GrRAVES — Ail Ogam Monument found in Co. Kerry. 375 



name occurs in two passages of the treatise De Matrihus, as given in 

 the Book of Leinster : — 



(1). Boclira was the mother of the three sons of Fidlin, viz. Laidcend, and 

 Cainnech, and ^dchobran.^ 



(2). Bochra "was the mother of the three sons of Irlamain, viz. Fidlin, and 

 Liadnain, and Dulechain.- 



The Book of Ballymote^ and Book of Lecan* agree with the Book 

 of Leinster as to (2) ; but in (1) they read "Bochra was the mother 

 of the three sons of Bochra," the names of the sons being the same. 

 Laidhgenn, Cainneach, and Accobran, the three sons of Bochra, are 

 commemorated on I^ovember 28, in the Martyrologies of Donegal and 

 Tallaght, and by Marianus Gorman. In the Felire,^ "the sons of 

 Bochi'a " are celebrated in the text on that day, while the Commen- 

 tator in the Lebar Breac gives their names as above. They are 

 described as "of Achad Eaithin in Ui-mic-Caille in Deisi Mumhan." 



Assuming, as I am warranted in doing, that the Latin Y corre- 

 sponds both with the Irish F and the "Welsh GrTJ or GW,'' I may 

 safely compare Fitalin with Vitalimm and Guitelin or Gwythelin. As 

 for the second vowel in Fitalin, it is so obscure in sound and unaccen- 

 tuated, that it matters little whether it is written as a, e, or o. 



Let us take the Welsh analogue first. "We find in IS'ennius'' the 

 following pedigree, which presents to us a Guitolin as great-grand- 

 father of Yortigern, and therefore a person who may have lived in the 

 middle of the fourth century : — 



"Haec est genealogia illius [Guorthigimi] quae ad initium retro currit. Ferni- 

 mail, ipse est qui regit modo in regione Guortigimianum, filius est Theudubr ; ipse 

 Theuduhr est res Buelth regionis ; Theudubr filius Pascent, map Apguocan, map 

 Moriud, map Eldat, map Eldoc, map Paul, map Mepric, map Briecat, map Pascent, 

 map Guorthigim, map Guoriheneu, map Guitaul, map GuitoUn, map Gloui : Bonus, 

 Paulus, Mauron, Guotolin, quatuor fratres fuerunt, filii Gloui qui sedificavit urbem 

 magnam super ripam fluminis Sabrinse, quse vocatur Britannico sermone Cair-Gloui, 

 Saxonice autem Gloucestie." 



1 Book of Leinster, p. 372, col 2. 2 m^^^ p_ 372, col. 3. 



3 Book of Ballymote, pp. 212, 213. * -^q^-^ of Lecan, f. 34 b.b. 



' Stokes, Fel., pp. clsv., clxxiii. 



* Todd (Liber Hymnorum, p. 105, n.), speaking of the identity of the names 

 Futuma and Whithern, says: — "This pronunciation of the aspirated AV" as F is 

 still common in many parts of Ireland, where the peasantry still pronounce the 

 word white nearly z.1, fight ; and the author of Capgrave's Life of St. Finnian tells 

 us that in Wales his name was pronounced TFinnin.^' 



' Hist. Xennii, ch. liv., p. 71, in Monumenta Historioe Britannicas. 



