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Saighir, points to a foundation by Liadhain, Kieran's mother. 

 There are several churches in Ireland that look to Cuach as a 

 foundress, and she must have been very active as an auxiliary to 

 S. Kieran. Kilcock in Kildare was the most flourishing of these. 

 An interesting account of Killeen Cormac, with its ancient grave- 

 yard and Ogham inscriptions, is given in Shearman's Loca 

 Patriciana, 1882. There are doubtless difficulties in identifying 

 Cuach with S. Kew, due to the difference in day of commemora- 

 tion and the lack of any particulars relative to S. Kew. 



In favour of the identification is this : that Kew is the Welsh 

 Cygve which is but a Welsh form of Cuach, and that it is more 

 than probable that Kieran, when quitting Ireland for Cornwall, 

 would bring with him the head of his religious institutions for 

 women to organise similar houses in Cornwall. That he did 

 bring Buriena we know. That Cygve or Kygwe was not a Welsh 

 Saint is apparent for she occurs in none of the Welsh saintly 

 pedigrees. 



Bishop Mac Tail died about 470. It is very difficult to fix 

 the date of the death of S. Kieran. His migration to Cornwall 

 probably took place in 480, and we may set down his death as 

 occurring about 520. Probably Cuach died some years earlier. 



At S. Kewe there is a Holy Well, but whether it was referred 

 to her or to S. Docwyn it is not now possible to say. 



S. Keyne, Yirgin. 



This Saint was Ceneu, a daughter, or, more probably a 

 grand-daughter of Brychan, and is almost certainly the same as 

 Ceinwen or Kenwyn, of which the name is merely a contraction. 

 According to the legend, she abandoned her home in Brecknock- 

 shire, and directing her voyage across the Severn, settled at 

 Keynsham in Somersetshire, where she turned the reptiles into 

 stone. This is how the natives explained the existence of 

 ammonites found in the lias rocks. 



After some years spent at Keynsham she returned to a certain 

 "Monticulus " near her home, where she caused a spring to break 

 forth, that was of great virtue. 



