158 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



Ireland, 1 and the euhemerist Flann (in 1050) says he was killed by Sigmall, 

 grandson of the god Midir ; : but this is of the warped stratum of legend, not 

 found in the early myths. Some (by the q to p change) identify him 

 with Neptune, but this is more than doubtful ; 3 and unless he is Nuada (with 

 whom even then we have to go back to Nodens, in Britain, to find him a sea- 

 no connexion with the ocean. < >bl writers equated Necht with 

 . snow, because " Nuada Necht was as white as snow," a folk derivative. 1 

 He was certainly Nuada, "fair fa 1 hand," a king of Minister, 



whose rival, I slain by Lug's device at Cam l'i Neid, s for Nuada 



Argetlamh :- sded by tnd the king of Munster seems to be 



Nechtan. Nuada. his wife Boand, and son Nechtan, all abound in t*}«ithets 

 like " white " and " silver." 



htan reckoned t' I ogst his human descendants. 



Tiny owned a fort, Dun mic Nechtain, near Kenmare. 1 fancy tlie Co. Clare 

 fort, Caherm »1 ten, is named from a human family. Near Kenmare 



•• River," In S e, dwelt also a namesake, a lady, Necht.' He and his 

 three cup.).. :ld alone approach to look on the sacred well at the 



Bonn f ih' . ir unidentified) lay among the 



Y. _ Hills.' D ident importance, I h r found no legend 



of CuiL ~ y lurk under an alia* name, for what was told of the Hazel 



Well and th< dso told of Sinann, Macba, or 



rfhine, th - _ rho had many alternative names/ 



A- _ Sinann, hi htach" is often confused with " Echtge 



the Horrible," the { mountains of Echtge. who was reared on 



children's flesh, and was given the mountains by her lover, Fergus Lusca 



1 hum ami Genann,' who. with Sengann, 



Catal Irish v , p. 640; R. I. Acad. M8., 23.D. 13, 



p. : . 



I !■ . 



Shrade, "Pretrial lotiqq. of the Aryti 1 < is, p. 412; 



•.. iv. j,. 12 

 ' Irisclu K..lk Lore, xvii, p 



ftfetr. Dind s .. \. p. 216. 

 « Rennet Dind S , ivi, p. - 



• The name Nechtan is f..un.i in • Limerick in historic 



times. 



d) came fr..m the South to Meath [Merr. Dind S. : 



"Boand I"). Nechtan Nuada is smi of Lnliraid, whereas (in Boand II) he is son of 

 • It., xv, p. •_".•::, p. 4 



158); Metr.D pp 305 7. In us. R. I. 



Acvl. 23 I> 16, p. 411, is an amaz . . an Irish inscription found on a coffin with 



a skeleton 12 I I king of Ireland, at Breaffy. I n 17;i2. This 



was written ii ? I adda that Genann had et high ! Eis brothers Gann 



S „ann landed at the Inbir D>. U-hinch, ii ire (Erin, viii 



,,. i: 



