_Ib._—If Daire was King of Oriel, one is surprised at the way he is introduced by Muirchu (290) as _quidam homo dives et honorabilis in regionibus Orientalium_ (_i.e._ in Orior = Airthir, the eastern part of Oriel = Oirgialla. This passage proves that Orior extended further westward than the regions comprised in the two modern baronies of Orior). This looks as if he were only an under-king, perhaps King of the Hy-Nialláin (O’Neill-land) cp. _Book of Rights_, p. 146, for he was a descendant of Niallán, cp. _Trip._ p. 228, and Todd, p. 481. On the other hand, if the tradition that Daire co-operated with Loigaire and Corc in initiating the Senchus Mór is correct, it looks as if he may have been King of Oriel. In a tract in the _Lebor na hUidre_ (edited by Stokes in his _Tripartite Life_, pp. 562 _sqq._) he is called _rí Ulad_ (p. 564) by an anachronism. It seems that he was in any case chief of the Hy-Nialláin, and probable that he was also King of Oriel. The mere fact that Armagh was chosen by Patrick as his chief seat seems to me (as I have indicated in the text) an argument in favour of this conclusion. P. 156.—Date of foundation of Armagh, A.D. 444. We must here follow the Annals (see Appendix A, iii. 1). In the story of the foundation of Trim in the _Additional Notices_, it is stated that Trim was founded immediately on Patrick’s arrival in Ireland, _i.e._ A.D. 432, “in the twenty-fifth year before the foundation of Armagh.” This would place the foundation of Armagh in 457—a date which is obviously too late, and has been rightly rejected by Todd (_St. P._ p. 470). Is it possible that there had been a pre-Patrician foundation at Trim, twenty-four years older than Armagh, and that the statement is due to a confusion between this and Patrick’s second founding? P. 159.—Northern Church at Armagh. The church which Patrick founded on the hill is called by Muirchu “northern church,” _sinistralis aeclessia_; hence Reeves supposes it “to have stood somewhere near the extremity of the north transept of the present cathedral” (p. 15). On the other hand, it has been suggested that the adjective means that the church was built _north and south_ (cp. Todd, _St. P._ p. 412, and Stokes, note on Muirchu, p. 292). The argument for this interpretation is that the church was called the _sabhall_, and that the other church which bore the same name (at Saul) lay north and south (_transverse_) according to the _Vita Tertia_, c. 31; hence it is suggested that churches with this peculiarity were called _sabhalls_. Reeves had taken this view in an earlier work, _Antiquities of Down and Connor_, pp. 220-1. P. 159.—Graveyard. _Vit. Trip._ 228, “the place where is the _ferta_ to-day” (Stokes), _not_ as Colgan (so Reeves and Todd), “the place where are the two graves, _da ferta_.”