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of old on the continent, are there — Lug, Nuada, Cernunnos, " the horned." 1 

 Cathubodua and the war goddesses, Segomo, or Camulos, the war god, and 

 many others ; but along with them are non- Gaulish gods, so far as we know 

 peculiar to Ireland, Oengus of the Bragh, his son, Bodb Derg, Donn, under 

 his different place epithets (like the Batds of Western Asia), 2 river-, hill-, 

 and lake-gods, Dechet, Deda, and his relative Febra, Cain and his wife Aife, 

 'Aine, Cliu, and the river-goddesses Sinann and Boand " of the silver forearm." 

 The latter goddess was worshipped with the "great god" Nuada, "silver 

 hand," at Sidh Nectain, and was wife of that Nechtan whose other wife, 

 Cuil. _';im' li'M' name to 'Oenach Ciili. Cliu, from whom our district was called 

 I'lin (as were 'Aim' Cliach, Sid Cliach, and Crotta Cliach), was a supernatural 

 harper on the "double harps of Clin," < 'rotta Cliach, of which perhaps we 

 still Bee tli' k outline in two concave cooms, with frames and strings of water- 

 courses, on tin- Bank of Sliab u'('rott, the huge mass of Galteemore. 



In connexion with Claire and Aife, the contradiction to the assertion 

 in my former paper that Sli.th Claire is Sliah riach, necessitates a state- 

 ment of my authorities. Tl bjectora only quote one of <)' Donovan's notes, 



getting that In- regarded Slievereagh as Sliab Cldire until his desire to 

 date tin- undatable dolmens made him identify as Oilioll Aulom'a tomb, 



D. 236 "i on " Sliab Claire," the Bronze Age dolmen on Dnntrileague Hill, 



he di'l the Olochogle dolmen in Co. Mayo with the tomb of the Maols, 

 about A.i>. 650.' 11'- at fire) held that Cenn M&r, of Sliab Claire in the 

 Knocklong legend, was Sli6vereagh, < ami is evidently right; for would 

 anyone, looking al t!"- great haul over Dun gClaire, turn to the Low, rounded 

 hill at Dnntrileague, not far away, ami call the latter the "Great Iliad 'V 



The records are against Dnntrileague in this. The Agallamh, 8 within a 

 few lines, Bpeaks "f " Sleibhe ('lain- Cenn Fheabhrat " ami '( Dun air Sleibhe, 

 now Dnntrili places— one tin- burial-place of Oilioll, the other 



that of his Bon, Cormac Cass. Everywhere thej are Bpoken of as different 

 places, though the author loved to give alias nan 



r Ainech, the In-1. horned, and perhaps bull-heaiUil. Ii'Arbois de 



Jnbainville (" Ir. Myth-Cycle"; ed. U. 1 Beat, pp. 114.218). 



* Donn Duniach of the sandhill*. Donn "i I isnech. L>oi f Firinne, like Baal Peor, 



and Baal Hermon. 

 hi the anachronistic Life of St. Cellach (Silva Gadelica, Standiah Hayes O'Grady, 

 vol. ii. |>. 66); Ordnance Surrey Letters of Mayo (M8S It. I. Ar.nl., 4k 18, pp. 73, 78). 

 Col M .itin first saw the fallacy (Rude Stone Monuments of [reland, p. 236). 



Mi 11. T. Knoa demolished the chronology I: \ Soi Antiq. Ir., vol. xxvii. p. 430). 



1 Ordnance Survey Letters *mss. It. I. Acad., 1 IK 9, vol. i. pp. 209, 257) ; he cites 

 "ForbaisDromaDamhgairu.' - i 1679 in Ann. Four MM. Mote, p. 2160, 



where he makes Slieve Claire to be I>untrileague. 



Silva Gad., vol. ii. ,,. 123: cf. vol. i, pp. 108, 109, and 114; and vol. ii. p. 123. 

 idy's translation (rivi E jh " for the Sliebh Cain of the original, 



