[Footnote 26: See his Life in Colgan's _Trias Thaumaturga_, vol. ii. p. 466.] [Footnote 27: _Scotichronicon_, lib. xv. cap. 23.] [Footnote 28: _Scotichronicon_, lib. xv. cap. 38.] [Footnote 29: _Ibid._ lib. xv. cap. 48.] [Footnote 30: Images, or statues in wood, of the founders or patrons of churches of the sixth and seventh centuries, were common in Ireland, and no doubt in the Gaelic portion of Scotland. Some of these "images" are still preserved in islands on the west coast of Ireland. "St. Barr's wooden image" was preserved in his church in the island of Barray.--See Martin's _Western Isles of Scotland_, pp. 92, 93. But Macaulay, in his _History of St. Kilda_, p. 75, says, that this was an image of St. Brandan, to whom the church was consecrated.--P.] [Footnote 31: _Ibid._ lib. xiii. cap. 34. When, in 1355, the navy of King Edward came up the Forth, and "spulyeit" Whitekirk, in East Lothian, still more summary vengeance was taken upon such sacrilege. For "trueth is (says Bellenden) ane Inglisman spulyeit all the ornamentis that was on the image of our Lady in the Quhite Kirk; and incontinent the crucifix fel doun on his head, and dang out his harnis."--(Bellenden's _Translation of Hector Boece's Croniklis_, lib. xv. c. 14; vol. ii. p. 446.)] [Footnote 32: _Scotichronicon_, lib. xiii. cap. 37.] [Footnote 33: See George Chalmers' _Caledonia_, vol. i. p. 320.] [Footnote 34: "Within the bay call'd _Loch-Colmkill_, three miles further south, lies _Lough Erisort_, which hath an anchoring-place on the south and north."--Martin, p. 4. "The names of the churches in Lewis Isles, and the saints to whom they were dedicated, are St. _Columbkil's_, in the island of that name," etc.--_Ibid._ p. 27. I suspect that all the churches founded by Columba bore anciently the name of Columbkill. Bede tells that the saint bore the united name of Columbkill.--_Hist. Ec._ v. 9; and all the churches founded by him in Ireland, or places called after him, are, I think, invariably so designated. Thus also the lake near Mugstot, in Skye, now drained, and on the island of which the most undoubted remains of a monastic establishment of Columb's time still exist, was called Lough Columbkill, and the island Inch Columbkill.--P.] [Footnote 35: See, for example, the notes on this passage in the editions of Steevens and Malone.] [Footnote 36: Holinshed's _Chronicles_, vol. v. p. 268.] [Footnote 37: _Scotorum Historiae_, lib. xi. f. 225, 251.] [Footnote 38: See his great work on the _Sculptured Stones of Scotland_, plate cxxv. p. 39.] [Footnote 39: I do not believe that there is a single example of armorial bearings to be found either in Scotland or Ireland of an earlier date than the close of the twelfth century.--P.] [Footnote 40: Bellenden's _Translation of Boece's Croniklis of Scotland_, lib. xii. 2, vol. ii. p. 258.] [Footnote 41: _Scotorum Historiae_ (1526), lib. xii. p. 257.] [Footnote 42: _History of Fife and Kinross_, p. 35.]