480 CORNISH DEDICATIONS. 



Goidel Ficht wlio founded the reigning house in Cornwall. In 

 this story we have Cairnech = Coronog, both names have the 

 same signification ; we have also the name Breccan, and we 

 have their half-brother represented as the father of the G-wyddel 

 ffichti or Goidel Picts who did seize on "Wales and the north 

 east of Cornwall and north Devon, The story is manifestly a 

 myth, but, for all that, it seems to be an Irish reminiscence of 

 this invasion, and it is possible, — I do not say more than 

 possible, — that it may relate to the great Brychan conquest. 



The whole story may be found in the appendix to Todd and 

 Herbert's "Irish Nennius," 1848. 



Several reputed sons of Brychan are represented as Saints 

 in Ireland, and this seems to imply that not only was there 

 such a person, but that he was of Irish extraction. 



Elloc, son of Braccan, son of Cailbadh, also called Moelloc 

 is one that is named, and his church was in Wexford, not in 

 Ulster. Fian or Fioc was his brother, at Kilfane in Ossory ; 

 Mochonoc, or Conoc, is another in Ossory ; Cairpre is yet 

 another, a missionary under S. Patrick, in Connaught and 

 Donegal. Dwibhan, perhaps the Welsh Dyfnan, was also in 

 Wexford. Again, another son of Brychan was Coeman the 

 Pilgrim, of Darinis in Wexford harbour. It will be seen that 

 most of the reputed sons of Braccan or Brychan are found in 

 the South East of Ireland. 



But the name of Brychan or Braccan is somewhat suspicious, 

 it signifies the speckled or " tartan-dressed," and looks much as 

 though he, to whom it was applied, was an eponom for the Irish 

 Picts, who certainly did invade and occupy Carmarthen, 

 Pembroke, and Brecknock. We know that these invasions and 

 colonisations were frequent, and that for a time Britain was 

 subject to the Ffichti, i.e. Irish Gaels, and obliged to pay tax to 

 them. It was just after the reign of Dathi, who died 428, that 

 the Irish hold upon Britain came to an end, or was gradually 

 relaxed. 



A.malgaidh most nearly corresponds to the period at which 

 Aulach is supposed to have lived, but one would rather expect 

 an occupation of South Wales from Leinster than from 

 Connaught. 



