prostrate; and Patrick and his people came to the side of the
fort, and he (Aengus) bade them welcome, and took them into the fort to
the place where Lee-Patrick is to-day. And Patrick after that baptized
the sons of Nedfraech, and the men of Munster besides, and left a
blessing and prosperity upon them. And he blessed the fort--_i.e._,
Cashel--and said that only one race should be there for ever. And he was
seven years in Munster. The learned calculate that he made an offering
on every seventh ridge that he traversed in Munster.

When Patrick was baptizing Aengus, the point of the crozier went through
Aengus's foot. Patrick asked, "Why was it that you did not tell me?"
"Because," said he, "I thought it was the rule of the faith." "You shall
have its reward," said Patrick; "your successors from this day forth
shall not die of wounds." No one is King of Cashel until Patrick's
comarb ordains him and imposes the grade on him. Patrick said:

"The sons of Nadfraech, of sounding fame,
Of them shall be kings and chieftains;
Aengus, from the lands of Feimhen,
And Ailill, his brother."

And twenty-eight kings, of the race of Ailill and Aengus, reigned in
Cashel, ordained with the crozier, until the time of Cenngegan.

Patrick went after this to Muscraidhe-Breogain, and founded churches and
establishments there.

One day he was washing his hands at a ford there, when a tooth fell out
of his mouth into the ford. Patrick went upon the hillock to the north
of the ford; and persons went from him to look for the tooth, and
forthwith the tooth glistened in the ford like a sun; and Ath-fiaclai is
the name of the ford, and Cill-fiacia is the name of the church where
Patrick left the tooth and four of his people--viz., Cuircthe and Loscan,
Cailech and Bedan. He bade them (_i.e._, the Muscraidhe) farewell, and
left them a blessing.

He went afterwards to Aradha-Cliach until he was in Iochtar-Cuillenn in
Ui-Cuanach; and Ailill, son of Cathbadh, son of Lughaidh, of the
Eoghanacht of Airther-Cliach, met him. His wife went on the hillock
where they (the clerics) were, and said: "The pigs have eaten our son
Ailill through savageness," said she. And Ailill said: "I will believe
if you resuscitate my son for me." Patrick commanded the boy's bones to
be collected, and he directed a Cele-De of his people--_i.e._, Malach
Britt--to resuscitate him. "I will not offend the Lord," said he. (He
was seized with doubt.) Patri