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ed it, is erroneously transferred by later writers to thai of Faii- 

 liead.'o"- 



This tribe is described in bardic verse as Foghnhoraicc or pi- 

 rates, who settled at Toirinis, or Tor Chonuing, whence Tir Cou- 

 ncil, the present Dun na Gal (_Donnegal). Four of the sons, who 

 are stated to have been artisans, are denominated Bog, Robog, 

 Ruibne, and Rodan. Mercator and Ortelius place this tribe on the 

 N. E. coast; but, from the coincidence of AVare's map of Ptolemy 

 with the position assigned them in Irish history,* I consider his 

 edition the only correct one with reg-ard to this people. 



For reasons which I shall presently assign, I suppose the Ro- 

 bogdii to have been the Rhedones of Celtic Gaul ; who, in conse- 

 quence of their maritime skill, the construction and size of their 

 vessels, Avere enabled to pillage the southern coasts of Ireland. Re- 

 mains of this tribe appear in the word Robogh, the name of a small 

 episcopal town in Antrim. 



Mr. Whitacre, through Richard, informs us, that, about 50 

 years before Christ, that part of the Ordovices, who occupied the 

 N. of Shropshire and the neighbourhood of IMediolanum, after the 

 reduction of the county of Salop by the Camabii of Cheshire, ' seem 

 to have passed over into Ireland, and to have retained the memorial 

 of their origin in the name of their capital, Eblana or Mediolanum. 

 The former name evidently affixed the new name of Eblani to the 

 tribe, and the latter seems as evidently to point out the old appella- 

 tion of its city.'"°- But Mediolanum has been so generally applied 

 te towns, that, if Eblana be a corruption, the original word has 



109 By Mr. Beaufort in Camden, p. 447. 



• See the history of this people in p. 18, &c. of the old translation of Keating, or p. 179 

 &c. of the late. 



110. Hist, of Man. p, 235. 



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