248 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



I have no doubt in my own mind that this is the trace of the tumulus 

 called "Mur Tea, and regarded as the grave of the eponymous foundress of 

 Temair. Such a place would naturally be an especially "gentle " spot; and 

 it is not surprising that when Cormac stood upon it alone one day he had a 

 vision of the s/d-folk. 1 



It may ho more than a mere coincidence that the traditional grave 

 of the foundress holds roughly the same position relative to Raith Pig that 

 the grave of Loeguire is said to hold with regard to the fort which hears 

 his name. 



For the topography of Mur Tea we are entirely dependent upon PI). 

 There is some valuable traditional matter in VD to which we must return 

 later, but nothing to throw light on the appearance of the mound. It is, 

 however, worth passing notice that Yl> i : > ; :iii contrasts the /wasr (tech) of 

 Te l. round which was n rampart, with hex grave outside the rampart (roadnacht 

 iar in it, ■ amuig), showing that there were two sites associated with the 

 princess. The house was presumably identical with the Forrad, the grave 

 with the tumulus here described. The " rampart " here mentioned is of course 

 that of the Forrad, not the later-built Raith Rig. 



'.i. Caprach Corniaic 



Caprach Cormaic was a well fa (deb Rdt/ia na Big anoir, " under the side of 

 Raith Rfg eastward "(PD 10). According to YI>iii L22,it was iRdith Uig,6 

 ,"in R.U., from R.R. eastward." This coincides with the posi- 

 tion of the spring identified by Petrie with Nemnach. Remembering that 

 the nam igh " still survives in the townland next to that containing 



Petrie's Nemnach,' I suggest that Petrie's identification was wrong, and that 

 the spring in question was really Caprach Cormaic. Caprach apparently 

 meant fed buil Very likely the well was covered with some 



protecting structure from which it derived it- nine- just Buch a covering, 

 in fact, as still roots it over. 



Petrie himself unable to discover Caprach Cormaic. He says 



I / t no very satisfactory reason, that it must have been south 



of Nemnach ; but on Ids restored map of the Bite he places it tothe north-east 

 of his Nemnach '. 



Caprach Cormaic had three other names, ac PDgoes on to tell us: Liaig 



I, . m. 193. 



well is n.iw in Castleboy townland ; but the meariic,' of Cabragh comes to within 



100 feet of rlu- spring. Indeed, there is a sort of projection jntting oul from the main 



igh towards the spring ; it looks -is though Cabragh had originally been laid 



oat t.i include the site of the well, bat that a sub*, quenl oni roachmenl oi < lastleboy had 



cut il on) 3 i the townland boundaries as indicated in the plan, Plate VII 



So M /. with a query. 



