[121] Muiriscc (_Muir_ = sea) Aigli. (The promontory dominated by Knocknaree in Sligo Bay was also called Muiriscc, Tír. 327.) The promontory was also known as Umail. This name is preserved in the _Owles_, designating the regions on both sides of Clew Bay, now the baronies of Murrisk and Burris-_hoole_; the latter word also contains the name Umail. [122] Its height is 2510 feet. Mount Nephin, close to Lake Conn, is higher. [123] Carrick-on-Shannon. [124] He first went to a place called Duma Graid, and ordained there the arch-presbyter Ailbe, who resided at Shancoe (as mentioned above). It may be suspected that the name Duma Graid (for which we expect a modern Doogary) is preserved in Dockery’s Island, near the mouth of Lake Kilglass. [125] See note, Appendix B. [126] Tuatha De Danann, people of the goddess Danann. They are said, in the mythical history of Ireland, to have colonised the country and to have been conquered by the Milesians. [127] Fountain of Clebach. [128] See note, Appendix B. [129] See Appendix A, ii. 1. [130] See Appendix A, i. 4, on the tonsure question. [131] Selce has not been identified. [132] Kill-araght. From here Patrick may have revisited Mag Airthic and the Kerries. [133] _Irrus_ Domnand, “the peninsula of Domnu” = barony of _Erris_ in Mayo. Cp. Rhŷs, “Studies in Early Irish History,” p. 38. [134] Ballina. [135] It was one of the many Donaghmores, “great churches,” which Patrick is said to have founded. He consigned it to the care of Mucneus. [136] The name of a townland, in which there is an old churchyard and traces of ruins, to the right of the road from Ballina to Killala, a mile south of Killala. For Donaghmore and Mullaghfarry (_farry_ = _forrach_ = _foirrgea_, Tír. 327) see O’Donovan, _Hy Fiachrach_, pp. 466 and 467, notes. [137] See Appendix C, 8. [138] _De laude sanctorum_ (Migne, _Patr. Lat._ xx.). [139] Jerome, _Adversus Vigilantium_, c. 5. [140] A.D. 440. [141] See above, chap. iii. p. 64. [142] For the evidence see Appendix C, 15. [143] It may be Ptolemy’s _Regia_ (Ῥηγία). Cp. Rhŷs, “Studies in Early Irish History,” p. 49 (_Proc. of British Acad._ vol. i.). [144] See note, Appendix B. [145] The dimensions of these houses are given, _Vit. Trip._ p. 226:—“27 feet in the Great House, 17 feet in the kitchen, 7 feet in the oratory [_aregal_, supposed to be derived from _oraculum_]; and it was thus that he used always to found the _congbala_” [_i.e._ the sacred enclosures, or cloisters]. If these houses were circular, the numbers represent the diameters. For the topography of Armagh see the paper of Reeves, _The Ancient Churches of Armagh_ (Lusk, 1860), with a plan. The locality of the first settlement, _ubi nunc est Fertae martyrum_, “the grave of the relics” (Muirchu, 290), he fixes, by means of the monastery of Temple-fertagh, which existed at the beginning of the seventeenth century, to the land south of Scotch St., near Scotch St. river (p. 10).