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 . ranciscan copy, it i» tJtA|\m41t>. , . .CCT>»\C. Art. IV.— ^:.litc^! by the Rev. , p. xi. In the Frinciscin MS. copy,at thi» *Amz date, \vc find Kiniuly CiupnAti. • lulitcti by Drs. To<l<l ami Reeve*, 9. C S2 LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS, t [January 6. day, is more precise in giving his genealogy, and tlic exact place where hewas reverenced as jxitron. The writer of this
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 . ranciscan copy, it i» tJtA|\m41t>. , . .CCT>»\C. Art. IV.— ^:.litc^! by the Rev. , p. xi. In the Frinciscin MS. copy,at thi» *Amz date, \vc find Kiniuly CiupnAti. • lulitcti by Drs. To<l<l ami Reeve*, 9. C S2 LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS, t [January 6. day, is more precise in giving his genealogy, and tlic exact place where hewas reverenced as jxitron. The writer of this Calendar, OClery, remarks,that we thul a Curnan—it is be be assumed the present holy man—a son ofSinell. belonging to the race of Condri, son of Fearghus, son to RossRviadh. who was son of Rudhraighe. From this latter was derived theClann-Rudhraighe. St. Curnan I5eg is said to have belonged to Cill-Chur-nain. a place which doubtless derived its denomination from a church orcell there founded by him. Tliore is a parish, known as Kilcornan or Kil-coran, in the barony of Clanwilliam, and county of There anold church in niins may yt be seen within an ancient burial-ground. The. Ruins of an Ancient Church at Killeen, Cill-Chuman, with which our saint was connected, however, seems to berepresented in the etymon of Kilcornan parish, situated within the ancientdistrict of Caenraighe, now the barony of Kenry, in the diocese and countyof Luimneach or Limerick.^ Within this parish, and quite close to thebeautiful demesne of Curragh Chase,5 are the ruins of an ancient church at ^ See Lewis Topogi-aphical Dictionaryof Ireland, vol. ii., p. 72. Likewise Ord-nance Survey Townland Maps of the Countyof Tipperary. Sheet 58. ^ In a Tatle appended to the Martyrologyof Donegal, St. Curnan Beg is noted asPatron of Cill Curnain parish in Cainraidho,in the county and diocese of Limerick. Afair and a holiday were held here, in theseventeenth century, as we may infer fromthe rema
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