Note 297 — APPENDIX A SOURCES

See Reeves, Adamnan, pp. l. li. Professor Kuno Meyer has just published an old Irish treatise on the “Law of Adamnan” passed at this synod (“Cáin Adamnáin,” in Anecdota Oxoniensia, 1905). The document contains a list of the bishops, abbots, and kings present at the synod which was held at Birr. Muirchu appears (p. 18): Murchu maccúi Machthéine. Muirchu appears in the Martyrologies under June 8 (see Calendar of Oengus, ed. Stokes, p. xciii.).