143 
Upon the former of which is the gloss: —O Clochaip Owlig pmia 
Paelonpuim ano(pp .1..1 caeb Suipo Colaim cille,—‘ of Clochar- 
Duiligh, by Faeldrum* on_the south, i. e. beside Sord of Columcille.’ 
And upon the latter:—Epi Paelopum anofp 1 Pinegall, ‘by 
Faeldrum on the south, in Fingall.’ 
Or, as O’Clery, more fully, in the Calendar of Donegall :—Ounleach 
Clochaip, fpr Faelopuim an ofpp «a. Fime gall:} agup Clocan 
Oulich amm a baile, la caob Suipo Choluimchille. Oo plioéc 
Commaic mic Pepsara mic Ropa mic Rudpaide vo.  ‘ Duilech of 
Clochar by Feldruim, on the south, in Fingal; and Clochar-Duiligh is 
the name of his town, beside Swords of Columcille. He was of the race 
of Conmac, son of Fergus, son of Ros, son of Rughraidhe.’ 
Thus, Clochar is given as the Irish name of his church in native do- 
cuments, ranging from 800 to 1600. 
But, like many primitive foundations, it lost its local importance in 
the twelfth century, when superseded, on account of position, family 
interest, or some other cause, by the parish church. In the Bull of Pope 
Alexander III., which confirmed to St. Laurence O’Toole, in 1179, the 
possession of his see, mention is made of many ancient churches in the 
county, both north and south of the city, but none of St. Duilech’s: there 
is, however, a denomination called Zertia Pars de Clochairt {cman 
Clochaip |, which may have denoted the site and land of this ancient 
church, then waste. 
The parish that absorbed St. Duilech’s cell was Ballygriftin, which 
probably first obtained its severalty, as it got the name of Griffinstown, 
under a Welsh settler. The new parish church was founded close to the 
manorial castle of Balgriffin, and its outline is still discernible on the 
sward at the left-hand side entering the avenue of Balgriffin Park. It is 
not marked on the Ordnance Survey,§ and might escape any eye but one 
accustomed to the shades of extinct churches. It consisted of a nave 
and chancel, about eighteen yards long. The churchyard also is under 
meadow, but a faint outline of its precincts remains. This church was 
under the patronage of St. Sampson, a Cambrian saint,|| and thus the 
parochial name and the dedication agree in indicating a Welsh occupant 
about the time of the English Invasion. 
In the taxation of 1291 the “‘ Ecclesia de Balygriffyn”’ is rated at £8, 
a large sum for those days; but no notice is taken of St. Duilech’s Chapel ; 
* Faeldruim, i.e. ‘‘ Wolf-hill,” now Feltrim, a remarkable eminence in the parish of 
Kinsaley. 
+ That is, the ‘territory of the strangers,’ not as if Fionn gall, ‘White strangers or 
Norwegians,’ which is sometimes stated. Even in Anglo-Norman records the etymolo- 
gical form Finegal, Finagall, is preserved. 
{ Regist. Alani, fol. 1a. In the confirmation of the possessions of Christ Church by 
Pope Urban III. (1186) the name is written Trianchochair (Reg. Alani, fol. 175a), 
§ Ordnance Survey, county of Dublin, sheet 15. 
|| His day is July 28. See Act. SS. Julii, tom. vi., p. 568; Mabillon, Act. SS. O., 
Bened., tom. i., p. 174; Rees, Essay on the Welsh Saints, pp. 228, 253. 
