Excerpt from History of the City and County of Cork Well prepared to receive it - Cultivation of the peaceful Arts Cork owes its foundation to Christian Monks - Omismons of former Historians - St. Finbar - His early Me and piety Peculiar circum stances attending his birth - His father Amergin emigrates to the Co. Cork - Various ancient ms. Lives of St. F111bar - 1\'iiraculous occurrences at his baptism - His education - Miraculous supply of food - He reads the alphabet-meeting with St. Brandon, who recognizes the sanctity and prophecies the future of St. Em bar - He is instructed in eccle51stical rules by a holy man from rome-he remains at Cloyne for some time, and why he leaves it - The piety and learning of his disciples - The state of Cork when St. Finbar founded the city - The swamp of Cork - He asks St. Colman to be the father of his confession - He goes to Cloyne to die - His relics brought back to Cork With great honour Seventeen holy bishops rest in Cork with Barri and Nessen - Sr. Finbar's Virtues - He is distinguished for his charity, and blooming sweet to the poor - The ancient Latin Lives of St. Finbar - The famous Schools of Cork - Co/emazz o'c'iuosiag/ze His poems - St. Molagga, or Laicin, Patron of tegh-mollagga - His birth and parentage - Various places in Cork named after him - Timoleague, Mitchelstown, and Marshalstown. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.