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7th century. About 670-700 AD, Saint Tirechan wrote a memoir of Saint Patrick, known as the "Breviarium." which is preserved in the "Book of Armagh." He was a priest in Meath and disciple of Ultan of Ardbraccan, who gave Tirechan his notes on Patrick. Using these notes, Tirechan became one of Patrick's first biographers about a century after the Irish patron's death.

The oldest extant hagiographical text to bring St. Patrick into contact with Mag Slecht is Tirechan's Breviarium written between 668 and 701 a. d. and entered in the Book of Armagh by the scribe Ferdomnach about the year 807.

Tirechan records that Patrick travelled to Gaul (especially Auxerre and Lerins), Italy, and the Tyrrhenian Sea. His work also includes valuable details about Ireland during his own life (Binchy, D'Arcy, Needham, O'Hanlon, Ryan).


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