When Saint Fintán had lived for five years in that locus in the region of Éle, Ciar, a hand-maiden of God, came to him one day, together with five other hand-maidens of God. The guest master went out to greet her. The hand-maiden of God said to him:
‘Go to the powerful man, who lives here, and tell him to give me that locus, [and] to build a new locus for himself, for he is stronger with his fifty youths than I am with my five hand-maidens’.
Hearing this, Fintán said to his brethren:
‘The hand-maiden of God speaks the truth. Arise, let us depart from this locus, for our resurrection will not be here and now there is no idleness. Let us leave our labours with the hand-maidens of God, and take nothing with you from the locus, except your axes and books and your anointing oils, and your communal clothing, and let there be only two oxen under the cart with the books’.
When the hand-maiden of God had asked him for a blessing, he replied to her:
‘Let the blessing of the Lord be upon this locus, and it will be blessed before God and men. But you did not deserve a blessing from me. And although I cannot shut heaven before you, your name and epithet will not be given to this place, and few will know your tomb’.
And she said:
‘Who, then, will live in this place’?
Fintán said:
‘The man who, today, proclaims three jubilations over the road of Midlúachair’.
This is Tailli mac Ségéni, who later came to that place.