Materials_, p.

11.
[6] _Same_ .-- Ibid.

p.12.The Psalms derived their name from the musical instrument to which they were sung.

This was called in Hebrew _nebel_.
It obtained the name from its resemblance to a bottle or flagon.
Psaltery is the Greek translation, and hence the name psalm.
[7] _Devastated_ .-- This was probably written in the year 1001, when Brian Boroimhe had deposed Malachy.
[8] _Fene-men_ .-- The farmers, who were not Fenians then certainly, for "Cormac was a righteous judge of the _Agraria Lex_ of the Gaels." [9] _Erinn._--Keating says: "We will set down here the branching off of the races of Magog, according to the Book of Invasions (of Ireland), which was called the Cin of Drom Snechta; and it was before the coming of Patrick to Ireland the author of that book existed."-- See Keating, page 109, in O'Connor's translation.

It is most unfortunate that this devoted priest and ardent lover of his country did not bring the critical acumen to his work which would have made its veracity unquestionable.