Cenel-Cairbre, is unfruitful, through
Patrick's word; Finn-glas, at the martyr-house of Druim-Cain, and
Druim-Cruachni; the taking of his kingship from Laeghaire, from Cairbre,
from Fiacha, from Maine; the grant of his kingship to Eoghan, to Conall,
to Crimthann, to Conall Erball; the smiths making the bells--_i.e._, Mac
Cecht, and Cuana, and Mac Tail; the artificers making the dishes and
reliquaries and the altar chalices--viz., Tassach, and Essa, and Bitiu;
the nuns making the altar-cloths--viz., Cochnass, and Tigris, and Lupait,
and Darerca.

After these great miracles, however, the day of Patrick's death and of
his going to heaven approached. What he began to do was to go to Armagh,
that it might be there his resurrection would be. The angel Victor came
to him. What he said to Patrick was: "It is not there thy resurrection
has been decreed; go back to the place from whence you came (_i.e._, to
the Sabhall), for it is there God has decreed that you shall die--not in
Macha. God has granted thee," said the angel, "that thy dignity and
rule, thy devotion and teaching, shall be in Ard-Macha, as if thou
thyself wert alive there."

The angel left advice with Patrick as to how he would be buried, saying:
"Let two young, active oxen be brought," said he, "of the herds of
Conall, from Finnabndir--_i.e._, from Clochar; and let your body be
placed in a wagon after them; and what way soever these young oxen go by
themselves, and the place where they will stop, let it be there your
interment shall be; and let there be a man's cubit in your grave, that
your remains be not taken out of it." It was so done after his death.
The oxen carried him to the place where to-day is Dun-da-leth-glas; and
he was buried there with all honor and respect. And for a space of
twelve nights--_i.e._, whilst the divines were waking him with hymns and
psalms and canticles--there was no night in Magh-inis, but angelic light
there; and some say there was light in Magh-inis for the space of a year
after Patrick's death, quia nulli adanti viri meritum declarandum
accidisse dubium est, et ita non visa nox in tota ilia regione in tempore
luctus Patricii, qualiter Ezechiae langenti in horologio Achaz
demonstrato sanitatis indicio, sol per xv lineas reversus est, et sic sol
contra Gabon, et luna contra vallem Achilon stetit.

In the first night the angels of the Lord of the elements were watching
Patrick's body with spiritual chants. The fragrant odor