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Grandisson's Register, the clitirch is " Sancte Ida" and " Sancti 

 Ide de Egloscruke," 1330-1, 1334-5, S*^ Ida, 1362. The church 

 when visited by the Bishop in 1331 possessed an "Antiphonaritim, 

 cum Legenda ;" also "Legenda Sanctorum competens preeterquam 

 in principio, quod est corruptum." 



Ida is the Latin form of Itha. Itha became corrupted into 

 Ithey, and then into Issey. The Manor, however, retained the 

 title unchanged as S. Ide, and extended through a part of the 

 parish, and also into those of Little Petherick, S. Ervan, S. 

 Breock, Padstow, and Mawgan. Near the church of Little 

 Petherick, in Lysons' time, were the ruins of a chapel of S. Ida. 



S. Teath, pronounced S. Teth, is another corruption of S. 

 Itha. 



Itha was a daughter of the royal house of the Deisi, who 

 had been expelled from Meath in the 3rd century by Cormac 

 Mac Airt and obliged to find new homes. One portion of the 

 tribe, under Eochaid, crossed into South Wales and settled there, 

 but another migrated to the South of Ireland and occupied the 

 present county of Waterford. 



Itha was the child of Cenfoelad Mac Cormac, and of Necht, 

 and was lineally descended from Conn of the Hundred Battles, 

 King of Ireland, 123-157. 



Her birth took place about 480, and as her parents were 

 Christians, she was baptised, and given the name of Dairdre, 

 which was Latinised into Dorothea. She acquired the nick-name 

 of Ith later, on account of her "thirst" for the living water of 

 heavenly truth. 



She had two sisters whose names have been preserved : Necht, 

 who married Beoan, and became the mother of S. Mochoemog 

 or Pulcherius ; and Fina, who is numbered among the saints. 

 In the Life of S. Fintan of Dunbleisc (Doone in Limerick) we 

 are told that his mother's sister was S. Fina, but his mother and 

 Fina are said to have been daughters of Artgail. 



From an early age Itha had made up her mind to embrace 

 the monastic life. This was not at all in accordance with her 

 father's purpose, who had made arrangements for her marriage. 

 When Itha learned his intentions, she refused food, and "fasted 

 against" her own father, who was by this means compelled to 

 give way. 



