_Ib._, p. 442. See description of _Inis macsaint_, an island in Lough Erne, where Saint Ninnidh, one of the twelve apostles of Ireland, founded a monastery. ‘To the west and north of the church extend mounds of earth, which indicate the forms and positions of the ancient community dwellings. There was a rampart of mixed earth and stones, and this probably formed a _rath_, or _cashel_.’—O’Hanlon’s _Lives of the Saints_, vol. i. p. 322. The following is a good description of a small monastery:—Erat enim habitatio eorum sparsa. Tamen unanimiter illorum conversatio in spe, fide et charitate fundata erat. Una refectio, ad opus Dei perficiendum una ecclesia est. Nihil aliud cibi ministrabatur illis, nisi poma et nuces atque radices et cetera genera herbarum. Fratres, post completorium, in singulis cellulis usque ad gallorum cantus seu campanæ pulsum pernoctabant.—_Acta S. Brendani_, p. 86. Footnote 125: This is stated in their acts. The Martyrology of Donegal has under Enda, abbot of Ara, ‘Thrice fifty was his congregation;’ and under Ruadhan, son of Ferghus, abbot of Lothra, ‘There were one hundred and fifty in his congregation, and they used to obtain sufficiency always without human labour to sustain them, by continually praying to, and praising, the Lord of the elements.’—_Mart. Don._, pp. 83, 103. Footnote 126: It is used by Tighernac in this sense. He has at 718, ‘Tonsura corona super _familiam Iae_ datur’ (_Chron. Picts and Scots_, p. 74); while Bede in his account of the same event says, ‘Nec multo post illi quoque qui insulam Hii incolebant monachi Scotticæ nationis, _cum his quæ sibi erant subdita monasteriis_, ad ritum paschæ ac tonsuræ canonicum Domino procurante perducti sunt.’—B. v. c. 22. Footnote 127: Mart. Donegal, p. 216. See also Adam. _Vit. S. Col._, B. iii. c. 4. Footnote 128: Auditoque ejus accessu, universi undique ab agellulis monasterio vicinis cum his qui ibidem inventi sunt congregati, etc.—Adam. _Vit. S. Col._, B. i. c. 3. Footnote 129: _Ib._ B. iii. c. 22. Footnote 130: Colgan, _A.SS._, p. 707. Footnote 131: Accepitque Sanctus Brendanus cum esset sacerdos habitum monasticum sanctum. Et multi relinquentes sæculum hinc inde venerunt ad eum et fecit eos Sanctus Brendanus monachos. Deinde cellas et monasteria fundavit in sua propria regione et multa monasteria et cellas per diversas regiones Hyberniæ fundavit in quibus tria millia monachorum ut perhibetur a senioribus sub eo erant.—_Acta S. Brendani_, p. 10. Footnote 132: Adam. _Vit. Col._, B. ii. c. 26. Footnote 133: _Annals of the Four Masters_, p. 193. Footnote 134: Petrie’s _Antiquities of Tara Hill_, pp. 125, 127. Footnote 135: