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the Zivcanos, the ancient inhabitants of Lixnaw in the barony 
of Clanmorris in the county of Kerry. 
Tue Irifh writers alfo place here the Degadiiz, whom they 
call the fouthern Ernai. They are fuppofed to be a colony 
from Spain of the tribe or nation of the Jéberii.. They are called 
in the poem of the battle of Sliabhmis and in other Irifh poems 
Dias Dhana and Sluagh adbbhal Eafbaine; and in the Ulfter 
annals equally with the northern Ernai Dalnarians. If therefore 
they were a colony from Spain, they moft probably arrived in 
periods fubfequent to Ptolemy, and fometime in the- eighth 
century. For the battle of Sliabhmis, according to the Ulfter 
annals, was fought in the year 775. And being denominated 
Dias Dhana, fouthern foreigners. or Danes, in oppofition to 
Tuatha de Danann or northern foreigners or Danes in the fame 
poem, and equally Dalnarians, they were moft probably Vandals, | 
who fled from the Saracens on their arrival in Spain. In this 
battle, faid by Keating and others to be the firft fought between 
the Tuatha de Danann and the Milefians from Spain, were 
flain O’Nialland Mc. Donnal, both chiefs of the northern Ernai; 
and alfo the monumental ftones, faid in the above poem to 
have been erected over the graves of the noble warriors, are 
fill remaining on Mount Cabirconree, one of the Sliabhmis 
mountains in the county of Kerry.—(Smith’s Kerry, Ulfter 
annals.) But to return, Ptolemy having defcribed the weftern. 
coafts, doubles Notium Prom. and defcribes the fouthern coatts; 
on the Vergivian ocean. 
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