166 Mr. PETRIE'S Inquiry into the Origin and 



" Cpuimthep t-ujnai (.1. oalca pacpaig 7 mac a pethap) in pechcmao mac in 6uipo, oc 

 Pepcaib Cipe peic, pop C-och TTlepccha." 



" Cruimther Lugnai (i. e. the foster-son of Patrick and son of his sister) icas the seventh son of 

 the Bard, and located at Ferta of Tir Feic, on Lough Mask." 



And all the ancient martyrologies and genealogies of the Irish saints name 

 these seven sons of the Lombard in the following order : 1. Sechnall, or Secun- 

 dinus, a bishop ; 2. Nechtan, a bishop ; 3. Dabonna, a saint ; 4. Mogornan, a 

 saint ; 5. Darioc, a saint ; 6. Auxilius, a bishop ; 7- Lugnat, a saint. 



In like manner the ancient Martyrologies state that the mother of these sons 

 of the Lombard was Liemania, the daughter of Calphurnins, and sister of St. 

 Patrick. Thus St. Aengus, in his Calendar, as translated by Colgan, in noting 

 the festival of St. Nechtan at the second of May, writes : 



" Liemania filia Calphurni, soror S. Patricii, fuit mater S. Nectani de Kill-vnche ; qui & dicitur 

 Mac-lemhna, id est, films Liemaniae ; estque qui jacet in Finnauair-abha, ad ripam Boandi." 

 Trias Thaum. p. 227, col. 1. 



The Calendar of Cashel and that of Marian Gorman record the festival of Nechtan 

 in nearly the same words ; and also, in recording the festival of St. Sechnall, or 

 Secundinus, at the 2?th of November, call him the son of Liemania, the sister 

 of St. Patrick, as thus translated by Colgan : 



" S. Secundinus films LiemaniaB sororis S. Patricij, & Eestitutus pater eius. Colitur in Dom- 

 nach-Sechnaill : estque de Longobardis, & Finus nomen eius ibi. Marianas Gormanus ad eundem 

 diem ; Sechnaldus Magnus films Huabaird, de Domnach-Sechnaild in Australi regione Bregiorum, 

 est de Longobardis oriundus ; & Secundinus nomen eius (nempe Latimtm) eiusque mater fuit Lie- 

 mania soror S. Patricij eratque Primas Ardmachanus. Martyrologium Dungalleme eodem die. S. 

 Sechnaldus, id est Secundinus Primas Ardmachanus, filius Liemaniee Sororis S. Patricij : & in 

 Domnach-Sechnaild in regione Bregarum est eius Ecclesia : & ipse de Longobardis oriundus est." 

 Trias Thaum. p. 226, col. 2. 



To the preceding authorities I may add that of the Annals of Connaught at 

 the year 466, as quoted by Ussher, Primordia, p. 825, that the wife of Eesti- 

 tutus, the Lombard, is called the sister of St. Patrick, and named Culmana. 

 But this form of the name, as Colgan observes, is evidently an error for Lieman, 

 and, he might have added, an error easily committed, by joining the final c in 

 mace to Liemain, in the passage which records the death of her son Sechnall. 



These evidences will, I trust, be considered sufficient, without adducing, as 



