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morning to Saighir. This wonld seem to shew that for a while 

 Cuach was superior of Killeen, a short way from Saighir, where 

 he had at first established his mother. 



This religious house for women was in dangerous proximity, 

 and caused Kieran no little trouble, first in his mother's time, and 

 afterwards when under Cuach. We are told that one of his 

 pupils was carrying on a flirtation with one of Cuach' s damsels, 

 and they had made an appointment to meet in a wood between 

 the two houses. But whilst the girl was expecting the enamoured 

 student, a flash of lightning so frightened her, that she scampered 

 back to the convent, and promised not to be naughty again. One 

 of Kieran' s disciples who got into these scrapes was Carthagh, 

 and it led to his dismissal from Saighir. 



Near Eoss Benchuir was a rock in the sea to which Cuach 

 was wont to retire at times for prayer. S. Kieran is reported to 

 have stood on this stone and to have employed it as a boat on 

 which to cross the water. Here again, under a ridiculous fable, 

 a simple fact lies concealed, that he was wont to visit his old nurse 

 in her island hermitage, and there minister to her in holy things. 



When S. Kieran removed into Cornwall, where he died, we 

 do not know, but it was probably due to the protracted wars and 

 anarchy in Ossory, and it is almost certain that — were she alive — 

 he would take Cuach with him as the head of his colleges for 

 women, a necessary adjunct to his societies for men, so that he 

 might by her means organise the education of the girls in that 

 part of Cornwall over which he was about to exercise ecclesiastical 

 authority. 



Ladock is probably Llan-ty-Cuach, and was one of her 

 houses, where the Feast of the Patron Saint is observed on the 

 first Thursday in January, and this fairly agrees with her festival 

 as marked in the Irish Calendars, January 8. 



But if she be, as I have little doubt she is, the same as the 

 Welsh Kygwe and the Cornish Kewe, her feast in North Cornwall 

 is on February 8. 



Her name recurs in some Irish Calendars on June 6, and 

 June 29, and as Coiningen, the Wolf-girl, on April 29. 



She is thought to have been buried at Killeen Cormac, near 

 Dunlairn in Wicklow. The name Killeen, like the other by 



