100 Mr. Petrie on the History and Antiquities of Tara Hill. 



Hip boi n6o caich ace * * 



Co pipoD a lepp. 



Sechc coecac jxincc fpucheppcoip 



Ro hopone in cao, 



1mm cpi cec cpuimchep n-65 



poppa popmaij ^poo. 



Cpi cec apjicpech po pcpib, 



6a bil lib a lam'. 



Sechc cec cell coin conacaib, [conpajaiB] 



tDop nocaib 00 lap. 



Re popbanupcaip cpa pacpaic a pich 

 m-buaoa ipin ^x.amao bliaoain pop ceo a 

 aipe .1. I mbliaoain vii. xx. p. Kl. 6naip 

 pop Qine, ocup cec bliaoain pop bipex.a, 

 111 xvi. imuppo ^.ne Qppil na bliaona pm 

 pop Cecain, ocup xiii. puippi. Ip ann do 

 pala ecpechc pacpaic ITlic Qlpuipn .1. ipin 

 oechmao bliaoain placha ^ugoach IDic 

 Coejaipe, ocup ipin nomao bliaoain oec 

 abboaine Copmaic, Comopba pacpaic ; 

 ocup ip e pin cecna abb oo coio 1 cachaip 

 Pacpaic ; ocup ip I qiepp bliaoain placha 

 Gchach, Tllic Qenjupa, pij Caipil, ocup 

 placha piachna Cumo, ITlic Coelbaio, pig 

 t)al n-Qpaioe, ocup placha ITlaine, FTlic 



He never expended * * 



Until it should be required. 



Seven times fifty saintly senior bishops 



This saint ordained, 



With three hundred pure priests, 



On whom he bestowed dignity. 



Three hundred alphabets he wrote. 



Good was the coloring of his hand. 



Seven hundred holy churches he left, 



Which he raised from the ground. 

 Patrick finished his victorious course in the 

 one hundred and twentieth year of his age,^ that is, 

 on the 27th year [of the solar cycle] the Calends 

 of January on Friday, the first year after the bisex- 

 tile, on the 16th of the Calends of April, which in 

 that year fell on Wednesday, the 13th [of the 

 moon].'" The death of Patrick, the son of Alphurn, 

 \Tccle Calphurn,] occurred in the tenth year of 

 the reign of Lughaidh," the son of Loeghaire, 

 and in the ninth year of the abbacy of Cormac, 

 Coarb of Patrick,"' the first abbot who went in 

 Patrick's chair, and in the third year of the reign 

 of Eochaidh, the son of Aengus, King of Cashel," 

 and of the reign of Fiachna Lonn, son of Coelbadh, 

 King of Dalaradia,'* and of the reign of Maine, 



" This agrees with the calculation that he was sixty years old when he arrived in Ireland in 432, and that he preached 

 for sixty years more. 



'° .'According to Sir W. K. Hamilton, all these astronomical definitives agree with the year 493, except 27 for the 

 solar cycle, which, to agree with the Calends of January on Friday, should be 2G. The error probably originated with 

 the transcriber. See Lanigan, vol. i. p. 131, and Ussher, Primordia, p. 882. The Book of Baltymote states that Patrick 

 was born, baptized, and died on Wednesdays — " Cpi cecafne pacpaic, Q jein, a Bacaip, a Bap." 



" According to the Annals of Ulster, which reckon the year of Christ from his conception, not his birth, Lughaidh 

 succeeded Oilioll Molt in 484, but correctly, according to O'Flaherty, in 483. Consequently the tenth year of Lughaidh 

 would be the four hundred and ninety-third from the birth of Christ. 



" Cormac is called Bishop of Armagh, and the heir, i. e. coarb or successor of Patrick, in the Annals of Ulster, in 

 which his death is recorded at the year 496. He is called Episcopus and Coarb of Patrick by Tighearnach, who places 

 his death in 497. He succeeded larlath, who died, according to the Annals of Ulster, in 481, which, as Dr. O'Conor 

 proves, should be 483, and therefore the ninth year of his abbacy (or episcopacy) would be 492. 



" According to the Annals of Tighearnach Aengus Mac Nadfraich was killed in 490. The third year of the reign 

 of his son and immediate successor would, therefore, be 493. 



" Not recorded by Tighearnach. He is, however, mentioned by the Four Masters as King of Dalaradia, at the 

 year 478. 



