Eight
Martyrological notice
Eight bishops came to Brigit out of Hiii Briuin Cualann, i.e. from Telach na n-epscop to Loch Lemnachta beside Kildare on the north. Brigit asked her cook, Blathnait, whether she had food for the bishops. Dixit ilia non. Brigit was ashamed : so the angel told her to milk the cows again. The cows were milked and they filled the tubs, and they would have filled all the vessels in Leinster, so that the milk went over the vessels and made a lake thereof, wide Loch Lemnachta ' New-milk Lough ' dicitur.
Historical martyrology witness · The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee (1905)
Eight bishops came to Brigit out of Hiii Briuin Cualann, i.e. from Telach na n-epscop to Loch Lemnachta beside Kildare on the north. Brigit asked her cook, Blathnait, whether she had food for the bishops. Dixit ilia non. Brigit was ashamed : so the angel told her to milk the cows again. The cows were milked and they filled the tubs, and they would have filled all the vessels in Leinster, so that the milk went over the vessels and made a lake thereof, wide Loch Lemnachta ' New-milk Lough ' dicitur.