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MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1859. 
James HentHorn Topp, D. D., President, in the Chair. 
Tue Rey. Dr. Reeves read the following— 
MEMOIR OF THE CHURCH OF ST. DUILECH. 
Sr. Durzecn* is one of those early Irish ecclesiastics whose memory is 
preserved in the Calendar and local association, but of whose history, and 
even date, almost all documentary evidence has perished. Ledwich, 
indeed, refers to a statement, that a life of the saint was preserved at 
Malahide ;+ but such a record, if it ever existed, isnow unknown; and 
in the absence of any mention of the saint’s name in our Annals, we are 
obliged to fall back upon his pedigree as the only available material even 
for conjecture as to the age in which he lived. He is set forth in the 
sacred genealogiest as the son of Malach, or Amhalgaidh, son of Sinell, 
and eighth in descent from Fergus Mac Rosa, whose date is referred to 
the Christian era. But, allowing thirty years to a generation, this would 
only. bring him down to the year of our Lord 240 ; so that several gene- 
rations are manifestly omitted. However, there are other saints of the 
same race, the dates of whose obits, or the names of whose contempo- 
raries are recorded, and whose relative distance from a common head will 
* It was the fashion in the last century to make St. Duilech a Dane. The process was 
effected by presuming that the name was the same as Tullock, which was a familiar form of 
St. Olave. St. Olave’s festival is the 29th of July; but in Ireland it appears to have been 
kept on the Ist of August. At that day we find among the Pratermissa, in the Acta 
Sanctorum, the following notice ;—“ Dolochus seu Tolochus peregrinus in tabulis Hiber- 
nicis hac die notatus est; verum, cum solum nomen ibi reperiam, exspecto, qui me de 
vita, etate, et maxime de cultu doceat” (Aug., tom. i., p. 3 8, 1733). None of the Irish 
Calendars have any name like these at Aug. 1, and St. Pellegrini, the Trish hermit, who 
gave name to Monti di §. Pellegrini, is the only Ivish saint at this day who merits the 
title peregrinus. St. Tullock’s-lane, off Fishamble-street, Dublin, derived its name from 
the chapel of St. Tullock, or Olaf (‘‘Ecclesia Sti. Olavi,” estimated in the Papal Taxation 
of 1291 at ix’. a year.) In reference to which the following remarks are cited by Led- 
wich from a survey of the city and diocese, published in 1747 :—“ In Bove-street, now 
called Fishamble-street, stood formerly a chapel of ease to St. John’s Church, dedicated 
to St. Doulach, an anchoret, whose feast is celebrated on the 1st of August; on which 
day, and during its octave, is visited a famous well in F ingal, between Balgriffin and 
Kinsaley, about five miles from Dublin, contiguous to a church sacred to the memory of 
this venerable solitary, whose life was formerly preserved at Malahide, but now not to 
be met with” (Antiquities of Ireland, p. 146, second edition). But this notion concerning 
the identity of SS. Duilech and Tuloch, though prevalent in the early part of the eigh- 
teenth century, was erroneous, the former being of Irish extraction, whose day was the 
17th of November, while the latter was a Dane, whose festival was the 29th of July.— 
See Lanigan, Eccles. Hist., vol. iii., p. 359; Dr. Todd’s Introduction to the Obits, &e., 
of Christ Church, p. 1x xxiii. 
+ See the passage in italics in the preceding note. 
+ Senchas Naomh Erend, in the Book of Lecan, fol. 38ad, where he is styled Ou- 
leach Clochaip.—Book of Ball};mote, fol. 1206g ; Macfirbis, Geneal. MS. (R. I. A.), 
p- 733. 
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