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TJlcagnus (which is the Irish Olcan), Tigernomalus and Broeagan 

 or Brocagn, Maccarus twice, and Grungleus, a name allied to 

 those employed by the Gwent family Grwynllyw, Gwynlleu, 

 Gwodloew, and Gwyddlew. 



The Tavistock stone of Sabinus Maccodechet bears on it 

 the evidence of Irish provenance. For Mac is the Goidelic form, 

 which in Brythonic is Map ; moreover the Dechet name is one 

 from Kerry, where it occurs on several inscribed Oghams of 

 Pagan times* 



That the colony extended to Exmoor is probable, for we find 

 a dedication there to S. Brendan, but owing to the manner in 

 which Saxon and Norman prelates rededicated churches to Saints 

 of the Roman Calendar, we cannot trace them in Devon as we 

 can in Cornwall. 



Beginning with S. Brendan and moving west, we have at 

 Braunton S. Brynach, the Confessor of Brychan, married to one 

 of his daughters. Next, S. Nectan at Hartland, S. Morwenna, 

 foUows, and then we are in the thick of them. That these 

 saintly settlers led the exodus is improbable; it is far more 

 likely that they accompanied or followed the military leaders. 

 Of these latter no names have been preserved, except possibly 

 that of Clement the father of S. Petrock. That this colony 

 comprised a number of Irish adventurers is probable. In no 

 other way can we account for the introduction of the cults of 8. 

 Bridget and S. Itha, and their extension. One of these was the 

 Holy Mother of Virgins in Leinster, the other her corresponding 

 Saint in Munster, and we may suspect that the Irish who settled 

 here came from both provinces, and brought with them the 

 devotion to the respective Saints of their tribes. 



In Cornwall we can pretty nicely delimit the territories 

 acquired by the Irish in Penwith and Carnmarth, and the 

 Cambro-Irish settlers in the Trigg Deaneries. The south of the 

 district between these settlements show us native foundations, 

 by the royal house of Damnonia. 



I would point out two characteristic groups. About the 

 Fal estuary you have S. Melor, ,a prince of the blood royal of 

 Cornwall ; S. Budoc, of whom we know little, but who seems to 



*Macalister : Irish Epigraphy, part I, 1897. 



