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[264] Stokes, Whitley, _op. cit._ p. 172.

[265] See Joyce. P. W., _op. cit._ I., 439 for illustration of alphabet engraved on a large stone in Kilmakedar in Co. Kerry.

[266] Plummer, Charles, _op. cit._ I., p. cxv.

[267] See Stokes and Strachan, _Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus_, I., pp. 3–481.

[268] Joyce, P. W., _op. cit._ I., pp. 482–484.

[269] Coffey, George, _Guide to Celtic Antiquities of the Christian Period_, see illustration, p. 99.

[270] Joyce, P. W., _op. cit._ I., p. 438.

[271] Stokes and Strachan, _Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus_, I., p. 567; Zimmer, H., _Glossae Hiberniae_, p. 69, Note 7.

[272] Stokes and Strachan, _op. cit._ I., p. 516.

[273] Joyce, P. W., _op. cit._ p. 440.

[274] _Book of Leinster_, p. 135; _Rawlinson_ MS. B. 502, p. 77, edited by Kuno Meyer; _Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy_, 1883, pp. 219–252, edited and translated by Thomas Olden; cited by _Revue Celtique_, V., p. 192.

[275] Macalister, R. A. S., _Muiredach, Abbot of Clonmacnoise_. See Map on Plate I., opposite p. 12.

[276] Traube, Ludwig, _O Roma Nobilis_, p. 58.

[277] Concannon, Helen, _Life of St. Columban_, pp. 41–42.

[278] Stokes and Strachan, _op. cit._ II., p. xix., and for Glosses see _op. cit._ II., pp. 49–232.

[279] Joyce, P. W., _op. cit._ I., pp. 430–431.

[280] Joyce, P. W., _op. cit._ I., p. 432.

[281] See Macalister, R. A. S., _Muiredach_, p. 65, for a collection of these fragmentary marginalia.

[282] Joyce, P. W., _op. cit._ I., 483.

[283] Reeves, Wm., _Adamnan_, Preface, lviii.

[284] _Ancient Laws of Ireland_, III., p. 89.

[285] Sullivan, Sir Edward, _The Book of Kells_, p. 24.

[286] Sullivan, Sir Edward, _op. cit._ p. 25.

[287] Or the juice of “green skinned holly,” Meyer, Kuno, _Ancient Irish Poetry_, p. 87.

[288] Keller, Ferdinand, _Ulster Journal of Archæology_, Old Series, VIII., p. 222.

[289] Stokes, Margaret, _Early Christian Ireland_, Article ix.

[290] See Abbot’s _Reproduction of the Book of Kells_, Plate xxxiv.; also reproduced in Sir Arthur Sullivan’s _The Book of Kells_.

[291] Joyce, P. W., _op. cit._ I., p. 480, illustration i., 481.

[292] Joyce, P. W., _op. cit._ I., pp. 477–478.

[293] See