thers,
viz., Luchtae and Derclam. Derclam sent his servant to kill Patrick, but
Luchtse prevented him, to whom Patrick said: "There shall be priests and
bishops of thy seed, and the race of thy brother shall be cursed, and
shall be few." And he left in that place Cruimther-Conan, and went
afterwards to Tobar-Stringle in the desert, and he was two Sundays
[living] on that well.

Patrick went to the men of Umhall, to Achadh-Fobhair where Bishop Senach
was ordained. The name Patrick conferred on him was "Agnus Dei." And he
it was who asked the three requests of Patrick--viz., that he should not
oppose him as regards orders, that the place should not be called after
him, and that what was wanting to complete his age should be added to the
age of Mac Aenghusa. It was for him (Mac Aenghusa) that Patrick wrote an
alphabet the day that Bishop Senach was ordained. Patrick desired truly
to erect a _see_ at Achadh-Fobhair, when he said: "I would remain here,
on a small plot of land, after circumambulating churches and fastnesses;
for I am infirm, I would not go." The angel said to Patrick:

"Everything you select shall be yours--
Every land, whether plain or rough,
Both hills and churches,
Both glens and woods,
After circumambulating churches and fastnesses
Though infirm, that you shall select."

Then Patrick left two trout alive in the well, and they will be there for
ever, as he said:

"The two inseparable trout,
Which would advance against perpetual streams,
Without obligation, without transgression--
Angels will be along with them in it."

Patrick went to Cruachan-Aighle on the Saturday of Whitsuntide. The
angel went to converse with him, and said to him: "God will not give thee
what thou demandest; for He thinks the demands weighty and immense and
great." "Is that His decision?" said Patrick. "It is," answered the
angel. "This is my decision, then," said Patrick: "I shall not leave
this Cruachan until I die or all the demands shall be given." Patrick
was afterwards with illness of mind in Cruachan, without drink or food,
from Shrove Saturday to Easter Saturday, just like Moses, son of Amra;
for they were alike in many things. God accosted them both out of the
fire; six score years was the age of each; the place of sepulture of both
is uncertain. At the end of those forty nights and forty days the
mountain around him was filled with black birds, so that he could see
neither heaven n