The Life of St. Columba, Founder of HyPrinted at the University Press for the Irish Archaeological and Celtic Society, 1857 - 497 páginas |
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Página 424 - ... and medicinal. Beyond the mount are the ruins of a kiln, and a granary: and near it, was the mill. The lake or pool that served it lay behind; is now drained, and is the turbary, the fuel of the natives: it appears to have been once divided, for along the middle runs a raised way, pointing to the hills.
Página xxxvi - Life of St. Columba would degenerate into the foggy, unreal species of narrative which belongs to the Lives of his contemporaries, and we should be entirely in the dark on many points of discipline and belief, concerning which we have now a considerable amount of satisfactory information. Adamnan's memoir is, therefore, to be prized as an inestimable literary relic of the Irish Church : perhaps, with all its defects, the most valuable monument of that institution which has escaped the ravages of...
Página 416 - Its situation is shown by the following references : — " About quarter of a Mile further South [that is, of the Heilig Grain] is the Church Roñad, in which several Prioresses are buried " (Martin, p. 262). "The Nunnery Church is quite entire; one end of it is arched, and is very beautiful Here also stands what was called the parish church. It is yet [AD 1795] entire, but tottering
Página 305 - Donnan then went with his people to the Hebrides, and they took up their abode there in a place where the sheep of the queen of the country were kept. This was told to the queen. ' Let them all be killed,' said she. ' That would not be a religious act,
Página lvii - Life ascribes to him the combined virtues of Patriarchs and Apostles, while the Four Masters sum up the evidence thus : " Adamnan was a good man, according to the testimony of St. Beda, for he was tearful, penitent, given to prayer, diligent, ascetic, temperate ; he never used to eat except on Sunday and Thursday ; he made a slave of himself to these virtues ; and, moreover, he was wise and learned in the clear understanding of the Holy Scriptures of God.
Página 92 - I that shall give it, said he, but yonder youth, pointing to Colman mac Comgellain. Colman then gave judgment; and the decision that he gave was : Their expeditions and hostings to be with the men of Erin always, for hostings always belong to the parent stock. Their tributes, and gains, and shipping, to be with the men of Alba.
Página 392 - Tornan, coarb of Patrick, Columcille, and Adamnan, head of the piety of all Ireland and of the greater part of Europe, died in a good old age, on the 22d of February.
Página 203 - Columkille said, then, to his people, ' It would be well for us that our roots should pass into the earth here.' And he said to them, ' It is permitted to you that some of you go under the earth of this island to consecrate it.' Odhran arose quickly, and thus spake : ' If you accept me,' said he,
Página 183 - A mortality upon all animals in general, throughout the whole world, for the space of three years, so that there escaped not one out of the thousand of any kind of animals.
Página 8 - A member of the reigning family in Ireland, and closely allied to that of Dalriada in Scotland, he was eligible to the sovereignty of his own country. His halfuncle Muircertach was on the throne when he was born, and he lived during the successive reigns of his cousins Domhnall and Fergus, and Eochaidh ; of his first cousins Ainmire and Baedan ; and of Aedh son of Ainmire.