And as no one could settle the dispute, these three saints fasted and prayed that God would give a judgment between them, to show who should own Liban. And an angel said to one of the company, "Two wild oxen will come hither to-morrow from Carn-Arenn, that is to say, from the grave-mound of Liban's sister, Ariu. Yoke a chariot to them, and place the mermaid in it; and into whatsoever territory they shall bring her, she shall remain with the owner thereof." The oxen came on the morrow, as the angel had foretold. And when they were yoked, and when Liban was placed in the chariot, they brought her straightway to Beoc's church, namely to Tec-Da-Beoc. Then the saints gave her a choice--either to die immediately after baptism, and go to heaven; or to live on earth as long as she had lived in the sea, and then to go to heaven after these long ages. And the choice she took was to die immediately. Whereupon Comgall baptised her; and he gave her the name of Murgen, that is, "Sea-born," or Murgelt, that is "Mermaid." And she is counted among the holy virgins, and held in honour and reverence, as God ordained for her in heaven; and wonders and miracles are performed through her means at Tec-Da-Beoc. FOOTNOTES: [LVII.] Muman, _i.e._ Munster. [LVIII.] Slieve Eblinne, now Slieve Eelim or Slieve Phelim, in Tipperary, sometimes called the Twelve Hills of Evlinn. "Eblinne" is the genitive of "Ebliu." [LIX.] Now Lough Ree, on the Shannon. [LX.] See note, page 62; see also note 1 at the end of the book. [LXI.] The Plain of the Grey Copse, according to the legend, was the name of the plain now covered by Lough Neagh. [LXII.] Ulad, _i.e._ Ulster. [LXIII.] Lough Necca, now Lough Neagh. [LXIV.] Gregory, _i.e._ Pope Gregory. [LXV.] Dalaradia, the old name of a territory which included the southern half of the county Antrim and a part of Down. [LXVI.] Inver Ollarba, _i.e._ the _inver_, or mouth of the river Ollarba, which was the ancient name of the Larne Water, in Antrim. [LXVII.] Miluc, or Meelick, the name of an ancient ecclesiastical establishment in the county Antrim. See "Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Down, Connor, and Dromore" (page 3), by the Rev. William Reeves, M.B., M.R.I.A. CONNLA OF THE GOLDEN HAIR, AND THE FAIRY MAIDEN. Connla of the Golden Hair was the son of Conn the Hundred-fighter.[18] One day as he stood with his father on the royal Hill of Usna,[LXVIII.] he saw a lady a little way off, very beautiful, and dressed in strange attire. She approached the spot where he stood; and when she was near, he spoke to her, and asked who she was, and from what place she had come.