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— Uainide, with the northern; Fer Fi, with the southern; and, perhaps, 

 Eogabal and 'Aine with the rest. 1 The brothers of Medb were buried in a 

 mur at Eathcroghan, and, in the sixth century, St. Senan was buried in a 

 derc or fert, a square enclosure with upright stones, such as was connected 

 with his name on Iniscaerach (i.e. Mutton Island), Co. Clare. The shield of 

 Cu Chulaind* was a disc barrow, level with the field, and with a small mound 

 in the centre. Bowl barrows occur at Cush (3) and Clogher ; disc barrows at 

 Cush, Clogher, and Ballinastona, in Co. Limerick; Lislard, Lishaun, and 

 Tyredagh, and George's Head, Kilkee, Co. Clare. (4) Bounded low mounds, 

 like Eathnarrow. One remains at Lisdoonvarna, Co. Clare ; others at 

 Knockainey and Ballygubba, Co. Limerick. (5) Cairns in a ring — Knoek- 

 ainey, Knoekadoon. I have not found a kerbed cairn in Co. Limerick, 

 such as we find at Leana, Poulawack, and Slievenaglasha, Co. Clare. There 

 are traces of lai'ge cairns at Knockfierna, Carnarry, and at Seelin. (G) The 

 Limerick dolmens are chiefly cists, the Duntrileague one is complex. 



Knocklong (Ordnance Survey No. 40). 



A fine group of earthworks extends from Clogher through Knocklong, 

 and down the valley of the Saimer, or Morningstar. There are no traces of 

 earthworks on the ridge of Knocklong, whose fifteenth-century castle of the 

 Hurley's and the graveyard are so conspicuous from the railway from 

 Dublin to Cork. It is the ancient Drom Damhgaire, the scene of the very 

 mythical defeat, or rather flight, of King Cormac, 3 about A.D. 230. I must 

 study its legend hereafter, and only give a brief sketch of its history and 

 traditions. 



The O'Hurleys built the castle late in the fifteenth century, after 14G0. 

 The records only begin in the reign of Elizabeth in the "Fiants" of 1568, 

 1570, and 1584, as Loinge and Knockneloinge. The Hurleys held it till 

 Sir Maurice Hurley lost all in the civil war of 1641-51. His confiscated 

 manor had " a ruyned castle, a mill, two fairs, and Courts Leet and Baron." 

 His lands extended from Dunmoone and Mitchellstown down to Startin 

 (Scarteen) and Ballinalanga on the borders of Co. Tipperary. In 1853 it was 

 said to take its name from long, a ship in which Hurley used to sail from it 

 to Emly. It is true that there was a lake at Emly in A.D. 896, named in 

 Cormac 's Glossary, and there are traces of several other lake-beds; but no 



1 Supra, xxxiv, p. G2. 



2 Metr. Dind S., viii, p. 17. Similar d> this may have been Sciath Nechtain (Wars 

 of Gaedhil, p. 21, a.d. 847), at Skea, Co. Kildare, and Sciath gabhra, or Skea, 

 Co. Fermanagh. 



3 Forbais Droma Damhgaire, Rev. Celt., xv, p. 441 ; Heating's History (Ir. Texts Soc.), 

 ii, pp. 319, 320 ; O'Curry, " Manuscript Materials," p. - _'71. 



