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- ↑ Bethada Náem nÉrenn (Lives of Irish Saints). Charles Plummer (ed), Richard Irvine Best (ed), Second edition, in that the text is reprinted from the corrected sheets of the first edition [vol. 1: xliv + 346 pp; vol. 2: 484pp] Clarendon Press Oxford (1922) (repr. 1968). Found online through UCC CELT, here: http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T201000F/index.html
- ↑ "Carthach", The Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. (James Strong and John McClintock, eds.) Harper and Brothers; NY; 1880
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