One night, Fintán and his company shouted out to the Lord with raised voices beside the cross. And, by contrast, in the same night, a leader of the Fotharta, living in a nearby place, namely Dímma mac Áeda Croin, with his retainers celebrated around the head of a dead brigand. Then that leader, with a contrite heart, said:
‘These two celebrations cannot take place at one and the same time, namely our celebration around the [severed] head for the will of the Devil and Fintán's celebration of the Psalms for the will of God’.
On the following day that leader, Dímma, came and offered him an estate, in which his ciuitas now stands, and said:
‘What will you give me in return for this offering’?
Fintán replied to him:
‘The kingdom of heaven will be given to you in return for your land’.
Dímma said:
‘That is not enough for me, unless you will [also] give me a long life in all my desires, and let my body not be slain, and may you [not] exhort me unto the clergy until I myself shall want it, and after death let me be buried among your monachi in a holy place’.
Fintán said to him:
‘All of these will be granted to you. Where you are now, there you will be buried’.
Fintán therefore built [a ciuitas] there, just as the angels instructed him.