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Church; Toman/ of Mungret, and Kiltoman, near Shanid Castle; 

 Cuirbhin,- who taught among the TJi Fidgeinte ; Lachtan, of Eealach 

 Tebrat and 3Iurdebhair, a synod's diadem at Disert and Morgans 

 churches. The very obscure Mochealloc, Dachealloc, or Celloc, 

 reputed founder of Kilmallock,* may be provisionally placed in the 

 sixth century, but will be noted later on. Aedan, Bishop of Ferns, 

 visited the TJi Chonail Gabhra, and founded Cluain Chlaidech (probably 

 Mahoonagh), and possibly also Shanavoha^ and Clonca, where he is 

 the traditional patron ; he died about 625. Oenghus the Culdee, 

 patron and, perhaps, founder of Disert Oengussa, near Croom, died 

 in 812. 



YII. Patkons and Chuech Names. — About 100 out of nearly 400 

 churches bear the prefix of "Kil," sixteen of '^Temple," three of 

 " Agiish," and one of ' ' Donagh." In the Ardagh and Eruree districts 

 all the " Temples " are attributed to the Templars ; and strange tales 

 are told at I^'ewcastle and Rosstemple of the excesses and destruction 

 of that hapless order of the church militant. The well-known pheno- 

 menon of Irish ecclesiology that the earlier churches are usually called 

 after their founders, rather than after the Deity, the Virgin, foreign 

 saints, or angels, gives no little value to churches with personal 

 names. AVe compile a list of these names (as a supplement to the 

 founders and patrons), from the wells, "kills," and "temples" of 

 Limerick : Eecan ; Eeinight ; Eride, or Erigid ; Eruainech, orEroney, 

 of Athlacca ; Caoide, of Kilkeedy ; Cathlan, of Cullan ; Kieran, of 

 Cloncagh and Kilfinnane ; Cohan ; Colman ; Colman mac Duach ; 

 Colum, or Dacolum ; Comgan ; Cornan ; Dioma ; Eany ; Eline ; 

 Pinche, of Kilfinny ; Pintan ; Gobban, or MacGoban ; Ina ; Ite, 

 Mide, or Deirdi'e ; Lasragh ; Lelia ; Lonan ; Mainchin ; Mochealloc, 

 Dachelloc, or Celloc ; Mochuda ; Molua, of Ardagh and Emlygrennan ; 

 Murdebhair, of Morgans ; Onchu, and Ultan. Local legends and the 



1 Calendar of Oenghus, July 25. 



- Ihid.^ p. cxx, July 20. 



^ Ibid., pp. clxii, clxviii, Nov 3. 



4 Henry O'Brien "Mysteries," «S:e., p. 201, identifies this saint with Moloch, 

 and stated that Kilmallock, or Magolicon, meant ''Moloch Icon," from a famous 

 image of the " horrid king." Of course later visionaries have adopted this theory, 

 and its appearance in recent literature calls for notice. Colgan identifies the saint 

 with Mochelloc, of Cathair na Conchaigh, circa 590. 



° The name is interesting in view of his foundation of a similar name — Sean 

 Boithe, in County Wexford. 



