aw him
(Patrick), for it was not from his heart that he believed when he was
baptized and confessed the faith. "My _debroth_," said Patrick, "'twere
right that thy houses should not be exalted, nor thy descendants after
thee. Thy successors shall be seldom just, and there shall be fratricide
through it."

He went to the east, to Lec-finn, where Patrick made the cross in the
stone over Cill-mor-uachtair-Muaidh, to the west. But Lia-na-manach is
its name at this day--_i.e._ Cruimther Monach's, or Olcan's church; but
there was no church there at that time. And he baptized Eochaidh, son of
Nathi, son of Fiachra, and resuscitated his wife Echtra, at Ath-Echtra,
the little stream at the very door of Cill-mor. And Echtra's grave is on
the margin of the ford. It is a sign of knowledge with them in their
history to remember this grave. He (Patrick) sent Bishop Olcan to build
where the church is to-day. Thus he came with an axe on his back, and
Patrick told him that he should put up at the place where the axe would
fall off his back; quod factum est where Cill-mor-uachtair-Muaidh is. He
went afterwards to the north, to Lec-Balbeni, where he found and blessed
the sons of Amhalgaidh; and he went out of the country from [the western]
Bertlacha to the eastern Bertlacha, and passed it eastwards to the
estuary of the Muaidh, towards the mouth of the sea. A young woman was
drowned there before him; and he blessed the place, and said that no
person should be drowned there for evermore. Patrick prophesied that the
eastern Bertlacha should be with him, as it is in their history; and in
the day of war the king of that region will be victorious, if true to
Patrick. It was there, at the stream, the Gregraighe flung stones at
Patrick and his people. "My _debroth_," said Patrick, "you shall be
beaten in every conflict in which you may be; and you shall be subject to
insult and contumely in every assembly in which you may be." "Arise, O
Conall!" said Patrick, "that you may assume the _bachall_." Conall said,
"If it please thee, I shall do so." "That shall not be," said Patrick;
"but I will support thy valor, and will give comarbs to thy race, and
thou shall be the Conall Sciath-bachall. The palm of laics and clerics
shall be from thee; and every one of thy descendants in whose shield the
sign of my _bachall_ shall be will not be subdued."

All this Patrick did to him. He went eastwards into the territory of
Hy-Fiachrach, by th