[162] Aubrey de Vere’s Translation—Irish Odes and other Poems.
[163] “In the Islands of the Tyrrhene Sea.”—Fiacc’s Hymn.
[164] Confession, page 396, Vol. II., Rolls Series.
[165] Loman was a Briton, and Scotha, mother of Fortchern, was also a Briton, perhaps a connection.
[166] Loca Patriciana, page 152.
[167] The Life in the Book of Lismore says that he was then thirty years of age, and that he had previously founded three churches in his native territory—Ross Cuire, Drumfiaid, and Magh Glass.
[168] Gerald Barry seems to think the name meant the Valley of Roses, of which he says there were none—it should rather be called the Marble Valley.
[169] See Itinerarium Cambriae, page 102.
[170] See Tripartite, vol. ii., page 632.
[171] See Loca Patriciana, page 204.