XXXIX. THE COMING OF OENNA

32. Once Ciaran was in Inis Aingin and he heard a cry in the port. He

said to the brethren, "Rise and go for your future abbot." When they

reached the harbour they found no man save a weak unconsecrated youth.

They tell that to Ciaran. "For all that, go again for him; it is clear

to me from his voice that it is he who shall be abbot after me."

Thereafter the youth was brought into the island to Ciaran, and Ciaran

tonsured him, and he read with him. That was Enna maccu Laigsi, a holy

man, held in honour of the Lord; and it is he who was abbot after

Ciaran.

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