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in St. Columb's Chapel. They went this length seven times from the monu- 

 ment just mentioned, and at the commencement of every seven times of 

 these; they went rcnnd the monument itself seven times,' They went round 

 St. Caimin's church 14 times; the tower and all the churches around it, 

 being included in the rounds. They went round a station monument at the 

 end of St. Caimin's Church, either the one (a httle mound of earth) immediately 

 at the S. W. corner or the one (also a little mound of earth) within a few 

 yards of the X. W. corner of it.' They also went 7 times round G-draidh 

 Mhiehedil, St. Michael's Garden; and 7 times round the bank of earth about 

 St. Michael's Church, and 7 times round a large flag stone lying at it,^ on 

 which stone, they ,/?««//?/ (i.e. after ha^ong gone round it the 7 times) impressed 

 kisses. They went 7 times round Saint Mary's Church and 7 times round 

 the baptism church.* They finished at the well, and drank of its water. 

 This is the most accurate description I could get of the mode in which the 

 st-ation at the island was performed. I could not get a minute description, 

 which would detail the number of prayers repeated during the process of 

 the rounds. Xor am I certain that the description I have given here, affords 

 a correct \-iew of the order of the process. I introduced it here merely to 

 show what station monuments were made use of." 



' I presume this means, to express it mathematically, 7 (7.r - y), where x denotes the 

 round of the station monument, and y the journey from the station to the altar and 

 back. The punctuation in this and the other extracts from the O. S. Letters follows the 

 original Ms. 



- These mounds have been trampled down by cattle, and can no longer be traced with 

 certainty. 



^ For this flagstone, see mite, p. 118. 



■■ St. Brigid's. 



XOTE ADDED IN PkkSS. 



Add the following at the place indicated on p. 101 : — 



To add to the complication, the Four Masters tell us of a certain St. 

 Colman Stellan, who died 26 May 624. As 26 May happens also to be 

 the day of the Inis Cealtra St«llan, and likewise of the mysterious 

 daughters of Fergus (p. 106), there is clearly a deep-seated confusion here. 

 Probably the solution is that aU these pie-Caiuiin saints are multiples of 

 the one personality. 



