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tainly, of these, the name Hibernicius, as applied to a Gaul, might well create a 

 doubt of the truth of the whole statement : but this doubt is removed by the 

 Annotations of Tirechan in the Book of Armagh, in which these three names are 

 written Inaepius, Bernicius, and Hernicius, so that Colgan's form of the name must 

 be either an error of his own, or of the transcriber of the manuscript which he 

 used. Respecting these Gauls, or Franks, Colgan remarks, that he has found no 

 notice of them elsewhere, unless they be, as would seem most probable, the holy 

 Gauls, or Franks, invoked in the Litany of Aengus as of Saliduic, Magh Salach, 

 and Achadh Ginain, and it is extremely probable that the Gauls distributed by 

 St. Patrick in the western regions of Connaught are here invoked. Seeing then 

 that Gauls were left in this district at so early a period, we have next to inquire 

 whether there was among them one named Lugnat, or Lugnadan, for the names 

 are the same, the termination an, as Colgan shows, being a diminutive usually 

 added to proper names, and particularly to those of ecclesiastics. It is remark- 

 able then, that throughout the whole of our ecclesiastical histories only one saint 

 of this name is found mentioned; and that this saint is stated, not only to have been 

 a cotemporary of St. Patrick, but, by several ancient authorities, to have been 

 also his nephew. It should be further observed, that the locality, in which the 

 church of St. Lugnat was placed, is Lough Mask, in the immediate neighbour- 

 hood of the island of Inchaguile, and that on the shore of this lake the most 

 ancient church of the district still remains! In an ancient list of the house- 

 hold or followers of St. Patrick, preserved in the Book of Lecan, fol. 43, a, and 

 in the Book of Ballymote, fol. 117, b, as also in Evin's Life of St. Patrick, and 

 in a poem of Flann of the Monastery, St. Lugna, or Lugnath, is set down as the 

 luamaire, or pilot, of St. Patrick, as in the following lines of the poem : 



" 6pojan pcpibmbe a pcoile, 



Cpuimdiep f-ujna a luamaipe." 

 " Brogan the scribe of his school, 



Cruimther Lugna his pilot." 



I have next to remark that the most ancient authorities, which make mention 

 of Lugnat, concur in stating that he was one of the seven sons of the Bard, or 

 Lombard, as in Duald Mac Firbis's Compilation of Ancient Genealogies, and 

 that most of those authorities state that these seven sons of the Lombard were 

 St. Patrick's nephews, as in the following passage in the Leabhar Breac, fol. 9, a. 



