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 . Ntrrs, vol. i., pp. 272, 27J. the I . ;i copy wc read Comini at this ^•<? <i«*nrral )ctical Itulcx of the day. I I TuMiis Iarishcs and lU* .S«c Colgans Acta Sanctorum Iliber- r^ 1 I. p. 435- ni«, X. Januirii. Vila S. Thomiani, n. 15, Here some remains of an old church p. 54- cxi*t. * Edited by Drs. Tald and Reeves, »Th« was gtncrally calletl in our Annal* i6o LIVES 01 THE IRISH SA


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 . Ntrrs, vol. i., pp. 272, 27J. the I . ;i copy wc read Comini at this ^•<? <i«*nrral )ctical Itulcx of the day. I I TuMiis Iarishcs and lU* .S«c Colgans Acta Sanctorum Iliber- r^ 1 I. p. 435- ni«, X. Januirii. Vila S. Thomiani, n. 15, Here some remains of an old church p. 54- cxi*t. * Edited by Drs. Tald and Reeves, »Th« was gtncrally calletl in our Annal* i6o LIVES 01 THE IRISH SAINTS. [January io. and pro\-incc of Lcinstcr, but chiefly in the barony of Farney, county ofMonaghan and province of Ulster.° The other Enniskecn is that situatedpartly in the barony of Clankce, county of Cavan, and partly in the baroniesof Lower Kclls and Morgallion, county of Meath. However we cannot beassured, for want of authorities to favour such an opinion, that the presentholy man had any ministerial connexion with any of the foregoing are no less than five townland denominations of Innishkcen foundon the Ordnance Survey Maps ot Ireland.^ Two ol these are in the county. Old Cross and Cemetery of Inniskeen, Co, Fermanagh. Fermanagh.* There is an Innishkeen respectively in the counties ofLimerick, Leitrim, and Monaghan. The island of Innishkeen,5 in theparish of Cleenish, barony of Clanawley, and county of Fermanagh, issurrounded by the Erne River, and it lies about three miles southward fromEnniskillen town. This island comprises over 260 acres; and on it are tobe seen two ancient forts, as also an exceedingly old burial-ground, the siteof a former church.^ Of this island we find several accounts, in connexion Inis-caoin-Deagha, from its founder St. Da-geus. It had a succession of abbols in theeighth, ninth, and to the eleventh is now a parish belonging to the dioceseof Clogher. See Archdalls MonasticonHibernicum, p. 465. ° See Lewis Topog


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