St.Patrick also confirms this conjecture, by condemning Sun-worship in his Confession, when he says: "All those who adore it shall descend into misery and punishment." If the well-known passage of Diodorus Siculus may be referred to Ireland, it affords another confirmation.

Indeed, it appears difficult to conceive how any other place but Ireland could be intended by the "island in the ocean over against Gaul, to the north, and not inferior in size to Sicily, the _soil of which is so fruitful_ that they mow there twice in the year."[146] In this most remarkable passage, he mentions the skill of their harpers, their sacred groves and _singular temple of round form_, their attachment to the Greeks by a singular affection from _old times_, and their tradition of having been visited by the Greeks, who left offerings which were noted in _Greek letters_.
Toland and Carte assume that this passage refers to the Hebrides, Rowlands applies it to the island of Anglesea; but these conjectures are not worth regarding.

We can scarcely imagine an unprejudiced person deciding against Ireland; but where prejudice exists, no amount of proof will satisfy.

It has been suggested that the Irish pagan priests were not druids properly so called, but magi;[147] and that the Irish word which is taken to mean druid, is only used to denote persons specially gifted with wisdom.

Druidism probably sprung from magism, which was a purer kind of worship, though it would be difficult now to define the _precise_ limits which separated these forms of paganism.