Activate Javascript or update your browser for the full Digital Library experience.
Previous Page
–
Next Page
OCR
.........,......,.
.165 OftbeB1snoPsgVCL,QNMACNOI.S'.
Friend sc. Columb fome time arse; compofed a Hymn in his mire. [The Am
‘i-zals of Inigfallhplace the Birth of Sr;‘Kiriran under the Year 506, and his Death
3 1-,“, 5&3. Bu; Archbifhop Ujiber bfrom the Authority of the Book of Nzrvaiz,
andthe Umer Annals, is more worthy of Credit, .. who alledgeth that he was born
.in 5:6, and died in 549, in the thirtythird Year of his Age ; which belt agreeth
with what a VVriter. of his Life vfayth, when he calls him u:wv95=3wv- fhort Lived.]
‘W The Church of ‘this ‘Abby was afterwards converted to a Cathedral; but I am
-‘utterly at :1 Lofs to fix“thelTime when'it was done- Some indeed expreily fay,
that St.‘Kz'ai7‘a71i)Vas‘ Bifhop 0l’i>C[0iIfIIm'l10Z'J'. If this be true, there is no occaiion
‘of anyfurtlsier enquiry. into the Original of the Cathedral. However, in clatter
5Ag'e‘s, nine other Churches were fubjeeted toiit,f as it were in oneeand the fame
..Church..;Yard,. which contained. about twolrifb ACFCS in.Ci.rcuit-, on the<Wejf.
whereof, the Bifhops of C lomzmmois afterwards built their Epifcopal Palace,
[the Ruins of which are yet vifible. The Situation of this Place is not unplea.
fant. It ftarrds on a green Bank, high raifed above the River, but encompaffed
to the Eajl, and North Ezzfl‘ with large Boggs. The nine Churches were mofl of
them built byzthg Kings and Petty Princes of ‘thofe Parts for their Places of Sea,
piiltiire ; who, hlthough at perpetual Wars in their Lives,‘ were contented-to”iie
liere peaceably"in Death. ‘One of thefe Churches, called, Temple-R1’, oritheis
King’s-Cburtb, was built by O--Mellagblin, King of Meatla, and to this Day is
the Burial Place of that Family. Another, called ‘T emple- C armor, was built by O-
Comzor-Dzm; a third and fourth by O-Kelly, and Macarthy-more, of Mzmjier.
The largeft of all was erezfted by Mac-Dermot, hand is calledafter his Namc, The
reft by others.‘ Before the W2]! Door of Mat-Derm0t’s Church, flood a large,
old-faihioned Crofs, or Monument, much injured by T ime; on" which was an
lnfcription in Antique Characters, which no-body, that I could hear of, could
rcgtd, The [Volt and North Door of this Church,‘ although but mean and’ 10w,’
are guarded aboutwitli line wrought, fmall, Marble Pillars, curioufly Hewn,
I Another of the Churches hath an Arch of a greenifh Marble, Hat wrought, and
neatly Hewn and Polifhed, and the joints to clofe and even fet, that the whole
Arch feems but one entire Stone, as fmooth aseither Glafs or Chriftall, T115.
Memory of St. Kizmzn is yet frefh and precious in the Minds of the Neighbour.
ing Inhabitants; infomuch that they make no fcruple in joyning his Name with
Gods, both in Bleiiing and Curling. God and St. Kiaran after you, is a common
Imprecation, when they think themfelves injured. In the ‘ great Church, was
heretofore preferved a Piece of the. Boneof one of St. Karzm’s Hands, as a fa...
cred Relique. The ninth of September is annually obfervcd as the Patron Day
,of'tl'1is Saint ;' and great Numbers from all Parts fipck to Clongngcrzcir in Devotiong
and Pilgrimage] .
7‘This Cathedral was heretofore endowed with large PofI'effious and was above I
all others famous for the Sepulchres of the Nobility and Bifhops, as alfo for
fome Monuments and lnl"criptions,’panly in Irzjlz,‘ andparrly in Hebrew.‘ Yet
it declined by degrees, and was in the End reducedrtoa molt fhameful Povc;-(Y,
In the Synod before mentioned to be held A. D. 1152, in Cardinal Papaya’,
Legatelhip-in Irelaizd, Cimmi is reckoned among the Epifcopal Sees, fubjeaito,
the Province of Efzmm; which HWJI‘ a tedious Suit at Rome, between thciArch..:
biihops of Armagbiand Tuam, ‘was in the End adjudged to the Province of Ar-j
magla. ,Ir was once of an Opinion, induced thereto by the Afiinity of r the
Names, that this Biihoprick was the fame with the Sec of Kemmm or Kelli. But,’
1:" Pfimord. 909, 957. Ind.Chron. H26, 1140,‘ i
33
. ,.,.