[294] See Graves, ib. The conjecture is accepted by Dr. Stokes (Trip. Life, 269, note 2).
[295] Colgan, Acta SS. p. 465 and n. 31.
[296] Ann. Ult. s.a.
[297] See Reeves, Adamnan, pp. l. li. Professor Kuno Meyer has just published an old Irish treatise on the “Law of Adamnan” passed at this synod (“Cáin Adamnáin,” in Anecdota Oxoniensia, 1905). The document contains a list of the bishops, abbots, and kings present at the synod which was held at Birr. Muirchu appears (p. 18): Murchu maccúi Machthéine. Muirchu appears in the Martyrologies under June 8 (see Calendar of Oengus, ed. Stokes, p. xciii.).
[298] I suggested this in the Guardian, Nov. 20, 1901, p. 1615, c. 2.
[299] Muirchu does not name his father’s work, but his expression ingenioli mei (269₁₄) may be an echo of the rusticus sermo ingenioli mei in the prologue to the Vita Brigidae.
[300] 271₁₇.
[301] 269₁₉.
[302] This is suggested by the use of the third person. In the Preface Muirchu writes in the first person. The note is similar to the note which is prefixed to the memoir of Tírechán and is obviously due to a copyist.
[303] See 495₃ Rolls ed. (ad Britanias nauigauit), and 495₂₆₋ (the second captivity).