —Festival of Thyrsus. In the Martyrology of
Marianus O'Gorman, he enters a feast for Thyrsus or Tirsus, at the 24th of 1
September.
Article IX. —Festival of the Conception of St. John the Baptist. From a very early age in the Irish Church, the great Precursor of ourLordwasheldinthehighestvenerationbytheIrishpeople; notalone
2 Thus : Cailchon Cl ^chip.
3 See Dr. Whitley Stokes' " Felire Hui Gormain," pp. 182, 183.
occurs in a Table subjoined to this Martyr-
ology. See pp. 372, 373. 1
Article vji. *
In these terms:
'"An-
droich saer co sirclu," rendered into Eng-
Dr. Stokes* "Felire Hui
IM
546 LIVESOFTHEIRISHSAINTS. [September24.
i'ne Calendar of — exxxix.
Oengus, p,
3 In these terms
" Compert Ioain uasail
r
1 hus rendered into English :—
Stabulensi episcopi memoria,
Martenium S. Ruodberti
non sunt ceusendi de
o \-
? °
.
c
Nativity being
24th
:
^
. . n Bauptist,firnaf«emtha. '
held on the
of 1 but that of his June,
the feast of his
Conception having been observed on the present day. In the Feilire of
Article X. —Feast of the Translation of St. Rupert's Relics. Such is the title given to a festival at the 24th of September, in the anony-
St. Rupert, Bishop and Martyr. He does not mention the Translation of the Relics of St. —Rupert, Bishop of Saltzburg ; but the Bollandists—who record this feast have no doubt, that Greven meant no other saint, although
throughanerrortheycallhimMartyr/ QuotingEberhardashisauthority, at the 24th of September, Dempster notices the First Translation of Arch-
bishop Rupert at Saltzburg. * This day the Translation of his relics, which
a it is set down with a of the illustrious ascetic and special eulogy
jEngus
martyr. The Conception of St. John the Baptist is a feast noticed by Marianus O'Gorman at the 24th of September. 3 At this date, also, the Bollandists « remark, that such a festival is to be found in all the ancient Latin Martyrologies, and in many of the more recent ones, while the reader is referred to the Acts of the Saint, which they have given at the 24th of June,5 the day for his chief festival.
mous Calendar of Irish Saints O'Sullivan Beare. 1 published by
had intended, also, to insert some notices, regarding it at the same date. 3 We have already alluded to this Translation, in recording the Acts of St. Chuniald and Gisilar. Already at the 27th of March,3 the reader will find some account of this illustrious prelate. The principal festival of St. Rupert, Bishop of Saltzburg, is kept with the greatest solemnity in Austria and Bavaria on the 25th of September. At this date Greven has a festival for
are
kept
in the church under his name in took 6 Saltzbourg, place.
Articleviii. —'SeeDr. WhitleyStokes'
"Felire Hui Gormain," pp. 182, 183. *
4 See "Acta Sanctorum," tomus vi. , Septembris xxiv. Among the pretermitted feasts, p. 659,
s See ibid. , tomus iv. , Junii xxiv. De Sancto Joanne Prodromo et Baptista D. N. Jesu Christi, pp. 687 to 806. Edited by Father Daniel Papebroch, in a series of learned Dissertations.
Articlex. —' See"HistorianCatholicse
Iberniae Compendium," tomus i. , lib. iv. ,
cap. xi. , p. 51.
be told. Save Jesus, of men he is the
most wonderful that hath been born. "—
"Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy,"
Irish Manuscript Series, vol. i. , part i. On translationis, uti etiam fit in Calendario
ARTICLE ix. — See at that date, in the Sixth Volume of this work, Art. vii.
3
The Leabhar Breac copy reads :—
Compete loriAin uarail
b^upcAifc Af mo rcelaib -Ache1b. uooTJoimb
Iramrui pogenaip.
Thus translated into
English by Whitley
s See " Actuum Sanctorum Catalogus
Stokes, LL. D. : "The Conception of noble
John the Baptist, who is greater than can
qu? e Ms. habentur, ordine Mensium et Dierum. " 3 See at that date the Third Volume of
"The conception of high John the
Baptist, a man who was not received. " Scottish Saints. " " Menologium Scoticum,"
The interpretation of the Scholiast being thathewasmartyrisedbyHerod. SeeDr. Whitley Stokes' "Felire Hui Gormain,"
pp. 182, 183. vol.
this work, Art. ii.
* The Bollandists add " Alii recentiores,
qui S. Ruperti meminerint sine mentione
apud
.
<P*m ^JftTM? &—*? Tl ^ ^ nosad xxvii. Martu. Acta Sanctorum,
tomus
pretermitted feasts, pp. 659, 660.
5 See Bishop Forbes' " Kalendars of
:
xxiv Septembris Among
p. 212. 6SeeRev. AlbanButler's"Livesofthe
Fathers, Martyrs and other principal Saints,"
iii. ,
March xxvii.
.
Colgan
alio,
September 25. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. 547
ArticleXL—ReputedFeastofSt. Lolan. Quotingtheauthority
1
of Camerarius, the Bollandists enter Lolan at the 24th of September,' but
refer his festival to the 22nd, where they had already treated more fully about him. 3
Article XII. —Reputed Feast for Barrea, Bishop and Confessor.
At the 24th of September, Dempster has a festival for Barrea, a bishop and confessor in Scotia. 1 This feast seems referable to St. Barr, Bishop and Patron of Cork, who is venerated more properly on the day succeeding.
Ctoentpsffttft JBap nf September,
ARTICLE I. —ST. BAIRRE OR FINBAR, FIRST BISHOP, AND PATRON OF CORK.
[SIXTH AND SEVENTH CENTURIES. ]
CHAPTER I .
INTRODUCTION—MATERIALS FOR THE ACTS OF ST. BAIRRE OR FINBAR—HIS RACE AND BIRTH—MIRACLES RECORDED—HIS EARLY INSTRUCTORS—HIS ACTS WHILE REMAINING IN LEINSTER—HIS RETURN TO MUNSTER—MIRACLES WHILE THERE— ST. FINBAR'S CONTEMPORARIES—SAID TO HAVE VISITED ROME.
are three Finbars recorded in the Irish Calendars : —viz. one
THERE
Forbes'
Kalendars of Scottish Saints. "
an and the founder of a Abbot,
monastery
in the isle of
Drimlen,
between Hi-Cinselach and the Decies of Munster, whose memory is cele-
brated July 4th ; another Finbar, abbot of Kilconga, celebrated on the 9th
of September " but the ihird Finbar, the first bishop of Cork, whose festival
j
is recorded at the of is the most celebrated. 2 An admirable 25th September,
gift of working miracles, seldom witnessed or related, the Almighty is said to have bestowed on the latter St. Barrus. His ancient biographers briefly enumerate some of those miracles ; yet, too many of them seem to rest only on popular tradition, and are of a character to create a well-founded suspicion regarding their authenticity.
His name is variously written Barr, Barre, Barra, Barry, Finbarr, Fynbarry and Fynd-Barr. The latter composite appellations are supposed to have been derived from the beautiful colour of his hair. 3 This holy man's name
Article xi. —' At this date he writes :—
"24 Die. Sanctus Lolanus Episcopus et
ConfessorapudDuncanumScotoru—mRegem
magna in auctoritate et gratia. " Bishop
"
Article l—Chapter
—
i. See "Acta
Scottish Entries in the Kalendar of David
Camerarius, p. 240.
2
See Acta Sanctorum," tomus vi. Sep- tembris, xxiv. Among the pretermitted feasts, p. 660.
3 See also at that date, in the present
Volume, Art. viii. —
Article xii.
'
" Bishop "
Kalendars of Scottish Saints. " logium Scoticum," p. 212.
Meno-
See Forbes'
Sanctorum Hiberniae," xiii. Martii. Vita S.
Mochoemoci,n. 14,p. 597.
2
He
St. David, published by John Capgrave, and in that written by Giraldus Cambrensis,
as well as by John of Teignmouth. Bibl.
MS. Stowensis, vol. i. , p. 158. See entry "
in John Windale's Irish Researches, or
Antiquarian Gleanings," vol. vi. , p. 763, Cork, i860. MS. in the Royal Irish Aca- demy, Dublin.
3 This also to have been the appears
opinion of Bernard Mede, and as the Bol- landist editor observes, on Fynbarrus : "ea
is mentioned in the ancient Life of
54» LIVESOFTHEIRISHSAINTS. [September25.
is Latinized Barrus, Find-Barrus and Barrocus. * Also, he is styled Barreus,
Barrius, Finbarrus, Fynbarrus, and Fymbareus. Colgan had prepared the ActsofthisSaintforpublication,atthe25thofSeptember. * IntheManu- script, known as Codex Kilkenniensis, and to be seen in Marsh's Library, Dublin, we find a Latin Life of St. Barrus. 6 It is much to be regretted, that this tract abounds in fables, some of which are so scandalous in character,? as to afford great disedification to pious readers. In the MS. Book of Fermoy, there is an Irish Life of St. Barre of Cork ; but it is imperfect.
8
There appears a considerable defect, which had taken place before the folios
were numbered. Four pages at least must be wanting. Some paper copies
of this life are extant. 9 There is a Life of St. Finnbarr, to be found in the
old Irish Manuscript, known as the Book of Lismore. There is an Irish
10 11 of him among the Burgundian Manuscripts in the Bruxelles Library.
Life
The present writer has been favoured with an Irish copy of the latter,"
transcribed for the Very Rev. Patrick Hurley,^ P. P. of Inchigeela, County
1
of Cork, and this has been literally translated into English, * by Patrick
1
Stanton, Cork, in 1896. In his History of Cork, * Dr. Charles Smith refers
to a Life of St. Finbar among the Manuscripts in Trinity College, Dublin, and which begins with u Sanctus dilectus. " 16 However, Mr. Hitchcock, who held a situation connected with the Library, assured Mr. John Windale of
1
Blair's Castle, Cork, that no such Manuscript was in that Library. 7 Never-
theless, among the Trinity College Manuscripts, Dublin, there is a Vita S. Finbarri. 18 Other Manuscript Lives of St. Finbar are in the Royal Irish
Academy. 10 Among John Windale's Manuscripts, now preserved in the Royal Irish Academy, there are some notices regarding St. Finbar. 20
vox composita Candidum-verticem Hibernis sonet. "—Vita S. Barri, sect, i. , n. i. , p. 142. 4 See Bishop Challoner's "Britannia
Sancta," part ii. , pp. 142, 143.
s In the Franciscan Convent, Dublin, in
" Vitse Sanctorum," ex Cod. Inisensi, is yet preserved his copy of this
Vita S. Barri, pp. 124 to 130.
6 At fol. 132.
7 In other Lives of our Saint, these fables
are omitted.
Cork, 1 87 1, 8vo.