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our domestic records, and it is, most probably, a misreading of 
the original. 
‘‘Zeuss calls the present form, ‘monstrum falsa lectione 
ortum, nec hibernicum, nec germanicum nomen ;’* and pro- 
poses Mailbrigte ; but the remedy is worse than the disease. 
*¢6. Caincomuric.—In the form Caencompac it is found 
in the Annals of the Four Masters, at 786, 834, 898, 927, 
936, 941, 945, 952, 961, 986, always borne by ecclesiastics. 
Mabillon incorrectly reads Canicomrihe. 
‘*7. Doitausso.—The old genitive of Doilgus, which 
Zeuss takes to be an error for Dongus, a name found in the 
Trish Priscian at St. Gall.f But such emendation is unne- 
cessary, as we find the name itself in our Annals. The Four 
Masters, at 750, record the obit of Daelgus, abbot of Cill- 
Scire ; which is copied from the Annals of Ulster, 754, where 
the name occurs in the older form Doelgus. 
“¢8, Erpomnaca.—A phonetic form of Pepoornach, a 
name very common among the Irish, and particularly notable 
in the case of the scribe who wrote the Book of Armagh, and of 
the Abbot of Clonmacnoise, who died in 870, and whose tomb- 
stone is drawn by Dr. Graves in the Proceedings of this Aca- 
demy.t 
*©9, Hemenus.—An aspirated Latin form of mm, of 
which instances occur in the Calendars at Jan. 7, Dec. 18, 
Dec. 22; in the last case, as Bishop of Ros-glas in Ui-Failghe, 
now called from him, Monaster-Eimhin, or Monastereyan, in 
the county of Kildare. 
«¢ Another indication of the Irish connexion of these sub- 
scribing witnesses is the remarkable fact of all, except two, 
being bishops, and one of the exceptions being the superior of 
all, the Abbot Beatus, who signs first, and styles himself sim- 
ply abbas ; a state of ecclesiastical precedence so like that of 
* Gram. Celt., vol. i., Preef. p. xviii. 
+ Ibid., vol. i., Preef. pp. xvi. xviil. t Vol. iii. p. 322, 
