Excerpt from The Life and Writings of St. Patrick: With Appendices, Etc
The manifold variations in the spelling of Irish words, and especially of Irish proper names, present great diffi culty to a writer on Irish subjects, and render it almost impossible to adopta uniform system. As we have, on the whole, followed the guidance of the Rolls Tripartite, both as to the Irish text and its English version, we have thought it desirable to adopt also its system of spelling the Irish proper names. No doubt many of its forms are now archaic; still they exhibit, we think, the language, especially in this matter of proper names, in simpler and purer forms than those which are at present in use; and.
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