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Down, and his first convert was the chieftain Dicho, near his 

 own threshing floor. The parish of Saul,* from Sabbal- 

 patrick (tlie barn of P.) perpetuates the name. It was pro- 

 bably on his voyage down the channel that he touched at the 

 Isle of Man, sometimes called /www-patrick, and founded the 

 church of ^eV^-patrick, near Peel, not far from Port Erin. 

 Passing from Saul, he made converts at Temple-'p&tnck, near 

 the modern Belfast; and passing southwards, destroyed the 

 two principal idols, at the modern Fenagh, in Leitrim. He 

 was seven years on the Connaught mission, and during that 

 time preached from CroaffA-Vairick (the mountain of P.) 

 in Mayo, where tradition says, " he drove the frogst into the 

 bogs,'' &c.; in an island of Lough Dearg, is St. Patrick P«r^a- 

 tory, Donegal; in East Meath he founded the Abbey called Bom- 

 nack-Vudraig (P.'s house) ; and on the site of the present St. 

 Patrick's catkedral, Dublin, he built a church, " and on it 

 placed a steeple." In Leinster there is the 2)ozV^-Phadraic 

 (P.'s wood) ; at Cashel, St. Patrick's Rock ; at Limerick, Ard- 

 patrick (the hill of P.) ; St. Patrick's paruh on the Shannon ; 

 and the town of Patrick's-w?^//, where he produced a miracu- 

 lous spring. Dying at Saul, on the 17th of March, 493, in 

 the 121st year of his age, he was interred at i><w«- patrick J 

 (the hill of P.) in the county Down. 



One important reason for the change of names, is the con- 

 stant tendency to contraction. People are not satisfied with 

 expressing their ideas, they must express them with despatch ; 



* " Then the holy Prelate founded the aforesaid church in that place, and it stands 

 across from north to south, answerable to the position of (lie aforesaid Zabul, the 

 which place is to this day from tlie name of the church in Scottish [i.e. IkishI 

 tongue culled Zabbul Padrig, that is Patrick Zahhul or Patrick's bam." — Moxa^. 



HiBERN. 



+ The tradition and the ballad are both in error. Frogs never existed in Ireland 

 till the time of William III, when it is said they were introduced by a private soldier. 

 In the reign of Charles II, some Fellows of the Royal Society of Ix)ndun, were uq< 

 successful in a similar attempt. 



X " Hi tres in Duno, tumulo tumuIanUir in uno. 

 Brigida, Patricius, atque Cdlnmba pins." 



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