Clonea.
[Leamchuill is in the barony of Portnehinch, Queen's County. Archdale,
in his _Monasticon Hibernicum_, p. 595., states, that "St.
Fintan-Chorach was abbot here towards the close of the sixth century.
By some writers he is said to have been interred here; and from {109}
others we learn that Cluainednach, or Clonfert Brendan, was the place
of his sepulture. St. Mochonna was abbot or bishop here, but at what
period is unknown." Stevens, however, says this abbey was in Leinster.
"St. Fintan, otherwise called St. Munnu, in the sixth century, founded
the abbey of Cluian Ædnach; those of Achad-Arglass, Achad-Finglass, and
_Lanchoil_ in _Leinster_, and those of Dumbleske and Ross-Coerach in
Munster." (_Monasticon Hibernicum_, p. 377., edit. 1722.) Consult also
the authorities quoted in Butler's _Lives of the Saints_, art. St.
Fintan, October 22nd.]
_Orte's Maps, Edition of 1570._--I have in my possession a quarto volume of
fifty-three coloured maps, by Abraham Orte, and printed at Antwerp in 1570.
Almost all the maps are ornamented with some miniature paintings,
representing the ships or galleys used in the country which the map
describes. On many of these there are also the figures of whales and
flat-fish. On the map of Russia, in one part, there are three large tents,
with three men, clothed in coloured garments, at the entrance of them; and
near by some camels are grazing. In another part is seen a cluster of
trees, and seated in the branches of the first and largest there is the
figure of a saint, to whom it would appear five men, or priests, are
kneeling and praying, with their heads uplifted and hands outstretched. On
the branches of the trees in the background several persons are hanging.
On the twenty-eighth map there is a large town represented at the foot of a
hill, and above it these words: "Urbis Salis Burgensis genuina Descriptio."
Can any of your correspondents inform me if there is another copy of this
work known to be extant; and, if so, whether the maps are like those I have
briefly described? In a catalogue of rare books, I have seen no mention
made of this edition of 1570, though reference is made to one of twenty
years a later date.