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Cork ; Avhicli comprizes the baronies of Cairhreacha (Carbury 

 E. and AV.) Cincal Meice (Kinal Meak), Cinenalea, and Mus- 

 criotli.'^'- 



This tribe was followed by three others, the Velaborii, Lucenii, 

 and the Ibernii ; which, with the Vodia?, constituted, according to 

 our author, the only Belgic tribes, which appear to have landed 

 in Ireland. He adds, ' the Velaborii, Velabri, or Veliberi, 

 were, I suppose, the Damnonian inhabitants of Voliba or Voluba 

 on the river Vale in Cornwall ; Volub-er-ii signifying the men 

 of Voluba. ''"• 



Mr. Whitacre seems to have erred respecting the terminations of 

 this word, neither signifying people. Kr in British denotes land, 

 and i or in means an island, in Irish. The people of Voluba, ex- 

 pressed in Irish, would be fir Voluh. It is however probable they 

 were a Damnonian tribe, whose British origin and situation about 

 Dunmore head are aptly defined by Baxter, ' bel or vel aher, 

 caput cBstuarii, the head of an estuary. This tribe probably pos- 

 sessed a small pari of Kerry and part of Limerick, ' having the 



151. It is absurd to look for etymons in tlie British language, or in its Irish dialect for ths 

 names of Belgic tribes, if those names had not originated with the coniiuered people. A 

 Belgic tribe subduing a British one and seizing upon a British town or district may receive a 

 British appropriate denomination, as simply Lucd Ccni, the people of Ceni ; Giiyr or Jir vel 

 aber, the people of the head of the estuary ; Fwnaghai/l, Finngallians or Fair Gauls ; Jir na 

 croibhe, men of the branch, denominations not understood by the new inhabitants. Didk 

 Gheinte and Finn Gheinte, Irish appellations for the Danes and Norwegians, are other in- 

 stances. On the otlier hand, the Belgas were known in Germany, Gaul^ and Britain, by some 

 common name, from which it was derived, and in Ireland hy Jir bolg ; the Damnonii hy Jir 

 Damnon ; the Damni by Tuuth Den Dnnaan. Keating. 



Bishop Nicolson, who forms his opinion from the name of Inch Galla, applied by the Irish 

 to the isles of Orkney, Man, and those of Scotland, thinks the linn-galians came hither from 

 Scandinavia ; but those who had were not called Gal or Gaoill. Irish Hist. Libr. p. 7. 



152. Whitacre. Man. v. 2. p. 242. 



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