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. for a brief account of the Irish Lay Schools.

[18] See under _Prosody_, O’Donovan’s _Irish Grammar_.

[19] See Joyce, P. W., _Social History of Ireland_, I., p. 316.

[20] _Cosmographia Aethici Istri_, edited by H. Wuttke, Leipsic, 1854.

Cited by Joyce, P. W., _op. cit._ I., p. 404.

Cited by Meyer, Kuno, _Learning in Ireland_, p. 11.

Cited by Wood-Martin, _Pagan Ireland_, p. 84.

[21] See Joyce, P. W., _Social History of Ireland_, I., p. 397.

[22] For the geographical distribution of Ogam inscriptions see Coffey, George, _Guide to Celtic Antiquities_, pp. 101–106.

[23] Perhaps the best division of the Irish language into periods is that given by Eoin MacNeill in _Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge_, May, 1908. Pre-Ogam, before 300 A.D. Ogam, c. 300(?)–700(?) A.D. The Old Irish of the MSS. from 600(?)–1000(?) A.D. Middle Irish, 1000–1500 A.D. Modern Irish, 1500–Present Day. During the present study we shall frequently use the words Old Irish to connote the Period including the 7th, 8th, and 9th centuries.

[24] Quiggin, E. C., _Article on Ogam_ in _Encyclopædia Britannica_, vol. v., pp. 622–623.

[25] Joyce, P. W., _op. cit._ I., pp. 398–399.

[26] MacNeill, Eoin, Article _Irish Ogam Inscriptions_ in the _Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy_, July, 1909.

[27] Bury, J. B., _Life of St. Patrick_, p. 10.

[28] Sigerson, George, _Bards of the Gael and Gall_, Introduction, p. 1.

[29] Meyer, Kuno, _Ancient Irish Poetry_, pp. 8, 9.

[30] De Jubainville, H. d’Arbois, _Literature Celtique_, I., p. 1.

[31] Meyer, Kuno, _Learning in Ireland in the Fifth Century_, p. 1.

[32] See Introduction to the _Book of Armagh_, ed. by John Gwynn; also Hyde, Douglas, _Literary History of Ireland_, pp. 137–139.

[33] Zimmer, Heinrich, _Celtic Church in Britain and Ireland_, p. 31.

[34] Bury, J. B., _Life of St. Patrick_, p. 206.

[35] Stokes, Whitley, _Tripartite Life of St. Patrick_, I., p. cxxxv.

[36] Bury, J. B., _Life of St. Patrick_, p. 206.

[37] Stokes, Whitley, _Tripartite Life of St. Patrick_, I., 112, 138, 190–322, 326, 327, 328.

[38] Joyce, P. W., _Social History of Ireland_, I., p. 439. See illustration.

[39] _Würzburg Codex_, 33 c. 13.

[40] Stokes, Whitley, _op. cit._ I., p. xviii.

[41] Roger, M., _L’Enseignement des Lettres Classiques_, p. 222.

[42] Meyer, Kuno, _Learning in Ireland, in the Fifth Century_, p. 1.

[43] Meyer, Kuno, _op. cit._ p. 5.

[44] De Jubainville H. d’Arbois, _Cours de littérature celtique_, I., p. 369.

[45] Meyer, Kuno, _op. cit._ pp. 5, 6.

[46] Gwynn, John, _Book of Armagh_, f. 22 b. 2; also Stokes, Whitley, _Tripartite Life of St. Patrick_, II., pp. 357–380.

[47] Translated from Latin of _Tripartite Life_, II., pp. 360–361.

[48] Zimmer, H., _Sitzungsberichte der köngl. preuss. Akademie_, 1909, p. 562, cited by Meyer, Kuno, _op. cit._ p. 5.

[49] Meyer, Kuno, _ibid._

[50] Colganus, _Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae_, XI., p. 375, cited by Hauréau, B., _Singularités Historiques et Littéraires_, pp. 2, 3.

[51] Power, Patrick, _Lives of SS. Declan and Mochuda_, p. xix.

[52] Tacitus, _Agricola_,