[180] See Father D. O’Donoghue’s interesting Paper in the Journal of the R.S.A.I. for 1891, page 706.
[181] Life of St. Ita.
[182] See Latin Life of St. Brendan, edited by Cardinal Moran.
[183] “Bute (Scotland) is said to derive its name from bothe, a cell, St. Branden having once made it the place of his retreat, and for the same reason, the natives of this isle, and also of Arran, have been sometimes styled Brandani.”—Pennant’s Tour in Scotland, vol. ii., 4th edition, Dublin, 1775, p. 164.
[This note was sent to us by the late lamented Mr. Hennessy.]
[184] Annals of Clonmacnoise.
[185] From the late W. M. Hennessy we received shortly before his lamented death the following note:—
“In an Irish MS. in Trinity College, Dublin (Class H. 1, 7), in a tract beginning on fol. 84, two poems are copied, the composition of which is ascribed to St. Brendan (obviously of Clonfert). The first, No. 7, begins—
An da Aodh mo dha Charaid
(The two Hughs, my two friends).
The second begins—