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An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800

CHAPTER XI
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22, for mention of the Celtic roads in Gaul.
[178] _Chariots_ .-- St.Patrick visited most parts of Ireland in a chariot, according to the Tripartite Life.

_Carbad_ or chariots are mentioned in the oldest Celtic tales and romances, and it is distinctly stated in the life of St.Patrick preserved in the Book of Armagh, that the pagan Irish had chariots.

Different kinds of roads are expressly mentioned, and also the duty of road-mending, and those upon whom this duty devolved.

See Introduction to the Book of Rights, p.

56.
[179] _Probable_ .-- The legend of St.Brendan was widely diffused in the Middle Ages.


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