343] Acts xii. 16.

[344] Matt. vii. 8; Luke xi. 10.

[345] John xiv. 6.

[346] Ps. cxviii. 15, 16.

[347] Isa. i. 20.

[348] Ezek. ii. 5, etc.

[349] Lev. xxvi. 23 (vg.).

[350] _Basilicae._

[351] _Plebes._

[352] See Additional Note A.

[353] 1 Pet. ii. 10, combined with Hos. ii. 24.

[354] The city was Bangor, though St. Bernard may have taken it to be
Connor. The word city (_civitas_), which he no doubt found in his
authority, might be applied, like its Irish equivalent, _cathair_, to
either place: but to St. Bernard it would naturally suggest an
episcopal see. Connor was within the suzerainty of the king of the
northern part of Ireland, Bangor was outside it. See next note.

[355] Conor O'Loughlin, who is called king of the north of Ireland in
the Annals (s.a. 1136). He succeeded his father Donnell as king of
Ailech (Grenan Ely, co. Donegal, the residence of the kings of the
northern Ui Neill) in 1121, and the next year he invaded the northern
part of Ulaid, the district in which Bangor is situated. He invaded
Magh Cobha (Iveagh, co. Down) and Bregha (Meath), with the help of the
Dal Araide (the district round Connor, co. Antrim) in 1128. He finally
subdued Ulaid in 1130, and "plundered the country as far as the east
of Ard [_i.e._ the baronies of the Ards, in which lies Bangor], both
lay and ecclesiastical property." He was murdered on May 25, 1136
(_A.U._, _A.L.C._). It has been supposed that the expedition of 1130
was the occasion of the destruction of Bangor mentioned in the text.
But St. Bernard places it, and the consequent departure of Malachy to
the south, before the death of Cellach in 1129 (Sec. 19), and we have
found reason to believe that Malachy was at Lismore in 1127 (p. 21, n.
3). Though no raid by Conor in that year is referred to in the Annals,
that fact cannot be regarded as proof that none took place.

[356] Jer. i. 14.

[357] _Ibracense._ That this monastery was in Iveragh, a barony in the
county of Kerry, north of the estuary of the Kenmare River, and in
Cormac Mac Carthy's kingdom of Desmond, was apparently first suggested
by Lanigan (iv. 92). The identification is almost certainly correct.
It is more difficult to determine the part of the barony in which the
monastery was situated. O'Hanlon suggested Church Island, near
Cahirciveen, where there are some ecclesiastical remains,
traditionally known half a century ago as "the monastery" (_R.I.A._
xv. 107). But these appear t