182 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



I must confess that no decisive argument can be made save against the old 

 identification with the site near Castle Island. 



It is strange that the name should have died out where so many of the 

 other Ernean names survive. One more point may he noted The Elizabethan 

 armies frequently full. .wed the same routes. Now Pelham, in March, 15S0. 

 passed from Glin to " Dowau," near Portrinard, and thence (say the Four 

 Masters) to Temair Luachra. On July 18th, 1G00, Carew rested "upon the 

 midst of the mountains of Slewloghor, at a place called Ballinture, twelve 

 mil t 'ii. and five from Glin, i.e. somewhere near Athea. 1 As we 



noted, there is a Tooradoo between that place and Portrinard. In Co. Limerick 

 might be expected to become Tawer or Tower, for Tower Hill, 

 in eastern Limerick, was "Team _ i iffe," in 1655 in the Civil 



and in lout; in tin- Act "f Settlement. If the Mesca Ulad be ri_ 

 the fort was on th<- Luacbair, overlooking the plain and facing 



the rising sun. Much has yet t" be done, as the indications so far give no 



I result, but perhaps hereafter sumo hitherto unknown document may set 

 the question at n 



I lay tl lemy in the hope that the encouraging 



ittainable .1 field-survey with the study of early 



ind literatim tend to other districts the 



■.! ili<- identification of 1 tuaries and cemeteries. Venerated 



by the j nity rooted itself in our island, and by their 



down t' aes even ;ifter, the Normans had settled on 



the rich pla ithern Ireland), there may be much to guide us on our 



li. It rests with us, living in an ... tion <>f our ancient land- 



marks and of the dyu :' early traditions and place-names i the 



b iphy "f freland f"r future generati 



;E ADDED IN I'l:! 



voL wxiv. p. 63) • objection lias been made to my 

 identify uli with 'Oenach Clochair, on the grounds that they are 



nan. Tract "ii the Cemeteries" (Scncha* ind the 



Chartei to M 'nasteranenagh. 11 



The older text r.f tl I.eabar na hUidre, does not name 



'0. Clochair. I - g ght cemeteries, 'O. Culi being sixth. The later text 



1 Cat. State Papers, Ireland, 1580, p. 236, 1600, p. 317. 



1 Petrie, "Round Towers," p. 97, and note, p. 99. Cal. Documents Ireland, foL i, 



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