[47] Near Killarney in Co. Kerry. But, as I have shown, he was probably Bearchan of Cluainsosta. There is no Berchan of Glenflesk in any of the Irish martyrologies.

[48] A common proverb.

[49] Westport.

[50] "A cleric without a bell," and "the forgetting his bell by the cleric," are common proverbs in Irish.

[51] Biastaide luathe na mara.

[52] This passage about Bobhur is not in the R.I.A. copy only the part about the Duibhin.

[53] Mo chathair si agus mo thigheas easbogoidheacht in my MS. "Mo theaghdhais easbogoideachta" 23 M 50. 1758.

[54] Literally, "in the gallows."

[55] This story was told to me in the garden of Mr. Reddington Roche, at Rye Hill.

[56] Pronounced "Paudyeen Creeöna."