Patrick and his people. "My _debroth_," said Patrick, "you shall be
beaten in every conflict in which you may be; and you shall be subject to
insult and contumely in every assembly in which you may be." "Arise, O
Conall!" said Patrick, "that you may assume the _bachall_." Conall said,
"If it please thee, I shall do so." "That shall not be," said Patrick;
"but I will support thy valor, and will give comarbs to thy race, and
thou shall be the Conall Sciath-bachall. The palm of laics and clerics
shall be from thee; and every one of thy descendants in whose shield the
sign of my _bachall_ shall be will not be subdued."

All this Patrick did to him. He went eastwards into the territory of
Hy-Fiachrach, by the sea. A water opposed his passage--_i.e._, there was
an unusually large rock in it--and he cursed it. On the water there is a
place, Buaile-Patrick is its name--_i.e._, a little mound--with a cross
there, where Patrick rested a short time. Then the holy bishop, Bron of
Caisel-Irra, and the holy Mac Rime of Cill-Corcaraidhe; and there he
wrote an alphabet for him; and I have heard from another that in the said
place he gave a tooth from his jaw to Bishop Bron, for he was dear to
Patrick. Immediately on coming from the west, across the Muaidh, into
Gregraighe, he met three virulent druids at Rath-Righbhaird, who were
able to do nothing to him; and he said that there never would be wanting
of this people a man of such magical knowledge.

Mac Erca, the son of Draighen, who is in Cill-roe-mor, in the territory
of Hy-Amhalgadha. Patrick baptized the seven sons of Draighen, and he
selected of them Mac Erca, and gave him to Bishop Bron to be fostered;
for it would not be easy to take him far away, in consequence of the love
of his father for him.

Patrick marked out the site of Caisel-Irra, and the flag on which