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whicli ho slioulcl also cross without returning to the left bank. This 

 seems imperative ; but it will also be admitted as a desirable, if not 

 indispensable, condition that the required river-passage should lie in 

 the direct, or more or less direct, route from Mag Eein to Mag Glais. 

 Now, these conditions are exactly fulfilled by the river-swellings 

 which are known as Bofin and Kilglass. "We saw above, following 

 Tirechan's route, that the natural place to locate Cail Boidmail was on 

 the eastern bank of Eofin or Boderg. ^Ve may say, more generally, 

 that any one passing from Mag Eein to Mag Glais, in the north part 

 of the barony of North Ballintober, would be sure to cross the river 

 somewhere between lloosky and Drumsna. 



But if the second condition is satisfied, the first roudition is also 

 strikingly fulfilled. If he crossed L. Bofin, Patrick would have found 

 himself on the river-girt promontory (which forms part of the modem 

 parish of Kilglass), with L. Bofin on one side, and L. Kilglass on the 

 other. In order to reach Mag Glais, whither he was proceeding, he 

 would have to cross L. Kilglass, unless he took a long detoiu' round 

 the south extremity of this river-lake. It is manifest that this topo- 

 graphy conforms precisely to tlie requirements of the narration of 

 Tii'echan. Having crossed a fii'st alueus, L. Bofin, the saint then goes 

 on to cross a second, L. Kilglass, by which means he is able to proceed 

 into Mag Glais. It follows that Bandea was the old name of the 

 branch swelling which is now known as the lake of Kilglass.^ 



Having crossed Bandea, Patrick went to Duma Graid. Topographers 

 expect to find this appellation in the form Doogary, a place-name 



^ The Tripartite Life, Part ii., which depends here on Tirechau, gives an 

 additional piece of topogi-aphical information, derived from an unknown source. 

 The passage is translated by Dr. Stokes as follows (p. 93) : " There Patrick 

 found the fcrtas (bar r, bank r), namely, the earth was raised up under Patrick in 

 the ford ; and the learned still find that ridge. And he went into the harbour at 

 once, and there died Buad-moel, Patrick's charioteer, and was buried in that place. 

 Cell Buadiuoil is its name, and it belongs to Patrick." [Cell Buadmuil should be 

 corrected, after the text of Tirechan, to Cail Buadmail.] While this abbreviates 

 Tirechan's account, it adds the token that at the passage there was a ridge of raised 

 earth in the river-bed. This notice is far more likely to have a basis of fact than 

 to be a pure invention. There is no reason to suppose that the name Cail Buadmail 

 had disappeared between Tirechi\n's date and the composition of the Vita Tripartita ; 

 and we need not have many scruples in accepting the statement that near Cail 

 Buadmail there was a bank in the river which, according to the people of the 

 neighbourhood, rose out of the bed as the saint was crossing. It would be interest- 

 ing to know whether there are traces of this bank in L. Bofin. There is ut all 

 events an island. 



