404 CORNISH DEDICATIONS. 



S. ToRNEY, Bishop, Confessor. 



This saint is also called Ternoc, which is a corruption of 

 Tighernach (the modern form is Tierney), and the Welsh 

 Teyrnog. 



His mother's name was Derfraych, and she was daughter of 

 Echach, Prince of Clogher. She loved not wisely but too well, 

 one Coirb, of Leinster, and by him became a mother. Coirb 

 carried off his oft'spring, a boy, as soon as born, and committed 

 the child to S. Bridget at Kildare, who became to him a foster- 

 mother, and held him at the font, where he was baptised by 

 Bishop Conlaeth. As he came of royal blood she called him 

 Tighernach. 



Whilst still a child, he and Eoghain (Euny) were carried off 

 by pirates and sold as slaves in Britain, where they were bought 

 by a petty king, who brought them up with his own sons, and 

 treated them with great kindness, and finally sent them both to 

 Eosnat or Ty Gwyn to be educated by Mancen or Ninio, the 

 abbot. But again pirates came and swept them away, and took 

 them to Brittany, and sold them there to a chief, who set the 

 boys to grind corn in his mill. 



In time they effected their escape and returned to Eosnat 

 and schooling. Here Tigernach remained till his monastic educa- 

 tion was complete, and then he started on a visit to Eome and Tours. 

 On the way he made fast friends with another Irishman, Ivieran, 

 son of Eochaid, who receives no recognition in the Irish 

 Martyrologies, and we know nothing further concerning him 

 than that he and Tighernach travelled together, and together 

 escaped from an iim, where they found that the travellers who 

 were supposed to have money were murdered. 



On his return to Ireland he saw Etlinea, daughter of the 

 king of Munster, who was being forcibly carried off to be 

 married to a prince in Britain. She threw herself on the jiro- 

 tection of Tighernach, and he intervened, so that she was 

 relieved of being married to a man for whom she did not care, 

 and out of her own land. He gave her the veil, and she started 

 a monastic school. 



A petty king, Fiachra, gave Tighernach land on which to 

 settle, whereupon the saint surrounded it with a fosse ; and in 



