_Birthplace of St. Patrick._--Can the disputed question of the
birthplace of St. Patrick be settled? Some writers assign Scotland,
others England, and others France, as his fatherland. He himself informs
us (_Confess. sub init._) that he was born at _Bonavem-Taberniæ_. This
locality has been supposed by some writers to be _Kilpatrick_, on the
mouth of the Clyde, and by others _Boulogne-sur-Mer_.