CHAPTER XII.

THE SCHOOL OF CLONMACNOISE.

I.--ST. CIARAN OF CLONMACNOISE 258

Clonmacnoise 258

St. Ciaran at the School of Clonard 259

He goes to Aran 260

Visits St. Senan at Scattery 261

Founds Churches at Isell Ciaran and Hare Island, and the

Monastery at Clonmacnoise 261

Origin of the Diocese of Clonmacnoise 262

Death of St. Ciaran 263

Festival of St. Ciaran 264

The Eclais Beg 265

II.--THE RUINED CHURCHES AT CLONMACNOISE 266

Round Tower 267

O'Rourke's Tower 268

De Lacy's Castle 269

Inscribed Tombstones 269

III.--THE SCHOLARS OF CLONMACNOISE 270

Grants to the School of Clonmacnoise 271

Colgan, or Colgu the Wise 272

Alcuin 272

The Ferleginds 273

The _Prayer of St. Colgu_ 273

_Scuap Chrabhaigh_ 274

Plundered by the Danes 274

Felim Mac Criffan 275

IV.--ANNALISTS OF CLONMACNOISE 276

Tighernach 276

_Chronicon Scotorum_ 278

Gilla-Christ O'Maeileon 279

_Annals of Clonmacnoise_ 279

V.--THE "LEABHAR-NA-H-UIDHRE" 280

Conn-na-m-Bocht 280

VI.--DICUIL, THE GEOGRAPHER 281

The _De Mensura Orbis Terrarum_ 281

His Learning 284

Irish Pilgrimage to Jerusalem 285

The "Barns of Joseph" 286

Dicuil's reference to Iceland 287

Love of the Ancient Irish Monks for island solitudes 288

Iceland and the Faroe Isles occupied by Irish Monks prior to

discovery of these islands by the Danes 289

Dicuil's testimony that Sedulius was an Irishman 290

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