Westkupp — The Fort of Dim Acngum in InisJimorr, Anm. 3 



Tlie sung' told liow a Fiibolg tribe — the Sons of Umor, oi Huatliuior — 

 after au exile in the Hebrides, got settlements in the Boyne Valley. 

 Oppressed by the perennial land question — their rack-rent paid to Tara — 

 they fled to Connacht, were befriended by its heroic queen, " Maeve of tlie 

 Cattle Foray," and were settled round Clew Bay and Galway liay about the 

 beginning of our era. 



" They settled westward, along the pleasiint coasts. 

 As far as Dun Aenghusa in Ara :- 



They stationed Mil at Muirbech : 



They planted Daelath at Dail : 



Aenach constructed a ' dun ' in liis neighbourhood. 



They settled Beara at his headland : 

 Irgas took possession of Ceann lioirne ; 



Concraid obtained his just portion in the sea at Inismedhoin." 



The prose of the Diud Seuchus' tells a like tale, with a trace of 

 independence in its account of Ennach and Bir, but otherwise closely 

 following the poem. 



" Cairpre " (it says) "imposed on the children of Umor a rent which 

 could not be endured, so they decamped from him, with their ^possessions, 

 westward to Ailill and Medb, and set up beside the sea — Oengus in Dun 

 Aengusa, in Ara . . . Mil at Murbech Mil (perhaps at Port Murvey,* near 

 the last) ; Daelach on Dail ( Lissydeela and Bally deely in Corcomroe, Clare) ; 

 Bir at Eind Beara Sirraim (Finnavarra, Burren, Clare) ; and I'^nnach, from 

 whom is Tech nEnnach (perhaps Doon Fort, Corcomroe) . . . Irgus at Eind 

 Boirne (Caherdooneerish, on Black Head, Burren) ; . . . Conchiurn at Inis 

 Medon (Dun Conor, luismaan, Aran) ; . . . Taman at Eind Tamaiu " (Tawiu 

 Island, Galway). All these lay round the bay of Galway. The knights 

 who stood securities for the Firbolgs to the King of Tara claimed the penalty, 

 so the Huamorian warriors, Cing, Cimbi, Irgus, and Conall (son of Aenghus of 

 Dun Aengusa), met in deadly combat the Eed Branch Knights — Eoss, 



1 "Ossianic Society," vol. v., n. 287. 



- If Keating be right, there was an earlier colony of Firbolgs in Aran, a remnant that escaped 

 the c;irnage of the Battle of Moytura (ed. D. Comyn), p. 199 — The Ciuithnigh or Picts banished 

 them out of these i^^lands. 



•"' Revue Celtiqne," 1894, pp. 478-480. 



^ Petrie regards this as really Cill JIurmhaiiitie— " Military Architecture," p. 6S ; but theie was a 

 gro.'it fortification wliieli may have originated the chief's name. It is strange that Dun Oghil makes 

 no mark in legend. 



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