346 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



a Liadhain matre sancti Kiarani sic dicta." This is St. Ciaran of 

 Saighir, or SeirMeran, in King's County, whose festival is the 5th of 

 March, at which day Colgan has printed, from the " Codex Kill-Ken- 

 niensis," a life of this saint almost identical with the present.* 



18. Vita S. Ythe virginis, fols. 109 la to 112 la. 



" De vita et miraculis beatissinie Tirginis yte aliquam eommemorationem 

 breviter enarrare cupimus." 



Her pedigree is at the foot. Colgan has printed her life, from the 

 Codex Kilkenniensis, which is almost the same in this.f St. Ita 

 is commemorated at the 15th of January, under which name she 

 is the patron saint of Killeedy ; and under Mida, its devotional form, 

 of Kilmeady, hoth in the county of Limerick. 



19. Yita S. Molue, ahhatis et confessoris, fols. 112 la to 116 al. 



" Fuit vir vite venerabiHs de provincbia Biunienie de regione buafigenti de 

 plebe corcoiebe cuius pater vocabatur cartbacb sed vulgo cocbe dicitur mater vero 

 eius socbla .1. larga dieebatur." 



His pedigree is at foot. This life is printed from this manuscript 

 in Fleming's Collectanea, under this title: "Yita S. Molue seu 

 Luani abbatis et confessoris ab anonymo sed fideli et antiquo authore 

 conscripta ex MS. codice Ardmachano nunc primum in lucem edita."J 

 This is St. Molua of Kyle, otherwise Clonfertmulloe, whose day is the 

 4th of August. 



20. Yita S. Laurentii archiepiscopi Dublinensis, fols. 116 a I to 

 124 a a. 



" Dilectus igitur deo et bominibus sacerdos dei pontifex Laurentius." 

 This life was written by a monk of Augia, or Eu, in Normandy, 

 where the saint died in 1180. At fol. 121 a I is his Canonizatio.§ 

 This is St. Laurence 0' Toole, of Dublin, whose day is the 14th of 

 November. 



21. Yita S. Cainnici abbatis, fols. 124 a a to 127 al. 



" Cainnicbus sanctus abbas de genere connatb duine gemyn que est aquilonalis 

 pars bybernie insule ortus pater poeta yenerabilis lugayd letbdearg 

 mater mella." 



His pedigree is at the foot. This life was printed in 8vo. many 

 years ago, by Doctor Travers, of Dublin, but has never been published, 

 and the only copies which I have ever seen or heard of were, one that 

 was shown me soon after it was printed, and another which is in the 

 Queen's Inns Library, Dublin. The late Marquis of Ormonde, in the 



* Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae, p. 458. 



t Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae, p. 66. 



i Collectanea, pp. 358-379. 



§ It is printed by Sxvrius. torn, vi., p. 338, arid in Messingham's Florilegium In- 

 sula? Sanctorum, p. 387. A very interesting Life in Englisb was printed in Dublin 

 by tbe Rev. Jobn O'Hanlon, 12mo., 1857. 



