[346] London, 1864. There is an Irish Life in the Book of Lismore.
[347] See 25th Sept.
[348] See Vita S. Davidis, Lectio vi., p. 394. Rolls Series, Vol. iii.
[349] This clearly shows that Loch Eirce was at Cork, not in the mountains at Gougane Barra, for they rest with Finbarr.
[350] In the Annals of Ulster the death of Diarmaid and Blathmac, sons of Aedh Slaine, is marked both at A.D. 664 and 667; the former is the true date.
[351] Acta SS., page 471.
[352] It is not easy to see how Fachtna could have visited the School of Cork, for he died young, and the school could scarcely be founded before the last quarter of the sixth century.
[353] Acta SS., page 471.
[354] See Acta SS., page 607, Life of St. Talmach.
[355] See the Paper by the Rev. Thomas Olden (in the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Jan., 1884), who gives the text and a translation of this geographical poem of Mac Cosse.