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The Four Masters, under 1600, tell how the Sugan Earl "came thmu^li 

 Aherloe to Bearna Dearg, 1 passing to the east of Sliab Claire." One passes 

 to the south of Duntrileague, and to the cast of Slievereagh by that route. 

 Yet O'Donovan actually appends to this his note of identification with 

 Duntrileague, which it absolutely refutes. 1 was told by an objector that 

 the fort name " Dunglaura," Dun gClaire, was not found by O'Donovan on 

 the ground, but invented for the new maps. Colonel Whitlock, B.E., most 

 kindly gave me a copy of O'Donovan's own note, in 1840, which shows that 

 he found the local names "Doonglara " and " Lisdoonglar" among the peasantry 

 on Slievereagh. For that matter, O'Donovan records " Lis dun gClaire " as a 

 modern local form (1847) in a note on the "Book of Bights." 2 Dr. Douglas Hyde 

 gives me a modern folk- tale from Knockainey (not in the literary sources) 

 in which " Feri attacked and burned Dunglaura " ; and all this disposes of 

 the easy, unfounded assertion that " the name was foisted on the new Survey." 



The Dind Shenchas of Cenn Febrat, which, as has been shown, agrees 

 minutely with the mounds and rings on the hill, 3 gives the heads as 

 Cenn Febrat, Cenn Cuirrig, and Cenn Claire; 4 evidently the three out- 

 standing peaks of the great plateau, over Kilfinnan, Cush, and Dunglaura. 

 Cenn Aife is evidently Duntrileague Hill, at Glenn Aife, or Gleneefy. 



The " Tripartite Life " 5 says that St. Batrick " desired to remain beside 

 Clar, at the rath of Corbre and Broccan," and "left Colmau of Kilnarath 

 there." Glenbrocharn mote or fort, at the foot of the hill below Dun gClaire, 

 is evidently "Rath Broccain " ; Kilnarath, in 11S9, was "near to Imelach 

 Dregingi (Emlygrennan on the north slope of Slievereagh), where the Saimer 

 runs from it " ; 6 Laraglaw or Templenalaw Church fulfils these conditions. 

 Lastly, in the Down and Civil Survey (1651-1655), 7 as on the present maps, 

 the name subsists at Onocklairy (Cnoc gClaire) or Cnocklarhy, i.e. the present 

 Cnocklaura, not far from Dunglaura. 5 The hasty dicta of John O'Donovan, 



1 The mouth of the pass south from Kilfinnan (Map 9, Co. Cork). 



2 Leabhar na gCoart, The Book of Rights, p. 92. 



3 Metrical Dindahenchas (E. Gwynn, Todd Lecture Series), vol. x, p. 231 ; and supra, 

 vol. xxxiii, p. 461. 



4 Naturally, the important passes at the mountain have records of more than one 

 battle — Claire (a.m. 4169), Cenn Febrat (a.d. 186), and a historic battle (a.d. 750). 



6 Ed. Stokes, p. 201. For Glenbrohaun mote, see supra, vol. xxxiii, p. 46S ; and 

 O. S. Letters, p. 211. 



Calendar of Documents relating to Ireland, vol. i, Charter of Prince John to 

 De Magio Abbey. 



7 D. S. Map, No. 53 ; C. S., vol. xxv, p. 5. 



s I was told that " Slieve Claire can be the name of any hill, for clair is a plain " ! In 

 fact, I only know of two hills oi the name, in Westmoath and Thomond (Co. Limerick) ; 

 Sanas Chormaic derives it (p. 35) from " Cliu Aire, ridge of Aire." No old authority 

 gives it as clar, a plain. 



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