This is an example of a peculiar form in which the names of many of the saints appear in Irish. As a mark of affection, the syllable _mo_, meaning ‘my,’ was prefixed, and the syllable _og_, meaning ‘little,’ added to the name; and when the name ended with the diminutive form _an_, it was altered to _og_. Thus, Ronan becomes _Moronog_, or my little Ronan; Colman, _Mocholmog_; Aedan, _Moaedog_ or Madoc, etc. Footnote 515: 737 Bass Ronain abbatis Cindgaradh.—_Tigh._ For the legends of St. Modan and St. Ronan see Bishop Forbes’s _Calendars of the Scottish Saints_, pp. 400, 441. Footnote 516: 725 Oan, princeps Ego, mortuns est.—_An. Ult._ Footnote 517: 727 Adamnani reliquie transferuntur in Hiberniam et lex renovatur.—_Tigh._ Footnote 518: This passage is quoted by Dr. Reeves in his edition of Adamnan (Ed. 1874, p. clxv.), on whose authority it is here given. Footnote 519: 3d July. _Cilline Abb. Iae._—_Mart. Tam._ _Abb. Iae Cholaimcille an Cilline Droichteach sin._—_Mart. Marian._ _Ib._, p. clxxiii. Footnote 520: 752 Mors Cilline Droichtigh ancorite Iea.—_Tigh._ Footnote 521: Reeves’s _Adamnan_, ed. 1874, pp. cxxxix.-cxliii. Footnote 522: Petrie’s _Round Towers_, p. 423. Footnote 523: 737 Failbe mac Guairi eires (hæres) Maelrubai in Apuorcrossan in profundo pelagi dimersus est cum suis nautis numero xxii.—_Tigh._, _Chron. Picts and Scots_, p. 76. Footnote 524: Colgan gives the following correct explanation of the word:—‘Vox autem Hibernica _comhorba_ vel radicitus _comh-fhorba_, a qua desumitur, derivata videtur a _comh_, id est, con vel simul; et _forba_, id est, terra, ager, districtus; ut ex vocis origine Comhorbanus idem sit quod Conterraneus.’—_Tr. Th._ p. 630. Footnote 525: See Dr. Todd’s _St. Patrick_, p. 155, for an account of the Coärbs; also Dr. Reeves’s paper in _Proceedings of R. I. A._, vol. vi. p. 467. Footnote 526: See King’s _Introduction to the Early History of Armagh_, p. 17. Footnote 527: 749 Ventus magnus. Dimersio familiæ Iea.—_Tigh._ Footnote 528: 752 Mors Cilline _Droictigh_ ancoritæ Iea. Cumine hua Becc religiosus Eco mortuus est. _Bass_ Cilline mac Congaile in Hi.—_Ib._ Footnote 529: 754 Slebine abbas Iea in Hiberniam venit.—_Ib._ 757 Lex Coluimcille la Slebine.—_Ib._ 758 Reuersio Slebine in Hiberniam.—_Ib._ Footnote 530: For this we have only the Annals of the Four Masters, who have in 754 (_recte_ 759) ‘_Feidhlimidh mac Failbe abb Iae decc iar secht mbliadhna ochtmoghat a aeisi._’ Footnote 531: 766 Suibne abbas Iae in Hiberniam venit.—_An. Ult._ Footnote 532: 767 Quies Slebine Iae.—_Ib._ Footnote 533: 772 Mors Suibne abbas Iae.—_Ib._ Footnote 534: It may be useful to insert here a table showing these rival abbots from the death of Adamnan in 704 to the accession of Breasal in 772. Those who belonged to the race of Conall Gulban are printed in old English letters; the strangers in Roman.