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the most important cemeteries, and puts these on a level with Tailti, the 

 hurial-place of the Kings of Ulster, the Brug, most famous of all Irish 

 cemeteries, the cemetery of the Kings of Connacht at Bath Cruachain, and 

 that of the Leinster Princes of 'Oenach Ailbe. Only one other great burial- 

 place is named, also in Leinster, 'Oenach Colinaiu. 1 The outstanding cemetery 

 of Cenn Febrat, with a fair still held at its foot, in Ballinvreena (usually a 

 sure mark of old importance), can only be Temair Erann. 



It is well known that O'Donovan's only reason for putting Temair 

 Luachra the name " Bealahontowragh " ; this place 



contradicts (as I have shown) all the indications in the our only. 



ir authority, while the further equation, that Temair Erann, Temair 



Luachra, and Temair Shuba are thi not a line or a fact to show in 



. far as we know. The old-school antiquaries fancied that Luachra 



lav ely in K ret realizing its extension, at least to Cenn 



neai the fort of Crimtbann Nia Nair, and ovei Muskerry Barony in 



k, and up to L unhappy obsession that he could 



. lolmen by identifying Dontrili . Hill with Sliab Claire 5 against 



tin.- clear topography Agallamh and other sources, poisoned the whole 



centra] Id phy,and bo long as modern students follow blindly 



his far from infallible authority .1 result can l>e attained. 



r, if it im wide outlook,'" is most Buitable to Gush, 



.unl the author ^i ti. ■ .nh bringing St. Patrick to sit on 



the three mounds of the Tuatha Dd, there to watch the great hunt/ To 

 sunn b S S thbaicc, "King of Claire," 



one of ti i 19) ; the forte in Emlygrennan 



at itc ' nathann, lover of the 



101. The Christian writers long spoke freely 



about these sanctuaries even in religion! worl i cuvultcd the druids on -Samhain 



Bath Archaill, where they had idols ami B ... vii. p. 128; 



wa9 "the cli. .ry and wizardry," 



part. Life, p. 41 -flipped idols and abominr 3 I'atricii) ; 



•heir faces in Monster Trip.irt. Life, p. 195), and idols and images are 



destroyed like Crom Croaich. 



• W. M. Hennessy's no - ' p. iv ; cf. Proc. R.I. A , xxvi. pp. 02. 03; xxxiii, 



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87 . ■ 

 1 Including Glenlar . - rereagh, and reaching at least to the f<'rt of Slieve Grot, 



and Oenach 'l^chair. 



ich he at first determined correctly as at Slievereagh, Ord. Survey Lett* 

 - ill 11 - kttempta to date the Ballina dolmen are similarly an offence to all 

 scientific arch . \.xxiv. p. 



1 14, says that all places of the name were called 

 after hi), a possible goddess. 



A,'iUamh, Silva Gadelica, ii, p. 1.1 



