Patrick. Daire asked what Patrick said when they were bringing the
caldron from him. The servants answered: "It was the same thing he said
when we were bringing it away from him--_Gratzicum_." "This is a good
word with them, this _Gratzicum_," said Daire; "_Gratzicum_ when giving
it to him, and _Gratzicum_ when taking it away from him." Daire and his
wife then went with his submission to Patrick, and gave Patrick the
caldron willingly back again, and the hill which he before asked; and
Patrick accepted and blessed them, and founded a church in that place
called Ard-Macha. Patrick and his divines, and Daire, with the nobles of
Airther besides, came to the hill to mark out its boundaries, and to
bless it, and consecrate it. They found a doe, with its fawn, in the
place where the Sabhall is to-day, and his people went to kill it.
_Prohibuit Patricius, et dixit, "Serviat sibi postea_," and sent it out
of the hill northward, to the place where Telac-na-licce is to-day, _ibi
magna mirabilia fecit_.

Daire's daughter loved the person Benen; sweet to her was the sound of
his voice in chanting. Disease seized her, so that she died of it.
Benen carried _cretra_ to her from Patrick, and she suddenly afterwards
arose alive, and loved him spiritually. She is Ercnait, the daughter of
Daire, who is in Tamlaght-bo.

One time there came nine daughters of the King of the Longbards and the
daughter of the King of Britain on a pilgrimage to Patrick; they stopped
at the east side of Ard-Macha, where Coll-na-ningean is to-day. There
came messengers from them to Patrick to know if they should proceed to
him. Patrick said to the messengers that three of the maidens would go
to heaven, and in that place (_i.e._, Coll-na-ningean) their sepulchre
is. "And let the other maidens go to Druim-fenneda, and let one of them
proceed as far as that hill in the east." And so it was done.