APPENDIX D.

ABBATS OF HY DURING THE PERIOD OF COLUMBITE PRIMACY",

A.D. 563-849.

1. S. COLUMBA, A.D. 563-597 b. [Ann. Tigh. a. 595, Quies Columcille in nocte Dominica Penticosten V. Id. Juni anno peregrinationis sue XXXV., etatis vero LXXVII. So also Ann. Innisf., Ult. The Ann. Clonmacn. and IV. Mag. give the same day but a different year. That A.D. 597 is the correct year, see Reeves's Adamnan, pp. 309–312; Lanigan, II. 247; Grub, 1. 67, n.c]

2. S. BAITHENUS, A.D. 597–600. [Ann. Tigh. a. 598, Quies Baethin Abbatis Ea anno LXVI. etatis sue. See however Ann. Ult.; Adamn., I. 2, 23, II. 46, III. 4; Ann. Clonm.; IV. Mag. in an. 595; and Grub, I. 70, n.]

3. LAISREAN or LASREN, A.D. 600-605. [Ann. Tigh. a. 605, Obitus Lasren Abbas Iea. So also Ann. Innisf., &c.]

4. FERGNA OF VIRGNOUS, A.D. 605-623, a Briton p. 122], miscalled a Bishop by IV. Mag. in an. 622. Bass (= mors) Fergna Abbatis Hie. Ann. Innisf. 623.]

5. SEGHINE OF SEIGINE OF SEGENIUS, A.D. 623-652. Obitus Seghine Abbas Iea, i. filii Fiachna. So also Adamn., I. 3, II. 4; and above, p. 108.]

[see above, vol. I.

[Ann. Tigh. a. 621, and Ult. date this in

[Ann. Tigh. a. 652, Ann. Ult.; and see

6. SUIBHNE, A.D. 652–657. [Ann. Tigh. a. 657, Quies Suibnii mac Cuirthre Abbatis Iea. So also Ann. Ult. Ann. Clonm. and IV. Mag. give another year.]

7. CUIMINE AILBHE or CUMMENIUS ALBUS, A.D. 657-669. [The first biographer of S. Columba: Ann. Tigh. a. 669, Obitus Cumaine Ailbe Abbatis Iea. So also Ann. Ult., Ann. IV. Mag., in an. 668.]

8. FAILBHE, A.D. 669-679. [See above, p. 109, under A.D. 692. Ann. Tigh. a. 679, Quies Failbe Abbatis Iea. So also Ann. Ult., and see Adamn., I. 3.]

9. ADAMNANUS or ADOMNANUS, also EDHENNANUS, ENDANANUS, ODAN DANUS, the Wise, A.D. 679-704. [Also = EUNAN, ONAN, OUNAN, ANNAN, THEWNAN (=St. Eunan), and called (erroneously) the first Bishop of Raphoe (Reeves,

[PRIMATE-ABBATS OF HY, A.D. 563-849.]

pp. 256, 257; Lanigan, III. 99, 100); Ann. Tigh. a. 704, Adamnanus LXVII. anno etatis sue in nonas kalendis Octobris Abbas Ie pausat. So also, but in an. 703, Ann. Innisf., Ult., IV. Mag.d; see however Lappenberg, Anglo-Sax. Kings, I. xxxvi. note, who argues for A.D. 705.]

10, 11, 12, 13, 14. Five (perhaps six) abbats, apparently displacing one another, owing to factions arising from the Easter dispute. [10. DUNCHADH, A.D. 707, principatum Iae tenuit (Ann. Tigh., Ult., see also Bad. H. E., III. 4 ; and above, pp. 115, 117), and the same Dunchadh, mac Cindfaeladh, Abbas Ie, obiit A.D. 717 (ib.): but 11. CONAIN or CONAMHAIL, became abbat before A.D. 710; according to Dr. Reeves, in A.D. 704; for, A.D. 710, Conmael mac Abbatis Cillidara Iea pausat (Ann. Tigh.), and, same year, Conain mac Failbe Abbas Iae pausat (Ann. Ult.); also, in A.D. 712, Ceode Episcopus Iea pausat (Ann. Tigh.), who may perhaps have been abbat, but probably was only a Bishop residing in the abbey: and 12. DORBENE, A.D. 713, cathedram Jae obtinuit (Ann. Tigh., Ult.); and the same Dorbene, according to one entry in Ann. Tigh. (repeated by Ann. Ult.), V. mensibus peractis in primatu 5o kal. Novembris die Sabbati obiit, and according to another entry in the former annals, died A.D. 715, but the 28th October was a Saturday in A.D. 713, and not in A.D. 715-however, 13. FAILCHU or FAELCU, A.D. 716, cathedram Columbæ LXXXVII. etatis anno in IIII. kl. Septembris (Vo. kal., Ann. Ult.) die Sabbati suscepit (Ann. Tigh., Ult.), and Aug. 29, A.D. 716, was a Saturday; and, A.D. 724, the same Faelchu, in both cases styled Mac Doirbeni or Dorbene, dormivit (Ann. Tigh., Ult.): and yet, 14. FEIDLIMIDH, A.D. 722, principatum lae tenet (Ann. Tigh., Ult.), and did not die until A.D. 759. It looks as if Dunchadh, A.D. 707-716, and Faelchu, A.D. 716-724, were the abbats of the new or reforming side; and Conain, (perhaps Ceode,) Dorbene, and Feidlimidh, were the nominees of the others. The primacy over the Picts was lost during the incumbency of Faelchu.]

15. KILLENE FODA, or CILLENIUS LONGUS, A.D. 724-726. [Ann. Tigh. a. 724, Cillenius Longus ei [Faelchu] in principatum Ie successit; and a. 726, Cillenius Longus abbas Ie pausat. So also Ann. IV. Mag. in an. 725.]

16. KILLENE DROICTEACH, or the Bridgemaker, A.D. 726-752. [Ann. Tigh. a. 752, Mors Cilline Droictigh ancorite Iea. So also Ann. Ult., IV. Mag. in an. 747, the latter calling him "Abb. Iae."]

(FAILBHE THE SECOND, A.D. 752-754, is inserted here by Ann. IV. Mag. But the earlier Ann. Innisf. make the name Sleibne, and Dr. Reeves omits him altogether, and puts Sleibne's succession A.D. 752.)

17. SLEIBNE or SLEBHINE, A.D. 752-767. [Ann. Ult. a. 767, Quies Sleibeni Iae. And see ib. a. 754, and Ann. Tigh. a. 754, 757, 758.]

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18. SUIBNE, A.D. 765-772. [Ann. Ult. a. 765, Suibne Abbas Iae in Hiberniam venit (where either Suibne is a mistake for Sleibne, or else the latter resigned in A.D. 765, or perhaps Suibne was elected coadjutor- abbat before his predecessor's death); ib. a. 772, Mors Suibne Abbas Iae.]

19. BREASAL MAC REGENI, A.D. 772-801. [Ann. Ult. a. 801, Bresal mac Regeni Abbas Iae anno principatus sui 31 dormivit. See also above, p. 117.]

20. CONACHTACH, A.D. 801, 802; "scriba selectissimus et Abbas Iae." See Ann. IV. Mag. a. 797.

21. CEALLACH, A.D. 802–814. [Ann. Ult. a. 814, Ceallach Abbas Iae finita constructione templi Cenindsa (Kells) reliquit principatum. He died in A.D. 815. See Ann. Clonmacn., IV. Mag.]

22. DIARMIT, A.D. 814-831 × 849. [Ann. Ult. a. 814, Diarmicius alumpnus Daigri pro eo (Ceallach) ordinatus est. He is mentioned also ib. a. 829, 831, and in IV. Mag. a. 816; but his death is not recorded, and A.D. 849 Indrecht is abbat. Blaithmaic's martyrdom happened A.D. 825.]

23. INDRECHT or INNRECHTACH, (before) A.D. 849-854. [Ann. Ult. a. 849, Inrechtach Abbat of Hy goes to Ireland; Ann. Innisf. a. 854, he is "martyred" on his way to Rome by the Saxons.]

[Notices of subsequent abbats of Hy, no longer however primates of Scotland, and commonly styled coarbs, and that of other (Irish) abbeys (as Armagh, Kells, Kildare, Raphoe, &c.) in conjunction with Hy, occur regularly until A.D. 1099, and again after an interval of some half a century, down to A.D. 1203, at which date the last entry occurs respecting Hy in the Irish annals: see Reeves's Adamnan, pp. 407-413.]

This list is mainly abridged from Dr. Reeves's Add. Notes to Adamnan, on the Chronicles of Hy, pp. 370 sq.

b In addition to the settlements mentioned above on p. 107, there is a list of dedications to S. Columba in Dr. Reeves's Adamn., pp. 289-298, indicating missionary Columbite settlements, but not necessarily (and in some cases certainly not) cotemporary with S. Columba himself. They run completely round the coast (including the islands), from Largs and Bute, west, north, and east, to Forfarshire, and thence inland west to the Lennox. Scotia, where they are most numerous, they extend from Bute and Cantyre, through most of the islands (Islay, Oronsay, Colonsay, Mull, Canna, Tiree, S. Kilda, Skye and the islets on its coast, N. and S. Uist, Benbecula, Bernera,

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Lewis); and one, Columbkill, on the northern skirts of the mainland Dalriada, at the head of Loch Arkeg: to which may be added Kilmacolm, and Largs in Renfrew, just south of the Clyde, in Strathclyde. Of these, S. Columba himself certainly occupied Skye (which was divided with him subsequently by S. Maelrubha: see Adamn., V. S. Col.. I. 33, II. 26, and Reeves ad loc.) and Tiree; and probably most of the islands named. 2. In Pictland, beginning with Sanday and Hoy in the Orkneys, they are dotted along the coast at intervals, from a place near Tongue in Sutherland, Dirlet in Caithness, Clyne on the east coast of Sutherland, three or four places in Inverness-shire, Banff, and Nairn, to Lonmay (and the abbey of Deer) in the N. E. of Aberdeenshire, three places on the Don, and rather more in Forfar

[PRIMATE-ABBATS OF HY, A.D. 565-849.]

APPENDIX E.

LIVES EXIST OF THE FOLLOWING SAINTS CONNECTED WITH THE EARLY SCOTTISH (DALRIAD) OR PICTISH CHURCHES, PRIOR TO A.D. 850.

1. S. Servani (Serf), Episcopi (a Scottish disciple of S. Palladius, according to the Aberdeen Breviary-came from Alexandria according to the legend in Skene, who himself conjectures him to have come with Boniface in the 8th century): one printed by Skene, Chron. 412-420, from a MS. of Bishop Marsh at Dublin, V. 3, 4, 16: another legend, in Brev. Aberd. Pars Estiv. July 1, and in Actt. SS. July 1, vol. I. p. 57, 58. S. Irchard occurs as his cotemporary in the Aberdeen Breviary.

2. S. Ternani, confessoris et Episcopi (also a disciple of S. Palladius): in Brev. Aberd. Pars Estiv. June 12. See also the Liber de Arbuthnot, pp. lxxii. sq.

3. S. Boethii (Buitte, or Buti, Mac Bronaig Bute of Monasterboice, commemorated Dec. 7), Presbyteri (an Irishman who went to Italy, returned thence, and preached among other countries in those of the Picts and of Dalriada, died the year of S. Columba's birth, sc. A.D. 520 Ann. Tigh., A.D. 519 in other Annals): extracts in Skene, Chron. 410, 411, from MS. Bodl. Rawl. B. 505.

4. S. Columbæ, Presbyteri et Abbatis (of Hy, A.D. 563-597): one, auct. Cuminio Abb. Hyens., A.D. 657 × 669, in Mabillon, Actt. SS. Ben. Sæc. I., I. 342, ed. Venet.; Actt. SS. June 9, vol. II. p. 185; Colgan, II. 325; Pinkerton, VV. Antiq. SS. Scot., &c.; another, auct. Adamnano Abb. Hyens., A.D. 679 × 704, in Canisius, Antiq. Lectt., I. 678, ed. Basnage; Messingham, Florileg. Insul. SS. seu VV. et Actt. SS. Hibern. p. 141; Surius, June 9, II. 144, ed. 1617; Colgan, 336-372; Actt. SS. June 9, vol. II. p. 197; Pinkerton as above; and, finally, edited by Dr. Reeves, with notes, &c., Dubl. 1857. See also Capgrave, N. L. A. 62. Other lives, of later date, with various Appendices, are in Colgan, pp. 321, 389-492.

5. S. Baitheni, Abbatis (of Hy, A.D. 597-600): in Actt. SS. June 9, vol. II. p. 237: see Hardy's Descr. Catal., I. 178.

6. S. Aidani, Episcopi (of Lindisfarne, A.D. 635-651, sent thither from Hy) in various forms, founded upon Bada, one printed in Capgrave, N. L. A. 4, the others in MS. See Hardy, ib., 246, 247.