The concourse of strangers and pilgrims was immense; and in the once solitary plain one of the largest cities of the time soon made its appearance.

It is singular and interesting to remark, how the call to a life of virginity was felt and corresponded with in the newly Christianized country, even as it had been in the Roman Empire, when it also received the faith.

Nor is it less noticeable how the same safeguards and episcopal rule preserved the foundations of each land in purity and peace, and have transmitted even to our own days, in the same Church, and in it only, that privileged life.
The Four Masters give her obituary under the year 525.

According to Cogitosus, one of her biographers, her remains were interred in her own church.

Some authorities assert that her relics were removed to Down, when Kildare was ravaged by the Danes, about the year 824.
It has been doubted whether Downpatrick could lay claim to the honour of being the burial-place of Ireland's three great saints,[141] but there are good arguments in its favour.