Chapter XII: The School of Clonmacnoise

I.--ST. CIARAN OF CLONMACNOISE 258
Clonmacnoise 258
St. Ciaran at the School of Clonard 259
He goes to Aran 260
Visits St. Senan at Scattery 261
Founds Churches at Isell Ciaran and Hare Island, and the
Monastery at Clonmacnoise 261
Origin of the Diocese of Clonmacnoise 262
Death of St. Ciaran 263
Festival of St. Ciaran 264
The Eclais Beg 265

II.--THE RUINED CHURCHES AT CLONMACNOISE 266
Round Tower 267
O'Rourke's Tower 268
De Lacy's Castle 269
Inscribed Tombstones 269

III.--THE SCHOLARS OF CLONMACNOISE 270
Grants to the School of Clonmacnoise 271
Colgan, or Colgu the Wise 272
Alcuin 272
The Ferleginds 273
The _Prayer of St. Colgu_ 273
_Scuap Chrabhaigh_ 274
Plundered by the Danes 274
Felim Mac Criffan 275

IV.--ANNALISTS OF CLONMACNOISE 276
Tighernach 276
_Chronicon Scotorum_ 278
Gilla-Christ O'Maeileon 279
_Annals of Clonmacnoise_ 279

V.--THE "LEABHAR-NA-H-UIDHRE" 280
Conn-na-m-Bocht 280

VI.--DICUIL, THE GEOGRAPHER 281
The _De Mensura Orbis Terrarum_ 281
His Learning 284
Irish Pilgrimage to Jerusalem 285
The "Barns of Joseph" 286
Dicuil's reference to Iceland 287
Love of the Ancient Irish Monks for island solitudes 288
Iceland and the Faroe Isles occupied by Irish Monks prior to
discovery of these islands by the Danes 289
Dicuil's testimony that Sedulius was an Irishman 290