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the end of time. He would have been in difficult circumstances 

 for a lodging had not one named Caitne and his wife Brig, 

 housed him for the night, they fed him on roast beef, pork, and 

 a big jar full of beer that was set before him. He was so pleased 

 that he promised that ale and meat should not fail them till 

 Pentecost. And that was on November 1st, so that we know the 

 revehy in the caer was due to the celebration of a Pagan 

 festival. 



The Saints of Ireland whom we find associated with Cornwall 

 all belong to the South, and it seems strange to have the Patron 

 Saint of Derry also in Cornwall. But it must be remembered 

 that Eoghain's earliest foundation was Kilnamanagh, in Wicklow. 

 It was not till he was well advanced in life that he went into the 

 North. And his visit to Cornwall must have been at an early 

 period of his career. 



That he was vastly charitable would appear from his giving 

 his pair of chariot horses to a leper who was wretchedly off. 

 When his friend Coirpre, Bishop of Coleraine — who, it will be 

 remembered had been a fellow pupil with him — heard of this he 

 sent him two horses of his own. In return for this Eoghain 

 gave him a complete copy of the Holy Gospels. 



Eoghain was related to Conlaeth, S. Bridget's Bishop. The 

 reason of his going North seems to have been that he might be 

 among his mother's relations, as she was daughter of the petty 

 king of Oriel. 



It might be objected that in Grwendron is Merthyr Uny, 

 which implies that he was a martyr there. This would be true 

 were this a Welsh settlement, as among the Welsh Merthyr does 

 mean a Ilartyrkim^ either over a Martyr's grave or in memory of 

 a Martyr ; but it has not this meaning at all in Ireland, nor had 

 it that signification at the beginning. S. Patrick was solicitous 

 that his converts should not be buried in cairns after heathen 

 fashion, and he consecrated Martcwtechs, or Cemeteries, {tech is a 

 hoxise) for the special burial places of the Christians. In Ossory 

 he made a Martartech in the plain of Magh Poighne ; and he 

 did the same apparently in each several district. Thus in one 

 region there would be a single domus martyrii to which all the 

 faithful throughout the district would be brought. So Merthyr 

 Uny would be the cemetery consecrated by Uny for the use of 

 his co-religionists in Carnmarth. 



