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mon tradition in this instance is ; and shews, as I conceive, that the 
word Cuilawn arises from the name of a Saint, as that tradition 
would haye it. In Colgan’s Acta Sanctorum Hibernia fo. 751, in 
the life of Cormach, King and Archbishop of Cashel, taken 
from the old M.S. book of Lecan, I find the following account of 
that Archbishop. Cormach lived in Munster, and was descended 
in the manner therein mentioned from Oilum Olum.* It then states 
that he had five brothers by the same father, viz. Becanus, Cula- 
nus, Eminus, who was also called Euinus, Diermitius and Boe- 
danus or Baitanus. Of these the three latter emigrated into the 
provinces of Connaught, Leinster and Ulster, and the two former 
remained in their native province, Munster, and of them the book 
gives the following account :—‘“ Sanctus manuque Becanus rema- 
« neus in Mumonia Monasterium de Killbecani, alias Cluainaud 
« Mobhecoc erexit et sanctissime et rerit: Sanctus vero Culanus in 
* valle quadam regionis de Hz Luigdheach, Glean-chaoin nuncupa 
“ ta, Ecclesiam extruens, inter suos cognatos et notos remansit ; quos 
* beneficiis et pia devotione erga se propense affectos, divite alme 
* sue benedictionis tandem locupletavit hereditate.’” Thus we 
have Culanus, or as he was called in Irish, Cuilen, clearly ascer- 
tained to have been the founder of the parish church of Glankeen 
or Glean-chaoin, in the county Hi Laigdheach+ in Munster, which 
* S. Cormacus, filius Eugenii, £ Marchaldii, f. Muredacii, f. Diermitii, f. Eugenii, f. Alildi 
Flanbeg, f. Fianchi Muilletham, f. Eugenii magni, f. Aildi Olum.—Colgan. 
+ All the country from Sliabh Eachtighe to Limerick, belonged originally to the province 
of Conacht, till Luighuidh Mean, who descended from Conac Cas, made a conquest of it by 
the sword, and added it to the province of Munster. This tract was called Grabh Fhearon 
Luigheadh, that is, the lands of Luigheadh. Keating’s Tr. Harris’ Ed, of Ware's Bishops, fo- 
36. n.—says, that Hy signifies the lands possessed by families, so that Hi Luidgheach means 
Luigheach’s country also. Ido not know whether the tract of land described by Keating be 
that known at present by the name of Sleigh, as I believe Sleib Eachtighe to be on the confines 
