348 Pmceeilingx of the Royal Irish A caiiemif. 



Connmach "subita morte peiiit." If this phrase is again a euphemism, it 

 prepares us to expect that at least his immediate successor came from a rival 

 sept. The not«s preserved in L fail us here : but we have definite evidence 

 from other sources. The Annals state that Torbach (no. 31) was the son of 

 Grorman, coarb of Mochta of Louth, and "of the Ciuel Torbaigh, i.e. the Ui 

 Cellaigh Breagh." The latter name indicates a tribe dwelling in Meath or 

 the south of the county of Ixjuth.^ Again, Xuada was of Loch Uamha, 

 now known as Lough Nahoo, in Leitrim.- Neither of them can have l)een 

 of the Clanu Sinaich. On the other hand, Toichtech eanie from Tir 

 lomchlair; and if it was near Armagh, as MacCarthy supposes,' he may 

 have been of that sept. 



The struggle began again under the following abbot, Mac Loingsig(no. 7>\\ 

 He had been si.\ years in oftice when, in 818, Artri, son of Conchobar (no. 35), 

 erenach (or, as one .ms. of the Ulster Annals says, bishop) of Armagh went to 

 Connaught with the shrine of St Patrick. He was apparently accepted there 

 a.s the coarb of Patrick during the remaining part of Mac Loingsig's rule. 

 Mac Loingsig was succeede<l by E<igan Manistrech (i.e. of Monasterboice; 

 (no. 36), who is credited with a rule of eight years, evidently reckoned from 

 the death of Mac l/>ingsig (826) to his own death in 8.34. Immediately 

 before him, howe%'er, Artri appears in the List, and is stated to have held 

 office for two years. Once again the compiler has gone for his terminal 

 numbers to different sources, one of which acknowledged Artri as abbot, 

 while the other did not. The period of office of Artri, as before in like case, 

 is evidently include<l in that of Kogan. In a note under Artri's name we 

 are told that he ■■8u(rere<l martyrdom from Eogan and from Niall and from 

 Suibne, son of Fairnech." The Annals give us more particulars. Eogan, it 

 would seem, was electeii in 82ti. The next year he was " profaned " by 

 Cummascach,' son of Cathal, and Artri, son of Concobhar; the latter having 

 apparently returned from Connaught when he heard news of Mac loingsig's 

 death, to claim the abbacy at Anuagh itself. The attempt to eject Eogan, it 

 seems, was successful. If Artri then enjoyed his two years of rule, he was 

 probably driven out at the end of them by Suibne (abbot of Damhinis), son 

 of ForanniLn or Fairnech, who died in 830, having been abbot for two 



' The fallowing n'itiv« in the .\nnals of the Four Ma.sten (*. a. 10o6) is interesting : 

 )f«el Fiiinen uiac Cuiiiiie died, i.e. MaelSiinen, mw of Conii. sun of Josepli, fion of 

 Doonchadh, »in of Dunsdhach, *<>n of Egertach, son of Luachan, son of Eoi^ban, son of 

 AedhaKMi. son of Torbach, son of Gomian of the I'i Ceallaigh Breagh. 



- HogBU, Ononwu/iooiK s. v. It will be noted that Connaught wsm the happy hunting- 

 ground of sever*! <>|>pvnent8 of Clanu Sinmich. 



' Ayiwdt af Ulster, index. 



* A king of the Airghialia, who fell in battle the same year. 



