58 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



proves that the same structure was a house and a tomb. Doubtless, the 

 temple and tomb were often identical, and the mighty dead became a god for 

 ages, and reverted again to be a dead man. Sid was used for haunted knolls 

 of rock, like Crag an Aibhill, above Killaloe, " Campul na Muckagh," and the 

 Sidhean on Inisliturk, 1 Cnoc Dabilla, or Roekabill, off the coast of Leinster, 

 and the Bull Rock, " Bui,"* off that of Munster. 1 The rocky hill of Almha was 

 t of Cashel was called s/d drttim. 

 The mote-like high mound was also s/d, 3 like the most famous one at Raith 

 Cruachan, in Conuacht ; Magh Adair. Co. Clare, and Clogber, in Tyrone, are 

 most probably congeners. The great s/d liking of the god Oengus was 

 Newgrange tumulus, and thos !,' wth and Dowth, near it, were dedicated 

 to lkwdan and the shepherd of Elcmair. the god who once owned Newgrange. 

 Emania had a aid* (presumably the Hat-topped mound levelled in Victoria's 

 _:t), and Tara had one to the north of the well Xeamnach and the stream 

 NitbJ Ring forts, 'unroofed green raths," could be sld, like Sid Findachaid. 5 

 Like Knockainey, Carhury Hill, v: - N htain, had a mound and two rings, 

 evidently of the triad of Xuada, Xechtan, and his wife Boand, the Boyne." 

 Most probably the conjoined rings of the Clogher group were the sidh of 

 :an and his wife Cuil 

 The diminutive term sidtdn was equally vague. The " sheeaun " on 

 iturk and Croad in Co. Clare, were fortified rock knolls, 



iteeaun (Laos an tsidean), not very far from the last, is a shaped natural 

 hillock ; so is Barrinagh in Co. Roscommon/ 



The s/d bhrug had sometimes a well, pillar, &u&f<iithche or green near it." 

 Magh Adair mound has an enclosure and one perhaps two) pillars. 

 Lisa •'ha, near Brurec,* has a small pillai mit, and Newgrange 



had another. 



A- the conjoined rings, the very complex ones seem peculiar to 

 Co. Limerick. Cooloughtragh, on Slievereagh, Dunainey, on Knockainey, and 



1 Pmc R.I. Acad., vol. xxxi (Clare Island Survey, Part II). pp. 60, 61. 

 ; Boi, see L. na hl'idhre and II. B Ir.. vol. xi, pp. 184-5 ; Cnoc Dabilla in 



Dindshenchas. 



- in bhnig Emm Macha.'' perhaps a holy place of the war goddess Macha 

 H •nomastioon Goedelicum), ReT. Cell.. roL xv. p. 463, vol. xvi, p. 46. 'Emhain, the 

 Tuatha De came to it from the we.-- . ly's Catalogue of Irish Mss. in British Mus., 



Ggerton iii, p. 404. 



'Dindshenchas, Revue Celt., vol. xvi. lVc . 



.d..v..l. ii. pp. ;" { Untis,'" vol. iv. p. 145. 



Boyne and Black wat- 



these see Proc. II. I. Ac-vl . roL xxxi. Part II, p. 51 ; B, Soc. Antt. Ir., 

 toI. xxiv. ; 



• Insche Texte, vol. iv, pp. l_ I e Chonain " (Introd.), p. 88. 



• Supra, voL xxxiii, p. 490. 



