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 . ree sons, named Echac or Eochod, Fiach and no do we read of an immediate son, named Carthenn, althoughsuch a name occurs several times, in the third generation, from Colla , wc may suspect, and with just reason, that by some erroneous tran-scription, two names, which occur in our saints direct line from the exiledkmg, had been omitted, llencc, in following an
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 . ree sons, named Echac or Eochod, Fiach and no do we read of an immediate son, named Carthenn, althoughsuch a name occurs several times, in the third generation, from Colla , wc may suspect, and with just reason, that by some erroneous tran-scription, two names, which occur in our saints direct line from the exiledkmg, had been omitted, llencc, in following an imperfect original, Mac Cullenan. and alter him Maguirc, must have copied such amistake. His mother Ethnea or Eithnc,^^ derived her descent from Amalgad,son to Fiach. He was king over Connaught, in St. Patricks time.** Thelife of our ;9 states, that Ethne sprung from the posterity of Aulai; andthis latter appears coincident with the name of ° Our were childless for some time ; but they prayed Almighty God tobestow an heir upon them. To obtain this object of their hopes, they dis-tributed considerable alms. They also freciucnted a monastery then at Druim. *AKE.»**.^ Drumlane Round Tower and Church. Lethan, and now known as Drumlahan or Drumlane, in the present baronyof Lower Loughtee, Cavan County.^ It lies about three miles from Beturbetvillage, and it is a parish in Kilmore diocese. It bordered on theconfinesof both gives the names of sixteen, although, incom-prehensibly enough, telling us, that he hadenumerated eighteen saints in his genealogi-cal list, one of whom was descended fromFeredach, three from Fiach, and thirteenfrom Ethac or Eochod. This latter enume-ration, our readers will perceive, gives usseventeen saints, belonging to Colla Hua-siuss family. This instance, and a few otherpassages, show, that Colgan himself madesome mistakes, even excluding many typo-graphi^cal ones, which disfigure his Acta Sanctoru
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