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 ACTS OF ARCHBISHOP COLTON 
 
 IN HIS 
 
 METROPOLITAN VISITATION 
 
 THE DIOCESE OF DERRY, 
 
 A.D. MCCCXCVIL; 
 WITH A RENTAL OF THE SEE ESTATES AT THAT TIME. 
 
 EDITED, 
 FROM THE ORIGINAL ROLL PRESERVED IN THE ARCHIEPISCOPAL RECORD CLOSET OF ARHAGH. 
 
 WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES, 
 
 BT 
 
 THE IlEV. WILLIAM EEEVES, D.D., M.R.I. A., 
 
 BACHELOR IN MEDICINE OF TRINITT COLLEtJE. HUBLIN ; I'EEI'ETUAL CURATE OF KILCONRIOLA, IN THE DIOCESE OF CONKOR. 
 
 DUBLIN: 
 FOR THE IRISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
 
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DUBLIN 
 
 rKINTEl) AT TIIK UNIVKl'.SITY ri:ESS, 
 
 BY M. H. <;II.L. 
 
IRISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
 
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THIS VOLUME WAS PRESENTED TO THE MEMBERS OF THE IRISH ARCHjEOLOGICAL 
 SOCIETY BY THE REV. WILLIAM REEVES, D. D. 
 
 JAMES H. TODD, Secbetarv. 
 
 August io, i85o. 
 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 m^ 
 
 OHN COLTON, or de Colton% the principal actor 
 in the following Visitation, was born at Terrington, 
 in Norfolk. From being cliaplain to Bishop Bate- 
 man he was nominated, in 1348, to the Mastership 
 of Gonville Hall in Cambridge, and the same year 
 he proceeded Doctor in Canon Law. On the death 
 of his pati'on, Edmund Gonville, in 1350, he was promoted by the 
 bis]iop to the rectory of his native parish. Twenty-seven years after- 
 wards his name is associated with the prebend of Bagthorpe in the 
 cathedral of York ; but in the mean while his chief promotion lay in 
 Ireland, for in 1373 he was appointed Lord Treasurer, and the year 
 following was advanced to the deanery of St. Patrick's in Dublin. 
 The former of these offices he surrendered in 1379 for the Seals, 
 which he held for three years. His honours and emoluments were 
 moreover augmented in 1381, when he was elected to the station of 
 Lord Justice, then vacant by the death of Edmund Mortimer, with 
 an annual fee of five hundred pounds, afterwards increased by a 
 further allowance of ten shillings a day in consideration of his great 
 
 services 
 
 " Rot. Cancell. Hib. Calendar, i. pp. 90, n. 132; 108, n. 29. 
 
11 
 
 services and hospitality. As Chancellor his salary was forty pounds 
 a year, with an additional pension of ten shillings a day. Upon the 
 death of Milo Sweetman, the Primate, which took place on the i ith 
 of August, 1380, the temporalities of the See of Armagh were seized 
 to the Crown, and Dean Colton was appointed their farmer, in which 
 capacity he delivered into the Exchequer a sum of £366 135. locl, 
 which had accrued during the eighteen months of the vacancy. On 
 the 9th of INIarch, 1382, he obtained restitution of the temporali- 
 ties to himself, having been promoted to the Primacy by a bull of 
 Pope Urban the Sixth. He died at an advanced age, on the 27th of 
 April, 1404, having a short time previously resigned his see, and was 
 buried in the Church of St. Peter at Drogheda. 
 
 He was a man of great talent and activity, and his love of enter- 
 prise found an ample field for its exercise in Ireland. In 1374 he 
 received by the King's writ a sum of forty pounds for the various 
 services he had rendered to the Crown, and the injuries he had sus- 
 tained at the hands of the Irish rebels. As an instance of the former 
 it may be mentioned that in 1372 he levied at his sole cost a body of 
 twenty-six knights, and, being reinforced by the well-affected of the 
 district, marched against O'Moore and O'Byrne, and compelled them 
 to retire with severe loss. The prompitude with which he summoned 
 a council at Cork on the death of Edmund Mortimer, and the unani- 
 mity with which he was elected Loi'd Justice, as the fittest person 
 in the kingdom to fill the office, establish at once his decision of 
 character and the reputation he was held in for this valuable quality. 
 He enjoyed the confidence of his Sovereign also, and not only was 
 his election confirmed by patent, but he was employed in diplomatic 
 agency at the Court of Rome. Nor was this remarkable man less 
 distinguished in an ecclesiastical than a civil capacity; he was of high 
 reputation for virtue and learning, dear to all ranks of people for his 
 
 afiability 
 
Ill 
 
 affability and sweetness of temper ; while, in discharging the func- 
 tions of his exalted office in the Church, the same energy and deci- 
 sion which marked his political life were here conspicuous also*". Of 
 this we have on record two strong testimonies in the Visitation which 
 is the subject of the present work, and the Ecclesiastical Constitutions 
 which he promulgated at a provincial synod. In adverting to these 
 the present seems a suitable occasion to take a connected view of the 
 origin and progress of episcopal visitations in Ireland. 
 
 To suppose that Visitations, in the modern use of the word, ex- 
 isted at all in the early ages of the Irish Church, would be to assume 
 tliat there were fixed dioceses and regularly defined parishes, as well 
 as facilities of intercourse^ in the face of strong presumptive evidence. 
 The first rudiment of the Irish system of visitation is to be discovered 
 in the practice of the abbots of chief monasteries, who occasionally 
 made a circuit of a particular district where the memory of their 
 patron saint was held in esteem, carrying with them his reliques or 
 insignia, and levying contributions from churches and people. Tlie 
 acknowledgment thus made was termed " the Law" of the particular 
 saint, which is expressed in all the ancient annals by the Latin word 
 Lex^ though the meaning of the term was sometimes denoted by the 
 Irish word, cam, which signifies " a tribute," and pmji, in the sense 
 of" a demand" or "claim." Accordingly we read in the Annals of Tigh- 
 ernach, under 721: "Inmesach religiosus Legem cum pace Christi 
 
 super 
 
 *■ See Harris's Ware's Works, vol. i. p. bishops of Connaiight, who were going to 
 
 84; but especially Mason's History of St. the synod ofBri-mic-Taidhg were plundered 
 
 Patrick's Cathedral, pp. 125-128, where and beaten, and two of their people killed, 
 
 this prelate's history is largely illustrated at Cuirr-Cluana, after they had left Cluain, 
 
 from the ancient rolls. by the soldiers of Dearmaid Ua Maeleach- 
 
 " See the occurrence at 1 1 28 of the An- lainn. King of Meath, and they returned to 
 
 nals of Ulster, cited below at p. 97. "The their houses." — (An. Four Mast. 11 58.) 
 
 a 
 
 2 
 
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 super insolam Hiberniaj constituit," which is still further developed in 
 the following examples; 727: " Adamnani reliquise transferuntur in 
 Hiberniam, et Lex renovatur." 748 : " Lex Nepotis Suanai," that 
 is, Ua Suanaigh of Rahin, near TuUamore ; and again at 748 : 
 " Lex Ua Suanaigh upon Leth Cuin ;" at 744: "Lex Ciarain filii 
 Artificis [Clonmacnoise], et Lex Brendain at the same time by Fer- 
 gus, son of Ceallach the Wise;" as also at 788: "the Lex Ciarain 
 was promulgated among the people of Connaught ;" and 813: " the 
 Lex Quiarain was raised upon Cruachan by Muirgius." At 756 : "the 
 Lex Columba-kill, by Sleibene;" and at 777 : "theLex Coluim-cille, by 
 Donnchadh and Breasal." At 779: "the third Lex Comain [from 
 whom Ros-commain] and Aedhain begins;" and at 792, "the Lex 
 Commaim was promulgated by Aeldobhair, abbot of Roscommon, 
 and by Muirgheas, throughout the three divisions of Connaught. The 
 Lex Ailbhe of Lnleach [Emly] in Munster"''. Some of these saints 
 wei'e founders of churches which afterwards became the heads of 
 sees, while others of them had no successors of the episcopal order; 
 their "Lex," therefore, had reference to their monastic influence, and 
 owed its acknowledgment to the reputed sanctity of their lives. In 
 process of time, however, the " Lex Patricii" superseded all the rest, 
 and the visitations of his successors, the abbots of Armagh, became 
 almost the only ones which remain on record. The earliest mention 
 of his "Lex" is at the year 734, when Tighernach, and, after him, 
 the Annals of Ulster, have these words: "Commutatio Martir. Petair 
 et Foil et Padraic ad Legem perficiendam:" upon which Dr. O'Conor 
 observes : " Agitur hie non de Regula Monastica S. Patricii, sed de 
 
 tribvito 
 
 ■" These notices are taken from the An- while the latter is at this period a year 
 nals of Tighernach and of Ulster. The behind. Most of them are omitted in the 
 date in the former is always the true one, Annals of the Four Masters. 
 
tribute exigendo pro Ecclesia Ardmachana, quod dicebatur Riar 
 Padraicc'". This tribute seems, from the following passage of Tigh- 
 ernach, to have been established in the year y27'- 
 
 Dal ecrip Get) nCllkin ociip Cacat mac pint)5onie oc Ciiibaskipp, Lex 
 paqncii ceniiic liibepniain. 
 
 " A conference between Aedh Allan and Cathal, son of Finngain, at Tirdaglass; 
 the Lex Patricii held Ireland." 
 
 Or, as Keating in his history (in the reign of Aodh Allan) more 
 fully states: 
 
 If pan anipo capla bat eiDip pig Gipiont) agiip Cacol inac pionngoine pi 
 TTlunion, agripbaglop op Upiimiiiom, map a^i hoiit)Ui5ea& jieacc asupDliji, agup 
 cfop paOpuic ap 6ipiiin leo. 
 
 " It was about this time that a conference took place between the King of Erin 
 and Cathal, son of Fionngaine, King of Munster, at Tir-da-glas [now Terryglass] in 
 Ormond, at which Law, and Right, and the Rent of Patrick, were ordered over Erin 
 by them." 
 
 The words " Lex Patricii" form the closing entry under the year 
 766 in the Annals of Ulster. The Four Masters, at 778, record " the 
 promulgationof Patrick's Law [popui' cana par|iaicc] at Cruachan, 
 by Dubdaleithe, and Tibraide, son of Tadhg." At 8 10 they relate that 
 "Nuadha, abbot of Armagh, went to Connaught," but they do not 
 state upon what errand ; however, the Tripartite Life of St. Patrick 
 mentions his name in connexion with the neighbourhood of Elphin 
 in the following ciu'ious passage: " S. Corbmacum vero pra3dicti 
 Antistites sedulo educarunt in regione de Crich Enna Artec¥ in Con- 
 nacia, Dornnalk Episcopus de Aleach mor (quem locum postea rede- 
 
 merunt 
 
 ' Eer. Hib. SS., vol. ii. p. 239. In his b; Lanigan, Eccles. Hist., vol. iii. p. 267. 
 
 notes, however, upon the passages quoted Mac Mahon, Jus Primat. Armac, p. 165. 
 above, he understands the word iea;of the ' In the modern county of Roscommon. 
 
 Monastic Rule. Colgan, Trias Th., p. 294 See below, p. 123. 
 
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 nierunt inonachi de Cluain mucnois) Comitius sive Connitius Episcopus 
 de Cluain seanmoil, et Dahonna Episcopus de Cluain namanach : qui 
 quotannis suo discipulo circa festum omnium Sanctorum, dum eos 
 visitaret, consueverunt singuli dare unam vaccam, propter reveren- 
 tiam pra3cipue S. Patris Patricii, qui ipsum eis sustentandum, et 
 educandum commisit. Et ille raos postea apud eorum successores 
 transiit in consuetudinem & debitum, ut singuli nempe quotannis 
 successoribus S. Corbmaci vaccam debeant solvere, donee Nuadatus 
 Abbas Ardmachanus, eos ab hoc onere liberaverit. Sauctus bic Corb- 
 macus a loco (ut apparet) educationis cognomento Sniihine appel- 
 latus est. Terra autem vulgo dicta Tir-omna-Snithine, jacet ante 
 Dermagiam de Cuilchaonna : molesteque ferunt successores S. Pa- 
 tricii quod illius parochias jure sint destituti"^. 
 
 In 822 the Four Masters tell us, " the Lex Patricii was promul- 
 gated over Munster by Felim, son of Crimthaun [the king], and by 
 Artri, son of Conchabhar, Bishop of Armagh ;" and in 824, through- 
 out the three divisions of Connacht by the latter. Previously to this, 
 in 817, "Artri, son of Conchabhar, went to Connaught with the 
 shrine of Patrick." A like journey of his successor is thus recorded 
 by the Annals of Ulster, at 835: " Dermot went to Connaught cwn 
 Lege et vexillis Patricii" The abbot of Armagh was probably making 
 a similar tour in 945, when " the full of the [bell called] Finnfadh- 
 ach of silver was given by the Cinel-Eoghain for the blessing of 
 Patrick and his successor, i. e. Joseph." — {Four Masters.) By this 
 time it is probable the supremacy of Armagh became generally ac- 
 knowledged, and the right of the successors of Patrick to levy sti- 
 pends in all parts of Ireland prescriptively recognised. Henceforward 
 a different term is used, and the abbot is said to make a cuaipc, or 
 
 ■' circuit" 
 
 s Pars ii. c. 19, Trias Th., p. 131 b. 
 
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 " circuit" of such and such a district, and to obtain his piap or " de- 
 mand ;" as the following passages from the Four Masters will show; 
 973 : " Dubhdalethe, successor of Patrick, made a circuit [cuaijic] of 
 Munster, and obtained his demand [peiji]." 985: "The removal of 
 the shrine of Patrick, by Maelseachlainn, from Ath-Fhirdiadh [Ardee^ 
 to Ath-Sighe [Assy in Meath], in consequence of the rebellion of the 
 son of Cairelan. They afterwards made peace ; and Maelseachlainn 
 submitted to the demand of Patrick [|iia]i piiaccjiaicc], i.e. the visi- 
 tation [cuaipc] of Meath, both Church and State, and a banquet for 
 every fort from Maelseachlann himself, besides seven cumhals \i. e. 
 twenty-one cows, or an equivalent], and every other demand in full." 
 992: "Muireagan of Both-domhnaigh, successor of Patrick, Avent 
 upon his visitation [pop cuaipc] in Tir-Eoghain ; and he conferred 
 the degree of king upon Aedh, son of Domhnall, in the presence of 
 Patrick's congregation ; and he afterwards made a great visitation 
 [mopchuaipc] of the north of Ireland." 1021: " Amhalgaidh, suc- 
 cessor of Patrick, went into Munster for the first time, and made a 
 great visitation [rhop cuaipc] thereof." 1050: "Dubhdalethe, suc- 
 cessor of Patrick, made a visitation of the Cinel-Eoghain, and brouo-ht 
 300 cows from them." 1068: " Maelisa, son of Amhalghaidh, suc- 
 cessor of Patrick, made a visitation of Munster for the first time ; and 
 he obtained a full visitation-tribute [a Ictn cuaipr] both in screaballs 
 [silver pennies] and offerings." 1 092 : " Domhnall, son of Amhalgaidh, 
 successor of Patrick, made a visitation of the Cinel-Eoghain, and ob- 
 tained his demand [peip]." 1094: "Domhnall, successor of Patrick, 
 made a visitation of Munster for the first time, and he obtained his 
 full tribute [Idn cuai]ic] of screaballs, besides offerings from the in- 
 habitants." 1 1 06 : " Ceallach made a visitation of Munster for the 
 first time, and he obtained a full tribute [Ian cuaipr], namely, seven 
 cows and seven sheep, and half an ounce of silver from every cantred 
 
 in 
 
via 
 
 in Munster, besides many jewels; andCeallach conferred the dignity 
 of Noble on this occasion, at the request of the men of Ireland." The 
 same is repeated briefly at the year 1 108, with the observation that 
 "he obtained his full demand [oijiieip]." 1 1 10: "Ceallach, successor 
 of Patrick, went on his visitation in Meath for the first time ; and he 
 obtained his demand [a peip]." 1116: " Ceallach, successor of Pa- 
 trick, went upon a visitation of Conuaught the second time ; and he 
 obtained a full visitation-tribute [Idri ciiaiiic]." 1 120: " Ceallach, 
 successor of Patrick, made a visitation of Minister the second time ; 
 and he obtained his full demand [oijpeip], and imparted his bless- 
 ing." 1 126: "A great storm of war throughout Ireland in general, 
 so that Ceallach, successor of Patrick, was obliged to be for one 
 month and a year absent from Armagh, establishing peace among 
 the men of Ireland, and promulgating rules and good customs in 
 every district among the laity and the clergy." 1133: " Muircheartach, 
 successor of Patrick, made a visitation of Tir-Eoghain ; and he re- 
 ceived his tribute [a luajiujao] of cows and horses, and imparted his 
 blessing." 1134: " Maelmaedhog Ua Morgair made a visitation of 
 Munster, and he obtained his tribute [a jieiji]." 1 136: "A visitation 
 [cuaipc] of Munster by Maelmaedhog Ua Morgair, successor of Pa- 
 trick." 1 140: "The successor of Patrick [Gelasius] made a visita- 
 tion of Connaught for the first time, and obtained his full tribute 
 [oijfiei]!], and their chiu'ches were adjusted to his jurisdiction by 
 Toirdhealbhach Ua Conchobhair and the chieftains of Connaught ; 
 and the successor of Patrick and his clergy left a blessing on the king 
 and the chieftains of Connaught." 1 150: " The successor of Patrick 
 and the clergy of Patrick made a visitation of Tir-Eoghain, and they 
 obtained their full tribute [a lain jieip] of cows, /. e. a cow from every 
 house of a biatach and freeman, a horse from every chieftain, and 
 twenty cows from the king himself. The visitation of the Cinel- 
 
 Eoghain 
 
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 Eoglifiin was made by tlie successor of Columcille, Flaithblieartach 
 Ua Brolchain ; and he obtained a horse from every chieftain, a cow 
 from every two biatachs, a cow from every three freeholders, and a 
 cow from every four villains, and twenty cows from the king liimseli"; 
 a gold ring of five ounces, his horse, and his battle dress, from Muir- 
 cheartach, son of Niall Ua Lochlainn, King of Ireland." 1151: " The 
 visitation of Connaught was performed the second time by the suc- 
 cessor of Patrick, Gillamacliag, the grandson of Ruaidhri; and he ob- 
 tained his full tribute [a 6ij^h|iei]i]. On this occasion Ua Conchobhair 
 gave the successor of Patrick a ring of gold of twenty ounces. The 
 visitation of the Sil-Cathasagh was made by Flaithbheartach Ua Brol- 
 chain, successor of Columcille ; and he obtained a horse from every 
 chieftain, a sheep from every hearth ; and his horse, battle-dress, and 
 a ring of gold, in Avhich were two ounces, from their lord, namely, 
 Cuuladh Ua Lainn." 11 53: "The visitation of Dal-Cairbre and 
 Ui Eathach Uladh was made by Flaithbheartach Ua Brolchain, suc- 
 cessor of Columcille ; and he received a horse from every chieftain, 
 a sheep from every hearth, a screaball, a horse, and five cows, from 
 the Lord Ua Didnnsleibhe, and an ounce of gold from his wife." 
 1161: " Another army was led by Muircheartach Ua Lachlainn into 
 Meath, to attend a meeting of the men of Ireland, both laity and 
 clergy, at Ath-na-Dairbhrighe, and he obtained all their hostages. 
 It was on this occasion that the churches of Columcille in Meath and 
 Leinster were freed by the successor of Columcille, Flaithbheartach 
 Ua Brolchain ; and their tributes and jurisdiction were given him, 
 for before they were enslaved. The visitation of Osraighe was made 
 by Flaithbheartach ; and the tribute due to him was seven score 
 oxen, but he chose, as a substitute for these, 420 ounces of pure sil- 
 ver." 1 162: "The visitation of Cinel-Eoghain was made by the 
 successor of Patrick, Gillamacliag [grand-] son of Ruaidhri, the like 
 
 b of 
 
of which had not previously occurred." 1172: "A full visitation 
 [Idn cuaipc] of the province of Connaught was made for the fourth 
 time by Gillaraacliag, successor of Patrick, and Primate of Ireland, to 
 Armao-h." 1 1 8 1 : " Tomaltach Ua Conchobbair was consecrated sue- 
 cessor of Patrick. He made a visitation of the Cinel Eoghain, re- 
 ceived his tribute [a peip] from them, and gave his blessing." 
 
 By this time the influence of the English began to be felt in the 
 Irish Church, and changes assimilating its discipline to that in the 
 sister country were made wherever they obtained a footing. Ac- 
 cordingly the metropolitan jurisdiction became better defined, and 
 the whole cathedral system underwent a reform. The intimacy with 
 the see of Rome also became more strict, and rescripts, as disputes 
 or difficulties might arise, were received, defining the powers and 
 duties of the various classes of prelates, so that by degrees the rela- 
 tive authority of primate, metropolitan, and suffragan, became ad- 
 justed according to the prevailing system in the Roman Church. 
 Thus, in 1 255, a bull of Pope Alexander IV. provided that the Arch- 
 bishop of Armagh should visit the province of Tuam every five 
 years, and continue twenty-seven days in the visitation, instead of the 
 septennial visitations, in which the continuance was unlimited. This 
 privilege was published in a provincial synod at Drogheda, convened 
 in 1262 by Patrick O'Scanlain, the Primate"". In 1461 Primate Bole 
 issued a citation to the Archbishop and suffragans of Tuam to attend 
 him at a visitation in the metropolitan church on a certain day; and 
 in the same year a similar citation to the Archbishop of Cashel and 
 his suffragans, as subject to him and the Church of Armagh by pri- 
 matial right'. This systematic mode of visitation most probably arose 
 out of the desultory circuits anciently made by the Abbots of Armagh, 
 
 whose 
 
 '■ Harris's Ware's Works, vol. i. p. 74. ' Harris's Ware's Works, vol. i. p. 44. 
 
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 whose right to levy contributions was extended in their successors 
 to a cognizance of ecclesiastical discipline. The authority on wliicli 
 that right, in the case of Munster, rested, is referred, in the following 
 passage of the Tripartite Life of St. Patrick, to the earliest period of 
 Christianity in Ireland : " Post proceres, et popvdos Mumonite in 
 Christiana3 fidei prasceptis instructos et baptizatos, post multas iln 
 Ecclesias k fundamentis ercctas, harumque Antistites et Rectores 
 ordinatos, et institutos, statumque Rei Christianas bene formatum et 
 firmatum; Magnates et populi decreuerant suam clientelam, et accepta 
 a patre et Apostolo benehcia, alia fixa et canonica pensione stato 
 tempore, ipsi, ejusque successoribus soluenda, recognoscere. Ha3c 
 autem pensio vulgo Cai7i Phadridc appellata, continuo soluebatur a 
 tempore Patricii usque ad tempus Dimgalii, sive Dungalac'd, filii 
 Foelgassii, de stirpe Faluii Flannii originem trahentis: cujus tempore 
 per culpam Soergassii Hua Moel-cobhthaich, huius deuota; pensionis 
 tot annis coutinuata solutio primo vel recusata, vel neglecta est"-'. 
 And yet the authority of the Primate, even as metropolitan, was 
 not in all instances cordially acquiesced in, for Hugh de Tach- 
 mon. Bishop of Meath, till 1261, claimed an exemption for himself 
 and his clergy from the Archbishop's visitation, and maintained 
 long and expensive suits with him at the court of Rome, which, 
 however, were eventually ruled in favour of the Archbishop''. In 
 like manner the metropolitan jurisdiction of Dublin was challenged 
 by the diocese of Ossory, when Alexander de Bicknor, in 1335, 
 asserted the visitatorial rights of his see, which had not been exercised 
 during a period of forty years. And in 1347 Richard Ledred ob- 
 tained for Ossory an exemption from metropolitan visitation, whicli 
 
 was 
 
 ' Pars iii. cap. 53, Tr. Th. p. 159. See '' Ware's "Works, vol. i. pp. 68, 143; 
 
 Mac Malion, Jus Prim. Armac, p. 165. Regist. Swayne, Transcript, vol. ii. p. 487. 
 
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 was reversed four years afterwards, and the jurisdiction of the Arch- 
 bishop of Dublin confirmed. The case was otherwise in the diocese 
 of Ferns, where Geofiry St. John, the Bishop, was forced, in 1256, to 
 appeal to the Pope against the oppressive exactions of the metro- 
 politan in his visitation, and obtained a rescript enforcing the limi- 
 tations prescribed by the third Lateran Council'. 
 
 But, besides his stated visitatorial powers, the Primate claimed the 
 guardianship, within his province, of the temporalities and spirituali- 
 ties of vacant sees. As regards the former, it could have been only 
 before the establishment or on the declension of the English power, 
 for the Crown of England, having constituted all the bishops spiritual 
 lords with a voice in Parliament, claimed in return the custody 
 of the temporalities, which, according to the English definition, in- 
 cluded " all such things as they had by livery from the king, as castles, 
 manors, lands, tenements, tithes, and such other certainties, whereof 
 the king held himself to be answerable during the vacation'"". Hence 
 it is that the escheator accounts in the Exchequer rolls contain the 
 names of many prelates which would otherwise have perished, and 
 it was there Sir James Ware found some of the most valuable ma- 
 terials in compiling his History of the Irish Bishops. Of these one 
 may be noticed, which, as it relates to the diocese of Derry, is perti- 
 nent to the present examination. It is an account rendered by Wal- 
 ter de la Haye of the temporalities of the see which accrued to the 
 Crown in the interval between the death of Florence O'Cherballen 
 
 and the restitution to Henry of Ardagh, his successor". 
 
 " Idem 
 
 ' Harris's Ware's Works, vol. i. p. 441. " Copied by Sir J. Ware from the re- 
 See below, p. 16. cords in the Chief Eemembrancer's OfSce, 
 
 "■ Burn, Ecclesiast. Law, vol. i. p. 226. and preserved among his MSS. in the 
 
 (Lond. 1842.) Cowel's Interpreter, voc. British Museum, Cod. Clar. vol. xxxvi. 
 
 Temporalities of Bishops. Additional Numbers, 4787, p. 286, b. 
 
XUl 
 
 " Idem Walterus i^eddidit computum de viii.ti xiiij.s. vj.d. de red- 
 ditibus dominicoium, cottagiorura, firmaruni, et aliarum quarundam 
 villataruin manerii de Dere° in manu domini Regis existentium per 
 mortem Florensii episcopi ejusdam loci a vigilia S. Jacobi apostoli, 
 anno Regis Edwardi xxi° [1293] usque 16 diem Junii anno Regis 
 ejusdem xxiij [1295], sicut continetur in rotulo quern idem Walterus 
 liberavit ad scaccariuni antequam liberavit pra;dicta temporalia fratri 
 Henrico electo ibidem per breve domini Regis. 
 
 " Et de vi.ti. ix.s. v.d. de redditibus dominicorum, et eciam mo- 
 lendini de Achdujfif per prajdictuui tempus. 
 
 " Et de xx.ti. xvij.s. iiij.d. de redditibus dominicorum forest^', 
 prati, molendini, et eciam servicii Hibernicorum cum perquisitis 
 curias manerii de Grangia'^ prasdicto tempore. 
 
 " Et de l.s. vi.d. de redditibus libere tenenciura ejusdem episco- 
 patus per prasdictum tempus. 
 
 " Et de xl.s. de redditibus ville de Balyolocliyn in tenemento de 
 TimelnacharJ}' et ville de Bolybulwyn in terra de Duncrun^ per pi-ai- 
 dictum tempus. 
 
 " Summa est xl.li. xi.s. ix.d." 
 
 On the decline of the English power this custody tacitly passed 
 from the Crown into the hands of the metropolitan in such dioceses as 
 were " inter Hibernicos," or, as it was expressed, " without the Pale." 
 The distinction of " inter Hibernicos," and " inter Anglicos," was, 
 however, one which was not at first recognised by the English, for 
 in 1285 the Primate, having seized the temporalities of Dromore 
 during the vacancy of the see, was prosecuted in the King's Bench, 
 
 and 
 
 ° See the note Derensis, at p. 63. ' Now Tamlaghturd. See pp. 77, 84. 
 
 '' Now Aghadowey. See pp. 74, 80. ' Nov Du7iC7'un, iu the [larisli of Maiiil- 
 
 '• Now Graiiijcinore, in Dunbo. See p. 86. ligan. See pp. 77, 84. 
 
XIV 
 
 and fined the sum of twenty marks'. And that the subject had un- 
 dergone legal examination is further shown by the following extract 
 from a petition presented, in 1 290, to Edward I., by Nicholas Mac- 
 Molissa, Archbishop of Armagh: " Nicholas Archiepiscopus Ardma- 
 chanus ostendit domino Regi quod Justiciarii de Banco Dublin adju- 
 dicaverunt dominoRegi per breve de quo warranto temporalia quinque 
 Episcopatuum, viz., Derensis, Drummorensis, Clocharensis, Rabotensis, 
 et Triburnensis, in suis vacacionibus, qua3 temporalia idem Archiepis- 
 copus et predecessores sui in eorum vacacionibus semper pacifice 
 capere consueverunt. Propter quod status ecclesie sue non tam in 
 facultatibus sed etiam in suis libertatibus ad presens dehonestatur. 
 Unde supplicat domino Regi remedium super hoc, vel quod in recom- 
 pensacionem earundem libertatum velit predictam ecclesiam respi- 
 cere de terris vel redditibus in Hibernia, &c. Alias responsum fuit 
 eidem in parliamento Westmonasterii quod Rex recuperavit per judi- 
 cium custodian! Episcopatuum vacancium in Hibernia tenendam sicut 
 Episcopatuum in Anglia"". But within a century and a half circum- 
 stances were altered, for this very see of Dromore came to be dealt 
 with as " inter Hibernicos," or, in other words, where English law 
 was set at nought, and the Primate styled himself " custos spirituali- 
 tatis et spirituaUs jurisdictionis ac temporalitatis episcopatus Dromo- 
 rensis," exercising, it would seem, these plenary rights, not only in 
 the collation to vacant benefices but in the enjoyment of the episcopal 
 revenue''. In Down and Connor the English authority was to a 
 certain extent acknowledged, and the Archbishops of Armagh pro- 
 fessed themselves to be guardians of the spiritualities and spiritual 
 jurisdiction only of these dioceses'^. In Derr)-, as the present Visitation 
 
 will 
 
 ' Harris's Ware's Works, vol. i. p. 69. tory, &c., by H. Cole, p. 57. (Lond. 1 844.) 
 " Documents illustrative of English His- " Eegist. Prene, fols. 28, 41. 
 
XV 
 
 will show, it was otherwise. In Raphoe also the Primate exercised 
 the two-fold custody. Of this there was a notable instance in 1442, 
 in the case of Archbishop Prene, who pronounced the sentence of 
 suspension, excommunication, and interdict, against the Dean and 
 Chapter of Raphoe, and declared Nunerus al' Naghton O'Donnell, 
 chief of his nation, a heretic, because tliey had usurped, seized, and 
 detained the fruits and profits of the bishopric then vacant; styling 
 himself " Gustos spiritualitatis et spiritualis jurisdictionis ac tempo- 
 ralitatis episcopatus Rapotensis," and appointing Odo M^Cathmaill, 
 canon of Derry, his commissary and subcustos, decreeing also that 
 the " figura beatse crucis ecclesia3 cathedralis Rathpotensis" should 
 remain in liis church of Armagh so long as they persisted in said 
 schism, and that the secular arm should be resorted to in the person 
 of Henry, the eldest son of O'Neill". The like guardianship was ex- 
 ercised by Primate Bole during a vacancy of Kdmore in 1464. 
 
 But the guardianship of the spiritualities was a privilege more in 
 accordance Avith the episcopal office, although even in this there was 
 not a uniformity of practice. By the Canon Law the spiritualities 
 devolve, during vacancy, upon the Dean and Chapter, as is inferred 
 from such passages as " Clerici ipsi sede vacante cum consilio (si 
 oportuerit) vicinorum episcoporum"'', and where it is otherwise, pre- 
 scription is the authority, as in the case of England and Ireland. In 
 the Galilean Church also, according to Van Espen, it was customary 
 
 fbr 
 
 " Regist. Sweteman, fols. 9, 15, 41 ; Reg. and Bernard O'Fergil vicar of the same. 
 
 Fleming, fol. 63; Prene, fols. 27, 42, 44. — (Keg- Prene, fol. 40.) 
 
 ^ Reg. Prene, fol. 33, p. 49; Transcr. ^ Decretal Grcgor, lib. i. tit. 33, c. 14; 
 
 pp. 149-154; Harris's Ware, vol. i. p. 273. lib. v. tit. 7, cap. 9; Curpus Jur. Canon, 
 
 At this time Donald was dean of Raphoe, cols. 489, i673.(Venet. 1604.) Godolphin, 
 
 Laurence archdeacon, Laurence canon, Repert. Canon, pp. 39-42. (Lond. 1680.) 
 
 Eugene O'Fergil rector of Cillraacrenan, AylifTe, Parergon, p. 125. (Lond. 1726.) 
 
XVI 
 
 for the metropolitan to exercise tlie functions of tlie deceased bishop, 
 or delegate them to a neighbouring prelate^ This was in conformity 
 to the canon of the Council of Riez, held in 439, which enacted: " Ut 
 de cetero observaretur, ne quis ad earn ecclesiam qn£e episcopum per- 
 didisset nisi vicinas ecclesife Episcopus, exequiorum tempore acce- 
 deret; qui (visitatoris vice) tamen statim ecclesiEe ipsius curam dis- 
 trictissime gereret"". The "jus devolutionis," whereby the metropo- 
 litan had the right to exercise the spiritualities during the absence 
 or neglect of the suffragan, bore some resemblance to this guardian- 
 ship, save that it was established by a decree of the third Lateran 
 Council, while the latter rested on the authority of prescription. 
 
 The Provincial Constitutions of Primate Colton are to be found 
 at the commencement of the third book of Swayne's Registry''. Two 
 folios are torn away, and the title is supplied by a later hand, " Synodus 
 Provincialis a Johanne Colton archiepiscopo Ardmach habita." The 
 earlier decrees appear to be the affirmation of certain regulations 
 enacted by the two prelates immediately preceding, as they are in- 
 troduced with the expressions "Ad instarRicardi," "Ad instar Milonis." 
 The following selection from these Constitutions, which is as much 
 as pr'esent space admits, will enable the reader to form an estimate of 
 the whole collection. " Ad instar Milonis, Quod nullus subditus pro- 
 vincias nostrse, clericus vel laycus, teneat mulieres aut concubinas sub 
 nomine Cayf alias Choghir' pro concubinatu earundem obtinendo. 
 Si quis autem contrario fecerit sit auctoritate pra3sentis Concilii ipso 
 facto excommunicatus, et quod solvat duplum fabric^e ecclesise cui 
 subest. Declaramus iusuper, quod si ipsi mulieri aut alii ea occasione 
 aut mente aliquid detur vel promittatur directe vel indirecte, quod 
 
 dans 
 
 ' De Capitulo, P. i. tit. 9. '' From fol. 3 o to fol. 7 h, or from j). 
 
 " Can. 6. Mansi, Concil. vol. v. col. 1 193. ^^^ to p. 575 of the transcript. 
 
XVll 
 
 dans et ipsam tenens et recipiens incidit in statutum, scilicet, in sen- 
 teutiam excommunicationis raajoris''. 
 
 " Item, ad instar Milonis, auctoritate prtesentis Concilii statuimus 
 et ordinamus, sub pcEna inobedientiaj et excommunicationis, quod im- 
 usquisque Episcopus suffraganeorum nostrorum pro pace reformanda, 
 tenenda, et conservanda inter Anglicos etHibernicos provincite nostrse 
 Ardmachanas secundum possibilitatem suum laboret, et pacem inter 
 eosdem pra3dicet, et ad pacem tenendam omnes subditos suos et 
 singulos per omnes censuras ecclesiasticas compellat. Si quis autem 
 seminator discordire inter pra;dictos Anglicos et Hibernicos ut pras- 
 dicitur fuerit, quod absit, non solum a poutificalibus sit suspensus, sed 
 ipse quisque fuerit excommunicetur ipso facto. 
 
 " Contra illicitam et perversam vulgarem opinionem quod cruor 
 
 leporis in festo Parasceves medicina excellens valet contra morbos, 
 
 exliibemus sub poena excommunicationis majoris ne quis, cujuscunque 
 
 conditionis existat, opus venaticum ad quamcunque feram Ijestiam, et 
 
 ad leporem prajcipue, ilia sacrata die Parasceves exerceat quoquo- 
 
 modol 
 
 " Quia 
 
 '^ The word Cayf is tlie Irish caeiii, " The following amusing narrative will 
 
 ' pulchra.' Chogfur is from cojcqi, 'a serve as a commentary upon this canon: 
 
 whisper;' hence bean-cojaip, ' mulier " i?f??/i re/eram, quam ipse oculis meis vidi, 
 
 susurri,' came to denote ' meretrix.' dum enim circa annum 14 mea3 atatis, D. 
 
 Co^ap is still used as a term of endear- Florentii Bruodini Dili de Moyneeo, mei 
 
 ment, but leandn and ceile in the sense Patrui, in domo fuissem; et nobiliuni nos- 
 
 of 'concubina.' trarum partium juvenum more, i. Mali 
 
 ^ The synod of Drogheda, at which, ac- in aurora (ilia die specialiter in lacte et 
 
 cording to the Four Masters, the bishops butyro sags solent nocere, scquc trans- 
 
 of Ireland, the successor of Patrick, and formare) cum primogenitoprffifati Domini, 
 
 the Cardinal John Paparo, with 300 ec- (postea Franciscanus fuit, Bonaventura 
 
 clesiastics, were present, in 1 152, enacted Bruodinus dictus, sed brevi, absolute 
 
 a rule " to put away concubines and studio, consummatus, Compluti in His- 
 
 lemans from men." pania, non sine sanctitatisfama, anno 1643, 
 
XVIU 
 
 " Quia per quendam ludum illicitum vocatum ludum Galbarey', 
 in crastino sanctas Pascha3 et feria tertia sequente hucusque commu- 
 niter usitatum, peccata mortalia et verbera etiam et liomicidia pluiies 
 committuntur, .... sub pcena escoramunicationis majoris prohibe- 
 mus ne quis vel qua3 ilium ludum, reprobandum merito, ullo tempore 
 in futurum, et pr^ecipue dictis duobus diebus, vel aliquo die ipsius 
 hebdomadse sanct^, exerceat. 
 
 " Item quod festum almifici Confessoris nostri et totius HiberniEe 
 Patroni a cunctis Christi fidelibus nostra provincige ut Festum festi- 
 vum perpetuis temporibus observetur, ab omni servili opere in eo ab- 
 stineatur, et quod more duplicis festi majoris in ecclesiis celebretur, etc. 
 
 " Item quod festum sanctse Brigidte virginis sub more duplicis 
 festi annuatim per totam provinciam celebretur, &c. 
 
 " Item quod festum sancti Columbre confessoris et abbatis sub 
 
 festi more novem lectionibus singulis annis in ecclesiis provinciffi 
 
 nostrai celebretur^. 
 
 " Item 
 
 explevit tempora multa) assumptis cani- cauda, in canis ore remaneret ; superve- 
 
 bus venatis sagam (sic apud nos ilia die niiint famuli, et canum circa domunculam 
 
 lepus vocatur) investigarem, illis in locis, latratus considerantes, pellisque leporine 
 
 in quibus vaccte pascebantur ; ecce re- particulam videntes, vi aperiunt ostium : 
 
 pente a famulis videtur lepus unius vaccEe ubi sordidam unam solam deprelienderunt 
 
 ubera sugens, qui audito clamore, fugse vetulam, natione Scotam, quam vel invi- 
 
 se commisit : insequuntur canes, alias tarn examinarunt ; vulneratamque non 
 
 optimi, sed non assequuntur, antequam leviter (prout nobis dixerunt) retro dep- 
 
 ad vicinum se retraxisset pagum (urgebat rehenderunt, et ad veritatem de sua in 
 
 enim ilium multitudo canum, qua illi leporem transformatione dicendam com- 
 
 omnis alia via aufugiendi pra;cludebatur) pulerunt." Ant. Bruodinus, Corolla (Eco- 
 
 ubividens periculum, intravit quandam demise Minoriticse, p. 73 (Prags, 1664.) 
 domunculam per fenestrellam, ex qua ' The Englisb game of goal or hurling, 
 
 tam cito se extricare non poterat, quin ^ St. Patrick's festival is the 17th of 
 
 ab uno ex canibus in clunibus mordere- March; St. Bridget's the ist of February ; 
 
 tur taliter, quod pars pellis simul cum and St. Columba's the 9th of June. 
 
XIX 
 
 " Item eodcm modo statuimus de festis sanctorum Fogliini et 
 Eonani quoad nostram diocesem Ardmachanam'"'. 
 
 Finally, every bishop in the province was to provide himself, 
 under a penalty of i oo shillings, with a copy of these Constitutions. 
 
 It remains now to describe the original record from which the fol- 
 lowing Visitation has been printed. It is a vellum roll, consisting of 
 four membranes, having a schedule attached at the end. The length 
 of the roll is six feet two inches and a half, and the breadth thirteen 
 inches. It contains 267 lines, each line ten inches and a half long, 
 and is only written upon one side. The schedule is nineteen inches 
 and a half long, and seven inches and three-fourths wide, containing 
 ninety-three lines. It is written partly in dorso, and is marked " Ren- 
 tale dioc Dereu." The roll itself is endorsed by a modern hand: 
 " No. 3, 1397. Acts of Abp. J. Colton, in his Visitation of the Dio- 
 cese of Derry, as Guardian of the Spiritualitys, the See being vacant. 
 With a Eental of y'' Bp of Derry's Lands at that time." The writing 
 is in the usual style of the day, and is still perfectly fresh and legible, 
 except at the beginning, where a few words in two or three places 
 have been defaced by stains and friction. Its text has been faith- 
 fully represented in the following pages, even as regards the gram- 
 matical inaccuracies which the careful reader will not fail to observe. 
 It generally uses the letter e instead of the diphthong a?, for which 
 reason the former has been adopted throughout this work. For the 
 
 punctuation 
 
 '■ St. Fechin of Fore was commemorated the county of Louth. His festival was 
 on the 20th of .January. — (Colgan, Act. the 1 8th of November. Both these saints 
 SS. p. 1 30.) From him Termonfeckin, died of the Buidhe Connaill in 664. The 
 near Drogheda, derived its name. St. Ro- Archbishops of Armagli had manorial re- 
 nan, son of Berach, was the patron saint sidences, and spent much of their time for- 
 of Drum-Inesclann, now Dromiskin, in merly in these two places. 
 
XX 
 
 punctuation the Editor is entirely responsible, there being none in 
 the exemplar, as indeed there is not in legal instruments of that, or 
 even a later date. This roll is preserved in the Record Room of the 
 See of Armagh, to which access can only be had by a written order 
 from the Lord Primate. In the Registry Office, however, there is a 
 very good transcript, of thirty-six pages folio, written in the fine bold 
 hand in which the fair copies of Swayne's, Prene's, and Cromer's 
 registers are made. Some inaccuracies and omissions which occur 
 in it are corrected in the present work. 
 
 For the permission to publish this interesting record, as well as 
 for the means which were afforded him of consulting the original, the 
 Editor is bound to return his most grateful acknowledgments to His 
 Grace the Lord Primate. In the compilation of the notes he is under 
 many obligations to Professor O'Donovan and Mr. Curry, to the for- 
 mer of whom, through the kindness of Mr. George Smith, he is in- 
 debted for a privilege not yet extended to the public, namely, the 
 acquaintance with his translation of the early part of the Annals of 
 the Four Masters, a work which there is good reason to predict will 
 presently become the text book of every dihgent labourer in Irish 
 history, as well as his safest guide in the misty region of antiqua- 
 rian reseai'ch. 
 
VISITATIO METROPOLITICA 
 
 DIOCESIS DERENSIS. 
 
 [n Drt nomine ^mrn. Per presens publicum 
 Inst[i-uraentum cunctis appareat quod] acta sunt 
 hec que sequuntur per reverendissimum in Christo 
 Patrem et Dominum dominum lohannem^ Dei 
 gratia*" Archiepiscopum Armachanum, Hiber[nie 
 Primatem, custodem spiritualijtatis et spiritualis 
 jurisdictionis ac temporalitatis episcopatus Derensis, ipso episcopatu 
 vacante seu pastoris solacio destituto", se [asserentem, atque omnimo- 
 dam jurisdictionem episcopakm spiritualemY et etiam temporalem ac- 
 
 tualiter 
 
 " lohannem John Colton was archbi- 
 shop of Armagh from 1382 till 1404. See 
 the account of him in the Introduction. 
 
 '' Deigratia. — Thiswas the most ancient 
 style of bishops, and continued to be used 
 till the Reformation, in documents which 
 were addresse<l to, or made mention of, 
 them : but when the instrument proceeded 
 from the prelate, then it ran in the form 
 
 B 
 
 Permissione divina. Of this distinction there 
 are examples in the present record. For 
 fuller information the reader is referred 
 to the Appendix. 
 
 '■ Destituto. — The see of Derry was va- 
 cant at this date by resignation, not de- 
 cease, John Dongan, the last bishop, having 
 been translated to Down in 1395. 
 
 ' SpiriUialem. — The portions of the text 
 
tualiter exercentem, locis et temporibus infra signatis, anno ab lu- 
 carnatione Domini secundum cursum et computationem ecclesiarum 
 Anglicanarum et Hibernicarum Mcccxcvii., Indictione'' vi., pontifi- 
 catus sanctissimi in Christo Patris et Domini nostri domini Boni- 
 
 facii 
 
 within brackets are not at present legible 
 in the original, but are supplied from the 
 transcript in the Registry Office ; except 
 what are printed in italics, which were 
 obliterated when the transcript was made, 
 and are here inserted on conjecture. 
 
 '■ Indictione vi -An Indiction is the place 
 
 which any year holds in a cycle of fifteen 
 years beginning at 3 1 2 (the supposed com- 
 mencement of the system), and circulating 
 onwards. But as 312 wants 3 to make 
 it a multiple of 15, the Christian era is 
 reckoned as falling on the fourth Indiction 
 in a retrograde calculation. Hence 3 must 
 be added to any given year of our Lord 
 to make the number a measure of the In- 
 dictions. When this, therefore, is done, 
 and the sum is divided by 15, if there be 
 no remainder the Indiction is i^, or if 
 there be, it will be the required number. 
 Or, the Indiction may be found by sub- 
 tracting from the given number all the 
 300's it contains, and from the remainder 
 all its 15's, to the remainder of this adding 
 3 for the number sought. 
 
 According to these rules, and the "Table 
 Chronologique" (p. 28), which is prefixed 
 to " L'Art de Verifier les Dates," and 
 thence transferred to Sir H. Nicholas' 
 Chronology of History (p. 64), the year 
 
 1397 answers to the Jiftk Indiction. But 
 it is to be remembered that there were 
 four kinds of Indictions, beginning at 
 difierent periods of the year, and that 
 while the Eonian began on the 25th of 
 December or ist of January, the Caesa- 
 rean, which was most generally used in 
 England, dated from the 24th of Septem- 
 ber, thus anticipating the other by three 
 months; so that this Visitation, which 
 was held in October, was in the 5 th of the 
 Eoman, but the 6th of the Anglican com- 
 putation. 
 
 In reference to the joint use of these 
 chronological measures, the accurate Mr. 
 Hardy observes : " It is fully admitted 
 that at the commencement of the eighth 
 century the year of the Indiction was com- 
 monly and customarily joined to the year 
 of the Lord's Incarnation." To which he 
 adds : " This manner of dating in charters 
 is frequently very embarrassing, and in 
 many instances has been proved to be even 
 inaccurate; but it is now generally ac- 
 knowledged by the learned that a charter 
 may still be authentic notwithstanding 
 such defect." — (Rotuli Chart., Introd., 
 p. xxxii.) See also L'Art de Verifier, &c., 
 vol. i. pp. xiv. XV. (Par. 1783); De Vaines 
 Diction. Eaison. de Diplomatique, vol. i. 
 
facii' Divina providentia Pape Noni anno octavo, die vero octava 
 mensis Octobris. 
 
 Idem venerabilis Pater, de quadam villa Termons vulgariter 
 nuncupata diocesis Ardmach versus Derensem dioceseni proficiscens, 
 quosdam montes de Glewgavyii'' vulgariter nuncupatos cum comitiva 
 
 sua 
 
 pp. 322-326, vol. ii. p. 26 (Par. 1774); and 
 Sir H. Nicholas' Chronol. of Hist., pp. 
 6-8 (2nd Ed.) 
 
 ' Bonifacii. — Peter Thomacelli, a Nea- 
 politan. Pope from November 9, 1389, to 
 October i, 1404. 
 
 s Termon. — The parish of Termonma- 
 guirk, situate in the county of Tyrone, 
 and barony of Omagh, is the extreme pa- 
 rish of the diocese of Armagh on the 
 north-west. The archbishops have, from 
 a very remote period, been seised of an 
 extensive manor here, the hereditary te- 
 nants of which have given to the parish 
 its present name. " Dermicius RPgork 
 habet cartam super terras de Athrych, 
 Ineske, Molynmor et Molynbeg in domi- 
 nico de Termonconyn.''' — A. D. ciro. 1405. 
 (Reg. Flem. fol. 39.) In the Inquisition 
 sped at Dungannon in 1609, it was found 
 that the Archbishop enjoyed a yearly rent 
 of 34'. 4''., and ten meathers of butter, to- 
 gether with fines for bloodshed, out of the 
 corbe land of Termonmaguyrke, alias Ter- 
 monconnyn, containing sixteen balliboes, 
 in the barony of Oraaigh. (Ul. Inq. App. ii.) 
 Another Inquisition, Dungannon, 1633, 
 finds the territory of Termon Mac Gwyrck 
 al' Termonconnyn consisting of eighteen 
 
 balliboes, subdivided into sixty-five par- 
 cells or subdenominations (the names of 
 all which are recited) to be held under the 
 see of Armagh. (Ul. Inq. Tyrone, No. 
 40, Car. I.) Some of them are also men- 
 tioned in the Patent of the see-possessions 
 granted by James I. (Rot. Pat. p. 274 h.) 
 The manor of Tonnen still comprises the 
 " Eighteen Towns," as they are called, of 
 which the Archbishop is lord. The ce- 
 metery and remains of the old church are 
 in the townland Carrickmore at the little 
 
 hamlet of Termon Rock Ord. Surv., 
 
 sheet 36. 
 
 '' Glewgavyn. — This mountain is now 
 called Mullaghcarn, and at its summit, 
 which is 1778 feet above the level of the 
 sea, the parishes of Cappagh and Lower 
 Bodoney meet. The progress of the Arch- 
 bishop was in a north-westerly direction, 
 and a line drawn on the Ordnance Map 
 from Termon Rock, which is at the east 
 edge of sheet 36, to the old church of 
 Cappagh, which is marked at the west side 
 of sheet 26, almost passes through a town- 
 land of Cappagh that is situated on the 
 southern face of the mountain, and pre- 
 serves the name given in the record. 
 Jleann sciiiian signifies ' the Glen of the 
 
 Ba 
 
sua pertransiens, venit ad quendam campum prope quandam eccle- 
 siam vocatam Keppagh', Derensis diocesis ut dicebatur, et ibi recre- 
 ationem sumens cum suis, quendam ipsius ecclesie vicarium et eo 
 herenacum'', per eundem dominum Primatem de lierenacia ejus- 
 
 dem 
 
 calf,' and the latter word makes jamna 
 in the genitive, so that the more gram- 
 matical form would be gleann gaiiina, 
 which is precisely the name borne in the 
 form Glengawna. It is in the very middle 
 of the sheet, for the figure 26 on the 
 Index Map covers part of it. At the east 
 side it rises to the elevation of 17 10 feet, 
 and extends on that map from the last 
 letter in the name " Half-way Bush" 
 eastwards to where the little stream which 
 runs towards it takes its rise. In the 
 Ulster Inquisitions the mountain is called 
 Tullanagawnagh. — Tyrone, No. i ; App. 
 No. xi. 
 
 ' Ke2)pagh. — The parish of Cappagh ad- 
 joins Termonmaguirk on the north-west. 
 The cemetery and site of the old church 
 are in the townland Dunmullan — O. S. 
 26. The modern parish church is to the 
 south in Mountjoy Forest. — 0. S. 35. The 
 name in Irish is Ceapac, which signi- 
 fies ' a plot of land laid out for tillage.' 
 For example : Dpong t)0 na nian6ai5 
 00 cup DO poiiiaip ceapca ina gcuip- 
 pi6e an beagan pil bo bf aca. " Some 
 of the monks were sent to dig the cea- 
 pach, in which the small quantity of 
 seed they had might be sown." — (Vit. S. 
 Coemgeni, MS. T. C. D., H. 4. 4.) It is 
 
 still a living word in Connaught. As a 
 townland name it occurs, simply or in 
 composition, in many counties of Ireland, 
 especially in the King's County, Clare, and 
 Kerry. 
 
 '^ Herenacum Qipcinneac, the Irish 
 
 form of the word, is derived, according 
 to Colgan, from ap ' super,' and cionn 
 ' caput,' or, according to others, from 
 apt)-ceann, or apb-cinn, ' a chief head,' 
 and denotes, as an ecclesiastical term, 
 " the hereditary warden of a church." 
 It occurs in the Annals of the Four Mas- 
 ters for the first time at the year 601. It 
 is found again at 788; but the Annals of 
 Ulster in the parallel passage (Ann. 792) 
 have Princeps in its stead: and it is pro- 
 bable that the compilers of the ancient 
 Irish Canons published by D'Achery had 
 this word in view when they employed 
 the expression Excelsus Princeps to denote 
 a monastic superior. Connac, in his Glos- 
 sary, makes it synonymous with the Greek 
 dpxo'^, and Latin excelsus. In a passage 
 of the Leabhar Breac, also cited by Pro- 
 fessor O'Donovan, Satan is styled the '■'A ir- 
 chinnech of hell, and prince of death." — 
 (Annals, A. D. 1179.) Of the nature of 
 the office Colgan gives the following ac- 
 count: " Airchinneach vel forte Airchidne- 
 
dem ecclesie pretextu custodie episcopatus Derensis ut ipse idem 
 vicarius asseruit antea incartatum, ad se vocavit, et petiit ab eo 
 
 ne 
 
 ach significet personam quamdam in aliqua 
 potestate, vel prcef'ectura supra omues alios, 
 qui certos quosdam agros & prasdia ad 
 Ecclesias olim (ut videtur) spectantia, 
 possidebant, constitutam, & quasi priu- 
 cipatum inter tales tenentem ; subjec- 
 tam tamen Episcopo modo subsimili, quo 
 Comborbanus, juxta jam dicta, cum hoc 
 inter alia discrimine, quod Comhorbani non 
 dicebantur, nisi qui prseerant districtui 
 spectanti olim ad Monasterium aliquod 
 celebre & vetustum, vel saltem sedem 
 Episcopalem ; Archennachi vero vocaban- 
 tur quicunque principatum inter alios 
 modo dicto tenebant in agris et prsediis 
 cujuscumque Ecclesias, siue fuerit monas- 
 terium siue non ; & a tempore immemora- 
 bili erant meri laici : quin & dubitatur an 
 ab initio ipsorum dignitas vel facultas 
 annexa fuerit statui Clericali vel monas- 
 tico." — (Trias Thaum., p. 631.) The jury 
 of the inquisition of Dungannon, in 1609, 
 give a like explanation, but in a fuller 
 form: "And further, they say uppon their 
 oathes, that in all places of the said coun- 
 tie of Tyrone, vfhere the tiethes are di- 
 vided betwixt the parson, viccar, and 
 herenagh, they are to beare the chardge 
 of repairingeandmaynteyninge the proper 
 parishe church equallie between them- 
 selves. And the said jurors doe uppon 
 their oathes, finde and present, that the 
 erenagh land was att first given by the 
 
 temporall lords immediatlie to the first 
 founders of the churches; and that those 
 founders did give the same to severall 
 septs, for payinge rents and other dueties to 
 the bushopjjs and for repairinge and mayn- 
 tenyninge their parishe church, wherein 
 they often tymes did beare a third parte, 
 and some tymes twoe third parts of the 
 chardge, and for keepinge of hospitalitie ; 
 and that these septs or erenaghs have, 
 tyme out of mynde, inherited the said 
 lands accordinge to the Irish custome of 
 tanistrie, and that neither the said lord 
 archbushopp nor any other bushopp, nor 
 their predecessors, could att any tyme here- 
 tofore, or nowe can, remove the said he- 
 renaghs out of the said lands: and further, 
 they say, that termonland had the samebe- 
 ginninge as herenagh land, onelye they dif- 
 fer in that the termonland had often tymes 
 more privileges, as sanctuarie and the like, 
 which was not allowed to many of the 
 herenaghes; againe the chief tenaunt of 
 the termon land was called a corbe, but 
 in comon speeohe he is called by his sir- 
 name, but the chief tennant of the he- 
 renagh is alwaies knowne and called an 
 herenagh, and that the corbe, in many 
 places, hath under him one or more here- 
 naghes to whome he giveth a portion of 
 land free, or for rent or customes, and 
 other liberties as he thought fitt." — (Ul. 
 Inquis., App. ii.) See also Davis' Letter 
 
ne ille locus in quo ipse Primas tunc sedit fuerat in diocese De- 
 rensi situs : quo quidem vicario respondente quod sic, idem dominus 
 Primas, vocatis ad se testibus infrascriptis et aliis quamplurimis, 
 in presentia mei Notarii et testium eorundem, protestabatur palam 
 et publice quod cum custodia spiritualitatis omnium episcopatuum 
 provincie Ardmachane vacantium sen pastorum solaciis destituto- 
 rum inter Anglicos existentium, ac custodia spiritualitatis et tem- 
 poralitatis omnium episcopatuum inter Ilibernicos existentium\ ipsis 
 episcopatibus vacantibus, et precipue custodia episcopatus Derensis 
 nunc vacantis, seu saltem pastoris solacio destituti, ad ipsum domi- 
 num Archiepiscopum et Primatem ad suam ecclesiam Ardmachanam 
 de antiquissima consuetudine approbata, prescripta, legitime et a 
 tempore cujus contrarii memoria hominum non existit inviolabiliter 
 observata, pertineat in presenti, prout ad predecessores sues Archi- 
 episcopos Ardmachanos Hibernieque Primates, et ad ecclesiam me- 
 tropoliticam Ardmachanam, et maxime ad bone memorie dominum 
 Milonem" dudum Archiepiscopum Ardmachanum Hibernie Prima- 
 tem, suum immediatum et ultimum predecessorem, pro temporibus 
 
 vacationum 
 
 to the Earl of Salisbury (Collectan. de called"interHibernicos;"andhenceitwas 
 
 Reb.Hib., vol.i. p. 162); UssherofCorbes, that in ecclesiastical records the Lowth, 
 
 &c. (Works, vol. xi. p. 429 ; Collectan. de or Upper, portion of the diocese of Ar- 
 
 Keb. Hib. i. p. 188); Ware's Works (vol. magh was known by the former designa- 
 
 ii. p. 233-236); Spelman's Glossary (sub tion, and the Tyrone, or Lower, by the 
 
 voc.Corba); O'Conor, Rer. Hib.SS. (vol. latter. This distinction assumed, in the 
 
 iv. p. 36). fifteenth century, the forms of " within" 
 
 ^ Inter Hihernicos existentium Subse- and "without the English Pale." The 
 
 quently to the English invasion, that part iisage concerning the custody of vacant 
 
 of Ireland where the new settlers obtained sees has been already treated of in the 
 
 a footing and influence was denominated Introduction. 
 
 " inter Anglicos," while those parts where " Milonem. — This was Milo S weteman, 
 
 the Irish still retained the ascendency was who filled the see from 1 36 1 to 1380. 
 
vacationum eorundeni episcopatuum, pertinuit — Ipse inquam Johan- 
 nes Archiepiscopus et Primas predictus protestabatur nt supra, et 
 palam asseruit, quod ob banc causara principaliter et precipue ad 
 diocesem Derenseni ea vice declinavit et venit ut omnimodam juris- 
 dictionem episcopalem, spiritualem et etiam temporaleni, voluntariam 
 et etiam contensiosam, in dicta diocese Derensi, tanquam prout erat 
 sicut asseruit custos episcopatus ejusdem ipso vacante, nomine et jure 
 sue ecclesie Ardmachane ut supra, actualiter exerceret, possideret, 
 et ipsa custodia pro tempore vacationis episcopatus ejusdem gauderet. 
 Qua quidem protestatione sic emissa idem domiuus Archiepiscopus 
 et Primas requisivit me Notarium infrascriptum ut super protesta- 
 tione predicta, et super omnibus et singulis que circa exercitium 
 jurisdictionis episcopalis in diocese Derensi predicta ratione custodie 
 antedicte per eura fieri contingeret, pubUcum conficerem instrumen- 
 tum seu publica instrumenta. Deinde idem dominus Arcliiepiscopus 
 mandavit prefato vicario et lierenaco de Keppagh" ut pro eo quod 
 villa de Keppagh non fuerat sufRcienter edificata ad recipiendum seu 
 inhospitandum dictum dominum Primatem et suam comitivam cum 
 evectionibus eorundem, et ideo dictus domiuus Primas, villa ilia 
 
 dimissa, 
 
 ' Herenaco de Keppagh. — The lierenagli to the parson, an other thirde parte to 
 
 lands of Cappagh are stated in the Patent the viccar, and an other third parte to 
 
 of the see of Derrj' to consist of four bal- the herenagh, out of which he paieth 
 
 liboes and two sessioghs, to wit: Tewna- yerely to the lord bushopp of Derry for 
 
 more.Golan, Kangarrowe, Sessioghtemple, the tyme beinge, yerely, six shillings 
 
 and Dunbrin. — (Rot. Pat. 13 Jac. i., p. eight pence per an. and that the chardge 
 
 279 J.) "The parish of Cappagh con- of repairinge and mainteyninge the parish 
 
 tayninge four ballibetaghes, wherein is churche is tobeborneequallie by the said 
 
 both a parson and a viccar presentative, parson, viccar, and herenagh, and that 
 
 whoe pay the said lord bushopp of Derry there is alsoe belonginge to the said viccar, 
 
 twelve pence a peece proxies, and that one house and garden, and twoe acres of 
 
 thone third parte of the tiethes are paid gleabe." — (Inq. Dungan. 1609.) 
 
8 
 
 dimissa, ad ecclesiam de Ardstraha, ejusdem Derensis diocesis, eadem 
 nocte ire disposuit prout initur, dictus vicarius et herenacus carnes 
 bovinas pro coquina dicti Archiepiscopi et Primatis pro ilia nocte 
 futura ad villain de Ardstraha, communibus expensis incolarum ec- 
 clesie et ville predictarum de Keppagh, ad Ardstraha adduci faceret, 
 prout incole ecclesie ipsius et aliarum ecclesiarum dicte diocesis ad 
 usum et procurationem Episcoporum Derensium per diocesem suam 
 transeuntium, ut idem Arc[hiepisco ] facere consue- 
 
 verunt, et prescripta consuetudine tenebantur. Qui quidem vicarius 
 et herenacus, mandato dicti domini Primatis obtemperaus, ad prefa- 
 tam ecclesiam de Keppagh rediens, cito post ipsum dominum Ar- 
 chiepiscopum sequebatur, et unum martum" pinguem ad opus et 
 
 cenam 
 
 " Martiim. — This word is quite legible 
 in the original, but is omitted by the 
 transcriber of the copy in the Eegistry, 
 because it was unintelligible to him. It 
 is a Latin form of the Irish word mcipn 
 ' a beef Thus we find it in the Book of 
 Rights, a very ancient authority, where it 
 frequently occurs, and, at pp. ii8, 120, 
 122, is used in relation to districts of this 
 very diocese. One of the O'Neills was 
 called Turl(iu(jh-na-MaH, or ' Turlough of 
 the Beeves.' — (iv. Mast, A. D. 1194.) 
 There was also a Murrough-na-Mart O'Fla- 
 herty.— (Ibid. 1588.) The word is still 
 in common use in Ireland, and maipc- 
 peoil is employed to denote the flesh. 
 We find it also in English documents, as 
 in an " Indenture between the King's 
 Deputy and Fergonanim O'Karoll, chief 
 captain of the country of Ely O'Karoll, 
 whereby it is agreed that all who shall 
 
 be captains of the said country shall pay 
 to the King 1 2'* out of every carucate of 
 land therein ; that each of them, when he 
 shall be nominated captain, shall pay to the 
 King I20?«a»'te for such nomination. That 
 the said Fergonanim shall deliver to the 
 King, his justice or deputy, before the 
 next feast of the apostles Philip and 
 James, 120 good cows or marts." — (Pat. 
 30 Hen. viii., p. 14 S.) In 1577 certain 
 " fleschors" of Glasgow were fined "for 
 contraveny ng of y' statutes anent ye flesche, 
 and that for the secund fait, in cowponyng 
 of y* martis vndir the oxtaris." — (Burgh 
 Rec. of Glasgow, p. 87.) The word is also 
 to be met with in the Acts of Parliament 
 of Scotland, temp. David ii., A. D. 1369; 
 temp. Jac. iv., A. D. 1489; and in the 
 Aberdeen Rental, A. D. 151 1. — (Regist. 
 Aberd., vol. i. p. 361.) Dr. Jamieson, who 
 defines Mart " A cow or o.x which is fat- 
 
cenam dicti domini Archiepiscopi et comitive sue secum [duxit, ct 
 mi]nistris dicti domini Archiepiscopi ilium deliberavitP. 
 
 Tandem vero idem dominus Archiepiscopus cum sua comitiva 
 ad villam de Ardstraha'' adveniens, vocatis [_coram eo'} vicario et her- 
 
 enacis 
 
 tened, killed, and salted for winter provi- 
 sion," adduces, among others, the follow- 
 ing curious example of its use: "As for 
 the fed Martis of this warlde, the Lord in 
 his righteous judgment, hes appoynted 
 them for Slaughter." — (From Bruce's 
 Eleven Sermons, 1591. — Etymol. Diet, of 
 the Scottish Lang., vol. ii. sub voc.) The 
 same author subsequently observes: "As 
 the word occurs in no other dialect of the 
 Celtic except the Irish, and even in it li- 
 mited to the sense of Beef, I am convinced 
 that it is not to be regarded as an original 
 Gaelic word, but that it has been borrow- 
 ed as a denomination for a cow appropri- 
 ated for family use." — (Supplem. to Etym. 
 Diet., vol. ii.) Skinner supposes it to 
 be a contraction of market, and cites: 
 " The fleshours sail serve the burgessis all 
 the time of the slauchter of Maii-ts, that 
 is, fra Michaelmes to Zule." — (Etymol. 
 Ling. Anglican.) From Brande we learn 
 that the word still prevails in the north of 
 England: "Two or more of the poorer 
 sort of rustic families still join to purchase 
 a cow for slaughter at this time, [Martin- 
 mas, 1 1 Nov.] called alway in Northum- 
 berland a TBort." — (Popiilar Antiqq., vol. 
 i. p. 219, and Sir H. Ellis' notes, pp. 220- 
 I.) Du Cange gives it in his Glossary, 
 but only in the sense of market, citing 
 
 the Acts of Scotland, where it is iised for 
 a beef; but mm-t contracted from market 
 has no connexion with mart a beef, the 
 former being derived from mercatus, and 
 the latter from a common root with mors, 
 mortis, and its derivatives. 
 
 ' Deliheravit -The rent which the her- 
 
 enachs paid annually to the bishop of 
 Derry was fixed from time immemorial to 
 a very small sum, and was the same in 
 the seventeenth century that it was in 
 the fourteenth: but there was no pre- 
 scribed limit to his right of demanding 
 supplies, both in kind and service. This 
 was expressed to the bishop of Derry by 
 Dermot O'Cane, one of the Corbes of his 
 diocese, in the following words: " Non 
 debet dominus mutare censum antiquum, 
 sed si careat rebus necessariis, vaccis pin- 
 guibus, &c., debet ad nos mittere, et nos 
 debemus illi subministrare. Nam quse- 
 cunque nos habemus domini sunt, et nos 
 etiam ipsi illius sumus." — (Ussher of 
 Corbes, &c., Works, vol. xi. p. 428; Val- 
 lancey, Collectan., vol. i. p. 187.) 
 
 ■i .4r(:/rfro7ia..^QpD-fpaca, 'the height 
 of the srath' or ' bank,' now Ardstraw, a 
 large parish in the county of Tyrone, ba- 
 rony of Strabane. The founder of the 
 church was St. Eoghan or Eugenius, a 
 bishop who flourished about the middle 
 
lO 
 
 enacis ville predicte, eis mandavit ut de necessariis hominum et 
 equorum, necnon de sufficienti vigilia pro corpore, bonis, et rebus 
 
 ipsius 
 
 of the sixth century, and whose festival 
 was observed on the 23rd of August. — 
 (Colgan, Trias Thaum., pp. 182, n., 189; 
 391a; 633 a; Act. SS., p. 305 a, 3; 406, 
 3.) The abbots of this church were occa- 
 sionally of the episcopal order, and one of 
 them is styled by the Four Masters Cotii- 
 apbaeppcoipGogain apDa-ppaca, 'suc- 
 cessor of bishop Eoghan of Ard-sratha.' 
 The parish was the principal seat of a 
 tribe called theUi-Fiachrach-Arda-sratha, 
 who gave the territorial name to it and 
 the neighbouring district, and of which 
 the family of theUa-Criochain were chiefs 
 prior to the English invasion. Archbi- 
 shop Ussher relates, from the registry of 
 Clogher, that this church, with others of 
 Opheathrach [Ui piacpac], was wrested 
 from the see of Clogher, and annexed 
 by German OChearbalan to his see of 
 
 Derry (Antiqq., c. xvii.. Works, vol. vi. 
 
 p. 417.) This took place about the year 
 1266. 
 
 The family of Ua Forannain were the 
 herenachs of this church in the tenth, 
 eleventh, and twelfth centuries; and it 
 would seem that it retained its impor- 
 tance at the last of these dates, for the 
 Four Masters record, at the year 11 79, 
 the death of Gilladowny OForannan, 
 erenagh of Ardstraw ; and Mulmurry 
 Mac Gillacolum, seachnab [prior] of it. 
 See also A. D. 949, 1127. 
 
 As a consequence of its ecclesiastical 
 importance, the termon land of the church 
 was very extensive, containing sixteen 
 balliboes, whereas the average of other 
 churches was only four. Their names, as 
 recited in the charter of the see, were: 
 Listrykillin [^noiv Killen] ; Cooleraglasse ; 
 Kilshroghlo [Kilstrule] ; LislafFertie ; Car- 
 nekernan[Carnakenny];Praluske[Brock- 
 lis] ; Crossegoala ; Burrinacreeny ; Cur- 
 ranefarne ; Coolegarr ; Doonyenan ; Ca- 
 vanescrivy; Bemelad; Laragh; Shanmul- 
 lagh. It was found in the inquisition 
 taken at Dungannon in 1609, that the 
 bishop of Derry received " out of the ere- 
 nagh land of Ardsragh, conteyninge fif- 
 teene balliboes and two sessiaghs (whereof 
 the herenaghes had a balliboe free), forty 
 shillings per ann." " The parishe of Ard- 
 sragh, conteyninge foure ballibetaghes and 
 eight balliboes, wherein is both a parson 
 and a viccar presentative, and that one 
 third parte of the tiethes is paied to the 
 parson, an other third parte to the viccar, 
 and an other third parte to the herenagh, 
 whoe paid out of his third parte, unto the 
 said lord bushopp of Derry for the tyme 
 beinge, twentie shillings per ann. and that 
 the said parson and viccar paid twoe shil- 
 lings a peece to the said lord bushopp of 
 Derry for proxies, and that the charge of 
 repairinge and mainteyninge the parishe 
 church was equallie to be borne by the 
 
1 1 
 
 ipsius Arcbiepiscopi et comitive sue, celeriter providerent. Qui, ejus 
 mandatis obedienter annuentes, panem, butyrum, lac, et carnes, foca- 
 lia, stramina atque blada pro equis, umanque'' domui ubi liooiines et 
 equi dicti domini Arcbiepiscopi inhospitati fuerunt, juxta numerum 
 hominum et equorum in domibus ipsis inbospitatorum, communibus 
 sumptibus herenacorum et incolarum ipsius ville, apportari et minis- 
 trari fecerunt ; et vigiHas' bominum per diversas partes ville predicte, 
 
 et 
 
 said parson, viccar, and lierenagh of that 
 place, and that in this parishe is one ses- 
 siagh of glebe, belonging to the said vic- 
 car thereof." — (Ulster Inquisitions, App. 
 No. ii.) 
 
 ' Umanque. — So the word seems to 
 be spelled in the original, yet it is hard 
 to explain it, unless it be taken for a 
 Latin form of the Irish iianiun, ' an 
 oven.' 
 
 ' Vigilias. — In the reign of Conai're-mor, 
 the annalists tell us that, " the cattle were 
 without keepers, on account of the great- 
 ness of the peace and concord ;" biit after 
 ages grew degenerate, and the following 
 instances will show that the Primate did 
 not take unnecessary precaution in pro- 
 viding for his security by night: 
 
 li. Qnnoc, i li. Chellclimn clnlle mopi ; 
 h. Shlimpn o Cliinl o pUiciipci ; li. S^ep- 
 nin. ISicirpm po gaDpac eicb -\ muil 
 "] appain in cliapoinail came 6 l^oiiii co 
 cfp nepenn t)ia popcfcul, m ampip Dom- 
 Tiaill nioip li. bpicini piginuman. Comb 
 bepin po peciiprap comopba pfraip cip 
 1 tjliget) Gpenn ppi Sa;:anaib. Conit) 
 he pin cepc ocup tjliget) Ifnaic Sa;cain 
 
 C 
 
 pop goCoelaib nibui, ap ba co comopba 
 pecaip cupoim cfsfo cip ocup t)li5ft) 
 Gpenn copni. pi. 
 
 " O'Annoc and O'Cellchin of Kill-mor ; 
 OSluaisti of Cuil-0'Sluaisti [now Cool- 
 odushttj, in the parish of Tulla, county of 
 Clare] ; O'Glesain. These were they who 
 stole the horses and the mules and the asses 
 of the Cardinal [Vivianus] who came from 
 Rome to the land of Erin [in the year 1 177, 
 and again in 1186], to instruct it, in the 
 time of Domhnall Mor OBrieu, king of 
 Munster [who assumed that sovereignty 
 in 1169, and died in 1194]. And it was 
 on that account the successor of Peter 
 sold the rent and tribute of Erin to the 
 Saxons. And that is the right and title 
 that the Saxons follow on the Gaedhil at 
 this day, because it was to the successor of 
 Peter, to Rome, used to go the rent and 
 
 tribute of Erin until then," &c Leabhar 
 
 Breac, fol. 51 b, now 41 h. 
 
 A. D. 1 442, Nov. 8, Primate Prene wrote 
 to his commissary in the diocese of Derry 
 stating that at the time " missa; nostri 
 Pallii," in the preceding summer, John 
 bishop of Derry had preferred a complaint 
 
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 et precipue circa domum ubi prefatus domiaus Archiepiscopus inhos- 
 pitabatur, cum magna diligentia statuerunt. 
 
 Testibus in actis hujus diei magistro Mauricio Ocorry', Decano 
 Ardraachano ; fratre Nicholao Olucheran", abbate monasterii aposto- 
 lorum Petri et Pauli Ardmachani ; magistro Thoma Olucheran', 
 canonico Ardmachano ; dominis Roberto Notyngham"", cruciferario" 
 
 Archiepiscopi 
 
 against Roger OKathan, captain of his 
 nation, of his having seized the rents and 
 profits of his church of Tamlat, which be- 
 longed to the see: and also against Catlian 
 OKathan, son of the said Roger, for hav- 
 ing robbed him, when coming to Armagli, 
 of " suo habitu de scarleto, rubeo rocheto, 
 et duabus togis, diversisque aliis panuis." 
 — Registrum Prene, fol. 42 a, p. 67 ; Trans- 
 cript, p. 199. 
 
 ' OCorry The Armagh registries pre- 
 sent several persons of this name holding 
 ecclesiastical preferments in the diocese: 
 as, A. D. 1367, Patricius OKorry, dean 
 of Armagh; 1406, John OCorre, praicen- 
 tor; 1442, Solomon OCorre, rector of 
 Clonfekena or Cloufeakle; 1529, Eugene 
 OC!orr, prebendary of Ballyclog. The 
 family is now called G'Corr, which is 
 anglicised by Con\ and they are settled 
 in great number in the parish of Lissan 
 beside Slieve Gallon, where it is believed 
 that the banshee Aine bewails their ap- 
 proaching dissolution, as the banshee 
 Cliodhna [Cleena] does that of the O'Do- 
 novans, and the banshee Oeibhill [Eevil] 
 that of the Dal-gCais or O'Briens. 
 
 " Nicholao Oliirjieran. — In Irish OLaoc- 
 
 cpen. Thus the name is written in the 
 Irish Journal of 1 64 1 -7, where mention 
 is made of the Olann Laoccpen, and one 
 of the family is spoken of as being buried 
 at Donaghmore; also three friars of the 
 name at Brentur, now Brantry, in the 
 parish of Aghaloo at the south of the 
 county of Tyrone (Ord. Surv., s. 61), 
 where there was a small Franciscan com- 
 munity about the middle of the seven- 
 teenth century. We find them settled 
 in this neighbourhood, in the registries. 
 Thus: A. D. 1428, Thomas OLucheran, 
 rector of the parish church of Achelunga 
 [Aghaloo]; 1440, Odo Olucheran, rector 
 of Drumglass, and rural deanof TuUaghog. 
 Patrick Oloughran, prebendary of Domp- 
 naghmore, and rector of Tullaghog ; Wil- 
 liam Oloughran, vicar of same ; Dio 
 Oloughran, vicar of Dompnaghfenra or 
 Donaghenry. The name is still common 
 in Tyrone and the neighbouring counties 
 in the form Loughran. It is to be distin- 
 guished from OLaccnan. 
 
 '■ Thoma Olucheran. — He subsequently 
 became dean of Armagh in 1406, and 
 died in 1416. See Archdeacon Cotton's 
 Fasti, vol. iii. p. 30. 
 
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 Archiepiscopi et Primatis predict!, rectore ecclesie parochialis de 
 Ardmacasch'', Dunensis diocesis ; Ricardo Waspayn^ rectore de Ba- 
 lysoun^ Midensis diocesis ; fratre Johanne BrouiA confratre domus 
 
 sancti 
 
 " NoUjngham. — An English ftimily of 
 this name was settled in Ireland from a 
 very early date. In 1275 I. de Notting- 
 ham was prebendary of Clonmethan in 
 the cathedral of St. Patrick, Dublin (Ma- 
 son's Hist., p. Ixxviii. Notes); in 1303, 
 Hugh, and ' Robert de Notyngham (Cal. 
 Cane, p. 6 J); in 13 19 Robert de Noting- 
 liam was mayor of Dublin when Edward 
 Bruce besieged it (Reg. AU-IIallows, p. 
 49), who seems to have been the Robert 
 Notyngham that died in 1327, seised of 
 the manor of Lynecan [Lucan], (Cal. 
 Cane, p. 247 i); in 1323 William de 
 Notyngham was prKcentorof St. Patrick's, 
 Dublin (Mason, p. Ixx.); in 1422, Richard 
 Notyngham in the barony of Serine, coun- 
 ty of Meath (Cal. Cane, p. 230); in 1438, 
 Alexander de Notyngham and William 
 de Halym Judges of Assize (Reg. Swayne). 
 
 ' Crucifet-ario. — When we remember the 
 violent disputes which occasionally existed 
 between the archbishops of Armagh and 
 Dublin, " de bajulatione crucis," and the 
 jurisdiction of which the portable cross 
 was an emblem, we may suppose that the 
 office here mentioned was one of conside- 
 rable honour. Neither Du Cange nor his 
 supplementalists give the present word: 
 crucifer, however, is found in the Glossary 
 in the same sense. The cambucarius was 
 the bearer of the episcopal staff. See 
 
 Spelman, Gloss, in voc. 
 
 '■ Ardmacasck Now Slanes, a parish 
 
 in the barony of Upper Ards, county of 
 Down, forming part of the union of Bal- 
 lyphilip, which is the corps of the chan- 
 cellorship of the cathedral of Down. — See 
 Reeves" Eccles. Antiqq., p. 23. 
 
 '■ Waspayn. — This was probably the Ri- 
 chard Waspayne who was perpetual vicar 
 of the church of St. Mary of Carlingford 
 in 1426, (Reg. Swayne, Lib. i.); and on 
 whose death, in 144J, Robert Milys was 
 
 appointed as his successor (^Ibid.) The 
 
 termination of the name seems to have 
 undergone a slight change. In 1224 Ro- 
 ger Waspail was appointed seneschal of 
 Ulster and custos of the castles of Crag- 
 fergus and Rath. — (Hardy's Rot. CI., p. 
 588.) In 1 22 1 he was one of the barons 
 to whom Henry III. notified his superse- 
 deas of Geoifry de Mariscis. In 1389 we 
 find a Richard son of David Waspaill, and 
 MargeriaWaspaill, in Meath. — (Cal. Cane, 
 p. 137.) Westpalstowu, a townland in 
 tlie county of Dublin, derives its name 
 from this family. 
 
 ' Balysoun The parish of Balsoou, on 
 
 the banks of the Boyne, in the diocese of 
 Meath, is called in the ancient rolls Villa 
 Eijiarii, andin the more modern visitation- 
 books Eippentown, alias Balsoon. There 
 was an old manorial castle here, which 
 
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 sancti Johannis de Atrio Dei'' ; et Willielmo Botyller'^, presbyteris ; 
 Thoma Talbot'' : Ricardo Bagot^ ; et Ricardo Whyte^ domicellis ; 
 
 Johanne 
 
 was lately pulled down to afford materials 
 for a modern bouse: it stood beside tbe 
 church-yard, which contains the ruins of 
 the ancient church of the Blessed Mary, 
 and in which is a tombstone chareed 
 
 o 
 
 with the coat of Ussher; in which family 
 the manor was vested from the time of 
 Archbishop Henry Ussher till a compara- 
 tively recent period, when the last of the 
 stock died a pauper. 
 
 '' Broun. — A name common in the coun- 
 ties of Dublin and Meath. Fromund le 
 Brun was Lord Chancellor of Ireland in 
 1230; and Audoenus Brun was connected 
 with the Exchequer during the reign of 
 King John and part of Henry IH. 
 
 ' Atrio Dei. — Athirdee, softened down 
 to the modern Ardee, is the name of a 
 parish and barony on the S. W. side of 
 the county of Louth. In this form it re- 
 presented the Irish Clc-phipt)ia&, i. e., 
 ' the ford of Ferdia ;' but when written 
 in full it was called t)aile-aca-pip&ia6- 
 liiic-Dariiam, i. e. 'the town of the ford 
 of Firdia son of Daman.' In this form it 
 appears in the Four Masters at the year 
 1452. Firdia was a Connaught hero who 
 was slain here by the celebrated warrior 
 Cuchullin, a short time before the Chris- 
 tian era. See O'Donovan's note at the 
 above year, and at 941 ; and O'Flaherty, 
 Ogyg-. P- 280. 
 
 From the similarity of soiind the Eng- 
 
 lish settlers turned the Atlnrdee into 
 Atrium Dei, there being no further con- 
 nexion whatsoever between the names. In 
 the Latin form it gave the title to a rural 
 deanery in the diocese of Armagh, and is 
 always so called iu the ancient registers 
 of the see. A Carmelite Friary was founded 
 here towards the close of the thirteenth 
 century; but the religious house men- 
 tioned above was the hospital for Crouched 
 Friars or Cross-bearers following the rule 
 of St. Augustin, which was founded in 
 
 1 207 by Roger de Pippard Monast. Hib., 
 
 pp. 445-6. 
 
 ■■ Botyller. — Theobald, eldest son of Her- 
 veius Walter, attended Henry II. in his 
 expedition to Ireland, and was rewarded 
 with large possessions and the ofEce of 
 Chief Butler of Ireland. From him have 
 sprung those several families which, at 
 various jieriods, have been ennobled by 
 the titles of Ormonde, Carrick, Glengall, 
 Mountgarrett, and Dunboyne, in the Irish 
 peerage. The race has at all times afford- 
 ed illustrious names both in ecclesiastical 
 and civil stations, and to the Dunboyne 
 branch Irish Archsology is indebted for 
 the valuable contributions of the Very 
 Eeverend Richard Butler, the present 
 learned Dean of Clonmacnoise and Vicar 
 of Trim. 
 
 ' Talbot. — The Irish family of this name 
 came from Herefordshire, and settled in 
 
15 
 
 Johanne WolP ; Johanne Sandale' ; et Ricardo de la Foe Tour^ cler- 
 icis ; et multis aliis. 
 
 Anno, indictione, et pontificatu predictis, die nono mensis Oc- 
 tobris predicti, prefatus dominus Archiepiscopus, ad diligentem 
 rogatum dominura Laurencii ObogylP vicarii ecclesie, herenaconim, 
 
 et 
 
 this country in the reign of Henry II. 
 The chief seats were Malahideand Belgard. 
 The Talbots were also settled near Car- 
 rickfergus and in Down at an early date, 
 and they gave name to the parish of Tal- 
 botstown, now Ballyhalbert, in the ba- 
 rony of Ards. See Reeves' Eccl. Antiqq., 
 pp. 20, 56. The barony of Talbotstown 
 in the county of Wicklow also owes its 
 name to this I'amily. 
 
 ' Bagot. — Bagot or Bagod was another 
 name which came into Ireland soon after 
 the conquest. Sir E. Bagot was Chief 
 Justice in the reign of Edward II., and 
 his family occupied the manor of Bagot- 
 rath beside Dublin, whose present repre- 
 sentative in this noble estate is the Eight 
 Hon. Sidney Herbert. 
 
 s Whyte. — This name was common in 
 Meath and Dublin. Sometimes it ap- 
 peared in the Norman form of Le Blund 
 or Blunt. In 1428 we find a Eichard 
 White chaplain of the chapel of St. Ste- 
 phen beside Athboy. — (Reg. Swayne.) In 
 1439 John White, LL. B., was appointed 
 archdeacon of Armagh. — (Reg. Swayne.) 
 
 '' Wolf. — The family of this name was 
 principally settled in Kildare. In the Rolls 
 
 of Chancery we find a Sir Walter le Wolf 
 living at the year 1320; and a John Wolf 
 in 1400. Another form was Ulf : thus, 
 in 1 358 David Ulf was prior of St. Mary's, 
 Limerick; and Walter, Richard, and Ed- 
 mond Ulf, of Carkynlis, in same county. 
 
 ' Sandale Possibly this was the John 
 
 Sendall who was prtecentor of St. Patrick's, 
 Dublin, in 1389. — (Mason, Notes, p. Ixx.) 
 The family settled in Ulidia under Sir 
 John de Courcy, and soon arrived at im- 
 portance in the present county of Antrim. 
 In 1250 Thomas de Sandal was archdea- 
 con of Connor — (Reeves' Antiqq., p. 262.) 
 In 1387 Robert Sandale was superseded 
 
 as sherifi"of the county of Antrum (Cal. 
 
 Cane, p. 133 h.) The name is preserved 
 in Mount Saiidel near Coleraine, and Mul- 
 laghsandall in Kilwaiighter. 
 
 ' Dc la Foe Tour. — A name of which 
 the Editor can find no other example in 
 Irish authorities. 
 
 •* Obogijll. — In Irish ObaoigiU, now 
 Boyle. The family of O'Boyle derive 
 their name from Baoighell [pronounced 
 Boijle], grandson of Muircertach, the com- 
 mon ancestor of them and the O'Donnells, 
 who was ninth in descent from Niall of 
 
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 et parochianorum de Ardstraha, ante cimiterium ipsius ecclesie con- 
 stitutus, ipsum cimiterium sanguinis eiFusione, ut dicebatur, pollutum 
 reconciliare volens', cartas orationes reverenter perlegit et dixit ; 
 deinde ecclesiam ingrediens, dicta letania, sal, cineres, aquam, et 
 vinum benedixit, et per ipsum cimiterium, prout in libro Pontificali"" 
 continetur, aspersit. Reconciliatione quoque peracta, adductis certis 
 caballis per lierenacos ville predicte ad numerum vii. caballorum" vel 
 circiter, impositisque super singulos caballorum predictorum oneribus 
 de victualibus et carriage predicti domini Primatis et suorvun sequa- 
 cium, idem dominus Primas cum sua comitiva ad villam sive eccle- 
 siam de Furny", ejusdemDerensis diocesis, assumptis secum gratis, et 
 
 sine 
 
 the Nine Hostages, king of Ireland in 379. 
 The barony of Boylagh, in the S. W. of 
 the county of Donegal, called in Irish 
 baoigeallac, was the territory chiefly oc- 
 cupied by this clan. A sept of them held 
 the herenagh land of Marfaugh in the pa- 
 rish of Clondehorky. 
 
 ' Beconciliare volens.-Two other churches, 
 namely, Clooney near Derry, and Dungi- 
 ven, which had been also polluted by 
 bloodshed, were reconciled by the Primate 
 in his progress through the diocese. The 
 social condition of the Irish, and the mi- 
 litary purposes to which churches were 
 occasionally devoted, were likely to render 
 the recurrence of such a service very fre- 
 quent. The subject will be treated of in 
 the Appendix at greater length, where 
 the reader will also find an account of the 
 office employed by the bishop on the oc- 
 casion of a reconciliatio. 
 
 " Libro Pontificali. — So the Pontifical 
 
 was sometimes styled. Thu? in the very 
 rare and beautiful edition, Lugduni, 
 Mcccccxi., there is the colophon " Pon- 
 tificalis liber explicit feliciter." — (Fol. 
 ccix. i.) There was another compilation 
 which bore the same title, of which Mr. 
 Maskell says: "This 'Liber Pontificalis,' 
 I need scarcely remind the reader, must 
 not be confounded with the ' Pontifical' 
 commonly so called : this was, ' de gestis 
 Romanorum pontificum.'" — (Monum. Ri- 
 tual., vol. iii. p. cxxxiv. note 7.) 
 
 ° Scptem caballorum. — This was much 
 within the limit prescribed by the Third 
 Lateran Council, held in 1 1 79, which or- 
 dained : " Archiepiscopus quadraginta vel 
 quinquaginta evectionis numerum in visi- 
 tatione parochia? non debet excedere." — 
 Mansi, Concilia, vol. xxii. col. 273; Mat. 
 Paris, Hist. Maj., An. 11 79. 
 
 ° Fumy. — Now the parish of Urney in 
 the county of Tyrone, barony of Strabane, 
 
17 
 
 sine quocunque stipendio per ipsum Primatem soluto vel solvendo, 
 sed communibus expensis herenacorum et incolarum ecclesie, ca- 
 
 ballis 
 
 and situate between the rivers Finn and 
 Mourne. The Irish word e|inai6e prima- 
 rily means ' a prayer,' and secondarily ' an 
 oratory,' as Trpoaevxri in Greek signifies 
 both the devotion and the place of it. It 
 seems to be of a common origin with the 
 Latin Ore. In the dictionaries of O'Brien 
 and O'Eeilly it is spelled opnaige and 
 upnaige, in the latter of which forms it is 
 found in the New Testament as the com- 
 mon word for ' prayer.' As the name of 
 this church it occurs in the Annals of the 
 Four Masters at the year 1178, also at 
 1 179, where it is written with the article 
 na hfpnai6e; and according to this form 
 it is pronounced Nurney in many parts 
 of Ireland, as in the county of Kildare, 
 where there are two parishes so called; 
 another in Carlow ; and a townland in the 
 parish of Agha, same county. Urney is 
 found in Cavan as the name of a parish, 
 and of a townland in the parish of Kil- 
 more. The present church is noticed in 
 the Feilire of ^ngus as 6pnai&e nicnge 
 lea, 'Ernaidhe of Magh-Itha', (21 Jan.). 
 Also Ernaidhe of Sliabh Guaire in Cavan, 
 (13 Oct.). Colgan states that a St. Brigid, 
 a disciple of St. Bairre of Cork, was the pa- 
 tron of an Ernaidhein Munster. — (Tr. Th., 
 p. 612 h.) S. Fechin of Fore founded the 
 church of Ernaidhe in Luighne, in Sligo. 
 (Act. SS., p. 134 a.) S. Cormacof Trim, 
 bishopof Armagh, was of Cpic in epnai&e. 
 
 ' the territory of the oratory,' as O'Dono- 
 van renders the expression of the Four 
 Masters, at 496, or 'deregione Ernaidhe,' 
 as Colgan has it in his Acta Sanctorum. 
 _(p. 359^, n. 18.) 
 
 The letter F is prefixed to the name 
 eight times in the present record, as also 
 in the Taxation of 1 306, where it presents 
 a curious corruption of the original ortho- 
 graphy in the form Froundy. The habit 
 of prefixing this letter prevailed a good 
 deal among the Irish, but especially, as 
 O'Donovan observes, in the south. — 
 (Grammar, p. 30.) The following proper 
 names are examples : 
 
 Fahan is written Ochain in Four Mas- 
 tersto 1098; pcicciin at i loi, 1 136, 1429. 
 The Nore is sometimes written n-6oip, 
 sometimes peoip. The same name is called 
 Ora?i in Connaught &rAForan inLeinster, 
 and is written indiscriminately Uapan 
 and puapan. So in the appellatives: 
 pan for an, ' stay.' 
 popcail for opcail, ' open.' 
 piolap for lolap, ' an eagle.' 
 Paine for ame, ' a ring.' 
 puipeog for uipeog, ' a lark.' 
 Sometimes, however, the p is radical, 
 and its omission is owing to its suppres- 
 sion in sound by aspiration : as in the name 
 which will presently occur, Jl^eann poich- 
 le, of the Four Masters, at 854, which at 
 1600 they write gleani aichle. 
 
 D 
 
r8 
 
 ballis taliter oneratis, processit, et illuc adveniens, Donatus Okerbulau'' 
 rector, herenaci, et incole ville predicte de Furny, coram dicto do- 
 mino Primate vocati, ad ipsius mandatum de victualibus hominum 
 et equorum, atque de vigilia, sicut de nocte precedeute supradictum 
 est, in omnibus et per omnia gratis, sine solutione omnimoda, ordina- 
 runt et etiam ministrarunt. Testibus in actis liujus diei magistro 
 Mauricio et aliis suprascriptis. 
 
 Anno, indictione, et pontificatu predictis, die vero decimo mensis 
 Octobris predicti, idem venerabilis Pater de mane consurgens, audita 
 missa, adductis sibi per herenacos ville predicte de Furny caballis 
 pro victualibus et carriagio ipsius Patris portandis, ad numerum vii. 
 caballorum vel circiter, ipsis caballis, ut predicitur, gratis et absque 
 quocunque pretio per ipsum Patrem soluto sive solveudo, sed com- 
 
 munibus 
 
 In the Patent of the see, the herenagh 
 land is stated to consist of four balliboes, 
 namely, Aghenedawnagh, Cogan, Nurnin, 
 and Longford. Fourteen of the modern 
 townlands are held under the see, of which 
 Urney, Inchenny, Clody, and Carrickone, 
 are the only ones which have Irish names. 
 
 p Donatus Okei-bulaii.— There were two 
 tribes in the neighbourhood of Derry 
 whose names are diiFerent in Irish, though 
 not so easily distinguished in a Latin form : 
 namely, Ui Caipeallam and Ui Cepbal- 
 kun, the former of which formed the 
 Clann DiapmaOa, giving name to the 
 parish of Glendermot, and are now angli- 
 cised Carleton; the latter, settled in the 
 county of Donegal, are mentioned by 
 M'Firbis among the descendants of Eo- 
 
 ghan, who gave name to the Cinel-Eo- 
 ghain, and are now known by the name 
 of Carrolan : and to these this rector of 
 Urney belonged. Further on we find 
 Philip OKarbulan rector of Clonleigh, so 
 that we may fix the habitat of the clan 
 near the junction of the Finn and Mourne. 
 The person above mentioned seems to be 
 the " Donatus OKarrolan," or " OKervo- 
 lan," or " OCherballan," who was dean 
 of Derry in 1428 (Reg. Swayne, lib. i.); 
 though probably not the "Donatus OKe- 
 rulan" who was Official of Derry in 1430, 
 1434, 1440. — (Ibid.) Fogartach OCear- 
 bhallain in 11 85 became bishop of Ar- 
 magh and Cinel-Feraday, i. e. of the Cinel 
 Eoghain. — (Four Mast.) We find a Peter 
 OKervallan chancellor of Armagh in 1 366. 
 
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 munibus sumptibus herenaci et incolarum ipsius ecclesie de Furny, 
 oneratis, processit usque quandam ecclesiam vocatam vulgariter Lick 
 Patrick'^, latin^ vero Lapis Patricii ; ibique herenaci et incole eccle- 
 sie et ville predicte, eo quod caballi eorum erant ad tunc in carapis 
 dispersi, et predictus Pater quousque illi caballi quererentur comode 
 expectare non potuit, promiserunt et fidejussores invenerunt solvere 
 herenacis et incolis de Furny certum precii;ra inter eos constitutum 
 pro victualibus et carriagio dicti domini Primatis usque civitatem 
 Derensem portandis. Quo facto, dictus venerabilis Pater cum comi- 
 tiva sua et cum cariagio versus Deriam processit, et, transit© fluvio 
 per naviculas^ versus civitatem progrediens, magister Willielmus 
 M^camaylP, Decanus ecclesie cathedralis Derensis, cum aliis quam- 
 
 pluribus, 
 
 '' Lick Patrick. — Leac piiaojiinc, now 
 Leckpatrick, a parish in the county of 
 Tyrone, barony of Strabane, twelve miles 
 south of Derry — (Ord. Surv., Tyrone, 
 S. 2.) It was sometimes called Maghery- 
 nelec, and sometimes Kylpatrick. The 
 ruins of the old church are in the town- 
 land of same name, a little N. E. of the 
 modern church. Two places called Leac- 
 Phadruic are mentioned in the Tripartite 
 Life of St. Patrick, but neither belongs 
 to this neighbourhood, as the one was in 
 the region called Glinne (ii. 104, Tr. Th., 
 p. 143 h); and the other at Cashel (iii. 
 29, Tr. Th., p. 153 h). The see lands are 
 Leek Upper and Lower. There is a pa- 
 rish Leek in Donegal, but this was an- 
 ciently Leckovennan. 
 
 ' Per naviculas — The present bridge 
 of Derry, which was the first erected over 
 the Foyle was opened in 1790 for foot 
 
 passengers, and the following year for 
 vehicles. It is 1068 feet long, and forty 
 broad. " Previously to its erection the 
 medium of intercourse between the city 
 and the opposite bank of the Foyle was a 
 ferry; and that even thisimperfect commu- 
 nication was not well attended, is evident 
 from the testimony of Arthur Young, in 
 1776." — Ord.Mem.of Templemore,p. 1 17. 
 ' M'ccwuii/l. — This family constituted 
 the tribe of Cinel Feradhaigh, which gave 
 name to that part of the county of Tyrone 
 now comprised in the barony of Clogher. 
 Accordingly we find a bishop of Clogher 
 called in the Annals of the Four Masters 
 "Bishop of Cinell Faraday" (an. 11 85); 
 under which year Mr. O'Donovanobserves : 
 " The family of Mac Cathmhaoil, a name 
 generally anglicised Mac Cawell and latin- 
 ized Cavellus, — who supplied several bi- 
 shops to the see of Clogher, are still 
 
 D2 
 
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 pluribus, clericis, religiosis, et laycis, ipsi Patri obviam reverenter 
 processit, et ipsum Patrem usque ad monasterium Canonicorum 
 Regularium, vocatum Cella Nigra' de Deria, adduxit, et ipsum et 
 suos reverenter inhospitavit, et in caraeris et locis competentibus 
 collocavit ; victualia quoque pro dicto domino Primate comitivaque 
 
 sua 
 
 numerous in this their ancient territory, 
 and the name is also found in other coun- 
 ties, variously anglicised Camphill, Cam- 
 bell, Caulfield, and even Howell ; but the 
 natives, when speaking the Irish language, 
 always pronounce the name lilac Cat- 
 liiaoiL." — (i.p. 65.) Cathmaoil, from whom 
 the family took the name, was eighth in 
 descent from Feradhach, the founder of the 
 tribe, who was grandson of Eoghan, the 
 parent of the CinelEoghain — (MacFirbis, 
 Gen. MS., p. 135 a.) The following pre- 
 ferments held by persons of the name in 
 the sees of Clogher, Armagh, and Derry 
 will illustrate the influence and diffusion 
 of the family : 
 
 A. D. 1356, Brian M'Cathmaill, archdea- 
 con of Clogher, made bishop. 
 A. D.I 389, Arthur M'Cathmaill, arch- 
 deacon of Clogher, made bishop. 
 A. D. 1416, William M'Cathmaill, canon 
 
 of Derry. 
 A. D. 1425, Arthur M'Cathmaill, the Pri- 
 mate's Official in the deanery of Tul- 
 laghoge. 
 A. D. 1430, Odo M'Camail, suboustos of 
 
 the diocese of Derry, vacante sede. 
 A. D. 1440, John M'Cathmayll, preben- 
 dary of Argull [Errigal-Keeroge]. 
 
 A. D. 1440, Patrick M'Kathmayll, pre- 
 bendary of Clondeo [Clonoe], and rector 
 of Dompnaghfenra [Donoghenry]. 
 
 Odo M'Kathmayll, rector of 
 
 Drumrath, canon of Derry. 
 
 Patrick M'Kathmayll, per- 
 
 petual vicar of Tomlaghfynlygan. 
 
 A. D. 1442, Odo M'Kathmayll, the Pri- 
 mate's commissary in Raphoe. 
 
 A. D. 1458, John OKerulan and Arthur 
 M'Kamayll, canons of Derry, the Pri- 
 mate's subcustodes of the deanery of 
 Ashra [Ballyshannon] in Raphoe. 
 
 Bernard M'Kathmayll, here- 
 
 uagh of the church of Aregul Dacerog. 
 
 John M'Kathmayll, dean of 
 
 Clogher. 
 A. D. 1461, Arthur M'Kathmayll, official 
 
 of Tullaghoge. 
 A. D. 1483, Edmond M'Kathmayll, dean 
 
 of Armagh. 
 A. D. 161 2, Owen M'Cawell, archdeacon 
 
 of Derry. 
 
 * Cella Nigra. — This is a translation of 
 Oubh peglep, the name by which St. 
 Columbkille's church in Derry was known 
 among the Irish in the twelfth and fol- 
 lowing centuries. It was a conventual 
 house belonging to regular canons of the 
 
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 sua et pro equis eorum ministrare sufficienter, et hec usque in diem 
 Sabbati proxime sequentem, procuravit et fecit, gratis et sine ex- 
 pensis ipsius Archiepiscopi ; et vigilias nocte qualibet ordinavit. 
 Testibus in actis luijus diei magistro Mauricio Ocorry et aliis supra- 
 scriptis. 
 
 Anno, indictione, et pontificatu predictis, die vero undecimo 
 ejusdem mensis Octobris, prefatus venerabilis Pater chorum ecclesie 
 Canonicorum predictorura ingrediens, missa una solemniter percan- 
 tata, et alia sine cantu audita, prefatus venerabilis Pater in chore 
 predicto pro tribunali sedens, vocatis coram eo canonicis dicte domus, 
 dictus venerabilis Pater ipsis mandavit ut siquid circa statum vel 
 regimen dicte domus crederent reformandum sibi exponerent. Qui 
 quidem canonici se trahentes ad partem, et habito inter eos aliquali 
 tractatu, ad ipsum Patrem redientes, unus eorum organum vocis 
 aliorum ut asseruit constitutus, conquerendo coram dicto Patre pro- 
 posuit quod quidem frater Odo M'^gyllebryd Odochyrthy" eorum 
 canonicus, et post renunciationem de dicto monasterio factam per 
 quendam fratrem Reginaldum Ohegerty'' ultimum abbatem. de con- 
 sensu 
 
 order of St. Augustine. " ReginaldmnOluyerty.-Vla-^noW 011615- 
 
 " Odochyrthy. — Qo&Tnac5iotla-t)pigt)e ceapcaig. The family was of the race of 
 
 ODocapcaig. The O'Dochartaighs, whose Eoghan, but never attained to any dis- 
 
 name is now anglicised Doglieity, were one tiuotion in the annals of the country, 
 
 of the chief families of the Cinel Eoghain, Their habitat in the fourteenth century 
 
 and their lordship was in Inishowen. Their seems to have been in the north-west of 
 
 pedigree, together with that of the cog- the modern barony of Loughinsholin. In 
 
 nate families of O'Donnell, O'Gallagher, 1458, Nicholas Ohegerthay was rector 
 
 and O'Boyle, is given by Mr. O'Donovan of Balliscrine. — (Reg. Prene.) In 1461, 
 
 in his notes ou the Battle of Magh Rath, Donald and Cormac, sonsof FelimO'Neyll, 
 
 p. 336. The abbot in 1427 was Philip carried away fifty cows from Patrick 
 
 M'gronoraig. — (Reg. Swayne.) Ohegerthy of Ballyscrene. — (Ibid.) A 
 
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 sensu conventus predict! custos ipsius monasterii deputatus, sigillum 
 commune prefati monasterii sibi ipsi usurpavit, et illud sine consensu 
 fratrum secum habuit, quod juxta statuta ordinis eorundem in cus- 
 todia conventus sub tribus clavibus esse debuit, et etiam antea 
 consuevit. Undo petiit, sic proponens nomine conventus predicti, 
 sibi et conventui per predictum venerabilem Patrem de oportuno 
 remedio provider!. Quo proposito et audito, prefatus venerabilis 
 Pater a prefato fratre Odone M'^gyllebryd"' custode ibi presente que- 
 sivit ne res sic se habebat necne. Ipso vero respondente, et judicial! ter 
 confitente se sigillum commune habere, idem venerabilis Pater sibi 
 sub pena juris mandavit quod prefatum sigillum ipsi venerabili Patri 
 statim traderet cum effectu quousque aliud inde fieri ordinaret ser- 
 vandum. Qui quidem frater Odo, ad mandatum ipsius venerabilis 
 Patris, sigillum predictum ipsi venerabili Patri coram cleri et populi 
 nudtitudine copiosa deliberavit et tradidit. Ipseque Pater lUud 
 accipiens usque in diem Dominicam proxime tunc sequentem, viz. 
 quartam decimara diem mensis ejusdem Octobris, illud penes se retin- 
 uit et servavit. Post cujus quidem traditionem sigilli predicto ven- 
 erabili Patri factam, prefatus canonicus, organum vocis aliorum, ut 
 asseruit, constitutus, nomine confratrum suorum etiam ad tunc pre- 
 sentium, plures proponebat querelas circa regimen dicte domus, ro- 
 gans ipsum venerabilem Patrem super illis omnibus certas diffinitiones 
 statuere et etiam ordinare ; et sic rogabant omnes canonici ibi as- 
 
 tantes 
 
 member of the family is now ennobled bptjtie signifies 'the servant ofBrigid,' 
 
 in the Austrian empire, and the name is and was originally assumed by a person 
 
 frequently met with in the counties of who had taken the tonsure in the ser- 
 
 Tyrone, Derry, and Donegal, in the form vice of her order. In the sixteenth century 
 
 of Hagarty. the Clann M'Killbridy were herenaghs 
 
 " Odone M'gyUebryd. — This is the per- of Raymunterdony, a parish in the county 
 
 son mentioned above in note ". '^\\\a of Donegal. 
 
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 tantes ; necnon et Decanus ecclesie cathedralis^ Derensis et multi alii 
 clerici Derensis diocesis ibi astantes idem pariter rogaverunt. Et 
 dictiis venerabilis Pater, votis eorum aunuens, certas ordinationes et 
 diffiuitiones statiini et regimen dicte domus concernentes postea 
 statuit, de quibus infra patebit. Testibus, preiato magisto Mauricio ; 
 magistro Willielmo, Decano Derensi ; et aliis suprascriptis. 
 
 Anno, indictione, et pontificatu predictis, die xii. ejusdem mensis 
 Octobris, prefato venerabili Patre domino I. Archiepiscopo Ardnia- 
 chano, Hibernie Primate, in chore ecclesie canonicorum predictorum 
 pro tribuuali sedente, comparuit coram eo quidam reverendus reli- 
 giosus vir, frater Reginaldus Ohegerty, dicte domus canonicus, et 
 nuper abbas domus ejusdem, prefato venerabili Patri humiliter sup- 
 ])licavit ut resignationem, per ipsum Reginaldum de prefata abbatia 
 alias ut dixit factam, ratificare et approbare idem venerabilis Pater 
 dignaretur ; ymo quod resignationem dicti monasterii ab ipso Regi- 
 
 naldo 
 
 " Ecclesie caihedralis The church was the accompanying buildings, were situated 
 
 called CeampuUmop, 'the great church,' adjacent to each other outside the present 
 
 to distinguish it from the more ancient, city wall, on the ground now chiefly oc- 
 
 but perhaps less capacious building, the cupied by the Roman Catholic chapel and 
 
 Dubh Regies, which has been already men- cemetery ; but, with the exception of the 
 
 tioned. The Four Masters, voider the round- tower belfry, were partly destroyed 
 
 year 1164, treat of it in the following by an explosion of gunpowder in 1568, 
 
 manner: "The Great Church of Doire, and finally by Docwra in 1600, for the 
 
 which is eighty feet long, was erected by purpose of employing their materials in 
 
 the successor of Colum-oille, Flaithbhear- the new works he was erecting. This 
 
 tach Ua Brolchain, by the clergy of Colum- tower survived till after the siege, being 
 
 cille, and IMuircheartach Ua Lochlainn, marked on the maps, or plans, of that 
 
 Kmg of Ireland ; and they completed its time as the ' Long Tower or Temple 
 
 erection in the space of forty days." From More ;' and its site is still indicated by 
 
 this church the parish of Derry is called the name of a lane, called the Long 
 
 Templemore. " These two churches, with Tower." — Ord. Mem., p. 25. 
 
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 naldo de novo ex habundanti admittere dignaretur. Ad quod faci- 
 endum ipse venerabilis Pater se reddit multum difBcilem, et rogavit 
 instanter ipsum Reginaldum abbatis officium de cetero exercere, vel 
 saltern ipsum de novo assumere. Qui quidem Reginaldus, nullo 
 modo assentire volens, ipsum monasterium, curam, et dignitatem 
 ejusdem, in manibus predicti Patris, multis religiosis, clericis, et laycis 
 astantibus, resignavit. Idemque venerabilis Pater, tam dicti Regi- 
 naldi quam aliorum astantium precum importunitate devictus, resig- 
 nationem ipsius monasterii per ipsum Reginaldum sic factam, tanquam 
 judex ordinarivis et custos spiritualitatis episcopatus Derensis predicti, 
 acceptavit. Postmodum vero, longo et spatioso facto intervallo, can- 
 onici prefate domus, insimul coram prefato domino Primate compa- 
 rantes, ipsum unanimiter rogaverunt ut electionem de quodam fratre 
 Odone M^gyllebryd, eorum canonico, ad monasterium predictum, 
 per resignationem prefati Reginaldi sic vacans, per eos concordi- 
 ter celebratam, confirmare dignaretur. Predictus vero venerabilis 
 Pater ab unoquoque illorum canonicorum singulariter inquisivit an 
 in ipsum fratrem Odonem tanquam in abbatem futurum consensit. 
 Omnibusque et singulis concorditer respondentibus quod in ipsum 
 ut in eorum abbatem futurum consenserunt, publicam proclainationem 
 seu cridam'' prefatus venerabilis Pater in eodem loco fecit proponi et 
 fieri: quod si quis contra prefatum fratrem Odonem sic electum, vel 
 contra formam electionis de eo facte, vellet objicere, quod in crastino 
 sequente, xiii. die videlz. hujus mensis Octobris, in ecclesia cathe- 
 drali Derensi, hora causarum, legitime compareret coram dicto do- 
 mino Primate, et objiceret seu opponeret legitime si quid vellet. 
 Testibus magistris M. Decano Ardmachano ; magistro Willielmo, 
 
 Decano Derensi ; et aliis suprascriptis. 
 
 Anno 
 ^ Gridam. — "Bannum, proclamatioquae public. A quiritare deducit Scaliger." — 
 per'prfeconem fit ; Orida Italis, Gallis Cry Du Cange, Glossar. in voc. 
 
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 Anno, indictione, et pontificatu predictis, die vero xiii. mensis 
 Octobris predict!, constitutus personaliter predictus venerabilis Pater 
 dominus J. Archiepiscopus Ardmachanus, Hibernie Primas, custos, 
 ut asseruit, spiritualitatis et temporalitatis episcopatus Derensis, in 
 choro ecclesie catliedralis Derensis, post altam missam solemniter 
 percantatam, sedensque pro tribunali, in loco per ministros ipsius 
 ecclesie honorifice preparato, factoque certificatorio per partem ma- 
 gistri Willielmi M^camaill, Decani Derensis, vive vocis oraculo, super 
 quodam mandato dicti venerabilis Patris Archiepiscopi et Primatis 
 ac custodis ut supra antea, ipsi Decauo directo, in quo quidem man- 
 dato continebatur ut ipse Decanus Derensis Archidiaconum, et alios 
 omnes et singulos de capitulo Derensi, necnon quoscunque de clero 
 Derensi ad dignitates seu ecclesiastica beneficia, seu ad ordines sa- 
 cros promotos, uecnon herenacos et officiarios quoscunque, episcopa- 
 tus Derensis, ad prefatum xiii. diem Octobris, citaret citarive faceret 
 peremptorie, propter periculum imminens animarum, ad comparen- 
 dum coram dicto domino Primate et custode, ut supra, in ecclesia 
 cathedral! Derensi predicta comparerent, literas dignitatum, beneficio- 
 rum, ordinum, et dispensationum, necnon cartas seu literas herenaci- 
 arum^ terrarum, possessionum, et officiorum quorumcumque osten- 
 
 suri 
 
 ' Literas herenaciarum Several such Oskelly by archbishop Walton of Dublin, 
 
 instruments are enrolled in the regis- in 1473. Besides these, which are to be 
 
 tries of Armagh, of which one from Pri- found in both writers, Ussher has added 
 
 mate Milo Sweteman in 1365, granting one from Primate Swayne, in 1427, to 
 
 the lands of Teachrana, &c., in Kilmor, to Mauritius Macbryn of the lands of Lach- 
 
 Wniiam and Arthur, sons of Arthur reachtdyrke [Aghaderg?] in the diocese 
 
 Macbryn, has been printed by Ussher and ofDromore; and Spelman one from Pri- 
 
 Spelman: also one from Primate Mey in mate Nicholas Fleming to Odo Macthaig, 
 
 1455 to Patricius Mackassaid of the lands in 1406, of the rectory or comorbania of 
 
 of Twinha [Tynan]: also a sequestration the parish church of St. KynnichdeDrum- 
 
 of the lands of Glindelagh to Tadeus gossa alias de Eoe [Drumachose], in the 
 
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 suri, atque facturi et recepturi quod justum foret et consonum rationi. 
 De quo quidem mandato mihi Notario infrascripto constat ad plenum; 
 facto quidem ut prefertur certificatorio hujusmodi, videlz. quod omnes 
 et singuli in mandato predicto contenti legitime citati fuerunt ad 
 comparendum, exhibendum, faciendum, et recipiendum, prout tenor 
 mandati exigit et requirit, dictus venerabilis Pater Arcliidiaconum 
 et alios de capitulo Derensi preconizari fecit ; illos vero non compa- 
 rentes usque ad horam immediatam post nonam diei predicte in loco 
 eodem gratiose expectavit ; sed et alii quamplures tarn beneficiati quani 
 
 non 
 
 diocese of Derry. (Ussher, " Original of 
 Corbes,"&c., Works, vol. xi. pp. 435-439; 
 Vallanoey, Collectan., vol. i. pp. 179-207; 
 Spelman, Glossary, voce Corba.) 
 
 The following confirmation from the 
 bishop of Kilmore to one of his herenachs 
 is also worthy of being committed to print: 
 " Universis Christi fidelibus has literas 
 visuris vel audituris Donatus Dei et Apos- 
 tolice sedis gratia episoopus Triburnensis 
 salutem in Domino Eeternam. Noverit 
 imiversitas vestra quod cum per mortem 
 bone memorie quondam Murani Oifareal- 
 laich comurbani et principalis herenaci 
 onmium terrarum nationis de Muntyrfa- 
 reallaich eadem comurbania ac herenacia 
 de jure et de facto ad presens vacaverit, 
 Nos antedictus Donatus episcopus ean- 
 dem comurbaniam ecclesie Sci. Medocii de 
 Drumlechan [Drumlane] nostre diocesis, 
 et herenaciam dictarum terrarum, cum 
 omnibus terris suis nativis ceterisque om- 
 nibus emolumentis, de jure vel consue- 
 tudine ad eandem spectantibus, Dilecto 
 
 nobis in Christo Nicholao Offarellach cle- 
 rico dicte diocesis ac native dictarum 
 terrarum damns, concedimus, et hoc pre- 
 senti carta nostra confirmamus, in arrabi- 
 libus et non arrabilibus, in bosco et piano, 
 in pasturis, pratis, gramine, sylvis, pisca- 
 riis, molendinis, ceterisque omnibus aliis 
 limitibus et pertinentibus universis, ad 
 dictam comurbanam et herenaciam predic- 
 tam de jure vel consuetudine spectantibus, 
 habendam et tenendam de nobis et succes- 
 soribus nostris prout melius et plenius sui 
 predecessores eam habuerunt vel habere 
 debuerunt perpetuo possidendam. Red- 
 dendo inde nobis et successoribus nostris 
 redditus sive tributa consueta cum one- 
 ribus aliis ordinariis et extraordinariis 
 necnon servitiis debitis et consuetis. In 
 cujus rei fidem et testimonium sigil- 
 lum nostrum presentibus est appensum. 
 Datum in cemiterio domus fratriim Mino- 
 rum de Cavan antedicts diocesis, xix. die 
 mensisSept, A. D. MiP.cccc^^xxxviij"." 
 — (Reg. Swayne, i. fol. 63 h, p. 85 h.) 
 
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 non beneficiati, presbyteri et etiam herenaci, preconizati personaliter 
 
 comparuerunt, literas ordinum et beneficiorum, ac cartas herenaciarum 
 
 et terrarum ac ofRciorum diversas exhibuerunt, prout in quodam ro- 
 
 tvilo''' in archivis manente, de quo michi Notario infrascripto constat ad 
 
 plenum, plenius contiuetur. Quibus exhibitionibus ita factis, Canonici 
 
 regulares monasterii vocati Celle Nigre de Deria confirmationem elec- 
 
 tionis per eos facte de fratre Odone M'^gyllebry deorum canonico in 
 
 eorum abbatem a predicto venerabili Patre fieri cum magna instantia 
 
 petiverunt. Idemque venerabilis Pater, habito aliquali tractatu cum 
 
 Decano Ardmacbano et aliis clericis sibi assidentibus, iterum ex 
 
 habundanti proclamationem seu cridam publicam et solennem pro- 
 
 poni mandavit et fecit, ut si quis contra electionem predictam vel 
 
 contra formam sue electionis quicquid proponere vel objicere vellet, 
 
 hoc statim faceret, postmodum miaime audiendus. Sed nullo com- 
 
 parente, nee aliquid objicieute, idem venerabilis Pater, ut custos 
 
 spiritualitatis et spiritualis jurisdictionis episcopatus Derensis, de quo 
 
 ad tunc publice protestabatur, ibidem electionem de prefato fratre 
 
 Odone ad monasterium predictum vocatum Cellam Nigram de Deria 
 
 factam, coram cleri et populi multitudine copiosa, judicialiter confir- 
 
 mavit, ipsumque fratrem Odonem in abbatem predict! monasterii 
 
 auctorizabiliter iustituit, et, per annuli sui traditionem, ipsum inves- 
 
 tivit de eodem, curam et regimen dicti monasterii sibi committens, 
 
 ipsumque fratrem Odonem de obedientia et fidelitate ipsi venerabili 
 
 Patri, tanquam Ordinario episcopatus Derensis ratione custodie ante- 
 
 dicte, et suis successoribus Archiepiscopis Ardmachanis, Ilibernie 
 
 Primatibus, sede ipsa Derensi vacante, necnon et episcopis Derensi- 
 
 bus futuris canonice intrantibus, prestandis atque servandis, jurari 
 
 fecit. 
 
 Quibus 
 
 "■ Botulo. — This roll, which, if forthcom- chialdisciplineoftheday, is, unfortunately, 
 ing, would throw great light upon the paro- not to be found in the registries either of 
 
 E 2 
 
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 Quibus ita peractis, idem venerabilis Pater ad monasterium ante- 
 dictum accessit, et sumpta refectione, ad ecclesiam Cathedralem De- 
 reusem iterate accessit, circa horam immediatam post nonam, ibique 
 pro tribunali sedens Archidiaconum et alios de capitulo Derensi 
 singulariter separatim preconizari fecit. Quibus expectatis, sed uuUo 
 niodo comparentibus, nee eorum aliquo comparente, prefatus venera- 
 bilis Pater pronuntiavit eos omnes et singulos contumaces, et in 
 penam contumacie eorundem, facta fide per magistrum Thomam 
 Olucberan canonicum Ardmachanum, et officii prefati venerabilis 
 Patris instructorem sive promotorem, de eorum et cujuslibet eorum 
 latitatione malitiosa seu etiam fraudulenta, decrevit idem Pater eos 
 et eorum quemlibet fore citandos atque citandum per publicum cita- 
 tionis edictum in ecclesia Derensi predicta, coram clero et populo 
 copioso ibi existente, ita quod prelate citationis notitia ad eos et 
 eorum quemlibet potuit et debuit verisimiliter perveuire, quod ijDsi 
 et eorum quilibet comparerent et compareret coram prefato venera- 
 bili Patre, vel ejus commissario, uno vel pluribus, in villa Dermitii 
 Ocathan'' Derensis diocesis, die Lune proxime tunc sequente, ad fa- 
 ciendum 
 
 Derry or Armagh. Eanach, whicbMr.O'Doaovan states "was 
 
 '' Villa Dermitii Ocathan About two situated on an island in Lough Enagh 
 
 miles to the north-east of Derry, on the left East," was demolished, according to the 
 
 side of the Coleraine road, are two small Four Masters, in the year 1555, by Cal- 
 
 lakes, close by each other, called Enagh vach O'Donnell, but afterwards "it must 
 
 Loughs, between which, in the townland have been re-edified, as it is shewn on se- 
 
 Templetown, is a cemetery containing the veral maps of Ulster, made in the reigns 
 
 interesting remains of an ecclesiastical of Elizabeth and James I." In Speed's 
 
 building, which in former times was a map of Ulster it is called Anoghe, and 
 
 chapel of Clandermod in the corps of the placed at the west edge of the lake. Mer- 
 
 Deanery. Here the O'Cahans had their cator and Bleau call it Anagh. Being the 
 
 chief residence, and from them the whole residence of the chief family of the county, 
 
 tract from the Foyle to the Bann got the it was considered a place of importance, 
 
 name "'Patria de OKane." The castle of and, accordingly, when the commissioners 
 
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 ciendum et recipiendum quod in priori mandato Decano Derensi 
 directo, de quo supra fit mentio, coutinetur. Qua quidem citatione 
 publica et alta, intelligibili voce preconis ibidem, coram multitudine 
 cleri et populi copiosa, de ipso Archidiacono et aliis de Capitulo 
 Derensi, et de eorum quolibet, singulariter et nominatim facta, idem 
 venerabilis Pater ab ecclesia predicta recessit. Testibus in actis 
 hujus diei venerabili Pati'e domino Cornelio^ Dei gratia Episcopo 
 
 Rathpotensi ; 
 
 appointed by Queen Elizabeth, in 1591, 
 converted Tyrone, including the present 
 county of Londonderry, into shire-ground, 
 the eighth of the baronies into which it 
 was divided was " Anagh, conteyninge 
 Tyrchyrine [Tirkeeran], Sgryn [Magilli- 
 gan], and Clandermod [Clondermot]." — 
 (Ul.Inq., p. XX.) And this name continued 
 in use for some time, for in the inquisi- 
 tion of Lyramavaddy in 1609, and the 
 Patent of the See, of 1 615, frequent men- 
 tion is made of the barony of Annagh. 
 It was, however, presently changed to 
 Tirkeeran, its present name, for in an in- 
 quisition, Londonderry, circ. 1639, the 
 barony of Tirkerren is found to contain 
 "fourteen ballybetaughes of land, making 
 in the whole 182 ballyboesor townlands." 
 The ruins of the church where the Pri- 
 mate appointed these causes to be heard 
 are extensive, measuring ninety-one by 
 twenty-one feet, with a transept on the 
 south twenty-three feet square. It had been 
 violated in 1 197 by Eotsel Pitun, who was 
 afterwards defeated on the strand of Faugh- 
 anvale. The Irish calendars state that the 
 festival of S. Columba, Prsesbyter, was kept 
 
 in this church on the 22nd of September, 
 (Trias Th., pp. 373 b, n. 22; 450, n. 51); 
 as also that of St. Moelchu or Moelau on 
 the 4th of January. — {Ibid., p. 479 a.) 
 
 In 1603 an inquisition was sped at 
 Anagh, this very place, when it was found 
 that " Longo tempore post erectionem et 
 indotationem dicta ecclesia;, quidam domi- 
 nus OCane, nuper capitaneus patris pra- 
 dictfe, absque ulla licentia, concessit dictas 
 ecclesiffi et officiario tunc ibidem, viz. 
 arenaco [herenaco] sive inagistro predicts; 
 ecclesiaj, in purani et perpetuain elimosi- 
 nam, in houorem beata; Maria; Virginis 
 imperpetuum 2 quarteria terra; omnis ge- 
 neris proxime dictEe ecclesia; adjacentia." 
 Colgan, speaking of the chapel in 1647, 
 says : " Est capella Dioecesis Dorensis, 
 juxta Enach arcem nobilissima; familia; 
 Ocathanorum." — (Tr. Th., p. 450, n. 51.) 
 Concerning the person mentioned in the 
 text the Four Masters have this entry at 
 the year 1428: " Dermot U'Kane, Lord 
 of Kienaghta and Creeve, a man full of 
 triumphs and great honours, died." 
 
 ■^ Corndio. — This was Conchobhar 
 Mac Cormaic, one of the O'Donnells of 
 
3° 
 
 Rathpotensi ; M. Mauritio, Decano Ardmachano ; M. W. Decano 
 Derensi ; M. Florencio'', Decano Rathpotensi ; fratre Nicholao Loch- 
 lynnagh^ Priore domus Predicatorum de Deria, et aliis supra- 
 scriptis. 
 
 Anno, indictione, et pontificatu predictis, die vero Dominica 
 
 proxime 
 
 Corca-Bhaiscinn [in the south-west of 
 the county of Clare], whose death is re- 
 corded by the Four Masters at the year 
 1399. Conch obhar, pronounced Connor, 
 is generally latinized Cornelius. The pre- 
 sent document is Ware's earliest authority 
 for the episcopate of this prelate. 
 
 '' Florencio By Ware he is called Lau- 
 rence. His family name was O'Gallagher. 
 He was advanced from the deanery to 
 preside over the see by provision of Pope 
 Martin V., in 1419; and died in 1438. — 
 (Harris' Ware, i. p. 273.) In the pedi- 
 greeof O'Gallchobhair [ pronounced 0' Gal- 
 lagher^ this bishop is called Lochlainn, a 
 name which is latinized Laurentiiis and 
 Florentius. — (O'Donovan's Battle of I\Iagh 
 Rath, p. 336.) 
 
 " Lochlynnagh. — Substantives of the ter- 
 mination ab are principally patronymics, 
 and are formed from names of persons and 
 countries by adding this syllable. Thus 
 bpianac, 'an O'Brien;' Riiapcac, 'an 
 O'Eourke;' 6ipeannac, 'anlrishman,'&c. 
 — O'Donovan, Gram, of the Irish Lang., p. 
 332. Hence the present nameLochlmacis 
 thesameasTnacLochlain, 'MacLoughlin.' 
 In the Derry Inquis. of 1609 it was found 
 
 that the bishop held an orchard on the 
 east side of the great fort, paying thereout 
 yearly to the erenagh LaghUna ten white 
 groats. Also, that the ground whereon 
 the old castle called O'Donnell's castle 
 was built within the lower fort of the 
 city, was formerly bought by O'Donnell 
 from the erenagh Laghlinaghe, as being 
 part of his herenagh land, for twenty cows. 
 Also, that within the island of Derry 
 there were two herenaghs belonging to 
 the late abbot of Columkille; the one 
 called Loughlina, within the diocese of 
 Derry, and the other called Oderry, within 
 
 the diocese of Raphoe (Ul. Inq.,App.iv.) 
 
 The Dominican abbey and church were 
 founded in 1274. " They appear to have 
 shared the fate of the other ecclesiastical 
 buildings of Derry : even their site is not 
 now accurately known. It is certain, how- 
 ever, that they were on the north side of 
 the city, outside the present walls." — Ord. 
 Mem. Templemore, p. 25. To the pre- 
 sent record, through Ware's MSS., the 
 Monasticon and Ordnance Memoir are 
 indebted for the above name, the only one 
 among the priors of this house which has 
 been preserved. 
 
3^ 
 
 proxime ante festum Sancti Luce Evangeliste, xiiii. die videlz. mensis 
 Octobris, constitutus in mei Notarii presentia, et testium infrascrip- 
 torum, venerabilis Pater dominus Archiepiscopus et Primas predictus 
 apud quandam ecclesiara parochialem sancti Brackani, situatam in 
 terris de Clone', Derensis diocesis, prope fluvium Deria ex parte 
 
 orientali, 
 
 ' Clone. — Now called Clooney, a town- 
 land in the parish of Clondermot, on the 
 opposite side of the river to Derry, and 
 containing 604 acres. A portion of this, 
 forming the demesne of the late Sir George 
 Hill, is called " St. Columb's," in which, 
 at the end of the wooded avenue, are 
 the remains of an ancient church, marked 
 " Euins" on the Ordnance Map of the 
 county, sheet 20. They consist of two 
 gables which are perfect, and covered with 
 ivy, but the side walls have quite disap- 
 peared, and the area has been gravelled 
 and furnished with rustic seats. Its length 
 is thirty-five feet. The parish of Clon- 
 dermot, which, with Templemore and 
 Faughanvale, forms the corps of the dean- 
 ery of Derry, contained three chapels 
 lying on the banks of the Foyle, namely, 
 Enagh above-mentioned, Dergbruach now 
 Gransha, and this. The Four Masters 
 call them eanac, Deapg-bjiuac, and 
 Cluain-1, and state that they were plun- 
 dered in 1 197 by Rotsel Pitun, who sailed 
 up the harbour of Derry : adding that 
 SS. Columbkille, Canice, and Brecan were 
 their patron saints. The present record 
 fixes St. Brecan to Clooney, and shows 
 that " St. Columb's" is an inappropriate 
 
 name. See the note above at p. 29 a. 
 
 It is not easy to pronounce which one 
 of the many Brecans was the patron of 
 this church. Probably it was S. Brecan, 
 from whom Ardbraccan derives its name, 
 and who afterwards removed to the largest 
 of the Arann islands off the coast of Gal- 
 way, where the ruins of his church called 
 Templebracoan still remain. 
 
 St. Cobhranus, sonof Enan and Minch- 
 lotha sister of St. Columbkille, also was 
 commemorated in this church, on the 19th 
 
 of July (Colgan, Tr. Th., p. 479 b, n. 
 
 18.) Magnus O'Donnell, in his Life of 
 St. Columba, has recorded the following 
 curious incidents connected with this 
 place: "In loco quodam, quern Cluain 
 vocant, a Dorensi Oppido, ad adversam 
 Feabhalii lacus marginem, non procul dis- 
 tant!, templum escitauit, quod prophetico 
 Spiritu praauidens, ab Anglis longo post 
 tempore diruendum, eiusque lapides pro 
 SEeculari fabrioa in locum qui Biiiueantu- 
 inne dicitur; iuxta Doriam trausportan- 
 dos, vernaculo sermone carme quo id & 
 prffidicit, & lamentatur, intexuit. Nee 
 vana fuit ea prasdictio, nam paucis retro 
 ab hinc annis, Episcopus Anglus, Nico- 
 laus Boston [or Weston] dictus, prsfatu 
 
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 orieutali, que quidem terre ad ecclesiam Ardmachanam pertinere^ 
 noscuntur, comparuit coram dicto venerabili Patre magister Williel- 
 mus M^camaill, Decanus Derensis, et Rector, vit asseruit, illius ec- 
 clesie de Clone, prefatoque venerabili Patri humiliter supplicavit ut 
 ipsam ecclesiam et cimiterium, sanguinis efFusione, ut dixit, pollutum, 
 reconciliaret, et postea missam solennem coram milibus populi, ob 
 
 reverentiam 
 
 templum demolitus, ex eius ruderibus, 
 quo Sanctus pra?dixerat, translatis, pala- 
 tium molitus est, sed consummare non 
 potuit vindicante Deo ob Sancti sui me- 
 rita sacrileges hominis ausus, & improba 
 molimina continue tardante." — Lib. i. c. 
 58. (Trias Thaum., p. 399 ) 
 
 ^ A7rhnacIia7iampertinei'e.-"A'ndtuTiheT, 
 the said jurors doe nppon their oathes, 
 find and present that the said lord arch- 
 bushopp of Armagh is seised in fee, in 
 right of his archbushoppricke, of and 
 in the yerely rent of twoe markes sterl. 
 per ann. yssuinge out of the herenagh 
 land of Clonie, conteynlnge one quarter; 
 and there is alsoe the fishinge of twoe 
 small pooles to the said land belonginge, 
 all lyinge in the baronie of Annagh: and 
 further, they say that the said herenagh 
 land and fishinge of Clonie nowe is and 
 hath bene in the possession of thebushopp 
 of Derry, ever since the warres of Shane 
 O'Neale." — Inq. Lymavaddy, 1609. (Ul. 
 Inq., App. iii ) The inquisition sped at 
 Derry in the same year confirms this 
 finding, and adds that " the said lands are 
 now in the possession of William M'lte- 
 gart, who was the last deane of Derry by 
 
 the pope's authoritie" — " and that the 
 said land and fishinge were, untill fiftie 
 yeares sithence or thereabouts, enjoyed 
 by the sept Neale Portclony as inheritors 
 or dowsaghes of the said landes." — (Ul. 
 Inq., App. No. iv.) " Clowney contayn- 
 inge 4 balliboes or townes called Lusdree- 
 nagh, Ballyntemple, Ballymulley, and 
 Rossedony, which 4 balliboes or townes 
 doe containe i quarter, and to them theire 
 is belonginge i poole called Bunshanetin 
 [see preceding note], and the fishinge 
 thereof" — (Inq. 14 Jac. I., Ul. Inq., No. 
 5, Jac. I. Londond.) The entry concern- 
 ing these lands in Swayne's Registry is as 
 follows: " Dominus Primas recepit pro 
 quinque carrucatis terra; ex quadam villa 
 opposita Deria; per an. (in Clonne cum 
 pertin.) 2 marc." — (Lib i. fol. 60 a.) In 
 the Patent of the see-lands of Derry, 161 5, 
 the king grants to the bishop of Derry 
 the erenagh landof Clony, containing 4bal- 
 liboes, out of which two marks a year are 
 reserved to the archbishop of Armagh. — 
 (Rot. Pat. Jac. I., p. 279 h.) They are 
 now held under the see of Derry in nine 
 lots producing £185 7s. yl. — (Report 
 Eccles. Kev. and Pat., 1833, pp. 1 14, 1 1 5.) 
 
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 reverentiam ipsius Patris inibi congregatis, celebrare dignaretur. 
 Qui quidem Pater, votis prefati Decani annuens, ipsam ecclesiam et 
 cimiterium more ecclesiastico conciliavit ; preparatoque altari cum 
 honestate decenti extra ostium occidentale ipsius ecclesie pro missa 
 celebranda, comparuerunt Archidiacouus et ceteri de capitulo De- 
 rensi per mediationera reverendi Patris domini Cornelii, episcopi 
 Rathpotensis, eidem venerabili Patri domino Archiepiscopo, Primati, 
 et custodi predicto, humiliter supplicantes ut ipse Pater Archiepisco- 
 pus ipsos Archidiaconura et ceteros de Capitulo a sententiis excom- 
 municationis, quibus per ipsum Patrem, ut custodem spiritualitatis 
 episcopatus Derensis, propter eorum contumacias et inobedientias, 
 ligati fuerunt, absolvere dignaretur ; ut absque scrupulo conscientie 
 misse solenni, per ipsum Archiepiscopum inibi celebrande, possent 
 comode interesse. Qui quidem Archiepiscopus, votis eorum et ro- 
 gatui dicti domini Rathpotensis annuens, commisit oretenus dicto 
 domino Rathpotensi ut ipse auctoritate ipsius Primatis et custodis 
 eos et eorum quemlibet absolveret in forma ecclesie, sub pena ta- 
 men et conditione reincidentie in easdera sententias, si mandatis et 
 ordinationi prefati domini Arcbiepiscopi postea non obedirent. Ipse 
 vero dominus Rathpotensis, commissionem hujusmodi acceptans, 
 ipsos Arcliidiaconum et alios de Capitulo ibi presentes, prestito pri- 
 mitusabeis et eorum quolibet juramentode stando mandatis ecclesie, 
 in forma juris absolvit. Quo facto prefatus venerabilis Pater Archi- 
 episcopus et Primas misse solennia perficiens, infra ipsius misse 
 solennia, prefatum fratrem Odonem, abbatem monasterii vocati Nigre 
 Celle de Deria antedicti, secundum ritum et morem ecclesie, prout 
 in libro Pontificali plenius continetur, solenniter benedixit'': missaque 
 
 et 
 
 '' Benedixit In the early Pontificals a collection of the episcopal benedictions 
 
 there were two classes of Benedictions : said during the canon, but which are now 
 one forming the Benedictionale, which was discontinued in the Use of the Church of 
 
 F 
 
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 et benedictione peractis, idem venerabilis Pater, de consensu totius 
 conventus, et de consilio Decani, Arcliidiaconi, et capituli Derensis, 
 sigillum commune conventus predicti, quod in cvistodia sua prefatus 
 Pater babebat, cuidam fratri Doualdo Ohegerty, canonico dicte do- 
 nuis, in personam totius conventus deliberavit et tradidit ; ipsi fratri 
 Donaldo canonico, et toto conventui, sub pena excommunicationis 
 majoris precepit ut ipsum sigillum in cista communi sub tribus cla- 
 vibus et serruris' quamcitius commode possent reponerent et serva- 
 rent ; clavesque predictas certis personis regularibus ipsius conventus, 
 per totum conventum elegendis, singulas videlz. claves singulis 
 personis traderent conservandas, ipsique abbati sub eadem pena 
 injunxit quod ipse nuUis futuris unquam temporibus custodiam, de- 
 lationem, vel contrectationem ipsius sigilli communis sibi singulariter 
 usurparet. Qui qiiidem abbas sub debito juramenti hoc adimplere 
 promisit. Quibus ita peractis prefatus venerabilis Pater Primas pre- 
 
 dictus 
 
 Rome; the other belonging to the forms 
 which were used on special occasions or 
 with special individuals, and which are 
 still continued. The Roman Pontifical 
 has three several forms in blessing an 
 abbot: i, De Benedictione Abbatis: neque 
 Monachi neque Professi ; 2, De Bene- 
 dictione Abbatis auctoritate apostolica; 
 3, De Benedictione Abbatis auctoritate 
 Ordinarii. The old Pontifical of Exeter 
 has two Ofiices; one the "Benedictio Ab- 
 batis Monachorum," the other the " Be- 
 nedictio Abbatis Canonicorum :" between 
 which the chief difference is, that the latter 
 has prayers for the abbot's diligence " ad 
 regimen animarum." — (pp. 103-1 10. Exe- 
 ter, 1847.) The ancient Canterbury Ponti- 
 
 fical, preserved in Trinity College, Dublin, 
 has only the one Office (fols. cxli. &-cxliii. 
 b) ; as also another MS. Pontifical in the 
 same depository (fols. 120 6-124 i). I" 
 the beautiful Roman Pontifical, Lugduni, 
 15 1 1, there are two forms: "De Benedic- 
 tione Abbatis auctoritate apostolica" (fols. 
 43 6-52 i); and " Si non a sede apostol- 
 ica sed per ordinarium suum" (fols. 526- 
 
 54*). 
 
 ' Clavibus et serruris. — The same regu- 
 lation is in force, though not observed, 
 regarding the parish churches of Ireland ; 
 in eachof which there should be a "Coffer" 
 for the parochial registry, and a " Chest" 
 for the alms, secured as above. — Canons 
 46 and 96. 
 
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 dictus versus villain Derraitii Ocathan cum comitiva sua processit. 
 Testibus iu actis hujus diei venerabili Patre domino Cornelio epis- 
 copo Rathpotensi et aliis proxime suprascriptis. 
 
 Anno, indictioue, et pontificatu predictis, die vero Lune proxima 
 ante festum Sancti Luce Evangeliste, xv°*"- die mensis Octobris, Deca- 
 nus, Archidiaconus, et ceteri de capitulo Derensi coram prefato 
 domino Archiepiscopo et custode in villa Dermitii Ocathan Derensis 
 diocesis comparentes ipsum rogarunt ut feriam tertiam proxime 
 sequentem in ecclesia parochiali de BenchorJ ejusdem Derensis dio- 
 cesis 
 
 ' Benchor. — Now Banagher, in the ba- 
 rony ofKeenaght, about fourteen miles 
 S. E. of Derry. The ruins of the old 
 parish church are by far the most inte- 
 resting in the diocese, not only on account 
 of the massive square-headed door in the 
 west end, and the curious rounded win- 
 dows in the south wall, but also on ac- 
 count of the remarkable quadrilateral 
 building, which holds the same relation to 
 it as regards distance and bearing which 
 the round towers do in general to other 
 churches ; and the tomb of the patron 
 saint in the cemetery on the south. Sketches 
 and descriptions of these may be seen in 
 the Dublin Penny Journal, vol. i. p. 380; 
 and Petrie's Essay on the Eound Towers 
 of Ireland, p. 448. 
 
 In the Kental which is attached to this 
 record the name is written Bangoria, and 
 tlius helps to prove the identity of Ba- 
 nagher and Bangor. In Wales the ori- 
 ginal word beaiindiup appears only in 
 
 the latter form ; in Scotland in the former ; 
 and in Ireland in both. Bangor in the 
 county of Down has occasionally been 
 confounded with the Welsh Bangor, to 
 guard against which the Irish annalists 
 occasionally distinguish them, calling the 
 Irish one beanncap Ukift, 'Bangor of 
 Uladh' (as in Annal. Inisf, 609; Four 
 Mast., 600, 611, 666), and the Welsh 
 benncap bpironum, ' Bangor of the 
 Britons" (as in Tigli., 672, Ulst., 671); or 
 beanncap mop, ' Great Bangor' (as Tig. 
 756, Ul. 755, which O'Conor incorrectly 
 refers to Ireland in Rer. Hib. SS. iii. 
 p. 273); or benncap mop m biurannia, 
 'Great Bangor in Britain' (as Uls. 631). 
 
 The ancient Welsh monastery, styled 
 Banckor-is-y-coed, ' Bangor subtersylvam,' 
 to distinguish it from Banchor Vaur, ' Great 
 Bangor,' the episcopal seat on the Meanath 
 or Menai, is situated a short distance west 
 of Chester, and is noticed by Venerable Bede 
 under the name " Bancor," " lingua An- 
 '2 
 
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 cesis eis concederet ad faciendum et expediendum ac recipiendum 
 omnia et singula ad que prius citati fuerunt. Qui quidera dominus 
 Archiepiscopus, Primas, et custos predictus prefatos diem et locum, 
 videlz. xvi" diem ejusdem mensis Octobris in ecclesia de Benchor 
 Derensis diocesis, ad faciendum et recipiendum quod juris fuerit pro 
 tribunali sedendo eis prefixit et etiam assignavit. Consequenter 
 eisdem die et loco, videlz. xv" die Octobris in villa Dermitii Ocatlian 
 accessit ad dictum dominum Primatem quedam matrona Ovvna filia 
 Oconcliir'' dicens se fore uxorem legitimam Magonii Ocathan sue 
 
 capitanei 
 
 twelfth century. St. Fintan, the patron 
 saint of Bovevaghin this territory, was of 
 the same family, being eighth in descent 
 from Tadhg, son of Cian, their common 
 ancestor. From the pedigree of " Ui Con- 
 chobhairCiannachta," preserved in M'Fir- 
 bis' genealogical work [p. 669 d, e], we 
 learn that the following lords of Cian- 
 nachta-Glinne-Geimhin, mentioned by the 
 Four Masters, were of this family : 
 
 A. D. 679, Cennfaoladh, sonof Suibhne. 
 
 A. D. 752, Tomaltach. 
 
 A. D. 881, Donnchuan, son of Congha- 
 lach. 
 
 A. D.I 094, Conchobhar Ua Concho- 
 bliair. 
 
 A. D.I 104, Donnchadh Ua Concho- 
 bhair. 
 
 Soon after the commencement of the 
 twelfth century the O'Conors finally lost 
 their ascendency, for in 1121 Ua hAin- 
 nearraidh [O'Henery] was lord of the 
 territory; and in 11 38 Raghnall, son of 
 lomhar Ua Cathain; after which the fa- 
 mily of Ua Cathain maintained its superio- 
 
 glorum Bancornahurg.'''' — (Hist. Ec. Gent. 
 Angl., Lib. ii. c. 2.) Ussher and, after 
 him, Colgan and others err in deriving 
 the name from Ban-chor, as if " a pulchro 
 vel excelso choro." It is a purely Celtic 
 word. See O'Donovan's Annals of the 
 Four Masters, A. D. 600; Reeves' Eccles. 
 Antiqq., p. 199. 
 
 '' Otmia filia Oconchir. — Una nt Conco- 
 baip. The prefixes and Mac denote 
 male descent, and are never used with 
 names of women by the Irish when writ- 
 ing in their own language; instead of 
 which they prefix Ny, which is translated 
 in the text hy filia. 
 
 The O'Conors were once the leading fa- 
 mily in this territory, and from their an- 
 cestor Cian it received its name, they being 
 the Cliein loclica, ' race of Cian.' This 
 Cian was son of Oilium Olum, king of 
 Munster, who died in the year 234, and 
 was the common ancestor of them and 
 of O'Carroll. They were therefore of a 
 different line from the O'Cahans, who 
 wrested the lordship from them in the 
 
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 capitanei nationis, et ab eo absque judicio ecclesie esse dimissani, et 
 aliam de facto superinductani : unde petiit a prefato domino Primate 
 sibi super hoc de oportuno remedio provideri. Quo audito, ipse 
 dominus Primas et custos dictum Magonium Ocathan ibi prope ex- 
 istentem citari mandavit et fecit peremptorie, propter periculum 
 imminens animarum, ut compareret coram se adstatim petitioni pre- 
 fate Owne in causa matximoniali responsurus, juri pariturus, et aliud 
 facturus et recepturus quod justitia suaderet. Qui Magonius Ocathan' 
 coram predicto venerabih Patre pro tribunali sedente humihter com- 
 paruit, dictusque dominus Primas, ut judex ordinarius episcopatus 
 Derensis ratione custodie antedicte, eidem Magonio Ocathan ex offi- 
 cio suo et ad sahitem anime sue articulando objecit quod ipse quon- 
 dam cum prefata Owna matrimonium per verba de presenti" contraxit, 
 illudque carnali copula confirmavit, et prolem de ea suscitavit, post- 
 inodum absque judicio ecclesie illam propria temeritate diraisit, et 
 alii in amplexibus adulterinis adhesit ; quapropter idem Pater ab eo 
 quesivit si sciret quid dicere quare ad illam reassumendam compelli 
 
 et 
 
 rity until the confiscation of Ulster, while therefore, did not well in objecting- to a 
 
 the O'Conors sank into insignificance, in statement which was perfectly correct. 
 
 which condition they continue to exist to (pp. 242, note ', 243.) 
 this day in the parish of Dungiven. O'Du- ' Magonius Ocathan. — He was the THaj- 
 
 gan, as cited in Cambrensis Eversus, in- niipUa Cacain,sonof CumaifherCooevl, 
 
 troducesO'Oonchabhar with 0'(iormlaidh and lord of Cianachta, whom the Four 
 
 as lords of Cinel-Moain, which was quite Masters notice as at war with Turlogh, 
 
 a different family from these O'Conors, son of Niall O'Donnell, in 1402, and as 
 
 being descended from Loingsech, grandson dying in 1403. 
 
 of Cathan, a quo Ua Cathain, and as such ■» Verba de presenti. — In the canon law 
 
 a kindred tribe to the O'Cathains. M'Fir- two kinds of matrimonial contracts were 
 
 bis designates them theClann Concaboip recognized: one in the verba de futuro, and 
 
 llluige Ice, 'the Clan Conor of Magh the other in the verba de prmsenti. The 
 
 Iha.' — (Gen. MS., p. 128 a.) The editor former was similar to the primitive Spon- 
 
 of the new edition of Cambrensis Eversus, salia or ' Espousals ;' the latter to the 
 
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 et ad cauonicam penam pro tanto excessu agendam compelli non 
 debuit. Qui quidem Magonius Ocathan deliberationem petiit res- 
 pondendi ; qua sibi concessa, post aliqualem tractatum cum consilio 
 suo habitum, dixit respondendo se cum prefata Owna nunquam ma- 
 trimonialiter contraxisse. Uude lite negative contra jurataque hinc- 
 inde de calumpnia adstatim producendos testes si eos prefata Owna 
 in promptu haberet ipsi Owne prefatus Pater prefixit ; ipsaque Owna 
 duos testes statim produxit, videlz. Donaldum Ocathan", et dominum 
 Symonem Ofenaghty", ecclesie cathedralis Derensis canonicum, quibus 
 in presentia prefati Magonii Ocathan in forma juris juratis, renunci- 
 ataque per prefatam ulteriori testium productione, diem crastinum, 
 videlz. xvi". diem Octobris apud Benchor in ecclesia parochiali ad 
 publicandum si canonicum non obsistat, et ad interim examinandum 
 idem Pater partibus assignavit. Cetera vero que hanc causam concer- 
 nunt alibi annotantur. Postea vero accessit ad predictum dominum 
 Primatem alia quedam mulier, videlz. Katerina OdochyrtyP asserens 
 se cum quodam Magonio M'^gellegan"' matrimonialiter contraxisse, et 
 
 per 
 
 Solemnization of Matrimony. "Sponsa- Aibhne, sonsof Dermot O'Cathain, at the 
 
 lia enim de prsesenti sunt ipsum Matri- year 1432. A Donaldus O'Katlian was 
 
 monium ratum non consummatum; nee archdeacon of Derry in 1434-1440. — 
 
 hodie nomine sponsalium signifioari solet, (Reg- Swayne, lib. i. fol. 52 a.) 
 
 nisi expresse addatur, de jircesenti. — Van ° Symonem Ofenagkti/. — Opmneacca, 
 
 Espen, Par. ii. § i, Tit. 12. (Works, vol. o/m pmnpneacca. The name occurs in 
 
 ii. pp. 394, 417.) For the usage of the the Four Masters at the years 1 194, 1225. 
 
 ancient Church regarding Sponsalia, see It is now called Feenaghty. There was a 
 
 Bingham's Antiqq., Lib. xxii. 0-3 (Works, sept of this name on either side of the 
 
 vol. vii. pp. 308-326); and for a valuable River Suck, in the modern counties of 
 
 dissertation on the practice of the Irish Galway and Roscommon. They were dis- 
 
 Church, see Lanigan's Eccl. Hist., cap. possessed by a branch of the Burkes called 
 
 xxvi. (vol. iv. pp. 70-72.) Mac David. See O'Donovaa under the 
 
 " Donaldvm Ocathan The Four Mas- year 1225. 
 
 ters record the names of Domhnall and p Katerina Odochyrtij — The Irish would 
 
39 
 
 per Archidiaconura Derensem et queudam alium magistrum Johan- 
 nem M'^ege'' in prefata matriraoniali causa judices constitutes ipsi 
 Magonio M'^gellegan in uxorem legittimam sententialiter et diffinitive 
 adjudicatam fuisse ; sed ipsum Magonium M^gellegan, premissis non 
 obstantibus, ipsam absque causa rationabili repudiasse, et alias mu- 
 lieres superinduxisse. Super quo petiit sibi a prefato domino Pri- 
 mate 
 
 write Carailtn ni Docapcaig. 
 
 1 Magonio M^gellefjan The parish of 
 
 Tamlaght-ard was called Ard M'Gillygen 
 in the sixteenth century, from the family 
 who were the hereditary tenants of the 
 twelve quarters of church-land which were 
 in it. In later times the Ard has been 
 dropped, so that this parish appearing on 
 the Ordnance Map as MafjiUigan-vfiW prove 
 a lasting memorial of the family. The 
 only uotice which M'Firbis takes of them 
 is in an enumeration of the families which 
 came from Oilioll, son of Eoghan Brea- 
 dach, where he mentions Ua g'oUain no 
 ^'oUagain, 'Ua Giollain, or Giollagain.' 
 — Geneal. MS., p. 148 d. Muintir Ma- 
 gilligan was also the tribe name of the 
 O'Quins of Annaly in the county of Long- 
 ford. — Four Mast., 1172, 1234. 
 
 ' Johannem M'ege. — More properly 
 Mac Teige, being the Irish patronymic 
 niac Caiftg. The rectory of the church 
 of Drumachose, beside Newtownlima- 
 vaddy, was for some time in this family. 
 In 1367 Augustinus Macthaig was Co- 
 morbanus Sancti Kynnici (Reg. Swete- 
 man, fol. 40 a, h). John Macthaig, his 
 successor, is the subject of the present 
 
 note: on his death Primate Fleming col 
 lated Odo Macthaig to the rectory by an 
 instrument of which the tenor is as fol- 
 lows : " Nicholaus permissione divina Ar- 
 chiepiscopus Ardmacanus, Hibernise Pri- 
 mas, dilecto nobis in Christo magistro 
 Odoni M'thaig ecclesite Derensis cano- 
 nico salutem, gratiam, et benedictionem. 
 Rectoriamecclesiffiparochialis Sancti Kyn- 
 nici de Drumgossa alias de Ro, Derensis 
 diocesis, comorbaniam nuncupatam, per 
 mortem magistri Johannis M'^thaig ul- 
 timi rectoris et comorbani ejusdem, va- 
 cantem et ad nostram collationem hac 
 vice jure devoluto spectantem, tibi confe- 
 rimus intuitu charitatis, teque de eadem 
 investimus, et per annuli nostri traditio- 
 nem instituimus auctorizabiliter in eadem, 
 deceruentes te in corporalem possessionem 
 ejusdem rectoria; sive comorbanias cunj 
 omnibus suis juribus et pertinentiis uni- 
 versis, vel quasi fore realiter inducendum 
 et defendi inductum. In cujus rei testi- 
 monium sigillum nostrum praesentibus est 
 appensum. Dat. apud Dundalke 26 die 
 mens. Octob. An. Dni. 1406, et nostrse 
 consecrationis 3°." — Keg. Fleming, fol. 3 b, 
 also 10 b. See Spelman's Glossary, voc. 
 
40 
 
 mate de remedio provideri. Super quo ipse dominus Primas prefato 
 Magonio M^gellegan vocato et com parent! judicialiter articulavit. 
 Ipso vero Magonio M"'gellegan tam contractum matrimonialem quam 
 etiam omnem hujusmodi adjudicationem inficians jurato hincinde de 
 calumnia, dicta Katerina Odoghyrty in adminiculum probationis sui 
 intenti Archidiaconum Derensem predictum et magistrum Johannem 
 M'^ege, canonicum Derensem, quondam judices in hac causa, testes 
 nominavit : qui de mandato dicti domini Primatis statim citati coram 
 eo comparentes, per ipsum dominum Primatem super prefata adjudi- 
 catione que per eos pretenditur esse facta secreto et singillatim in 
 mei Notarii et duorum testium, videlz. Decani Ardmachani et M. T. 
 Olucheran presentia examinati fuerunt ; qui concorditer deposuerunt 
 quod talem adjudicationem aliquando fecerunt ; diesque datus est 
 Katerine predicte ad secundo producendum in ecclesia parochiali de 
 Benclior in crastinum, videlz. ad diem xvi. hujus mensis Octobris. 
 
 His itaque peractis, prefatus venerabilis Pater, assumptis secum 
 caballis, de providentia et sumptibus Decani Derensis pro victualibus 
 et carriagio apportandis, cum sua comitiva, et cum Decano, Archidia- 
 cono, et aliis de capitulo Derensi processit versus Benclior Derensis 
 diocesis ; quo adveniens, herenaci et incole loci illius pro victualibus 
 hominum et equorum dicti venerabilis Patris et suorum, atque vigi- 
 lia, suis sumptibus providerunt. Testibus in acta hujus diei ut 
 supra. 
 
 Anno, indictione, et pontificatu predictis, die vero xvi. mensis 
 
 Octobris, 
 
 Corba, where the preceding is printed, as we find a Maurice O'Cathain in posses- 
 It is not easy to pronounce from what sion of the rectory of Drumachose in 
 stock they sprung: probably, like the 1428-1458. The name is still common 
 M'Closkeys, they were an oiF-set of the in Keenaght, and is occasionally anglicised 
 O'Cathains. This seems the more likely, by Tir/he and Montagu. 
 
41 
 
 Octobris, prefatus venerabilis Pater, Primas, et custos predictus pro- 
 cessit de Benchor versus prioratum Canonicorum Regularium de Dun- 
 gewyn^ et ibi, ad rogatum Prioris et Conventus, ecclesiametcimiterium 
 
 loci 
 
 ' Dungewyn Dun J5eiriini. Dungiven 
 
 and Glengiven may be latinized ' Muni- 
 tio pellium' and ' Vallis pellium,' and it 
 is a curious coincidence to find tliem both, 
 a thousand years after they received these 
 names, accidentally granted to the Skin- 
 ners' Company. 
 
 The ruins of the priory church are si- 
 tuated a little outside the village, in the 
 townland Dungiven. They consist of a 
 nave measuring forty by twenty feet, and 
 a chancel measuring twenty-two by eigh- 
 teen feet, which communicate by a lofty 
 circular chancel-arch. The building is 
 not uniform in its style, and bears evi- 
 dence of having been added to and altered 
 at various times. The south wall is ex- 
 tremely old, and so probably was the west 
 wall, which is now prostrate ; but the 
 ■whole chancel is of a much later date. A 
 round tower, measuring about fifty feet in 
 height, stood at the S. W. corner, incorpo- 
 rated with the walls of the church, and 
 angular until it reached the spring of the 
 roof, when it assumed its circular form, 
 and was so continued up to the cap. It 
 was undermined by people searching for 
 treasure, and fell about the year 1 784. 
 The conventual buildings have entirely 
 disappeared, owing to the numerous in- 
 terments in the cemetery. 
 
 The earliest mention of this church is 
 
 G 
 
 in the Calendar of the O'Clerys, where is 
 to be found the following entry at the 8th 
 of January: Neaccam o Oungeiiinn 1 
 5-Cianact)a glinne jeninn, A. D. 678. 
 ' Neachtan of Dungiven in Cianacht of 
 Glen-given, A. D. 678.' On referring to 
 the Annals it appears that the death of 
 Meaccan Neip is recorded by the Four 
 Masters at 677, and by the Annals of 
 Ulster at 678. Though the foundation 
 of the priory is referred by Ware to the 
 year 1 100, we do not meet with the name 
 in the Annals of the Four Masters until 
 the year 1 206. According to them Maol- 
 poil Ua Muireadhaigh [OMurray] was 
 prior in 12 15; and Swayne's Eegistry 
 gives Philip Omureadaid as "prior domus 
 beatK MarisB de Dungevin, ordinis Sti. 
 Augustini." So that the family O'Murry 
 would seem to have had some hereditary 
 connexion with this church. At the dis- 
 solution its possessions were : Tirmee- 
 ly [Termeel], Maghery-dungevyn, Bally- 
 wuUy [Ballywiddin], Ownebeg [Owen- 
 beg] ; the tithes of same, and of Leigh- 
 vallychuig, Ballyassoone [Ballyness], and 
 two quarters of Bennade ; with the rec- 
 tory of Boydony in the country of Cor- 
 mac O'Neale. Bannade, commonly called 
 the Benady [bemnpaba], is the valley 
 which terminates in Dungiven; it consists 
 of the townlands Crebarky, Magherabuy, 
 
42 
 
 loci illius, sanguinis effusione polluta, solenniter reconciliavit'. In- 
 colis hujus ville precipiens ut ad procurationem sufBcientem ipsius, 
 hominum, et equorum suorum pro ilia nocte inter se contribuerent, 
 ut est moris, et procurationem liujusmodi ad villam de Benchor, ubi 
 prefatus Pater cum suis eadem nocte esset moraturus, transmitterent. 
 Ipsi vero grattanter ita fecerunt. Ipse vero venerabilis Pater, de 
 prefato Prioratu de Dungewyn usque Benchor eodem die rediens", 
 iterato ecclesiam parocliialem de Benchor ingrediens, et ibi, ante 
 summum altare pro tribunali sedens, Archidiaconum Derensem et 
 omnes alios de capitulo Derensi coram se preconizari fecit: qui 
 coram prefato venerabili Patre Archiepiscopo et Primate ac custode 
 predicto humiliter comparentes, declarata et exposita eisdem per 
 ipsum venerabilem Patrem causa sui adventus ad presens ad diocesem 
 Derensem predictam, videlz. quod propter custodiam spiritualitatis 
 et temporalitatis, ac spii'itualis et temporalis jurisdictionis episcopatus 
 Derensis, ad ipsum et ecclesiam Ardmachanam, ipso episcopatu va- 
 cante, seu aliter pastoris solatio destituti, de antiquissima consue- 
 tudine legitime prescripta et hactenus inconcusse servata etiam et 
 obtenta pertinentis, libere et plenarie exercenda, ibi advenit: quam 
 ut dixit in presentia eorundem ipsis scientibus et tolerantibus, in ca- 
 
 sibus 
 Boviel, Cashel, Tamniaran, Cam, Clunte- naeca Oo ]iiaiilja& t)ia bjiaicpib pop lap 
 geeragli, and Glenshane. Drawings of the peilsi benncaip. ' Gilla-espog-Eoghaiu 
 old church, representing the round tower OHennery, king of Kianachta, was killed 
 in situ, are to be found in Sampson's Me- by his kinsmen in the middle of the ceme- 
 moir of the Chart and Survey of London- tery of Banagher.' The Four Masters 
 derry, p- 328 (410. Lond. 18 14); and in record the deed, but suppress the place. 
 Mason's Parochial Survey, vol. i. p. 302. The present reconciliation is instanced by 
 ' Reconciliavit. — The Annals of Ulster Archdall under Dungiven (Monast. Hib., 
 have recorded the following case of homi- p. 92), his authority being Sir J. Ware, 
 cide which took place at the neighbouring who made the extract from our record, 
 church of Banagher: An. 1121, 5'tla- " Eediciis. — Banagher is only two miles 
 
 eppoic 6050111 hua bQinOiapaift pi Cia- three quarters distant from Dungiven. 
 
43 
 
 sibus diversis exercuit et exercere intendit, prout ipse et predeces- 
 sores sui in aliis diocesibus provincie Ardraachane vacantibus, et 
 maxime in diocese et episcopatu Derensi vacante, libere exercuit, et 
 exercuerunt sui predecessores singuli suis temporibus. Unde ipse 
 venerabilis Pater Primas et custos predictus ipsos omnes et singulos 
 monuit sub pena juris quod omnes et singuli sibi et suis successori- 
 bus, Archiepiscopis Ardmachanis, Hibernie Primatibus, qui pro tem- 
 pore fuerint, ut eorum judici ordinario loco episcopi soli et insolidum, 
 ratione custodie antedicte, fideliter in omnibus obedirent, ac ipsum, 
 tanquam prout fuit et est eorum judicem ordinarium pretextu cus- 
 todie antedicte, et nullum alium recognoscerent, confiterentur, et 
 admitterent cum efFectu, satisfactionemque competentem de receptis 
 per eos et quemlibet eorum de redditibus, possessionibus, seu emo- 
 lumentis quibuscunque episcopatus predicti, spiritualibus vel tempo- 
 ralibus, prefato Patri prestarent, et quilibet eorum prestaret ; peni- 
 tentiamque canonicam et legalem ab eo reciperent pro commissis, 
 et quod ipsi vel aliquis eorundem custodiam spiritualitatis vel tem- 
 poralitatis aut aliquam administrationem episcopatus predicti ipso 
 vacante ullis unquam temporibus nunquam de cetero vendicarent, 
 usurparent, aut quomodolibet exercerent, aut eorum aliquis exerce- 
 ret ; sed prefatam custodiam et omnimodam jurisdictionem episco- 
 palem, spiritualem et temporalem, prefato domino J. Archiepiscopo 
 Ardmachano, Hibernie Primati, et ejus successoribus, integre et ple- 
 narie, pro perpetuo pro eis et eorum successoribus, in pace dimitte- 
 rent. Quibus quidem declaratione protestatione et monitione per 
 ipsum venerabilem Patrem propositis, Decanus, Archidiaconus De- 
 rensis, et ceteri omnes et singuli de capitulo"' Derensi ibi presentes 
 
 et 
 
 " Capitulo — The Chapter consisted at ration from the Canons regular of the 
 this period of a Dean, Archdeacon, and Dubh Regies. Their names are recited on 
 ten Canons, who formed a distinct corpo- the next and the following pages. 
 
 G2 
 
44 
 
 et Capitulum facientes, unanimiter responderunt pure ac sponte, et 
 judicialiter confess! fuerunt omnimodara jurisdictionem episcopalein 
 spiritualem et temporalem episcopatus Derensis, ipso vacante seu 
 pastoris solatio destituto, voluntariam et etiam contensiosam, ad ipsum 
 venerabilem Patrem dominum J. Archiepiscopum Ardmaclianuiii, 
 Hibernie Primateni, et ad ejus predecessores ac successores qui pro 
 tempore fuerunt, necnon et custodiam spiritualitatis et temporalitatis, 
 ac spiritualis jurisdictionis, et etiam temporalis, perceptionemque 
 reddituum, fructuum, et emolumentorum spiritualium et tempora- 
 lium, ad episcopatum ipsum pertinentium, pertinuisse, pertinere, et 
 pertinere debere solos et insolidum, et ad nullos alios quoscunque: 
 et ideo Decanus et Archidiaconus et alii omnes et singuli de Ca- 
 pitulo ibi presentes promiserunt quod erunt de cetero obedientes 
 etiam et fideles prefato domino Johanni, Arcliiepiscopo et Primati, 
 et ejus sviccessoribus, qui pro tempore fuerint, tanquam prout est 
 custodi spiritualitatis et temporalitatis, spiritualis et temporalis juris- 
 dictionis episcopatus Dereusis, ipso vacante, et eorum ut episcopo ac 
 judici ordinario, vacatione episcopatus predicti durante ; et ad hec 
 omnia et singula facienda, implenda, et fideliter observanda, prefatus 
 Decanus et Archidiaconus Derensis et alii de capitulo Derensi ibi 
 presentes, et Capitulum facientes, corporale prestiterunt, et quilibet 
 eorum prestitit, tactis sacrosanctis Evangeliis^ juramentum. Quorum 
 nomina hie sequuntur : magister Willielmus M^kamajU, Decanus 
 Derensis ; magister Willielmus Ocathan, Archidiaconus Derensis ; 
 
 magister 
 
 '' Eoangeliis. — Until the arrival of the when the Gospels were used it was not 
 
 English the custom of swearing on the uncommon to introduce some other object 
 
 holy Evangelists was unknown to the to render the oath doubly binding. Thus 
 
 Irish, who resorted, instead, to croziers, in a monition directed by Priiuate Prene 
 
 bells, and other sacred reliquaries, to give to O'Neill he requires him to be sworn 
 
 solemnity to their declarations. Even " tactis sacrosanctis Dei evangeliis ad ea, 
 
45 
 
 magister Johannes IVMieyge ; magister Donaldus M'^glachlyn^' ; ma- 
 gister David Omorysan'' ; dominus Laiirentius M'^Calmer'* ; magister 
 
 Mauritius 
 
 et super Baculum Jesu in ecclesia cathe- 
 dral! Sancta; Trinitatis Dublin." — (Reg. 
 Prene, fol. 117.) 
 
 1 M'cjlacUijn Dorimall mac Laclainn. 
 
 The Mac Lachlanns, or O'Lachlanns as 
 they were sometimes called, were descend- 
 ed from Eoghan, son of Niall of the Nine 
 Hostages, and were akin to the O'Neills. 
 In the eleventh and following century 
 they were the chiefs of Cenel Eoghain, 
 but in the thirteenth they yielded to the 
 superior power of the collateral family, 
 and, although they continued numerous, 
 they were never able to recover their su- 
 premacy. The name is still common in 
 the forms Mac Loughlin and O^Lovyhlin. 
 
 ' Omori/san. — Ollluipguipain, which is 
 the Irish form of the name, signifies ' little 
 mariner,' and may be latinized Pdagia- 
 nus. M'Firbis does not notice this family 
 in his genealogical work, but mentions 
 Ua TTluipjiupa, ' OMorrissy,' of the race 
 of Eoghan. The O'Morrissons in the se- 
 venteenth century were numerous in the 
 north-eastern parts of Donegal, and in the 
 General Pardons for that county in the 
 reign of James I. the name is of frequent 
 occurrence. — (Rot. Pat. Jac. I., pp. 136 h, 
 137 a.) A rescript from Pope Martin V., 
 preserved in Primate Swayne's registry, 
 mentions a Melrach Omuirgiussan as late 
 perpetual vicar of Fathan, circa 1430. 
 The Donegal Inquisition, sped at Liffer in 
 
 1609, finds that of the six quarters of 
 church lands in the parish of Clonmany 
 three were given in Collumkille's time, 
 one of which, " named Donally, is free to 
 Donnogh O'Morreesen, whoe is the abbot's 
 corbe, and the busshop Derrie's herenagh 
 of those three quarters :" — " that the other 
 three quarters of the said sixe quarters 
 church land were given by the O'Dogher- 
 ties and O'Donells to Collumkill, as a de- 
 dicacon toward his vestiments when he 
 went to warre, which said three quarters, 
 together with the said other third quarter, 
 beinge free, were given to the auncestors 
 of the said Donogh O'Morreeson, who 
 in those dales were servaunts to Colum- 
 kills :" — " and that in the said parishe 
 are sixe gortes of glebe, whereof three 
 gortes belonge to the viccar, and thotlier 
 fower [three?] gortes to the keeper of the 
 missagh or ornaments left by Columkill." 
 — (Ul. Inq., App. V.) This reliquary, or 
 Meeshach as it is called, was preserved iu 
 Inishowen till within the last century, 
 when it was obtained in the neighbour- 
 hood of Fahan by Dr. Thomas Barnard, 
 eldest son of the then bishop of Derry. 
 This clergyman having been successively 
 archdeacon and dean of Derry, bishop of 
 Killaloe and of Limerick, died in 1806, 
 and on the sale of his effects, the Meeshach 
 was purchased by Mr. Vallence, a book- 
 seller of Dublin, from whom it passed to 
 
46 
 
 ^lauritius OKynnele'' ; magister Rogerus OduylP ; magister Symon 
 Ofenaghty ; magister Odo M'^heyg ; magister Mauritius Ocathan ; 
 magister Johannes Ocassely**. 
 
 Quibus 
 
 Mr. Jones, tlie auctioneer, then to Sir W. 
 Betham, and from him to the late Duke 
 of Susses ; at whose sale it was bought by 
 Mr. Rodd, the bookseller, for £20, who 
 transferred it at that price to Lord Adare ; 
 and thus it found its way to the place of 
 all others best suited to be its depository, 
 the College of St. Columba, where it ex- 
 ists, a monument of ancient art and of 
 recent munificence. In Sir W. Betham's 
 Antiquarian Researches there is a drawing 
 of it, which represents not only the part 
 which remains of the original design, but 
 also the incongruous additions which were 
 made to the case, by way of a restoration, 
 by some tasteless mechanic. An impor- 
 tant part, however, has escaped in the sil- 
 ver frame of the upper surface, on which 
 is an inscription in Irish letters, that con- 
 nects the reliquary with the family under 
 notice. It is to this effect: bpicin mac 
 bp. 1 llluipsiurpa 00 cunmaig me G D° 
 m"'ccccc"p:;t;ciin. ' Brian, son of Brian 
 OMuirgiussan, covered me, Anno Domini 
 1534.' With this date agrees the style 
 of the letter, which is angular, and pos- 
 sesses neither the beauty nor the distinct- 
 ness of the early character. But in the 
 Antiquarian Researches the inscription is 
 made to tell of a remote situation, and of 
 A still remoter age: "Brian, the son of 
 Brian of the sea-shore of Moy, covered 
 
 me Anno Domini 503, in the month of 
 
 " — (p. 2 1 7.) In dealing with such a 
 
 miracle of chronology common sense and 
 eye-sight prescribe this rule: " Subtract 
 the month and add 1 000 years : the sum 
 is the number which the graver carved." 
 
 " ]\['Cabner. — Tllac 5ioUamuipe is 
 probably the Irish name which assumes 
 the present form. In the Irish Journal 
 of 1641-7 we find Cnpi mac gillaniuipe 
 priest of Drumrath in this diocese. The 
 family was once a powerful one in that 
 part of the county of Down which now 
 forms the barony of Lower Castlereagh. 
 See Reeves' Ec. Ant., p. 339. Maolpeter 
 M'Calmain was coarb of St. Cainnech in 
 Keenaght, A.D. 1206. — Four Mast. 
 
 ^ OKynnele. — OCmnpaolaift, now com- 
 monly known in Donegal and Tyrone as 
 M^Girdeyand. M^Kinlay. In the General 
 Pardons, temp. Jac. I., for Donegal, we 
 meet the name in the forms M^Gennelie, 
 M'Gennell — (Pat. Jac. I., p. 1 75 a, b.) 
 Hugh oge O'Donell M'Ginell was a juror 
 at the Inquisition of LiflTer in 1609; and 
 Donogh M'Genyll of Clonokorker, gent., 
 at another in 161 3. 
 
 ' Oduyll. — l?uai6pi ODubgoiU. In Ire- 
 land the vulgar form which the name as- 
 sumes is Doyle, in Scotland Dougall and 
 Dugald. The Clann Dubgaill of the 
 Scotch were a branch of the M'Donnells. 
 
47 
 
 Quibus promissionibus et juraraentis factis et prestitis, iidem ca- 
 pitulares prefatum dominum Primatem afFectuose rogarunt ut nuUi 
 layco potenti" aliquas possessiones spirituales vel temporales episco- 
 patus Derensis ad firmam concederet, ne illas layci hujusmodi, modico 
 colore quesito, in dampnum ecclesie, contra voluntatem illorum quo- 
 rum interest, postea detinerent. Ad quod prefatus Pater libenter 
 assensit. Rogaruntque iidem capitulares dictum venerabilem Patrem 
 secundo quod ipse aliquos de capitulo Derensi suos subcustodes et 
 commissarios et collectores reddituum et jurium episcopalium ad 
 usum ipsius Primatis in ipsa diocese deputaret. Qui quidem vene- 
 rabilis Pater, habita super hoc deliberatione aliquali, factaque per 
 Decanum, Archidiaconum, et capitulares predictos renunciatione ex- 
 pressa, pro se et suis successoribus, pure et sponte et etiam absolute, 
 omnis juris seu tituli eis seu eorum alicui in custodia spiritualitatis 
 et temporalitatis, spiritualis et temporalis jurisdictionis episcopa- 
 tus Derensis, ipso vacante seu pastoris solatio destituto, quomodo- 
 cunque competentis seu competituri: datisque prefato domino Ar- 
 
 chiepiscopo 
 
 See M'Firbis, p. 360 c, 361 a. In Ulidia shop Montgomery thus writes to James I. : 
 
 there was a family of Ui DubgaiU, called " Theise lands did never paye rent, nor 
 
 from DubgaU mac dota. — Reeves' Eo- any other duetye or acknowledgement, 
 
 cles. Ant., p. 361. unto any other person but onely to the 
 
 ■^ Ocassely. — la the year 1429, "Patrick Bishop untill the rebellion of Shane 
 
 Ocassaly, colideus eoclesife Armachana;," ONeell, who for the mayntenance of his 
 
 was ordained " ad titulum ejusdem." — rebellion ymposed and exacted cuttings 
 
 (Reg. Swayne.) O'Cassely appears among owt of the Church lands as well as the 
 
 the Donegal names in the General Par- temporall, the Byshops being not then 
 
 dons.— (Rot. Pat., pp. 136 &, 138 a.) It hable to resist him." — "As appeareth 
 
 was never one of any note, and is now also by two several! letters of Tirone him 
 
 called Cushehj, which a public character self wryten unto the nowe Bishop, w"" 
 
 lately exchanged for CosteUoe. he hath lykewyse readye to sho we, wherein 
 
 ' Layco potenti — Speakingof thechurch- he Tirone offereth the Bishop xx' ster- 
 
 lands in Derry, Clogher, and Raphoe, bi- ling yearely over and above the old rent, 
 
48 
 
 chiepiscopo a prefato Decano Derensi uno equo, et de Archidiacono 
 Derensi uno alio equo, nomine et in parte satisfactionis pro redditi- 
 bus et aliis emolumentis episcopalibus per ipsos et eorum quemlibet, 
 episcopatu vacante, indebite receptis, prefatus Pater dominum Deca- 
 num Ardmachanum, Decanum Derensem, Archidiaconum Derensem, 
 magistrum Thomam Oludieran canonicum Ardmachanum, et Mau- 
 ritium Ocathan canonicum Derensem suos subcustodes et commis- 
 sarios, ac coUectores reddituum et emolumentorum episcopaliura in 
 ipsa diocese Derensi, ipso episcopatu vacante, sub certa forma depu- 
 tavit, et literas suas patentes inde fieri mandavit et fecit ; quarum 
 tenor patet in Registro. 
 
 Quibus sic peractis, accessit ad ipsura venerabilem Patrem quidam 
 procurator Magonii M'^gellegan in causa matrimoniali predicta apud 
 acta coram venerabili Patre, in mei et testium infrascriptorum pre- 
 seutia constitutus, et judicialiter proposuit coram eo quod si contin- 
 geret ipsam Katerinam probaret quod ipsa aliquando contraxit cum 
 prefato Magonio M'^gelgan domino suo, quod non fatetur, vel si con- 
 tingat ipsam adjudicationem de qua dictum est supra probare, ipse 
 procurator offert se probaturum quod antequam dicta Katerina cum 
 ipso Magonio M'^gelgan, domino suo, quod non fatetur, vel si contin- 
 gat ipsam adjudicationem de qua dictum est supra probare, ipse pro- 
 curator offert se probaturum quod antequam dicta Katerina cum ipso 
 Magonio M'^gelgan domino suo quomodocunque contraxit, ipse Ma- 
 gonius, dominus suus, cum quadam alia, videlz. cum More filia 
 M'^glosky' matrimonium legitime precontraxit ; quam quidem mate- 
 
 riam 
 
 yf the Byshop would permit him quyetly 5016. The names which begin with Mac 
 
 to enjoys the lands, w'*" he would not in Irish are, generally speaking, much 
 
 have done yf they had byn formerly his more modern than those which commence 
 
 owne" — Ord. Mem. of Tempi., pp. 51, 52. with 0, and, for the most part, belong to 
 
 ' MoreJUia M'Glosky. — TTlop nf blop- branches of families which struck oiFlong 
 
49 
 
 riam ipse petiit admitti, et fieri quod est juris. Vnde prcfatus do- 
 minus Primas, discussionem liujus cause vacare non valens, ad con- 
 silium et petitionem Decani, Archidiaconi, et capituli Derensis, 
 ciognitionem et diffinitionem cause ipsius magistris Willielmo Archi- 
 diacono Derensi, et Johanni M^heyge, viva voce commisit, et suum 
 hospitium introivit: herenacus vero et incole ville de necessariis que 
 defuerunt et de vigilia suis sumptibus providerunt. 
 
 Anno, indictione, et pontificatu predictis, die vero xvii. mensis 
 Octobris, post missam in ecclesia de Benchor, Derensis diocesis, mane 
 auditam, venerunt ad venerabilem Patrem predictum in suo liospitio 
 constitutum Decanus Derensis et alii de capitulo Derensi rogantes 
 
 ut 
 
 after the had been established in the 
 name. So it was with TDac bhlop5ai&, 
 the present M'Closlcey, which belonged to 
 a junior branch of the O'Cathan family. 
 The Four Masters, at the year 1196, 
 make mention of "Donoitgh, son of Blos- 
 gadh O'Kane," upon which Professor 
 O'Donovan observes : " That this Blosgy 
 is the ancestor of the numerous clans of 
 the Mac Closkeys in the county of Lon- 
 donderry can scarcely be doubted." In 
 the Latin records of the Armagh registry 
 we find the radical B, which is now lost 
 in the c of the Mac, appearing: thus A. D. 
 1427, "Mauritius M'^blosgaigh canonicus 
 Derensis;" 1430, " Dermicius M'blos- 
 gaid canonicus Derensis." — (Eeg.Swayne.) 
 In tlie diocese of Down there was a parish 
 whose name was derived from this family ; 
 and in Connor there were two rectors 
 of Baliymoney called " M'Closcaid" and 
 
 " M'Bloske." See Reeves' Eccl. Ant., 
 pp. 8, 81. The Rev. Alexander Ross, 
 late rector of Banagher and Dungiven, a 
 few days before his lamented death, made 
 the following communication to the Edi- 
 tor: "One side of the Benade Glen, to 
 the south-east of the river Roe, is almost 
 entirely inhabited by M'Closkys. The 
 most aboriginal race of that clan is found 
 in the townland Cluntegeerah [parish of 
 Dungiven] ; there the vernacular language 
 is still used, and the Ossianic poems, handed 
 down by tradition, were found some years 
 ago. There are two distinct families of 
 M'Closkys in that place, one having red 
 hair and fair complexions, the other black 
 hair and dark, each priding themselves 
 on their own peculiarity." — Feb. 4, 1850. 
 Their prevalent Christian names are Pa- 
 trick, Ever, Brian, and Owen. The name 
 used to be latinized Bloscamis. 
 
 H 
 
5° 
 
 ut diffinitiones et ordinatioues circa statum et regimen monasterii 
 Derensis que Nigra Cella de Deria nuncupatur in scriptis diniitteret, 
 et executores aliquos ad diffinitionum ipsarum solidiorem observan- 
 tiam deputaret. Qui quidem venei-abilis Pater quasdam diffinitiones 
 et ordinationes in scriptis redactas, et suo sigillo auctentico consigna- 
 tas, prefato Decano Derensi tradidit, ipseque Decanus easdem or- 
 dinationes fratri Odoni abbati ejusdem loci ibidem personaliter 
 constituto deliberavit, quarum diffinitionum tenor alibi in Registro 
 habetur. Insuper, ad requisitionem Decani, Archidiaconi, et aliorum 
 de capitulo Derensi, idem venerabilis Pater literas monitionum, sus- 
 pensionum, excommunicationum, et interdicti, contra Odompnaill'*, 
 Odogherty'', Ocathan', OgarmelyJ, Donatum et Bernardum filios 
 
 Henrici 
 
 s Odompnaill. — The O'Donnell at this 
 time was Turlogh, surnamed an Fliiona, 
 ' of the wine.' He was son of Niall Ciarbh, 
 and succeeded to the lordship of Tir Con- 
 aill in 1380, having slain, at Assaroe, his 
 first-cousin John, whohad held thelordship 
 from 1356. His retirement is thus re- 
 cordedbythe FourMastersat 1422 : "Tur- 
 logh, son of Niall Garbh O'Donnell, Lord 
 of Tirconnell, took the habit of a monk in 
 the monastery of Assaroe [beside Bally- 
 shannon], after gaining victory over this 
 present world; and his own son, Niall 
 Garbh, was inaugurated in his place." 
 
 '' Odoghertij. — Donnell O'Dogherty, 
 chief of Ardmiodhair and the cantred of 
 Tir-Enda, died in 1342, and was succeed- 
 ed by John his son. Conchobhar, sur- 
 named an Einigh, ' the Hospitable,' son of 
 this John, was the head of the family in 
 1397, and continued so till 141 3, under 
 
 which year his death is thus recorded by 
 the Four Masters : " Connor O'Doherty, 
 chief of Ardmire [in Stranorlar], and lord 
 of Inishowen, a man full of generosity and 
 general hospitality to the wretched and 
 the poor, died." 
 
 ' Ocathan. — Maghnus, sonof Cumaighe, 
 or Cooey, O'Kane, lord of Kianachta, died 
 in 1403. He was succeeded by Dermod 
 O'Kane, lord of Kianachta and Creeve, 
 who died in 1428. 
 
 ' Ogarmelij. — Ua 5Q'rii^''6a&ai5, for- 
 merly called O'Gormly, and now known in 
 Tyrone and Donegal as Grumlij. This fa- 
 mily was the chief one of the tribe called 
 Cinel Moain, whose seat was upon the east 
 side of Magh-Ith, now the barony of Ra- 
 phoe,and included the parishes of Donagh- 
 more, Clonleigh, and part of Urney ; being 
 that portion of the diocese of Derry which, 
 with Inishowen, lies in the county of Do- 
 
Henrici OneylP, propter usurpationeni jurium episcopalium ecclesie 
 Derensis, diversis persouis directas, prefato Decano Derensi tradidit 
 
 et 
 
 negal; extending also towards Ardstraw 
 Bridge in the county of Tyrone. See 
 Four Masters, A. D. 1178, 1179. On two 
 occasions the kindred family of O'Luinigh, 
 which afterwards gave name to the Mun- 
 tirloney mountains in Tyrone, furnished 
 chiefs to the tribe, namely in 1090 and 
 1 178. The Four Masters always express 
 the dignity of O'Gormly by the term 
 caoipeac, which was inferior in rank to 
 the ogeaiina, or ' lord,' and is explained 
 
 capitaneushy 0'F\a.herty (Ogyg., p. 27.) 
 
 The last chief of the family recorded in 
 the Annals is Molaghlin, who died in 
 1 340. From that time forward the O'Don- 
 nells usurped the authority, and included 
 the lordship of the tribe in their own ti- 
 tles. Thus in 1342 died " Conor, the son 
 of Hugh O'Donnell, lord of Cinel Con- 
 nell, Lower Connaught, Fermanagh, duel 
 Moain, and Inishowen." Again, in 1423, 
 " Turlogh O'Donnell, lord of Tirconnell, 
 Cinel Moain, and Inishowen." On ac- 
 count of this declension of the family the 
 pedigree of the Cineal TTIhoen, i. e. Ua 
 ^aipmleftoig, descends no lower than 
 Conchobhar, son of the Maoileachlan, who 
 died in 1 340. The Annals indeed make 
 mention of Henry O'Gormly, who was 
 slain in 1401 by Brian, sou of Henry 
 O'Neill, in an expedition which he made 
 through Cinel Moain into Tirconnell ; 
 and of Niall O'Gormly, heir to the chief- 
 
 H 
 
 tainship, who died in 1406; but the family 
 had gone down, and thenceforward native 
 records lose sight of them. The origin of 
 the tribe and family names is thus shown 
 in their pedigree: 
 
 Niall of the Nine Hostages, king of Ire- 
 land, A. D. 379. 
 EoGHAN, founder of the Cinel-Eoghain. 
 
 MuiREADHACn. 
 
 i 
 Moain, a quo the Cinel Moain. 
 I 
 
 COLMAN. 
 
 I 
 Faolan. 
 
 I 
 Eudalaigh. 
 
 I 
 Tendalach, a quo the Clann Tendalaigh. 
 
 I 
 Gairmleadhach, a quo Ua Gairmloadh- 
 
 aigh, or O'Gormly. 
 
 Aulif, son of Menman, seventh in 
 
 descent from him, was slain in 
 
 II 79. — See M'Firbis, p. 139, b, c. 
 
 ^ Filios Henrici Oneyll. — Henry O'Neill, 
 surnamed Qinipeift (^Avrey), or ' the Con- 
 tentious,' by antiphrasis, he being of a 
 most peaceable disposition, was son of 
 Niall More, and was married to Affric 
 ny Neill, daughter of Aodh O'Neill his 
 grandfather, whose death is recorded by 
 the Four Masters at 1389. He had issue 
 Domhnall, Brian More, Niall, Euaidhri, 
 Seaan, and Henry. He was next in suc- 
 cession to the lordship of Tyrone, but did 
 not outlive his elder brother, Niall Oge, 
 
52 
 
 et deliberavit. Consequenter quoque quandam dissensionem inter 
 duos incolas ville de Benchor predicte super liereuacia' ville ipsius 
 
 idem 
 
 who was in the enjoyment of that dignity. 
 He died in 1392. After his death his 
 sons formed a party, under the name of 
 Glann Henry, and for several years dis- 
 tinguished themselves by their exploits 
 against O'Donnell, O'Neill, and the Eng- 
 lish, until 1399, when they attacked the 
 English at Dundalk, and Domhnall was 
 made prisoner and sent to England. He 
 was ransomed, however, in 1401. This 
 Domhuall, whose name is latinized Dona- 
 fus in the text, and who was surnamed 
 bog, or ' Soft,' assumed the lordship of 
 Tyrone in 1403, his uncle Niall Oge hav- 
 ing died in the preceding year. After 
 many vicissitudes of fortune, in which he 
 ■was sometimes triumphant and sometimes 
 a prisoner, he was slain in 1432 in Keen- 
 aght, by Domhnall and Aibhne, sons of 
 the Dermod O'Kane of whom we have al- 
 ready spoken at p. 29. On his death the 
 lordship reverted to his cousin Owen, son 
 of Niall Oge, who was inaugurated on the 
 Leac-na-lliogh at Tullaghoge. His bro- 
 ther, Brian Jlor, whose name is Latin- 
 ized above by the usual form Bernardus, 
 was slain in 1401 by O'Donnell, while 
 on a predatory expedition in Tirconnell. 
 Hugh, another brother, was alive in 141 2 ; 
 Niall died in 1430; and Niall Roe in 1432. 
 The descendants of the family were sub- 
 sequently known by the name of pliocc 
 Cnpi Quiipei6, ' the race of Henry Avrey' 
 
 (Annals, 1470, 1482); but they lost their 
 influence, and were never after able to 
 regain the lordship of Cineal Eoghain. 
 
 The chief seat of the family was near 
 Newtown Stewart, in the parish of Ard- 
 straw, where some curious traditions of 
 " Henry Ouree" are still preserved. Dr. 
 Fitzgerald, who knew nothing concerning 
 this individual but what he had learned 
 from local tradition, thus writes in his 
 Statistical Account of Ardstraw : "There 
 are three old castles in the parish ; the 
 most ancient is that above Newtown 
 Stewart, which I have already taken no- 
 tice of: it stands on a high hill, a little to 
 the south-west of the town, and has two 
 round towers and a platform. The towers, 
 except on the north side, are entire. This 
 castle belonged to Henry O'Neal, who, 
 accoi'ding to tradition, was king of Ulster 
 in the fifth [rather Jifteeiith'^ century: he 
 was called by a name which signifies in 
 Irish C7'0ss or ivicl.ed, as characteristic of 
 his temper." The writer then proceeds 
 to relate one of the traditions concerning 
 this Henry. The other two castles are 
 believed to have been erected by Henry's 
 brothers, or more probably his sons. One 
 called Cashlin Moyle stood near the junc- 
 tion of Struell and Glenelly rivers, about 
 eighty yards west of the glebe-house, and 
 gave to the townland the name of Castle- 
 moyle. The other stood in a line between 
 
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 idem venerabilis Pater, ad requisitionem Decani, Archidiaconi, et 
 capituli Derensis ibi presentiura, sententialiter et difBnitive sopivit. 
 Deinde, ad requisitionem predictorum Decani, Archidiaconi, et om- 
 nium de capitulo Derensi ibidem presentium, idem venerabilis Pater 
 quandam rectoriam ecclesie de Dromogarvan", Derensis diocesis, de 
 
 jure 
 
 the two former, in a plain on the east of 
 Newtown Stewart, called the Holme, and 
 was built on a mound which still remains. 
 Besides these there was a castle on a small 
 island in the most northerly of the three 
 lakes of Baron's Court demesne, which 
 was called Island Mac Hugh. See Paro- 
 chial Survey, vol. i. pp. 116-119. 
 
 ' Super herenacia. — Theherenagh lands 
 in this parish, which were confirmed to 
 the see by the Patent of James I., were 
 Derkreayr, Templemoyle, the Aghleske, 
 Ballnetempell, Trayavan, Karnan, and the 
 half balliboe of Killownaght, which six 
 towns or balliboes contained two quarters 
 and a half of a balliboe. — (Rot. Pat. Jac. I., 
 p. 279 b.) They are now known by the 
 names of Derrychrier, Templemoyle or 
 Caugh, Aughlish, and Killunaght, on the 
 north-western side of the O wenreagh river ; 
 and Magheramore, Teeavan, and Carnan- 
 bane, on the south-eastern side. The old 
 church is in Magheramore, formerly called 
 Ballintemple, but the townland is chiefly 
 tenanted by Protestant settlers. The town- 
 land Templemoyle, so called from the 
 ceampull niaol, or the Eccksia mntila sive 
 imperfecta, the foundations of which yet 
 remain in it, is about the best church land 
 
 in the parish, and serves as an exception to 
 the general rule, in that it is occupied by 
 Roman Catholics, while the higher and 
 less productive land has been tenanted 
 by Protestants. Among the native Irish 
 tenants of this townland there are a good 
 many O'Heneys, who are probably the 
 descendants of the original herenachs, the 
 patron saint of this parish being Muriedh- 
 ach O'Heney, and his date some time in 
 the eleventh or twelfth century. 
 
 ■" Dromogarvan. — In the ancient Taxa- 
 tion of the diocese this church is called 
 Deregaruan. The latest record in which 
 the Editor has found mention of the name 
 is in the Dungannon Inquisition of 1609, 
 where it is noticed in these words : "Taw- 
 laghtdrumnagaruan, conteyninge twentie 
 balliboes, wherein is both a parson and a 
 viccar presentative, who pay twelve pence 
 a peece proxies to the said lord bushopp 
 of Derry," &c. — (Ul. Inq., App. ii.) How- 
 ever, this name, as well as this description, 
 belongs not to Drumagarvan in particu- 
 lar, but to Tamlaght, commonly called 
 TamlaghtO'Crilly, in which it has merged. 
 The name, now corrvipted to Drumagar- 
 ner, is borne by the extreme townland of 
 the parish on the north-east, which is si- 
 
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 jure et de facto vacantem, et ad coUationem Episcopi Derensis, dum 
 vixit, spectantera, nunc vero ad collationem ipsius domini Arcliiepis- 
 copi, ratione custodie predicte, spectantem, cuidam Dermitio Omol- 
 gan°, presbytero, auctoritate ordinaria, contulit ; ipsuraque Dennitium 
 auctorizabiliter instituit in eandem rectoriam de Dromogarvan, et per 
 annuli sui traditionem investivit de eadem, mandans Archidiacono 
 Derensi ibi present! ut ipsum Dermitium induceret in corporalem 
 possessionem rectorie predicte, et inductum defenderet. 
 
 His itaque peractis, assuniptis certis caballis de villa de Benchor 
 ad numerum quinque vel circiter, pro cariagio sue et comitive sue, 
 sumptibus communibus herenacorum et incolarum ville de Benchor 
 predicte, idem venerabilis Pater versus diocesem Ardmaclianam re- 
 meavit, Decano, Archidiacono, et aliis de capitulo Derensi ipsum 
 per spatium duorum miliarium vel circiter concomitantibus ; quibus 
 
 valedictis 
 
 having been once there, and the present 
 record supplies the rationale of the le- 
 gend. 
 
 " Omolgan. — In Irish OTTlaologaiTi, 
 now anglicised to Mulligan, Mulgan, and 
 Molyueiix. O'Dugan, in his enumeration 
 of the chief families of Tir-Chonaill, no- 
 tices " O'Maelegain, in Tir-Mic-Carth- 
 ainn," which may be the modern barony 
 of Tirkeeran, in the coixnty of Derry, 
 though this is improbable, as we find the 
 Mointer-MoUegan herenaghs of Tullyfern, 
 north of Eamelton, wliich is more likely 
 to have been their habitat. Mac Geoghegan 
 correctly places this territory in the county 
 of Tirconnel, or Donegal. In 1435 Pa- 
 tricius Omolochan, rector of Eanga (Ter- 
 mon-eeny), was ordained priest by John, 
 bishop of Connor. — (Reg. Swayne.) 
 
 tuated on the high road about half way 
 between Harvey Hill the Glebe, and Kil- 
 rea — (Ord. Surv., s. 27.) There is not 
 a vestige of the church or its cemetery 
 now remaining, but it is known that on 
 an eminence at the west side of the road, 
 called " Church Hill," is a spot where the 
 late Thomas Hutcheson, Esq., found, with- 
 in these sixty years, human skulls and 
 other bones, together with a baptismal 
 font. The tradition concerning the place 
 is that it was chosen as the site of an in- 
 tended church, and that the building was 
 commenced, but never perfected, as the 
 materials were carried away by night, 
 and transferred to the more favoured spot 
 in Tamlaght, which is the site of the pre- 
 sent church. The tradition, however, 
 corroborates the supposition of a church 
 
55 
 
 valedictis et in pace dimissis, idem venerabilis Pater per invia mon- 
 tium de Glanalee" cum comitiva sua incedens, ad ecclesiam de 
 Dissert-da-crea"' in Decanatu de Tylaghogi, Ardraachane diocesis, in 
 pace pervenit. 
 
 Tenor 
 
 (Marsh's Library, MS. CI. v. 3, Tab. i, 
 No. 4). See Colgan, Act. SS., p. 354, b, 
 n. 25; Trias Thaum., p. 181, n. 171. The 
 late Professor Mao Cullagh was born in 
 Landahussey, a townland in this glen. 
 
 p Dissert- dorcrea Now Desertcreat, a 
 
 parish in the county of Tyrone. — Ord. 
 Surv., s- 37, 38. The name, as correctly 
 given by the Four Masters at 1281, is 
 Dipipc t)a chpioo, 'the Desert of the two 
 Territories,' and with it agrees the form 
 preserved above. In the King's Books 
 and early diocesan Visitations it is called 
 Disertcreagh. 
 
 ■• Tylaghog. — Culac-05 was the name 
 of a large earthen fort, which is now in- 
 cluded in the glebe of Desertcreat parish. 
 Within it was the Leac-na-Eiogh, or stone 
 Inauguration-chair of the O'Neills. Being 
 a place of great importance it gave name 
 to a rural deanery in the diocese of Ar- 
 magh, and comprehended all that portion 
 of the diocese which lies in the coun- 
 ties of Tyrone and Londonderry. Some- 
 times the rector of Desertcreat was styled 
 from Tulaghog; and the Armagh regis- 
 tries have preserved the names of many of 
 the " OfEciales de Tulaghog," who exer- 
 cised ruri-decanal powers, and appear to 
 have been invested with considerable ec- 
 clesiastical jurisdiction. 
 
 " Glanake. — Written ^iGann poichle 
 by the Four Masters at 854, and 5'jeann 
 aichle at 1600. It is now called Glenelly. 
 This valley, througli which the Glenelly 
 river flows, is a district on the north-east 
 of Tyrone, coinciding with the parish of 
 Upper Bodoney ; about fifteen miles long, 
 and from one and a half to three miles 
 wide. It commences at the county marches, 
 widening as it goes towards Sperrin, and 
 narrowing again near the old church of t)OC 
 Ooriinaic, ^Bodoney,'' which is situate in 
 it. Two parallel roads run through it, 
 one on each side of the water. That on 
 the north side forms the Draperstown and 
 Strabane road. — (Ord. Surv., s. 12.) St. 
 Aithcen, seventh in descent from Colla 
 Meann, was the patron saint of Bodoney. 
 But the valley is principally remarkable 
 as having given birth to the famous Col- 
 man-Ela, joint patron of the see of Con- 
 nor, and founder of Lynally in the King's 
 County. In his Life we find the following 
 passage: "Fuit vir vite venerabilis Colma- 
 nus nomine de nobili gente Hybernie, i. e. 
 de Nepotibus Neill [Hy Neill], et pater 
 ejus Beogne vocabatur. Qui, cum esset 
 regio Midi [Meath] a Laginensibus de- 
 vastata, fugit cum suis in Vallem Hoichle, 
 et ibi natus est sanctus Colmanus." — 
 Liber Kilkenniensis, fol. 129 b, col. i. 
 
56 
 
 Tenor vero ordinationis et commissionis de quibus supra fit 
 mentio sequitur in liunc modum : Johannes, permissione divina Ar- 
 chiepiscopus Ardmachanus, liibernie Primas, custos spiritualitatis el 
 temporalitatis, ac spiritualis jurisdictionis episcopatus Derensis, ipso 
 episcopatu pastoris solatio destituto, dileetis filiis fratri Odoni M'^Gyl- 
 bryd Odocliyrty abbati, et conventui, Celle Nigre' de Deria, salutem, 
 gratiani, et benedictionein. Quia circa statum et regimen tam perso- 
 naruni quam loci vestri predicti aliquas constitutiones et diffinitiones 
 duximus faciendas, eas vobis transmittimus hie expressas, vobis fir- 
 miter injungentes in virtute obedientie nobis jurate, subpena excom- 
 
 municationis 
 
 ' Celle Nigre That Sir James Ware 
 
 was correct, notwithstanding what the 
 Ordnance Memoir of Templemore (at p. 
 25) says to the contrary, in including this 
 house among those of Regular Canons of 
 St. Augustine, appears from a preceding 
 passage in this Visitation (p. 20), but 
 more especially from an entry in Archbi- 
 shop Prene's registry, of which the follow- 
 ing is the substance: At a visitation held 
 by the Primate in Armagh, November 7, 
 1442, John, abbot of the monastery of St. 
 Peter and St. Paul, Armagh, of the order 
 of St. Augustine, came forward and stated, 
 that from time immemorial his predeces- 
 sors possessed the right of visiting the 
 " Cella Nigra S. ColumbiB de Diria ut 
 filialem locum dicto monasterio subjec- 
 tum," and receiving three marks proxies. 
 In support of this claim John bishop of 
 Derry declared that he remembered Ma- 
 theus M'graa, theabbot of said monastery, 
 to have visited on two occasions the said 
 
 cell, " ut sui filialem et subjectam, tan- 
 quam Pater Abbas." Philip, dean of 
 Clogher, also, then sixty years of age, 
 stated that he remembered Nicholas Omu- 
 kean, another abbot of said monastery, 
 to have exercised the like jurisdiction. 
 To the same purport was also the testi- 
 mony of Michael Olucheran (fol. 31 or p. 
 45). Whereupon the abbot's prayer for 
 the Primate's sanction was favourably en- 
 tertained, and a Confirmation was granted 
 to him on the 20th of the same month. 
 
 It is true that the monasteries founded 
 by St. Columba originally followed a Eule 
 peculiar to themselves, and, on the other 
 hand, that the distinction of Regular and 
 Secular Canons was unknown till the ele- 
 venth century ; but it would seem that 
 all the ancient Irish Eules were abandon- 
 ed by consent in the twelfth century, 
 and the comprehensive one bearing the 
 name of St. Augustine introduced in their 
 stead. See Ussher's Sylloge, Epist. xxx. 
 
57 
 
 municationis majoris, quam in singulas vestras personas ferre in- 
 tendiinus si mandatis nostris non parueritis cum efFectu, quatenus 
 eas in omnibus et per omnia integre et fideliter observetis. In primis 
 ordinamus, diflinimus, et mandamus, quod tu frater Odo, abba predicte, 
 illam Katerinam filiam Odochyrty quam nuper in concubinam tibi 
 diceris assumpsisse, infra trium dierum spatium a notificatione presen- 
 tium tibi facta, a tua curia, coliabitatione, et cura, abjicias et repellas, 
 ipsam postea minime assumpturus. Item ordinamus, diffinimus, pa- 
 riter et mandamus, quod tu Abba predicte ab omnimoda solutione 
 cujuscunque promissi pro superinductione Katerine predicte onmino 
 desistas, et pro alia concubina quacumque de cetero assumenda, quod 
 absit, nullum promissura facias, aut muuus quodcunque dones, quin- 
 verius dissipes in futurum. Item ordinamus, diifinimus, pariter et 
 mandamus, quod quecunque bona mobilia vel immobilia ad dictam 
 domum pertinentia per te, dum fuisti ejusdem domus custos, alienata, 
 infra decem dierum spatium revoces, et dicte domui ea plene resti- 
 tuas cum eifectu, ita quod tu vel alius quiscunque Canonicus dicte 
 domus nulla bona domus predicte pro aliqua muliere habenda ex- 
 pendas exponas sen proniittas, expendat exponat sive promittat. 
 Item ordinamus ut supra quod nulla mulier suspecta per te vel per 
 aliquem Canonicum dicte domus infra septa domus ejusdem intro- 
 ducatur, aut infra septa predicta dormiat aut quiescat. Item ordina- 
 mus quod tu et singuli Canonici dicte domus in communi refectorio 
 insimul comedatis, sanctam et devotam lectionem^ in refectione lia- 
 
 bentes, 
 ' Lectionem. — In the " Antiqute Consu- voluerit accipiat. Cum fratres ad lava- 
 etudines" of the monastery of Regular torium vadunt, librum secum deferat. In- 
 Canons, of St. Victor, in Paris, the or- terim dum lavant in refectorium ingre- 
 dinance " De lectionc mensae" forms the diens super puIpitumponat,et proviso con- 
 subject of the 58th chapter. The Lector, venienti principio apertum relinquat, et 
 it directs, " debet ab armario quferere statim descendat, ne ingredients conventii 
 quid et ubi legere debeat. Mixtum si in pulpitoappareat. In illis diebus quibus 
 
 I 
 
58 
 
 bentes, et in uno dormitorio infra domum predictam insimul dormia- 
 tis. Item ordinamus, diffinimus, pariter et mandamus, quatenus omni 
 die Dominico, et quolibet festo solenni, omnes bore canonice et una 
 missa solennis cum cantu, et aba sine cantu, in choro prefate ecclesie 
 devote psabantur; et quabbet aba feria una missa ad minus in eadem 
 ecclesia celebretur, et bore canonice in choro psaUantur, saUem sine 
 nota. Proviso semper quod qubibet celebraturus ad altare Domini- 
 cum de peccatis suis contritus pariter et confessus in penitentia vera 
 accedat. Datum sub nostro sigblo apud Bencbor, Derensis diocesis, 
 XV. die mensis Octobris, Anno Domini M™°ccc"° nonagesimo septimo, 
 et nostre consecrationis quartodecimo. 
 
 Damus autem et concedimus Decano ecclesie cathedrabs Deren- 
 sis per tenorem presentium potestatem vos et vestrum quembbet ad 
 observantiam ordinationum predictarum per omnes censuras ecclesi- 
 asticas, si oportuerit, compellendi, vosque et vestrum quembbet si 
 eis contravenire contingat, quod absit, canonice puniendi. 
 
 Johannes, permissione divina Archiepiscopus Ardmachanus, Hi- 
 bernie Primas, custos spirituabtatis et temporabtatis episcopatus 
 Derensis, ipso episcopatu pastoris solacio destituto, dilectis filiis 
 
 magistro 
 
 admissamevangeliumlegitur de quo expo- temporibus non sufliciant ad legendum, 
 sitio liabetur, si expositio ilia ad matu- armarius provideat quid de tractatibus 
 tinum tota lecta non fuerit aut fere tota, Patrum secundum temporis exigentiam 
 legatur in refectorio." The subjects for in refectorio legi debeat. In festivitatibus 
 the various seasons are then specified, con- Sanctorum legantur vita vel passiones 
 sisting of appropriate selections from the eorum. Mensa; lector aperte et distincte 
 canonical writings, together with extracts et tractim legat, et dum legit aurem ac- 
 from the homilies of Origen, and the ex- commodet priori, ut si quando emendave- 
 positions of Augustine. " Et notandum rit, intelligere possit. Finita lectione re- 
 quod historic et ceterse quae in Ecclesia linquens librum clausum super pulpitum, 
 leguntur, non debent legi in refectorio sine mora descendat, et postquam come- 
 donec in Ecclesia incipiantur. Si ea quffi derit secum referat." — Martene de Antiq. 
 I^er singula tempora distinximus singulis Eccl. Ritibus, vol. iii. p. 279. (Antv. 1 764.) 
 
59 
 
 magistro Mauritio Ocorry, ecclesie nostre Artlmacliane Decano, rna- 
 gistris Willielmo M'^kamaill, et Willielmo Ocathan, Decano et 
 Archidiacono Derensibus, necnon magistris Thome Olucheran et 
 Mauritio Ocathan, ecclesiarum Ardmachanarum et Derensium Ca- 
 nonicis, salutem, gratiam, et benedictionem. Ad exercendum nomine 
 vice et auctoritate nostris omnimodam jurisdictionem episcopalem in 
 diocese Derensi, necnon ad recipiendum, levandum, et exigenduni, 
 omnes redditus, proventus, et aha proficua, ad dictum episcopatum 
 spectantia, pro fideU compoto nobis inde reddendo (collationibus 
 beneficiorum et incartationibus terrarum duntaxat exceptis, et nobis 
 speciahter reservatis), vobis, seu tribus vestnun, vices nostras corn- 
 mittimus per presentes, cum coercionis cujushbet civilis et canonice 
 potestate. In cujus rei testimonium, nostrum sigillum fecimus his 
 apponi. Datum apud Benchor, Derensis diocesis, xiv. die mensis 
 Octobris, Anno Domini M^^ccc"" nonagesimo septimo, et nostre con- 
 secrationis quarto decimo. 
 
 Acta sunt hec que supra dicuntur sub anno, indictione, pontifi- 
 catu, mense, diebus, et locis, quibus supra. Presentibus reverendis 
 et discretis viris magistris Mauritio Ocorry, Decano Ardmachano ; 
 fratre Nicholao OUicheran, abbate monasterii Apostolorum Petri et 
 Pauh, Ardmachie ; magistro Thoma Olucheran, canonico Ardma- 
 chano ; dominis Roberto Notyngham, cruciferario Archiepiscopi et 
 Primatis predicti, rectore ecclesie parochialis de Ardmacasch, Du- 
 nensis diocesis ; Ricardo Waspayn, rectore de Balysoun, Midensis 
 diocesis; fratre Johanne [iJro?;??], confratre domus sancti Johannis 
 de Atrio Dei ; et Willielmo Botyller, presbyteris : Thoma Talbot ; 
 Ricardo Bagot ; et Ricardo Whyte, domicillis : Johanne Wolf ; Jo- 
 hanne Sandale ; et Ricardo de la Foo Tour ; clericis Ardmachane, 
 Dublinensis, Midensis, et Darensis diocesis' : domino Laurentio 
 
 Omullanfuy, 
 
 ^Diocesis. — The preceding names have been already noticed at pp. 12-15. 
 
 I2 
 
6o 
 
 Omullanfuy", rectore ecclesie parochialis de Donaghmore'' ; domino 
 Laurentio Obuyll, perpetuo vicario de Ardstraha ; domino Pbilippo 
 Okarbulan^ rectore de Clonlege^ ; et Donato Okarbulan, clerico, 
 
 rectore 
 
 " Omullanfuy. — In Irish OTTlaoilainbce, 
 now metathesised to Mulvanij. 
 
 " Donaghmoi-e.-¥rom the many churches 
 in Ireland so called this is distinguished 
 by being designated Doiimac mop lllaige 
 lea, ' Donaghmore of Magh-Ithe.' Its 
 foundation is ascribed to St. Patrick by 
 the ancient author of the Tripartite Life: 
 " Suscepto itinere per magnam illam con- 
 vallem quK Bearnus-mor de Tir-aodha 
 appellatur, et per regionem J/ajr-iWe nun- 
 cupatam; venit ad locum illius regionis 
 in quo fundavit EcclesiamvulgoDoy/innc/i- 
 mor appellatum: cui unum e discipulis 
 Duhdubanum, Corcani filium, prsefecit." 
 
 ii. c. 114. (Trias Th., p. 144 h.) This 
 
 Dubdubanus or Nujellus Colgan takes to 
 be the Dubanus whose name occurs in 
 the Irish calendar at November 11. He 
 errs, however, in placing this church in 
 the diocese of Raphoe — {Ibid., p. 181, n. 
 164.) From the mention of it in O'Don- 
 nell's Life of Columba, it would appear 
 that the church adopted the rule of that 
 saint: "Postquam enim Ecclesiam illam 
 Tirconallensis districtus, Domnach-moi- 
 Muighe Hithe nuncupatam, benedixisset," 
 &c.— i. c. 5. {Ibid., p. 390.) At 1064 
 the Four Masters have the following entry 
 concerning it: " Eochaidh Ua Doireidh 
 [0'Deery],archinneachofDomhnach-mor 
 of Magh-Ithe, died." The O'Deerys, it 
 
 is to be observed, were found in the Derry 
 inquisition of 1609 to be the herenachs 
 of Columbkill in the diocese of Eaphoe. 
 An inquisition sped at Derry in 1602 
 finds the two herenachs of S t. Columbkill's 
 lands to be O'Dery and O'Dowry. — (Ul. 
 Inq., No. 2, Eliz.) The Donegal Inquisi- 
 tion of 1609 has the following notice: 
 " The parishe of Donoghmore, conteyn- 
 inge in all fower ballibetaghes, whereof 
 there are fower quarters of herenagh land 
 in the tenure of Mointergallon and Moin- 
 tergarredie, the herenaghes of that place, 
 who yeeld thereout to the said busshop of 
 Derry, the yerely rent of forti shillinges 
 per annu, and foure score meathers of 
 malte, and out of the busshop's thirdes 
 of the tiethes there, twentie-six shillinges 
 and eight pence pencon per annu; and 
 the said jurors further say, that the said 
 herenaghes did, over and besides, pay 
 yerely unto the temporall lords of Clan- 
 fyn, fower meathers of butter and eight 
 meathers of meale cosheringe, and that in 
 this parishe is both a parson and viccar 
 presentative, and the tiethes paid in ky nde, 
 one third parte thereof to the parson, an 
 other third parte to the viccar, and tho- 
 ther third parte to the herenaghes." 
 
 " OKarbulan. — The passage in M'Fir- 
 bis' genealogical work which notices this 
 family is worthy of insertion here, for the 
 
6i 
 
 rectore de Furny, Derensis diocesis ; et multis aliis, tarn clericis quam 
 laycis, testibus ad premissa vocatis specialiter et rogatis. 
 
 Et 
 
 ego Ricardus Kenmore'', 
 
 account which it gives of other branches 
 of the same stock holding church lands 
 in this part of the diocese. loUan 
 Iliac Gogam mic Mell naoigiallac o 
 ppuilit) ip in bpeuOaig Ui pionnain, 
 Ma mannam no Uci nianam, Via Cep- 
 ballain, Ua Gapcomaip, Ua Jol^ci'"; 
 UaUiGip, Ua bpanacain, Ua CeoUaig, 
 Ua Suibne no Ua Dui5ne, agup clann 
 lolgulle. " loLLAN, son of Eoghan, son 
 of Niall of the Nine Hostages, from whom 
 are in Bredach [a territory on the east 
 of Inishowen, embracing the townland 
 Bredagh Glen in the parish of Lower 
 Moville], the Ui Finain [O'Fiuan], Ua 
 Mannain [O'Mannin or Manning], Ua 
 Cearbhallain [O'Carrolan of Clonleigh], 
 Ua Earchoniais [O'Harkan, herenagh of 
 Cloncaj, Ua Golain [the Muintir-Gallen, 
 herenaghs of Donaghmore], Ua Uidhir 
 [the Clann- Magwories, tenants of Grange- 
 birt or Burt], Ua Branagain, Ua Ceal- 
 laigh [Kelly], Ua Suibhne or Ua Duibhne 
 [O'Doghie, herenaghs of CuldafF], and 
 Clann lolgaile [Lilly]." — p. 149 a. Two 
 centuries subsequent to this Visitation 
 the O'Carolans were still connected with 
 Clonleigh. See following note. 
 
 ' Clonlege. — Cluain-laog, 'the calves' 
 meadow,' now Clonleigh, a parish in the 
 barony of Eaphoe, containing LifFord, the 
 
 clericus Midensis diocesis, 
 publicus 
 
 county town of Donegal. Its patron saint 
 was one of the twelve missionaries who 
 accompanied St. Columbkille to lona, and 
 his name appears in the Irish Calendar at 
 the 24th of March as Lujaib mac Gach- 
 ai6 Cluain kiog, 'Lughadh, son of Each- 
 aidh, of Cluain-laogh.' The Cottonian 
 MS. of Adamnan calls him " Luguid Mo- 
 cuthemne Echoid." — (Ussher, Brit. Ec. 
 Ant., c. XV., Works, vol. vi. p. 237; Pin- 
 kurtoD, Vit. Antiq., p. 187.) He was 
 of the same stock as the O'Carrolans of 
 Clonleigh, being the grandson of lollan, 
 the progenitor of the several families men- 
 tioned in the preceding note. " The par- 
 ish of Clonleigh, conteyninge in the whole 
 twoe ballibetaghes, whereof twoe quarters 
 are herenagh laud in the tenure of O'Car- 
 olans, yeeldinge thereout, yerely, unto 
 the lord busshop of Derry thirty-three 
 shillings and fower pence rent, and out 
 of the busshop's thirdes of the tiethes 
 there, thirteene shillings and fower pence 
 pencion, which rent the said O'Carrolans 
 aunciently paid." — Inq. 1609. 
 
 ^ Keamore An unusual name, but 
 
 probably a variety of the following. Henry 
 Kenfer, vicar of Blolary, rural dean of 
 Drogheda in 1442. — (Reg. Swayne.) Sa- 
 bina Necarvell, wife of Nicholas Kenver 
 of Kilsaran, 1461. — (Reg. Prene.) 
 
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 publicus auctoritate apostolica Notarius, premissis omnibus et 
 
 singulis, dum sic ut premittitur agerentur et fierent, una cum 
 
 prenominatis testibus presens interfui, eaque omnia et singula 
 
 sic fieri vidi et audivi, ac, aliis arduis negotiis occupatus, per 
 
 aliura scribi feci, publicavi, et in banc publicam formam re- 
 
 degi, signoque meo solito et assueto signavi, rogatus et requi- 
 
 situs in fidem et testimonium omnium premissorvmi. Non 
 
 noceat interlineari de verbo predictd^ inter lvi. et LVii. lineas, 
 
 nee de rasura in verbo ipsaque in cl. linea^ nee in verbo ut^ 
 
 inter lviii. et lix. lineas a capite hujus instrumenti nume- 
 
 rando ; nee in verbo eo" inter xcviii. et xcix. lineas a fine 
 
 hujus instrumenti nunierando ; que verba scriba antedictus 
 
 negligenter omisit, et postraodum ego Ricardus, Notarius 
 
 antedictus, ante signi'' mei appositionem supplevi, et liic 
 
 approbo. 
 
 Decanatus 
 
 ' PrciUcfo. — This specification shows '^ Signi. — There is no seal attached to 
 
 the legal accuracy with which this instru- the roll, nor does there appear ever to 
 
 ment was drawn up. The interlineation have been. There is, however, at the 
 
 here mentioned occurs at p, 21, line 10, foot, a curious device drawn Avith the 
 
 of the present woi'k. pen, surmounted by a double cross. A 
 
 ^ Linea. — Rccte " cli." The word re- smaller but similar pattern is drawn over 
 
 ferred to is at p. 38, 1. 7. each of the two seams where the mem- 
 
 "* Ut See above, p. 21, line 15. branes of the roll are stitched together, as 
 
 ' Eo. — See above, p. 40, line 9. a security against alteration. 
 
^3 
 
 Decanatus de Inysowyn". 
 
 Rentale^ reverendissimi in Christo Patris et domini, Domini 
 Joliannis, permissione divina Archiepiscopi Ardmachani, 
 Hibernie Priraatis, custodis spiritualitatis et temporalitatis 
 episcopatus Derensis, ipsius sede vacaute, factum in ci- 
 vitate Derensi octavo die mensis Octobris, Anno Domini 
 
 M° 
 
 'ccc°'° nonagesimo septimo. 
 
 In primis de redditibus Civitatis Derensis^ x • s. 
 
 Item 
 
 ' Inysowyn. — The following rental does 
 not form part of the roll, but is entered 
 on a schedule which is attached to the 
 foot of it. 
 
 In Primate Mey's registry this deanery 
 bears the same name, but in bishop Down- 
 hams return of 1622 it is called the 
 " Deanery of Derry." luishowen, which 
 is now the baronial name, is derived from 
 Imp Cojani, ' Eoghan's Island,' and was 
 given to the patrimony of Eoghan or 
 Owen, son of Niall of the Nine Hostages, 
 from whom the Cinel-Eoghain and Tirone 
 also have their names. Thei'e is a map 
 specially devoted to this peninsula in the 
 edition of Mercator's Atlas, Amsterdam, 
 1630, between pp. 50, 51. It is, how- 
 ever, aa after-insertion, for it bears the 
 date 1661. 
 
 ' Rentale The episcopal income of the 
 
 see of Derry formerly flowed from four 
 
 sources ; namely, the Rectory of the mother- 
 church ; the Tertia Episcopalia ; the Here- 
 nagh rents ; and the Refections for which 
 their tenants were liable. The first three 
 of these enter into the above rental, but 
 the fourth, being an arbitrary impost, 
 though the most productive, was not rate- 
 able. In the following notes the extracts 
 wliich are marked Inq. are taken from 
 the Inquisitions of the counties of Tyrone, 
 Coleraine, Derry, and Donegal, which 
 were sped in 1609, and are printed in the 
 Appendix to the Ulster Inquisitions. 
 
 s Derensis. — The bishop of Derry was 
 seised of " one house or castle, with a 
 garden plott thereunto adjoyninge, scitu- 
 ate on the south side of the cathedrall 
 church nere the longe tower, in the iland 
 of Derry ; and of one orchard or parke, 
 lyinge on the east syde of the great forte 
 in the said iland of Derry ; of and in the 
 
(Decanatus de Inysowyn.) 
 Item in Fayuwor'' - 
 
 64 
 
 Item in Disertegny' 
 
 Item in ClonraaneJ 
 
 Item in Townaghglyntachyr'' 
 
 quarter of land called Craggin and Drum- 
 niurny [now Creggan], and of and in the 
 half quarter of land called Courneglogh 
 [now Edeuballymore], all lyinge and 
 beinge on the north side of the bogg nere 
 the said iland." — Iiiq. 
 
 '' Faymvor. — " The parishe of Faughan, 
 conteyninge, in toto, 6 ballibets, whereof 
 there are six quarters of herenagh land, 
 and a ruinous castle standinge there- 
 upon, viz. Castlequarter [Id.], Maghere- 
 veg [Magherabeg], Leiturr [Letter], the 
 Sleauequarter, the Millquarter, and Lis- 
 bannagh [Lisfannan], and that the aun- 
 cient herenaghs of Leiturr were the sept 
 of Donell M'Neale O'Donnell, and that 
 the quarters of Sleane and Millquarter 
 were inhabited by the septs of the IMoun- 
 terheiles as herenaghes of that land, and 
 that the said quarter of Lisbanagh was 
 likewise inhabited with the sept of Mur- 
 tagh O'Donell, who uowe is herenagh 
 there, and that Castlequarter and Maghe- 
 reveg were mensall landes of the lord bus- 
 shop of Derry, and that there are yerely 
 and auncient rents yssuinge and payable 
 out of thother 4 quarters of land, viz. 
 out of everie quarter ten meathers of 
 butter, every meather conteyninge two 
 gallons Englishe measure, twentie gallons 
 of meale of the same measure, sixe score 
 
 xl • s. 
 
 V • s • iiij • tt. 
 
 V • s ■ iiij • ct. 
 
 ■ X • s. 
 
 Item 
 
 meathers of seed oates of the same mea- 
 sure, to be paid att candlemas yerely, 
 and five shillings and foure pence per 
 annum out of everie of the said quarters, 
 and twoe muttons to be delivered in July 
 and august; and alsoe, out of everie of 
 the said quarters, one quarter of beofe 
 per annum to be levied in winter, and 
 that of all the said chardge, (except the 
 said rent paid in money,) the parson and 
 viccar ought to pay the seventh parte." — 
 Inq. 
 
 ' Disertegny " The parishe of Desert- 
 
 eigny, conteyninge eight quarters, of which 
 there are twoe quarters of church-land, 
 viz. Ballyannan [Id.], and Tondowe [Ton- 
 duff], and that the auncient herenaghes 
 thereof were the Magraddies, and Ma- 
 graddie is nowe the herenage whoe paies 
 thereout, yerely, unto the lord busshop 
 of Derry, such and the like rent a.s in the 
 said parish of Faughan."— /h^. 
 
 ' Clonmane " The parishe of Cloune- 
 
 manny [now Clonmany], conteyninge five 
 ballibetaghes and an halfe, everie ballibe- 
 taghe consistinge of fower quarters, where- 
 of there are six quarters of church land." 
 — Inq. See above, p. 45. 
 
 *■ Townagkghjniacliyr " The parishe of 
 
 Douoghclantagh [now Donagh], conteyn- 
 inge 1 5 quarters of land, whereof to the 
 
(Decanatus de Inysowyn.) 
 Item in Cluancha' — 
 Item in Coklocliaa" - 
 Item in Gryllagh" — 
 
 Norborgh" 
 
 MaydbyllyP 
 
 65 
 
 cburcli belonge 3 quarters, of which one 
 quarter called Carroghnefarneballibrone- 
 gan is free to the herenagh of that place 
 called Mackolligandonill, who paid out of 
 thother 3 quarters to the busshop of Derry, 
 such and the like rents proportionablye 
 us before. And one gort belonging to 
 the keeper of the sainct's [Columbkille's] 
 bell there." — Inq. 
 
 ' Cluancha. — "The parishe of Clonka, 
 conteyninge 6 ballibetaghes, whereof 6 
 quarters belonge to the church, and that 
 there are three severall herenaghes of the 
 said land, viz. O'Harkan, who paieth out 
 of 2 of the said 6 quarters such rents and 
 dueties proporcionablie as before ; and 
 that two other of the said 6 quarters 
 belonge to O'Mollinogher as herenagh 
 thereof." — Inq. For the name of the third 
 herenagh see under Gri/llar/h, 
 
 ■" Coldochaa.—'^ The parishe of Coole- 
 dagh [now Culdaft"], conteyninge 6i bal- 
 libetaghes, whereof three quarters of land 
 belonge unto the church, and that O'Do- 
 ghie is herenagh, whereof he hath one 
 quarter free to himself, and paieth out of 
 thother twoe quarters such yerely rent 
 proporcionablie as before." — Inq. 
 
 ° Gryllagh. — " Thother 2 quarters [of 
 
 Item 
 
 the herenagh land of Clonka], called Crel- 
 lagh, are in the possession of the Clan- 
 loughlangrillies, who areherenaghes there- 
 of, and thereout do pay unto the busshop 
 of Derry such rents and dueties propor- 
 cionablie as before." — Inq. 
 
 " Norhorgh. — ■" The parish of IMovilly 
 conteyninge of herenagh land fewer quar- 
 ters, and Manus M'Melaghlin is the here- 
 nagh of one of the said quarters called Car- 
 rigcooley [now Cooly], whoe auntiently 
 paid yerely to the busshop of Derry such 
 rents proporcionablie as before; — there is 
 a sept of the O'Doghorties, named Slutt 
 Will'm Doe, who oocupieth an other of 
 the said quarters called Carrinenough, as 
 herenagh there; — there is alsoe half a 
 quarter of free land named Taivennegal- 
 len, in the tenure of the Maclaughlins, 
 who pay thereout the yerely rent of 
 3s. 8rf. viz. to O'Morreeson 20 pence, 
 and to the ufEciall 2 shillinges." — Inq. 
 
 I' MaiJilhijUy. — This name is written in 
 a smaller and lighter hand than the rest, 
 and seems to have been added by some one 
 who was not aware that the preceding 
 was an aliter for it. It is not added in 
 the corresponding list under the Tertia. 
 Moville is intended by either name. 
 
66 
 
 (Decanatus de Inysowyn.) 
 
 Item in Terciis episcopalibus'' ejusdem decanatus. 
 
 Rectoria'' et Tertia episcopalis de Civitate De- 
 rensi extendunt se ad ■ 
 
 Item tertia episcopalis de Faynwor* 
 
 VI • marc, 
 ij • marc. 
 
 Item 
 
 1 Episcopalibus. — In the dioceses of 
 Derry and Raphoe the tithes of each pa- 
 rish were divided into three equal por- 
 tions, of which one was assigned to the 
 rector, one to the vicar, and the third to 
 the herenagh. The last was called the 
 Bishop's Third, and in former times was 
 given directly to the diocesan ; but as the 
 tithes were paid in kind, and the collec- 
 tion, when so diffused, necessarily entailed 
 much trouble and loss, the bishop's Third 
 was transferred to the parochial farmer, 
 the herenagh, who in return paid the bi- 
 shop by an annual pension or composition 
 at the same time that he accounted for 
 the rent of his church-land. The amount 
 presently became fixed, and formed, as is 
 shown in the present rental, a stated por- 
 tion of the episcopal income. 
 
 ' Rectoria. — " The parishe of Derry, 
 wherein the busshop of Derry is parson, 
 in right of his said busshopricke, and the 
 deane of Derry is viccar ; all the tiethes 
 are paid in kynde, except the tiethes of 
 cowes and calves, for which there is paled 
 eight pence for a cow and calfe ; the one 
 third parte of the tiethes here was alwaies 
 paid to the lord busshop as parson, and 
 one other third parte to the said deane 
 as viccar, and thother third parte to the 
 
 herenagh, out of which third parte he 
 paid unto the busshop a yerely pencion, 
 and could not be put out of the said parte 
 of the tiethes soe longe as he paid the 
 said pencion ; but now the lord busshop 
 taketh upp his owne third parte and the 
 herenaghes third parte also." — Iikj. 
 
 " Faijnwor,- — The phonetic form of the 
 Irish name pacain-iiiop, which is now 
 written Fahan and pronounced Fawn. 
 It received the adjunct nio]i to distinguish 
 it from pacam-beag, which was also in 
 Inishowen. (See Calend. of O'Clerys at 
 July 7 ; and the Four Masters at 7 1 6.) 
 The name Athonmura, which is found in 
 the Taxation, or Fathun-murra, as in a 
 Patent roll of 13 10, was framed in me- 
 mory of St. Mura, the founder of the 
 church, who flourished at the close of the 
 sixth century. His festival was the 12th 
 of March, and he was held in special ven- 
 eration by the Cinel-Eoghain. The ab- 
 bot was styled " Comarba of Mura," or 
 " of Mura Othna." The church is called 
 Ocam-mop by the Four Masters at 657, 
 757, 769, 1 1 19; Ocain at 720, 788, 850, 
 884; pacam-nnipa at iioi; pacain- 
 mop at 1 1 36; and pacan-TTlupa-ocna, 
 by a reduplication, at 1429. In 1609 the 
 Tertia were estimated at 5s. ^d. payable 
 
^1 
 
 (Decanatus de Inysowyn.) 
 
 Item tertia episcopalis de Disertegny' 
 Item tertia episcopalis deClonmane" 
 
 VI • s • viij • d. 
 
 xiij . s . iiij . d. 
 
 Item tertia episcopalis de Townaghglyntachyr'' x • s. 
 
 Item tertia episcopalis de Cloncha"^ ij • mare. 
 
 Item 
 
 out of each quarter Inq. 
 
 '^ Diseriegny.-T^^f^jtc 6157115, 'Egneach's 
 desert' or 'hermitage,' still called Desert- 
 egny. Colgan Tec\<.ons DisertEgtiichavaoug 
 tlie churches founded by St. Columbkille. 
 — (Trias Th., p. 494 h.) The herenagh 
 paid out of his third part of the tithes 
 3.?. i^.d. per annum. — Inq. 
 
 " Clonmane The Irish calendar com- 
 memorates the three deacons Eeat, Nenn, 
 and Aldus, of Cuil-mainc, at Mar. 3, Apr. 
 25, Aug. 3 1 ; which place Colgan supposes 
 to be the same asClonmany, adding "cum 
 voces Cluain-Maine et Crdl-Maine, i. e. 
 secessus Maine, idem denotent." — (Trias 
 Th., pp. i8i h, n. 176; 231 h\ 494 ft, n. 
 47.) The herenagh paid out of the bi- 
 shop's thirds the annual pension of los. 
 English. The names of the church-lands 
 may be seen in the Parochial Survey, vol. 
 i. pp. 193-195. 
 
 " Townaghjhjntachiir. — The first letter 
 should be D, the name in Irish being 
 Ooiimac slinne-cocaip, ' Dominica de 
 Glen-tochair,' which is now decompound- 
 ed in common use, and preserved, partly 
 in Donagh, the name of the parish, and 
 partly in Glentogher, otherwise Carrow- 
 more, an extensive mountainous tract 
 therein. In the Tripartite Life of St. 
 
 Patrick the church is called Domnach-inor 
 Muige-Tochuir, and having been founded 
 by that saint, it is said that he left there 
 as its first minister Bishop Maccarthen, 
 one of his followers, and brother to St. 
 Maccarthen of Clogher. — ii. c. 120, 121, 
 123. (Tr. Th., p. 145.) To the ecclesi- 
 astical antiquary the parish is invested 
 with additional interest in having been 
 the birth-place of our great hagiologist, 
 John Colgan, as we learn from his own 
 statement : " Hrec Ecclesia fuit olim sedes 
 Episcopalis, — in ctijus et agro ego natus fui. 
 Hodie tantum est Ecclesia parrochialis 
 Dioecesis Derensis, vulgoDomnach-gltnne- 
 toehuir dicta & frequentatur quotannis 
 magno vicinarum regionum accursu, & 
 peregrinationibus, in festo potissimum S. 
 Patricii loci patroni." — (Tr. Th., p. 181, 
 n. 173.) In 1609 the herenagh of Donagh- 
 clantagh was found to pay to the bishop 
 
 out of the Tertia 1 os. English per an Inq. 
 
 "■'Clonclia. — Cliiain caca, 'battle field,' 
 not noticed in any ancient Irish authority. 
 Near Malin Head is a spot where patrons 
 used to be held on St. John's Eve and 
 the Assumption in honour of St. Morial- 
 
 lagh (Paroch. Surv., vol. ii. p. 181.) 
 
 The Tertia paid by the two herenaghs 
 to the bishop were 2o«". per an. — Inq. 
 K2 
 
68 
 (Decanatus de Inysowyn.) 
 
 Item tertia episcopalis de Norborch" et de Col- 
 
 doch'' iij • marc. 
 
 Item tertia episcopalis de Grellagh^ vi • s • viij • d. 
 
 Decanatus 
 
 '■ Norborch. — This name, which is of 
 English origin, appears here instead of 
 the Irish lllag-bile, Moville. In 1305 
 the Eed Earl, that is, Richard de Burgo, 
 Earl of Ulster, erected in Inishowen a 
 fortress which the Irish called Caiplen 
 niici, ' New-castle,' and which is now com- 
 monly known by the name of Greencastle. 
 It was also called Northburgh, for to it 
 Grace refers when, speaking of the Scot- 
 tish invasion under Edward Bruce in 1 3 1 5, 
 he writes: " Capitur arx Northburgeusis 
 in Ultonia ab iisdem." — (p. 68.) The in- 
 quisition post-mortem sped at Maudone in 
 1333 finds that William de Burgo, Earl 
 of Ulster, had been possessed of the "Ma- 
 nerium de Northburgh cum pertinentiis in 
 comitatu de Coulrath, in quo est unum 
 castrum nunc in manu Hibernicorum; — 
 quaj ad LX. lib. juxta antiquum exten- 
 tum, et nichil modo." — (Inq. Tur. Lond.) 
 Again, in 1 342 it was found that Matilda, 
 late Countess of Ulster, was seised of 
 a castle in the island of Incheoun [In- 
 ishowen] which was called " Castellum 
 de Northburgh."— [Ibid.) In Ortelius' 
 " Hibernia" there is a castle marked Nor- 
 uowrowe on the west of Lough Swilly 
 (Theat. Orb. Ter., Antv. 1589); as also 
 in Mercator's " Irlaudi* Regnum" and 
 " Vltonia" (Atlas, pp. 47-49, Amst. 1630); 
 
 but this may be either an error in posi- 
 tion or an allter for Castle Doe in Clon- 
 dahorky. The ruins of Greencastle are 
 situate in the parish of Lower Moville, 
 opposite Magilligan Point, and command 
 the entrance of Lough Foyle. — (Ord. Surv. 
 Donegal, s. 22.) It appears by an Inqui- 
 sition ad-quod-damnum in 1310 that Ri- 
 chard de Burgo had, between 1297 and 
 1305, acquired two messuages and eight 
 carrucates of land in Moybyle and Fa- 
 thunmurra from the bishop of Derry, with 
 consent of the chapter — (Cal. Cane, p. 
 18, n. 128.) 
 
 » Coldoch Now CuIdafF, the parish 
 
 joining Moville on the N. W. In 1609 
 the Tertia were los. Irish. — Inq. 
 
 ' Grdlagh ^P^aUac, ' a miry place.' 
 
 This is a word of frequent occurrence in 
 the ecclesiastical topography of Ireland, 
 as Greallach-Eillte in Meath, now called 
 Girley, and Grillagh in Maghera. Grel- 
 liach. East and West, are locally well 
 known as two townlands in the parish of 
 Clonca, but do not appear on the Ord- 
 nance Survey, being there called Temple- 
 
 moyle and Dru7naviUe (Doneg., s. 4.) A 
 
 small cemetery, but without the remains 
 of any building, exists in the former of 
 these. " At Templemoyle, and at Lagg, 
 the remains of churches are still visible; 
 
69 
 
 Decanatus de Mahya" in Temporalibus. 
 Downagmore'' 
 
 Fiirny'' 
 
 Tagnegomerykf 
 
 and the burying-groiinds attached to them 
 are used as such to the present day" 
 [1816]. — Paroch, Surv., vol. ii. p. 179. 
 According to Colgan, Grelleach was one 
 of the four churches in tlie diocese of 
 Derry, where St. Adamnan was patron — 
 (Act. SS., p. 387 a, n. 7.) 
 
 " Maliya. — TTlag lea was the name of a 
 district now represented by the southern 
 lialf of the barony of Raphoe. It signifies 
 ' the plain of Ith,' being so called from 
 Ith, the uncle of Milesius, who, according 
 to bardic tradition, was buried here. Ano- 
 ther Tllag lea in Fotharta, the barony of 
 Forth in the county of Wexford, is said 
 to have been his place of landing, and to 
 have been also called from him. The whole 
 story is related in Keating's history, cap. 
 5 (vol. i. pp. 262-267, sd. Haliday). The 
 ruri-decanal name occurs with some slight 
 variations in the Armagh registries : thus 
 in 1430, " concessio, ratione custodise 
 episcopatus Derensis, officii decanatus ru- 
 ralis de 3Iagtliya Donato OKerulan." — 
 (Reg. Swayne.) " Decanatus Mocjluj" — 
 (Reg. Prene.) " Decanatus de M'aghij ;" 
 " Decanatus de Maghyd." — (Reg. Mey.) 
 " Deanery o?Mohey." — (Ulster Visit.) This 
 deanery comprehended all the parishes of 
 the diocese which are in the modern 
 county of Tyrone and in the barony of 
 
 uj • marc. 
 
 ij • marc. 
 
 xiij • s • iiij • ct. 
 
 Cknlege 
 
 Raphoe in the county of Donegal, though 
 the territory proper extended only over 
 the last portion, consisting of the parishes 
 Donaghmore, Urney, and Clonleigh. It 
 was probably owing to the influence of the 
 Cinel-Moain, who crossed over from Moy- 
 Iha proper into Tyrone, and especially 
 of the Mac Lochlains, who were para- 
 mount in Tyrone in the thirteenth cen- 
 tury, that the deanery was named from a 
 district on its edge rather than from a 
 more central territory, or from some church 
 in it like Ardstraw, which was once an 
 episcopal seat. One of the territories 
 which were combined in 1591 to form the 
 barony of Strabane was Kilalmoyan, an 
 evident corruption of Kinel-moain. 
 
 '' Doiunagmore. — Now Donaghmore in 
 the barony of Raphoe. The Patent de- 
 scribes its herenagh land as " 4 quarters 
 in or near Clanfin." See above, p. 60. 
 
 ' Fumy. — Concerning Urney and its 
 herenagh land see pp. 18, 71. 
 
 '' Tagnegomeryh. — " The parishe of 
 Toghernegormerkie [now part of Clon- 
 leigh], conteyninge in all twoe quarters, 
 whereof there is one quarter of erenagh 
 land in the occupacion of Finin O'Bogan, 
 herenaghof that place, who paid thereout, 
 yerely, unto the lord busshop of Derrie, 
 1 2" 4''." — Inq. The Patent confirmed to 
 
(Decanatus de Mahya.) 
 
 Clanlege^ 
 
 Ardsraa*^ 
 
 Kappagh^ — — 
 
 7° 
 
 Dromeraa'' — 
 Kylchyrryir 
 LawchylP — 
 
 XX • s. 
 
 iij 
 
 • marc. 
 
 X • 
 
 s. 
 
 X- 
 
 s. 
 
 X • 
 
 s. 
 
 X • 
 
 s. 
 
 Downaghgede'' 
 
 the see the herenagh land contained in 
 " the quarter of Bogan, otherwise Tagh- 
 cumrick." — (Pat. Jac. I., p. 279 b.) The 
 O'Bogans were descended, according to 
 M'Firbis, from Diarmaid, grandson of 
 Eochaidh Binuigh, the ancestor of the 
 Cinel-Binny (Gen. MS., p. 142.) 
 
 *■ Clanlege The Patent describes the 
 
 herenagh land as the " two quarters of 
 Clonluigh, otherwise Clonleigh, in or near 
 Monganagh." See above, p. 61. 
 
 ' Ardsraa. — The herenagh lands of Ard- 
 straw have been recited already at p. 10. 
 
 ^Kappagh. — " Out of the herenagh land 
 of Cappaghquoart, conteyninge foure bal- 
 liboes and twoe sessiaghes (whereof the 
 herenagh had the twoe sessiaghes free), 
 6 shillings per an. and a cosherie yerely 
 in his visitation, and fines for bloodshed." 
 — Inq. See above, p. 7. 
 
 '' Dromeraa. — " The herenagh land 
 of Dromrath, conteyninge 10 balliboes 
 (whereof the herenagh had Iiis balliboe 
 free), 13'' 4'' per an. and a cosherie yerely 
 in his visitation, and not else." — Inq. 
 
 ' Kilchyrryll. — Not noticed either by 
 this or its other name Termonomungan in 
 
 xiij • s • iiij • d. 
 
 Botowny 
 
 the Inquisition or in the Patent. The 
 Ecclesiastical Revenue Report, however, 
 exhibits the lands of Termonamungan, 
 consisting of 6401 acres, as held under 
 the see at £217 I'js. per an. (pp. 122-3.) 
 
 ^ Lawchi/U. — " The herenagh land of 
 Lawnechull, contayninge four balliboes 
 [namely, Ballyanway, Bally cullin, Bal- 
 linecloggins, and Drumchintaramon], 
 (whereof half a balliboe was free), sub- 
 ject to the rent of 3' 4'' per annum and a 
 yerely cosherie in his visitation, and not 
 els, but the herenagh had the fines for 
 bloodshed." — Inq. They are now known 
 as Barravey, Killen, Killoan, Drumowen, 
 Lackagh, Annaghalough, Meenacloy, Ally, 
 Prughlish, Meenadoan, in Longfield West; 
 and IVIagharenny in Longfield East. 
 
 ^ Doionaghgede. — " Out of the erenagh 
 land of Donoghcuddie [now Donaghedy], 
 conteyninge 4 balliboes [namely, Ard- 
 keyne, now Ardcarne; Tyremoylan, now 
 Fawney ; Leytrim, now Leitrim ; and 
 Boynowen, noiv Bunowen] (whereof the 
 herenagh had half a balliboe free), lo"^ 
 per an. with a yerely cosherie in his visi- 
 tation, and fines for bloodshed." — Inq. 
 
(Decanatus de Mahya.) 
 Botowny' 
 
 X • s. 
 
 Item de Tertiis episcopalibus ejusdeni decanatus. 
 Downashmore™ 
 
 Furny" 
 
 Taclinekomerykf" 
 
 ' Botowmj " Out of the herenagh land 
 
 of Boydonagh [now Bodoney], conteyn- 
 inge 4 balliboes [to wit, Barnes, now 
 Barnes Upper and Lower ; Canaghy ; Cas- 
 tledough, now Castledamph; Dromsper, 
 now Drumnaspar Upper and Lower], 1 3' 4'' 
 per an. and fynes for bloodshed, with a 
 yerely cosherie in his visitation." — Inq. 
 
 " Downaghmore The Tertia in 1609 
 
 were 26' 8'\ or two marks. See p. 60. 
 
 ° Fumy. — Besides the herenagh lands 
 of Urney, which have been recited above 
 at p. 18, the bishop received "out of the 
 erenagh land of Ballinlinny, conteyninge 
 4 sessiaghs, the yerely rent of 2' 6'', par- 
 cell of the parishe of Urnie." — Tnq. This 
 Ballinlinny is called in the same docu- 
 ment a " Chapel of Ease," and is now 
 known as a separate parish called " Skirts 
 of Urney," and familiarly " the parish of 
 Derg." The see lands are Churchtown, 
 in which are the village and church of 
 Derg; Craigmonaghan, in which is the 
 townland Mount Bernard; and Ballylen- 
 nan, subdivided into the townlands Bally- 
 lennan Mercer, and Ballylennan Scott. 
 Bridgetown, and Berrysfort. 
 
 uj • marc. 
 
 ij • marc. 
 
 — ■ xiij • s • iiij -d. 
 
 Clanlege 
 
 " Tachnegomeryk In Irish Ceac na 
 
 comiipce, ' house of the sanctuary.' 
 The Taxation calls it Tegnagomark. The 
 word cumpic is still in use in the sense 
 of ' protection' or ' asylum.' It was 
 even introduced into English, as in 
 O'Sullevan Beare's letter to the king of 
 Spain, 29 Dec. 1601 : "I commit also my 
 wife, my children, &c. to the protection, 
 keeping and defence or commerich of your 
 Majestie." — (Pacat. Hib., p. 409, Dub. 
 1810.) There is a cloc na coinnpce at 
 Ballynagleragh on the confines of Cavan 
 and Leitrim. In Mercator's two maps of 
 "Irlandiaj Regnum" (pp. 47-48 and 49- 
 50) a place between Liffer and Castlefyn 
 is marked " The Sanctuary,'''' which is 
 evidently a translation of the name in 
 question. — (Atlas, Amst. 1630.) This 
 small benefice, which has merged in 
 Clonleigh, is represented by the town- 
 lands Churchtown and Ballybogan, in the 
 south of that parish. The cemetery and 
 site of church are situate in the former 
 of these, close to " Ballybogan National 
 School." — (Ord. Survey, Donegal, s. 79.) 
 Compare the note at pp. 69, 70. 
 
(Decanatus de Mahya.) 
 
 ■' Clanlege'' 
 
 Ardsraa"! 
 
 Kappagh"' 
 
 Droineraa'* 
 
 Kylchyrryll' 
 
 Lauchyll" 
 
 72 
 
 - xiij • s • iiij • d. 
 
 - ij • marc. 
 
 - X ■ s. 
 
 I* Clanletje. — The Tertia of Clonleigh 
 were the same in 1609 as in 1397. See 
 above, p. 61. 
 
 ■i Ardsraa. — The Tertia in 1609 were 
 20.S. per an. See above, p. 10. 
 
 ' Kappagh The herenagh of Cappagh 
 
 paid 6,s. %<]. Tertia in 1609. See above, 
 p. 7. 
 
 ' Dromeraa. — Opumi para, 'dorsum 
 arcis ;' but not that of Cuircne or Luighne 
 mentioned by Colgan. Omagli, the county 
 town, is situate in the parish of Drum- 
 ragh. " The parishe of Dromrathe, con- 
 teyninge foure ballibetaghes and foure 
 balliboes, wherein is both a parson and a 
 viccar presentative ; one third parte of 
 the tiethes is paid to the herenagh, out of 
 which he paieth yearelie to tlie lord bus- 
 shop of Derry 13' 4' per an." — Inq. 
 
 ' KylchyrrijU. — Now Termonamongan, 
 the most westerly parish in the county of 
 Tyrone, extending nearly to Lough Derg 
 in the county of Donegal. The name is 
 formed from Cill Chaipill, ' Caireall's 
 church,' having been built by, or in com- 
 memoration of, St. Cairill. See Colgan, Act. 
 SS., pp.607 [j'ecte ^i']'\ b; 611 \j-ecte ^zg'], 
 n. 9. The Taxation agrees with the pre- 
 
 — X • S. 
 
 xiij • s • iiij • d. 
 
 X • s. 
 
 Kylpatrikf 
 
 sent record in calling the church Kdkirdl. 
 The key to the identification of the mo- 
 dern with the ancient name is afforded by 
 Primate Fleming's registry, in which is 
 an entry, at the year 141 r, confirming 
 to Patrick Omongan, herenach of Kylcld- 
 rijll, the church-lands hitherto held by 
 him and his predecessors (fol. 45 h). The 
 Four Masters, at 1557, call the parisli 
 Ceapmanr Ui Tllbaoin, ' Termonomeen.' 
 " LawchyU. — The name in Irish, Leath 
 coiU, means ' the Elm-wood,' learii con- 
 taining the radical letters of the Latin 
 lAxiais. Agreeably to a general process 
 by which the termination colli is vul- 
 garly changed \u\.o field, the present com- 
 pound is known under the form Longfield. 
 In 1 800 the parish was divided into Long- 
 field East and West. The former, called 
 also Longfield Upper, contains the ceme- 
 tery and the ruins of the old church, in 
 the townland Magharenny. — (Ord. Surv. 
 Tyrone, s. 34.) Churches of this name, 
 which was very common in Ireland, are 
 noticed in the Calendars at Jan. 13, April 
 21, June 13, Oct. 25, Nov. 16, Dec. 19. 
 In 1 609 the herenagh paid to the bishop 
 as Tertia los. per an — Inq. 
 
(Decanatus de Mahya.) 
 
 Kylpatrikr 
 
 Downa2;hgede" 
 
 73 
 
 Botowny" 
 
 XUl 
 
 s • iiij • d. 
 xiij • s • iiij ■ d. 
 X ■ s. 
 
 Dkcanatus de Bennagh'' in TeMI'OKALIBUS. 
 AchedofFy'' 
 
 vij • marc 
 
 di. 
 
 " Ki//patrik. — Now Leckpatrick. The 
 parish contained thirty balliboes, two of 
 which were held by the herenagh, who 
 paid 6s. 8d. per an. composition for the 
 Tertia. — Inq. See above, p. 19, 
 
 " Downaghgede. — Doimiac CcioiDe, Do- 
 minica Caidini. " S. Caidinus Confessor 
 colitur in ecclesia de Domhnach Caoide, 
 dioacesis Derensis in Ultonia, 28 Octo- 
 bris." — (Act. SS., p. 162 &.) Colgan ob- 
 serves that, the termination oc being a 
 diminutive, Caidan or Caidin and Caidoc 
 are the same. Caidocus al' Caidinus was 
 a companion of St. Columbanus, and the 
 apostle of the Morini. The herenagh paid 
 
 40s. per an. to tlie bishop Inq. The 
 
 ruins of the old church of Donaghedy are 
 in the townland Bnnowen, a little N. E. 
 of the present church (Ord. Surv., s. 3.) 
 
 • Botowny. — More correctly written in 
 the Taxation Bothdomnyk, the Irish being 
 boc-t)Oiiinaic, ' Casa dominica;.' The 
 Tripart. Life of S. Patrick relates that 
 while at Dagart in the territory of Mag- 
 dula that saint founded seven churches, 
 of which Boith-Domnaich was one. — ii. c. 
 119. (Tr. Th., p. 145.) Also in reciting 
 the names of St. Patrick's attendants it 
 
 Dysertotwachyll 
 
 mentions " Sanctus Athgenius de Both- 
 domnaich, coquus." — iii. c. 98. (ib. p. 
 167.) Of him M'Firbis says: Q)C5fn .1. 
 Copmac boice Oomnuij o boifc ijoiii- 
 nuig, cpiniiici]! Cicman, ajup Cupcac 
 an bati05, cuip cloinne Hlail no Oaoil. 
 ' Aithgen, i. e. Cormac-Boithe-domnaigh, 
 of Both-domhnaich, priest Cianan, and 
 Curcach the virgin, are the props of the 
 Clann Mail or Daoil.' — (Gen. MS., p. 715.) 
 The Four Masters make mention of the 
 place only in connexion with Muireagan 
 of Armagh, namely, at the years 992, 
 993, looi, 1005. At the suppression of 
 religious houses the rectory of "Beydony, 
 in Cormac O'Neale's country," was ap- 
 propriate to the priory of Dungiven. — 
 (Pat. Jac. I. p. 57 b.) The townland 
 Glenrone, in Upper Bodoney, contains the 
 
 ancient site and cemetery (O. S., Tyr., 
 
 s. 12.) The whole valley is called Glen- 
 elly. See the note at p. 55. 
 
 ' Bennagh. — This deanery comprehend- 
 ed all the parishes of the diocese which 
 are situate in the present county of Lon- 
 donderry, being made up of the earlier 
 territories of Creeve, Keenaght, Glencon- 
 kein, and Tirkeeran. In after times it was 
 
(Decanatus de Bennagh.) 
 Dysertotwacliyll'' - 
 
 X • s. 
 
 divided into the deaneries of Bynnagli and 
 Rathloury, the former embracing the 
 baronies of Tirkeeran, Keenaght, and 
 Coleraine, while the latter was exactly- 
 coextensive with Loughinsholin. This 
 distinction, which first appears in the 
 Ulster Visitation Book of 1622, and Ussh- 
 er's Primordia, did not, however, exist 
 in earlier times, for the Taxation and Ar- 
 magh registries agree with the present 
 record in admitting only the three dean- 
 eries of Inishowen, Mahya, and Bynnagh. 
 Like the other two, the name of this 
 deanery is of civil, not ecclesiastical, ori- 
 gin, being so called from the Cinelmbmne, 
 a tribe which derived its name from Eoch- 
 aidh Binnigh, son of Eoghan, sonofNiall 
 of the Nine Hostages, and possessed con- 
 siderable influence in the S. E. part of the 
 diocese, until the beginning of the twelfth 
 century, when it gave way before the 
 O'Neills, leaving only its name to mark 
 the ecclesiastical district within which its 
 possessions lay. In 1372, according to 
 O'Dugan, the tribe was subdivided into 
 the "Cinel-Binny of theGlen," "of Tuath 
 Ros," and " of Loch Drochaid." These 
 distinctions are also found in the Four 
 Masters, as well as in M'Firbis, who adds 
 a fourth called the " Cinel Binnigh of 
 Tulach-og." In 1 372 the family of O'Don- 
 nell were chiefs of the clan, but their 
 habitat is now unknown. Swayne's re- 
 gistry, however, affords a clue to their 
 
 Aregylyll 
 
 position in 1 440, for it contains an entry 
 which represents " Nellanus Odompnyll" 
 as one of the chief parishioners of " Eanga," 
 the modern Termoneeny (fol. 52 b). Pro- 
 fessor O'Donovan is of opinion that they 
 were seated in Glenconkene, which is now 
 represented by the northern half of the 
 barony of Loughinsholin. — (An. 1053, 
 1 1 81; Cambr. Evers., vol. i. p. 243, Ed. 
 Nov.; O'Flaherty, Ogyg., p. 402.) 
 
 ' Achedoff)/.- — " Out of the termon of 
 Aghadowy, conteyninge one ballibetagh, 
 and the erenaghe's third parte of the 
 tiethes, 40* ster. per an." — Inq. In the 
 see Patent the names of thirteen subdeno- 
 minations are recited, of which the first, 
 Sygowry, now Segorry, had reference to 
 the patron saint, being in Irish Suifte 
 5uaipe, Sedes Guarii. An effort was 
 made in the beginning of the seventeenth 
 century to bring the lands of this church 
 under the operations of the Act 28 Hen. 
 VIII., by representing it as a conventual 
 foundation. " Infra putriam de OCane in 
 co' Coolrane nuper erat qiiidani hospitalis 
 sive termon nuncupatus termon Sci. Gown/ 
 de Aghadoivy, niodo dissolutus et relictus. 
 Arenacus sine guardianus dicti hospitalis, 
 tempore dissolutionis et relictionis ejus- 
 dem, tarn donatione diversarum persona- 
 rum in patria prffidicta, quam aliarum 
 seisitus fuit, ut de feodo, de 4 quarteriis 
 terra; vocatis Aghadowy, eidem hospitali 
 proxime adjacentibus, quaj valent per an- 
 
75 
 (Decanatus de Beunagh.) 
 
 AregylylP x ■ 
 
 X • 
 
 X • 
 
 ij. 
 
 Tawlaght ^^[njinagh^ 
 
 DromoCTaruan'^ 
 
 Kylrey^ 
 
 nuiu ultra i-eprisas 3' 4''." — (Ul. Inq., 
 Londond., No. 4.) Accordingly in a Pa- 
 tent 2 Jao. I. " the site of the late hospital 
 or termoe of St. Gowry in O'Cane's coun- 
 try, with 4 quarters adjoining, called 
 Aghadowye," was granted, at the rent 
 of 6r<. 8rf., to Sir George Carew. — (Pat. Jac. 
 I. p. 57 h.) The inquisition of 1609, how- 
 ever, finds them for the bishop, and this, 
 coupled with the exertions of bishop Mont- 
 gomery, caused the lands to revert to 
 their lawful owner, who had them secured 
 to the see in the Patent of 161 5. 
 
 ■' Dysei-totwachjll. — ^" Out of the here- 
 nagh land of Disert O'Twohill, conteyn- 
 inge one quarter, io«. ster. per an." — Inq. 
 This quarter contained the four ballibo'is 
 of Templedisert, Cloghtegall, Dromifrin, 
 and Moyletraghkill. 
 
 '' Aregijhjll. — " Out of the herenagh land 
 of Arregall, conteyninge one quarter 
 [namely, the 4 balliboes Templearregall, 
 Owter, Brackagh, and Gortnemoyagh], 
 \os. per an." — Inq. 
 
 ' Tawlaght M'[_n]magh. — " Out of the 
 erenagh land of Tawlaght-drumagarnan, 
 conteyninge five townes [namely, Drum- 
 akanany, now Drumnacanon ; Drumagar- 
 nan, now Drumagarner; Dromeane, now 
 Druniane; Moneyloghran, now Money- 
 
 S. 
 
 s. 
 s. 
 
 marc. 
 Eatlowry 
 
 staghan ; Dromlishy, now Drumoolish] 
 (whereof the herenagh had one towne 
 free), the yerelie rent of 1 6' S*" per an." — 
 Inq. The parish is now called Tamlaght- 
 ocrilly. 
 
 *' Dromogaruan. — Now Drumagarner. 
 See above, p. 53. It had ceased to be a 
 separate parish in 1609, and was returned 
 as part of Tamlaght O'Crilly, as in last 
 note. 
 
 ' Kylreij. — " The parish of Kilreagh, 
 contayning ten balliboes, wherein are both 
 a parson and a viccar presentative, and 
 the presentation of the said parson and 
 viccar for the space of 1 70 yeres past [i. e. 
 since 1439], have appertayned to the ab- 
 bott of Peter and Paule of Armagh, and 
 likewise the tiethes were paid unto the 
 said abbott and his predecessors." — The 
 said abbott was seised " of and in the 4 
 towne lands called Killreaugh in posses- 
 sion of the herenagh O'Demon, and twoe 
 parts of the tiethes thereof, and of and in 
 all the tiethes of the fishinge for eeles 
 near adjoyninge to the same, and also the 
 2 townlands called Monaghgrane.". — Inq. 
 To the same religious house belonged the 
 4 balliboes of Athgieve, now Agivey, an 
 extraparochial district having a cemetery 
 and ancient church, on the river Bann, 
 
 L2 
 
(Decanatus de Bennagh.) 
 
 Ratlowry^ 
 
 Eanegea^ 
 
 Kyllagli'^ 
 
 1^ 
 
 Kylcroneclian' - 
 Balenesci'ine^ — 
 Balle OskuUyn'^ 
 Disertmartyu' - 
 
 north of Kilrea. — (0. S., 12.) From the 
 registry of Primate Swayne, circ. 1430, 
 it appears that the bishop of Derry was 
 then a tenant of the see of Armagh in this 
 parish : " Dominus Primas percipit ab 
 episcopo Derensi pro manerio de Kylree 
 in episcopatu Derensi xl. s. ; mille anguil- 
 las mediocres, et sexaginta grossas, per 
 annum" (fol. 60 a). 
 
 ' Ratlowry " Out of the 6i balliboes 
 
 of erenagh land in Magherira (whereof 
 the herenagh hath one free) the yerely 
 rent of 23' 4'' ; and that in the parish there 
 is half a towneland belonginge to the lord 
 busshop's ofEciall." — Inq. 
 
 - Eaner/ea. — " Out of the erenagh land 
 of Any, called Termon Any, conteyninge 
 4 townes (whereof the herenagh had one 
 free), the yerely rent of 13' 4"'." — Inq. 
 
 '' Kyllagh " Out of the erenagh land 
 
 of Killologhan [now Killelagh], conteyn- 
 inge 4 balliboes [to wit Tironony, Tully- 
 keeran, Carrowmeanogh, and Tirkane], 
 (whereof the herenagh had one free), the 
 yerely rent of 13" 4'*." — Inq. 
 
 ' Kylcronechan. — " Out of the erenagh 
 land of Killcronighan, conteyninge 4 bal- 
 
 iij • marc. 
 
 X • s. 
 
 X • s. 
 
 X • s. 
 
 iij marc. 
 
 xiij • s • iiij • ft. 
 
 X • s. 
 
 Cammvs 
 
 liboes (whereof one balliboe was free to 
 the herenagh), the yerely rent of 1 3' 4''." 
 — Inq. 
 
 ' Balenescrine. — " Out of the erenagh 
 landof Ballinescrine, contayninge sixe bal- 
 liboes (whereof the herenagh had one free 
 to himself), the yerely rent of 16' 8''." — 
 Inq. 
 
 '^ Balle Oskullyn. — The jurors in the in- 
 quisition of 1609 were ignorant of the 
 rent. The Patent names one townland, 
 Ballinscollen al' Inistide. It lies between 
 Bellaghy and Lough Beg. 
 
 ' Disevtmaiiyn. — Out of the four balli- 
 boes the herenagh paid the yearly rent of 
 1 3.S. 4f/. — Inq. One of these, called in the 
 Patent Shi-a-Imshna<^ardi/, and now known 
 as Stranagard, derived its name from a cra- 
 noge or artificial island in the small lake, 
 half of which is in this townland. This 
 little lake lies a short distance to the 
 N. W. of the village, about 220 yards in 
 length, and 179 in width. On the Ord- 
 nance map it is marked Lough ShilHn, 
 but the more correct form, and as it is 
 
 locally called, is Lougk-inis-O'' Lynn 
 
 (Ord. Surv. Londond., s. 41.) The other 
 
(Decanatus de Bennagh.) 
 Cammys" 
 
 n 
 
 xiij • s • iiij -cI. 
 
 Donboo" iij • marc. 
 
 Dunchrun" xx • i. 
 
 Tawlaghtard'' xiij • 5 • iiij -d. 
 
 Ballo[nes]krene 
 
 was beside it. 
 
 ° Donhoo. — " Out of the herenagh land 
 of Dunboe, neere the parishe church of 
 Dunboe, conteyninge 3 balliboes [to wit, 
 Banreigh, now Bennarees; Dromnegally, 
 now Dromagully; and Ballyowdage, now 
 Pottage], over and beside the 2 balliboes 
 of erenagh laud of Naburny [Btirrenbeg 
 and Burrenmore], and i balliboe of Ball y- 
 maddy [Ballyniadigan], which the here- 
 nagh of that place had free, 5" ster. per 
 an. and an yerely refection yf the said 
 bushopp did visite, and not else." — Inq. 
 Besides these lands which lay on the N. W. 
 side of the parish, there were the twelve 
 towns of Grangemore, on the N. E., also 
 held under the see. See pp. 85, 86. 
 
 ° Dunchrun. — •" Out of a balliboe of 
 erenagh land, belonginge to a chappell 
 called Donocron [now Duncruu], in the 
 parishe of Tawlaghtard, 10* sterling per 
 an." — Inq. 
 
 p Tavdaijhtarfl. — " Out of the balliboe 
 of herenagh land belonginge to the pa- 
 rishe church of Tawlaghtard 10^ ster. 
 per an., which said 2 balliboes of here- 
 nagh land [sc. Tawlaghtard and Dono- 
 cron] are parcell of the tw'o ballibetaghes 
 of herenagh land of Tawlaghtard; and 
 the herenagh holdeth the rest free." The 
 
 half of the lake is in the townland " An- 
 nagh and Moneysterlin," the latter of 
 which names is a corruption of mainip- 
 ciji Ophlonin, and is said to have been 
 derived from a religious house which an 
 O'Lynn founded somewhere here. The 
 surrounding district is called Kilnaclieve. 
 According to the Irish Journal 1641-7, 
 the island on Lough-inis-O'Lynn was a 
 fortress of one Shane O'Hagan, and a 
 place of considerable strength; so much 
 so that he was able to hold out against a 
 party of English who attacked it with 
 cannon, on two several occasions. The 
 spot must certainly have been a place of 
 importance when it gave name, in the 
 reign of Queen Elizabeth, to so extensive 
 a barony as Loughinsholin. 
 
 " Gammys. — " Out of the half balliboe 
 of herenagh land of Ballynasse, and the 
 late -vveare neare Ballynasse, m the parish 
 of Camos, 6' 8'' per an., and alsoe out of 
 the herenagh land of Camos, contayninge 
 one quarter neere the parisshe church of 
 Camos." — Inq. The Patent recites " the 
 q' of Camus with the castle of Castleroe, 
 and the ballyboe of Ballynas." bcnle-an- 
 eapa, ' the town of the waterfall,' was so 
 called from the famous cataract of Gap 
 C]iaoilJe, Eascreeve, now the Cutis, which 
 
78 
 
 (Decanatus de Bennagh.) 
 
 Ballo[nes]krene de Ardo'' 
 Athlouse'' 
 
 Tawlaghtinlan' 
 
 Patent also describes these lands as two 
 ballibetaghs, and recites nineteen subde- 
 nominations. An inquisition of 1615 is 
 more explicit, and finds the see-lands of 
 Ard M'Gillygen to consist of forty towns 
 or balliboes, adding, after the recital of 
 the names, "which 40 balliboes or townes 
 doe contayne 10 quarters, amountinge to 
 2h ballibetaghs."— (Ul. Inq.) The whole 
 of the parish, with the exception of the 
 small townland of Ballycarton, is held 
 under the see of Derry. 
 
 ■1 Balloljnes^krene de Ardo. — This is not 
 specified either in the inquisitions or Pa- 
 tent, but is included in the herenagh land 
 of Tamlaghtard. The church of Scrin- 
 de-Ardo, which, from time immemorial, 
 was a chapelry of this parish, stood on 
 the N. E. in the townland Craig, at the 
 east side of the road, a little north of 
 Castle Leckey, and its site is marked on 
 the Ordnance Map, " Skreen Church in 
 ruins." — (Londond., s. 2.) In a Visita- 
 tion book of the diocese, 1 7 1 8, reference 
 is thus made to the chapel: " This parish 
 is divided by a great bog, so that some of 
 the inhabitants cannot come to church 
 in winter without travelling six miles. 
 Hereupon bishop King, with the rector 
 and parishioners, repaired an old chapel 
 farther distant from the church, where 
 
 vi • s • viij • d. 
 xiij • s • iiij -d. 
 ij • marc. 
 Fochwayll 
 
 the incumbent is obliged sometimes to 
 officiate, the benefice being too small to 
 support him and a curate." The ceme- 
 tery surrounding the ruined walls was 
 for a long period used only as a burial 
 place for idiots, suicides, unbaptized in- 
 fants, and strangers cast a-shore; but in 
 1845 it was ploiighedup, the foundations 
 of the chapel cleared away, and all the 
 human remains found there were collect- 
 ed and buried in one pit. The lands about 
 are those which are valued in the rental. 
 The ferry at the mouth of the Foyle, be- 
 tween Magilligan Point and Inishowen, 
 is called " Ferrit [peappat)] Serin." 
 
 ' Athlouge. — " Out of the herenagh land 
 of AUowa [now Aghanloo], conteyninge 
 three balliboes [namely, Shaneboye, Rin- 
 faddy, and Balneytemple, containing one 
 quarter], one yerely refection, only in 
 the said budiopp's visitation, but noe 
 other rent." — Inq. It is probably the 
 Ath-luga of O'Donnellus (i. cap. 100. Tr. 
 Th., p. 405 h) ; in Irish dt or Qcan 
 Logo, ' Lugha's ford,' or ' little ford.' 
 
 " Tauiaghtinlan. — The patron of Tam- 
 laghtfinlagan is thus noticed in the calen- 
 dar of the O'Clerys: pionnlug o Caifi- 
 lacca pionnloga 1 Ciannacba glinne 
 geniiion, 'Fionnlugh of Tamlacht-Fionn- 
 logha in Cianacht of Glen-given,' 3 Jan. 
 
(Decanatus de Bennagh.) 
 Fochwayll' 
 
 79 
 
 He seems to have been the monk " Find- 
 luganus," who, according to Adamnan, in- 
 terposed in the island of Hinba to save 
 
 St. Columbkille's life ii. 24. (Tr. Th., 
 
 p. 355 b.) " Finnluga fuit discipulus et 
 frater S. Fintani de Dunblesque; et ideo 
 cum eo nominatur: et in peregrinationem 
 exiit in Albiouem: estque Sanctus qui 
 colitur in Tamlacht Finnlogain in regione 
 Kiennachtaj de Glenngemin: Finnloga et 
 Fintanus duo tilii Demani," &c. — (Trias 
 Th., p. 383 b, n. 23; ActaSS., pp. 12, 14.) 
 The herenagh paid 20s. per an. out of the 
 two quarters of church land." — Tnq. 
 
 ' Fochwai/U. — " Out of the herenagh 
 landof Fuoghenyvallye, conteyninge twoe 
 quarters knowen by these fewer names 
 followinge, viz. Killewilly [Killywool], 
 TuUederry [TuUy], CiiUowe [Coolagh], 
 and Killeitra [Faughanvale], the rent of 
 10' per an.; and alsoe out of the here- 
 naghes third parte of the tiethes of the 
 said parisbe, 10^ star, per an." — Iiiq. The 
 modern name Faughanvale, which sounds 
 as if borrowed from the neighbouring 
 river Faughan, has not the slightest refer- 
 ence to it. In Irish it is Nua congbcnl, 
 ' Nova habitatio,' and is correctly written 
 in the Taxation Nocongaill. The Four 
 Masters write the name liuaconjbail at 
 the year 1197. Con5bail, 'a habitation,' 
 is compounded of con, ' together,' and 
 baile, 'a house,' and is found as the name 
 of a parish in Conivall, in the county of 
 
 J • inarc. 
 
 Bomawe 
 
 Donegal. With Niia, ' new,' prefixed, it 
 occurs in Westmeath in the form Notiyh- 
 aval, in Jlcath as Navaii, in Cork as 
 Nohoval, in Clare as Nouyhaval, in Kerry 
 asNohoval-Dahi and Nolmval-Kerry. With 
 Ua prefixed it becomes Oiighaval, as in 
 the county of Mayo. From the following 
 passages of the Leabhar Breac it may be 
 inferred that the word congbail was prin- 
 cipally employed as an ecclesiastical term : 
 " St. Patrick afterwards proceeded into 
 Ossory, and erected churches [cealla] 
 and congbhails [congbala] there" (fol. 
 14 b. a.) " Patrick, accompanied by 
 Bridget, proceeded to Eas-Ruaidh [Bally- 
 shannon], and commenced the erection of 
 a church and congbhail [eclaip acop 
 congbail] there, in the place at this day 
 called Disert-Patrick. But Cairpre, the 
 son of Niall, set his face against him, and 
 sent two of his people, Carbaoc and Cu- 
 angus, to take him prisoner. What you 
 have done is not good, said Patrick: if 
 you would permit me to erect a congbhail 
 here, it would become a second Rome of 
 Italy" (fol. 1 5 J. a.) " Columbkille after this 
 passed into the country of Connaught on 
 a preaching visitation [pop ciiaipc a 
 ppoicepca], erected many churches and 
 congbhails in that province, among which 
 was Eas-mic-Ercc, and DrumclifT." — 
 (Ibid.) See O'Donovan on Annals, 1197, 
 1539. In King's visitation this church 
 is styled " Ecclesia vetus S. Conici." 
 
8o 
 
 (Decanatus de Bennagh. ) 
 
 Bomawe" 
 
 Bangoria'' 
 
 X • s. 
 
 XX • s. 
 
 Item de Tertiis episcopalibus ejusdem decanatus. 
 Achedoffy™ 
 
 Disert OtwachylP 
 AregylP 
 
 " Bomawe. — " Alsoe out of the here- 
 nagh land of Boymevoe [Bovevagh], con- 
 teyninge half a quarter, 5" per an." — Inq. 
 
 " Bangoria. — See above at p. 53. 
 
 "Achedoffij ThechurchofAgliadowey 
 
 is a very ancient foundation, as may be 
 inferred from the following pedigree of 
 the two Guaires, its patron saints: 
 
 COLLA UAIS, 
 
 Monarch of Ireland from 
 
 A.D. 32710 A.D. 331. 
 
 I 
 
 Fia(;hra Tort, 
 
 Founder of the Hy-Tuirtre. 
 
 J . 
 
 Laeghaihe. 
 
 I 
 Feargus. 
 
 I 
 
 FUACT.\GE. 
 
 I 
 COLilAN. 
 
 I 
 S. GUAIKE, 
 
 surnamed 
 Mot. Fest. 
 22 .Jan. 
 
 I 
 Laisren. 
 
 I 
 
 S. Guaiee, 
 
 surnamed 
 
 Beg Fest. 
 
 9 .Januar. 
 
 ECHIN. 
 
 Fephlim. 
 
 I 
 Daire. 
 
 I 
 Cuanach. 
 
 I 
 
 S. LURACH, 
 
 Founder of 
 Kath Luraich, 
 now Maghera. 
 Fest. 17 Feb. 
 
 They are thus noticed in connexion 
 with this church in the calendar of the 
 O'Clerys: Jan. 9, guaipe beag o Qcaft 
 Dubcaig 1 moig Li pop bpu banna; mac 
 Lappen 60 pliocca CoUa Uaip. 'Guaire 
 
 ij • marc. 
 
 — xiij • s • iiij -d. 
 
 xiii • s • iiij • d. 
 
 Tawlaght 
 
 Begof Achadh-Dubhthaigh in Moy-Li, on 
 the edge of the Bann; son of Lasren, of the 
 raceof CollaUais.' Again, Jan. 22, Juaipe 
 m6p o Qca& Dubcaig pop bpu banna. 
 ' Guaire Mor of Achadh-Dubhthaigh on 
 the edge of the Bann.' The Fir Li, or 
 ' Men of Li,' who gave name to the ter- 
 ritory in which Aghadowey is situate, 
 were descended from Laeghaire in the 
 above pedigree. 
 
 '■Disert Otivachi/ll. — Dipipc Ui Chuac- 
 jaiLe, 'O'Tuahill's desert,' so called from 
 the family which formerly resided here, 
 of which Kory More O'Tuohill is tradi- 
 tionally remembered as the last chieftain. 
 Their descendants, called Toghilh, are still 
 to be found in this part of the country. 
 Colgau reckons this church among those 
 founded by St. Columbkille.— (Tr. Th., 
 p. 49J, n. 56.) The cemetery and site of 
 the old church, locally called Desert, are 
 in the townland Ballynameen. — (Ord. 
 Sur. Londond., s. 26.) S. W. of this are 
 the townlands Keeran and Tirkeran. 
 
 y Aregyll. — Qipeagal primarily signi- 
 fies ' an apartment' or ' habitation :' as 
 puaip piurii aipfccal Ofippic Xydab 
 
(Decanatus de Bennagh. ) 
 
 Tawlaght M'^ninaych'' — 
 
 DrumoCTaruan" 
 
 Kvlrey'' 
 
 Rathloury" 
 
 Ecanage'' 
 
 8i 
 
 O'DoiimaiU/, ' He procured a private apart- 
 ment for Hugh O'Dounell;' Rucca& lat) 
 L iKiipeccal uaigneac, 'They were con- 
 ducted iuto a private apartment.' — (Four 
 Mast., 159Z.) Sometimes, like the words 
 ceac, boc, it was adopted in ecclesiastical 
 use. and was used either simply or in com- 
 position as denoting a church. Thus 
 Qipeacal Oaciapog, now Errigal-Kee- 
 rogue, in the diocese of Armagh ; Qipea- 
 cal Cpiooo, now Errigal-Trough, in the 
 diocese ofClogher; Qipeacal mua6a)n. 
 The name Errigal is also borne liy a re- 
 markable pointed mountain in Donegal. 
 The present church was anciently Qipea- 
 cal Q&aiiindin, St. Adamnan being the 
 
 patron of it (Colg., Tr. Th., p. 495 a.) 
 
 The cemetery and site of church are in 
 the townland Ballintemjjie, south of which 
 is a spot marked on the Ordnance Map 
 "S. Onan's rock." — (Londonderry, s. 18.) 
 Onan and Eunan are the vulgar forms 
 under which St. Adamnan of books is 
 known in Ireland and Scotland. — (Har- 
 ris' Ware, vol. i. p. 269; Collections on 
 Aberdeen, &c. (Spalding Club), p. 508.) 
 
 ' Tawlaght M'ninaych. — The parish is 
 now called Tamlaght 0"CriIly, from the 
 O'Crillys who were formerly herenaghs. 
 
 xiij • s • iiij • ct. 
 
 ■ X • s. 
 
 xiij • s • iiij • d. 
 
 ij • marcas. 
 
 xiij • s • iiij • d. 
 
 Kyllecronechan 
 
 The familyof Ui Cpua&laoicseemstohave 
 come hither from Connaught, for they 
 were a branch of the M'Dermots of Moy 
 Lurg. The cemetery, with a roofless church 
 which occupies the site of an older, is in 
 the townland Drumnacannon, beside the 
 Avretched hamlet of Tamlaght. — (Ord. 
 Sur. Londond., s. 33.) 
 
 " Drumogarvan. — Now merged in Tam- 
 laght O'Crilly. See above, p. 53. 
 
 '' Kylrey. — Written Kilreda in the Tax- 
 ation. See above, p. 75. 
 
 ' Rathlourij. — Mat Lupaic, ' Lurach's 
 fort,' the ancient name, with niacaipe 
 prefixed, and the last word omitted, makes 
 
 Maghera, the modern name (See Reeves' 
 
 Eccl. Ant., p. 27.) The church was called 
 after its patron, St. Lurach, one of the 
 Fir Li, whose pedigree has been already 
 given at p. 80, and whose festival was ob- 
 served on the 17th of February. " Tlie 
 parishe of Magherira conteyninge 2 baili- 
 bets — one third part of the tiethes is paid 
 to the herenagh, out of which he paieth 
 to the bushopp 20' per an." — Inq. 
 
 '' Ecanage. — Termoneeny is called Enga 
 in the Taxation, Eanegea above, and Any 
 al' Termoa-Aivj in the Inquis. The he- 
 renagh paid IQS. per an. to the bishop. — 
 
 M 
 
82 
 
 (Decanatus de Bennagh.) 
 Kyllecronechan'' - 
 
 Kyll-laca' 
 
 Ballenescrine* 
 
 X • s. 
 
 Inq. The east gable stands in the ceme- 
 tery about half a mile S. of Maghera, in 
 
 the townland Mullagh (Ord. Surv., 
 
 s. 36.) 
 
 " Kyllecronechan CiU Cpuicnecicain, 
 
 ' Ecclesia Cruthnechani,' so called from 
 the saint of whom Adamnan writes in his 
 Life of S. Columbkille, "ejusdem beati 
 pueri nutritor, spectabilis vitse vir prses- 
 byter Cruithnechanus." — iii. c. 2. (Tr. 
 Th., p. 364 a.) Upon which O'Donnellus 
 furnishes us with the commentary that 
 after Columba was born in Gartan he was 
 sent to Tulach-Dubhglaisse [now Temple- 
 Douglas in the parish of Conwall, midway 
 between Gartan and Letterkenny,] to be 
 baptized by Crutlinechanus, son of Ceal- 
 lachan ; citing the following curious qua- 
 train from the now-lost Life of the saint 
 by Mura of Fa than: 
 
 'Rujab 1 n-5cipran "oa 6eoin 
 'St)0 hoiUoli 1 CiU riiic Tleoin 
 'St)0 baipcat) mac na maicfpa 
 1 Culac De Dubglaipe.' 
 ' He was born at Gartan by his consent, 
 And he was nursed at Cill-mic-Neoin; 
 And the son of goodness was baptized 
 At Tulaoh Dubhglaise of God.' 
 
 St. Cruithnechan's day was the 7th of 
 March, at wliich Colgan has collected all 
 
 — ij • marc. 
 BalleoskuUyn 
 
 the little that has been recorded of him. 
 — (Act. SS., p. 600 [rectejio]). Theher- 
 enagh paid the bishop 10s. per an. — Inq. 
 
 ' Kyll-laca — This name, which appears 
 regularly in the other list, is inserted here in 
 a rude hand, and has no sum of money spe- 
 cified. The herenagh paid to the bishop 
 out of the Tertia 10s. per an. — Inq. Cill 
 a' Icica, ' church of the lake,' takes its 
 name from a small sheet of water in Car- 
 rowmenagh, the townland adjoining, on 
 the N. W., that in which the ancient 
 church stood. A portion of the walls with 
 the nearly disused cemetery is in the 
 townland Tirnony. — (Ord. Sur, Londond., 
 s. 36.) The name of Kieran, the patron 
 saint, is perpetuated in Tullykeeran, a 
 townland lying on the N. VV. The town- 
 land Tirkane is probably the Tirkethin of 
 king John's grant to Alan of Galloway. 
 Slaghtneill, another townland, derives its 
 name from the Leacc, or sepulchral earn, 
 which is in it ; the initial S in this case, 
 as well as in Slaghtmanus, which belongs 
 to a townland in Lower Cumber, being 
 an accidental prefix. 
 
 ^ Ballenescrine bailenapcpine, 'town 
 
 of the shrine,' called Scpm Colaimcille 
 in Tir Eoghain by the Four Masters at 
 1 203. The ruins of the old church stand 
 in the cemetery on the N. side of the 
 
(Decanatus de Bennagh.) 
 
 BalleoskuUyn'' 
 
 Dysertmartyn' 
 
 CammysJ - 
 
 83 
 
 Moyola, in Moneyconey, one of the ' six 
 towns of Ballynascreen.' The herenagh 
 paid out of the tertia 20s. a year. — Inq. 
 
 '' Balleoskulhjn. — 'I'liis name of the pa- 
 rish was derived from the O'Skullins who 
 were the herenaghs. The earlier one, 
 however, was derived from the patron 
 saint, as we find in the calendar of the 
 O'Clerys: Sept. 7, Coic innpe Come pop 
 loc beag 1 nUib Cuipcpe, ' S. Toit of 
 Inis-Toide in Lough-beg, in Ily Tuirtre' 
 Inistoide is mentioned in the Annals of 
 Inisfallen at 1 1 12, and in those of Ulster 
 at 1 129. The name Inktede is preserved 
 as an aliter for Ballyskullen in the Ulster 
 Visitation, and the Inquis. The little 
 island in Lough Beg, on which the ruins 
 of the church are, contains only seven 
 acres. The spot, however, is rendered 
 conspicuous by the steeple and spire 
 which the Earl of Bristol, then bishop of 
 Derry, added in 1788, to improve the 
 view from his mansion at Ballyscullion. 
 
 ' Dyseiimmiijn. — " The parish of Di- 
 sertmarten, conteyninge 20 balliboes, 
 wherein there were both a parson and a 
 viccar, but they are now united, and there 
 is nowe only a parson presentative, to 
 whome are paid twoe third parts of the 
 tiethes (except the tieths of the 2 townes 
 of Aighiter, which belonge to the late 
 abbay of Armagh), and to the herenagh 
 
 M 
 
 XllJ 
 
 ■ s • 111.1 
 
 • d. 
 
 xiij 
 
 • 5 • iiij 
 
 •d. 
 
 xuj . 
 
 • s • iiij 
 
 •d. 
 
 Dunboo 
 
 thother third parte, out of which he paid 
 yerely unto the lord bushopp of Derry 
 10" per an." — Inq. There was a cemetery 
 in Derry called from St. Martin; and a 
 manuscript of the Gospels, called "the 
 Gospel of Martin," traditionally believed 
 to have been brought with him to Ireland 
 by St. Patrick, was preserved in Dunbo 
 till 1 182. See the Four Masters, and. 
 O'Donovan's note, at that year. 
 
 ' Cammys. — Of the ancient abbey of 
 Cambos or Camus nothing now remains 
 but the cemetery and the shaft of a sculp- 
 tured cross, which, having been removed 
 from its socket, lay neglected till it was 
 turned to barbarous purpose by being 
 converted into a gate post, in which posi- 
 tion it is now to be seen on the right as 
 you enter the church yard. The patron 
 saint was Comghall. Adamnan, in one 
 of the most curious chapters of his life of 
 Columbkille, having made mention of the 
 fortress called the " Munitio Cethirni," 
 which the Annals allude to under the 
 equivalent name Dun Ceicipn, and which 
 is now known as " the Giant's Sconce," 
 relates how a soldier of Christ called Fin- 
 anus being at the place, and finding a dead 
 body in a well there, proceeded " eo die 
 ad monasterium Sancti Comgelli, quod 
 Scotice dicitur Cambos," and related the 
 fulfilment of what Columba " ante multos 
 
(Decanatus de Beiinagh.) 
 Dunboo'' — 
 
 84 
 
 ij • marc. 
 
 Dunchron', Tawlaght de Ardo", et Ballenescrine 
 
 de Ardo", iij • marc. 
 
 Bomawe 
 
 annos futura nobis audientibus coram 
 Sancto Comgello juxta Cethirini sedens 
 munitionem prsenunciaverat." — i. c. 49. 
 (Tr. Th., p. 349 b.) Colgan says, " Hodie 
 vulgo Cambos Comgalli vocatur." — (lb., 
 p. 3806.) The herenagh paid 13.?. ^d. 
 Tertia per an — Inq. 
 
 '' Dunhoo. — S. Adamnan was tbe patron 
 saint of this church — (Trias Th., p. 495, 
 n. 57.) The herenagh paid 5s. a year out 
 of the Tertia. — Inq. 
 
 ' Bunchron. — Dun Cpuirne, ' Arx 
 Cruthn?norum.' — (Trias Thaum, p. 181 b, 
 n. 187.) Gillapatrick O'Falaghty was 
 erenagh of Duncrun in 1206. — (Four 
 Mast.) The Tripartite Life ascribes the 
 foundation of the church to St. Patrick, 
 stating that he left Beoaidh bishop there. 
 — ii. c. 125. (Tr. Th., pp. 146, 181 i, n., 
 188.) The modern parish church of Ma- 
 gilligan is in the townland Duncrun, and, 
 at a short distance W. N. W., on the top 
 of a hill, called locally " Canon's brae," 
 may be traced the foundations of a small 
 building, thirty-five by nineteen feet, in- 
 side which lies a long rude stone, having 
 on it the figure of a cross in relievo. The 
 cemetery has not been used for many 
 years, and has been partly tilled. A ditch 
 which has been drawn across the hill di- 
 vides the sites of the cemetery and the 
 church. The spot, however, can always 
 
 be identified, for it is marked on the Ord. 
 Survey " Ruins of an Abbey." — (Lon- 
 donderry, s. 5.) 
 
 "■ Tmvlaght de Ardo. — Tamlaght-ard is 
 still the ecclesiastical name of the parish 
 of Magilligan, and the ruins of the old 
 church are in the townland Tamlaght, 
 which adjoins Duncrun on the S. W. The 
 patron saint was Cadan or Catanus, whose 
 tomb, nearly covered by the surrounding 
 graves, lies close under the east gable of 
 the old church. In the Book of Leacan, 
 as cited by O'Donovan, he is called cpuim- 
 cep Cdt)dn oCamlaccain QpGDa, 'Priest 
 Cadan of Tamlaght-ard.' — (Annal. Four 
 Mast., 448.) The Tripartite Life styles 
 him " Catanus Prjesbyter," and notices 
 him as one of St. Patrick's hoiisehold. — 
 iii. c. 98. (Tr. Th., p. 167 c!.) The Ord- 
 nance Survey was led into a slight mistake 
 by the similarity of pronunciation, mark- 
 ing the spot as "Espog Aedan's tomb," 
 and the neighbouring well as " Tobar 
 Easpuig Aedain (Bishop Aedaii's Well.)" 
 — (Londond., s. 5.) The herenagh paid 
 20s. per an. out of the Tertia. — Inq. 
 
 "Ballenescrine de Ardo. — The name 
 Ballynascrine, or ' Town of the Shrine,' 
 had reference, probably, to the elaborate 
 shrine which had been executed at a very 
 early age by Conla the Artificer, and was 
 preserved in Ard-Micgiollagan in the six- 
 
(Decanatus de Bennagh.) 
 
 85 
 
 Boraawe", 
 
 Bangoria", 
 Commvr'' 
 
 teenth century. " lUud scrinium, quod 
 usque in hunc diem, tanquam nobilissimus 
 thesaurus, et unum ex prsecipuis sacra> 
 Insula? sacris monumentis in summa vene- 
 ratione habetur, et asservatur in Ard- 
 Micpriollagan, qu» est maritiraa portio re- 
 gionisde KiennactaGlinne Gemhin in Sep- 
 temtrionali parte Vltunie. Scrinium autem 
 iilud longe ante adventum S. Columba^ad 
 ilia loca, et vt traditio est, vivente adhuc 
 S. Patricio, elaborari cccptura est in loco 
 Dun-cruithne priscis appellate. Fabro qui 
 nobileet valdeartificiosum opusinchoauit, 
 uomen erat Corda cognomen turn Arlifex; 
 ex sua nimirum excellentia in ea profes- 
 sione inditum." — O'Donnellus' Life of 
 S. Columba, i. c. 99. (Tr. Tb., p. 405.) 
 This district was visited by S. Patrick, 
 who founded therein seven churches, one 
 of which was called Domnach-Airthir-arda, 
 and another Domnach-Bregh-muige. — Vit. 
 Trip., ii. c. 125. (Tr. Th., p. 146 a.) 
 
 "Bomaive. — hot Tniiei6be, ' Meva's hut,' 
 now Bovevagh. Colgan states that St. 
 Adamnan was the patron saint, and King's 
 Visitation calls it "Ecclesia Sti. Eugenii," 
 more correctly "Eunani." Local tradition 
 calls the patron St. Ringan, and points out 
 the ancient tomb at the N. E. of the old 
 
 X • s. 
 
 xiij • s • iiij • (t. 
 
 XX • s. 
 
 Sm' XX . ii . xiij . s . iiij . d. 
 
 Grangea 
 
 church as his. The Irish calendar places 
 here another saint also, whose name and li- 
 neage are thus given by Colgan: " S. Ai- 
 danusde Both-medhba, filius Fintani, filii 
 KennbarchiE, filii Conalli, filii Sobharna- 
 ehi, filii Finchoemii, filii Fiegi, filii Finn- 
 chadii, filii Conlce, tilii Tadgan, filii Kieni, 
 filii Ailildi Olum."— (Tr. Th., p. 478 b, 
 u. 5.) This Aidauus was of the same race 
 with the O'Conors of Keenaght. See 
 above, p. 36, where the reader will please 
 to substitute Aidauus, the son of Fintau, 
 for Fintan. The only historical notice 
 of the church which the Editor has been 
 able to find is at the year 1083 of the An- 
 nals of Inisfalleu, or 1 100 of the vulaar 
 era; Oeprecic boce nieobci l)0 lopcuo, 
 'the oratory of Both-veva was burned.' 
 The herenagh of Boymevoe paid ^s. Ter- 
 tia per an — Inq. 
 
 ^•Bangoria. — The herenagh paid 13.s-.4r?. 
 Tertia per an. and a refection at visitation. 
 — Inq. See above, pp. 35, 53. 
 
 '1 Commyr — "Out of the herenagh land 
 of Gamer, conteyninge one quarter, the 
 yerely rent of 10' per an., and out of the 
 erenaghes third part of the tiethes of the 
 parish 10' ster. per an., and a refection at 
 the bushopps visitation." — Inq. The Irisli 
 
86 
 
 (Decanatus de Bennagh.) 
 
 Grangea Episcopi'' continet in se ii. carucatas 
 cum dimidio, et Archidiaconus tenuit per 
 vii. annos. 
 
 Sm'' totalis* iij"". xviij . ti . iij . s . iiij . d. 
 
 word coinap is compounded of com, 'to- 
 gether,' and biop, ' water,' and denotes a 
 place where two or more rivers meet, or 
 where a river falls into a larger body of 
 water. It is exactly analogous to the La- 
 tin Confluentia, now known as Coblentz. 
 at the junction of the Moselle and Rhine. 
 Cf/mmer is the form which the name as- 
 sumes in Wales. See Reeves' Eccl. Ant., 
 p. 197. The parish church of Upper 
 Cumber occupies the old site in the town- 
 land Cumber, near the place where the 
 Glenrandle river runs into the Faughan. 
 — (Ord. Surv. Londond., s. 23.) 
 
 •■ Grangea Episcopi. — Besides the here- 
 nagh land of Dunboe, which lay at the 
 N. W. of the parish, near the old church 
 at Downhill, there was a tract of church- 
 land in the same parish called the termon 
 land of Grangemore, containing the twelve 
 balliboes, of Ballymullen [Ballywoo- 
 len], Ardeynagh [ArdinaJ, Nagrangeagh 
 [Grangebeg], Ballinevlackagh-more, and 
 
 beg [Blakes Upper, and Lower], Quilly 
 [Quilly Upper, and Lower], Grangeagh- 
 mor [Grangemore], Ballyeany [Bellany], 
 Mosnegie [Masteragwee], Farrenlessery 
 [Farranlester], Patoge [Pottage]. These 
 lands, extending from the modern church 
 northwards and eastwards to the Bann, 
 excepting all the lands belonging to the 
 archdeacon of Derry, were confirmed by 
 the Patent to the see in 161 5. From the 
 mention of the archdeacon as tenant in 
 1397 it may be inferred that the rectory 
 of Dunboe belonged then, as it does now, 
 to the corps of the archdeaconry. 
 
 ' Totalis According to an extent, 15 
 
 James L, the see is valued in the King's 
 Books, in temporals and spirituals, at 
 £250. In the Report of Ecclesiastical 
 Revenue and Patronage, 1833, the in- 
 come of the see arising from rents was 
 £2593 146'. thd. and from renewal fines, 
 £9607 i8«. yrf.; in all, £12201 i 2.s. <j\d. 
 —(p. 127.) 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
SUBJECTS OF THE ADDITIOXAL NOTES IN THIS APPENDIX. 
 
 A. Episcopal Styles. 
 
 B. Reconciliation of Churches. 
 
 C. The Church of Bancujher. 
 
 D. Rule of St. Columbkille. 
 
 E. Revenue of the See of Berry. 
 
 F. St. Patriclc's Labours in the Diocese of Derry. 
 
 G. Secular Distribution of Tyrone. 
 H. Parishes omitted in the Renta/e. 
 
ADDITIONAL NOTES. 
 
 NOTE A. 
 
 (See Page i, Note >>, " Dei gratia.") 
 
 npHE styles " by Divine Providence" and " Pe)-mission" as distinguishing arclibishops 
 -*- and bishops in public instruments, are a modern refinement, and were unknown 
 in England and Ireland until the seventeenth century. With bishops as ■well as kings 
 the most ancient custom was merely to state their name and office: but presently, 
 when their designations became more dignified, the principle of divine right, which 
 was jointly extended to episcopacy and royalty, led to the adoption of /)«' (7?'«^?a as 
 their common style. Thus, Henry III., addressing Henry de Loundres, in 1220, 
 directs his writ " Venerabili patri in Christo H. Dei gratia Dublin, archiepiscopo, 
 sancte sedis apostolice legato, H. eadem gratia Eex Anglic, &c." — (Eot. CI. Tur. 
 Lond., p. 435 h.) And, so late as 1544, Henry VIII. writes to Cranmer as "eadem 
 gratia Cantuariensi archiepiscopo." — (Gibson, Codex, App., p. 1536.) " To this day," 
 says Selden, "by the stile of chancery, in the summons of our parliaments and writs 
 to assemble or prorogue the convocation, the king gives to the archbishops the attri- 
 bute of Dei gratia in the form : Jacohus Dei gratia, ^c. reverendissimo in Christo patri 
 pnrdilectoque consiliario nostra Georgia, eadem gratia archiepiscopo Cantuariensi, ^-c. 
 But in warrants and commissions to them, that of eadem gratia is most commonly 
 omitted : and in like sort, the other parts of the title being changed, as use directs, 
 are the writs to the bishops." — (Titles of Honour, Works, vol. iii. cols. 214-219 ) 
 During the twelfth century this style prevailed very generally with both ranks of the 
 episcopal order. In instruments after the middle of the thirteenth century we find 
 this distinction introduced, that Permissione divina was the form when they ran in 
 the prelates' names, but the older one was retained when they were declaratory or 
 addressed to them. In the following centuries the same usage obtained, though with 
 
 N occasional 
 
9° 
 
 occasional varieties, as may be seen by the following examples, which have been se- 
 lected from those great stores of records, the Monasticon Anglicanum, the Armagh 
 Kegistries, the appendix to Gibson's Codex (Oxford, 1761), Madox's Formulare An- 
 glicanum, and Harris' Ware's Works: 
 
 1 1 29. H. Dei gratia Winton. episcopus. — (Madox, p. 39.) 
 
 1 1 62. Rev. domino Dei gratia Cornelio episcopo R. necnon et eadem gratia Derbiensi 
 
 archidiacono. — (lb., p. 2.) 
 1 1 80. Malachias Dei gratia Dunensis episcopus. — (Reeves, Ec. Ant., p. 192.) 
 1 186. T. Dei gratia Ardmachanus archiepiscopus. — (lb., p. 193.) 
 1 195. Johannes miseratione Divina presbiter Cardinalis. — (lb., p. 193.) 
 
 1 2 10. Eugenius Dei gratia Ardmachanus archiepiscopus (lb., p. 192.) 
 
 1214. Venerabili patri in Christo H. Dei gratia Dublin, archiepiscopo, P. divina 
 
 miseratione Winton. EcclesiK minister humilis. — (Lit. CI. Tur. Lond., 
 
 p. 205.) 
 1250. Frater J. misericordia Divina Landavensis Ecclesias minister humilis. — (Madox, 
 
 p. 7. 
 1270. Frater Eobertus permissione Divina Cantuariensis archiepiscopus. — (lb. p. 8.) 
 1299. Nicholaus permissione Divina Wyntonensis Ecclesiss minister. — (Gibson, App., 
 
 p. 1508.) 
 1283. Frater J. miseratione Divina Cantuariensis ecclesi® minister humilis (lb., 
 
 p. 1469.) 
 1 29 1. Nicholaus Dei gratia archiepiscopus Ardmachanus. — (Reg. Swayne, lib. ii. 
 
 fol. 52.) 
 1295. Robertus permissione Divina Cantuariensis archiepiscopus (Gibson, App., 
 
 p. 1340.) 
 1301. Nicholaus miseratione Divina archiepiscopus Ardmachanus — (Reeves, Ec. Ant., 
 
 p. 248.) 
 
 1 309. Henrico Dei gratia Winton episcopo, Ricardus permissione divina Londinensis 
 
 episcopus, literas Reverendissimi in Christo patris et domini Thoma; Dei 
 gratia Cantuariensis archiepiscopi, &c. — (Gibson, p. 1540.) 
 
 1 310. Reverendissimo in Christo patri domino Roberto Dei gratia Cantuariensi archi- 
 
 episcopo Radulphus permissione Divina London episcopus, &c. ; quia conse- 
 cra,tione venerabilis viri fratris Johannis de Ketene Dei gratia Eliensis electi. 
 —(lb., p. 1330.) 
 1312. Venerabili in Christo patri David Dei gratia episcopo Menevensi, Radulphus 
 
 permissione divina episcopus London (lb.) 
 
 •356. 
 
91 
 
 1356. Eicardus permissione Divina archiepiscdpus Ardmachanus (Reg. Sweteman, 
 
 fol. 16 b.) 
 1365. Milo Dei et ApostolicEe sedis gratia archiepiscopus Ardmachanus. — (Spelman, 
 
 Glossar., voce Corba.) 
 1369. Reverendissimo Willielmo Dei gratia Cantuariensi arcliiepiscopo. 
 
 Willielmus permissione Divina Cantuar. Archiep. — (Gibs., p. 1507.) 
 
 1 38 1. Roberto Dei gratia Londinensi episcopo. 
 
 ■ Robertus permissione Divina London episcopus. — (lb., p. 152.) 
 
 1400. Rev"'° ThoniEB Dei gratia Cantuar. arcliiepiscopo, Mauritius Dei gratia Norwic. 
 
 episcopus, &c. — (lb., p. 151 1.) 
 1406. Nicholaus permissione divina archiepiscopus Ardmacanus. — (Reg. Fleming.) 
 1 414. Rev""' pater Thomas permissione Divina archiepiscopus Dublinensis (Reg. 
 
 Alani, fol. 2 b.) 
 1427. Venerabili in Christo patri et domino suo Johanni permissione Divina archi- 
 
 episcopo Ardmachano, Edwardus eadem permissione Midensis episcopus. — 
 
 (Reg. Swayne.) 
 1434. Johannes permissione Divina archiepiscopus Ardmachanus. — (Reg. Swayne.) 
 1438. DonatusDei et Apostolicee sedis gratia episcopus Triburnensis. — (Reg. Swayne; 
 
 supra, p. 26.) 
 1444. Johannes Dei et Apostolicas sedis gratia Dunensis et Conerensis episcopus 
 
 (Reeves, Ec. Ant., p. 158.) 
 Johannes permissione Divina archiepiscopus Ardmacanus (Reg. Prene, fol. 
 
 34&-) 
 1483. Sigillum Dlis Dei gracia episcopi Cassellensis — (Cotton, Fasti, vol. i. p. 83.) 
 
 1495. Sigillum Kich. Dei gratia episcopi Leghlinensis (Ware, i. p. 453.) 
 
 151 2. Tiberius Dei gratia Dunensis et Connorensis episcopus — (Reeves, Ec. Ant., 
 
 29 p. 2.) 
 15 1 2. Sigillum Nich. Dei gratia Fernensis episcopi — (Ware, i. 435) 
 15 18, Hugo permissione Divina episcopus Midensis. — (Inge's Roll.) 
 152 1. Willielmus miseratione Divina Dublinensis archiepiscopus. — (Reg. Alan., p. 10.) 
 1534. Thomas permissione Divina Cantuariensis archiepiscopus (Gibson, p. 1542.) 
 
 So also at the years 1537 and 1538. 
 1539. Johannes Dei gratia Londinensis episcopus. — (lb., p. 1536.) 
 1542. Thomas permissione Divina Westmonaster. episcopus. — (lb., p. 1446.) 
 1545. Sigillum Georgii Dowdall Dei gratia archiepiscopi Armachen. — (Cotton, Fasti, 
 
 vol. iii. p. I.) 
 
 N 2 1560. 
 
92 
 
 1560. Mattlieus permissione Divina Cantuariensis archiepiscopus — (Gibs., p. 1328.) 
 So under the years 1562, 1567, 1568, 1572. 
 
 1574. Mattheus Divina Providentia Cantuar. archiepiscopus — (lb., pp. 1512, 1571.) 
 
 1575. Edmundus Divina Providentia Cantuar. arcliiepisoopus — (lb., p. 1441, rect. 
 
 1341-) 
 
 1576. Edwynus permissione Divina episcopus London. — (lb., p. 1470.) 
 
 1584. Johannes Divina Providentia Cantuariensis archiepiscopus (lb., p. 1467.) 
 
 So at 1585, 1588, 1589, 1596. 
 1588. John by Divine Providence bishop of London — (lb., p. 1478.) 
 1622. George by the Providence of God Bishop of London. — (lb., p. 1476.) 
 1632. Georgius, reverendo in Christo patri domino Johanni, eadem Providentia Rof- 
 
 fensi episcopo. — (lb., p. 1498.) 
 1638. William by the Providence of God Lord Bishop of London. — (lb., p. 1474.) 
 1666. Thomas providentia Divina Darensis episcopus — (Book of Precedents, p. 128. 
 
 JIS. Marsh's Library.) 
 1688. John by the Providence of God Bishop of London — (Gibson, p. 1479.) 
 
 In the present record, which seems to have been very carefully worded, the 
 notary, when declaring the acts of the Primate, styles him Dei gratia, as he does also 
 with the bishop of Raphoe when he introduces his name ; but when he recites an in- 
 strument as issuing from the Primate he changes the form to j'ermissione divina. And 
 this latter continued to be the personal style of the archbishops of Canterbury until 
 about the year 1574, when Matthew Parker, towards the close of his episcopate, ex- 
 changed it for providentia divina, which was retained by his successors and adopted 
 by archbishops at large. But it does not appear to have been intended as a distinc- 
 tive form, for in 1622, 1632, and even so late as 1688, the bishops of London styled 
 themselves " By the Providence of God." In Ireland also, in 1666, the designation 
 of bishop Price of Kildare runs, " Thomas providentia divina Darensis episcopus." 
 At length, however, the more dignified expression became peculiar to archbishops, 
 and the bishops retained the common formula, except in a very few instances where 
 accident or assumption communicated to the inferior grade the style which consent 
 had assigned to the superior. In Dromore the bishop used to dignify himself as " by 
 Divine Providence ;" for which a Patent of 8 James I. is cited in a Title Book pre- 
 served in the Registry Office, as a precedent. But this seems to have been accidental, 
 for in the Charter of the Cathedrals of Down, Connor, and Dromore, granted in 1609 
 to John Todd, then bishop of the three dioceses, he is mentioned as " permissione 
 Divina Drumorensis episcopus." On an episcopal seal, which belonged to the four- 
 teenth 
 
teenth century, we find the legend " Enech dei gra. Dromorenc. epi." — (Reeves, Eccl. 
 Ant., p. 308; Cotton's Fasti, vol. iii. pp. 274-5.) The bishops of Meath also have 
 for some time indulged in the archiepiscopal style, but on the monuments of Dr. 
 George Montgomery and Dr. John Evans, " admodum Eeverendus" is found ; while 
 in S Wayne's Registry, as cited above at 1427, Edward Dantsey styles himself bishop 
 of Meath " permisswne Divina;" and likewise in the diocesan roll of Hugh Inge, 27 
 May, 1518, preserved in the Registry Office, there is this subscription, " Hugo /)cr- 
 missione divina episcopus Midensis." 
 
 Formerly the style Dei gratia was sometimes assumed by ecclesiastics of inferior 
 order. Thus we find " Kobertus Dei gratia abbas Malmesburise" (Madox, p. 25); 
 "Johannes Dei gratia abbas Malmesburiensis" (Selden, Works, iii. col. 962); " Alex- 
 ander Dei gratia abbas de Selby" (Mon. Angl., ii. p. 456 h). In like manner John 
 de Blancesfort, Master of the Temple, writes, when addressing S. Lewis, king of 
 France; though in after times "Lewis XI. prohibited Francis then duke of Bretagne 
 the use of it, as of that which was unfit for any other than such a prince as acknow- 
 ledges no superior." — (Selden, ut sup.) 
 
 In 1444 we meet with " Johannes miseratione divina prior domus Salutacionis 
 matris Dei juxta London;" which was and is the style peculiar to Cardinals; as 
 Providentia divina is to the Pope in common with archbishops. 
 
 B. 
 
 See Page 16, Note ', '■'■ Eecrmciiiare volens." 
 
 It may seem strange to some that in so short a period as that occupied by the Pri- 
 mate in this Visitation, and in the line of so short a journey as that from the middle 
 of Tyrone to Derry, no less than three churches should occur requiring episcopal 
 reconciliation after bloodshed ; but the following cases, chronologically extracted from 
 the Irish Annals, will prepare the mind of the reader to receive without surprise the 
 present statement: 
 
 A. D. 605, " Brandubh, king of Leinster, was slain by Saran Saebhderg, airchin- 
 neach of Senboithe-Sine [Templeshanbo], and his own tribe." — Tigkernach. 
 
 A. D. 756, "Eghtigern, bishop, was killed by a priest at St. Bridget's altar, in 
 Kildare [between the screen and the altar — Four Mast.], as he was celebrating Mass, 
 
 which 
 
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 which is the reason that since that time a priest is prohibited to celebrate Mass in 
 Kildare in the presence of a bishop." — Annal. Clonmac. 
 
 A. D. 759, " A battle was fought between the families [i. e. the religious commu- 
 nities] of Clonmacnois and Birr in Moin-Coisse-Blae." — Annal. Ult. 
 
 A. D. 763, " A battle was fought at Argamoyn between the families of Clonmac- 
 nois and Durrow, where Dermod Duff, son of Donnell, was killed, and Diglac, son of 
 Dubliss, and 200 men of the family of Durrow. Breasal, son of Murcha, was victor, 
 with the family of Clonmacnois." — Ibid. 
 
 A. D. 782, " A battle was fought in Ferna-mor between the abbot and steward, 
 i. e. Cathal and Finnacbtach." — Ibid. 
 
 A. D. 788, " A contention took place in Armagh, wherein a man was murdered in 
 the entrance of the oratory. The burning of Clonfert-Mongain by Aengus, son of 
 Mugron, wherein Aodh, son of Tomaltach, perished, and the oratory was burned." — 
 Ihid. 
 
 A. D. 806, " A battle was fought between the family of Cork and the family of 
 Clonfert-Brendan, by which slaughters multitudes of ecclesiastical and eminent men 
 of the family of Cork MV—Ibid. 
 
 A. D. 808, " Dunchu, abbot of Tealach-lias, was slain in the place of Patrick's 
 shrine, in the house of the abbot of Tealach-lias." — Ibid. 
 
 A.D. 814, "The church of Cluain-creamha [Clooncraff] plundered, and manslaugh- 
 ter committed within the church by the men of Breifne and Sil-Cathail." — Ibid. 
 
 A. D. 816, "A battle was fought by Cathal, son of Dunlang, and the family of 
 Tigh-Munna [Taghmon], against the family of Ferns, in which 400 were slain. Mael- 
 duin, son of Cennfaeladh, abbot of Eaphoe, of the family of ColumbkiUe, was mur- 
 dered. The family of ColumbkiUe went to Tara to curse Hugh." — Ibid. 
 
 A. D. 817, " The erenagh of Kilmore-enir was violated, and Dubindrecht the prior 
 was wounded at the same time by the Lagenians." — Ibid. 
 
 A. D. 832, " The family of Kildare were routed within their church by CeaUach, 
 son of Bran, in which many were slain, on the feast of St. John in autumn. The 
 family of Clonmacnois were slaughtered, and the termon burned to the very door of 
 the church by Felimy, king of Casliel. Likewise the family of Durrow even to the 
 door of their church." — Ibid. 
 
 A. D. 834, " Clonmacnois was profaned by Cathal, son of Ailell, lord of Hy-Many, 
 against the prior, Flann, the son of Flaithbeartach, of the Ui-Forga of Munster, whom 
 he cast into the Shannon and killed." — Four Masters. 
 
 A. D. 835, " The oratory of Kildare taken upon Forannan of Armagh, and all the 
 congregation of Patrick likewise, by Felimy, king of Cashel, by battle and arms; and 
 
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 the clergy were taken by liim with their submission." — Ihid. " The churcli of Glen- 
 daloch was burned, and the church of Kildare ransacked by the Danes. The Danes, 
 upon the Nativity of our Lord, in the night, entered thecliurch of Clonmore-Moyeog, 
 and there used many cruelties, killed many of the clergy, and took many of them 
 captives." — Annal. Clomnacnois. 
 
 A. D. 850, " Caireall, son of Ruark, king of Loch-Uaithne, was treacherously 
 murdered before the door of the oratory of Tighernach at Clones, by the Connells of 
 Farney." — Annal. Ult, 
 
 A. D. 889, "'Eugan, sou of Ceannfaeladh, abbot of Imleach lubhar, was murdered." 
 —Ihid. 
 
 A. D. 903, "Kells was forcibly entered by Flann, son of Maolsechnall, upon Donn- 
 chadh, his own son ; and many were slain about the oratory." — Ihid. 
 
 A. D. 938, " An army was led by Donnchadh to Fiunabhar-abha [Fennor], which 
 he spoiled; and he killed the priest in the midst of the church, and others with him." 
 —Ihifl. 
 
 A. D. 1006, " Matadan, son of Donnell, king of Uladh, was slain in the church 
 of St. Bridget in the midst of Dunlethglas." — Ihid. 
 
 A. D. loio, " Flaithbertach O'Ceitliman, successor of Tighernach [i. e., abbot 
 of Clones], chief bishop and anchorite, was killed by the men of Breifne in his own 
 town." — Ihid. 
 
 A. D. 1012, " Sitric Mac Auly of Dublin irreverently and without respect made 
 liavock of all the kings in the church of Kells, and killed many within the walls of 
 the said church." — A^inal. Clonmac. 
 
 A. D. 1013, " Murtagh O'Carry Calma took Molloye, prince of Ferkall, from out 
 of the church of Durrow, and killed hini at Moyleua [or Kilbride], adjoining to 
 Durrow." — Ibid. 
 
 A. D. 1031, "Ardbraccan was burned by the Danes of Dublin; 200 men perished 
 in the stone-church, and 200 were made captives. An army was led by Mac Eoch- 
 aidh into Iveagh, and burned Kill-Cumbair [Cumber], with its oratory ; killed four 
 of the clergy, and carried away 30 captive." — Anncd. Ult. 
 
 A. D. 1045, "The airchinneach of Leighlin was killed at the church-door.'' — 
 Ihid. 
 
 A. D. 1055, "The battle of Martarthai was fought by Duvdalehe, successor of 
 Patrick, against Loingseach O'Melaghlin's son, the successor of Finian and Columb- 
 kille, wherein many were slain." — Ihid. 
 
 A. D. 1060, " The men of Ely O'Karroll and O'Forga came to plunder Clonmac- 
 nois, and took certain captives from the place called Cross-na-screaptra, and killed 
 
 two 
 
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 two there, a layman and an ecclesiastic; whereupon the clergy of Clonmacnois incited 
 the men of Delvin-Beathra, with their king Hugh O'Rourk, in their pursuit, who gave 
 them an overthrow, and quite discomfited them, and slew the prince of O'Forga, who 
 before killed the ecclesiastic, and also brought their captives the next day back again 
 to the place whence they were so conveyed." — Annal. Clonmac. 
 
 A. D. 1065. "Donnchadh O'Mahoun, king of Uladh, was killed by the Ulidians 
 themselves in the stone-church of Bangor." — Annal. Four Mast. 
 
 A. D. 1069, " Murrogh, son of Connor O'Melaghlin, prince of Meath, did so over- 
 set the family of Mulkieran-Mac-Con-na-Mocht in Isill-Kieran, and the poor of that 
 house, that the steward of the family was slain by them, for which cause Moyvoura 
 was granted to the poor." — Annal. Clonmac. 
 
 A. D. 1075, "Murrogh O'iMelaghlin, king of Meath, was killed in the steeple of 
 Kells, and afterwards Awley was killed immediately by Melaghlin 0"Melaghlin, 
 through the miracles of St. Columb, who is patron of the place." — Ihid. 
 
 A. D. 1084 [recie iioi], "A great depredation made by the people of Iveagli 
 in Ulidia upon the family of Armagh, and 24 of the church-people were slain."— 
 Annal. Inisfal. 
 
 A. D. 1 106, " The family of Kilkenny gave an overthrow to the family of Leigh- 
 liii." — Annal. Clonmac. 
 
 A. D. 1 1 15, " The stone-church of Ardbraccan, full of people, was burned by the 
 men of Munster; and many more churches in Moy-Bregh." — Annal. Ult. 
 
 A. D. 1 1 17, " Maolbrigid, son of Eonan, abbot of Kells, and many of the people 
 of Kells with him, were slain b}' Hugh O'Eourk and the Ui-Briuin on the night of 
 Crum-duflf Sunday [i.e. the Sunday next before the ist of August]. Fades Domini 
 super facientes hec scelera, ut perdat de terra memoriam eorum." — Ihid. 
 
 A. D. 1 121, " Gilla-espoig Eoghain O'Hennery was slain by his own kinsmen in 
 the midst of the cemetery of Banagher." [See above, p. 42.] — Ibid. 
 
 A. D. 1 123, " A secret assault made upon the successor of Ailbhe, and a house 
 taken in Emly, where seven of their men were slain through the miracle of St. 
 Ailbhe ; and there was burned the heW'—Ihid. 
 
 A. D. 1 124, " Ardgar, son of Hugh, heir apparent to the throne of Aileach, was 
 killed by the family of Derry, in defence of the church of Columbkille."— Fo!(r 
 
 MaM. 
 
 A. D. 1 127, " Cearbhall, the son of Mac Faelain, and the Ui Faelain about him, 
 fell by the Ui Failghe within Kildare, defending the successorship of Bridget." — 
 
 Ihid. 
 
 A. D. 1 1 28, "A disgraceful act, that deserved the curse of all Ireland, both tem- 
 poral 
 
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 poral and spiritual, the like of ■which was never witnessed in Ireland, was committed 
 by Tiernan O'Eourk and the O'Brinins. The successor of Patrick with his company 
 was robbed, and some of them killed, and one of his own clergy among them. An 
 army led by Connor O'Loughlin, and they turned upon their left hand to Firbregh, 
 and left some of their men there, and committed wickedness before Gud and man, 
 namely, by the burning of Trim, with the churches; and many were made martyrs 
 therein." — Annal. Ult. 
 
 A. D. 1 1 29, " Aulif O'Driscoll, chief of Corca-laeighde, was slain at the door of 
 the church of Birr." — Annal. Inisfal. 
 
 A. D. 1 2 1 2, " Donnell O'Devine was slain by the sons of Mac Loughlin in the 
 door-way of the abbey-church of Derry." — Four Mast. 
 
 A. D. 1 2 1 3, " O'Kane and the men of Firnacreeva came to Derry to take the 
 house of the son of Mac Loughlin. The great prior of the abbey-church of Derry, 
 who interposed to make peace between them, was killed. God and St. Columbkille 
 wrought a miracle on this occasion; for Mahon Magaithne, the person who had ga- 
 thered and mustered the army, was killed in the doorway of the church of Duvregles, 
 in revenge of Columbkille." — Ibid. 
 
 A. D. 1 26 1, " Sixteen of the most distinguished of the clergy of Tyrone were slain 
 at Derry by Connor O'Neill and the Cinel Owen." — Hid. 
 
 A. D. 1496, "Donnell Bearnach Magauran, chief of Teallach-Eachdhach [Tully- 
 haw] was treacherously slain before the altar of the church of Templeport, by Teige, 
 son of Hugh, son of Owen Magauran; and the marks of the blows aimed at him are 
 still visible in the corners of the altar." — 
 
 A. D. 1508, "Eedmond Oge Mac Mahon was slain at Domhnach-maighe-da- 
 Chlaoine [Donagh in Co. Monaghan] on St. Patrick's festival, by Philip, the son of 
 Edmond Maguire. The act was perpetrated thus : Philip went to the town to hear 
 mass, in honour of St. Patrick, and while they were at mass within the church, Red- 
 mond Oge came around the church Avith a large party, and set fire to the four corners 
 of the building. When Maguire heard of this he said he would not suffer the church 
 of St. Patrick to be burned; and, exciting his people to courage, Philip, with his 
 kinsmen, came out in the name of God and of St. Patrick. A conflict ensued, in which 
 Eedmond was thrown from his horse, and afterwards slain, together with his foster- 
 brother ; and prisoners were also taken there. And the names of God and of St. 
 Patrick were magnified by this occurrence." — Ibid. 
 
 These cases, running through a long series of years, belong but to one class of 
 outrage, yet are indicative of that state of society which gave birth to most of Ire- 
 land's social evils ; the want of consolidation in the government of the country, and 
 
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 of unity in its measures, whereby it was unfitted, except in a paroxysm of exertion, 
 to oiFer any combined opposition to an invader, while it was inwardly rent by the con- 
 riicting interests or ambition of co-ordinate chieftains, who owned no superior except in 
 name, and had no tribunal to appeal to except thewild justice of revenge, or the arbitrary 
 executive of their own sword. Even the clergy seem to have shared in the factious 
 spirit of the nation, and to have indulged occasionally in sectional encounters among 
 themselves. To this they had been trained in some measure by the prescriptive dis- 
 cipline of the country, according to which ecclesiastics were bound to attend the so- 
 vereign in his hostings, and with him to take the field. This system prevailed until 
 the year 804, when Aodh Oirnidhe was prevailed upon by the entreaties of the clergy 
 of the north, aided by the advocacy of Fothadh-na-Canoine, an influential bard, to 
 grant to them a charter of exemption from military service. Still, however, the va- 
 rious religious communities were occasionally found in arms, and the great diversity 
 of rules tended to foment the spirit of jealousy and antagonism. In one respect the 
 use of arms was of service to them, that when their monasteries were assailed by a 
 secular force, a danger to which they were continually exposed, on account of the 
 valuables which in process of time accumulated in their keeping, and because their 
 cause was identified with that of their patrons, they were the better able to protect them- 
 selves and their trust from the vengeance or cupidity of the spoiler. The Danes also 
 contributed to keep alive this military feature of Irish monasticism, for although they 
 were too formidable to admit of any organized resistance, they afforded occasional 
 opportunities for desultory retaliation, and after accustoming all classes to deeds of 
 blood, they gradually broke down among the original inhabitants the veneration which 
 was entertained for religious objects and institutions, introducing their sentiments 
 in proportion as they became intermingled with the natives, till it was no uncommon 
 thing for an Irish chieftain to be styled ' the waster of churches,' or for the adventu- 
 rous population of one province to plunder the churches in another. Amidst all those 
 scenes, the steeples, which we commonly call Round Towers, rendered to the monas- 
 teries the most essential service, being places of refuge in the hour of peril, and 
 affording an asylum for a large number, while they presented the least possible surface 
 for assault. In fact the Round Towers are, in their anomalous proportions, standing 
 memorials of an anomalous Church ; and the reason of their strange proportions is to 
 be sought in the annals of an institution which was planted in a land of civil dissen- 
 sion, and equally stood in need of a shelter from the squalls of civil factions when it 
 forgot its mission by partaking of the spirit of the day, and when it fulfilled the same 
 by promoting civilization and inculcating the lessons of peace. In succeeding centu- 
 ries, stone buildings being of rare occurrence, churches were often turned into places 
 
 of 
 
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 of defence, and were frequented not only by those who sought to deprecate the wrath 
 of heaven, but by those who hoped to escape the rage of man. It was thus that John 
 de Courcy sustained a check from the monastery of Erynagh, when he was mastering 
 Lecale, and afterwards transferred its family to Inch, because it had been " a fortress 
 against liim." So also when Edward Bruce was spreading desolation throughout the 
 same territory, the church of Bright, full of men and women, was burned by him. 
 And even afterwards, upon the declension of the English influence in the country, 
 churches and cemeteries continued subject to desecration, inasmuch as they were the 
 most frequent places of assembling to jealous clans, whose hands an untoward occur- 
 rence might arm against each other, or of a harmonious congregation, who perhaps in 
 the moment of devotion might be disturbed by a sudden onslaught of their enemies. 
 The picture is no doubt a dark one, but the native annals fully account for it in the 
 proof they afford, by their enormous catalogue of dissension and bloodshed, that 
 petty feuds and strife form three-fourths of the materials for the mediaeval history of 
 Ireland. 
 
 The ceremony of the reconciliation of a church or cemetery was therefore likely 
 to be of very frequent occurrence, and it were much to be wished that an Irish Pon- 
 tifical were in existence, so that we could ascertain how far it accorded with the 
 English or Roman Use, in this important rite. But the circumstances which have 
 combined to render all early service-books scarce have been specially exacting in the 
 case of Pontificals, which, being as comparatively few as the order who employed them, 
 and being for the most part private property, were the less likely to escape the ravages 
 of time, or the diligence of those who desired their extermination. We may presume, 
 however, that the Irish Use accorded in the principal points with that of other 
 churches; a supposition which is confirmed in a great measure by the brief notices 
 of the ceremony which occur at pages i6 and 33 of the preceding Visitation. 
 
 In the MS. collection of Trinity College, Dublin, are two Pontificals which for- 
 merly belonged to Archbishop Ussher, classed B. 3. 6. and B. 3. 7. The second is a 
 manuscript of the latter part of the fourteenth century, but affords no evidence of the 
 individual or place for whose use it was formerly designed. The vellum and ink have 
 suffered very much by damp, and several leaves have been displaced in the binding. 
 At fol. 20 h commences the order of the ' ' Reconciliatio violate ecclesie," continuing 
 to fol. 23 a. It is much shorter than the form in the Roman Pontifical, in both ru- 
 brics and substance. The other manuscript, however, is one of the highest interest, 
 both as regards its condition and antiquity. Its page measures ten inches and a half 
 by seven, the capitals are executed in red or green ; the lettering is of various sizes, 
 but the prevailing character is a bold, round letter, resembling that which is seen in 
 
 O 2 some 
 
lOO 
 
 some Saxon manuscripts. The musical notation is of the ancient style, without lines ; 
 and it bears internal evidence of having once belonged to the diocese of Canterbury. 
 From the nature c)f the writing it may be referred to the twelfth century. The order 
 of Reconciliation in this manuscript is without a title, being introduced with a rubric. 
 It begins at fol. 29 &, and is continued to fol. 34 ft, within three lines of the foot. 
 Its tenor is as follows, the rubrics being here printed in italics, and the contracted 
 words in extenso. 
 
 In reconciliatione altaris vel sacri loci seu cymiterii uhi sanguiis fuerit effusus, aut ho- 
 micidium factum, aut aliqua spurcitia puhlice perpelrata. Primum veniat episcopus ante 
 ipsam ecclesiavi cum clero et populo, hanc sonora voce canendo antiphonam. 
 
 An. Deus in sancta via tua. Vt supra, [quis Deus magnus sicut deus noster tu 
 es deus qui facis mirabilia solus. 
 
 R. Viderunt te aque deus, fol. 28 i.] 
 
 Sequitur oratio ante hostium. 
 
 Omnipotens et misericors Deus, qui sacerdotibus tuis tantam prg ceteris gratiam 
 contulisti . ut quicquid in tuo nomine digne perfecteque ab eis agitur a te fieri creda- 
 tur qugsumus immensam clementiam tuam ut quicquid modo visitaturi sumus visites. 
 quidquid benedicturi benedicas . sitque ad nostre humilitatis introitum . sanctorum tuo- 
 rum meritis fuga demonum . angelis pads ingressus. Per. R. Amen. 
 
 Alia oratio. 
 
 Aufer a nobis domine qugsumus iniquitates nostras ut ad Joca tuo nomini piirifi- 
 canda puris mereamur mentibus accedere. Per. 
 
 Tunc intret ecclesiam cum clero cantando antiphonam. 
 
 Pax liuic domui. 
 
 Finita ai\tiphona dicat Episcopus oremus et diaconus Flectamtts. Levate. 
 
 Oremus. 
 
 Deus qui peccati ueteris hereditariam mortem in qua posteritatis genus omne suc- 
 cesserat Christi filii tui domini nostri passione solvisti dona propicius ut conformes 
 ejusdem facti sicut imaginem terreni parentis naturg necessitate portavimus ita ima- 
 [ginem] celestis gratie sanctificatione portemus. ejusdem Xpi. domini nostri qui 
 tecum. 
 
 Postmodum faciat clerus letaniam que supra notata est in dedications altaris. Deinde 
 dicat episcoptis ier 
 
 Deus in adjutorium meum intende. 
 
 Et 
 
lOl 
 
 Et facial exorcisinum et benedictionem scdis . cineris . aqu^ et uini ut supra usque 
 
 Quatinus consecrata sis aqua sancta.ao proficias ad reconciliationem hujus sacri 
 loci vel cymiterii. ut per te et per benedictionem divinam auxiliante domino sive per 
 OS et per mauus atque otEcium nostrum hie locus vel hoc cymiterium divinitus per 
 gratiam spiritus sancti consecretur . et perpetualiter ad iuvocandum nomen domini con- 
 secratum permaneat . et spiritus sanctus habitet in hoc loco seu in hoc cymiterio . per 
 eum qui venturus est judicare vivos et mortuos ac secuhim per ignem. 
 
 Postea circumeat trihus vicibus intriiisecus et extrinsecus ecdesiam vel ci/miterium spar- 
 gendo aquam benedictam canendo antiphonam. 
 
 An. Asperges me domine ysopo et mundabor. 
 
 Sequitur oratio. 
 
 Deum indiiltorem criminum.deum sordium mundatorem deumquiinquina[tum]' 
 peccatis originalibus mundum adventus sui nitore purificavit supplices deprecainur . 
 ut contra diaboli furentis insidias . fortis nobis pugnator assistat.et quicquid ejus 
 uirosa calliditate cotidianisque infestationibus maculatum hie corruptumque fuerit 
 etficiatur celesti sanctificatione ac mundatione purgatum . quia sicut illius est solidum 
 perfectumque quassare . ita auctoris nostri est lapsa restaurare et corrupta purgare. 
 Cujus majestatem precamur.ut hie locus fiat ab omni pollutione purgatus et sancti- 
 ficatus. atque in priorem statum restitutus et reconciliatus ac sacratus.per eum qui 
 uuTis in trinitate perfecta vivit et gloriatur deus . per infinita secula seculorum. 
 Amen. 
 
 Dekinc canatur hec antiphona. 
 
 An. Exurgat deus ad nostri. 
 
 Sequitur oratio. 
 
 Deus cujus bonitas nee principium nee finem habet . cujus est polluta purgare. 
 ueglecta restaurare . vitiata reedificare . esaudi orationes nostras . ut"" hujus loci re- 
 ceptaculura placatus accipias . et altare tuum quod infestantis diaboli fraude est pol- 
 lutum . per infusionem gratie celestis . sanctifices . purificatumque possideas. Nichil 
 hie quesumus domine postmodum noceat pretcriti culpa contagii. Nichil sit quod 
 maneat inimici fraude poUutum . resurgat vero hujus loci pura simplicitas et candor 
 innocentig pristine immaculatus . et dum recipit gratiam revertatur ad gloriam . qua- 
 tinus hie populorum turba conveniens . dum petitionis ingerit vota . votorunj se 
 sentiat obtinuisse sufFragia. Per. 
 
 Postea circumeat episeopus ecclesiani intus etforis . et cymiterium cum incenso canendo. 
 
 An. 
 
 * Concretum is erased, and the word inqulna other MS. Pontifical, but corruptum in the Homan. 
 written over it. The former is the reading in the '' Fol. 316 begins with this word ut. 
 
102 
 
 An. Domine ad te dirigatur. 
 
 Secjiiiiur 
 
 Deus qui in Sanctis habitans . superne moderamine pietatis terram mundus mun- 
 dam formasti . quam etiam primi prevaricatoris de supernis eiecti sedibus suggestione 
 maculatam priscis misertus paradisi' quos creasti accolis pii efFusione cruoris ac pro- 
 prii ab omni antique jarevaricationis contagio mundare et abstergere dignatus es . 
 quesumus immensam pietatem tuam ut banc ecclesiam vel hoc cymiterium quod 
 ])rius tua sanctificatione sanctificari voluisti quamvis jam eiusdem neuo'' prevaricatoris 
 maculatam tua celesti benedictione benedicas . ut qui sub timore et amore tui nominis 
 ad hoc oratorium pro impetranda suorum venia peccatorum convenerint . vel in hoc 
 cymiterio sepulti fuerint . se in perpetuum omnium veniam peccatorum impetrare 
 gaudeant . et gaudia percipere sempiterna letentur. Per. 
 
 Tunc elevata nianu benedicat sanctam ecclesiam vel sacratum cymiterium ita: 
 
 Benedictio dei patris omnipotentis ingeniti . filii[que]'' ipsius unigeniti necnon 
 sancti spiritus paracliti ab utroque procedentis . maneat iugiter super ecclesiam istani 
 vel super cymiterium in secula seculorum. Amen. 
 
 Deinde reportentur reliquiq' ad ecclesiam .psallendo antiphnnam. 
 
 An. Sanctum est verum lumen . ut supra. 
 
 Et reliqua sicut in dedicatione ecclesi^ superius dictum est. 
 
 Oremus. 
 Deus qui ecclesiam tuam sanctam de omnibus mundi finibus coiigregatam per tui 
 lateris admirabile sacramentum . cunctarum gentium matrem esse dixisti perl'ectam . 
 quam etiam populorum varietate depictam apostolorum tuorum meritis decorasti . 
 benedic quesumus sanctorum tuorum opitulante suifragio tam altare quod eorum ex- 
 ornatur te jubente reliquiis quam ecclesiam ac fidelium tuorum tibi pie ofFerentium 
 vota in ilia sanctifioa. Qui cum dec patre et spiritu sancto vivis et regnas Deus per 
 omnia secula seculorum. Amen. 
 
 Commendatio ejusdem sacri loci, 
 Oremus. 
 Deus cujus bonitas sicut non habuit principium ita non habet terminum. Qui 
 pietate completus eligis in nobis magis restituere perdita quam percutere peritura . 
 
 et 
 ' Fol. 32 a begins ■with parodist. JIartene, vol. ii. p. 287 a. 
 
 '^ Veneno in margin by a later hand. Ntevo, ' The que in a later hand, 
 
 however, is the right reading, as may be seen in 'Fol. 32 i begins with re/i7«ie. 
 
et si quid aut negligentia poUuit aiit' ira committit . aiit ebrietas stimulat . aut libido 
 subuertit tu pius sustines . ut ante purifices per gratiam quam percutias per furorem . 
 et operis tui providus gubernator eligls potius erigere jacentia quam punire dainnata . 
 te supplices deprecamur ut luijus loci situm placatus sanctifices et quicquid hie 
 insectautis inimici fraude est pollutum per infusionem superne benedictionis tue 
 purifices purificatumque possideas . absint in posterum oranes nequitie spirituales et 
 eliminentur hinc. et extinguatur omnis antiqui serpen tis invidia et cum fraudibus 
 suis diaboli turma procul pellatur . efferat hinc confusus secum maculam quam inges- 
 sit et perenuibus quandoque suppliciis deputandus operuni suorum semina secum 
 hinc colligat peritura . nichil hie quesumus domine postmodum noceat preteriti culpa 
 contagii . nichil hie maneat fraude pollutum quod per spiritus tui infusionem est*" pur- 
 gatum . resurgat quesumus hujus loci pura simplicitas et candore innooentie res- 
 titutus dum pristinam recipit gratiam ad gloriam inviolabilem revertatur . ut popu- 
 lorum hue turba conveniens dum petitionis hie iugerit vota votorum se sentiat 
 obtinuisse suffragia. Per. 
 
 Missa in reconciliatione sancte ecclesk. 
 
 An. Dum sanctificatus fuero in vobis congregabo vos de universis terris et efl'uii- 
 dam super vos aquam mundam et mundabimini ab omnibus inquinamentis vestris et 
 dabo vobis spiritum novum. Ps. Benedicam dominum. 
 
 Oremus. 
 
 Deus qui dixisti domus mea domus orationis vocabitur. Domiun istam alienis 
 oifensionibus contaminatam mundare et sanctificare digneris . ut onmium preces et 
 vota in loco hoc ad te clamantium clementer exaudias . et benigne perficias. Per. 
 
 Jjectio Libri apocalipsis . ioliannis apostoli. 
 
 In diebus illis . Vidi civitatem sanctam ierusalem. 
 
 Require retro in dedicatione ecclesie.' 
 
 [novam descendentem de celo — usqtie et dixit . qui sedebat in throno Ecce nova 
 facio omnia ] 
 
 liesp. Tollite hostias et introite in atria ejus adorate dominum in aula sancta ejus. 
 Vs. Revelabit dominus condensa et in templo ejus omnes dicent' gloriam All. Ado- 
 rabo. Alleluia. Confitemini domino et invocate nomen ejus annunciate inter gentes 
 opera ejus. 
 
 Si 
 
 s Fol. 33 a begins with this word. ' Supra, fol. 24 h. 
 
 *" Fol. 33 ') begins with i^sl. J Fol. 34 a begins with dicent. 
 
I04 
 
 Si in xl . evenerit cantetur tractus. 
 
 Laudate dominum. 
 
 Secundum Lucam. 
 
 In illo tempore . Dixit iesus discipulis suis. Non est arbor bona que non. 
 
 Offert. Oravi deum meum ego daniel dicens exaudi domine preces servi tui illumina 
 faciem tuam super sanctuarium tuum et propicius intende pojjulum istum super quem 
 invocatum est nomen tuum deus. 
 
 Secreia. 
 
 Hec hostia quesumus domine et locum istum ab immunditiis iniquorum vel pa- 
 trate ofFensionis expurget . et supplicationes nostras hie et ubique tibi reddat acceptas. 
 Per . dominum. 
 
 Prefaiio. 
 VereDignum — percliristum dominum nostrum . cujus immense miserationis est cor- 
 ru pta purgare . lapsa restituere . sordes abstergere . polluta reconciliando sanctificare. 
 Per quem te petimus summe pater ut ea que hie antiqui venenosissimis adversarii 
 sunt maculata machinamentis . benignus indulgeas . et celesti benedictione hunc locum 
 sanctifices . et perpetuo iuvamine tuearis. Quem laudamus. 
 
 Benedietio eiusdem misse. 
 
 Omnipotens'' deus universa a vobis et ab lioc templo vel cymiterio adversa exclu- 
 dat . ac sug super vos benedictionis dona propiciatus infundat. Amen. 
 
 Corda convenientium ad lianc reconciliationem efficiat sacris intenta doctrinis . 
 quo possint repleri beneficiis sempiternis. Atnen. 
 
 Quatinus exequenda intelligentes et intellecta exequentes .inter adversa mundi ab 
 omni sorde peccatorum purificati inveniamini incolumes . et beatorum spirituum effi- 
 ciamini in celesti regno colieredes. Amen. Quod ipse. 
 
 Communio. 
 Acceptabis sacrificium iusticie oblationes et holocausta super altare tuum domine. 
 
 Post Communionem. 
 Percipientes domine munera salutis gterng te supplices exoramus ut templum 
 hoc vel cymiterium a barbarorum vel iniquorum inquinamentis emundatum tua be- 
 nedictione maneat sanctificatum . et pectora nostra ab omni sorde vitiorum alienata . 
 
 tibi devota semper assistant. Per. 
 
 In 
 I' Here begins fol. 34 b. 
 
i°5 
 
 In the noble work of Martene " De Antiquis Ecclesife Ritibus" are to be found 
 six several orders of the Reconciliation of churches, of various ages, and drawn from 
 diiferent sources. The earliest and simplest is from the York Pontifical of archbishop 
 Egbert. The second is from an English Pontifical of the monastery of Jumieges in 
 Normandy, a MS. judged by Martene to be 900 years old. The fifth in the collect- 
 ion is from a manuscript ritual of the monastery of St. Victor in Paris, reckoned by 
 Martene to have been written above 500 years before his time. It is word for word the 
 same as that here printed from the Canterbury Pontifical, and a further comparison 
 of the texts might help to throw some light upon the history of the latter. — Vol. ii. 
 pp. 285-287 (Antverp. 1763). 
 
 The Liber Pontificalis of Edmund Lacy, bishop of Exeter, has been lately printed 
 from the original, which is a manuscript of the fourteenth century, in the possession 
 of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter; edited by Ralph Barnes, Esq. (8vo. Exeter, 1847). 
 The order of the Reconciliation of a polluted church or cemetery occurs in this work 
 at pp. 46-52. The same service, according to the tfse of Sarum, is to be foimd in 
 Mr. Maskell's Monumenta Ritualia, vol. iii. pp. 308-317; noticed also in the Prelimi- 
 nary Dissertation, ibid., pp. cxlv.-clii. 
 
 In the printed Roman Pontificals the service is much fuller and more elaborate, 
 both as regards matter and rubrics, than in any of the preceding ; though considera- 
 ble variations exist in tlieir texts, as the Editor found in comparing the editions, 
 Lugduni, 151 1; Venet., 1543; Venet., 1572; Rom., 1595. All these impressions, 
 in addition to the service above mentioned, contain another, " De Reconciliatione ca;- 
 meterii sine ecclesiaj reconciliatione." This was judged to be a necessary addition, as 
 it might happen that the cemetery was not connected with a church, or that, if it was, 
 the pollution occurred in it, and not in the church, for in this case the legal principle 
 "Accessorium sequitur naturam sui principalis" would not apply; as is expressed 
 by pope Boniface VIII. in the Decretals: "Si Ecclesia; pollui sanguinis aut semi- 
 nis effusione contingat, ipsius Ciemitcrium, si contiguum sit eidem, censetur esse pol- 
 hitum; unde antequam reconciliatum fuerit, non debet in eo aliquis sepeliri. Secus 
 si remotum fuerit ab eadem. Non sic quoque in casu converso sentimus; ut videlicet 
 polluto Caimiterio, quamvis Ecclesia; contiguo, debeat Ecclesia reputari poUuta, ne 
 minus dignum majus, aut accessorium principale ad se trahere videretur." — cited in 
 Catalani, Rituale Romanum, torn. ii. p. 126. 
 
 For further authorities on this curious subject, the reader is referred to Goar, 
 Euchologion, p. 621 (Paris, 1647); Haberti Archieraticon, pp. 668, 670, 678 (Par., 
 1676); Van Espcn, Cod. Jur. Eccl., P. ii. c. 2, tit. i ; to Gibson's Codex Juris Eccles. 
 for several instances of reconciliation in the Church of England during the seventeenth 
 
 P century; 
 
io6 
 
 century ; but above all to the "Pontificale Romanum, dementis VIII. ac Urban! VIII. 
 Auctoritate recognitum, Prolegomeuis et Commentariis illustratum, auctore Josepho 
 Catalano, Romte, 1739." Which important work, strange to say, was searched for in 
 vain in the Libraries of Trinity College, Dublin, of St. Patrick's of Maynooth, and of 
 the British Museum, but was found in Darling's Clerical Library. 
 
 The title " De Ecclesia et C«meterii Reconciliatione" occurs in torn. ii. p. 224, 
 and the subject is continued to p. 242. 
 
 {See Page 'i,^, Note', " Benchory) 
 
 The church of Banagher, which was chosen by Primate Colton for holding his visi- 
 tation of the clergy of Derry in, is still worthy of especial notice, being the most in- 
 teresting of all the ecclesiastical ruins which remain in the diocese. It stands on an 
 eminence in the townland Magheramore, near its junction with Carnanbane, and is 
 surrounded by a cemetery which bears evidence, from its numerous tombstones, of 
 having been the favourite burying-place of an extensive district. The church con- 
 sists of a chancel and nave, the former measuring twenty feet six inches by fifteen 
 feet ten inches, and the latter thirty-three feet four inches by nineteen feet ten inches, 
 in the clear; the total length, including the thickness of the transverse chancel wall, 
 being fifty-seven feet eight inches. The masonry is massive, but that of the chancel 
 is more elegant externally, the stones being squarer, and more evenly faced. The 
 east wall is entirely prostrate; but there is evidence to prove that the angles were 
 constructed of cut stone, with a deep and graceful moulding. The west gable is 
 nearly perfect, and carried up to a great height in its pitch. Many of the stones 
 which formed the east window lie scattered in the church-yard, and the window itself 
 is described as having been narrow and circular-headed externally, but inwardly 
 splayed to a great extent, both laterally and vertically. There was a window on the 
 north side of the chancel, near the N. E. angle, and another on the south side, about 
 midway. The latter is nearly entire, and is a very remarkable one. The aperture 
 outside is narrow and rounded at the top, two feet eleven inches high, and only five 
 inches wide. Inside it is splayed to a breadth of three feet seven inches. A similar 
 but less elaborate window is in the nave, on the same side, measuring two feet three 
 inches by ten inches externally, and five feet seven inches by two feet nine inches 
 inside. But the most remarkable feature in the building is the west and only door- 
 way, constructed in that style of masonry called cyclopean, though evidently built at 
 
 a time 
 
a time when this peculiarity of style was a matter of taste more thau of necessitj-. 
 Its height is six feet ten inches, the breadth above is two feet seven inches, widening 
 downwards to three feet five inches. A large block of stone, five feet nine in length, 
 and one foot six inches in height, serves as a lintel. It does not, however, reach back 
 the whole thickness of the wall, but inside it forms a kind of tympanum to a semi- 
 circular arch of regular dressed stones. In the middle of the inner face of this huge 
 lintel is a rude projection, which was probably intended as a stop to the door when 
 shut, to prevent its being prized upwards. There is a fine architrave above, and at 
 each side, externally. Some of the blocks which formed the north side of the doorway 
 have been broken away, which impairs the symmetry of this beautiful entrance; 
 added to which there is an embankment of earth and stones immediately in front, 
 which obstructs the full view of it. A tolerably good conception of the appeai'ance 
 which the door presents may be formed from the rough drawing in the Dublin Penny 
 Journal, vol. i. p. 381. 
 
 Of a similar construction was the west door of the old church of Maghera, which, 
 if in perfect condition, would be an e.xquisite specimen of this style of architecture: 
 but unfortunately one side is almost entirely broken away, and what remains is so 
 injured that it requires some consideration to make good its design. It too is formed 
 of well squared blocks, which slightly approach as they ascend, and are surmounted 
 by a noble shaft of hewn stone instead of an arch, on the field of which is a represen- 
 tation in relief of the crucifixion, with six figures on the right and seven on the left, 
 and smaller, winged ones, over the principal subject. The architrave is bold, and de- 
 corated with convoluted tracery, which is very much defaced by time. What the 
 exact age of this door, as also that of Banagher, may be, it is hard to determine: 
 neither of them is so rude or massive in its construction as the cyclopean west door 
 of St. Fechin's at Fore, or as St. Cairnech's at Dulane, and their execution indicates 
 improved taste as well as mechanical skill. 
 
 From the passage which is extracted from the Annals of Ulster in the note at p. 
 42 it is evident that there was a church at Banagher so early as the year 1 121 ; but 
 from the otherwise total silence of the annalists regarding this place, as well as from 
 the fact that St. Muriedhach O'Heney, the alleged founder, is not noticed in the 
 calendars, and moreover that the form of his name is not reconcileable with a date 
 anterior to the eleventh century, it is reasonable to assign its erection to a period 
 within that limit. At the foot of the hill, near the river Owenbeg, in the townland 
 Templemoyle, there are the foundations of a small church, but without any cemetery, 
 which the natives say are the remains of a church that St. O'Heney commenced, but 
 was diverted from completing by the removal of the stones at night to the higher 
 
 P 2 situation. 
 
io8 
 
 situation, whither the saint was conducted by a stag, which bore his book upon its 
 antlers, and acted as a guide as well as a moving lectern. It is very possible that 
 this Templemoyle is the site of an earlier parish church, which was abandoned for the 
 larger and better circumstanced one on the higher ground, that Muriedhach O'Heney 
 caused to be built. 
 
 The tomb of the founder stands in the cemetery at some distance from the church, 
 on the south, and close to the edge of the hill. It has undergone some repair since 
 the drawing of it which is given in Petrie's Round Towers was made. Beside it is 
 the hole whence the famous Banagher sand is raised, which ensures such luck in racing 
 to the horse over which it is cast. 
 
 At a distance of forty-seven feet seven inches from the chiirch, on the N. N. W., 
 stands diagonally with it a square building, which is outside the precincts of the ce- 
 metery, and on a lower site. Its height to the eaves is seventeen feet, and to the ridge 
 of the gable twenty-four feet. It measures in length nineteen feet, and fourteen in 
 breadth. It was entered by a door in the gable next the church, which was so high 
 from the ground that its threshold ranged with the square of the building. It has a 
 window on the N. E. wall, outwardly measuring two feet six inches by four inches, 
 its circular top and moulding being cut out of the large stone which caps it ; and 
 another window on the N. W. wall, about six feet from the ground outside, and 
 measuring two feet six inches by four inches. It also has a semicircular head cut out 
 of the top stone. It has no floor or remains of roof, and one of the walls was barba- 
 rously torn down a few years ago by the tenant in occupation of the adjoining land, 
 who wished to convert the building into a rival school-house to that under the patron- 
 age of the incumbent. It stands in relation to the church like most of the round 
 towers: near the west door, for the convenience of entering, and towards the north, 
 as the least used side of the church-yard, thus occupying a position at the N. W. angle 
 of the church to which it was attached. 
 
 D. 
 
 (See Page 56, Note ', " Celle Mgre") 
 
 It is generally believed that St. Columbkille drew up a monastic rule for the regula- 
 tion of the numerous religious houses, both in Ireland and Scotland, which observed 
 his discipline. In the discussion between C'olman and Wilfrid concerning the obser- 
 vance of Easter, the latter is represented by Venerable Bede as saying: " De patre 
 autem vestro Columba et sequacibus ejus, quorum sanctitatem vos imitari, et regulatn 
 
 ac 
 
log 
 
 ac prsEcepta coclestibiis signis confirmata seqiii perhibetis, possem respondere," (H. E. 
 iii. 25); which Colgan, perhaps justly, understands of his monastic rule, although 
 Bede elsewhere seems to be ignorant of the existence of such a rule, when he writes 
 concerning Columbkille: " de cujus vita et verbis nonnulla a discipulis ejus feruntur 
 scripta haberi." — (lb. iii. 4.) A Life of St. Kieran, quoted by Colgan, recites the 
 names of several compilers of rules, in these woi'ds : " Numeratur inter octo prsecipuos 
 Regularum conditores, quibus Monasteria prope innuniera Regni Hibernia; regeban- 
 tur. Prima enini Regula fuit S. Patricii, secunda S. Brigida;, tertia S. Brendani, 
 quarta S. Kierani, quinta S. Columbai, sexta Sancti Comgalli, septima S. Molassii, 
 octava S. Adamnani." — (Trias Th., p. 471.) Rules answering to most, if not all, of 
 these names are found in the beginnning of a small quarto manuscript which belongs 
 to the Burgundian Library of Brussels. It is in the handwriting of Michael O'Clery, 
 one of the celebrated Masters who compiled the Annals, and was transcribed by him 
 from earlier records at the time that he was employed in making collections for that 
 great work. At p. 23 is a rule of Columbkille, which answers to Colgan's descrip- 
 tion: "Aliam Regulam Eremiticam seu praiscriptam fratribus in eremo degentibus 
 scripsit, qiicc penes me extat ; et de qua loqui vuletur Jacobus Vara'us de Scrijriorihus 
 Hiher. lib. i. cap. 2. Scripsit, inquit, Columba Regulam Monasticam, qug extat, et 
 vulgo Regula Cholum Kille dicitur. Huius etiam Regidce per me latini redditce, ipsique 
 communicatee, meniinit Vir eruditissimus D. Benedictus Haeftemis Propositus Afflinge- 
 niensis lib. i. Disquisition. Monacticar. Tract. 6, cap. 8, vbi inter plura alia ait. Huius 
 Patriarchae {neinpe S. Colmnba;) Congregatio vocabatur Ordo pulchroe societatis." ' 
 (Trias Th. p. 471, i.) 
 
 By the kind permission of the Rev. Dr. Todd, at whose instance a loan of this 
 volume was procured from the Belgian government, the Rule is here put in print, 
 while to Mr. Eugene Curry I am indebted for the accompanying translation : 
 
 iNCipic Tjcsula choLinm chiLLe. the rule of coldivibkille beginneth. 
 
 birli int) iiacliat) lUiicc po leic 1 pail Be alone in a separate place near a 
 
 ppimli cafpac, iniiiab inniU lac cubup chief city', if thy conscience is not pre- 
 bfic I coicclienDap ina ]^ochai6e. pared to be in common with the crowd. 
 
 Imnochca Do gpep t)0 pecbeni ap Be always naked in imitation of Christ 
 
 Olipipc, ocup ap na popcela. and the Evangelists. 
 
 Gee bfcc no m6p no mumeclicaip t)i Whatsoever little or much thou pos- 
 
 cech p6c, ecip eOacb, ocup bia&, ocup sessest of anything, whether clothing, or 
 
 food 
 ' A chief citif That is, an episcopal church, or city. 
 
I lO 
 
 big, acc pob t)e poyichonjpci |ien6jia 
 ocup a coitiaplecach, ap nf hmiU bo 
 chpdibbec aipbejia bich ecip nac cyiuc 
 la a pofiibpacliaip pein. 
 
 Locc niit)ai5fn co nofn bopup rni- 
 macc. 
 
 lluacab cpdibbec imapabpec Dia, 
 ocup a cimnai; bo cacaigich cuccan 
 lUaiciblicaib; bo cimnfpca&i ciomnaib 
 De, ocup a pc6loib pcpepcpai. 
 
 Oumeunoppo olcfnai coTipcelmgecap 
 bo bpiachpaib eppae, no bou boinan, no 
 pobopbac nt nac cumcac bo fc, no bo 
 cumpech, ace ip in6ce po pfpa paec 
 Ofic mac coc nipca ecip ccpaic ocup 
 eapcapair, nip bo poemca cuccac, ace 
 bepaicc benbaccoin po checcoip mac 
 poiUec. 
 
 niog pfp 5op cpaibbec nempcelacli, 
 bia nebca bo bic oc bo cimcepecc, bo 
 paecap meppaigfi bi& copmaiL ace ip 
 iniU. 
 
 Commup po pfip nach aili bepcnaibh 
 bfp cpaibbec. 
 
 TTlfnma eplam ppi bepccmaprpai. 
 
 TTlfnma poppaiS pei&il ppi ban mop- 
 cpai. 
 
 Dilgafi o cpi&e ba gac aen nbume. 
 
 Qupnaigci gp^ppacli ap in muincip 
 bob copich. 
 
 Lfipe gabala ecnaipce, arhail bi6 
 paincapai ipipech bfic cec mapb ipi- 
 pech. 
 
 "' Hliile martyrdom. — That is, self-mortification, 
 and ascetic practices, or bodily chastisement, as op- 
 posed to red martyrdom, where blood is shed, or the 
 
 food, or drink, let it be at the commaud of 
 the senior and at his disposal, for it is not 
 befitting a religious to have any distinc- 
 tion of property with his own free brother. 
 
 Let a fast place, with one door, enclose 
 tliee. 
 
 A few religious men to converse with 
 thee of God and his Testament ; to visit 
 thee on days of solemnity; to strengthen 
 thee in the Testaments of God, and the 
 narratives of the Scriptures. 
 
 A person too who would talk with thee 
 in idle words, or of the world ; or who 
 murmurs at what he cannot remedy or 
 prevent, but who would distress thee 
 more should hebe a tattler between friends 
 and foes, thou shalt not admit him to thee, 
 but at once give him thy benediction 
 should he deserve it. 
 
 Let thy servant be a discreet, religious, 
 not tale-telling, man, who is to attend 
 continually on thee, with moderate labour 
 of course, but always ready. 
 
 Yield submission to every ride that is 
 of devotion. 
 
 A mind prepared for red martyrdom. 
 
 A mind fortified and stedfast for white 
 martyrdom". 
 
 Forgiveness from the heart to every one. 
 
 Constant prayers for those who trouble 
 thee. 
 
 Fervour in singing the office for the 
 dead, as if every faithful dead was a par- 
 ticular friend of thine. 
 
 Hymns 
 
 life laid doivti, for the truth's sake, ban Tiiai&ni 
 is a defeat caused by terror, without bloodshed. See 
 O'Donovan, Book of Rights, p. 105. 
 
1 1 1 
 
 liiina aninai ip]"'fiYaiii. 
 Do coiccfnt) pisell on rjiac co apaile 
 po a pfip nfich nach aile. 
 
 Cpi copbai ipint) I6a, .1. epnciij!:!, 
 ocup lubaip, ocup legenn. 
 
 Ino lubaip t)0 poftail a cpf, .1. t)0 
 copba pabfin, ocup t)0 copba t)0 luicc 
 tie nfoch bup pip coipc bo; apaiU bo 
 cuicigh ina mbpacap; apaiU 00 gop 
 ina cobnepi^aiii, .1. pob t)0 poipcfcal 
 no pcpibCnO, no iiann necaigh, no 
 cecip copbai olcfna aji na becep in- 
 beppa, iicDominiip aic, Non appapebip 
 ance me uaciiiip. 
 
 Cec ni ino iipO ch6ip; nemo enim 
 coponabiCLip nipi qui legicime cepca- 
 uepir. 
 
 Seceni oepce pia cecli per. 
 Ni liaipbepclia bic o biu& comboo 
 Suipc. 
 
 Ni cocalca combat) eim lac. 
 Ml accalca coinba& ppi coipc. 
 Nacli popcpaift no pccliiiui 00 Oilfp 
 ppoinn no Oo ecach puip cabaip ppi lia- 
 ipcipecc ina mbpacup Oo copec, no t>o 
 bochcaib olcfna. 
 
 Sepc Oe o uilib ciiafoib ocup o uilib 
 nfpcoib; 
 
 Sfpc Do cobnfppaiii pamail uc pa- 
 Ofin. 
 
 pet)li5e& I cimnaib De qua pan uile 
 nompip. 
 
 Do mob epnaii^ci co coecpac bo 
 bepa; 
 
 " Hymns far smils, — Or, if we take cinniai as the 
 genitive plural of ainiii 'a came,' tlic passage may 
 
 Hymns for souls" to be sung standing. 
 Let thy vigils be constant from eve to 
 eve, under the direction of another person. 
 Three labours in the day, viz., prayers, 
 work, and reading. 
 
 The work to be divided into three parts, 
 viz., thine own work, and the work of thy 
 place, as regards its real wants; secondly, 
 thyshare of the brethren's [work]; lastly, 
 to help the neighbours, viz. by instruction 
 or writing, or sewing garments, or what- 
 ever labour they may be in want of, ut 
 Dominiis ait, ' Non apparebis ante me 
 vacuus.' 
 
 Everything in its proper order; Nemo 
 enim coronabitur nisi qui legitime certa- 
 verit. 
 
 Follow Alms-giving before all thinas. 
 Take not of food till thou art hungry. 
 
 Sleep not till thou feelest desire. 
 
 •Speak not except on business. 
 
 Every increase whicli comes to thee in 
 lawful meals, or in wearing apparel, give 
 it for pity to the brethren that want it, 
 or to the poor in like manner. 
 
 The love of God with all thy heart and 
 all thy strength ; 
 
 The love of thy neighbour as thyself. 
 
 Abidein the Testaments of God through- 
 out all times. 
 
 Thy measure of prayer sliall be until 
 thy tears come ; 
 
 Or 
 
 be rendered " Hymns of names [i. e. Litanies] are 
 to be said standing." 
 
I 12 
 
 Mo 00 moft DO obaiii copbaig co Or thy measure of work of labour till 
 
 rocrpar Go Oejiai ; thy tears come; 
 
 Wo Do 11106 Do obaiji copbaig, no Do Or thy measure of thy work of labour, 
 
 fleccanaib co dif Viallup coiTiniinic or of thy genuflexions, until thy perspira- 
 
 mnnabac polina Do Depae. tion often comes, if thy tears are not free. 
 
 pi NIC. FINIT. 
 
 E. 
 
 (See Paije 63, Note ', " Eentaky) 
 The Irish church has retained to a later period than perhaps any other in Europe 
 the traces of primitive usage in its diocesan economy. Its numerous small sees, though 
 grouped together by Papal or political influence, retain their geographical and eccle- 
 siastical distinctions, while there existed, till the other day, in two bishoprics, an 
 apportionment of clerical revenue similar to that which prevailed at a very early age 
 of the Roman church. Pope Gelasius, in the year 494, thus writes: " Quatuor tarn 
 de reditu, quam de oblatione fidelium convenit fieri portiones, quarum sit una pon- 
 tificis, altera clericorum, pauperum tertia, quarta fabricis applicanda"". To Augus- 
 tin's inquiry concerning the distribution of religious oblations in England, Pope Gre- 
 gory returned the following answer: " Mosautem sedis apostolicae est, ordinatis epis- 
 copis prtecepta tradere, ut in omni stipendio quod accedit, quatuor debeant fieri por- 
 tiones; una videlicet episcopo et familiaj propter hospitalitatem, atque susceptionem ; 
 aliaclero; tertia pauperibus; quarta ecclesiis reparandis. Sed quia tua fraternitas 
 monasterii regulis erudita, seorsum fieri non debet a clericis suis, in ecclesia Anglo- 
 rum, qua; auctore Deo nuper adhuc ad fidem adducta est, hanc debet conversationem 
 instituere, qua; initio nascentis ecclesia; fuit patribus nostris"°. In France and Ger- 
 many the same regulation, at least as far as concerned the bishop, was continued to a 
 much later period, and Quarta or Quarto became an established term to denote any 
 one of these proportions. In Spain, also, a like distribution prevailed, although it 
 appears, through the early endowment of the sees, to have undergone some modifica- 
 tion. The second Council of Braga, A. D. 563, enacted " ut de rebus ecclesiasticis tres 
 a;qua; fierent portiones; id est, una episcopi, alia clericorum, tertia in reparatione vel 
 in luminariis ecclesise. De quarta parte sive archipresbyter, sive archidiaconus illam 
 administrans, episcopo faciat rationem"''. Here it would seem that the tripartite allot- 
 ment 
 " Ep. ix. ad Episc. Lucanise, c. 27. Concil. ed. ° Beda3 Hist. Ec. Gent. Anj;l. i. c. 27. 
 
 Mansi, vol. viii. col. 45. P Concil. Bracar. ii. can. 25. Mansi, ix. c. 778. 
 
113 
 
 ment had taken the place of the other, and that the bishop's third, tliongh nominally for 
 his own purposes, -was designed for the poor, which, when bestowed among them, 
 subject to the reduction for the episcopal dues, was, after the former custom, called a 
 quartet pars. A succeeding council in the same place, A. D. 572, defines the matter in 
 a somewhat different way. " Placuit ut nuUus episcoporum per suas dioeceses ambu- 
 lans prseter honorem cathedra; suae, id est, solidos duos, aliquid aliud per ecclesias 
 tollat. Neque tertiam partem ex quacumque oblatione popiili in ecclesiis parochia- 
 libus requirat; sed ilia tertia pars pro luminaribus ecclesiae vel recuperatione ser- 
 vetur, et per singulos annos episcopo inde ratio fiat'"'. It is supposed that the old 
 Koman distribution existed in England soon after the establishment of Christianity 
 among the Saxons, and that it continued until the prsedial endowment of the bishops 
 caused the transfer of their qiiartw to the parochial clergy or religious houses. A 
 trace of the ancient usage is found so late as the year 1 185, when Pope Urban III. 
 wrote to Baldwin, Archbishop of Canterbury, directing that of the oblations presented 
 at the shrine of St. Thomas the Blartyr one-fourth should be given to the monks, 
 another expended on the fabric of the church, another distributed to the poor, and 
 the remainder to good uses at his discretion'. 
 
 In the Isle of Man, whicli, however, more resembled Ireland than England in its 
 ecclesiastical discipline, we find a record of the tripartite distribution as late as 1505, 
 in which year a charter was granted to the bishop, confirming the following privi- 
 leges: " Universis, &c. Thomas, Dei gratia rex Mannjeet Insularum, comes Derbey, 
 et dominus Stanley, &c., conccssimus et dedimus Huano, permissione divina Sodoriensi 
 episcopo moderno, — Ecclesiam cathedralem sancti Germani in Holme Sodor vel Pele 
 vocatam, ecclesiamque sancti Patricii ibidem, et ecclesiam sancti Bradani, et ecclesias 
 sancti Patricii de Jovirby, cum ecclesia sancti Croraj; et tertiam partem decimarum de 
 omnibus ecclesiis de Manne, confirmantes eis tercianam plena; villte de Kirkby, et 
 tertianam plenje villa; de Kirkmarona, terras de Cullushy de Glenfaba, de Forysdeyn, 
 de Balymary, de baculo sancti Patricii; — et unciatam terrte sancti Columba;, quae 
 vocatur Here"'. 
 
 The earliest allusion to the existence in Ireland of the episcopal portion of the re- 
 ligious oblations is in the twenty-fifth canon of the synod wliich bears the names of 
 St. Patrick, Auxilius, and Iserninus: "Si quae a religiosis hominibus donata fuerint 
 diebus illis quibus Pontifex in singulis habitaverit Ecclesiis, pontificalia dona, sicut 
 mos antiquus, ordinare ad episcopum pertiuebunt, sive ad usum necessarium, sive 
 
 egentibus 
 
 1 Concil. Bracar. iii. can. 2. See Bingham's ' Matthew Paris, Hist. Major, An. 11 85. 
 
 Christ. Antiqq. v., 6, § 3 ; is., 8, § 6. 'Dugdale, Monast. Anglic, vol. i. p. 718. 
 
 Q 
 
114 
 
 egentibus distribuendum, prout ipse episcopus moderabit'". This canon, which bears 
 a great resemblance to the twenty-fifth of the council of Antioch, held in 341, seems 
 to refer to the time when bishops were very numerous in Ireland, and were in many 
 instances ministers of single churches ; but it reduces the date of the collection in 
 which it is found to a period subsequent to the age of St. Patrick. The practice of 
 that missionary was to found a church wherever he received encouragement from the 
 lord of the territory he visited, and to leave in charge of it one of his followers, upon 
 whom he conferred the order of priest or bishop. This foundation presently became 
 the religious nucleus of the tribe or clan, and the condition of its pastor very much re- 
 sembled that of Bishop Aidan, as described by Bede : " In hac [villa regia] habens 
 ecclesiam et cubiculum, sspius ibidem diverti ac manere, atque inde ad prajdicandum 
 circumquaque exire consueverat : quod ipsum et in aliis villis regis facere solebat, 
 utpote nil propria; possessionis, excepta ecclesia sua et adjacentibus agellis, habens"^ 
 But, to descend to later times, when Christian O'Morgairwas Bishop of Clogher, that 
 is, between 11 26 and 1139, "his brother Malachy obtained from Pope Innocent II. 
 that the fourth part of the tithes, or the episcopal part, throughout all Ergall, should 
 be allotted to the Bishops of Clogher"'. At that time Ergall included the county of 
 Louth, and the diocese reached to Ardstraw, in Tyrone. The Bishops of Clogher con- 
 tinued to enjoy this revenue till the early part of the seventeenth century, when 
 Bishop Montgomery, having procured from the Crown a handsome endowment for his 
 see, effected its consolidation with the incomes of the parochial clergy. In the in- 
 quisitions for the counties of Fermanagh and Monaghan, sped in 1609, it was found 
 that the tithes of most of the parishes in the diocese were divided into four equal 
 parts, of which the bishop was wont to receive one, the parson two, and the vicar one. 
 In Pope Nicholas's taxation of the diocese of Tuam, the amount which the archbishop, 
 rector, and vicar, received in each parish is set out, the proportion being just as above 
 stated of Clogher. In fact, by this time the eleemosynary and reparation fourths were 
 combined to endow a new class of ecclesiastics, — the rectors; and as these corporations 
 were often represented by a religious house, the former of these portions was sup- 
 posed to be converted to its original use, while the repairs of the chancel became ob- 
 ligatory on the incumbent, as that of the nave was upon the parish. This distribution 
 obtained in the diocese of Tuam till the episcopate of Archbishop Synge, who, in 
 17 17, procured an Act of Parliament for the consolidation of the quarter episcopals 
 
 with 
 'Ware, Opuscula S. Patricii ; Wilkins, Concilia, " Hist. Eccl. Gent. Angl. iii. c. 17. 
 
 vol. i. ; Villanueva, Sancti Patricii Synodi, Canones, " Registry of Clogher, cited in Harris's Ware, 
 
 Opuscula, &c., p. 4. vol. i. p. 180. 
 
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 with the remainder of the tithes. In Killala, on the promotion of Thomas Bayly to 
 the see, A. D. 1663, an exception was made, in the letters patent, of the quarta pars 
 episcopalis, which thenceforward was enjoyed by the inferior clergy. A like arrange- 
 ment probably took place at the same time in Achonry, which was held in union with 
 Killala. In 1637, the quarter episcopals of Elphin were surrendered by Bishop 
 King, and added to the other shares. In Clonfert and Kilmacduagh an effort was 
 made, at the same period, to obtain an equivalent for these fourths from the govern- 
 ment, but owing to some accident the negociations failed, and the quarter episcopals 
 continued a portion of the episcopal revenue till 1833, when the temporalities of the 
 see became vested in the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for Ireland. Thus the whole 
 province of Tuam, until a comparatively modern date, exhibited this singular feature 
 of primitive diocesan usage. In the provinces of Dublin and Cashel, where the 
 bishoprics were better endowed, the bishop's fourths had long ceased to exist, and the 
 tithes were either enjoyed entirely by the incumbent, or between the rector and vicar, 
 in the proportions of two and one. The same was the rule in the dioceses of Armagh, 
 Down, Connor, and Dromore, in the province of Armagh, though occasionally the vicar 
 received less, but seldom more, than his one- third. In the diocese of Kilmore the 
 rector of each parish received two-thirds of the tithes, except from the termon lands, 
 the two-thirds of which belonged to the bishop, while the vicar received one-third 
 of all. 
 
 Lastly, we come to the dioceses of Derry and Raphoe, which resembled the ancient 
 church of Spain in having a tripartite distribution of the tithes, and which might be 
 supposed, on this account, to be of a more recent creation than those in Connaught, 
 where the shadow of the primitive institution continued to so late a period. Indeed 
 the diocese of Derry does not seem to have been permanently defined until the incum- 
 bency of German O'Cearbhallain, who filled the see from 1230 to 1279, and who 
 annexed to his diocese the territory about Ardstraw, called lly-Fiachrach, in the 
 north-west of Tyrone, which he took from the see of Clogher about the year 1 250, as 
 also a portion of Tirconell, which he wrested from the diocese of Eaphoe. As the 
 chief possessions of the Cinel Eoghan lay in that part of Tyrone which belonged to 
 his see, he and some of his immediate predecessors were styled bishops of the Cinel- 
 Eoghain, and one would expect that the Derry adjustment of the tithes, if very 
 ancient, would have been general over Tyrone; yet part of it lay in the diocese of 
 Armagh, and part in that of Clogher, in both of which the tithes were apportioned in 
 a different manner ; so that the Derry arrangement must be considered as a diocesan 
 rather than a territorial one, and therefore more likely to be of a later date. Then, 
 as regards the herenach lands, it is a remarkable fact that the bishop had a claim 
 
 Q 2 upon 
 
ii6 
 
 upon certain lands surrounding the cliurch in almost every parish in the diocese. 
 It can hardly be supposed, as the jurors at the Lymavaddy inquisition assert, that 
 " Donell M'Hugh O'Neale, king of Ireland [A. D. 635] did, longe before any bushopps 
 were made in the said kingdome of Ireland, give unto certaine holy men, whom they 
 called Sancti Patres, severall portions of land and a third parte of all the tiethes ;" 
 for this would be to suppose that every parish church had once been an abbey or a 
 hermitage, and that parishes were defined at a period long anterior to dioceses. In 
 ordinary parishes the allowance of herenagh lands was four ballyboes, or one quarter ; 
 but in some there was less, and in others again, especially those associated with the 
 names of some distinguished saints, more. Thus, in Maghera, the ancient episcopal 
 Rathlury, there were six and a half; in Ardstraw, which gave name to the ancient 
 diocese of Ardsrath, sixteen ; in Drumachose, the church of St. Cainnech, ten ; in 
 Tamlaghtard, the scene of St. Patrick's labours, and the seat of one of the bishops of 
 Cinel-Eoghain, the whole parish, except one townland; and in Aghadowey, the 
 Achadh-Dubhthaigh of St. Guaire, a bally betagh, or thirteen ballyboes; in Fahan, 
 the seat of St. Mura, six quarters. Some of these, as in the case of Aghadowey, were 
 also termons, and were accompanied by the additional privileges of sanctuary, and the 
 like, which, as well as the greater extent of church land, it is easy to account for 
 by the supposition that the saints, who were commemorated in these churches, were 
 the patrons of certain tribes or clans, and thus procured for their churches extra 
 dignity and endowment. These lands were generally held by one family, in whom 
 the tenancy was hereditary, subject to the bishop's approval, as expressed in the 
 charters which he granted them. From the fact of their holding church lands, 
 some of which had formerly been the properties of monastic churches, and being, in 
 many cases, the local representatives of the ancient saints, they received the title of 
 Corhe, which, in the more explicit form, Comhorha, had been usually bestowed upon 
 the successors of the saints who founded monasteries or sees; or else of Herenagh, 
 which, in its strict form, Airchinneach, had been borne in the middle ages by the heads 
 of relio'ious houses, as managers of their endowments. Hence, when such lands became 
 appropriated to sees, the occupants were supposed to farm them for the bishop, and 
 corbe or hereaach became another name for his farmer or agent. This is aptly illus- 
 trated in the following passage in M'Firbis's translation of the ancient register of 
 Clonmacnois: " Bryen M'Granyle bestowed for his parte [as much land as might 
 be ploughed in] 48 dayes from hym and his heyres after hym, in the fw-esaid 
 Kill Taghuir so as the Bushop of Cluain hath in Kill Tachuir 96 dayes in all, 
 whence came that a Comharb or Corbe was sent from Cluain to Kill Tachuir, 
 i. e. Dubsuileagh O'Conoil, who used to receave the Bushop of Cluaiu's rents"". It 
 
 is 
 " MSS. Biitish Museum, Additional Numbers, 4796, fol. 37. 
 
117 
 
 is also found in the Dungannon inquisition " that these septs or erenaghs have, 
 tyme out of mynde, inherited the said lands accordinge to the Irish custome of 
 tanistrie, and that neither the archbushopp, or any other bushopp, nor their prede- 
 cessors, could at any tyme heretofore, or now can, remove the said herenaghs out of 
 the said lands ;" and that " the herenagh, to whom a third part of the tithes were paid, 
 and out of which he paid a rent to the archbushopp or bushopp, had and have as good 
 estate in the said tiethes as in his erenagh land, and could not be removed out of the 
 same by the bushopp." But it was neither from the rent nor from the tertia epis- 
 copalis, which were fixed at a very low rate, that the bishop derived his principal 
 emolument; he could, as has been exemplified in the course of Primate Colton's vi- 
 sitation, make a personal demand of both provisions and service. This right is very 
 fully commented on in the following passage of Bishoi) Montgomery's statement to 
 James I.: " These cemvales terrw, or copyehold lands which payed rent, yeelded also 
 unto the byshops certayne intertaynements, which they call refectiones, and were of 
 the nature of cosherings, once or twyce every quarter of a yeare, or oftener yf occa- 
 sion of more frequent visitation were offered, or other busynes of the church or tenents 
 requyred of the byshops presence. And indeed by these refections did the byshops 
 chiefely mayntajne them selves and their followers, spending the most part of the 
 yearc in this wandring kynde of lyfe among their tenents, and receaving from them 
 meate and drink for lOO, and som tymes 200 people, that followed the Bishop; and, 
 in respect of tenants charge this waye, the byshops imposed very small rents upon 
 the lands, letting a quarter of land, which contayneth 240 acres at least, and som 
 more, for 6s. Sd., som for 3*'. 4rZ., and fewe for io.s., none above, which they called 
 antiquum cenxitm, whereof the Byshops made little reckoning, lyving not by their rents 
 but by their refections; in such sort that a tenant, which payed not above a noble in 
 rent, spent in entertayning the byshop and his followers, ten pounds, or twenty marks 
 yearely ; and these refections were as due from their tenants as the rents, in such sort 
 that yf the byshop did not make his progresse or visit, he had allowance or a valuable 
 consideration from the tenant for his refections. By this kind of life not only were 
 the tenants ympoverished, but a great number of unprofittable people mayntayned 
 idly, who, fynding nieanes to lyve so easily, would liy no meanes be drawn to take any 
 paynes or labor, but lyved upon the spoyle of others, and proved very dangerous 
 members. The lands belonging to these byshopricks laye not by whole manors 
 togither in one place but were devyded in every parishe neere the church, much after 
 the distribution of the Levits portion among the rest of the trybes. So that the 
 byshops did, una et eadem opera, both visit the churches, and keep their temporall 
 courts for determining of controversies among their tenents, for which purpose they 
 
 liad 
 
ii8 
 
 had their ofBcials and seneschals, neyther did any temporall officer meddle in any 
 matters concerning the church tenents, but left them unto the Byshops seneschals; 
 and the Bishops did most usually visit ecclesiastim, and wheresoever the byshop had 
 any lands, they lye always next unto the church"*. In the diocese of Eaphoe the 
 practice was, according to the inquisition of LiiFer, that " he laie first upon the here- 
 nagh, the second night upon the viccar, and the third night upon the parson, and that 
 if he staid but one night in the parishe, the parson, viccar, and herenagh did contribute 
 equallie towardes that chardge">'. In forty-two out of the forty-seven parishes of 
 the diocese of Derry, which are recited in the inquisitions of 1609, there were the 
 three several corporations of parson, vicar, and herenagh ; in one, a parson and here- 
 nagh ; in three, a parson only ; and in one, a parson and vicar only. " The parsonages 
 were usually bestowed upon students that intended to take orders, towards their 
 mayntenance at schoole, and were enioyned within few yeares after they accepted the 
 parsonage to enter into orders, but hold not themselves bound to execute devyne 
 service. The vicars are tyed to perpetuall residence and service of the cure, and 
 besyde their portion of tythes, have the benefit of all oblations and other small dueties 
 at buryals and christenings to them selves alone, for attendance of the service. Also 
 they had a small parcell of ground lying next the church, where their house was 
 buylt for their residence, which was called terra sacerdotalis, libera et sine censu"'. As 
 the parsons were not obliged to be resident, there were very few parishes where they 
 had any land; but in most of the parishes there was the vicar's gort, as it was some- 
 times called, or garden, as in the Tyrone inquisition, the Irish jopc, the Latin hortiis, 
 and the English garden, being cognate terms. These gorts are now held by the rectors 
 with the great glebes, which were allotted at the plantation of Ulster ; they are very 
 small, generally a field or two close to the old church. Thus, in Tamlaghtard or 
 Magilligan, there is a small denomination of five acres and four perches, near the 
 ruined church, held by the rector, and set out on the Ordnance Map as a distinct town- 
 land, called Govt. They varied in size from one acre to a sessiagh, but five acres 
 might be considered as the average. The nomination to any one of the three paro- 
 chial ofiices above mentioned was considered a sufficient title for ordination; and any 
 of them could be held by persons in orders so low as subdeacon, as appears by the 
 following instances, taken from the registry of Primate Swayne, A. D. 1435. John, 
 Bishop of Connor, held an ordination ia the parish church of St. Feghin, of Termon- 
 feghin, when, among others, " Willielmus O'Kynnay, Herenacus de Ardtraa [Artrea] 
 titulum ejusdem herenacise exhibens," was admitted to the order of subdeacon ; Patrick 
 
 O'Mulkene, 
 » Ordaance Memoir of Templemore, p. 50. ^ Bishop Montgomery's Statement, in OrU. Me- 
 
 J Ulster Inquisitions, App. v. moir of Templemore, p. 50. 
 
119 
 
 O'Mulkene, rector of Kyllone, and Magonius O'Douen, rector of Drumfade, in the 
 diocese of Armagh, to the order of deacon''; and Patrick O'Molachan, rector of Eanga, 
 in the diocese of Derry, to the priesthood. On the 24th of February, 1441, the 
 primate ordained, in the parish church of Drunimeskin, John Oumstega, rector of 
 Drummeragh, to the order of deacon; and on the 17th of March, in the same place, 
 to the ^;nwa tonsura, William Omkerell, of the diocese of Dromore, " ad obtinendum 
 beneficium sine cura". On the 25th of March, 1429, Nellanus O'Kerrolan, rector of 
 Kyllyssyl [Killeeshill] was ordained deacon by Primate Swayne; and Patrick Ocas- 
 saly, " Colideus Ecclesia; Ardmachana;, ad titulum ejusdem'"*. 
 
 " In the diocese of Derry, the tiethes of fishe, corne, wool, and flaxe, were paid in 
 kyn[d]e; and four pence sterl. for everie milche cowe, and a porke out of everie heard 
 of swyne." " And further, in all places where the tiethes are divided betwixt the 
 parson, vicar, and herenagh, they the said parson, vicar, and herenagh, are to beare 
 the chardge of repairinge and maynteyninge the proper parishe church equallie be- 
 tween themselves'". Harris is therefore in error when he says that " Before the re- 
 formation, the bishop had one third of the Tythes, a lay Person, who was the Bishop's 
 Farmer, called an Eirenach, had another, and the other third was allowed for the 
 cure'"; having had access to the Inquisitions of 1609, he should have known that tht 
 bishop received no tithes, but that the rector, as well as the vicar, did. 
 
 F. 
 {See Page 61, Note ", " Townaghglyntachyr.''^) 
 Though St. Patrick was not the patron saint of this diocese, yet his labours certainly 
 extended to it, and he founded therein several churches before St. Columbkille was 
 born. The portion of the Tripartite Life of the saint which treats of this period of 
 his career is the subject of the following note. The narrative in Irish is taken from 
 a transcript made by Mr. Curry from the original manuscript, preserved in the 
 British Museum. Colgan, who has published a Latin version of this extremely ancient 
 and curious piece of biography, states that he had in his possession three several ma- 
 nuscripts of it, differing in their diction, though agreeing in their substance. It was 
 supposed, however, of late years, that no original had been preserved, and the matter 
 was a source of regret, because in many instances Colgan seems to have taken liberties 
 with his text. Mr. Curry, however, when engaged in compiling his catalogue of the 
 
 Irish 
 
 " Keg. Swayne, lib. i., p. 9 1 , fol. 7 3 ; Transcr. 3 20. "■ Ulster Inquisitions, Append, ii. 
 
 ■> Reg. Swaj-ne, lib. ii. fol. 32. ■• Ware's Works, vol. i. p. 2S5. 
 
I20 
 
 Irish manuscripts in the British Museum, discovered this interesting record'', and thus 
 made a most important contribution to the store of available Irish authorities. It will 
 be seen in the follovfing note that the Irish version is characterized by great brevity, 
 while Colgan's Latin (part ii., caps. 122-127) indicates either that he followed a more 
 diffuse original, or that he indulged in a very free translation. 
 
 Ip cCic pacpaicc icippiii in n-Dai- 
 guipc im mag nOula, uii. noomnaigoo 
 im Ocbaine, .1. pkimen, .1. Domnocli 
 Dola,Oomnacli pfnlipp, Ooninach Dapi, 
 Domnach penchue, Oomnacli minchlu- 
 ane, Domncicli caci, boch bomnaisli. 
 
 LiiiD ]Daqiaicc hi r.\\\ nGugcim na mpi, 
 .1. In cpicli pecipgupa polcnni'cicap, co 
 ngabat) t)i|'fiic inalmliu luce, QchciOli- 
 Opoman m cainpiut) ainm in cipe hi 
 
 " Record. — Egerton, 93. It was written in tlie 
 year 1477, at Baile-in-Mointiu, by Donall Albanaeh 
 O'Froiglitliigh. 
 
 ' Magli Diila, — now preserved in tlic form Moy<ila, 
 wliicii is tlie name of a river tliat rises in one of the 
 six towns of Ballynascreeu, and, passing by Tub- 
 bermore and Castledawson, falls into Lough Neagh. 
 Colgan errs in placing the territory in Keenaght. 
 (Index, Trias Thaum.) 
 
 E Fochaine Colgan, in his Latin version, reads 
 
 " Fochmuinne." It is now called the Faughan, and 
 takes its rise near the boundary of Derr}^ and Tyrone, 
 among the Sperrin Mountains, whence it flows in 
 a north-westerly direction, and empties itself in 
 Lough Foylo. According to the Tripartite Life, 
 one of St. Patrick's disciples was " Sanctus Jles- 
 chanus prassbyter de Domnach [Mescain] juxta 
 Fochmuinne fluvium, Cerviciarius." — iii. cap. 98. 
 (Tr. Th. p. 167.) Colgan supposes that this was 
 Kscan, whose festival was kept in Bo-chluain, on 
 the 20th of November ; but this is not likely, as 
 Bo-chluain was in Leix or Queen's County. 
 
 Where Patrick went after this was into 
 Daiguirt, in Magh-dula'. He built seven 
 Domhnachs about the Fochaine=, (i. e. jlu- 
 men^) namely, Domhnach-Dola*', Domh- 
 nach-seinlis, Domhnach-dari, Domhnach- 
 senchua, Domhnach-minchluaine, Domh- 
 nach-cathi, Both-domnaigh'. 
 
 Patrick proceeded into Tir-Eoghain of 
 the Island', namely, into the territory 
 governed by Fergus, and he took to build 
 adisert at a certain place; Achadh-drom- 
 
 ann 
 
 '' Domhnacli-Dola. — Among St. Patrick's do- 
 mestics was " Sanctus Beschna prsesbyter de Dom- 
 nach-dala, Sacellanus." (Vit. Trip. iii. 9S. Trias 
 Th. p. 167.) It is sometimes written Domhnach- 
 duia. The situation of this church has not been 
 ascertained ; probably it was near the Moyola. 
 
 ' Both-domnaigh.- — This is the only one of the 
 seven churches whose name is locally preserved. It 
 is the Bodoney already spoken of at pp. 55, 73. 
 
 J Tir Eoghain of the Island. — That is, In- 
 ishowen, see above, p. 63. The inhabitants were 
 sometimes called Cinel Gojain na himipe, " Cinel 
 Eoghain of the Island," as at loio, 1078, 1117, of the 
 Four Masters. The Fergus here spoken of was son 
 of the Eoghan who gave name to the Cinel-Owen 
 and this Inish-Owen. 
 
 •* Dinert — This is merely an Irish form of the 
 Latin Desertum, It primarily signified " a seques- 
 tered place," and was afterwards applied to the 
 church erected in such a spot ; hence it came to 
 signify " a hermitage." As a prefix to the names 
 of churches it was exceedingly common. 
 
121 
 
 pocaigfpcap ; ^abaip Coelbot mac 
 pejigliufa, niic 605)10111, a laiiii cipp, 
 ocup t)i;cic phacpaicc not) biab De t>e- 
 cleici la chfnel ant). ]3pobacuni epc 
 quoD nupep la Comman mac nCllga- 
 paicli, po boi 111 Cpi' mac nCipcc bo 
 ch6niulClioelbat)t)6, t)o pi^iii ccch ami, 
 ocup m capDtit) pim in cuga paip ociip 
 po bpipft) la mac clfipfc bo nniinn- 
 cip Doiiinaig m6ip lllaije rocluup. 
 
 Rocbiapu limpa pailci liicappat), ol 
 Qebmac pepgupa, 111 pil imip na caipel 
 fcuppu ocup a pemfpepcG. Ip ant) 
 conacab Domnach m6p niaiji cocliaip, 
 ubi ;:l. Oiebup manpic er mac Caipchin 
 peliquic. 
 
 IpeaD t)0 luit) ]3arpaic o Doriinac 
 m6p maigi cocaip ipm bpecaig ip ant) 
 poppainic na cpi Dfclinan meic pfcap 
 t)o parpaic, I11 epic Qilella mic Go- 
 gain, ocup po opbnepcap Oenjup mac 
 
 ' Achadh-dramann — Tliere is a townland in the 
 parish of Donagh called Magheradrumman. 
 
 f" Eas-mac nEirc — This was the old name of the 
 church of Assylin, near Boyle, but the place here 
 meant was, according to Colgan, " in quodara fluvio 
 hand magno [in peninsula de luis-eoghain], qui ex 
 editissimi mentis Sliabh-snvchta, i. e. mentis Ni- 
 vium [now Slieve Snaght] dicti, radicibus ortus, 
 in aestuarium Traigh-brege [now Trawbreaga] ap- 
 pellatum exoneretur." (Tr- Th. p 181, n. 172.) 
 
 " Son of Fergus Colgan has " Aldus Coelbadii 
 
 filius iegre ferens qudm atrociter fuerit seruus Dei a 
 patre suo Ca-lbadio exceptus, accessit ad euin, & hu- 
 maniter rogauit, quatenus velit in suo vicino agro, 
 qui nee vallo, nee muro h fratris patrimonio disiunc- 
 
 ann' was the proper name of the land in 
 which he built it. But Coelbhadh, son of 
 Fergus, son of Eoghan, drove him from 
 thence, and Patrick said that in conse- 
 quence thereof his race should never have 
 a goodly house there. Quod probatum est 
 mqier by Comman, son of Algasach, of the 
 race of Coelbadh, who was at Eas-mac- 
 nEiro'",whomade a house there, but before 
 he had the roof on it it was broken down 
 by a young cleric of the family of Dom- 
 nach-mor-Maighe-Tochair. 
 
 Thou shalt receive welcome from me 
 said Aedh, son of Fergus" ; there is neither 
 bank nor wall between him and the afore- 
 said; and it was there that he erected 
 Domhnach-mor-Muighe-Tochair°, ubi xl. 
 dichis mansit et Mac Cairthin reliquit. 
 
 Patrick proceeded from Domhnach-mor- 
 Maighe-tochair into Bredach'', and there 
 he met the three Deachnans, the sons of 
 Patrick's sister, in the country of Ailell, 
 son of Eoghan, and he ordained Oengus, 
 
 son 
 tus erat, locum tedis sacrai extruenda* acceptare." 
 (Tr. Th. p 145 6.) 
 
 " Domhnach-mor-Mmghe-tochair — Now Donagli. 
 See the note ou Toumughghjiitachyr^ p. 67. 
 
 I' Bredach — liredagh Glen is the name of a town- 
 land in the parish of Lower Moville, and Bredagli 
 
 of the river which flows through it Ord. Survey, 
 
 s. 21 ; Colgan, Tr. Th. p. 181 ft, n. 175. It was 
 formerly an extensive territory, and Aodh Ua Duibh- 
 dhiomia was taoiseach of it in 11 22. In 1167, 
 Muireheartach, son of Ladhniann Ua Duibhdhiorma, 
 lord of Fordruim [now Fordrum, in Lower Moville], 
 was treacherously slain by Donnohadh Ua Duibli- 
 dhiorma and by all the people of Bredacli, in the 
 middle of Magh bile Four Mast. 
 
 R 
 
122 
 
 Qilella, ipin baili pin ocuf pui ant) po 
 Oomnac: Dorimac bile a amm. 
 
 DiaiTibui pacpaic i nOilic Qipnc la 
 Conftacco In Cfnful CnOi, t)0 bfcuit) 
 cuci Gntja. Da nnlii hunc locum, ol 
 Paryiaic. ©uapi non habuippenuip cle- 
 picop, ol QnX)a. Qpabapacnenic Gntia 
 ec puup piliup pecum, Gchu Ccic. 
 Inbip pacpaic in aipnicci pop Uc a 
 imiincipe oc baicpet), ocup oc cabaipc 
 5pat) ocup oc pilaO ippi t>a mac Caip- 
 cint) ant) in uaip pin, qui epc i Clocliup 
 ec qui epc i nDoiimac mop TTIaige coc- 
 aip. Caibpait) gpat) n-eppcoip pop mu 
 mac, ol enoa. accomapc t)0 pacpaic 
 ol cpenpfp pacpaic mac Caipchint) 
 Clocliuip. Iiipe ap Oan ol alaile, t)u- 
 beip an gpaOli. Qpicci pacpaic, spa- 
 
 n Oenffus, son of Ailell.-^" Colitur S. yEngiis- 
 sius 1 8. Februarii in loco Druim Bearta in quo 
 juxta arcem prsenobilis familiar Dochartinse est Ca- 
 pella vetusta." Colgan, Tr. Th. p. i8i, n. 178. 
 Druim- Bearta, which is now called Burt, is a parish 
 that formerly was a grange belonging to the abbey of 
 Macosriuiu, and aftervvards one of the five chapelries 
 of Templemore. 
 
 ' Domhnach-hile. — Now Moville, divided in the 
 year 1788 into Upper and Lower Moville. lllaS 
 bile signifies " the plain of the sacred tree," and is 
 also the name of the celebrated abbey near New- 
 townards, in the county of Down. The word bile 
 was used by the ancient Irish to denote a large tree 
 which was held in veneration, especially one under 
 which a chief used to be inaugurated ; and to cut it 
 down was the greatest triumph which could be en- 
 joyed by a hostile force. See the Four Masters, at 
 ySi, 1051, 1099; Reeves's Eccles. Ant. p. 77. In 
 Mil, the Ulidians cut down the bilfba, or "old 
 
 son of Ailell'', in that place, and he re- 
 mained there on Sunday ; Domhnach-bile' 
 is its name. 
 
 When Patrick was at Ailech-Airtich in 
 Connacht', in Cinel-Enda, Enda came 'to 
 him. Da inihi hunc locum, said Patrick. 
 Quasi non habuissenvus clericos, said Enda. 
 On the morrow venit Enda et suus filhis 
 secum, Echu Caech. Patrick had turned 
 off to pray, and his people to baptize, to 
 confer orders, and to propagate the faith. 
 The two Maccairthinns were there at 
 the time, namely, qui est at Clochar^ et 
 qui est at Domhnach-mor-Maighe-tochair. 
 Confer ye the degree of bishop upon my 
 son, said Enda. Let Patrick be consulted, 
 said Patrick's champion", Maccairthinn 
 of Clochar. It is our duty, said the other, 
 I will confer the order'. When Patrick 
 
 arrived, 
 trees," of Tulachog, which probably grew around the 
 inauguration scat of the Ciuel Eoghain, for which 
 act they had to pay 3000 cows. In the present 
 instance, the domhnack was probably erected near 
 !ome such tree. The ruins of the old church are 
 in Upper Moville, in the townland Cooly, and 
 beside them is a large stone cross. The town- 
 lands Cooly, Carrownaff, Glencrow, and Tirj'ione, 
 are held under the see. 
 
 ' Connachl. — The narrative which follows is a 
 digression, which is made for the purpose of intro- 
 ducing the curious legend about the Mac Carthenns. 
 
 ' Clochar His proper name was Aldus, or Aodh, 
 
 the other being only his p.itronymic, from his father, 
 Chaerthann. 
 
 " Champion " Qui fuit Patricio itinerum comes, 
 
 et baculus ac bajulus senectutis ejus." — Colgan. 
 
 " Order. — For other instances of the conferring 
 of episcopal orders by one bishop, see Reeves's Eccles. 
 Antiq. pp. 127, 128, 131, 135, 384. 
 
123 
 
 Gem, ol p6, t)0 rhabmjic iin fccmaipe 
 po]i mac in chonalra. bifit) celloac In 
 ciU in tiala f ap cu bpac ; bieit) t>uana hi 
 con^bail alaile. ©not) iniplecup : cell- 
 Dac hi Clochup; Oomnac mop TTlaige 
 cocaip Oominacu ipuiDiu. In mac pop 
 a cSic in 5pab immupaiccicfc t)iap lap 
 Dunopgain, pop aelaiO ocup ac um 
 luipCppa. cp:;c. annip coppin mac sfnpfpp 
 ip naib pannaiB Ofpcfpcacaib ocup Oo 
 acchuippe cuciim t)apit)ipi . qiiot) ce- 
 cum implecum epc. In locc coipec i 
 pabucap a caipi locc opOtD oibinn po 
 immopcliGipfS pCcapuaic bicc i locc 
 ip ipliu. In locc coipec cpa i paba papp 
 he ocup cleccaic nieipleig ocup Ounopj- 
 niDi acpeb anD cpe bpficip pocpaic. 
 
 Ocup po oincaiGosfo a chell Do Chi- 
 apdn mac in cpaip, ocup ho pacchuip 
 CO pacpaic icepum; eppcop Gcan mOiu 
 in c6cu pin mac GnDai. 
 
 Mo boi tian pacpaic i Cip 6nt)ai 
 Qpcig 1 Cailaic liacc illechip; paDiD 
 fclaip ant) popu bop lapam ocup ip anti- 
 
 " Church.. — Coiijbail. See the note at p. 79. 
 
 " Mac-an-tsair. — That is, Ciaran, son of the Ar- 
 tificer, the founder of Clonmacnois, who died in 
 549, aged 33. 
 
 y Tir-Enda-Airtich — The present barony of 
 Frenchpark, in the North-west of Uoscommon, was 
 formerly called Ciarraighe Airtich. Beside it was 
 the territory of Airteach, in which was Aileagh-Air- 
 tigh. Its situation is thus pointed to by the Trip. 
 
 arrived, he said, Ye have conferred orders 
 in my absence on the son of the wolf. 
 There shall be strife in the church of the 
 one for ever ; there shall be poverty in the 
 church"of the other. Quod impletur : strife 
 at Clochar ; Domhnach-mor-Maighe-to- 
 chair, poverty is there. The son upon 
 whom the degree was conferred, two per- 
 sons, after committing murder, shall pro- 
 fane his relics. One hundred and twenty 
 years until a son shall be born in the 
 southern parts [who shall reconsecrate 
 his church], and it shall be restored to me 
 again. Quod totum impletum est. The first 
 place where his relics were was a high and 
 beautiful spot, but they were carried 
 thence after a short time to a lower place; 
 and the first place where they were is 
 deserted, and robbers and murderers are 
 accustomed to dwell there, through Pa- 
 trick's curse. 
 
 And his church was ceded to Ciaran 
 Mac-an-tsair", but was restored to Patrick 
 again. This Echu, son of Enda, is at this 
 day called bishop Echan. 
 
 As Patrick was in Tir-Enda-Airtich' at 
 Tulach-liag, in Leitir ; he stuck [wat- 
 tles" for] a church there, which after- 
 wards 
 
 Life : " Inter cfetera praedia quK pro munilicentia 
 Endffi Principis Pontifex tune acceperat, erant quin- 
 decim villae quas ex donatione fratris sui Regis Lao- 
 garii in regione de Arteach in Connacia, non pro- 
 cul a Cruachaniaad septemtrionem, Endapossederat." 
 _ii. 18, 19, 55. (Tr. Th. pp. 131 b; 137.) Crua- 
 chan, now Rathcroyhan, is in the parish of Elphin, 
 barony of Roscommon. 
 
 ' Wattles. — See Reeves's Eccles. Ant. p. 217. 
 
 R2 
 
124 
 
 l^in po oiponi na cpi DomnaiU po Spat) 
 Tieppcoip .1. Doriinall mac Cpeiiicainn 
 1 nClilij; Qipcig, quoD puppa cogica- 
 uimup; DoiiinallTnac Coilcni, i Cailaig 
 liacc; Doriinall Cuile Conalcc. 
 
 lpe& t)0 cliuam parpaic a Daijjupc 
 ocup cmi niais Dola in Clipt) Dailauig. 
 pocaijeapcxip cell ant) i. Dun Cpuicne. 
 papaccaibeppcopt)eoaft)anDiap nofn- 
 cai5 fcuppu ocup Gugan; Ocup Doiii- 
 nac aipcip apOOa. 
 
 Un. Doinnag Oo paqiaic la Cmnacca, 
 niit)omnacbp("cmai5i.1caCippa]3arpaic 
 ant). lpant)pein came Set)na mac Dpona 
 mic Cigeapnaig co pacpaic co pum 
 boiceip ocup ip ann pem po benDach a 
 pHrig n-alaccai ocup an gem boi mna 
 bpu, .1. Cianan Daimbacc, ocup po 
 les la parpaic, ocup ip anti pin t)0 
 paipngfpcpom tii Chamnec ocup corn- 
 mat) Ifip a pepunt)pein. Do choit) lap pin 
 
 » Tulagh-liag.—Pr6bah\y the townland TuUy- 
 league, in the parish of Tumna, barony of Boyle. 
 
 '' Dun Cruilhne Now Duncroon, in Magilligan. 
 
 See above, p 84. 
 
 ' Arda Now Tamlaghtard. — See above, p. 84. 
 
 '■ Seven Churches. — Seven was a favourite group 
 for churches ; thus, the seven churches of Hy-Tuir- 
 tre ; the seven of Magh-dola ; the seven of Glen- 
 daloch ; the seven of Inisclothrann. Professor O'Do- 
 novan observes that " Ever)' church in Ireland, whose 
 name begins with Domhnach, was originally erected 
 by St. Patrick." (Four Mast. 1508, note*.) "Hoc 
 enim habebat Sanctus in consuetudine, ut ubi demo- 
 raretur Domiiiico die, si Ecclesiam illic fundasset, 
 
 wards became a bush. It was there he 
 ordained the three Domhnalls to the de- 
 gree of bishop, namely, Domhnall, son of 
 Creamhthann, at Ailech-Airtigh, qiiod su- 
 pra cogitavinius ; Domhnall, son of Colgni, 
 at Tulach-liag"; and Domhnall of Cuil- 
 Conalt. 
 
 Where Patrick went [next] was into 
 Daiggurt and into Magh-Dola, in Aird- 
 Dailauig. He erected a church there, 
 namely, Dun-Cruithne^ He left Bishop 
 Beoaedh there after having made friend- 
 ship between him and Eugen. And [he 
 erected also] Domhnach-airthir-Arda°. 
 
 Patrick erected seven churches'' in Ci- 
 anachta, among which was Domhnach- 
 Breachmhaighe, at which is Tipra Pha- 
 traic. Hither came Sedna, son of Drona, son 
 of Tighernach, to Patrick, who baptized 
 him, and then blessed his pregnant wife, 
 and the child that was in her womb, 
 namely, Cianan'^ of Daimhliag, who was 
 given to Patrick. And it was then he 
 predicted concerning Cainnechf , how this 
 
 land 
 Dcmhnach, id est, Dominican) appellaret." (Jocel. 
 c. 91.) All names of places beginning with Donagh, 
 or Donough, and most ending in donagh or dmy, 
 come from this word. Sendonagh, now Shanonagh, 
 a townland of Templeoran, in Westmeath, is ex- 
 plained in Sir Robert Nugent's patent, " Old Son- 
 day." (Pat. Jac i. p. 196.) 
 
 " Cianan St. Kienan, of Duleek, in the county 
 
 of Meath, was the eleventh in descent from OiliU 
 Olum. It is curious that the territory m which 
 Duleek is situate was also called Kienachta. 
 
 f Cainnech From whom Kilkenny is called. 
 
 He was a conteniporary of St. Columbkille, and hon- 
 ourable mention is made of him in Adamnan's life of 
 
125 
 
 ip nallei Oon banoai aiyicliiyi, ubi non land would be his. After this he went 
 capiebanc honiinep pipcep nipi in nocce to the Lheis, on the east of the Baun, uhi 
 upque at) illut) reiiipup; Oeinbe impe- non capiehant homines pisces nisi in node 
 pauic eip parpaic uc in tue capepenc: usque ad illud tempiis. Deinde imperavit eis 
 ecpic e)iic in pineni peculi. Patricim ut in die caperetit, et sic erit in 
 
 finem seculi. 
 
 G. 
 
 See Page 69, Note ■", " 3Iahya." 
 
 The great territory of Tyrone, including the present county of Londonderry, was not 
 reduced to shire ground until the 15th of July, 1591, when certain commissioners 
 appointed by Queen Elizabeth made a return into the Court of Chancery, in which 
 the river Finn on the west. Lough Foyle and the sea on the north, the river Bann 
 and Lough Neagh on the east, and the Blackwater on the south, were set oitt as the 
 boundaries ; and it was divided into the following eight territories, severally consisting 
 of the sub- territories named under them. 
 
 L The Baronte of LoGHTNisoLrN Now called Loughinsholin. The village of 
 
 Desertmartin, beside which is the small lake that gives name to the barony, was a 
 place of importance at the close of the sixteenth century. — See above, pp. 76, 77. 
 " Conteyninge" 
 
 1. Clonconkaijne.—CaWed ^'^eann-Conca&ain, by the Four Masters, at the 
 years 1526, 1584. It is marked " Clanconcan" on Norden's map, and " Glan- 
 kankyne," lying between " Carnantogher" and " Slew Gallon," on Speed's. It 
 forms the western portion of the barony. 
 
 2. Eihjtraglie CoiU-ioccapac, " the lower wood." Speed marks " Killetra" 
 
 on the N. E. of last, and " Killetro" on the S. E. The name is preserved in 
 Tamlaglit-Killietraijh, by which the modern parish of Tamlaght, at its southern 
 extremity, is called in inquisitions. It forms the eastern portion of the barony. 
 Beside these two territories, the Charter of Londonderry sets out those of Clan- 
 donnell and the Tollagh, as comprised in the barony of Loughinsholin. Under the 
 
 former 
 
 that saint. See above, pp. 29, 39, and lower down, and St. Guaire, of Aghadowey, was their patron saint, 
 under Drumachose, p. 132. See above, p. 80, and Reeves's Eccles. Ant. pp. 296, 
 
 s Lhei. — Elsewhere called Pp li. They were the 330. In the Book of Kights they are styled "Fir 
 descendants of Laeghaire, grandson of Colla Uais, Li of the Lake," p. 135. 
 
126 
 
 former it recites a number of townlands in the two proportions of Gortconra and 
 Ballnacrassi, which now constitute the principal part of the parishes of Killelagh 
 and Maghera. The name of Clandonnell was probably derived from the O'Don- 
 nells, the chiefs of Cinel-Binny, of whom mention has been already made at 
 p. 74; and this territory, so defined in the charter of Londonderry, may be re- 
 garded as answering to the Cinel-Binny of O'Dugan. — See " Concise View of the 
 Irish Society," pp. 76, 77. (Lond. 1832.) 
 
 II. The Baront of Dongantn. — t)un-5eanainn, giving name to the town of 
 Dungannon, is first mentioned in the Four Masters at 1430, as the residence of Owen 
 O'Neill. 
 
 I. Extending from the Blackewater to Mologhygory, and from Eilytraghe to the 
 Closaghe, which contayneth also so much of Henry-oyes land as ys by north the Black- 
 water. The Blackwater, in remote times, was called the Dabhal, a name now 
 disguised in " the Tall river," which is tributary to the Callan, and with it falls 
 into this. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries it was known by the name 
 of Qbainn liiop, Avonmore, like the Blackwater, that flows past Lismore, which 
 also at the same period was called the Avonmore, having previously been known 
 as the Nem. Mologhygory is marked " Mullogh gora" on Speed's map ; it is 
 now called Mulnagore, and is a townland in the parish of Pomeroy, near the N. W. 
 limit of the barony. This barony comprehends the ancient territories of TTlag 
 lomclaip, which lay around Donaghmore; Ui t)puiin, now Minterbirn, in Agha- 
 loo; Ui Capacain, the parish of Killyman. Part of Ui Cui]icpe was anciently 
 in it, as also Gaura, or Fera-Gaura, which lay between Hy Tuirtre and Donagh- 
 more, and is possibly preserved in the above name, Midlogh-gora. The whole 
 tract was called " Henry Oge's land," from Henry Oge O'Neill. 
 
 III. The Baronie of Clochare. — Deriving its name from Clogher, the famous 
 bishop's seat, anciently called Clocap meic n-Daiiiieine, " Clochar filiorum Dameni." 
 It was formerly the territory of Cinel-peapa&aij, and was subdivided into Clann 
 Qensupa, Clann Duibinpeacc, Clann posapcaig. " Contayninge" 
 
 I. The Closiighe. — Speed marks " Cioshaghe" far too much to the west; it 
 comprised the greater part of the parishes of Clogher and Errigal-Keeroge. It 
 was anciently called inag-leariina (as in Keating, i. p. 324; Four Mast. 3727). 
 The Tripartite Life of St. Patrick relates a curious story of an occurrence at the 
 hill Finn-abhuir [" Albus Campus." — Jocel. c. 94], in Lemania, upon which 
 Colgan has the note "Est regio campestris Tironise, vulgo Mag-lemna, aliis 
 Clossach dicta." (Tr. Th. p. 184, u. 11.) The name is of frequent occurrence in 
 the Irish Journal of 1 641-7. At the northern extremity of Errigal Keerofue, 
 
 in 
 
127 
 
 in the townland Foremass, not far distant from the place where this parish joins 
 Termonmaguirk and Clogherny, are two mountain tops, called Coolkenagh and 
 Slieve Largy, which are of note in Irish history, the former as being the 
 point which, under the name of CuaiUe Ciannacca, was set out in the Synod 
 of Rathbreasal as the limit of the diocese of Armagh, remote from Sliaft bpeag, 
 now Slieve Brey, in the south of the county of Louth, and as being men- 
 tioned by the Four Masters, at the year 1157; the latter as being chosen upon 
 the same occasion, under the name Sliab Lapga, as the boundary between 
 the dioceses of Clogher and Ardstraw. In the Ulster Inquisitions they are 
 noticed among the mountain tracts of Tyrone by the names Quoyllykenaght 
 a,nd 3IuUag//sleivlaarge. (Tyrone, i Jac. I.; Append, xi.) In i6\ '^, Coolechenaght 
 was granted, with other mountainous districts, to John Sandford. (Pat. Jac. I., 
 p. 257.) This part of Errigal Keerogue, with the adjoining portions of Termon 
 and Clogherny, forms the district parish of Cooley. — Ord. Survey, Tyrone, s. 44. 
 
 2. Ballentakan. — This district was granted by James I. to the Earl of Castle- 
 haven. (Ul. Inq. 7 Jac. I., Tyrone.) Afterwards it passed to Sir Pierce Crosby, 
 by intermarriage with his widow, who held " the great proportion of the two 
 Fews and Ballytaken, within the barony of Omagh." These Fews [Pio&] were 
 sometimes called Feenagh [pio&nac], and now form the manor of Feenah, or the 
 Six-mile-cross estate, in the south of Termonmaguirk, extending into Clogherny. 
 Ballentacken at present comprehends the parish of Clogherny and that portion 
 of Termonmaguirk which forms the Roman Catholic parish of Beragh. It 
 was chiefly tenanted by O'Donnellys and M'Cawells, at the period of this commis- 
 sion. (Ul. Inq. 30, 48, Car. I.) The advovvson of Termonmaguirk accompanied 
 this grant. 
 
 3. Both the Fintonaghes. — pionn caninac " the fair green field" is mentioned by 
 the Four Masters at 1488. The village of Fintona, in the parish of Donaghcavey, 
 preserves the name. 
 
 4. Termynm'gorke. — See above, p. 3. This district, and Ballentakan, which are 
 here assigned to the barony of Clogher, were soon after transferred to that of 
 Omagh, in which they still are reckoned. 
 
 IV. The Baronie of the Omaghe Ogiiiag is introduced to notice by the Four 
 
 Masters at the year 1470, on account of its castle, which was taken by the O'Neill 
 from the Clann Gipc, that is, the sons of Art O'Neill, whose residence was here. 
 " Contayninge" 
 
 1. All Slut Arfs Land. — Sliocc Qipc were the descendants of Art O'Neill, as 
 the Sliocc 6npi, whose head quarters were at Newtown Stewart, were of Henry 
 
 O'Neill 
 
128 
 
 O'Neill. Speed places " Slut Art O'Neale" at Stranorlar, in Donegal, which is 
 too far west; Norden again marks " Slut art Oge O'Neale" in Tirconnell, between 
 the Lough and river Eske. 
 
 2. Camon. — Now Camowen, the name of a river and townland in that part of 
 Cappagh which is in the barony of Omagh. 
 
 V. The Baronie of Strathbane 8pac-ban, " the fair holm," is first noticed 
 
 by the Four Masters, at 1583, and there as the town of Turlogh Luineach O'Neill. 
 A portion of this territory, surrounding Ardstraw, was anciently called Ui piacpac 
 pionn, or QpOppaca. See above, p. 10. In it was situate the mountain of Slmb 
 Cpuim, marked " Slew Trim" on Norden and Speed's maps, and now known under 
 the ridiculous name of Bessy Bell. Several townlands which lay on the sides of 
 Slewtrim are recited in an Inquisition, and they now hold the same position on Bessy 
 Bell. (Ul. Inq. Tyrone, 5 Car. I.) " Contayninge" 
 
 1 . Lanrfechence. — It is not easy to say what this is intended for. " Large" was 
 one of the proportions in the barony of Strabane, of which Sir George Hamilton 
 was the patentee. 
 
 2. Kilalmoyan. — A corruption of Cineal lIloaiTi, concerning which see above, 
 p. 51. This district formed the south-western part of the barony. 
 
 3. Mynterhjnnie. — So called from the mumcip Ui Luinis, " the family of 
 O'Loony," who in 1090 and 1 178 furnished chieftains to the Cinel Moain. They 
 were afterwards driven eastwards, probably by the O'Neills, and settled in that 
 wild tract of the parish of Badoney, which has received from them the appella- 
 tion of the Munterloney Mountains. At the time of the plantation the district 
 was called by the alias " Trianmuriertagh." (Pat. Jac. I., p. 258.) It forms the 
 eastern portion of the barony. 
 
 4. BaUem'chory — Now Ballymagorry, a village in the parish of Leckpatrick, 
 containing, in 1841, 213 inhabitants. " Ballemagorry in the proporcion of 
 Cloghognull" [otherwise Largie]. (Ul. Inq. 10 Car. I.) The surrounding dis- 
 trict formed the north-western portion of the barony. 
 
 VI. The Baronie of Coulrane. — Deriving its name from the ancient town of 
 Ouilpacam, " the Ferny recess." Under the early English administration it gave 
 name to a county which comprehended the neighbouring parts of Antrim and Derry. 
 It also was known by the name of " O'Kane's Country." " Contayninge" 
 
 I. The Maghre Sluthgorey. — Norden places "Slut Gorra" between "Bryan 
 Carogh's country" and " Lemavaddie ;" Speed marks " Slutgore" north of " Lem- 
 wady." Colgan states that the plain on the west of the Bann was called Ma- 
 ckaire in his day, and that Dunbo was situate in it. (Trias. Th. pp. 181 5; 381, 
 
 n. 106.) 
 
129 
 
 n. io6.) This district answered to the ancient pip Li, and now forms the northern 
 half of the barony of Coleraine. 
 
 2. Sluth Donaghe's contrey. — Marked on Speed's map, " SIu Donagh," a little 
 N. W. of Kilrea. This is now the southern part of the barony. 
 
 VII. The Baeonie of Lymbevadye. — Lenii-an-iiiat)ai& is mentioned by the Four 
 Masters, at 1542, as one of O'Cahan's castles. The name signifies "The Dog's 
 leap," and the site of the castle is on the bank of the Eoe, a short distance from the 
 town to which it gives name. The barony is now called Keenaght. " Contayninge" 
 
 1. ArdmagiUitjan — Now Magilligan, or Tamlaghtard. See above, pp. 78, 84. 
 
 2. Kenaght. — The district about Dungiven, anciently called Cianacra glinne 
 ^eiriiin. See above, pp. 36, 41. 
 
 3. Faranycryve. — The peapa-na-Cpaoibe, or " Men of Creeve," are fre- 
 quently spoken of by the Four Masters. They inhabited the district of Cpaob, 
 so called from Craobh, daughter of Eoghan mac Duirtheacht, who gave name to 
 the Gap Cpaoibe, or " Cutts of Coleraine." (See above, p. 77.) When the 
 O'Cahans were in their prime, as at the year 1 138, they were reputed to be lords 
 of Keenaght, Fir Li, and Creeve. Before the date of this commission, the " Men 
 of Creeve" seem to have shifted their quarters westward from the Bann, and to 
 have established their tribe name in a portion of the present barony of Keenaght. 
 Norden marks " Kriue" on the west of O'Kane's country. 
 
 VIII. The Baronie of Anagh. — The caiplen Ganaig, " castle of Enagh," which 
 was a seat of the O'Kanes, gave this name to the barony. (See above, p. 28.) Ac- 
 cording to an Inquisition, the barony of Anagh comprised the parishes of Faughan- 
 vale. Cumber, and Clondermot. " Conteyninge" 
 
 1. Tyrchyrine. — Cip Chaepcamn, " the country of Caerthan," being inhabited 
 by the Ui mic ChaepcainTi, or descendants of [Forgo] the son of Caerthann. 
 M'Firbis, treating of the descendants of Colla Uais, says: " Colla Uais had two 
 goodly sons, namely, Earc, on the north of the mountain [probably the Munter- 
 lony range], from whom descend the Mac Carrthainns of Loch Feabhail [Foyle] ; 
 and Fiachra Tort, on the south of the mountain, from whom descend the Hy- 
 Tuirtre, the Fir Li, the Fir Luirc, and Hy-Mac-Uais." The parish of Faughan- 
 vale represents this district. Tirkeeran has superseded Anagh as the baronial 
 name. 
 
 2. Sgryn — Scrin-de-Ardo is the east portion of Magilligan, which cannot be 
 included in this barony without some geographical violence: it is, therefore, 
 likely that the parish of Cumber is here intended. 
 
 3. Claiidermod. — The parish of Clandermod is so called from Clann DiapmaDa, 
 
 S the 
 
the tribe name of the O'Carolans, which is of frequent occurrence in the Four 
 Masters. 
 
 The denominations of land which formerly prevailed through the diocese were the 
 following : 
 
 1. The BaUi/betagh. — Sometimes abbreviated to Bal/ybet, which derived its 
 name from batle bmcac, "a victualler's town," and was reckoned the thirtieth 
 part of a Cpioca-ceati, or cantred. It was the largest measure of land, and ge- 
 nerally contained four quarters, which being very variable in their extent, there 
 was no fixed standard for their complex. The barony of Tirkeeran, at the be- 
 ginning of the sixteenth century, consisted of fourteen bally betaghs, and Keenaght 
 of thirteen. (Supra, p. 29.) In the notes to the preceding rental, the numbers 
 of ballibetaghs in several of the parishes are specified. In the county of Mo- 
 uaghan this denomination generally contained sixteen tates. 
 
 2. The Quarter was one of the four components of the ballibetagh, and con- 
 tained three ballyboes. 
 
 3. The Balhjhoe was one of the three components of a quarter, and was the 
 commonest measure of land. Tirkeeran contained fourteen ballybetaghs, or 182 
 ballyboes, which gives an average of thirteen ballyboes for each bally betagh, twelve 
 being the exact number. In this barony there are 92,756 acres, which, being 
 divided by 182, give about 509 acres as the average extent of aballyboe. There 
 are, according to the Ordnance survey, 228 townlands, each containing an average 
 of about 406 acres, so that the ancient ballyboe may be estimated as a fifth larger 
 than our present townland. Kenaght contained thirteen ballybetaghs, and is divided 
 at present into 272 townlands. which allows nearly twenty-one townlands to a 
 ballybetagh. The ballyboe was sometimes called a toivnland, and if our divisions 
 bearing that name are more numerous now, it is chiefly owing to the fact that 
 in many instances the generic names, as well as those of the intermediate and 
 lower species, are retained and applied to independent portions of land. 
 
 4. The Sessiagli, tliree of which constituted a ballyboe. (See Ul. Inq. Tyrone, 
 19 Car. II.; Doneg., 10 Jac. I.; 11 Car. I.; Append. I.) The name in Irish was 
 Seippeac, which was formed from peipeap eac, " a yoke of six horses." 
 
 5. The Tullagh consisted of a ballyboe and a sessiagh, that is, a ballyboe and a 
 third. (Ul. Inq. App. II.) " The Bishop of Clogher was seized of the four hills, 
 or Tullaghes," &c. (lb.) 
 
 6. The Tate, or Tatk, or Tar/k, varied from ten to sixty acres. The word was 
 
 very common in Monaghan, but of rare occurrence in Tyrone. 
 
 7. The 
 
7- The Gort was used to denote a measure of six acres, probably from the fact 
 that this was about the quantity of ground whicli was generally assigned for the 
 vicars' gorts., or " gardens." 
 
 It may be mentioned, in addition to what has been adduced concerning the 
 word Mart, at p. 8, that the terms " Mart," " Mart-terra;," " Martland," pro- 
 bably in imitation of the hovata, with any number or any fraction, are very 
 frequent in the inquisitions of the county of Catherlagh, and they occur twice in 
 those of Kilkenny, in connexion with native families. A mart seems to have 
 been equal to about four cartrons [quartronae], or one quarter. In Aberdeen, 
 also, the term was used as a measure. 
 
 H. 
 
 {Sequel to Page 86.) 
 
 Harris states that the Bishop of Derry " hath land in every parish in the diocese but 
 one," meaning thereby Dungiven, (Ware's Works, vol. i. p. 285); however, in the 
 above rental there is an omission of six parishes, both in temporals and tertia; namely, 
 Camus juxta Mourne, Killowen, Drumachose, Balteagh, Clondermot, and Dungiven, 
 which it may be well in this place to notice briefly, so that the present recital may 
 form a complete parochiale of the diocese. 
 
 Camus juxta Mourne. — In the county of Tyrone, situate on the river Mourne, (the 
 lTlo&aipn of the Four Masters), and so called to distinguish it from the Camus on the 
 Bann already spoken of The Irish word Camap signifies " the curved stream," and 
 is applicable to the course of the Bann and Mourne, opposite the ancient churches to 
 which it gave name. There is also a Camus on the river Suir, about two miles N. W. 
 of Cashel, called at an Chamaip by the Four Masters at 1523. The Inquisition of 
 1 609 finds that the parish of Camos contained one ballibetagh, wherein was only a 
 parson presentative, to whom two third parts of the tithes were paid, and the other 
 third part to the herenagh; also that the herenagh land contained one balliboe. In 
 the patent the two balliboes of Camus are confirmed to the see. This parish is not 
 noticed in the Taxation. 
 
 Kilowen. — This small parish lies at the opposite side of the Bann to Coleraine, but 
 is included in the borough. In the Taxation it is called Drumtarssi, from Dpumi 
 Caippigh, where, according to the Annals of Ulster, and of the Four Masters, the 
 English, in the year 1248, erected a castle at the same time that they constructed a 
 
 S 2 bridge 
 
132 
 
 bridge over the Bann. In a computus returned from Twescard, in the year 1262, 
 by Henry de Maundeville, there is an item of 20s. from two carucates of land in 
 Drumtarsi/. (Rot. Tur. Berm.) The inquisition sped on the death of William de 
 Burgo, in 1333, found that he was seised of lands in Drumtarcij, in the county of 
 Coulrath. (Inq. Tur. Lond.) Edward III., in 1345, confirmed Donald O'Kenalad 
 [O'Ceannfhaoladh] in the parsonage of the church of Drumtarsny. (Cal. Cane. p. 49, 
 n. 49.) In 1369, Culragh and Drumtorsoy were named among the possessions of 
 Lionel Duke of Clarence. (Cal. Inq. P. M. Tur. Lond. ii., p, 295.) Again, in 1382, 
 John Eynaux, treasurer of Ulster, was directed to repair the Castle of Drtmitarcy and 
 the bridge of Culrath, which had been broken down by the Irish. (Cal. Cane, pp. 1 15, 
 n. 219, where the name is misspelt i?rMnto?'cy ; 118, n. 102.) The parish of Kilowen 
 was found in the inquisition of 1609 to differ from the others in the diocese in that it 
 had only a parson, to whom all the tithes were paid, and no herenach ; the said parson 
 being at all the charge of repairing and maintaining the parish church, paying yearly 
 twelve pence proxies, and a refection in his visitation. This parish, very probably, was 
 cut off from Camus as an appendage to the castle of Drumtarsy, after the English 
 settlement, which would account for the absence of herenagh land. Subsequently, 
 however, the bishop became possessed of land therein, for the patent mentions the 
 " termon or erenagh land of Killowen," in virtue of which a valuable property is still 
 held under the see. 
 
 Drnmachose. — -The church appears in the Taxation under the name " Ecclesia 
 de Ro," which has been shown at p. 39 to be an alias for Drnmachose, derived from the 
 river which runs near it. In 1609 it was found that there were in the parish a parson, 
 vicar, and herenagh, that the erenagh land contained two quarters and two ballyboes, 
 viz., Drumore and Mullane, and the herenagh paid 6s. Sd. a year out of his portion of 
 the tithes, and a refection at visitation. According to the inquisition, this parish, 
 with Aghanloo and Balteagh, formed a union called Termonconny. The patent joins 
 it with Balteagh thus: " Drumchoose and Baldawgh, or Balladawgh, or Boydafeigh, 
 both called by the common name of Termonconny," containing seven denominations. 
 St. Cainnech or Canice, the contemporary of Columbkille, from whom Kilkenny de- 
 rives its name, was born in the neighbourhood of Drnmachose, and from him the 
 church-land was called Termon-conny, or " the termon of Cainnech." The priest of 
 this parish was anciently styled " the successor of Cainnech in Keenaght." (See 
 Reeves' Eccl. Ant. p. 374, and the note above, at p. 39.) In the Taxation, neither 
 Tamlaght-Finlagan, nor Balteagh, nor Aghanloo, is mentioned, but all are included in 
 the great parish " de Ro." 
 
 Independently of its connexion with St. Cainnech, this parish is distinguished as 
 
 having 
 
133 
 
 having been the scene of the celebrated convention called the mo]i6oil, Dpoma-cecc, 
 which was held, in the year 590, for the purpose of deciding the Dalriadic controversy, 
 at which St. Columbkillc was present. Adamnan styles it "Eegum in Dorso-cette 
 condictum."_i. 10, 49; ii. 6 (Tr. Th. 341, 349, 352.) O'Donnellus has preserved this 
 clue to its position: " Coluniba menioratum euripum [i. e. Loch Feabhail] quA lon^e 
 patet, emensus, navigii cursum dirigi fecit per Roam amnem in predictum euripum 
 deourrentem; quem Huvium, quamquam aquarum inopia alias innavigabilem, navis 
 Sancti viri divina virtute percurrit. Locus autem in quo navicula subinde stetit, 
 deinceps ab eventu CabJian an Churaidh, id est, collis cymba; appellatus, DruimchettK 
 
 pervicinus est CKterum modica eo loci mora contracta, vir Sanctus cum sua vene- 
 
 randa comitiva contendit ad perama;num ilium collum, leniteracclivem, \\\\go Dnnrii- 
 chett vocatum." — iii. 4. (Tr. Th. p. 431.) Though at present there are no local tra- 
 ditions to help in the identification of the spot, it was well known in Colgan's time, 
 who writes: " Hodie et semper venerabilis, maxime ob multas peregrinationes et 
 publicam Theophoriam, qua; in festo omnium sanctorum in prsedictse synodi memo- 
 riam ibidem celebrate in eo quottannis fit, cum summo omnium vicinarum partium 
 accursu." (Act, SS., p. 204 J. n. 13.) The hill called "the Keady," which com- 
 mences about two miles out of Newtownlimavady, might be supposed, from the appa- 
 rent similarity of the name, to be the spot, but there can be little doubt that the arti- 
 ficial mound in Roe Park, called " The Mullagh," and sometimes " the Daisy Hill," is 
 the real Drumceatt. It is situate in a meadow, at a little distance from the house, 
 on the N. W. ; it rises to the height of about twenty feet, and measures about 
 190 by 170 feet. The prospect from it is exceedingly extensive and varied, com- 
 manding a view of Magilligan, with its Benyevenagh, Aghanloo, Drumachose, 
 Tamlaght-Finlagan, and part of Inishowen. There is no local tradition about the 
 spot, except that it is reckoned " gentle," and that it is unlucky to cut the sod. The 
 truth is, the effects of the Plantation have utterly effaced all the old associations of the 
 place. 
 
 Balteagk This name is variously written in old documents, Baldawgh, Baltain-h, 
 
 Ballydaigh, and Boydafeigh, and is derived from baile or boc Oa piac, "the town," 
 or " hut of the two ravens," preserving the tradition that two ravens fiew away with 
 the plumb-line from the cemetery Eellick in the townland Kilhoyle, where the parish- 
 ioners were about to erect their church, to Ardmore, the townland where the site was 
 at length fixed. The inquisition of 1609 finds that the herenagh of Boydafeigh paid 
 for his quarter of land the rent of 5s., and 6s. Sd., with a refection at visitation, for his 
 third of the tithes. 
 
 Clandermot — From the Irish Clann OiapmaOa, the tribe-name of the O'Carolans, 
 
 who 
 
134 
 
 wlio were it3 occupants. The lands of Cloone, or Cloney, in this parish, passed into 
 possession of the bishop during the wars of Shane O'Neill, and were confirmed to him 
 by the patent. See above, p. 32. 
 
 Dungiven. — The inquisition of 1609 finds that the prior, who seems, as regards 
 the temporalities, to have taken the place of the bishop in the parish, was seised of 
 all the tithes ; yet the priory was called upon to contribute to the procuration of the 
 Primate, in 1397. See page 42. 
 
 ceciNic coinni ciLte 
 
 Ir Q'pe cliQTiaiTnTTi Doipe 
 Op a peiSe op a gloine 
 Qp ip lomnan amsel pint) 
 On cint) connice apoile. 
 
^35 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 The words in Italics refer to the Text. 
 
 Page. 
 A. 
 
 Abbot, benediction of an, . . . . 33 
 Abbot, resignation of an, ... 21 
 
 Aberdeen, registry of, cited 8 
 
 Abhainn-mhor, the, 126 
 
 Qc, the termination, 30 
 
 Achadh-dromann, 120, 121 
 
 Achadh-Dubbthaigh, 80 
 
 Achedoffy 73,80 
 
 Adainnan, vulgar form of name, ... 81 
 
 , St., his Life of St. Columba 
 
 cited 61, 79,83, 132 
 
 , the Lex of iv. 
 
 , a patron saint, . 69, 81, 84, 85 
 
 Adare, the Viscount 46 
 
 Adultery, cases of, ... 37, 38, 40, 48 
 
 Aedan, Espog, 84 
 
 Aedh Allan establishes the Lex Patricii, v. 
 
 Aengus, Feilire of, cited, 17 
 
 Aghadowey, parish of, 74, 80 
 
 Aghanloo, parish of, .... 78, 1 32 
 
 Agivey, grange of, 75 
 
 Aidan, St., 36, 85, 114 
 
 Aidus, St., 67 
 
 Aileach-mor, Aileach Airtigh, v., 122, 123 
 
 Page. 
 
 Aimhreidh, or Avrey 51 
 
 Aircinneach, (see Herenach') 4 
 
 Qipeacal, meaning of, 80, 81 
 
 Aireacal Adhamhnain, 81 
 
 Dachiarog, . . . 20,61,126 
 
 Aithgen, St., 55, 73 
 
 Allowa, or Aghanloo, 78 
 
 Anagh, barony of, 29,129 
 
 Anglicos, inter, xiii., 6 
 
 Annals. See Clonmacnois, Fnnr Masters, 
 Grace, Inisfalleti, Tighernach, Ulster. 
 
 Any, (see Termoneeny), 76 
 
 Archaeological Society, Irish, publica- 
 tions of, cited, 21,30,68 
 
 Archbishops, styles of, 89-93 
 
 Archdall, Monasticon cited, . . . 14, 42 
 Archidiaconus Derensis, . 29, 39, 44, 86 
 
 Ard, Ballynascreen de, 78 
 
 Ardliraccan, 31, 95, 96 
 
 Ardee, % . . 14 
 
 Ardmacasch, 13, 59 
 
 Ard-Magilligan 39, 78, 85, 129 
 
 Ardsraa, 70, 72 
 
 Ardstraha 9, 16, 60 
 
 Ardstraw, Ui Fiachrach of, .... 10 
 
136 
 
 Ardstraw, herenachs of, 
 lands of. 
 
 Page. 
 10, 15 
 10,70 
 
 Ardtrea, a herenach of, 118 
 
 Aregyll, 75, 80 
 
 Arenacus, or herenach, 29 
 
 Armagh, Archbishop of, i. 
 
 , robbed, ... 97 
 
 , Canon of, 12 
 
 , Chancellor of, 18 
 
 , church of, polluted, . . 94, 96 
 
 , Deans of, 12, 20 
 
 • , diocese of, 6 
 
 , province of, 115 
 
 , see of, appropriations of, . 32, 76 
 
 , manors of, 3, 76 
 
 , revenue of, ii. 
 
 , St. Peter's and St. Paul's of. 
 
 Abbots of, 12, 56, 75 
 
 Arregall, 75 
 
 Ashra, rural deanery of, 20 
 
 Assaroe 50 
 
 Athboy, St. Stephen's chapel near, . . 15 
 
 Athgieve, now Agivey, 73 
 
 Athlouge, 78 
 
 Ath-luga 78 
 
 Athon-Mura, 66 
 
 Athrych 3 
 
 Atriu Dei, domus S. Johannis de, . 14, 59 
 
 B. 
 
 Baculus Jesu 45 
 
 S. Patricii in Man, . . . .113 
 
 Baggotrath 15 
 
 Bagot, Ricardus 14, 59 
 
 Baile-na-scrine 76, 78, 82 
 
 Baldawgh, (see Balteagh) 133 
 
 Ballem'^chory, 128 
 
 Ballenescrine 76, 82 
 
 de Ardo 78, 84 
 
 Page. 
 
 Ballentaken, 127 
 
 Balle Oskulhjn, 76, 83 
 
 Ballinlinny, 71 
 
 Ballintemple, 32, 81 
 
 Ballybet. See Bullybetagk. 
 Ballybetagh, a land-measure, . 29, 64, 130 
 Ballyboe, a land-measure, . . . 29, 130 
 Ballyboes, four, in herenagh lands, . 116 
 
 Ballybogan, in Clonleigh, 71 
 
 Ballyclog, prebend of, 12 
 
 Ballydaigh, (see Balteagh) 133 
 
 Ballymagorry, 128 
 
 Ballynameen 80 
 
 Ballynascreen, 76, 82 
 
 de Ardo, . . . . 78, 84 
 
 Ballynasse, 77 
 
 Ballyscullion, parish of, .... 76, 83 
 
 Balsoon, parish of, 13 
 
 Balteagh, parish of, 133 
 
 Balysoun 13, 59 
 
 Banagher, cemetery of, polluted, . . 42, 96 
 
 , church of, 35 
 
 , described, 106-108 
 
 , herenagh land of, . ... 53 
 
 Banchor-is-y-coed, and Vaur, .... 35 
 Bangor, in Down, Derry, Wales, . . 35 
 
 , church of, .... 96 
 
 Bangoria, 80, 85 
 
 Bann, fishery of the river, .... 125 
 
 Barnard, Dr. Thomas, 45 
 
 Barnes, Ralph, his Exeter Pontifical, . 105 
 
 beann-oogaip, xvii. 
 
 Beannchor, or Bangor, 35 
 
 Bearnus-mor, 60 
 
 Bede, Hist. Ec, cited, . 36, 109, 112, 114 
 
 Benady Glen, 41, 49 
 
 Benchor 35, 42, 52 
 
 Benedictionale, 33 
 
 Bennagh, Decanatus de, 73-86 
 
 Beoaidh, St 84, 124 
 
^?>7 
 
 Page. 
 
 Beschna, St., 120 
 
 Bessy Bell, the mountain 128 
 
 Betham, Sir \V., Antiq. Researches of, 46 
 
 bite, meaning of, 122 
 
 Bingham, Christian Anticiq. of, . 38, 113 
 
 Bishop, a, robbed, 12 
 
 , slain 93 
 
 Bishops, violated, iii., 97 
 
 , endowments of, . . . 113-117 
 
 , styles of, 89-93 
 
 , visitations of, 117 
 
 Blacliwater, the 120 
 
 Blessing given by Primates, . vi., viii., ix. 
 Bloodshed in churches, .... 93-99 
 
 Blosgaidh, 48, 49 
 
 Bodoney, parish of, . .41, 55, "I, 73, 120 
 
 Bogan, the quarter of, 70 
 
 BuiiiaiL'e 80, 85 
 
 Boniface VIII., Decretals of, . . . . 105 
 
 IX., Pope 3 
 
 Book of Rights cited, . . . 8,110, 125 
 
 Boston, Nicholas 31 
 
 Both-da-fiach, 133 
 
 Both-domhnaich, .... vii., 55, 73, 120 
 
 Both-raedhbha 85 
 
 Botowny, ' . . 71, 73 
 
 Botyller, Williehims, 14, 59 
 
 Bovevagh, parish of, .... 3G, 80, 85 
 
 Boydafeigh, 133 
 
 Boydonagh, 71, 73 
 
 Boyle, family of, 15 
 
 Bracara, councils of, 112, 113 
 
 Brachanus, Sunctus, 31 
 
 Brande, Popular Antiqq., cited, ... 9 
 
 Breean, St., 31 
 
 Bredach, Bredagh, 61,121 
 
 Brendan, Lex of, ........ iv. 
 
 Brentur, now Brantry, 12 
 
 Bridget, St., Festival of, ... . xviii. 
 Broun, Juhunnes 13, 59 
 
 Puge 
 
 Brown, family of, 14 
 
 Bruntarcy, . 139 
 
 Bruodin, his " Corolla" cited, . xvii., xviii. 
 
 Brussels, Irish MSS. in, 109 
 
 Bryan Carogh's country, 128 
 
 Bunonen 70, 73 
 
 Bunseantuinne, 31,32 
 
 Burn, Ecclesiastical Law of, cited, . xii. 
 
 Burt, grange of, 122 
 
 Butler, family of, 14 
 
 , Very Rev. R., his writings, . 13, 14 
 
 Bynnagh, rural deanery of, .... 74 
 
 Cahhain-an-churaidh, 133 
 
 Cadan, St., of Tamlaghtard, .... 84 
 Caidan, Caidin, Caidoc, St., .... 73 
 
 Cinn, meaning of, iii., xi. 
 
 Cainneeh, St., . . . 25, 31, 39, 124, 132 
 
 Cairill, St 72 
 
 Caislen-nua, 68 
 
 Calendar, Cancel. Hib., . i., 13, 15, 68, 132 
 
 Camcif, meaning of, 131 
 
 Cambos Comgalli, 83, 84 
 
 Cambrensis Eversus, new edition of, 37, 74 
 
 C'liinmijs, 77, 83 
 
 Camon, or Camowen 127 
 
 Camus 77, 83 
 
 juxta Mourne, 131 
 
 Canice, St., (see Cuinncch), .... 31 
 Canons, Regular, Secular, . . . 20, 56 
 
 , Irish, cited 34, 113 
 
 Cappagh, parish of, .... 4, 7, 70, 72 
 
 Cardinal, a, robbed, 11 
 
 13 
 
 65 
 
 18 
 
 lOG 
 
 Carlingford, St. Mary's of, 
 Carroghnefarneballibronegan, 
 Carrolan, family of, ... . 
 Catalani, Pontificale of, cited, . 
 
 T 
 
138 
 
 Page. 
 
 Catalani, Rituale of, cited, 105 
 
 Catanus, St., 84 
 
 Cathan, ancestor of O' Kane, .... 3" 
 
 Cavan, monastery of, 26 
 
 Cayf, meaning of, xvii. 
 
 Ceapac, meaning of, 4 
 
 Cella Nigra de Deria, . . 20, 27, 33, 56 
 
 ■ ■ — ■ •, lax discipline of, . . 57, 58 
 
 , ordinances of, . . . . 50, 56 
 
 . See Duhh Regies of Derry. 
 
 Cethirini, Munitio, 83 
 
 Chancellor, stipend of, in 1379, ... i. 
 Chein-iochta, Kenaght, .... 36, 85 
 
 Choghir, meaning of, xvii. 
 
 Churches, bloodshed in, .... 93-99 
 
 , Seven, 124 
 
 Church- Island, 83 
 
 Cianachta, 36, 124 
 
 , Lords of, . . . 29, 36, 37, 42 
 
 Glinne Geimhin, . . 36, 4 1 , 78 
 
 in Meath 124 
 
 Cianan, Sts., 73, 124 
 
 Cill-a-lacha, 82 
 
 Ch.airill 72 
 
 Cruithneachain 82 
 
 . mac Nenain, xv., 82 
 
 Cinel Binny, 74, 126 
 
 Eoghain 18, 51, 63 
 
 , families of, 21, 39, 45, 51, 61 
 
 , patron saint of, . . . 66 
 
 of the Island 120 
 
 _ Fearadhaich, .... 18, 19, 126 
 
 Moain 37,50,51,69,128 
 
 Ciueres, sal, aqua, et vinum, . . 16, 101 
 
 Clandermod, barony of, 1 29 
 
 Clandonnell 125, 126 
 
 Clanfyn, Glenfinn 60, 69 
 
 Clann Airt, 127 
 
 Conchabhair, 37, 85 
 
 Daoil 73 
 
 Page. 
 
 Clann Diarmada, 18, 129 
 
 Dubhghaill, 46 
 
 Henry 52 
 
 lolgaile, 61 
 
 Laochtren, 12 
 
 Loughlangrillies, 65 
 
 Magwories, 61 
 
 Mail 73 
 
 M'Killbridy, 22 
 
 Clergy, encounters of, .... 94, 96, 98 
 
 violated, iii., 97 
 
 Clogher, Archdeacons of, 20 
 
 , barony of, .... 19, 126, 127 
 
 , first bishop of, 67, 122 
 
 , Deans of, 20, 56 
 
 ., tithes in see of, 114 
 
 Clogherny, parish of, 127 
 
 Cloncha, 65, 67 
 
 Clondermot, parish of, . . . . 31, 133 
 
 Clo7ie, terra de, 31, 32 
 
 Clunlege, Clanlege 60, 70, 72 
 
 Clonleigh, 18, 61, 69, 70, 72 
 
 Clonmacnois, Annals of, .... 94-96 
 
 , Registry of, 116 
 
 Clanmane, 64, 67 
 
 Clonmanv, 45, 64, 67 
 
 Clooney, see lands of, 31, 32 
 
 Closach, the, 126 
 
 Cluain Catha, 67 
 
 1 31 
 
 Laogh 61 
 
 Maine 67 
 
 Cluancha, 65, 67 
 
 Cobhranus, St., 31 
 
 Coblentz 86 
 
 Coelbadh, son of Fergus, 121 
 
 Coemghin, Life of, 4 
 
 Coldoch 65, 68 
 
 Cole, Documents, &c., of, xiv. 
 
 Colgan, birth-place of, 67 
 
Page. 
 
 Colgan, Acta SS. cited, 10, 17, 55, 69, 72, 
 
 73, 79,82, 133 
 
 , Trias Thauni. cited, vi., xi., 5, 10, 
 
 19, 29, 31, 32, 55, 60, 67, 73, 78-80, 82, 
 84, 85, 109, 121-124, 126, 127, 133 
 
 Collation to benefices, 53, 54 
 
 Colman Ela, birtli-place of, .... 55 
 
 Colton, Primate, i.-iii., 1 
 
 . . , Constitutions of, . . xvi. 
 
 Columba, St., or ColumbluUe, his birth- 
 place, 82 
 
 , bell of, 65 
 
 , churches of, .... 29,31,67 
 
 , , College of, 46 
 
 . ., festival of, xviii. 
 
 . ., lex of, iv. 
 
 , meeshach of, 43 
 
 . , rule of, 108-112 
 
 , vestments of, 45 
 
 Columb's, St., near Derry, .... 31 
 
 Comghall, St., of Camos, 83 
 
 Comhorba. See Cuinnech, Culuinba, 
 Eoghan, Mura, Patrich, Peter. 
 
 Comhorbani, 5, 39, 116 
 
 Concise view of the Irish Society, . .126 
 
 Concubinage, xvii., 57 
 
 Congbail, meaning of, ... . 79, 1 23 
 Connaught, visitations of, ... . v.-viii. 
 
 Conwall, parish of, 79 
 
 Coolkenagh 127 
 
 Cooloslushty, 11 
 
 Cooly, 65, 122, 127 
 
 Corbe, or church agent, 116 
 
 Cormac, St., of Bodoney, 73 
 
 Cormac O'Neale, patriade 41,73 
 
 Cornelim, Epinc. Pathpotensis, . 29, 33, 35 
 
 Corr (see O' Carry), 12 
 
 Cotton, Archdeacon, Fasti cited, . 12, 91, 93 
 
 Cragfergus, castle of, 13 
 
 Craobh, Creeve, 29, 129 
 
 19 
 
 Page. 
 
 Crich-Enna-Airtich, v. 
 
 Crida, 24, 27 
 
 Cross of Raphoe, xv. 
 
 Cruciferarius 12, 13, 59 
 
 Cruthnecanus,St., 82 
 
 Cuaille Cianachta, 127 
 
 Cuaijic, meaning of, vi.-x., 79 
 
 Cuil-Maine, 67 
 
 O'Sluaisti 1 1 
 
 Culdaff, parish of, 65, 68 
 
 Cumber, parish of, 85, 86 
 
 Cumrick, 71 
 
 Curry, Mr. Eugene, services of, . 109, 119 
 
 Cutts of Coleraine, 77 
 
 Cyclopean architecture, 107 
 
 D. 
 
 Dabhal, the Blackwater, 126 
 
 Daiguirt in Moy-Dula 120,124 
 
 Deachnans, the three, 121 
 
 Deaneries, rural, how modelled, . 63, 69, 74 
 
 . See Bennagh, Imjs- 
 
 owyn, Mahya, Rathloury. 
 
 Dearg-bruach, chapel of, 31 
 
 De Burgo, Richard, 68 
 
 Dei Gratm.the sts\e, . . . 1,29,89-93 
 De-lu-Foe-Tonr, Ricardus, . . .15, 59 
 
 Derensis Civitas, 63, 66 
 
 Derg, church of, 71 
 
 Deria, fliwius de, 31 
 
 Derry, Archdeacons of, . 20, 44, 48, 59, 86 
 
 , Bishops of, . . . .xii., 1, 63, 86 
 
 , Canons of, 20, 44-46 
 
 , Cathedral of, . . 23, 24, 25, 63 
 
 , Deans of, ... 18, 19, 32, 58 
 
 , Dubh Regies (see Cella Nigra), 20 
 
 , Officials of, 18 
 
 , Rectory of, 66 
 
 , round tower of, 23 
 
 2 
 
140 
 
 Page. 
 Derry, See of, income of, . . . xiii., 86 
 
 , St. Martin's in 83 
 
 , TeanipuU-mor of, 23 
 
 , Tertia Episcopalia, 66, 71, 80, 115 
 
 Desertcreat, parish of, 55 
 
 Desertegny, parish of, 64, 67 
 
 Desertmartin, parish of, 76, 83 
 
 Desertoghill, parish of, 75, 80 
 
 De Vaines, Diet. Raison., cited, ... 2 
 
 Devolutionis Jus, xvi. 
 
 Dipopr, meaningr of 120 
 
 Disert-da-chrioch, 55 
 
 Disertegny, 64, 67 
 
 Disertmartyn, 76, 83 
 
 Disertotwachyll, 74, 80 
 
 Disert- Patrick 79 
 
 Dixsert-da-crea 55 
 
 Divina Perraissione, style, . .56, 58, 89-93 
 
 Providentia, style, ... 3, 89-93 
 
 Doihnac, meaning of, 124 
 
 Domhnach-Airthir-Arda, . . . 85, 124 
 
 Bile, 122 
 
 Breghmuige, . . . 85, 124 
 
 Caoide, 73 
 
 . Dola 120 
 
 . Glinne-Tochair, .... 67 
 
 Mescain, 120 
 
 mor-Maighe Itha, . 60, 69, 71 
 
 tochair, 67> 121 
 
 Dumhnall, or Donatus, 52 
 
 Donagh, parish of, . . . 64, 67, 97, 121 
 
 Donaghclantagb, 64, 67 
 
 Donaghedy 70, 73 
 
 Donriglimure, 60, 69, 71 
 
 Dongan, Bishop 1 
 
 Dormitorium Cells Nigra 58 
 
 Down, see of, inter Anglicos xiv. 
 
 Doionaghgede, 70, 73 
 
 Downaghiiore, 69, 71 
 
 Doyle, family of, 46 
 
 Page. 
 
 Drogheda, synod of, xvii. 
 
 Dromeraa, 70, 72 
 
 Dromogarvan, rectoria de, . . . 53, 75, 81 
 Dromore, see of, inter Hibernicos, . .xiv. 
 
 . , style of bishops of, . . . . 92 
 
 Druim Bearta, now Burt, 1 22 
 
 Ceatt, where, 133 
 
 Ineasclainn, xix. 
 
 ratha, 72 
 
 Drumachose, Drumgossa, . . 25, 39, 132 
 
 Drumogaruan 53, 75, 81 
 
 Drumlechan, Drumlane, 26 
 
 Drumragh, 20, 70, 72 
 
 Drumtarsi, or Kilowen 131, 132 
 
 Dubdubanus, St., 60 
 
 Dubh Regies. See Cella Nigra, Derry. 
 
 Du Cange, Glossary of, 9, 24 
 
 Dugdale, Monast. Anglicanum, . 93, 113 
 Dunbo, parish of, .... 77, 84, 86 
 
 Dunboo, 77, 84 
 
 Dun Ceithern, 83 
 
 Cruithne 84, 124 
 
 Dungannon, barony of, 126 
 
 Diingewyn, priuratus de, 41,73 
 
 Dungiven, whence called, 41 
 
 ■ , church of, 41 
 
 , parish of, . . . . 37,131,133 
 
 , round tower of, 41 
 
 E. 
 
 Eanegea, Ecanage, . 
 Eanga, or Termoneeny, 
 Eas Craoibhe, . . . 
 mic Eire, . . 
 
 . . 76,81,119 
 54, 74,76,81, 119 
 
 77 
 
 ... 79, 121 
 
 Ecclesiastical Revenue, Report of, 32, 70, 86 
 Enach, castle and chapel of, . . . 28, 29 
 
 Eochaidh Binnigh, 74 
 
 Eoghan, or Eugenius, St., 9 
 
 Episcopacy, primitive, traces of, . 112-115 
 
141 
 
 Page. 
 
 Episcopal tithes, 112-llG 
 
 eiiiifiifie, meaning of, 17 
 
 Errigal Adhamnain 7o, 81 
 
 Keerogue, . . . .81, l-ili, 1-J7 
 
 Erenach. See Ilereuach. 
 
 Eunan, or Onan, St 81,85 
 
 Evectiones, limited, IG 
 
 E. 
 
 F, an accidental prefix 17 
 
 Fahan, or Fathan, ... 17, 43, G4, GG 
 
 Faranycryve, barony of, 129 
 
 Faughan, the, 8G, 120 
 
 Faughanvale, 29, 31, 79, 129 
 
 Faynwor, 64, 66 
 
 Feabhail, or Foyle, .31 
 
 Feara-na-Craoibhe, 129 
 
 Feghin, St., festival of, xix. 
 
 Fer Gaura I2G 
 
 Fews, Pio&a, 127 
 
 Finanus, St., . 83 
 
 Findluganus, St., 79 
 
 Finnabhuir, 126 
 
 Fintona, Fionntamhnach, 127 
 
 Fiodhnach, Feenah, 127 
 
 Fionnlugh, St., 78 
 
 Fir Li 80, 12.5 
 
 Firnacreeva 97, 129 
 
 Fleming, Primate, register of, xv., 3, 25, 39, 
 
 72, 91 
 Floreiitins, Decaiiufi Balltpotensis, . . 30 
 
 F'ochaine, or Fochmuinne 120 
 
 Fiic/iiiyiijll 79 
 
 Fordruim, 121 
 
 Four Masters, Annals of, iii.-x., 4, 14, 17- 
 19, 23, 29, 35-37, 39, 41, 42, 46, 51, 52, 
 55, 66, 72, 73, 81, 82, 84, 93, 94, 96, 97, 
 
 120, 131 
 , omissions of, . iv., 42, 93-97 
 
 Fumy. 
 
 Page. 
 IG, 18, Gl, (19, 71 
 
 G. 
 
 Galbary, xviii. 
 
 Gaura, Fer Gaura, 126 
 
 Giant's Sconce, 83 
 
 Gibson's Codex cited, . . . S9-92, 105 
 
 Olanalee, monies de 55 
 
 Glasgow, Burgh Records of, ... . 8 
 Gleaim Aichle, or Foichle, . . . 17,55 
 
 , Concadhain, 125 
 
 , Gamhna 3, 4 
 
 Glen, C'inel Binny of the, 74 
 
 Glenelly, 55, 73 
 
 Gleiigapyn, muntes de, 3 
 
 Glenshane ^2 
 
 Glentogher, G7 
 
 Godolphin, Repertorium Canon, of, . .w. 
 
 Gort 45, I IS, ISO 
 
 Gowry, St., of Aghadowey, . . . 74, 80 
 
 Grace's Annals cited, G8 
 
 Grangen Episcopi, 8G 
 
 Grangcmore, xiii., 77. 8G 
 
 Gransha, chapel of, 31 
 
 5lieciUac, meaning of, 08 
 
 Greencastle, in Inishowen, .... 68 
 
 Grellack, Gryllach, (i5, (i8 
 
 Guaire Beg, and Mor, Saiiits, .... 80 
 Guardianship of vacant sees, . . xii.-xvi. 
 
 H. 
 
 Hardy, Tower Rolls of, cited. 
 Hare, superstitions about the, 
 Harris, Walter, an error of, 
 Henry Avrey, or Ouree, 
 
 Oge's Land, .... 
 
 Herenach, Airchinneach, 
 
 2, 13, 89 
 xviii. 
 . .119 
 . 51, 52 
 . . 12(1 
 4, IIG, 118 
 
142 
 
 Page. 
 
 Herenachs, charters of, 25, 26 
 
 lands of, 5,116 
 
 ■ Orders conferred on, . . .118 
 
 . refections paid by, 8, 63, 64, 117 
 
 rent paid by, . . . .9, 66, 1 17 
 
 rendered Magistri, .... 29 
 
 See M'Cluskey, Mugraddies, O'Bo- 
 gan,0'Carrolan, O' Demon, O'Doghie, 
 O'Harkan, O'Molgan, O'Mongan, 
 O' Morrisiion. 
 
 Hibenticos, inter xiii., 6 
 
 Holme Sodoi', 113 
 
 Hortus, cognate to oopr, 118 
 
 Huacliongbail, 79 
 
 Hy-Tuirtre 83 
 
 I. 
 
 Incheoun, Innisliowen, 68 
 
 Indiction, rules for finding the, ... 2 
 Inge, Bishop, his Meath Roll, . . 91,93 
 
 Inis-eoghain, 63, 120 
 
 InisfiiUen, Annals of, cited, . 35, 83, 85, 97 
 
 Inishowen, 63, 68, 120 
 
 , Lordship of, 21 
 
 , Rural Deanery of, . . . 63-68 
 
 Inistide, or Inis Toide 76, 83 
 
 Inquisitions, ancient, 68 
 
 , Ulster, 3, 5, 7, 10, 29, 30, 32, 
 
 45, 46, 53, 00, 73-77, 114-118, 125-136 
 Institution, ancient form of, . . . 39, 54 
 IiUer Anglk-os, IJiheridcos, . . . xiii., 6 
 
 Inysowijn, decanatiis de 63-68 
 
 lollan mac Eoghain, 61 
 
 Isle of Man, tithes in, ...... 113 
 
 .lamieson, Etymol. Dictionary of, . . 9 
 Journal, O'Mellan's, . . . 12,77,126 
 Juris Canonici Corpus, xv. 
 
 Page. 
 K. 
 
 Kappagh, Keppagh, . . 4, 7, 8, 70, 72 
 Keating, Dr., History of, . . v., 69, 126 
 Keenaght Csee Cianachta), . . . .129 
 
 Kenmore, Ricardus 61 
 
 Kilalmoyan, 69, 128 
 
 Kilhoyle, in Balteagh, 133 
 
 Kilkenny, Book of, cited 55 
 
 Killelagh, parish of, 76, 82 
 
 Killetra, 125 
 
 Kilmore, 11,25,26,115 
 
 Kilowen, parish of, 131 
 
 Kilrea, parish of, 75, 81 
 
 King, Bishop, Visitation of, ... 78, 79 
 
 King's Books cited, 55, 86 
 
 Krive, or Ureeve, 129 
 
 Kylclnjnijil, 70, 72 
 
 Kylcronechan, 76, 82 
 
 Kyllagh, 76, 82 
 
 Kylpatrkk 19, 73 
 
 Kylrei/, 75, 81 
 
 Laeghaire, ancestor of Fir Li, ... 80 
 
 Laghlina 30 
 
 Ldici potentes, 47, 50 
 
 Langechence 128 
 
 Lanigan, Church History of, . . v., 38 
 
 Lapis Patricii, 19 
 
 L'Art de Verifier les Dates, cited, . . 2 
 
 Lauc/iyll, 70, 72 
 
 Laurentius, or Lochlann 30 
 
 Leabhar Breac, quoted, 11,79 
 
 Leac Phadruic, 19 
 
 Leek, or Leckovennan, 19 
 
 Leckpatrick, 19,73 
 
 Lectio in refectione, 57 
 
 Lei, (see Fir Li), 125 
 
U3 
 
 Page. 
 
 Lemania, 126 
 
 Lex, or tribute iii. 
 
 Liher Pontificalis, .... 16,3.3, 105 
 
 Lick Patrick, ]9 
 
 Limavaddy, barony of, 129 
 
 Lochlynnagk, Nicholaus, 30 
 
 Londonderry, county of, . . . 29,125 
 
 Longfield, parish of, 70, 72 
 
 Loughinsholin, barony of, . . 21, 76, 125 
 
 Loughran, family of, 12 
 
 Luguid Mocuthemne, 61 
 
 Lurach, St., of Maghera 80,81 
 
 M. 
 
 Mac, the prefix, 36 
 
 Mac Bhlosgaidh, 49 
 
 Bryn, 25 
 
 Carthen 6", 122, 129 
 
 Cathmhaoil, 19,20 
 
 Cawel 19, 127 
 
 Pirbis, Geneal. MS. of, 18, 20, 36, 37, 
 
 39, 45, 47,51, 61, 73, 74 
 
 Giollagain 39 
 
 Giollamuire, 46 
 
 KolHgandonill 65 
 
 Lachlainn, 30, 45, 65 
 
 Mahon, Jus Primat. Armac, . v., xi. 
 
 Molissa, Primate, xiv. 
 
 Teige, 25, 39 
 
 Machaire, 81, 128 
 
 Macosquin 122 
 
 Madox, Formulare Anglicanum, . . 90, 93 
 
 Magh Bile 68, 121, 122 
 
 . . Dola, now Moyola, . . . 120,124 
 
 Maghera, parish of, ... . 70, 81, 107 
 
 Magh lomchlair, 126 
 
 . Itha, .... 17,37,50,60,69 
 
 Lemhna, 126 
 
 Li, 80 
 
 Page. 
 Magh Rath, battle of, cited, .... 21 
 
 Magilligan, p,arish of, .'39^ 73 
 
 Magraddies, the, 64 
 
 Mahya, Decanatus de, .... 69-73 
 Mansi, Concilia, cited, . . . xvi., 16, 112 
 
 Mart, meaning of, 8, 9, 131 
 
 Martene, Antiq. Eccl. Rit., . 58, 102, 105 
 
 Martin, St., 33 
 
 Marlus, g 
 
 Martyrdom, Red, White, 110 
 
 Maskell, Monumenta Ritualia of, 16, 105 
 Mason, History of St. Patrick's, . . iii., l;i 
 
 Matthew Paris cited, 16,113 
 
 Maydhylbj, 65 
 
 M'calmer, Laurentius, 45, 46 
 
 M'camaill, Willielmus 25 
 
 M'Closkey, 48, 49 
 
 M'Cullagh, Professor, birth-place, . . 55 
 
 3I'ege, Johannes, 39, 40, 45 
 
 M'geHegan, Magonius, . . . 38-40, 48 
 
 M'Ginley, M'Kinley, 46 
 
 M'glac/ilyii, Donatdus 45 
 
 M'^gloskey, Morejilia, 4y 
 
 M'Gork, Dermicius 3 
 
 M'Graa, Mattheus, .56 
 
 M'Gronoraig, Phihp 21 
 
 M'gijllebryd, Odo 22, 24, 27 
 
 M'heyg, Johannes, Odo, .... 45, 46 
 
 M'kamayll, IVilttelmus 44 
 
 Meath, style of bishops of, . . . .91,93 
 
 , Primatial Visitations of, . vii., ix. 
 
 Medocius, St., of Drumlane, . , . . 26' 
 
 Meeshach, history of the, 45 
 
 Mercator, Atlas of, 28, 68, 7 1 
 
 Meschan, St I2(i 
 
 Mey, Primate, Register of, . . 25, 63, 69 
 
 Milys, Robert, 13 
 
 Mixtum, a manual, 57 
 
 Moelan, or Moelchu, St., .... 29 
 
 Moghy, Rural Deanery of, .... 69 
 
144 
 
 65, 68, 
 
 Page. 
 
 Monastic discipline lax 57, 58 
 
 encounters, 94 
 
 Moneysterlin, 77 
 
 Montgomery, Bishop, . 47,75, 114, 117 
 
 lT1op6ail Dpoma Ceurr, 132 
 
 Moriallagh, St., 67 
 
 73 
 
 V>9 
 
 121 
 
 75 
 
 120 
 
 26 
 
 , 61 
 
 60 
 
 64 
 
 128 
 
 39 
 
 54 
 
 ,73 
 
 133 
 
 3 
 
 126 
 
 127 
 
 60 
 
 -ix. 
 
 xi. 
 
 R2 
 
 Morini, Irish apostle of the. 
 
 Mountain, the, 
 
 Moville, parish of, 
 
 Moyletraghkill, 
 
 Moyola, Magh Dola 83: 
 
 Muintirfarreallaich, 
 
 Muintirgallen, 60 
 
 Muintirgarradie, 
 
 Muintirheiles, 
 
 Muinterlooney, 51, 
 
 Muintir-Magilligan, 
 
 Muintirmollegan, 
 
 Muireagan of Bodoney, .... vii. 
 
 Mullagh, the, 82, 
 
 Mnllaghcarn 
 
 MuUaghgorra, Mulnagore, 
 
 MuUaghslewlaarge, 
 
 Mulvany, family of, 
 
 Munster, visitations of, .... vi. 
 
 tributary to St. Patrick, . . 
 
 Mura, St., of Fahan, 66, 
 
 N. 
 
 Navan, Nuachongbail 79 
 
 Neachtan, St 41 
 
 Newcastle. See Caiden nua. 
 
 Newtown Stewart, castles at 52 
 
 •Nicholas, Sir H., chronology of, . . . 2, 3 
 
 Nohoval, 79 
 
 Norlwruli 65,68 
 
 Norden, map of, cited, . . 125,128,129 
 
 Northliurgh, castle of, 68 
 
 Noruowrowe, 68 
 
 Prige. 
 
 Notaries, how licensed, 62 
 
 Nobjngham, Bobertus, 12, 59 
 
 Nuadha, abbot of Armagh, . . . v., vi. 
 
 Nurney, same as Urney, 17 
 
 Ny, the prefix, 36 
 
 O. 
 
 O, the prefix, 36 
 
 Oath, ancient form of, 44 
 
 O'Baoighill, O'Boyle, 15 
 
 O'Bogan, Finin, 69, 70 
 
 Oho^yll, Lmirencivs, 15, 60 
 
 O'Brien, Dr., Irish Dictionary of, . . 17 
 
 , Domhnall Mor, 11 
 
 Obutjll, Laurentius (see Obogyll), . . 60 
 O'Cane (see Ua Cathain), . . 9, 49, 52 
 
 O'Carrolan, family of, 61 
 
 Ocassely, Johannes, 46, 47 
 
 Ocathan, excommunicated, 50 
 
 , Dermitii, villa, . . .28, 35, 36 
 
 — , , Donaldus, 38 
 
 . . , Magunius, 36, 37, 50 
 
 , Mauritius, 46 
 
 , IVilUelmus, 44, 59 
 
 , castles of, 29, 129 
 
 , origin of name, 37 
 
 . , patria de 74 
 
 O'C'ennfaoladli 46 
 
 O'Clery, Calendar of, cited, 29,41,66,72, 
 
 78, 80, 83, 85 
 O'Conor, Dr., Rer. Hib., SS. of, . iv., 6 
 
 , of Keenaght, 37, 85 
 
 , of Magh Itha, 37 
 
 Ocornj, Muuricins, .... 12, 21, 59 
 
 O'Crilly, family of, 81 
 
 O'Deery, family of, 30, 60 
 
 O'Demon, family of, 75 
 
 Odochijrlhy, Katerina, . . 38, 40, 48, 57 
 
 , Odo 21,33,56 
 
 O'Dogherty, family of, ... . 40, 50, 65 
 
145 
 
 Page. 
 
 O'Ddghie, 65 
 
 Odoiiipnnill, 50, 74 
 
 O'Donnell, of Cinel Binny, . . 74,126 
 
 , of Tii-conell, xv., 28, 30, 50, 64 
 
 , IMagiius, his life of St. Co- 
 
 lumba cited 31,60,82,83 
 
 O'Donovan, Professor, his Battle of 
 
 Magh Rath cited, 21,30 
 
 , Book of Rights, . .110,125 
 
 , Four Masters, 4, 19, 28, 36, 38, 
 
 49, 74, 83, 84 
 
 , Irish Grammar, . . . 17, 30 
 
 O'Dugan, Topographical poem of, 37, 74 
 
 Odiiyll, Rogerus, 46 
 
 Oengus, son of Ailill, 122 
 
 O'Farreallaich 26 
 
 Ofenaghty, Symon, 38, 46 
 
 O'Fergil, or Freel, xv. 
 
 O'Finan, 61 
 
 O'Finneachta, 38 
 
 O' Flaherty, Ogygia of, .... 14,51,74 
 
 O'Gallagher, Laurence, 30 
 
 Ogarmehj, 50 
 
 O'Gornily, family of, 50,51 
 
 O'Hagan, Shane, 77 
 
 O'Hagarty, family of, 21 
 
 O'Harkan 61,65 
 
 Ohegert.y, Donaldus, 34 
 
 , Reginaldus, 21, 22 
 
 O'Henery, family of, 36,42 
 
 OHeney, St., 53, 107, 108 
 
 Okurhulun Donatus, 18, 60 
 
 , Pliilippus, 18, 60 
 
 O'Kenalad, Donald, 132 
 
 O'Kynnay, William, 118 
 
 OKyniiele, Muuriiius, 40 
 
 O'Laochtren (see O'Lucheran), . . 12 
 
 O'Looney 51, 128 
 
 O'Loughran 12 
 
 Olucheran, Nicholaus 12, 39 
 
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 Olucheran, Thomas, . . . 12, 28, 48, 59 
 
 O'Lynn, of Loughinsholin, 77 
 
 Omagh, barony of, 127 
 
 O'Maoilainbthe, 60 
 
 O'Maolagain, 54, 119 
 
 Omolgan, Dermitius, 54 
 
 O'Mollinogher, 65 
 
 O'Mongan, family of, 72 
 
 O'Morreeson, family of, .... 45, 65 
 
 O'Muirgiussain, 45 
 
 O'Mukean, Nicholas, 56 
 
 O'Mulkene, Patrick 119 
 
 Omnllanfuy, Laurentius, 60 
 
 Onan, St., or Eunan, gl 
 
 O'Neill, Art, 127 
 
 , Bernardus, 50 
 
 , Cormac, mac Felim, .... 21 
 
 , country of, . . . 41, 73 
 
 . , Dunatus ^y 
 
 , Donnell, 2I 
 
 , Uenricus, 50, 32 
 
 Opheathrach, \q 
 
 Orders, Episcopal, conferred by a single 
 
 Bishop, 122 
 
 , Holy, title for, ng 
 
 Ordnance Survey, errors in, . . . 76, 84 
 O'Reilly, Irish Dictionary of, . . . . I7 
 
 Ortelius, Maps of, 68 
 
 Oskelly, Tadeus 25 
 
 Oskullin, family of, 83 
 
 Othain, or Fathain, 17, 66 
 
 O'Tuohill, fiimily of, 80 
 
 Owna.Jilia Oconckir, 36 
 
 Pale, the, xiii., 6 
 
 Parishes in diocese of Derry 118 
 
 Parker, Archbishop, his style, .... 92 
 Parochial Survey cited, . . 42, 33, 67, 69 
 
 u 
 
146 
 
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 Patent Rolls of Henry VIII. cited, . . 8 
 
 ■ James I., 3, 7, 45, 47, 127 
 
 Patrick, St., baculus of, 113 
 
 , Canons of, cited, . . .113 
 
 , churches of, . . 67, 113, 120 
 
 > festival of, .... xviii. 
 
 . — . , Lex of, iv., v., vi. 
 
 , Tripart. Life of, v., xi., 60, 67, 
 
 84, 119, 120, 121, 123 
 
 , shrine of, vi. 
 
 , vexilla of, vi. 
 
 Patronymics, forms of, 30, 36 
 
 Permissione Diinna, 56, 89-93 
 
 Peter, comharba of, II 
 
 Petrie, Round Towers of, . . . 33, 108 
 Pinberton, Vitae Antiquae of, .... 61 
 Pontifical, Canterbury, ... 34, 100-103 
 
 . , Exeter 34, 103 
 
 , Roman 16, 34, 105 
 
 , MSS. of, in T. C. D., . . 99 
 
 , noticed by Mar- 
 
 tene, 105 
 
 Pontificalis Liber, 16, 33 
 
 Portcloney, Neale 32 
 
 Prene, Primate, Register of, xv., 12, 21, 45, 
 
 56, 61, 69 
 Providentia Divina, the style, . 3, 89-93 
 
 Q. 
 
 Quarta, Quarto, 112 
 
 Episcopalia 113, 114 
 
 Quarter, a land measure, . .64,116,130 
 QuoUykenaght, 127 
 
 R. 
 
 Raphoe, barony of, 69 
 
 , Cornelius, Bishop of, . . 29, 33 
 
 , chapter of, xv. 
 
 Page. 
 
 Raphoe, cross of, xv. 
 
 , Deans of, xv., 30 
 
 , see of, custody of, . . . xiv., xv. 
 
 , Tertia Episcopalia in, . . .115 
 
 Rath, castle of, 13 
 
 Rathbresail, synod of, 127 
 
 Rathloiiry, 76, 81 
 
 Rural Deanery of, ... 74 
 
 Reconciliation of churches. 16, 32, 42, 99, 
 
 100-105 
 
 Rectories, by whom held, 118 
 
 Reeves, Eccles. Antiq. of, 13, 13. 36, 46, 47, 
 
 49, 86, 90, 91, 125, 132 
 
 Refections in diocese of Derry, . 63, 1 1 7 
 
 Raphoe, . . .118 
 
 Rellick, in Balteagh, 133 
 
 TJiap, meaning of, .... iii.-v., vii.-x. 
 
 Riez, council of. xvi. 
 
 Ringan, St 85 
 
 Ripperstown, or Balsoon 13 
 
 Ro, church of, 25, 39, 132 
 
 Roa, the river, 133 
 
 Roe Park, ubi Druimceatt, . . . .133 
 
 Rome, Ireland tributary to 11 
 
 Ronan, St., of Drumiskin xix. 
 
 Round Towers. See Derry. Dungwen, 
 Tamlaghtfinlagan. 
 
 , position of 108 
 
 , use of 98 
 
 Rule of St. Columbkille, . . . 108-112 
 
 S. 
 
 Sal, cineres, aqua, et viimm, . . 16, 101 
 
 Sampson, Rev. G. V., Memoir by, . . 42 
 
 Sanctuary, the 71 
 
 Sandale, Johannes, 15, 59 
 
 Scotice, i. e., Hibernice 83 
 
 Serin Coluimcille, 82 
 
 de Ardo, 78 
 
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 Page. 
 
 Sedna, son of Drona, 124 
 
 Selden, works of, cited, 89, 93 
 
 Sessiagh, a measure 70, 130 
 
 Sgi-yn, harony of, 129 
 
 Shra-IiiishnagarJy 70 
 
 SiglUum Commune, 22, 34 
 
 Skirts of Urney, parish of, 71 
 
 Skreen, churches of, 78, 82, 84 
 
 Slaghtmanus 82 
 
 Slaghtneill, 82 
 
 Sliabh Breag, Slieve Brey, 127 
 
 Larga, Slieve Largy, 127 
 
 Snechta, Slieve Siiaght, . . . .121 
 
 Truim, Bessy Bell 128 
 
 Slioeht Airt 127 
 
 Enri 32 
 
 SlutDonagh, 129 
 
 Gorra, 128 
 
 William Doe, 65 
 
 Spalding Club, puhlication of, , . 8, 81 
 Speed, theatre of, . . . 28,123,120,120 
 Spelman, Glossarium, G, 13, 25, 26, 39. 91 
 
 Spiritnalilatis custodia, xv. , 6 
 
 Sponsalia, 37 
 
 Stations held at Donagh 67 
 
 Strabaiie, barotiy of, 128 
 
 Styles, Episcopal, 89-93 
 
 Swayne, Primate, Register of, xvi., 13, 15, 
 
 18, 26, 32, 38, 41, 45, 47, 49, 34, 61, 69, 
 
 74, 76. 90, 91, 118, 119 
 
 Sweetman, Primate, Register of, xv., 23, 39 
 
 Sygowry, in Aghadowey, 74 
 
 T. 
 
 Tachnegomeryh, Tagnegomeryk, . . 69,71 
 
 Taghcumrick, 70 
 
 Talbot, Thomas, 14, 39 
 
 Tall, the river 126 
 
 Tamhlacht-Fionnlugha, 78 
 
 P<igp. 
 
 Tamlaght 12,81,84,123 
 
 Ard xiii.,77. 84 
 
 ■■ Drumagarvan 53, 75 
 
 Fiiilagan, 20, 78 
 
 Killietragh, 125 
 
 . O'Crilly, 53,75,81 
 
 Tate, a land measure, 130 
 
 Tawlag/itard 77 
 
 Tawlaghtinlan, 78 
 
 Taielaght M'tiinagh 73, 81 
 
 Taxation, ecclesiastical 114, 132 
 
 Teach-na-coimirce, 71 
 
 Teachrana, 23 
 
 Teampul-mor, of Derry 23 
 
 Tearmon Ui Mhaoin, 72 
 
 Templearregall 75 
 
 Templedisert 75 
 
 Temple- Douglas, 82 
 
 Templeraore 23 
 
 , Ordnance memoir of, 19, 23,30, 
 
 48, 118 
 Templemoyle in Banagher, . . 53, 107 
 
 alian Grellach, .... 68 
 
 Temporahtatis custodia, . . . xii.-xv., 6 
 
 Termon 3 
 
 Termon-land 5 
 
 . — . of Aghadowey, .... 74 
 
 Anv, 81 
 
 Conny, 132 
 
 . Conyn 3 
 
 . Eeny, 74,76,81 
 
 Fechin xix., 118 
 
 . Maguirk 3, 127 
 
 . O'Meen 72 
 
 O'Mungan, 70, 72 
 
 Rock 3 
 
 Tertia Episcopalia, . .66,71,80,112-117 
 Tighernach, Annals of, . . iv., v., .35, 39 
 
 Tipra Patraic, 1 24 
 
 Tir-Aodha, GO 
 
148 
 
 Tir Chaerthainn, 129 
 
 da-glas, conference at, v. 
 
 — Enda Airtich, 1-23 
 
 — Eoghain. See Ciiiel Eoghain. 
 
 . of the Island 120 
 
 — Kane, 76. 82 
 
 Keerin, barony of, 29, 129 
 
 — inic Carthainn, 54 
 
 _ Nony 70, 82 
 
 — Omna Snitliine, vi. 
 
 Tithes, ancient division of, 66, 112-115, 119 
 Todd, Rev. Dr., MSS. procured by, . 109 
 
 Toghernegormerkie, 69 
 
 Toghill, f^imily of, 80 
 
 Tollagh, the 125 
 
 Townaghglyntachyr, 64, 67 
 
 Townland, extent of a, .... 29,130 
 Traigli-brege, or Trawbreaga, . . .121 
 
 Trianranriertagh, 128 
 
 Trihunale, . . . , 25, 42 
 
 Tuaith-Ros, Cinel-Binny of, .... 74 
 Tuam, Quarter Episcopals in, ... 1 14 
 
 Tulach Dubhglaisse, 82 
 
 Liag, 123, 124 
 
 Og, Cinel Binny of, .... 74 
 
 TuUagh, a measure, 130 
 
 Tullaghoge, deanery of, 55 
 
 , officials of, -0, 55 
 
 Tullanagawnagh, ■i 
 
 Tullyfern, herenach of, 54 
 
 Tullykeeran, 76,82 
 
 Twynha, or Tynan, 25 
 
 Tylag/wg, decanatns de, . . . , . 55 
 
 Tyrchyrine, 129 
 
 Tyrone, extent of, . . 29, 63, 115, 125-130 
 
 u. 
 
 Ua Annoc, 
 Branagain, 
 
 11 
 
 Gl 
 
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 Ua Brolehain 23 
 
 _ Caireallain, 18, 61 
 
 — Cathain.Cumaighe, 37 
 
 , Maghnus, 37 
 
 , Raghnall, 36 
 
 — , collateral tribes of, . . . 37 
 
 — Ceallaich, 61 
 
 — Cearbhallain, 18, 61 
 
 — Cellchin II 
 
 — Conchabhair 36 
 
 — Criochain 10 
 
 — Cruadhlaoich, 81 
 
 _ Doireidh 60 
 
 — Dubhdhiorma, 121 
 
 _ Dubhghaill 4(! 
 
 — Duibhne, 61 
 
 — Finain, 61 
 
 — Forannain, 10 
 
 — Gairmleadhaigh 50 
 
 — GioUagain, or Giollain 39 
 
 — Gleasain 11 
 
 _ Golain, 61 
 
 — hAinnearraidh 36, 42 
 
 — hEarchoraais, 61 
 
 . — hEigceartaigh 21 
 
 — Lachlainn 23, 45 
 
 — Mannain, 61 
 
 — Maolagain, 54, 119 
 
 — Muireadhaigh 41 
 
 Muirghiusain, 45 
 
 — Suanaigh iv. 
 
 — Suibhne, 61 
 
 _ Thuathghaile, 80 
 
 _ Uidhir, 61 
 
 Ui Briuin 126 
 
 — Caracain, 126 
 
 Fiachrach of Ardstraw, . . 10,128 
 
 _ Tuirtre 80, 126 
 
 Ulf, family of, 15 
 
 Ulmus, or leatii 72 
 
149 
 
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 Ulster, Annals of, . iv., 4, 35, 42, 83, 94-97 
 
 , Earl of, possessions of, . . . 68 
 
 , See InquUiliuns, Visitation. 
 
 Uiuan vel forte Vinum, 11 
 
 Urnaidhe, 17 
 
 Urney, parish of, . . . . 10,17,18,71 
 Ussher, Archbishop, works of, 6, 9, 10, 25, 
 
 26,30, 61, 74 
 
 Vallancey, Collectanea of, 
 Vallis Hoichle, . . . 
 Van Espen, works of. 
 Verba de presenti, 
 
 Vigilia 
 
 Villa Dennitii Ocathan, 
 Villanueva, Opuscula S. Patricii, 
 
 1, li 
 
 6, 9, 26 
 . . 55 
 
 xvi., 38 
 
 . . 37 
 
 21, 40, 49 
 
 . 28, 35 
 
 . . 114 
 
 Villa Riparii, or Balsoon, 13 
 
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 Visitation, Ulster, cited, . . 63, 69, 74 
 
 , Roll of Derry, of 1337, . . six. 
 
 Visitations, episcopal 8. 117 
 
 > metropolitan, . . . . x., xi. 
 
 , Origin of, iii.-x. 
 
 Vivianus, Cardinal, 1 1 
 
 W. 
 
 Ware, Sir J., MSS. of, . . . xii., 30, 116 
 
 , Works, x.-xv., 30, 81, 91, 119 
 
 Waspail, Roger, 13 
 
 Waspayn, Ricardus, 13, 59 
 
 Westpalstown, parish of, 13 
 
 White, Johannes, 15 
 
 IVhyte, Ricardiis, . . . . 14, 13, 59 
 Witches transformed to hares, . . xvii. 
 IVolf, Juhannes, 13, 59 
 
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