-907. Cearnaghan MacDulgan perpetrated sacrilegious violence in the Cathedral of Armagh, from which he dared to remove a certain captive who had fled thither for refuge. He afterwards drowned his unfortunate victim in Lough Cirr or Kirr, which, writes Colgan, lies westward of the city. The site of this lake is thus described in "Trias Thaum, p.29," in lacu de loch Kirr urbi versus occidentem adjacenti suffocavit. Cearnaghan himself was soon seized by Niall Glunduff, then King of Ulster, and subsequently Monarch of Ireland, and drowned in the same lake as a punishment for his crime, There is no water near Armagh now bearing this name, but there are two Loughs in this direction known as Lisadian and Loughnashade- (sed, pearls). In quoting from the "Chronicon Scotorum," edited by W. M. Hennessy, under the year 911, we read-" The profanation of Ardmacha by Cearnaghan, son of Duligen, viz. :-A captive was taken out of the Church and killed at Loch Cirr, to the east of Ardmacha. Cearnaghan was drowned by Niall, son of Aedh, in the same lake for the offence of the profanation of Patrick." The entries transcribed by the Four Masters, under AD 914, are given in the Annals of Ulster, under 915 alias 916 thus :- Ardmacha burnt wholly on the 5th kal. of May, viz., on the south side, together with the Savall hall, other Abbot's reliques (recte, with the Toi, the Sabhall, the Kitchen, and all the fort of the Abbots). -919. Godfrey Dux Nortmannorum and his army plun-dered Ardmacha, but he spared the Oratories with their Culdees and the sick. In the years 931 and 943 the Danes plundered Armagh, and Concovar was buried there with great honour. -980. Domnald, son of Murchard, died at Armagh, after having reigned twenty-four years. -986. A great "conflight at Ardmach," the Sunday before Lammas, between O'Nehachs and O'Niallans, when Maktre-mar, MacCelegan, and others were slain. There is an account in Connellan's Annals of Ireland of the Danes in the tenth century having defeated Ceallachan, King of Cashel, and brought him to Armagh. The Munster chiefs, in order to redeem their king from captivity, collected a powerful force and marched through Connaught and Ulster to Armagh, which was then in possession of the Danes, and whither they brought Ceallaghan prisoner in order to put him on board their fleet at Dundalk. The Irish attacked Armagh by the projec-tion of large stones from machines, together with arrows, darts, slings, and other missiles, and applying scaling ladders to the walls. The Danes, under Sitric, were at length defeated with great slaughter, and having evacuated the city by night, they marched off toward Dundalk, and embarked their forces in their fleet which lay in that bay. In the See of Armagh, from the year 966 to 1130, there were no less than ten married men, and some of them not in orders, succeeding each other in that See, so that St. Bernard says " They were Episcopi, but not Clerici." -988. Dunchadh ua Braem, Abbot of Cluan Mic Nois, a celebrated wise man and Anchorite, died 17th February at Ardmacha, at the end of the 12th year of his pilgrimage. It is of him Eochaidh O'Flannigan, the most distingui~hed historian of Ireland, gave this testimony. The seat of Macha, the treacherous, voluptuous, haughty, is a psalm-singing house, possessed by saints; there came not within the walls of her fort a being like unto Dunchadh ua Braein