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«‘The monastery of Honau, called in Latin records Ho- 
naugia and Hohenaugia,* was founded, a little before the year 
720, in honour of St. Michael the Archangel, by an Irish 
Bishop called Tubanus, who was also known by the title of Ab- 
bot Benedict. Thirty years later, a Bishop Dubanus is spoken 
of in some of the charters as the then abbot, and although Ma- 
billon regards him as a successor,{ he may possibly have been 
the same individual. The commutability of T and D among 
the Irish plainly refers Tuban and Duban to the same source. 
The Irish Calendars have two commemorations of presbyters 
of the name, one at Februrry 11, and the other at Novem- 
ber 11. The former was of British extraction, and flourished 
in the early part of the sixth century. He was patron saint 
of the church of Rinn-Dubhain,t or ‘ Dubhan’s promontory,’ 
known now as the Point of Hook, at the extreme south of the 
county of Wexford, on the east side of Waterford Harbour. 
The word Hook is the supposed translation of Ouban, which 
commonly signifies a ‘ fishing-hook.’ The original name, 
however, is locally preserved in ‘ St. Duffin’s Well,’ which the 
Ordnance Survey marks at this place.§ Dr. O’Donovan| in- 
terprets Dubhan by Nigellus,{ as if a diminution of Dubh, but 
to this is opposed the entry in the Tripartite Life of St. Pa- 
trick,** which mentions Dubdubanus{} as the first minister of 
* That is, Hohenau, ‘ High-meadow.” 
+ So Jodoc Coccius, Dagobert, 133; Zeuss, Gram. Celt., i., Pref. p. xviii. 
{See Colgan, Acta Sanctorum, p. 314; and Calendar of Donegal, 
Noy. 11. 
§ Maps of the County of Wexford, Sheet 54. 
|| Proceedings, &c., of the Kilkenny Archzol. Soc., vol. iii. p. 198. 
{ So also Zeuss, Gram. Celt., Pref. p. xviii., who takes Tubanus to be 
different from Dubanus. 
** Lib. ii. c. 114, Trias. Thaum., p. 1446. ‘*Cui unum e discipulis Dub- 
dubanum, Corcani filium, przefecit.” 
++ We find a Donndubhan, son of Imhar of Waterford, in the Four Mas- 
ters, A.D. 995. Ua Dubhain, ib. 952. Dubhan appears in the pedigrees of 
the house of Cormac Gulban, as father of St. Dubthach, Feb. 5. 
