Uses of the Round Towers of Ireland, fyc. . 155 



Episcopos et Sacerdotes, et cujusvis ordinis Clericos similiter, postquam consecrasset Ecclesias et 

 Coemeteria plurima, postquam perfecisset omnia munera Ecclesiastica ubique in Hibernia, post 

 oblatas res pretiosas et cibaria potentibus et pauperibus, post tecta imposita Ecclesiis et Monas- 

 teriis, nam per ipsum renovates sunt in Hibernia, post ejus reditum e locis transmarinis, omnes 

 Ecclesise quse derelicts erant in ruinam et in desolationem, postquam statuisset omnes regulas et 

 omnes leges morum in Ecclesia Hibernica similiter, secunda fungens Legatione, postquam fuisset 

 quatuordecim annis in Primatu, post quinquagesimum quartum annum eetatis suse, reddidit spiri- 

 tum coelo, 2da die Novembris, et eo die celebrat Ecclesia ejus felicem migrationem, et Solemnitas 

 S. Malachiaj tertio die celebratur, nam transfertur a Religiosis a die festo omnium Defunctorum ad 

 diem sequentem, ut possit celebrari more solemni et honorifico, et sepultus est in Monasterio S. 

 Bernardi Clarevallse in Francia, cum honore et reverentia." 



And thus more correctly by Colgan, as marked in small capitals : 



"A. D. 1148. S. Malachias Hua More/air, Archiepiscopus olim Ardmachanus, Occidentalis Eu- 

 ropce Legatus Apostolicus, cuius arbitrio Sf monitis Hiberni Sf Nortmanni acquiescebant, vir nulli 

 sapientia 8f religione secundus, lucerna lucens, $ Clerum populumq; sacris operibus Sf concionibus 

 Uluminans ; Pastor fidelis Ecclesice Dei ; post Episcopos, Prcesbyteros, aliosq; diuersorurn graduum $ 

 ordinum Clericos, ordinatos ; post Ecclesias multas, Sanctuaria, $ Monasteria consecrata ; post multos 

 labores 4" diuersa munia Ecclesiastica per vniuersam Hiberniam pie exercita; post multas eleemosynas, 

 4~ pias elargitiones in vsuspauperum fy egenorum impensas ; post diuersas Ecclesias Sf Monasteria par- 

 tim erecta, partim restaurata (in more enim habuit Ecclesias, DIU ANTE NEGLECTAS & DIRUTAS denuo 

 reparare 4* recedificare;) post multas Canonicas constitutions Ecclesiastica; disciplince reformationem, 

 8y Cleri mores hi melius commutandos, concernentes, pie sancitas, anno decimo quarto sui Primatus, 

 cetatis quinquagesimo quarto secunda iam vice Legati Apostolici munere functus, spiritum ccelo reddi- 

 dit die secunda Nouembris in Monasterio ClareuaUensi in Francia; ibidem cum magna solemnitate, fy 

 honore sepultus. Quia tamen commemoratio omnium fidelium defunctorum eo die celebratur ; festum 

 eius quo commodius Sf solemnius celebrari posset translatum est in diem sequentem." Trias Thaum. 

 p. 305. 



Having now, as I trust, satisfied the reader that the churches at Armagh 

 were built of stone and lime cement as early as the middle of the ninth century, 

 I proceed to my next and final conclusion. 



Thirdly, that there is every reason to believe that the stone churches already 

 shown to have existed in the ninth century, were the very churches erected in 

 St. Patrick's time, or shortly after. This, I think, will sufficiently appear from 

 the following evidences, and first, with respect to the Cathedral, or Damhliag 

 Mor. The erection of a cathedral church at Armagh is recorded by all the Irish 

 annalists, as well as by the most ancient authors of the Lives of St. Patrick, at 

 the year 444, or 445, and its measurement in length is thus given in the Tri- 



x 2 



