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(ms. H. 3. 17, T.C.D., p. 745) interpolates after the third and fifth names 

 Acnach scan Clochair and A. Eamhna, 1 and adds Martra muintcr Finntain, 

 evidently a Christian cemetery. It nowhere asserts that A. Clochair and 

 A. Culi are different. 



In the charter " Enachculi in Corbali" and Cloghur (not Enach Cloghur) 

 are named apart ; the last is probably Ciogher, near Dromin, which has only 

 a small defaced earthwork and a liss. 



The " Agallamh na Senorach," 2 a high authority for topography, with 

 especially minute knowledge of this district, identifies the names, placing 

 between Cullen and Ardpatrick " 'Oenach Culi mna Nechtain, now called . . . 

 'Oenach sen Clochair." Its allusion to Nechtan, who appears in independent 

 poems at the neighbouring Knockainey and in the Dalcassian pedigree, shows 

 local knowledge in legend as minute as in that of the topography round Cenn 

 Febrat (Slievereagh). The Mesca Ulacl 3 places '0. sen Clochair between 

 Knockainey and Slievereagh. Lastly, Corbally adjoins the townlands in which 

 the group of earthworks are found near Clogherbeg and Ciogher Hill. The 

 remains are similar to those at the other great 'Oenach cemeteries- -Tara, 

 Brugh, Slievereagh (Temair Erann), and 'Oenach cairbre at Monasteranenagh. 

 It is most improbable that the Dergthene had two cemeteries in that small 

 well-defined area. In face of this cumulative argument I see no reason to 

 revise my former statement for what is evidently a late marginal note 

 inserted out of place in the later text. 



1 " Aonach Macha " at Emania (Ann. Four MM.), a.m. 3579. 



2 Silva Gadelica, vol. ii, p. 118. 



3 Ed. Hennessy, p. 19. 



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