Olden — The Number Two in Irish Proper Names. 643 



Fer da leitlii, ' Man of two territories.' 



Mac da cherda, ' Son of two arts.' 



Mac da tho, * Son of two mutes.' Trip. 



Mae da chreach, ' Son of two plunders.' Finn. 



In English. 



Two pot House. Parish of Buttevant. 



Two pot House. Castlelyons. 



Two mile-river Bridge. 



Two mile Bridge. 



Two mile Borris. 



Two mile Ditch. 



Two rock Mountain. 



Note added in the Press. 



The frequent occurrence of the appellation dubh, black, attached 

 to the names of prominent ecclesiastics and others, suggests the 

 probability that they were members of the black-haired race which 

 preceded the Celts in Ireland, and were believed to be intellectually 

 superior to them. 



As regards the final syllable of Con-da-ti, it would appear to be a 

 primitive river name, which, according to Holder's " Sprachshatz," is 

 iti in Old Slavonic and eiti in Lithuanian. It occurs in the name of 

 the Itis which falls into the Sound of Sleat, Ptolemy's trtos, €Itlo<; 

 (genitive), cf. Loch Etive ; in the Itta, now the Epte, which joins the 

 Seine at Givemay ; and in Ptolemy's kpy-ira, the Bannin Ulster, 

 also the river Tees, 



