_Ib._, B. i. cc. 24, 41; B. ii. c. 15; B. iii. c. 8. See ed. 1874, Appendix I., for an account of the monasteries in Tiree. Footnote 257: _Ib._, B. i. c. 29. Footnote 258: _Ib._, B. i. c. 35. Footnote 259: Adamnan, B. i. c. 15. Footnote 260: _Ib._, B. i. c. 24. Footnote 261: See Reeves’s _Adamnan_, ed. 1874, App. No. I., for an account of the remains on this island. Footnote 262: _Vit. S. Kannechi_, cc. 19, 27, 28. Footnote 263: Adamnan, B. ii. c. 17; i. 25; ii. 32. Footnote 264: See the edition of 1874, p. 274, for a description of these ruins in Skye. Footnote 265: 592 Obitus Lugdach Lissmoir _.i. Moluoc_.—_Chron. Picts and Scots_, p. 67. Footnote 266: Colgan, _Tr. Th._, p. 481. _Obits of Christ Church, Dublin_, p. 65. Footnote 267: Colgan, _A.SS._, p. 233. Footnote 268: Reeves’s _Adamnan_, ed. 1874, p. 293. Footnote 269: _Cetrar for coicait lotar hi martrai la Donnan Ega._ Footnote 270: Book of Deer, published by the Spalding Club in 1869, p. 91. Footnote 271: 584 Mors Bruidhe mac Maelchon _Rig Cruithneach_.—_Chron. Picts and Scots_, p. 67. Footnote 272: Adamnan, B. ii. c. 34. Footnote 273: _Chron. Picts and Scots_, p. 201. Constantin reigned from 790 to 820 and Gartnaidh from 584 to 599, which places the foundation of Abernethy during the ten years from 584 to 596. Footnote 274: _Amra Columcille_, by O’Beirne Crowe, pp. 29, 63. Footnote 275: Introduction to _Obits of Christ Church_, by Dr. Todd, p. lxxvii. Footnote 276: _Vit. S. Cainneci_ in Archbishop Marsh’s Library, Dublin, cap. 19. The Breviary of Aberdeen gives his festival as ‘Sancti Caynici abbatis qui in Kennoquy in diocesi Sancti Andree pro patrono habetur.’—_Pars Æstiv. for_ cxxv. Footnote 277: Blaan is mentioned in the Martyrology of Angus the Culdee, at 10th August as ‘Blann the wild of Cinngaradh;’ and the gloss adds, ‘_i.e._ bishop of Cinngaradh, _i.e._ Dumblaan is his chief city, and he is also of Cinngaradh in the Gall-Gaedelu, or Western Isles.’—Int. to _Obits of Christ Church_, p. lxviii. Footnote 278: Adamnan, B. i. c. 3. Alither became fourth abbot of Clonmacnois on 12th June 585, and died in 599.—Reeves’s _Adamnan_, orig. ed., p. 24, _note_. Footnote 279: Adamnan, B. iii. c. 23. Footnote 280: This little hill is twice mentioned by Adamnan. In B. i. c. 24, he describes the saint as ‘in cacumine sedens montis qui nostro huic monasterio eminus supereminet;’ and on this occasion he has ‘monticellum monasterio supereminentum ascendens in vertice ejus paululum stetit.’ If the monastery and Columba’s cell have been rightly placed, it must have been the rocky knoll behind Clachanach called _Cnoc an bristeclach_. Footnote 281: