ake is still to be seen as a memorial of that miracle.

XXXVII. CIARAN DEPARTS FROM ISEL

30. As the brethren could not suffer the almsgiving of Ciaran, so
great was it, and as they were envious of him, they said unto him,
"Rise and depart from us," said they, "for we cannot be in the same
place." Said Ciaran, "Had I been here," said he, "though this spot be
lowly (_Isel_) in situation, it would have been high in glory and in
honour." Then he said--

Although lowly, it were high,
Had not censure come me nigh;
Had I not been censured so,
It were high though it be low.

Then Ciaran put his books upon a wild stag; afterwards he accompanied
the wild stag wheresoever it would go. The deer went forward to Inis
Aingin. He went into the island and dwelt there.

XXXVIII. CIARAN IN INIS AINGIN

31. Then his brethren came to him from every side. There was a certain
archpresbyter in the island, Daniel his name. Of the British was he,
and the devil incited him to be jealous of Ciaran. A royal cup with
three birds of gold was given him by Ciaran as a token of forgiveness.
The presbyter marvelled thereat, and repented, and did obeisance to
Ciaran, and gave the island to him.

XXXIX. THE COMING OF OENNA

32. Once Ciaran was in Inis Aingin and he heard a cry in the port. He
said to the brethren, "Rise and go for your future abbot." When they
reached the harbour they found no man save a weak unconsecrated youth.
They tell that to Ciaran. "For all that, go again for him; it is clear
to me from his voice that it is he who shall be abbot after me."
Thereafter the youth was brought into the island to Ciaran, and Ciaran
tonsured him, and he read with him. That was Enna maccu Laigsi, a holy
man, held in honour of the Lord; and it is he who was abbot after
Ciaran.

XL. HOW CIARAN RECOVERED HIS GOSPEL

33. It happened that the gospel of Ciaran fell into the lake from the
hand of a heedless brother, and it was a long time in the lake. Upon
a day in the time of summer the kine went into the water, so that the
strap of the gospel attached itself to the hoof of one of the kine,
and she brought it dry [from below][33] to haven. Thence is "Port of
the Gospel" in Inis Aingin. When the gospel was opened it was in this
wise--white and clean, dry, without the loss of a letter, through the
grace of Ciaran.

XLI. HOW CIARAN WENT FROM INIS AINGIN TO CLONMACNOIS

34. A certain man of Corco Baiscind came to Ciaran, Donnan his