168 Proceedimjs of the Rotjal Irish Academy.. 



the chronological order which he assumes may be due to his own 

 combinations. I must add that further study and more, minute 

 analysis of Tirechan's text have led me to conclude that he had 

 more written material at his disposal than I was before inclined to 

 suppose.^ 



1 See Tirech&n's Memoir of St. Patrick in Eng. Hist. Review, April, 1902, 

 pp. 235, sqq. 



