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Four Snags (Cranes?) from the River Brosna,!” 
Two Feadégs (Plovers) from the rock of Dunan." 
Two Zchtachs from the lofty Echtge,' 
Two Thrushes from Letter Longaric, 
Two Drenns'* from Dun Aife,!” 
The two Cainches of Corraivte. 
Two Herons from the hilly Corann,!® 
The two Errfiachs of Magh Fobhair, 
The two Eagles of Carrick-na-Cloch, 
Two Hawks from the wood of Caenach. 
Two Peasans (Pheasants) from Loch Meilge,'® 
Two Water-Hens from Loch Eirne, 
Two Heath-Hens (Grouse) from the bog of Mafa,?° 
Two swift Gairgs (Divers) from Dubh Loch. 
Two Crichardans from Cualann,?! 
Two Miontans” from Magh Tualang,?* 
Two Caechdns (Choughs) from Gleann Gaibhle,?4 
Two Sparrows from the Shannon. 
16 Drenns.—Probably wrens ; the droleen is still a word applied to diminutive persons. 
17 Dun Aife.—Now Duneefy, in the county of Carlow. 
18 Corann.—Now Keshcorann, in the county of Sligo. 
19 Loch Meilge.—Now Lough Melvine, county of Fermanagh. 
20 Mafa.—Unknown. Cearca-fraich, the heath hen or grouse. 
21 Cualann.—Powerscourt and the adjacent country, in the counties of Dublin and 
Wicklow, including the Dargle, the Glen of the Downs, and extending even to Delgany, 
all of which beautiful region was probably well wooded in the time of Cailte. We 
cannot at present decide with any degree of certainty as to what the cricharans were: 
possibly they were squirrels, which, it is said, formerly abounded in that vicinity. 
K’Eogh, however, calls the squirrel the Zra-rua. The Marten, or Madaidh Crainn, the 
tree-dog, which is stillextant in the south-west, may have been meant by this term, 
22 Miontans.—Titmice. 
23 Magh Tualang.—An ancient plain in Lower Ormond. 
24 Gleann Gaibhle-——Now Glengavlin, a wild valley in the barony of Tullyhaw, 
county of Cavan, in which the Shannon rises. See “ Annals of Four Masters,” A. D. 1390. 
Tt is a deep, circular hole, surrounded by rich alluvial soil, and called by the country 
people “The Shannon Pot.” A very small stream proceeds from it, which, descending 
through the hills, soon widens into a considerable river that enters Lough Allen, near 
Dourais; passes obliquely through the lake, and leaves it at the Bridge of Ballintra, 
where it receives the Arigna River. Standing upon the side of Slieve An-Ierin mountain, 
or onany of the neighbouring elevations, onecan, in particular states of the water and atmo- 
sphere, trace the stream of the Shannon passing through Loch Allen. Giraldus mentions 
a curious and what at first seems an incredible circumstance regarding this river—vyiz., 
that from its source it flows two ways, north and south—to Limerick on the one hand, 
and through Lough Erne to Ballyshannon on the other. If, however, one stands on the 
slight elevation which separates the Pot of the Shannon from the slopes above Swanlin- 
bar, all the waters to the north of the ridge may be seen running to form the Erne water, 
and all those to the south-west passing towards the Shannon, so that, after all, the 
old Welshman was not so far astray as has been supposed. 
