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may be doiibted whether the brother of St. Xevin, who is said to have 

 died in 617 at the age of 120, could have taken away the monks of 

 Bishop Ibair, who died in 500. ^lany of the Kerry families, be it 

 observed, were descended from Corb Uloim. 



III. Coeman of Killehoeman "in regione Gresill," son of Brecan, 

 King of Britain, and Dina, daughter of the King of the Saxons. In 

 the Martyrology of Donegal (under Dabheog, January 1), he is called 

 "the pilgrim." In the Treatise " De 3Iatribus," he is described as 

 the "pilgrim of Kilchoemain in the region of Geshil, and other 

 places." His father Brecan, Bracan, or Brychan was probably the 

 son of the captain of a band of Irish rovers ; his reign is computed to 

 have begun about a.d. 410. There is hopeless confusion as to the 

 names of his children and grandchildren in the Irish and Welsh 

 hagiographical records.^ The British parentage of this Coeman is 

 noticeable in connection with the name Fitalin. Colgan is disposed 

 to identify him with Coeman the Deacon, and with Mochoemog, 

 commemorated on the same day (November 3) as Coeman of Enaeh- 

 truim (vi.). 



IT. Coeman of Sendomnach, the Deacon. In the Tripartite Life,- 

 we read: "Patrick founded at Ardlicce a church, named Sendom- 

 nach, and he left there Deacon Coeman"; and in the Book of 

 Armagh,^ " Diaconus Coimmanus carus Patricio, qui fuit in oecclesia 

 magna Airdlicce." Colgan is disposed to identify him with Coeman 

 the Pilgrim, son of Brecan. 



Y- Coeman of Kill-Ptatha. "We are also told in the Tripartite 

 Life,* of a man of Patrick's household, Coeman of Cella Eath. 

 Probably this is the same as° Coeman of Kill-Eiada, Patrick's 

 '■'• Maccoem^'' (literally, youth: Colgan calls him Ciihicularius, cham- 

 berlain), spoken of as one of "the twenty-four persons who were in 

 orders with St. Patrick." 



All the above belong to the Patrician period. Out of the Coemans 

 of later death, we may select for special notice the two who are 

 commemorated in the Pelire. 



1 See especially Eees, Essay on "Welsh Saints, p. 112, &c. ; Colgan, AA. SS.,. 

 Life of St. Canocus, Feb. 11. 



2 Stokes, Trip., p. 105. '^ Fol. 9, b. 2 ; Stokes, Trip., p. 305. 

 * Stokes, Trip., pp. 200, 350 ; Book of Armagh, fol. 19, a. 1. 



^ Stokes, Trip., p. 264; Book of Leinster, p. 353, col. 4; L. Breac, p. 220,. 

 col. 2. 



