Oeng., April 7th). More puzzling is the note in the same Calendar
which makes Declan a foster son of Mogue of Ferns! This entry
illustrates the way in which errors originate. A former scribe
inadvertently copied in, after Declan's name, portion of the entry
immediately following which relates to Colman Hua Liathain.
Successive scribes re-copied the error without discovering it and so
it became stereotyped.




LIFE OF ST. DECLAN
or
"BETHA DECCLAIN"


1. The most blessed Bishop Declan of the most noble race of the
kings of Ireland, i.e., the holy bishop who is called Declan was of
the most noble royal family of Ireland--a family which held the
sceptre and exacted tribute from all Ireland at Tara for ages. Declan
was by birth of noble blood as will appear from his origin and
genealogy, for it was from Eochaidh Feidhleach, the powerful Ardrigh
of Ireland for twelve years, that he sprang. Eochaidh aforesaid, had
three sons, scil.:--Breas, Nar, and Lothola, who are called the three
Finneavna; there reigned one hundred and seven kings of their race
and kindred before and after them, i.e. of the race of Eremon, king
of Ireland,--before the introduction of Christianity and since.
These three youths lay one day with their own sister Clothra,
daughter of the same father, and she conceived of them. The son she
brought forth as a consequence of that intercourse was marked by