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inner rampart of stone, which has now disappeared, as Mr. Westropp 

 suggested to me when we visited the site together. According to PD, Eaith 

 Eig contained three notahle things: Tech Cormaic, Lathrach in Forraid, and 

 Mur Tea. These have now to be separately considered. 



6. '/ 



The first of the "three notable things" in Raith Rig was the site of the 



Hoi i. VD makes no reference to this 



structure. PD says "i" it that it is ind oirther-descert na rdtha illeith fri 



••in the south-east of the raith, in the side towards 



It Loeguiri souths I ery hard to understand. There is no 



trace of any structure in any spot that could be so described; the suspicion 



is aroused that old and deep-seated corruption in the text at 



this i "int. 



The only other guide which we have i" the identification ol Tech < 'orniaic 

 is the further statement in the same paragraph of l'I>: lathrach in Forraid 



I h reading "f \\ is followed, with a 



i] ami other variations, by all the Dublin USS. ; the 



only diffi [ any importance being the omissiou of anoir in D~. The 



sentence means "th< he Forrad is beside the Bite of Cormac's House 



I": uch beii . i anoir, which literally 



from thi two conspicuous monuments near 



the midi I . -i and wesl : and if we are not 



n them thi I I rma< - Bouse respectively, we may abandon 



ill endeavoui I mair with the help of the 



literatnn entified them; but he has committed a strange 



_ i: he ! them, identifying the eastern mound with 



loiind with thi . On p. 138 of Tara 



ige in l'I>, i _ mrectly ; but 



mi p. 151 I I, which were alongside the House 



iously induced by his ideas 

 to the idi n of the two structui 



mad 



W may compare the English expression, " the 



seat . L'< mair would thus 



have been the orij dwelling, and would clearly I in date 



than the II ic. I 1 would therefore be natural, at first sight. 



The word is given in the plural form, Jaradha, .i. ionaid 

 ■ ■ )ery spells the word with one r; the M88. of Dind-Aenehat Erenn as a rule use 



