110 Proceedings of the Royal Irish A cademy. 



am infirm,' saith Bishop Mace Cairthinn, ' and thou hast left my comrades in 

 churches, and I am still on the road.' ' I will leave thee, then, in a church,' 

 saith Patrick, ' that shall not be very near, lest there be familiarity (?), 

 and shall not be very far, so that mutual visiting between us be continued.' 

 And Patrick then left Bishop Mace Cairthinn in Clochar, and with him the 

 Domnach Aii'git which had been sent to Patrick from heaven when he was 

 at sea coming inwards Ireland." 



The second passage is from a Life of St. Mace Cairthinn, a portion of 

 which is preserved in the Codes Salmanticensis (ed. C. de Smedt and 

 J. de Backer. coL 79 



■nique cum ipse inuniuersali praedicaret semen uitae per Hiberniam 

 serendo iuuenilis annos aetatifi suae transegisset, die quodam sanctum 



^istrum trans flumen quoddam m Bolebal portauit, cumque sacrum deponeret 

 oiu.- lebilitatis suspirando ostendit. Cum a pio patre pulsaretur ut 



re! debilitatis, ait, Jam iniquit pater, accedente senio uires 

 michi deficiunl et assiduum iter me multum grauat. Fac ergo me pater in 

 aliquo loco Deo et tibi Beruire. Quod pater amnions ait, Uade in pace fili 

 et monasterium tibi construe in platea ante regalem sedem Ergallensium 

 resurrecturua in gloriam inde. Sedes enim illorum qui terrena sapiunt deso- 

 labitur tua uero de die in diem augmentabitur, atque de eiua sacro cimitherio 

 plurimi ad beatam 1 uitani. Et addidit, Accipe. inquit, liaculum 



itineris mei i jcrinium in quo de sanctorum 



rum reliquiie Marie capillis et sancta crucc dnmini et 



ontinentur. Quibua dictis dimisit cum 

 cum osculo na fultus beuedictione. Ltaque illuc perueniens 



indauit n ium. 1 



Wh . they certainly show that when 



documents from which they are taken were written the Domnach was not 

 !..nes bi lievedby the writers to have been 



th>-rc from the foundation of the see. And the evidence of the Tripartite 

 Lif< : ite long prior to the inscription to which reference 



has been made. The presumption therefore is that the shrine originally 

 belonged to Clogher. 



1 The opening words of tl S damanca fragment, which begins 



taken from the Clogher B See below, p. 121. I print 



here part of the C | issage of Ji>celin's I*i(<i S. Patricii, c. 14.". Ir is no 



doubt derived From the Tripartite Life, and has no independent value. ' Expletis 

 aliquantis diebua praefecit ilium [Mac Cairthinn] Clochorensi ecclesiae quam ipse 

 8 Patricias tunc n • cr.isset eum in episcopum, c<>ntulit ills chrinnia- 



toriuru qaod caelitas siV>i destinatam suscoperat.' Hen tkri matorivm is probably a 

 mere conjectural rendering of £ 



