[33] _I.e._ dioceses. This synod is mentioned in _A.T._, _A.I._ and the _Annals of Boyle_. Particulars of its Acts and of the persons present at it are given in _C.S._ and _D.A.I._ _C.S._ has "parish" in the singular. But this does not seem to yield good sense; for the whole extent of the kingdom of Meath could scarcely have been called a "parish" in the twelfth century. I therefore read "parishes." The singular may have been substituted for the plural at a later time, when the kingdom (or the greater part of it) included only the dioceses of Meath and Clonmacnoise, and their earlier history was forgotten. Cp. the unhistorical statement of St. Bernard about Down and Connor in _Life_, § 31. _D.A.I._ have an anomalous form (_faircheadh_), which may have come from either the singular (_fairche_) or the plural (_faircheadha_) in the exemplar, but more probably from the latter. [34] p. xxiv. f. [35] See p. 47, note 3. [36] Ussher, 513. [37] A small portion of the present diocese of Limerick lies north of the Shannon. [38] Ussher, 501 ff.; _P.L._ clix. 995. [39] See p. 65, note 1. [40] See Additional Note B, pp. 164, 166. The events of Cellach's life are gathered from _A. U._ [41] _Life_, § 19. [42] See MacCarthy's Note in _A. U._ 1101. [43] _A.F.M._, Keating, iii. 297. Keating seems to confuse the events of 1101 with those of 1106. [44] _Life_, § 33. [45] See p. 18, note 6. [46] See next page. [47] Keating, iii. 299 ff. The date is there misprinted 1100. [48] I formerly disputed this identification, on the ground that the archbishop of Cashel who was present at Fiadh meic Oengusa was O'Dunan (G. T. Stokes, _Ireland and the Celtic Church_, ed. 6, 1907, p. 372). I am now convinced that he was archbishop of Cashel. I was not then aware that all MSS. of Keating date the Synod of Rathbreasail in 1110. [49] On p. 298 read _no_ (_or_) for _is_ (_and_) before _Dun dá Leathghlas_; and on p. 306 _chathar_ for _chuigear ar fhichid_ (i.e. _twenty-four_ for _twenty-five_). On p. 306 a portion of the note on the Leinster diocese has evidently dropped out, which should be restored to bring it into conformity with the corresponding passage on p. 302. [50] _H.E._ i. 29. [51] _I.e._ diocese. [52] The parish (using the word in its modern sense) in which is Newtown Stewart, co. Derry. [53] Ramsay, _Paul the Traveller_ (1907), p. 173. [54] Some changes of phraseology might have been made here and elsewhere if Professor MacNeill's _Phases of Irish History_ (1919) had come into my hands before this volume went to press. But they would not have affected the argument. [55] See _Irish Church Quarterly_, vol. x. p. 234. [56] Agus is é teampull Muire i Luimneach a príomheaglais. [57] When Cardinal Paparo came to Ireland in 1151 he found "a see constituted at Dublin in the diocese of Glendalough."--_Crede Mihi_ (ed. Gilbert), p. 11. [58] Ussher, 488 (_P.L._ cl. 534), 564. [59] _Ibid._ 528, 530; _P.L._ clix. 109, 216. [60] See p. 20, note 3.