. There is a man from him in
Cruachan-Aigle. The sound of his bell is heard, but it [the bell] is not
found. And there is a man from him in Gulban-Guirt; and the third man
from him is to the east of Cluain-Iraird, together with his wife. Both
entertained Patrick in the reign of Laeghaire Mac Neill, and they are,
and will be for ever, the same age. There is a man from him in
Dromanna-Bregh; there is another man from him in Sliabh-Slainge--_i.e._,
Domangart, son of Eochaidh. It is he that will raise Patrick's relics a
little before the Judgment. His cell is Rath-Murbhuilg, at the side of
Sliabh-Slainge; and there is always a shin (of beef), with its
accessories, and a pitcher of ale, before him every Easter, which is
given to Mass people on Easter Monday always. Patrick's charioteer died,
moreover, and was buried between Cruachan and the sea. Patrick went
afterwards into the country of the Corco-Themne, and baptized many
thousand persons there, and he founded four churches there, viz., in the
three Tuagha.
Patrick went then to Tobar-Finnmaighe--_i.e._, a well. It was told to
Patrick that the pagans honored this well as a god. The well was
four-cornered, and there was a four-cornered stone over its mouth, and
the foolish people believed that a certain dead prophet made it,
bibliothecam sibi in aqua sub petra ut dealbaret ossa sua semper, quia
timuit ignem, et zelavit Pat. de Deo vivo, dicens non vere dicitis quia
rex aquarum fons erat hoc necnon cum eis habuit rex aquarum, et dixit
Patricius petram elivari et non potuerunt elevavit autem eam petram;
Cainnech, que, baptizavit Patricius, et dixit erit semen tuum benedictum
in secula. Cill-Tog, in the territory of Corco-Themne--it was this
church that Bishop Cainnech, Patrick's monk, founded. One time, as
Patrick was travelling in the plains of Mac-Ercae--_i.e._, in Dichuil and
Erchuil--he saw a large sepulchre there, viz., 120 feet in length. The
brothers desiring that the dead man might be resuscitated, Patrick
thereupon "awoke" the dead man who was in the sepulchre, and questioned
him quando, et quomodo, et quo genere, et quo nomine esset. Respondit
sibi, dicens, "Ego sum Cass, filius of Glassi, qui fui subulcus Lugair
Iruatae, and Mac Conn's _fiann_ killed me in the reign of Cairpre Niafer,
in the hundredth year. I am here until to-day." Patrick baptized him,
and he went again into his sepulchre.
Quis comprehendere valet modi (_sic_) diligentise oratio
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