[158] See note, [Appendix B].
[160] In barony of Slievemargy, in Queen’s County, a mile or so north-west of the town of Carlow.
[161] The Life by Muirchu, see [Appendix A, ii. 3].
[162] See note, [Appendix B].
[163] Generally described inaccurately as the Acts of a Synod. The genuineness of the document is vindicated in [Appendix A, 4].
[164] For this sphere of Christian activity in the early Church see Harnack, Mission und Ausbreitung des Christentums, p. 120.
[165] A Christian who believes in a supernatural female form (lamia quae interpretatur striga) seen in a mirror is to be anathematised. One is reminded of
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