[204] And sometimes Ninian, because he was confounded with the original founder.
[205] Book ii. c. i.
[206] Le gach boin a boinin.
[207] Cardinal Moran’s Essays, page 138.
[208] Book of Rights, page 100, note.
[209] See Chronicon Scotorum, compiled at Clonmacnoise.
[210] Vita S. Ciarani.
[211] This date of the Latin Life is quite accurate. The Dominical letter for that year is C.B.; therefore the 1st of January was on Friday, and the 23rd was Saturday; and the 9th of Sept. was also on Saturday. We cannot, however, now ascertain the exact day of the moon, for the old cycle was then in use.
[212] Chronicon Scotorum. Anno 544.
[213] Colgan says that some of the Druids continued in Ireland down to the eighth century, and were held in high esteem in certain parts of the country as poets and sheanachies.—Acta SS., page 149, n. 15.