450 



4. RossiNVEE. "Rop inbip. — A parish in the extreme north of the 

 county of Leitrim, where the saint's memory is kept as the patron. 



5. KiLLYBEG. Caille bega. — Atownland of the parish of Inishmac- 

 saint, in the connty of Fermanagh. Here, according to Colgan, was a 

 miraculous stone called Lac-Maodhoc, or Maedoc's stone, 



6. Dyseet. Oipepc "Naipbpe. — townland in the parish of Ard- 

 more, in the south-east of the county of Waterford.^^ 



7. Cloncagh. Cluain clai&each. — A parish in the territory of Hy- 

 Conaill Gablira, now the barony of Connello Upper, in the county of 

 Limerick.^''' 



8. Aedamine. Opt) La6pann. — A parish in the barony of Ballagh- 

 keen, on the sea coast, in the county of Wexford. 



9. Clonmoee. Cluain map. — A parish in the barony of Eantry, in 

 the centre of the county of Wexford. It was formerly called Cluain-mor- 

 Bicholla Gairlh. This is not to be confounded with Cluain-mor Maedhoc, 

 which is mentioned in the Annals, and which was so called from another 

 St. Moedhoc, whose day is April 11: his church is Clonmore, in the 

 county of Carlo w. Archdall falls into the error of confounding these 

 two saints and their respective churches.^^ 



ST. MOEDOC'S SCOTCH CHUECHES. 



1. KiLMADOCK A large parish in Menteith, in the south of Perth- 

 shire, north-west of Stirling. The name is believed to signify the 

 Chapel of St.Madock, Madocus, or Modocus, one of the Culdees."^^ 



2. St. Madoes A very small parish, in the Carse of Gowrie, south- 

 east of Perth. The name is written in early records St. Madois, and is 

 commonly called Semniiedores'm the district, where are The stannin 

 stanes o' Semmiedores."^'^ There is an ancient monument here called the 

 St. Madoes Stone, of which a drawing is given in The Sculptured 

 Stones of Scotland."^^ The writer in the JN'ew Statistical Account rightly 

 conjectures that the parish is called from the patron saint of Kilma- 

 dock, but errs greatly in styling him a Gallic missionary."*^ 



3. Balmadies. — An estate in the south-east end of the parish of 

 Eescobie, in Porfarshire. The cemetery is at Chapeltown.^^ 



*5 Acta Sanctorum, p. 293 a. 

 46 Ibid. 



« Colgan, Acta SS. p. 219 6, n. 37 ; Archdall, Monasticon, p. 420. 

 48 Monasticon Hibernicum, p. 734. 



4'-^ New Statistical Account of Scotland, vol. x., p. 1224. See also the Old Statistical 

 Account, vol. XX., pp. 40-92 ; Innes, Civil and Ecclesiastical History of Scotland, p. 161. 



50 New Statistical Account, vol. x., pp. 607, 624, 626. 



51 Published by the Spalding Club. See Plates LV., LVI., and Notices of the Plates, 

 p. 16. 



52 Vol. X., p. 608. See Old Statistical Account, vol. iii., p. 568. 



53 Old Statistical Account, vol. xiv.^ p. 602 ; New Statistical Account, vol. xi., part 1, 

 p. 607. 



