The book of obits and martyrology of the cathedral church of the Holy Trinity, commonly called Christ Church, Dublin / Edited from the original manuscript in the library of Trinity college, Dublin, by John Clarke Crosthwaite ... With an introduction, by James Henthorn Todd.

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1844
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Credit: The book of obits and martyrology of the cathedral church of the Holy Trinity, commonly called Christ Church, Dublin / Edited from the original manuscript in the library of Trinity college, Dublin, by John Clarke Crosthwaite ... With an introduction, by James Henthorn Todd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    iii. Id. Junii (June n), p. 125, S. Mectail. Bishop of Ivilcullen : he was a contemporary of St. Patrick, who is recorded in the Tripartite Life to have placed him in the church of Kilcullen. (Yit. Trip. 1. iii. c. 18.) He died A. D. 548, according to the Four Masters. His real name was Aengus, and he is said to have been called Mac Thail, i. e. filius artificis, because his father was a carpenter. See Colgan, Trias Tliaum. p. 185, n. 32. The Four Masters, however, and O’Clery’s Calendar, say that his name was Eoghan : “ a. C. 548. S. tTlacchail Cilie Chuil- “ A. D. 548. S. Mactlmil of Cille Chuil- linn .1. 605am mic Copcpain, oecc. on lin, i. e. Eoghan, son of Corcran, died, the c-aonmao la oecc 00 mi lun.” eleventh day of the month of June.” In the Martyrology of Aengus his festival is thus noted: “ peil meic Uhail in noeboai,” “ The festival of Mac Tail the saintly,” and the following gloss is added: “ .1. o Chill Chmlino a ITIuij Laijen. Cojan paep mac Depjain, no 6ojan mac Ctenjupa, umoppo, achaip ITlic Chail, ocup ap a bech na mac [paeip] arbepaip IDac Call ppipp. No conio h-e Bochaio mac 6aipp, pig Laijpi, achaip ITleic Chail.” “ i. e. of Cill Chuilinn in the plain of Leinster. Eoghan the carpenter, the son of Dergan, or Eoghan, son of Aengus, was the father of Mac Thail, and for being the son [of a carpenter], he was called Mac Thail [*. e. son of the adze\. Or, according to others, Eocliaidh, the son of Barr, King of Leix, was Mac Thail’s father.” xiv. Kal. Julii (June 18), p. 127, S. Baithinus et S. Furudranus. These saints were brothers, sons of Moenan, of the race of Colla-da- Chrioch. We know very little about them, beyond what is recorded in the following notice of them at the 18th of June, in the Martyr- ology of Aengus: “La Laechine pino pechcnach “ With Baethin the purely righteous, Pupoopan co peji Furodran with vigour [i.e.thevigorousf. Sons r The word peji is explained by the “ fierce towards demons, or against de- gloss : “ .1. peochaip ppia Demon,” mons.”