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 63.—Loch Guala which is now in Daminis.—Daim-inis, or the island of the Ox, is the name given in early Irish records to Devenish Island in Lough Erne near Enniskillen. There is a priory on the island, and other remains including a Round Tower; the founder of the ecclesiastical establishment on the island is said to have been St. Molaise, who lived in the sixth century. There are other islands called "Daim-inis," in Mayo, Roscommon, and Galway; from a passage in the Dinn-shenchas it would seem that there was another in Wexford; but the island here spoken of would appear to be the island in Lough Erne; though Lough Guala has not yet been identified.