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an incident which formed the alleged basis of a proverb, domgniis Cu is 

 you have played Cu and Cethen on me." The story is ascribed to 

 the time of Cormac. of whom Cethen is said to have been the table-attendant 

 (ronda ■ . 



14. Loeg 



The Calf well, of which we have already spoken in connexion with 



is i'ii the slope northward from the stone of Cethen, and 



un that Bowed westward (PD 15). It exists, as a 



.1 and insignificant source of muddy water, in the place indicated by 



Pelrie: a modern structure of stones, resembling a .-mall souterrain, roofs it 



in. It is not marked on the 25-inch Ordnance map ; it; place there would 



be a Bhort du "i" the letter in the u>wnlaud-name fudeen, 



and in the same field. 



1">. n~niaic 



The -it..- of Cormac's Kitchen was on the slope of the hill on the brink of, 

 and Loeg i I'D 10, VD iii 132). There is now no trace of this 



structure; it may have been of wood ami unfortified. 



16. Bdith na 5 



i Duma na nGiall, and northward from Fal (either the stone so called 

 the vallum," i.e. Baith liig: I'D 17. VD iii 81). < identified by 



tie with the ring-fort north of Baith liig. 1 It baa been almost wholly 

 de\ . v the people who were searching for the Ark of the Covenant. 



It is characteristic of them that tfa _ for the treasures of their 



patron saint 'J laith. though all the 



authorities agree in putting the grave of that lady to the south of it. 



in Fodla is Baid to have built a structure called 

 Miir %0 Demrach, the institution of 



which ;- him. This building, whatever it may have 



been, i> not mentioned in . a other historians seem 



to speak of . gb it were well known. It must have been a building, 



for Ollom Fodla is said to have died within it; and it is unnecessary to 

 i- 'int out that ; -eh a tradition proves the existence of the 



structure to which it was attached, <juite independently of the question 

 whether Ollom 1 real existence or not While it is unpro- 



fitable to indulge unduly in speculation.- that cannot be verified, I may 



.ere that it has occurred to me that in Baith na 

 id we are to see the building originally called Miir nOlloman. The name 



1 Tari, p. 171. 



