Lives of the Irish saints : with special festivals, and the commemorations of holy persons, compiled from calendars, martyrologies and various sources, relating to the ancient Church history of Ireland . nd, vol. ii.,chap, xvi., f viii., p. 456, and n. 78, , ibid. Also, Colgant Acta SanctorumIlibcrnix, xvi. Januarii. Vita S. Fursxi,lib. i., cap. xxxi., xxxii., p. 81, a<p. 90. LtKewise, Vita .S. Fur»ai a 1cap. X., p. 2c^, ibid. asS LIVES OF IHE JRISII SAINTS. [January i6. of his Irish mission, wc find that he visited l^Tunster, and it is probable,that he also preached occasionally in ot
Lives of the Irish saints : with special festivals, and the commemorations of holy persons, compiled from calendars, martyrologies and various sources, relating to the ancient Church history of Ireland . nd, vol. ii.,chap, xvi., f viii., p. 456, and n. 78, , ibid. Also, Colgant Acta SanctorumIlibcrnix, xvi. Januarii. Vita S. Fursxi,lib. i., cap. xxxi., xxxii., p. 81, a<p. 90. LtKewise, Vita .S. Fur»ai a 1cap. X., p. 2c^, ibid. asS LIVES OF IHE JRISII SAINTS. [January i6. of his Irish mission, wc find that he visited l^Tunster, and it is probable,that he also preached occasionally in other provinces of Ireland. After our saint had completed tweK e years of his mission, and havingpreached the Gospel to all without exception, multitudes of people flockedto hear him and obtain his counsel. lie now resolved on leaving thebeauiiliil shores of Lough Orbsen, wliere he had spent so many hai)pyhours in prayer and contemplation. Many an interesting ruin, near Kilfursa,attests the spirit of piety he first awakened in that neighbourhood. Theold abbey ruins of Ros-Oirbhealagh, or as it is now written Roscrrilly, arewell worthy the tourists visit and the ecclcsiologists These are to. Rossenilly Ruins, Co. Gahvay. be seen on the River Ross, near the town of Ileadfuid, in the burofiy oiClare, and county of Gahvay. This abbey w^as erected for Franciscan friarsin 1351,* and its remains are even yet in a fair state of preservation. Thesituation is a very retired one, and the monastery is said to have been afamous seat of piety and Reclaimed marshes, now convertedinto rich meadows or pasture-lands, surround it, and within the enclosedcemetery are many tombs and gravestones.^ A causeway, paved with largestones, leads to the cemetery at the end of a shady lane. The beautifularches of the spacious cloister are still objects of great admiration to everyvisitor of The great church, 128 feet in length, by 203^ in width,is surmounted by a lofty square tower,
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