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In tlie Latin Life we are informed that, " a voice came to 

 him from heaven and said that he should go into exile, and 

 leave his family [i.e. monastic family). Innumerable persons 

 were buried in that city, but he alone went to Ireland," where, 

 it is to be presumed, he died. 



We must put his death as having occurred somewhat later 

 than that of Patrick, but scarcely later than 470, for he can 

 hardly have been a young man when engaged on the revision 

 of the laws of Ireland, in 438. We may probably put his 

 birth as having occurred in 400. The Irish Calendars give his 

 commemoration on May 16. 



Dudley MacFirbis says of him (Irish Academy, MS.) 

 " Cairnech : — he was of the Britons of Corn, and hence he is 

 called Cairnech (Cornish) : viz. Cairnech son of Luighidh, son 

 of Talum, son of lothacar, son of Alt. This is what GioUa 

 Caomhain relates in the Histories of the Britons." This 

 pedigree is very strange and wholly unsubstantiated. The 

 "Histories of the Britons," referred to, is the Irish Nennius, which 

 contains no history of Carantoc, but one of Cairnech who 

 lived a century later. The genealogy given by MacFirbis does 

 not occur in any of the copies known ; and that of Cairnech 

 the second, is quite different. 



The Felire of Aengus, on May 16, has this entry: — "The 

 illustrious death of Cairnech the powerful," and the gloss adds, 

 " i.e. Carnech of Tuilen, in the neighbourhood of Cenannas 

 (Kells), and he is of the Britons of Corn (Cornwall)." 



In the Celtic Litany published by Mabillon, from a Eheims 

 MS., he is invoked between S. Brendan and S. Gil.das. 



In Brittany is a church dedicated to him, under the name of 

 S. Oarne, south-west of Dol. 



In the Eedon Cartulary this is given as Oarne fcus, just as in 

 the " Relations of the Irish Saints," in the book of Leinster, 

 Carantoc is rendered Carantot. 



Carhampton in Somersetshire, a mile and a half from 

 Dunster, was one of the foundations of S. Carantoc ; though the 

 dedication of the church has been altered to S. John the 

 Baptist. The ancient chapel and its cemetery have been traced 

 in the Vicarage grounds. The church passed into the possession 



