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Now one of his omissions is very remarkable. It is in the passage relating 

 to the foundation of the monastery of Clogher. I print it in full in order 

 that the reader may be able to compare it with the corresponding part of the 

 fragment in the Codex Salmanticensis quoted above, p. 110. 



" Denique cum ipse in vniuersali praedicaret sem[en] vitae per hiberniam 

 serendo juuenilis annos aetatis suae transegit die quadam Patricium patrem 

 more solito transiens per quoddam flumen et portans sacrum onus deponeinln 

 suspirauit et percontatus a pio patre vt quid suspiraret inquit pater accedente 

 senio vires meae deficiunt, et assiduum me grauat iter, fac igitur inf si placet 

 in vno loco deo et tibi servire, sanctus Patricius ait, placet ait vade in 

 bonef et monasterium construe in platea ante regalem sedem Ergallencium 

 inde resurrecturus in gloria, ilia' desolabitur, tua vero sedes de die in diem 

 augumentabiturf de cuius sacro Cymiterio plures ad beatam vitam sunt 

 resurrecturi. Deinde vir sanctus ad praefatam plateam perveniens Glochorense 

 fundauit monasterium." 



In this extract there are many minor departures from the Salamancan 

 text. But far more important is the complete excision of two consecutive 

 sentences, the first of which begins, " Et addidit, Accipe, inquit, baculum." 

 Bishop O'Cuillean has actually omitted all reference to the gift by St. Patrick 

 to St. Mac Cairthinn of his staff and shrine. How can this be accounted for? 

 Most readily, I think, on the supposition that the bishop rejected the old 

 legend of the donation of the Domnach. If lie had believed it to be a true 

 story, he would hardly have omitted it. It could not have been regarded as 

 one of the superfluous things which, as he tells us, he passed over in silence. 1 

 It will be remembered that we have already had reason to doubt that this 

 tradition was accepted at Clogher in 1308 ; and the story told 600 years 

 later, that the Domnach was brought from Borne by Donagh O'Hanlon, is 

 proof that it was not accepted in the Maguire country in the nineteenth 

 century. It is worthy of note, in this connexion, that in none of the extant 

 fragments of the Clogher Register is St. Patrick claimed as founder or first 

 bishop of the see, though St. Mac Cairthinn is said to have been his disciple 

 and " fortis athleta." In the Catalogue of bishops St. Mochta of Louth is the 

 first, 2 and St. Mac Cairthinn the second, St. Patrick receiving only incidental 



1 It is of course possible that this episode was not omitted by Bishop O'Cuillean. but 

 inserted from another source in the Codex Salmanticensis. If that be the true account of 

 the matter, we still have evidence that the Life of St. Mac Cairihinn used at Clogher knew 

 nothing of the donation. 



-' Extract ii. The uame is latinized " Matheus." According to Ware the Register 

 described Mac Cairthinn as the first bishop (De Praes. Hib., p. 41), but this is an error. 

 Jocelin ignores St. Mochta, and makes St. Patrick the first bishop. See above, p. lit 1 , 

 note. 



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