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mon name amongst ecclesiastics in the ninth, tenth, and ele- 
venth centuries. M. Bishop of Slane, died a.p. 874. M. 
Abbot of Clonmacnoise, 4.p. 888. M.Comorb of Patrick, a.p. 
889. M. son of Tornan, became Bishop of Armagh, a. p. 
885, and died at an advanced age, a. D. 926. 
“<4, At p. 112, the following quatrain is written in the 
margin :— 
Ip achep in gach innochz, 
Fa fuapna faipcae pinopolc. 
Ni G5op perme mona minn 
Oond laechpaio lamn oa Lochlino. 
Of which the following is a translation : 
Bitter is the wind to night, 
To ruffle the white crest of the sea. 
Long and smooth voyages are not accomplished 
By the fierce warriors from Lochlinn. 
«The mind of the writer was evidently full of the ravages 
of the Danes who plundered all the great ecclesiastical estab- 
lishments of Ireland during the ninth century. The Annals 
record that Clonmacnoise, and many other ecclesiastical estab- 
lishments, were plundered and burned by the Danes under 
Turgesius in the year 843; Armagh experienced a like fate 
in the years 831, 839, 850, 867, 893. 
“© 5. The gloss Ruaiopi avez, p. » probably furnishes 
us with the means of fixing the actual year in which the MS. 
was written. For we learn from the Annals of the Four 
Masters, at the year 874, that Ruaidhri, son of Morminn, King 
of Britain (i.e. Wales), came to Ireland to shun the Danes. 
Such an event was very likely to be noticed by ascribe, parti- 
cularly if it happened that the monarch came to the place 
where he was. 
** According to the Welsh Chronicles, this Ruaidhyi, called 
by the Welsh Rodric Mawr, son of Mervyn the Freckled, was 
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