449 



"We have no record of his visiting Scotland, although his memory 

 was vividly preserved in that country. The Breviary of Aberdeen no- 

 tices him, in the Proprium Sanctorum, at Jan. 31, as Sanctus Mo- 

 docus epyscopus et confessor eximius apud Kilniodok," but despatches 

 his commemoration with a short collect. Adam King antedates his 

 existence by no less than 200 years, observing, at his day, ^' S. Modoche 

 bishop in Scotland under Crathlintus, king, 328." Dempster follows 

 in the same track, calling him Iledothus, and adding some particulars, 

 which never had any existence except in his mendacious brain. Came- 

 rarius and the Martyrology of Aberdeen merely notice him, at January 

 31, as of Kilmadok. 



The Welsh have a lively recollection of him as Aeddan Foeddog, son 

 of Caw ; and it is probably owing to his connexion with St. David that 

 the clergy of Menevia claimed Ferns as a suffragan bishopric of St. Da- 

 vid' s.^^ Traces of his memory are also retained in Pembrokeshire, as he is 

 the reputed founder of Llanhuadain, or Llawhaden, in that county ; and 

 the churches of l^olton and "West-Haroldstown are ascribed to him, under 

 the name of Madog. His festival in Wales also is Jan. 31.^*^ 



Hanmer confounds this bishop, under his name of Aidan, with the 

 founder of Lindisfarn ; while Chatelain and Alban Butler erroneously 

 refer to him the Acts of S. Mo-maedhog, of May 18, who is commemo- 

 rated at fhat day in Lower Britany, under the name of St. De. 



ST. MOEDOC's lEISH CHUECHES. 



1. Feeints. peapna. — A bishop's see in the county of Wexford. 

 He has been alwa^^s regarded as the patron saint, under the name 

 Mogue, which is a common Christian name among the Eoman Catholics, 

 often corrupted to Moses. The Protestants employ his other name 

 Aidan. 



2. Deumlat^te. t)puim-leacain. — A parish in the north of the county 

 of Cavan, formerly the head of a rural deanery, and now remarkable on 

 account of its ancient church and round tower. S. Moedoc is the pa- 

 tron of it, but his Life speaks of a monastery as existing there before 

 hisbirth.^2 



3. Templepoet. Ceampull an pbuipc. — A parish in the north- 

 west of the county of Cavan. In Brackley Lough, in the north of the 

 parish, is the island of Brackley or Breaghwy, formerly Imp bpeciiiaig, 

 ''Wolf- field IslaDd," where the saint was born.^^ South of this is Tem- 

 pleport Lake, where is St. Mogue^s Island, with the ruins of his ancient 

 church ,"* His memory is vividly preserved in this parish. 



3^ Breviarium Aberdonense, Pars Hyeraalis, fol. 45 ha. 



39 Ussher's Works, vol. v., p. 113. 



40 Rees, "Welsh Saints," p. 228. 



^' See the drawing in the Ulster Journal of Archseol., vol. v., pp. 110-116. 

 42 Life c. 1. Colgan, Act. SS., p. 208 a. 



« Colgan, Acta SS. p. 216 a, n. 6, 221 a ; Martyrology of Donegal, p. 33 ; O'Do- 

 novan on the Four Masters, A. D. 1406, vol. iv., p. 1228. 

 44 Ordnance Survey of Cavan, Sheet 13. 



