Of the _Cele De_ there is no trace at Kells, at least under that name, for by this time the name of _Cele De_ had long passed in Ireland from the _Deoradh_, or pilgrims, to the Secular canons, nor do they appear in connection with any of the Columban monasteries in Ireland; but we find the type of the Iona _Cele De_ in another Irish monastery. This was the celebrated monastery of Clonmacnois, which was founded on the banks of the Shannon in the sixth century by St. Ciaran, one of the twelve apostles of Ireland, and where St. Columba had been received with so much honour in the later years of his life. And here, with the exception of the _Disert_ and its _Disertach_, which, as we have seen, had been derived from the Columban monastery of Kells, we find the same ecclesiastical functionaries in the community as appear in that of Iona. The _Sacart_, or priest, makes his appearance at Clonmacnois before the year 914, when the death of Maelbairrfinn, _Sacart_, or priest, of Clonmacnois, is recorded. In 948 we have the death of a _prim-sacart_, or chief priest of Clonmacnois; and in 1109 he appears under the same designation as he bears in Iona, and in the same position of being, in the absence of an abbot, at the head of the community; for in that year died Flaithbertach Ua Loingsigh, coärb of Ciaran, and _Sacart mor_, or great priest, of Clonmacnois. We also find the _Ferleighinn_ frequently mentioned both under that title and that of _Scribnidh_, or scribe, during the eighth, ninth, tenth and eleventh centuries, as one of the community of Clonmacnois; and here, as elsewhere, this office was frequently combined with others in the community. But the most remarkable feature of the community at Clonmacnois is the appearance of a line of hereditary Anchorites, descending from father to son for several generations, and finally merging in the title of _Cenn na Cele De_, or head of the Culdees. The first of these is Eoghan, Anchorite of Clonmacnois, who died in 845. His son Luchairen appears as scribe and anchorite at Clonmacnois. Egertach, the son of the latter, is Erenagh of the little church of Clonmacnois, and his son Dunadhach is bishop of Clonmacnois; but Dunadhach’s son Dunchadh is first _Ferleighinn_, or lector, of Clonmacnois and afterwards its Anchorite. His son Joseph appears as Anmchara, or soul-friend, of Clonmacnois, and he was father to Conn _na mbocht_, or of the poor, whose death is recorded in 1031 as _Cenn na Cele De_, or Head of the Culdees, and Anchorite of Clonmacnois.[691] A century later we find this title of Head of the _Cele De_ of Clonmacnois hereditary in a family called Ua Neachtain; for in 1132 is recorded the death of Uareirghe Ua Neachtain, _Cenn Cele De_, or Head of the Culdees of Clonmacnois. In 1170 that of Maelmordha, son of Uareirghe, ‘a learned charitable senior, the prosperity and affluence of Clonmacnois and _Cenn na Chele De_,’ or Head of the Culdees; and in