[477] Tripartite, Rolls Series, Vol. ii., page 530.
[478] Vol. ii., page 349.
[479] O’Curry, M. & C.—Vol. ii., p. 33.
[480] The earliest authority we know for the first part of this title is the ancient author of St. Alban’s Life:—“In hac insula tot viri eximiae sanctitatis fuerunt quod Insula Sanctorum nomine appropriato dicebatur.” The corresponding Irish form was Inis na Naomh. Marianus Scotus, in his Chronicle, also calls it by the same title—Insula Sanctorum—under date of the year 696, but which is really A.D. 589. See Reeves’ notes in the Ulster Journal of Archæology, vol. vii., p. 228.
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