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Elizabeth preserved by Macgratb and others tell us nothing definite 

 of the place or ceremonial,^ 



In the T. C. D. list of castles, 1584, Toonagh appears to have been 

 called **Tuanamoyre." I have not met the name again till 1839, 

 when the adjoiaing field, in Corbally, was still Moy Eir, or Moy Ri, 

 being marked " Moyross Parks" on the six-inch Ordnance Survey, for 

 no apparent reason. I found it Moy are Park in 1891. The older 

 peasantry remembered its great meetings, held down to the time of the 

 famine, no doubt a survival of the ancient fair, or merrymaking, of 

 Eanagh Magh Adhair, which was held as early as 877 : they also said 

 that the mound was a king's grave, and that Cragnakeeroge was not 

 its name, but that of the crags to the north-east. IS'ow, the recent 

 Survey has overlaid all the genuine traditions, and when last year 

 I went again over the ground, it took no small amount of cross- 

 questioning to drive my informant to confess that it was not from his 

 elders, but a " sapper," that he " had heard tell that it was the place 

 where they made a king of Brian Boni."' 



1 In "Annals of the Four Masters," 1579, Donnell O'Brien, native chief of 

 Clare, died, and his son Torlough was " installed." This may have been the last 

 formal inauguration. 



NOTE ADDED IN PRESS. 



The Book of Ballymote explicitly states that Lughad Meann seized 

 on Thomond as an eric for the death of the Ard Righ Crimthann 

 (378). The Annals of Inisfallen, however, say that Lughad's son 

 Connal Eachluadh became King of Munster in 366, which would put 

 back the date of the father's reign to 340. Among contending autho- 

 rities, it is perhaps more safe to take the later date, as the Dalcas- 

 sians, evidently, had only obtained the southern part of the present 

 Co. Clare in St. Patrick's time. 



