[280] Bury, _ib._ 258. “His whole book is a practical service to the cause of the claims of Armagh. It is virtually a list of the churches which claimed to have been founded by Patrick. If it had been completed, it would have exhibited the full extent of the _paruchia Patricii_.” [281] 313₂₇, 307₇, 313₂₈, 323₂₉, 319₅, 318₂₅ × 301₉. [282] 311₂₈. [283] _In libro apud Ultanum_, 302₃. [284] Bury, _Tírechán’s Memoir_, 248-250. [285] Bury, _Tírechán’s Memoir_, 239. [286] 319₄. Bury, “Supplementary Notes” (_Eng. Hist. Rev._ Oct. 1902), 702-703. [287] It stops at p. 331, l. 9, in the Rolls ed. See my paper in _E.H.R._ _ut cit._ p. 237. [288] _Proc. of R.I.A._ (xxiv. sect. C, 3), 1903, p. 164 _sqq._ [289] This has been fully recognised by Dr. Gwynn, _loc. cit._ [290] _Machia_ (330₂₂) probably means Domnach Maigen, not Armagh (Gwynn, _loc. cit._). [291] 348₁₈, d.g. [= _Duma Graid_, Reeves, but this is far from certain]; Ailbe i Senchui altáre; and Machet Cetchen Rodán Mathona. Compare also 350₈ with 331₄. [292] The credibility of the Genealogy, as an independent record, is particularly strong; the Ballymote scribe was acquainted with the _Tripartite_, and quotes from it _à propos_ of the sons of Forat, notwithstanding the contradiction. The discrepancy with the Patrician tradition is, in fact, a guarantee that the record is trustworthy. [293] P. 269₁₃ Rolls ed.: _patris mei Coguitosi_, the brilliant correction of Bishop Graves for the corrupt _cognito si_ in A. On the passage, and on Cogitosus, see his paper in the _Proceedings R.I.A._ viii. 269 _sqq._ [294] See Graves, _ib._ The conjecture is accepted by Dr. Stokes (_Trip. Life_, 269, note 2). [295] Colgan, _Acta SS._ p. 465 and _n._ 31. [296] _Ann. Ult. s.a._ [297] See Reeves, _Adamnan_, pp. l. li. Professor Kuno Meyer has just published an old Irish treatise on the “Law of Adamnan” passed at this synod (“Cáin Adamnáin,” in _Anecdota Oxoniensia_, 1905). The document contains a list of the bishops, abbots, and kings present at the synod which was held at Birr. Muirchu appears (p. 18): Murchu maccúi Machthéine. Muirchu appears in the Martyrologies under June 8 (see _Calendar of Oengus_, ed. Stokes, p. xciii.). [298] I suggested this in the _Guardian_, Nov. 20, 1901, p. 1615, c. 2. [299] Muirchu does not name his father’s work, but his expression _ingenioli mei_ (269₁₄) may be an echo of the _rusticus sermo ingenioli mei_ in the prologue to the _Vita Brigidae_. [300] 271₁₇. [301] 269₁₉. [302] This is suggested by the use of the third person. In the Preface Muirchu writes in the first person. The note is similar to the note which is prefixed to the memoir of Tírechán and is obviously due to a copyist. [303] See 495₃ Rolls ed. (ad Britanias nauigauit), and 495₂₆₋ (the second captivity). [304] Some mistakes have occurred in the course of compilation and transmission: see below, p. 348.