[382] See Gilbert’s National Manuscripts, Vol. i., page 21.
[383] See Skene’s Celtic Scotland, Introduction, page 3.
[384] Bede, Liber iii., C. v.
[385] See Irish Ecclesiastical Record, for April, 1887.
[386] Bede, Eccles. Hist., Book iv., c. 4.
[387] A.D. 644, “Navigatio Colmain episcopi cum reliquis Scotorum ad insulam Vaccae Albae in quâ fundavit ecclesiam.” Ch. Scotorum.
[388] They say he came in the year in which Diarmait and Blathmac died; that is, in A.D. 664, according to the first entry.
[389] See the Four Masters, the second entry in the Annals of Ulster A.D. 667, and Tighernach, who has it in A.D. 668.
[390] See also O’Hanlon’s Lives of the Saints.
[391] Clare was a part of Connaught, at least at an earlier date.