Maca lister — Temair Brer/ : Remains and Traditions of Tar a. 239 



still Mairisiu-worshippers in Ireland; and llierefore it was at some time 

 considered necessary by the ecclesiastical authorities to demolish the 

 structure in which the worship centred. 



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Piq. 1. — Restoration of the House of Mairisiu. 



The last question which presents itself with regard to the house of 

 Mairisiu is its design. The obscurity of the description in PD is not lessened 



by a succession of scribes, by whom the documents have been transmitted to us. This is 

 not wholly correct-. The purgation took place once for all. when the literature was being 

 written down for the first time in its present form, and while paganism was still a force 

 to be reckoned with. The scribes would not take the trouble to eliminate dead gods. 



R.I.A. PROO., VOL. XXXIV, SEOT. C, lilj 



