Ipsum quoque locum Benchor tradidit ei princeps, ut ædificaret ibi monasterium, vel potius reædificaret. Nempe nobilissimum extiterat ante sub primo patre Congello, multa millia monachorum generans, multorum monasteriorum caput. Locus vere sanctus fœcundusque sanctorum, copiosissime fructificans Deo, ita ut unus ex filiis sanctæ illius congregationis, nomine Luanus, centum solus monasteriorum fundator extitisse feratur. Hiberniam Scotiamque repleverunt genimina ejus. Nec modo in præfatas, sed in exteras etiam regiones, quasi inundatione facta, illa se sanctorum examina effuderunt; e quibus ad has nostras Gallicanas partes sanctus Columbanus ascendens Lexoviense construxit monasterium, factus ibi in gentem magnam. Hæc de antiqua dicta sint Benchorensis monasterii gloria.—_Vit. S. Malachiæ_, cap. 5. Footnote 113: _xl. mili manach co rath De fo mam Chomgaill Benchuir_, hos omnes invoco. Footnote 114: Martyr. Donegal, p. 177. Footnote 115: Aper statim in conspectu viri Dei virgas et fenum ad materiem cellæ construendæ dentibus suis fortiter abscidit.—Colgan, _A.SS._, p. 458. Footnote 116: _Boll. A.SS._, Jun. 1, 316. Footnote 117: Ecclesia in monasterio sanctæ Monennæ cum supradicta abbatissa construitur tabulis dedolatis, juxta morem Scotticarum gentium, eo quod macerias Scotti non solent facere, nec factas habere.—_Vit. S. Mon._ Footnote 118: _Durthech .i. dairtech .i. tech darach no deirthech .i. tech .i. telgter dera._ ‘_Durthech_, _i.e._ dairtech, _i.e._ a house of oak, or _deirtech_, _i.e._ a house in which tears are shed.’—Petrie’s _Round Towers_, p. 342. Footnote 119: Dr. Petrie has made the history and use of these buildings perfectly plain in his great work on the _Round Towers of Ireland_. Footnote 120: It is thus explained in the old glossaries:—_Daimliag .i. tegais cloch._ ‘_Daimliag_, _i.e._ an edifice of stone.’—Petrie’s _Round Towers_, pp. 141, 142. Footnote 121: Petrie’s _Round Towers_, pp. 343, 344. Footnote 122: In Cormac’s Glossary it is thus explained:—_Aurdom_, _i.e._ _urdom_, _i.e._ side house, or against a house externally. Footnote 123: See Petrie’s _Round Towers_, pp. 425, 426. Footnote 124: