St.Samhthann, a holy nun, who died in the following year, is said to have predicted the fate of Aedh, Comgal's son, if the two Aedhs (Hughs) met.

Aedh Allan commemorated her virtues in verse, and concludes thus:-- "In the bosom of the Lord, with a pure death, Samhthann passed from her sufferings." Indeed, the Irish kings of this period manifested their admiration of peaceful living, and their desire for holy deaths, in a more practical way than by poetic encomiums on others.

In 704 Beg Boirche "took a pilgrim's staff, and died on his pilgrimage." In 729 Flahertach renounced his regal honours, and retired to Armagh, where he died.

In 758 Donal died on a pilgrimage at Iona, after a reign of twenty years; and in 765 his successor, Nial Frassagh, abdicated the throne, and became a monk at Iona.

Here he died in 778, and was buried in the tomb of the Irish kings in that island.
An Irish poet, who died in 742, is said to have played a clever trick on the "foreigners" of Dublin.