Feachtus do-deachaidh Cairpre Crom, mac Criomtain, go Dun Tulcha Aird .i. go tech Fínáin righ Fer Muighi do chuinghidh inghine a mathar fair .i. Cranatan, inghen Buicin meic Cain Moir. Ocus ro ba maith le Finán sin; ⁊ rolá dá ghilla uadh go Dísert Cranatan ar lar Duibh-fedha .i. Cuainir ⁊ a brathair; ⁊ at-bertatar ria, tíachtain do accallaimh Fináin. Tainic leo sísd ón m-baile, ⁊ ro foillsighedh dhi an toiscc, ⁊ ro fhiarfaigh cidh ar a rabhus di. Ocus ro raidh andara fer: “Bidh fada go f-finnfa uaim-si”. “Ní rabh dot síol nech fhiarfóchus sccel”, ar issi. Ferg lai-siumh sin, ⁊ do-cuaidh rompa go fada. Ocus ro innis an fer oile .i. Cuanir, scéla dhi-si; ⁊ tainicc si don t-slighidh síar; ⁊ ros-creid go diocra do Dia, ⁊ ro chinn ina menmain na raghadh go fer, ⁊ nach millfedh a h-oige, ⁊ ro athain nach leiccfidhe ar a comhairle féin h-i. Ocus ro bhen a dí súil as a cinn ⁊ dos-fucc i l-laimh na dí chailleach battar ina farradh .i. Mael Bracha ⁊ Laithche. Ocus do-ratt Maol Bracha an t-súil tuccadh dhi ina leine aici, ⁊ tucc Laithche an t-suil ele h-i crann, ⁊ cáennach becc fuirre.

Ocus do-chuaidh an gilla rompu; ⁊ ro innis sgela d' Finánus; ⁊ eirgidh Finán go solamh, ⁊ léiccidh an fhithcill bai d' imirt ar lár, ⁊ ticc i n-acchaid na caillighe. Ocus an tan at-concatar na mná Finán, ro raidh Cranait:

1. A Fínáin, gé bé go tenn, et reliqua.

Ocus ro impo Finán, ⁊ ro innis scela do Chairpre; ⁊ fa fercc  p.161 mór la Cairpri sin, ⁊ at-bert go m-beanfadh a righe ó Fhinán ind. Ocus ro imtigh go Bithlainn, risan abar Tulach Cuilennáin aníu, ⁊ ro fhuirimh no ro shir biadh ar Chulchán .i. naem na cille; ⁊ ro raidh Culcán ag defires fris:

1. A rí Chaisil, an maith lat
   O Chulchan a n-at-connac?
   Barr biruir, in faemha an proinn?
   Ocus arán briscc Bithlaind.

Ro ob Cairpre sin, ⁊ ro troiscc;  129r ⁊ ro raidh Culchan gurab bith-trosccadh; ⁊ ro raidh Cairpri gurab bith-fásach do cheall-sa, ⁊ na tí neach di. Ocus ba marbh an oidhche-sin Cairpre tre breithir Chulcáin ⁊ Chranatan; ⁊ ruccadh-somh go Cill Cromglaisi ar matain; ⁊ ro raidh araile fer ann-saidhe:

1. Inmhain corpán súd uainn soir,
   Corpan Cairpre meic Criomhtain,
   Corpán do bidh fó mhaisi,
   Berar do Choill Chrom-ghlaisi.

Tucc Fínán immorro do Chranatain a shíol dia foghnamh, ⁊ a dhún cona ferann .i. o Dobernaitt a túaidh, ⁊ ó Árd Ratha go Nem lind-maighrigh risan abar Abhann Mór. Ocus for-faccaibh si búadha móra dó, gé ro ben righe fair, .i. buaidh laoch ⁊ cleirech, ⁊ datha ar édach, ⁊ buaidh n-gaisccidh ⁊ ferainn, ⁊ a shíl féin dia c-caithemh. Ocus tainic roimpe conuicce an Scath derc.

“In annso”, ol siatt, “talladh do roscc as do chind”. “Reccmaitt a les anossa h-é”, ar Cranat. “Mairidh accum-sa do leth-roscc”, ar Máel Bracha. “Tabhair im chind”, ar Cránait, “go ma lughaitte damh na gona”. Tucc-si fo cetóir, ⁊ ro len  p.162 ann feibh as ferr bói roimhe; ⁊ at-connairc ní fo céttoir, ⁊ ro raidh: “As dercc an sccath at-chím”. Conidh de rot len an Sccath Dercc; ⁊ ro chuinnigh an roscc ele ar Laithche, ⁊ as-bert si: “Tuccus isin crann útt h-é”. Ocus ro bhen as iar sin, ⁊ tuccadh h-i c-ceann Cranatan é. Ocus boi bruscar an croinn uime, gur bo h-occal an roscc-sin do grés. Ocus ro ráidh si ría Laithche gomadh fo bruscar ⁊ fó duilleabhar no bheith a h-aitreabh idir; ⁊ ro raid re Máil Bracha gomadh aráon no beittís i n-nimh ⁊ i t-talmain. Ocus do-lottar rompa go Dísert Cranatan; ⁊ do-róine an laidh-se síos.

1. Mo dherc-sa, gidh dercc a dath,
   As mór a fercc is a crith;
   Antí da t-táinicc a crádh
   Ní raibh go sámh ar an m-bith.
2. Ro fáccbus mo shile sunn
   Ar daigh righ na ruine tall;
   For-fettar a dic a teach,
   Ge adera nech is am dall.
3. Dom déoin ro chuires amach
   Do rinn mo mhéoir ina rith,
   As tall fo-gebhainn mo cradh
   Dia m-beinn go samh ar in m-bith.
4. Bith ro bhuaidhir síl n-Adhaimh
   Da crith ocus da chéolaibh,
    ¹Ní má tabhar dó an dá ceill
   Gibe na caithind deolaidh.
5. Maircc deolaidh caithes a mhír
   Do reir anéolais go h-án,
   Maircc nach faichlenn lá na cith,
   Maircc bís ar bith gan a cradh.
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6. Ni crádh lém menmain anocht
   Gan lucht an teghlaigh fom smacht;
   At-lochar dontí do-gní
   Mar atá mo clí fó smacht.
7. Martra, as ionmain an monur,
   Daigh rígh na carcra carair;
   Treabhlaitt fhotta ó Mhac Muire,
   Mochin duine da t-tabair.
8. Gibe na fuisme ar bith ce
   Daigh Dé, 's na tuicfi cech día
   Imned do gorus dá cli,
   Righ-neam glan-solus ni ría.
9. Fuisidin chinadh do neoch
   As iodhan, 's ni báeth an breth;
   Cuingid dílgadh dibh go moch
   Nárab croch cir-dubh mo derc.
   Mo

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1. Bruxelles, Bibliothèque Royale, O 'Clery numbers MS Br. 2324–40, fo. 128. For details see J. Van den Gheyn, Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, Bruxelles 1906–1948, (13 vols.); vol. V, 384.
2. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 968 (olim A. iv. 1 olim Stowe 9), p. 90–93. For details see Kathleen Mulchrone, T. F. O'Rahilly et al. (eds.), Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin 1926–1958, Vol. V, Fasc. 22, pp. 2780–83, MS 968.

Editions/Translations

1. Charles Plummer, Miscellanea Hagiographica Hibernica, Subsidia Hagiographica 15. Bruxelles 1925. Life of Cranat ed. with transl. from Br. 2324–40, f. 128 and Stowe A iv 1.
2. Charles Plummer, Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae Tom. I–II, 8vo, Oxford 1910. [Introduction deals with the relation of the Latin and Irish lives, contents, folk-lore, mythology, etc.]

Secondary literature

1. Eugene O'Curry, Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, Dublin 1873, vol. 3, 44.
2. Felim Ó Briain, 'Miracles in the lives of the Irish Saints', Irish Eccelsiastical Record 66 (1945), 331–42.
3. D. D. C. Pochin Mould, Ireland of the Saints. London: Batsford, 1953.
4. Nora K. Chadwick, The age of saints in early Celtic Church. London O.U.P., 1961. (University of Durham: Riddell memorial lectures, 32nd series, 1960).
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6. Kathleen Hughes, The Church in Early Irish Society. London: Methuen, 1966.
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11. Laurence Flanagan, A Chronicle of Irish Saints. Belfast: The Blackstaff Press, 1990.
12. Dorothy Ann Bray, 'A List of Motifs in the Lives of the Early Irish Saints', Folklore Fellows Communications, no. 252. Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 1992.
13. Review of D. A. Bray. (1) Dorothy Africa, Speculum 71 (1996) 129–132.
14. Review of D. A. Bray. (2) Clare Stancliffe, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 31 (Summer 1996) 73–75.
15. Review of D. A. Bray. (3) Caoimhín Breatnach, Éigse 31 (1999) 200–202.
16. Review of D. A. Bray. (4) Dáibhí Ó hÓgain, Béaloideas: The Journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society 67 (1999) 194–196.
17. Elva Johnston, 'Powerful women or patriarchal weapons? Two medieval Irish saints'. Peritia 15 (2001) 302–10.
18. Pádraig Ó Riain, A dictionary of Irish Saints (Dublin 2011), 228–229 (with bibliography).

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Plummer, Charles, ed. (1925). Betha Cranatan‍. 1st ed. Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 13 pp.

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