[253] Four Masters.
[254] At the Dissolution in A.D. 1539 the Book came into the hands of Gerald Plunket of Dublin, but he appears to have restored it to the monks of Kells.
[255] Such is the opinion of the learned Cardinal Moran expressed to the writer in person.
[256] See Reeves’ Adamnan, page 275.
[257] Green Leaves, by T. D. Sullivan.
[258] From an account written in A.D. 1761.
[259] This cross ‘in margine viae’ is the only cross now in the island which could answer Adamnan’s description as that nigh to which Columba sat down to rest himself on his last journey from the monastic farm.—Page 231.
[260] Irish Life.
[261] Codex A. of Adamnan’s Vita.
[262] Greek characters are found in Adamnan’s earliest MSS.