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Life of Saint Fintán, alias Munnu, abbot of Tech Munnu (Taghmon, Co. Wexford) (Author: [unknown])

Section 14

Thereafter Fintán departed for the edge of Leinster. And one night he stayed by the crosses of Mag Méide, and in the same night a certain leader of the Fotharta named Dímma mac Áeda Croin, came to that place with nine men. Fintán said to them:
‘Eat one of the oxen that pulls the cart with the books’.
The brigands could not resist him and ate the ox. The same Dímma is the one who offered Fintán the place in which he now is. On the following day

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a single ox pulled the cart. When they were walking along the way a man met them with his flocks and untamed bulls. He said to them:
‘Hold one of these young bulls under your cart’.
And, placed under the yoke, that young bull at once became subdued and tame.