Uses of the Round Towers of Ireland, fyc. 147 



fredum nepotem Imari, cum suo exercitu, i. e. die Sabbati ante festivitatem S. Martini, et protexit 

 domos orationis, cum suis Colideis, et Leprosis, et Ecclesiam similiter, nisi paucis in ea tectis ex- 

 ustis per incuriam." 



In the next entry, which occurs at the year 995, and records the conflagration 

 of the churches and other buildings of Armagh by lightning, the churches are 

 called damhliags, or stone buildings, by all the annalists. See the whole of the 

 original authorities, and old translations of them, given in the preceding part of 

 this work, pp. 53 to 56. 



At the year 1010 the great church of Armagh is mentioned by the FOTIT 

 Masters under the name of Domhliacc mhor, or great stone-church, in the fol- 

 lowing passage, to which I add Colgan's translation : 



"A. D. 1010. ITluipeoach, mac Cpiochdin, coriiapba Colaim cille, 7 Goctmnam, paoi, 7 

 eppcop, 7 mac oicche, pepleijmc Qpoamacha, 7 uobap comapba pucpaicc, o'ecc lapp an 

 cerparhao bliaoam peaccmooac a aoipe, a u. Kl. lanuapi, aioche Sachaipn uo ponnpao, 7 po 

 h-aonaiceo co n-onoip, 7 50 n-aiprhicin if in tDomliacc mop i n-Gpomacha, ap belaib nu 

 h-ultopa." 



" A. D. 1010. Sanctus Muredacius filius Cricfiani, Comorbanus Sancti Columbce, fy Sancti Adam- 

 na.ni, Doctor eximius, Episcopus, Virgo, seu vir castissimus, Lector Theologies Ardmachanus, 8f futurus 

 Comorbcmus 8. Patricij, (id est Archiepiscopus Ardmachanus) anno cetatis septuagesimo quarto, quinlo 

 Calendas lanuarij, ipsa node sabbalina, quieuit in Domino: Sf Ardmaclice in maiori Ecclesia ante 

 summum altare, cum mat/no honors Sf solemnitate sepultus est." Trias Thawn, pp. 297, 298. 



The record which next follows is of greater value than any hitherto 

 cited, as the annalists present us with the names of the different churches 

 which were burned, and call them all damhliags, or stone churches. It occurs 

 in all the Annals at the year 1020; and, as it is of great importance to this In- 

 quiry, inasmuch as it refers to stone churches, which, as I shall hereafter show, 

 were founded in St. Patrick's time, I shall give the various readings found in 

 the different Annals, and also the translations hitherto made of them. The 

 most ancient authority in which it occurs is the Annals of Tighernach, in which 

 it runs as follows : 



" A. D. 1020. Opomaca DO loj-cao a c. Kl. TTlai, co n-a oepngib gile cenmora in ceach 

 pcpepcpa nama, 7 po loipc illcijje ip na cpenaib, 7 in tDumliaj mop, 7 in cloicccech co n-a 

 clojjaib, 7 XDamliaj na Coja, 7 tDamliajj in c-Sabuill, 7 in cachaip ppoicepca, 7 imao oip 7 

 apjair, 7 per apcena." 



Thus translated by Dr. O'Conor : 



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