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Two Corncrakes from the banks of Shannon, 
Two Glaisedgs (Wagtails) from the brinks of Birra,*! 
Two Crotachs (Curlews) from the harbour of Galway, 
Two Sgreachégs (Screech-Owls or Jays?) from Muirtheimhne.* 
Two Geilt Glinnes from Glenn-a-Smoil,* 
Two Badhbhs* from great Ath Mogha,* 
Two fleet Onchus (Otters) from Loch Con,*® 
Two Cats out of the cave of Cruachain.” 
Two Cadhlas (Goats) from Sith Gabhran, 
Two Pigs of the Pigs of Mac Lir,® 
A Ram and Ewe both round and red, 
I brought with me from Aengus,*° 
I brought with me a Stallion and a Mare, 
From the beautiful stud of Manannan, 
A Bull and a white Cow from Druim Cain,” 
Which were presented to myself by Muirn Munchain.®*! 
ing it, because it was said to have been inhabited by wild cats, and other venomous 
creatures of that description. 
48 Mae Lir.—Manannan Mac Lir, the Neptune, or sea-god, of the old Tuatha dé 
Danann. See an account of this personage in the biography of Sir Robert M‘Clure, the 
discoverer of the north-west passage, in the “ Dublin University Magazine,” for March, 
1854, p. 358. 
49 Aengus.—The great Tuatha dé Danann magician of Brugh na Boinne. This 
name is sometimes applied to Angus in Scotland, where Cailte may have sojourned before 
he arrived in Ireland.—J. O'D. 
50 Druim Cain.—A hill near Tara, county Meath; but there are many places of the 
name in Ireland. 
51 Muirn Munchain.—The mother of Finn Mac Cumhail. 
Nore I.—A friend has kindly furnished me with the followingIrish names of animals, 
extracted from the oldest copy of Cormac’s Glossary: ag allaid, cervus, a deer; bairene, 
catt boinenn, a she cat; luathither lochaid fri forgarmain, ‘‘ swifter than a cat after a 
mouse ;” banb, mdt, muc, a pig; ore muice, cumlachtaid, a sucking pig; nér, tore allaid, 
a wild boar; triath, torc, a boar; broce, a badger; capall, ech, pell, fell, a horse; 
_gabur or gobur, a steed; tard, a bull; 06, ferd, a cow; ldig bd, a calf; fithal, a calf 
(Latin vitulus) ; gdmnach, clithar-sheét, rig-shét, sét gabla, colpach, samaise, dam timchill 
arathair, laulgach, different kinds of kine; cifodoirne, dobarchi, an otter; glademain, 
maic thire, wolves; oss allaid, seg, a wild deer (oss seems cognate with or); ness, a 
weasel; 62 (Latin, ovis; English, ewe), edira, a sheep; disc, a dry ewe; cu, a dog 
(genitive con=canis, houn-d); bancht, a bitch; mélehu, a greyhound ; oircne, alapdog; 
ceuilén, a pup (cuatne, a litter of pups); patu, a hare; rob, rop, beist (bestia), anmann, 
names for animals generally; fiach, bran, araven; crufechta, bddb, or b6db, a carrion 
crow; corr, acrane; ela, gall, a swan; géd, a goose; seig, a hawk; coilech lachenn, 
a mallard ? essing, a featherless bird; én, a bird; cupar, an old bird; elta, a flock of 
birds; tase, a fish ; leithech, a kind of flat fish; orc, bratan, asalmon; parn, bloach mara, 
a whale; cailech, a cock; legam, a moth? 
Nore II.—Faidhircli (suprd, p. 188) may be identified with adircliu (gl. cornix) 
Zeuss, ‘‘ Grammatica Celtica,” p. 726. The fis merely prosthetic. 
