364 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



The lost " Book of Glendaloch "* gives a list of the so-called " servile " 

 (Le. " non-Milesian ") races. It includes Tuath mic Umoir, Tuath Gebtine (at 

 Inis Geibtine, or Askeaton, Co. Limerick), Tuath Eesent Umoir, Tuath fer 

 Xinais (Corcomroe " Xiuuis," Co. Clare), Tuath fer Xiuais, in Aran ; Tuath 

 mac nUmoir, in the Dalcais (probably at Dromassell), and in Ui Fiachra 

 Aidne, and a number of tribes in Co. Limerick — the Tuath Cregraige, 

 Seinrighe, Crothraighe, Brughraidhe, Corca iluighi, and Corca-Muichi 

 (Corcamohide, near Newcastle West) ; Tuath Mairtine, in Muscraighe Mitaine ; 

 Tuatha Ui Catba and Ui Corra, at Corca Muichi, and also iu Corca-baiscinn 

 (Co. Clare) ; and the Tuatha Oiche (Corcaoiche, also near Newcastle West, 

 Co. Limerick), along with the Corca D^a and the Benntraige in Luacliair 

 and the Ciarrhaige. 



The true position of the Mac, or Clanna, Umoir has not yet been fixed.' In 

 the days of the preponderance of the •' solar myth " the warriors were 

 " darkness gods," defeated in the west by the " suu heroes " of Tara. Others 

 regard them as an apparently real tribe, Ilesent Umoir, dwelling on the coast 

 of Connacht Rhys' argued for the identity of Oengus mac Umoir and his 

 daughter, ilaistiu, with Oengus of the Brugh, to whom Maistiu was 

 embroideress. At least in that extraordinar)* insertion in tlie Tain bo Cualnge, 

 " the Order of the Men of Ulster,"* we find Oengus the Fir Bolg in a group 

 of undoubted gods — Lug, the Morrigu, Ane, Ogma, and Roth — but along with 

 many less supernatural heroes. ITiLs, with other hints and the connexion 

 of Oengus, son of Uraor, and his family with Brugh on the Boyne, suggests 

 at least a probability of the two namesakes being the same person, and lx)th 

 therefore gods and not men. 'ITie sons of L^mor were connected with several 

 notable forts and cemeteries— Oengus, with the huge cliff-fort of Aranmore, 

 Dun Oengusa ; Concraid, with " Dun Conor," in Inishmaan ; " Ennach beside 

 Dael," with the rock-cut fort of Dim, near KUfenora, at the source of the 

 Daelach;' Adar, with the tumulus of Magh Adair; Asal, with the Sid 

 maige Amil ; Maistiu, with the great earthwork of Mullaghmast ; and all with 

 Tara. Tailltiu, L^isnech, Tlachtga, Cnogba, and the Brugh. The tribe came 

 from the land of the Picts under the protection of Cairbre Xiafer, who gave 



'Preface of W. E. Salliran in " Mumen &od Castoms of the Andent Irish," 

 pp. xxrii. nviii. Cf. list from Egerton Jf»., Rev. Celt., xx, p. 336. 



' The Four Masters make Cical grandson of Tghmor » Fomorian, b.c. 2670. 



^ Hibbert Lectures, iv, p. 150. Maga, daughter of Oengus of the Brugh, was mother 

 of Dechtire, and grandmother of Cochnllin (Miss Hull, " Cuchullin Saga," p. Ivii). 



* Tr. Dunn, pp. 303-4. 



'S->ms versions of the poem give din for ttcJi, but in any case a chiefs " house" 

 implied a " fort " in 1014. 



