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burned Moville in the same county, and all its sacred edifices, (" cum 

 suis sacris aedibus.")* In 830 Duleek Abbey was plundered by 

 them.-f In 831 Rathmuighe and its monastery sustained the same 

 fate.j: In 832 they dreadfully wasted Armagh, carried away the 

 relics and treasures, and obliged the abbot to seek shelter in Munster, 

 In the same year they spoiled and burned Clondalkin, (county Dub- 

 lin,) and plundered Clonemore, (county Wexford.) In 833 they 

 despoiled Glendaloch,§ Slane, and Clonmacnois.il Iniskeltair (county 

 Clare) was ravaged and burned by this lawless people, as also the isle 

 and abbey of Devenish in the same year, and subsequently in 842.** 

 In 835 they burned Kildare and Iniscattery.-f -|- — In this last year an 

 eftbrt was made to establish in Connaught what was called the law of 

 Saint Patrick, JJ being certain dues payable by pre-eminence to the 

 see of Armagh, as will be hereafter mentioned, (see post, sect. 3 of 

 this Period.) 



In 836 two fleets of Normans arrived, one in the Boyne, and ano- 

 ther in the LifFey, who, in their depredations exceeded even the rapa- 

 city of the Danes, carrying off shrines, herds, and captives, from every 

 quarter,§§ until their precursors, in the work of desolation, feeling as 

 if they alone had a prescriptive right in its continuance, for once 

 united with the unfortunate natives against these intruders, and ulti- 

 mately drove them from the island. In 839 the Danes resumed their 

 depredations, burned Armagh and all its sacred edifices, llll as also 



* Acta Sanctorum, p. 650. t Tr. Thaum. p. 633. 



X Acta Sanctorum, p. 378. § Trias Thaum. p. 668. 



II Annal. Ulton. ** Mc Geogh. vol. 1. p. 380. 



ft Archd. Mon. Hib. 



XX "Diermitius sede pulsus profectus est in Connaciam, causa legis Sancti Patricii ibi sta- 

 biliendae."— Trias Thaum. p. 295. 

 §§ See Annals of the Four Masters. 



|lll"Ard.macha civitas cum omnibus sacris aedibus incendio vaetata."— Trias Thaum. 

 p. 295. 



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