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century, and died in 1181. Tiiis work is also composed in 

 metre, but with two quatrains, i. e. eight lines, to each day of 

 the month, and with much less of the artificial poetical restric- 

 tions with which the author of the Feilire incumbered himself. 

 The text is also accompanied by a valuable gloss. Then fol- 

 lows the martyrology of Tallaght, as Colgan calls it, or, as it 

 is termed in the MS. itself, " The Martyrology of Aenghus 

 Mac Oibhlean and Maolruain." This work is in prose, being 

 in fact little more than a bare list of the saints, but, as Colgan 

 testifies, much more copious than the Roman or any other 

 martyrology which he had seen. It is said to have been com- 

 posed in the abbey of Tallaght, near Dublin, by the joint 

 labour of Aenghus and his friend Maolruain, abbot of the mo- 

 nastery; but in its present form it has evidently received 

 many interpolations of a later date, for it includes a notice 

 of the obits of Aenghus and Maolruain themselves, not- 

 withstanding the title, which ascribes the work to them as its 

 authors. These additions, however, do not militate against the 

 authenticity of the Martyrology, which probably Colgan has 

 fixed the year 900 as the date in which the work must have 

 appeared in its present form, for it mentions the obit of Car- 

 bre. Abbot of Clonmacnoise, who died March 6, A. D. 899, 

 but does not notice the name of any saint of later date, 

 not even the celebrated Cormac, King of Munster and Arch- 

 bishop of Cashel, who died in 903 or 908 : so that the year 

 900 may be regarded with much probability as the date of this 

 work, which was evidently continued and revised down to that 

 period by the monks of Tallaght, after the death of Aenghus 

 and Maolruain, its original compilers. Then follows a list of 

 the saints of Ireland, arranged under two classes, those who 

 were bishops, and those who were priests ; and the volumecloses 

 with the Naoimhsheanchus naomh innsi Fail, or poetical his- 

 tory of the saints of Ireland, which has been already spoken of. 

 Dr. Todd concluded by stating, that although the kind- 

 ness with which His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, at his 



