Mr. Petsie on the History and Antiquities of Tara Hill. 



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JHocliiiano principe. Sechc m-bliaona lap 

 pin cepcompac SenaiD Nece .i. viii, n-apo. 

 eppcoip x, ap ccc. ipin oail pin. Cpicha bli- 

 aoain lap pin co herpechc CLnnrom manaig. 

 Sechc mbliaona x. lap pin co bap helaip 

 ©ppcoip piccaue. F«i. m-bliaona lap pin 

 CO ecpechc n-Qmbpoip. Noi mbliaona 

 X. lap pin CO ecpechc TTlapcain. t)a bliaoain 

 lap pm CO jabal Gppcopoioi do Qujupcln 

 in hipone in-Qppaic. V. bliaona xx. lap 

 pin CO bup Clujupcin. t)ech m-bliaona o 

 bap Qujupcinco po -pomex) Palladius a Papa 

 Celestino co popcela Iqip do pacpaic Dia 

 ppoicepc DO Scocaib. Ip pi ino pin in oen- 

 mao bliaoam ap cccc. o chpoich Cpipc ; mao 



choip Domain, ic oa bliaoain xxx. ap 

 cccccc. op V. riiile. Ip in bliaoain lap pin do 

 Decha pacpaic do ppoicepc do cum n-Gpeno. 

 Equus et Valerianus v>a immpip na bliaona 

 pin. Ip m bliaoain pin pop [jab] Xipcip aip- 

 chinoechc'Roma i n-oejaioCaelipcine. Iphi 

 pin jm. bliaoain plachaCoejaipe ITlic Weill 



1 Cemaip. 5a heppioe in cpep pig x. po 



ninth persecution under the Emperor Dioclesian.^ 

 Seven years after that the assembling of the Synod 

 of Nice," at which three hundred and eighteen 

 archbishops were present. Thirty years after that 

 to the death of Anthony the monk.*" Seventeen 

 years from that to the death af Hilary,'" Bishop of 

 Pictavia. Seven years from that to the death of 

 Ambrose.'* Nineteen years from that to the 

 death of Martin." Two years from that until 

 Augustin assumed the bishopric of Hyppo" in 

 Africa. Twenty-five years from that to the death 

 of Augustin." Ten years*° from the death of 

 Augustin until Palladius was sent by Pope Celes- 

 tine, with a gospel for Patrick, to preach it to the 

 Scots. This was the four hundred and first" year 

 from the crucifixion of Christ ; and if we reckon 

 from the beginning of the world, five thousand six 

 hundred and thirty-two years. In the year after 

 this''^Patrick went to preach to Ireland. Equus [recte 

 Aetius] and Valerianus [r«cfe Valerius] were the two 

 emperors ^recte consuls] of that year. It was in this 

 year Sixtus assumed the [ecclesiastical] supremacy 

 of Rome after Celestine. This was the fourth year 



'^ Dioclesian was elected emperor in 283, twenty-four, not twenty-five years from the third year of Frobue. 

 .^ The Council of Nice was held in 325, forty-two, not seventeen years after the commencement of the reign of 

 Dioclesian. 



*" St. Anthony died in 356 ; that is, thirty-one, not thirty years after the convention of the Council of Nice. 



" St Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, became bishop in 355, and died in 372, sixteen years after the death of St. Anthony, 



■" St. Ambrose died in 397, twenty-five, not seven years after the death of St. Hilary. 



" The death of St. Martin is referred to the year 397 by Gregory of Tours, and by Sigebertus to the year 402, 

 but Dr. O'Conor attempts to prove that 401 is the true date. No authority places his death nineteen years after the death 

 of St. Ambrose, as stated here. 



■" St. Augustin became Bishop of Hyppo in 396, before the death of St. Martin, and not twenty-one years alter it, 

 according to this chronology. 



*' St. Augustin died in 430, thirty-four, not twenty-five years after his appointment to the Bishopric of Hyppo. 



^ This, if not an error of the transcriber in writing deck for da, is entirely wrong ; for, according to Prosper, Palladius 

 was sent to Ireland in 431. 



'^ The four hundred and first year from the crucifixion of Christ would be the year 434. , 



•** According to this calculation Patrick would have come to Ireland in 435, but as his coming is synchronised with 

 the consulship of Aetius and Valerius, and with the first year of Pope Sixtus, the year intended is certainly 432, and 

 the error must have originated with the transcribers. 



