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A thick, serviceable coverlet, such as Isel desired, was not to be bought much under two pounds.
One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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This camp is situated on a mountain slope over the Isel valley in the Eastern
Work Camp 11006 GW 2010
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In any case the statement that he made over Isel to Ciaran is so obviously incongruous with the sense of the passage, that it can be safely rejected as an interpolation.
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Thereafter he went to his brethren to Isel, and Cobthach son of
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Isel, the site of which is no longer known, though it cannot have been far from Clonmacnois.
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-- This person, who is said in VG to have made over Isel to Ciaran, was probably a local chieftain; but he has escaped the notice of the Annalists.
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Brecan gave Isel to God and to Ciaran; and he lived there with his brethren.
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In the other incident, which may belong to the Isel period, Ciaran flings grain into the breast of the poor man, where it turns into gold: and we may suppose that the pointless re-transformation of the gold to grain did not take place.
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Moreover there was a lake near Isel, and country-folk and despicable people used to occupy the island that was upon it.
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Conn of the Poor, the great and charitable benefactor of Clonmacnois in the early years of the eleventh century, established an almshouse at Isel; and some fifty-six years later, in the year 1087, his son Cormac, then abbot, purchased Isel in perpetuity from the king of Meath.
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