Volume 1

The whole works of Sir James Ware concerning Ireland : revised and improved. ... Written in Latin ... newly translated into English ... and continued ... / by Walter Harris, Esq ; in two volumes.

  • James Ware
Date:
1764
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Credit: The whole works of Sir James Ware concerning Ireland : revised and improved. ... Written in Latin ... newly translated into English ... and continued ... / by Walter Harris, Esq ; in two volumes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Law. This Office was alfo known to the Grecians. As to the antient Irijh Scribes *, fome underftand the Name to fignifie Writer •, but it may be worth the inquiry, whether it doth not rather denote, a Reader of Divinity. [Gorman, the Father of this Prelate, according to the Annals of the Four Matters, was Abbat of Louth, and died in Pilgrimage at Clonmacnois, in 743.] N U A D. [Mac-Segene.] [Succ. 808. Oob. 812.] N U A Z), the Son of Segene, Abbat of the Convent near a Lake in Brefiny, * called Lough-Vamha, [or Lough-Vamh, which fignifieth, the Lake of the Cave, it being faid to rife out of a Cave] was promoted to this Archiepifcopal See, and was the immediate SuccelTor to Forbach. [He was firft a Monk, and afi Anchorite ; from which State of Life he was, againft his Will, promoted to the Abbatial, and from thence tranfiated to the Archiepifcopal Dignity.] A. D. 810, he made a Progrefs into Conaught *, and is there reported to have made a Reformation of fome Abufes in the Churches. [It is faid by the Writer of the Tripartite Life of St. Patrick, q that Cormac (who was the fourth Archbifhop of Armagh) was educated by four of St. Patrick's Difciples, viz. Domnall, Coimitius, Dabonna, and one, whofe Name is not mentioned *, and that when he came to be Archbifhop of Armagh, and vifited Conaught, where they lived; they each of them every Year gave him a Cow, in acknowledgement of the Reverence which they owed to St. Patrick, who had intruded them with the Education of Cormac 3 and that this grew into a Cuftom with his Succeffors; fo that they demanded this Tribute as their due •, untill Nuad releafed them from it. It may be pre- fumed that this was one of the Abufes which he is faid to have reformed.] He died on the 19th of February, 812 or 811 ; under which Year one meets with this Paffage in theAnnals of Uljler. “ Nuad of Loch-Huatna, Bifhop, Anchorite, “ and Abbat of Armagh, fell Afleep.** [ There was another Nuad, the Son alfo of Segene, who in the Year 843, fuffered Martyrdom by the Danes, accor¬ ding to the Annals of the Four Matters.] [Flangufs] MA C-LO IN GL E. [Succ. 812. Ob. 822.] MAC -LOI NG L E or Mac-Longfech. [a Patronymick Name ; for his Chrif. tian Name was Flangufs'] is faid to have fucceeded, and to have fat thir¬ teen Years. But as to the Time of his continuance in this See, there furely mutt be a Miftake : For his Succeffor, Artrigius, was Archbifhop in the Year 822* [The Annals of the Four Matters place this Prelate after Artrigius, and his Death in 825 j which makes thirteen Years from the Death of Nuad.] ARTRIGIUS. [iSucc. 822. Ob. 833.] A R TRIG IUS> or Artrius, the Son of Cornelius, fat in this See, as I faid before, in the Year 822 ; and the fame Year held a Vifitation * Brejiny comprehended the prefent County of Cavan ; and was divided into upper and lower, or Eajt Sjjd Weji Brefiny; in the latter of which, called Brefiny Hy -Ruairc, lay this Laugh-Vamh. Alltmar.de in his Hifioir Monafi. p. 109. makes the Counties of Fermanagh and Cavan, the two Brefinies : But he is fo faulty in other Particulars of the Topography of Ireland, that I do'not know how to takehis Word without a Voucher. a Trias Thaum. Vit, Trip. pt 3. ch. 19, L 2 through
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