152 Mr. PETEIE'S Inquiry into the Origin and 



" A. D. 1 125. h-i qumc ID. Gnaip pop Qomoe ; ip more cuapccbao a Bumne oiom pop m 

 tJaiiriliacc IDop Qpoamacha, lap n-a lam-eajap oo plmoib la Ceallach, comapba pacpaic, 

 ip in cpichacrhao bliaoam ap ceo o n-a paibe plinn coriilan paip co pin." Ann. Quat. Mag. 



Thus translated by Dr. O'Conor : 



"A. D. 1125. Quinto Id. Januarii operimentum factum et tectum integrum factum supra 

 Ecclesiam Cathedralem lapideam magnam Ardmachanam, postea totum tegulis coopertum a Celso 

 Vicario Patricii, in trigesirno anno supra centesimum ex quo non fuit tegulis opertum totum usque 

 ad id." 



And thus by Colgan : 



" A. D. 1 125. Quinto Idus lanuarij tegulis integre contecta fy restaurata est Ecclesia Cathedralis 

 Ardmachana per Sanctum Celsum Archiepiscopum ; postquam per annos centum triginta non nisi ex 

 parte fttisset contecta." Trias Thaum. p. 300. 



The last notice of the ancient churches of Armagh in the Annals of the Four 

 Masters occurs at the year 1179, which I here give with Colgan's translation : 



" A. D. 1179. Qpomaca DO lopccao ercip retnplaib 7 peclepaiB, ace Reclep 6piccoe 7 

 Cempull na B-peapra nama." 



" A. D. 1178 [1179]. Armacha cum Ecclesijs & Sanctuarijs incendio exusta, praeter sanctua- 

 rium Sancti [SanctEe] Brigidae fy templum na ferta (id est, miraeulorum) appellatum." Trias 

 Thaum. p. 310. 



From the preceding notices the following conclusions may, I think, be con- 

 sidered as now established. First, that the Irish, when writing in their own 

 language, applied to their stone churches not only the term damhliag, which 

 expresses the material of which they were formed, but also the terms cill, tern- 

 pull, regies, and eclais, words obviously derived from the Latin; and that when 

 noticing these churches in the Latin language they designate them by the terms 

 ecclesia, templum, and basilica: and hence, that no inference can be fairly 

 drawn, that the churches designated by any other appellation than damhliag 

 were not stone buildings. This, I must repeat, is an important conclusion to 

 bear in mind, because, as I have already stated, almost the entire of our ancient 

 ecclesiastical history, being written in Latin, affords us but incidental evidences 

 as to the materials used in the construction of the churches ; and the Irish 

 annalists who furnish evidence as to their material by the use of the term 

 damhliag, or stone church, only, as I have shown, commence their notices of 

 these structures when they were subjected to the devastations of the Northmen 

 in the ninth century. 



