134 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. (Vion like 
in Irish means Church, a cell or place of retirement. It was customary 
in Scotland until a comparatively recent period, to have a Burying-ground 
attached to the Church. The ruins of ecclesiastical buildings can be 
easily detected in the old’ Burying-grounds of Scotland. The word cea//. 
or cz? has now come to designate the grave or Burying-ground. Tha 
e anns a ’chill, he is in the grave, is a phrase that is of common applica- 
tion to indicate that an individual is dead. Calum cille was eminently 
the apostle of, the Picts. »He was the leader of a galaxy of @eltic 
abbots, who with Iona as the centre of their operations in Scotland or 
in Albin—for Scotia was in those days an appellation of Ireland— 
exercised a deep and wide-spread influence over a large portion of 
Scotland, as well as indirectly over the north of England, in addition to 
keeping in close and constant familiarity the Gaels and Gaelic of Ireland 
and Scotland. 
St. Columba was born at Gartan in the County of Donegal, on the 
7th December, 521. He was of royal lineage. His genealogy runs 
thus: he was the son of Felim, the son of Fergus, the son of Conall 
the son of Neil of the nine hostages—Niall naoi ghiallach—son of 
Eochaidh, son of Murdoch, son of Cairbre, son of Cormac, son of Ajirt, 
son .of Conn of the hundred battles, son of Herimon, son of Mili of 
Spain. His mother whose name was Eithne was descended from an 
illustrious King of Leinster. It was thus in a very lordly and influential 
station that St. Columba was born. At his baptism he received the 
name Colum, to which the addition of cz//e (the genitive of ceall) was 
subsequently made in reference to his diligent attendance at the Church 
of his youthful associations. When he arrived ata sufficient age, he 
went to Moville (Magh bhile, the lip or margin of the plain) a place 
that is well known to Canadians who cross the Atlantic. He there 
became the pupil of the celebrated Bishop St. Finnian. From Moville 
he proceeded to Leinster, where he was for some time under the 
instruction of an aged bard called Gemman. After he left Gemman 
he entered the Monastery of Clonard (cluan ard) over which St. 
Finnian the founder then presided. St. Cargall, St. Ciaran, Cainneach, 
were his fellow-students in the Monastery; and subsequently at Glas 
Naoidhean now Glasneven near Dublin. About the year 553 he founded 
Dair magh, the plain of the oaks, which was his principal and most 
famous institution in Ireland. In Leabhar Buidhe Lecain, this account 
is given of the reason which induced St. Columba to leave Ireland, and to 
take up his abode in Scotland. On one occasion St. Colum Cille paid 
a visit to St. Finnen, of Drom Finn in Ulster, and while on this visit he 
borrowed St. Finnen’s copy of the Psalms. He made a copy of the 
book by remaining in the Church after the people had left it. He was 
