hyme-scheme; apparently three lines from a quatrain rhyming _abab_.
Refers to incident XLI.

6. Six lines in elegiac couplets. This probably refers to XLVI, but
without their original context the lines must remain obscure. In any
case the versifier has the story in a rather different form from the
prose writers, and appears to regard it as an incident of the boyhood
period.

7. Eight lines from the hymn of Colum Cille, already commented upon.

ADDITIONAL NOTE ON CIARAN'S BIRTHPLACE

Some place-names in the barony of Moycashel (S. Co. Westmeath), which
lies in Cenel Fiachach, support the tradition that Ciaran's birthplace
is to be sought there, and not in Mag Ai at all. I can find nothing
in the local nomenclature to suggest Raith Cremthainn; but
"Templemacateer" (_Teampull mhic an tsaoir_, the "Church of the
Wright's son") may be compared with, and perhaps equated to the
similarly named "house" (p. 111); "Ballynagore" (_Baile na ngabhar_,
the "town of the goats," or "horses") perhaps echoes the "Tir na
Gabrai" of VG 3. About half a mile to the west is _Tulach na crosain_,
the "Mound of the crosslet"--possibly the missing cross of Ciaran (LA
4). At the outflow of the Brosna from Loch Ennell is "Clonsingle,"
which it is tempting to equate to the place-name corrupted to "Cluain
Innsythe," in LA 12.

An additional suggestion may here be made to the effect that the
eldest son and daughter of Beoit were twins. Their names, _Lug-oll_
"big Lug," and _Lug-beg_ "little Lug," are in correspondence, as
twins' names often are.

[Footnote 1: For brevity we shall refer to certain books, frequently
quoted in these Annotations, by the following symbols--

LL. _Lives of Saints from the Book of Lismore_, ed. Stokes.
CS. _Codex Salmaticensis_ (Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae), ed. de
Smedt and de Backer.
VTP. _Vita Tripartita Patricii_, ed. Stokes.
VSH. Plummer's _Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae_.
TT. _Trias Thaumaturga_ (Colgan's collection of the lives of
SS. Patrick, Brigid, and Colum Cille).]

[Footnote 2: There is a different version, which need not be given
here, in the _Martyrology of Oengus_ (Henry Bradshaw Society edition,
p. 204).]

[Footnote 3: Mentioned in _Annals of Ulster_, anno 1166, _Annals of
Loch Ce_, anno 1189, _Annals of the Four Masters_, annis 1121, 1166.]

[Footnote 4: A collection (in Irish) of the traditions of this person
will be found in _Targaireacht Bhriain ruaidh ui Chearbhain_, by
Micheal o