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Durius flowing through their dominions, and Regia, or Cathair, 

 (a place now in ruins,) near it for their metropohs.''^'- 



' And tlie Lucenii seem to have been the Damnonian inha- 

 bitants of Cenia of Cornwall ; Lucd importing the peojile of the 

 town Cenia, and the D, as I have shewn, being quiescent among 

 the Irish,'^'^- These people, called Lucani by Richard, seem to 

 have been a piscatory tribe ; their territory being naturally a steril 

 tract; and confined, as it appears on maps, to the peninsula of 

 Dingle sound, and the barony of Ibh Torna Eigeas or Clan 

 Mhuiris. Remains of the name seem to be preserved in Luach- 

 neigh, another ancient appellation for the barony of Clann — 

 Mhuiris. 



The Itterni, Iverni, Iberni of Ptolemy, Iberia or Iberi of Richard, 

 possessed the neighbourhood of Bantry, the S. E. parts of Bearhaven, 

 the steril barony of Ibh Eathach,^^^- and some land about Ceanr 

 mora (Kenmare), where Ptolemy places their town Tvernis and 

 near the present village of Kenmare or Nidin.^^'^- Remauis of the 

 Iberni, Iberi, Ibh-beara, are still preserved in Bedra, the present 

 Irish denomination of Bearhaven ; and, as Mr. Whitacre supposes, 

 they ' were probably derived from the Ihernis, of Ravennas and the 

 present Beare in Dorsetshire.''^'- 



Our author informs us, through Richard, that, in the year 5 J, 

 a body of Brigantes with a party of Cangi or Concangi of the 

 Sistuntians, whose territories were then invaded by Ostorius, arrived 

 in Ireland. ' The E. coast was then occupied from end to end, 



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153. Eadem, p. 130. 



1 54. In this the D is changed into T in pronunciation.— —Hist, of Man. p. 242. 



155. The territory efforts; formerly called Corc-cael-luic/i, whence the family of Kielv. 



156. The small nest, in allusion to a horde of robbersj who formerly occupied this scite. 

 1.57. Hist, of Mane V. 2. p. 212. 



