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it as 'Oeuachbeg, somewhere near Monasteranenagh Abbey. Two early 

 documents, however, should have taught them better. The Mcsca Ulad 1 

 represents the invaders coming southward, towards Cenn Febrat, from 

 Knockainy, to " 'Oenach sen Clochair," 5 where they camped, though " the 

 rough winter weather was not the time of the 'Oenach." The Agdllamh, 3 so 

 rich and accurate in its topography, tells how St. Patrick left Cuillend ua 

 Cuanach (Cullen, in Co. Tipperary, on the border of Co. Limerick) and, on his 

 way to Ardpatrick, skirted "the oenach of Xechtan's wife, Cuil, now called 

 the heifer-carrying ' fair ' green of old Clochar (oenach sen Clochair)." 

 Now Monasteranenagh lies far to the north-east of 'Aine, quite off the route 

 of the raiders, and, similarly, the saint was not likely to have been supposed 

 to make a huge circuit, for no recorded object, when he wished to reach 

 Ardpatrick. Take a line from Cullen to Ardpatrick on the map, ami it 

 touches Clogher. There can be little doubt from the Irish sources that 

 the latter, and not " 'Oinach orbecc" or "'Oenach beg," is intended. " Finn 

 and the Phantoms" does nothing to fix 'Oenach Clochair, but is valuable as 

 showing that horse-races t""k place there. "MunBter men from the plain 



hered at it: they ran three clear races at the faUhelu mio Maireda." 

 The black horse of Dil, son of Dachrech, ran " to the rock over Loch Cur," 

 and Kin.; Fiacha Muillethan aski'd Ins maternal grandfather for the steed. 



The Norman records seem equally clear; Prince John's charter' to 

 De Magio Abbey, or Monasteranenagh, in 118G, coniirms to it "Enachculi 

 in Corbally," and mentions Clochur and Loc Geir (Gur). Corbally townland 

 adjoins Raheenamaddra, in which the remains occur, and is less than a mile 

 distant from the mounds. Corbali, in Grene, Kilfrush, and Dunmoon, all in 

 the Clogherbeg district, were held l>y tin- Hospitallers.' Enachculy is also 

 named in a lawsuit at Limerick of Maurice de Londres' against Monastera- 

 nenagh in 123 I. 



The god Nechtan, it will be remembered, was reverenced with his wife 

 Boand and " the great god Xuada." at the source of tin- Poyne. 7 He also 

 Bent Eogabal and his family to Knockainey ; so Ctiil, his other wife, was 



li v. p. 1''. 



7 The "mn " --hows that even when the Mesca Ulad was written the antiquity <>f the 

 place was realized. 



3 P. 118. 



1 Rev. Celt, vol. vii, p. 29, Duanaire Finn fed. Ir. Texts Soo.), |>. 127. Tliere was 

 also a "faithche mliic Maireda " on Magb Kala- 



il. D. Ireland, No. 1 2138, 1 p. 288. 



' Fr.>ni these " Londoners" Uallylanders, near Clogher, is named. 



7 .Sir W. Wilde'a " Lioyne and Blackwater" (2nd cd.), p. 29 : Metr. Diuda., vol. \, 

 pp. 27. 2'.'. ;i. 



