5. Verse in the Life of S. Declan.
(Usher, Britt. eccl. antiquitates, Dublin 1639, p. 450).
Ita Scotice cantatur ille uersus:
Ailbe umal Patric Muman mó cach rád
Declan Patric na nDéise, in Déisi oc Declan cobrátha.
Let humble Ailbeb be the Patrick of Munster, greater than every saying: let Declanc be the Patrick of the Déisid, let the Déisi be with Declan till doom.
a: Thus given by Usher Works, ed. Elrington, vol. vi. p. 428
Ailbe umhal, Patric Mumhan, mó gach rath
Declan Patric Nandeisi nadeisi ag Declan go brath
b: Ailbe of Imlech Ibair, now Emly, co. Tipperary: his day is Sep. 12. See Fél. Oeng. ccxxxvii., cxlv. and Mart. Gorm. pp. 174, 330
c: Declan of Ardmore in the Dési of Munster: his day is July 24. See Fél. Oeng. pp. cxii., cxx. Mart. Gorm. pp. 142, 352.
d: now the Decies in Munster: see Book of Rights, pp. 49, 50, note k.
