28 CORNISH DEDICATIONS. 



Another, a transcript made 1780-2, Bo 112. The transcript 

 is from a MS. in the Eoyal Irish Academy. It has been printed in 

 the Silva Gadhelica, 1891. 



Another, very similar, ed. Mulcahy, Dubhn, 1895. 



These last Irish " Lives " are independent translations of a 

 Latin original. 



A work on S. Kieran, by John Hogan : " S. Ciaran, Patron 

 of Ossory," Kilkenny, 1876, is a vain attempt to show that the 

 Saint preceded S. Patrick. 



The original of all the lives was probably " The migrations 

 of Ciaran," attributed to his scribe, Cairnech the Bald, a book 

 long preserved at Saighir. The glossator on the Pelire of 

 Oengus, says that it existed in his day, and that it was a book of 

 wondrous writing with many gressa (illuminations ?) and with the 

 colophon " Let everyone who shall read it give a blessing to the 

 soul of Cairnech the Bald." 



In Art, S. Kieran should be represented with a heron on a 

 tower, or with a bunch of blackberries. As he was a bishop, he 

 should have his staff, but be habited in fawn-skins. 



S. Knet, Hermit, Confessor. 



Ecton, in his "Thesaurus Per. Eccl." gives S. Knet as the 

 patron of Lesnewth, now rededicated to S. Michael. 



Knet would seem to be a contraction for Cennydd or 

 Kenneth, the son of Gildas, the historian, but a child of incest, 

 if the story in Capgrave be true. Owing to the scandal connected 

 with his birth he was exposed in an osier coracle on the waves of 

 the Luchwr, and washed up on Grower. He was rescued by a 

 shepherd, but Kenneth grew up a cripple ; one of his legs was 

 so bent that the calf adhered to the thigh. 



Eventually he became a hermit in the peninsula of Grower, 

 but though a hermit, perhaps before he adopted this life, he 

 married and became the father of S. Eval and S. Filius; he 

 learned the ecclesiastical curriculum in the school of S. lUtyd. 



