[175] Ibid.

[176] McAlister, R. S., Muiredach, Abbot of Monasterboice, p. 63.

[177] The number of Canonical Hours vary in different Rules; some give six, others seven; the Bangor usage was eight. See notes by R. I. Best on Tractate on the Canonical Hours edited from the Lebor Brecc in Miscellany to Kuno Meyer.

[178] See Concannon, Helen, op. cit. pp. 58, 67; Plummer, I., cxvii.

[179] MacAlister, R. S., Muiredach, Abbot of Clonmacnoise, p. 63.

[180] See above Means of Support.

[181] Concannon, Helen, op. cit. p. 75.

[182] Healy, J., op. cit. p. 104.

[183] Published in Skene’s Celtic Scotland, II., p. 509.

[184] Adamnan, Vita S. Columbae, Reeves Edition, p. 9.