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



lac ap in inao pa co pa paepchap mna q\ia until thou exemptest women for ever from being 



bichiu ap m n-gne ucuc, ocup ap pechc ocup in this condition, and from excursions and hostings. 



pluajuD. 5^UaiD lapum Qoamnan m ni Adamnan then promised that thing. There hap- 



pin. Gcmainj qia lapum mopoail i n-Gpino, pened afterwards a convocation in Ireland, and 



ocup ceic Qoamnan co popjlai clepech Adamnan, with the choice part of the clergy of 



Gpeno ip in oail pin, ocup paepaip na mna Ireland, went to that assembly, and he exempted 



mo. the women at it. 



Iciac po Din ceicpe Cana Gpeno .i. Cain These are the four Cains of Ireland, namely, 



pacpaic, cen clepchiu do mapbuo ; Cam the Cain of Patrick, not to kill the clergy ; the 



Oapi ChaiUech, cen bu do Tnapbao; Cain Cain of Dari, the Nun, not to kill cows; the Cain 



QDomnain cen na mna do mapbao ; Cam of Adamnan, not to kill women ; the Sunday 



tJomnaij cen caipmchechc ano. Cain, not to travel on it. 



Respecting this synod of Adamnan, the Irish annals are silent ; but Colgan, 

 Acta SS. p. 566, and Trias Thaum. p. 503, speaks of a synod held by Flan, arch- 

 bishop of Armagh, in 694, or 695, to the Acts of which the names of the saints 

 Mochonna and Adamnan were subscribed. It appears, however, from the Acts of 

 this synod, a copy of which was in Colgan's possession, and of which there is also 

 a copy in Marsh's library, in a book entitled Presidents of the See of Armagh, 

 MS. p. 395, that this synod must have been a different one from that held at 

 Tara, which was probably convened for the purpose of denouncing the un- 

 christian custom still remaining among the people of Bregia, in his time, as the 

 lorgalach whom Adamnan denounced was, according to the Annals of Tighear- 

 nach, king of Bregia ; and was killed by the Saxons in 701. And if conjecture 

 may be indulged as to the date of this synod, it was, most probably, in the year 

 697> when, according to the Annals of Tighearnach, Adamnan brought a law with 

 him into Ireland — Qoomnan cue pechc leif in GpinO an blia&ain ]^ea ; or, as it 

 is stated in the Annals of Ulster, at the year 696, which are a year antedated ; 

 Adomnanus ad Hiberniam pergit, et dedit legem innocentium populis. The 

 renewal of this law in Ireland is recorded at the year 727, by Tighearnach — 

 Adamnani reliquice transferuntur in Hiberniam, et Lex renovatur. However 

 this may be, the passage in the Leabhar Breac is valuable for the light which it 

 throws on several records in the Irish annals, respecting the establishment at 

 various times of the Cain Phatruic, Cain Dairi, Cain Adamnain, and Cain 

 Domnaigh, which records Dr. O' Conor most erroneously supposed to refer only 

 to the establishment of monastic rules. Thus of the Cain Phatruic, which is 

 otherwise called in the annals Lex Patricii. 



