A king of the Fotharta named Dímma Camchoss had two sons: one named Cellacán, who was fostered in Airbre with the anchorite Cuanu; the other named Cillíne, who was fostered in Tech Munnu with Fintán. One day, king Dímma came with the nobles of the Fotharta, sixty in number, to Cuanu of Airbre, and there they saw Cellacán son of Dímma in a blue hooded cloak with purple pointed styluses, having a wax tablet trimmed in bronze [strapped] over his shoulders, and on his feet he had shoes decorated with Parthian leather and bronze. And the boy's appearance pleased them, and they said:
‘Our son is well fostered here’.
Then the Fotharta came with the king to Tech Munnu and they sat before the gate of the locus. Carts arrived alongside them, and boys before the carts singing Psalms with loud voices, and their writing tablets had been attached to the yokes. And they saw Cillíne son of Dímma before the cart in a black hooded cloak, the colour of sheep, and in a tunic, short and white, with a black edge and in cheap shoes. And that appearance displeased them, and they said:
‘The extent of love for us in these two loca