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afcertained. In his Monafticon Hibernicum he fays, 

 the monaftery of Tamlach Umhail was near Lough 

 Blifklau, in the barony of Iveagh; his words are; 

 " There was an ancient abbey there, wherein the feafts 

 of the three faints, Naflad, Beoan, and Mellan, who 

 flourifhed about the middle of the feventh century, 

 were obferved on the 26th of October ;" he adds, it 

 is now unknown ;" but in a note he fays, " the lough 

 in ancient times was called Lough Bricreann, or Bri- 

 cirne." From Extracts, ex Afta Sanflorum, per R. P. I. 

 Johan. Colganum, page 271, in notis, the fituation of 

 this religious houfe is pointed out, as appears from part 

 of note i. "Saint Mellanus de Tamlachta, who is wor- 

 fhipped, with the Saints Beoan and Naflad, in the 

 church of Tamlachta Umhail, near the lake Bricreann. 

 inUlfter (Ultonia), 26th Odlober;" and in note 19, p. 

 90, this Tamlachta Umhail is faid to be in the country 

 of Iveagh in Ulfler (Ivechia in Ultonia), near the lake 

 Bricreann (juxta lacum Bricreanum) : now the name of 

 Loughbrickland is properly Lough breac Ian,* or of 

 the fpeckled trouts, and it lies in Iveagh in Ulfler. 

 Befides, Dr. Shiel found the old name of this abbey to 

 be Tamlachta Umhail ; and it alfo appeared, that an 

 annual fefHval of the three faints had kept up the tra- 

 dition 



* BreaC) in the Irifti language, fignifies both a trout, and 

 ipeckled ; it is the participle of the verb breacam, to checquer ; 

 and Ian fignifies either the fcale of a filh, or fulncfs. Shaw's 

 Celtic Dictionary. 



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