Mauaijktkk — Temair Breg : Remains and Traditions of Tuva. 253 



Raith ua Senad is obviously later than Christianity ; and when Tech 

 Midchuarta superseded the older building as tlie place of assembly, and 

 when the raith before us became associated in tradition with the three 

 ''Synods" said to have been held within it, the later name might con- 

 ceivably have completely ousted the earlier. If the raith had been an 

 ancient assembly-place, it would be natural to choose it for the convention 

 of the " Synods." 



Had the Anglo-Israelites even done so much as to record what they 

 actually did find, we might have partly forgiven them. But they did not 

 even make this small compensation for their offence against science and 

 against reason. Mr. Westropp tells me that after many inquiries he could 

 not learn more than that a heap of bones, supposed to be a skeleton, was 

 found, having the skull underneath ; and some Roman coins, supposed to 

 have been inserted by some practical joker. There was also a rock-cut 

 ditch, not, apparently, coincident with the fosse of the rampart.' Without 

 seeing this it would be impossible to come to any conclusion about it ; it 

 might be nothing more than a natural flaw in the surface of the underlying 

 rock. But if it be really an artificial feature, it is very important, and 

 would to some extent corroborate the theory put forward above — showing 

 that some ancient structure had existed on this site, and that the earthworks 

 represented a later restoration or alteration. If ever an atlenipt should 

 be made to repair the injury done to Raith na Sen ad — as I have been 

 informed is in contemplation — it may be hoped that the opportunity will be 

 taken to determine the real nature of this rock-cutting. 



A mound or tumulus is incorporated with the ramparts of this raith on 

 the western side; just as a similar mound is incorporated with Tech Cormaie. 

 Petrie records a popular name for this, current in his time, " the King's 

 Chair." 



17. Pupall Adamnuin 



The site of Adamnan's Pavilion was inside Raith na Senad (PD 18). 

 Petrie identified it with the mound popularly called the ''King's Chair"; 5 

 and it is quite possible that this is what the writer of Dind-shenchas Erenn 

 intended. It is most probable that the real Pupall Adamnain was merely a 

 building of a temporary nature, which would scarcely have survived to our time. 

 PD speaks merely of the site (Idthrach) of the Pavilion, which suggests thai 

 no actual building was extant when the author wrote. Adamnan's presidency 



1 See Journal, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, xxx. I T*j : xx.xv. 404. The 

 coins are there said to have been of Constantino the Great. 

 : Tata, p. 175. 



