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Wexford, for he belongs to that period. If the Clonmore, where 

 S. Lithgean was, be the Clonmore near Seir Kieran in the barony 

 of Ballybritt, then he must have been a neighbour and intimate 

 with S. Kieran, and have been in close touch with his cousin S, 

 Cuach. It is most probable that the same political reasons 

 which induced so many to leave the south-east of Ireland 

 operated on Lithgean. Lithgean signifies "festal birth," and in 

 Cornish the Graelic th would become d. 



Lithgean is not to be confounded with Laidhgean, of 

 Clonf art Molua, who belongs to a much later period. This latter 

 is, however, an interesting personage as preserver of a crude 

 Latin hymn by Grildas, which he took to Ireland, and which is 

 preserved, and is the only early specimen we have of Welsh 

 hymnody. It has been published by Stokes in his "Irish 

 Glosses." 



The local tradition at Ludgvan is that the holy ubbot 

 brought a stream of water from its source at a distance, to flow 

 under the churchyard wall ; and it was held that a child baptized 

 in S. Ludgvan' s water is miraculously enabled to respond at 

 its own baptism. The stream still flows, and supplies the village 

 with drinking water. 



S. Mabe. 



The chapelry of Mabe is called in the episcopal Registers 

 Lanvabe, i.e. Llan Fab, the church of the son. The district, at 

 the time of the Conquest was under the jurisdiction of 

 Tremiloret, i.e. the Tref of Milor, and in Wolsey's Inquisition, 

 1521, it is called Milor la Vabe. 



There is no Saint Mabe. The dedication is to S. Laudus or 

 Lo, and the name implies no more than that the llan is affiliated 

 to that of Milor. 



The Feast at Mabe is on September 21. - 



S. Mabenna, Virgin, Abbess. 



One of the many daughters or granddaughters of Brychan, 

 who sought their fortunes in north-east Cornwall, when expelled 



