He then went along Bealach-Gabhran, into the district of Ossory, and
founded churches and establishments there; and he said that distinguished
laics and clerics should be of them, and that no province should have
command over them, whilst they remained obedient to Patrick. Patrick
took leave of them afterwards, and he left the relics of holy men with
them, and some of his people, in the place where Martar-tech is this day
in Magh-Roighne. At Druim-Conchind, in Mairge, the cross-beam of
Patrick's chariot broke when he was going to Munster. He made another of
the wood of the _druim_. It broke immediately. He made one again, and
it broke also. Patrick said that there should never be any implement
made of the timber of that wood, which has been fulfilled, for even a pin
is not made of it. Patrick's Disert is there, but it is waste.

Patrick went afterwards to the territory of Munster, to Cashel of the
Kings. When Aengus, son of Nadfraech, got up in the morning, all their
idols were prostrate; and Patrick and his people came to the side of the
fort, and he (Aengus) bade them welcome, and took them into the fort to
the place where Lee-Patrick is to-day. And Patrick after that baptized
the sons of Nedfraech, and the men of Munster besides, and left a
blessing and prosperity upon them. And he blessed the fort--_i.e._,
Cashel--and said that only one race should be there for ever. And he was
seven years in Munster. The learned calculate that he made an offering
on every seventh ridge that he traversed in Munster.

When Patrick was baptizing Aengus, the point of the crozier went through
Aengus's foot. Patrick asked, "Why was it that you did not tell me?"
"Because," said he, "I thought it was the rule of the faith." "You shall
have its reward," said Patrick; "your successors from this day forth
shall not die of wounds." No one is King of Cashel until Patrick's