Celtic Scotland : $b A history of ancient Alban. Volume 2 (of 3), Church and cultureSkene, W. F. (William Forbes)
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Celtic Scotland : $b A history of ancient Alban. Volume 2 (of 3), Church and culture
Skene, W. F. (William Forbes)
Celts -- Scotland; Civilization, Celtic; Scotland -- Antiquities, Celtic; Scotland -- History -- To 1603
The extensive prevalence of the dedications to Bridget or Bride in the
West Highlands and Islands shows the influence of the Irish Church at
this period in the western districts; and we learn from the old Lives of
St. Bridget that she was visited shortly before her death, which took
place in 525, by Nennidius, son of Ethath, ‘de partibus Mula,’ which
Colgan rightly takes to mean the island of Mull.[73] The dedications to
Odhran or Oran, too, in the islands connected with Dalriada, probably
belong to this earlier Dalriadic Church. Besides the cemetery in Iona
called Reilic Odhrain, he appears in Tyree, where there is a
burial-ground called Claodh Odhrain, in Colonsay at Killoran, and in
Mull at Tiroran, on the north bank of Loch Scridan. He appears to be the
same person as Odhran or Oran of Leitrioch-Odhrain, now Latteragh, in
the barony of Upper Ormond and county of Tipperary in Ireland, whose
death is recorded on the 2d October 548. He was of the same stock as the
people of Dalriada.[74]
[Sidenote: Church south of the Firths of Forth and Clyde.]
When we turn to the district south of the Firths of Forth and Clyde,
which contained a mixed population of Britons, Picts, and Saxons, the
former two of whom alone professed Christianity, we find, as we might
expect, that there was a connection between the Christian Church there
and both the British and the Irish Church. With the British Church we
may connect those sons of Brachan or Brychan who are said to have
founded churches in Manau. These are Rhun Dremrudd and Rhawin, two of
his sons who are said to have founded churches there and to have been
slain by the Saxons and Picts. Another son, Arthur, was buried in Manau;
and Nevydd, the son of Rhun, is said to have been a bishop in the north
and likewise to have been slain by the Saxons and Picts. In one account
his church is said to have been at _Lechgelyddon_, or ‘the Stone of
Celyddon’ or Caledonia, in the north; and his name is probably preserved
in Rosneveth, now Roseneath.[75]
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