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I have already said that I should prefer to identify the stone in the 

 graveyard with Lecht Maine rather than with Cros Adamnain. " Treasures 

 son of Fat-neck " would not be an inappropriate name for Cernunnos, god 

 of wealth, with his thick torque : it might well have been the native name 



more likely* a nickname for that deity. The objection to the identification 

 has already been hinted at : the graveyard stone is too far to the north, and 

 could not be described as - Kaith Rig. But why does the compiler of 



I'D postpone all mention of Lecht Maine until he has. as it were, passed the 

 latitude of Kaith Big He usually follows a regular order, from south to 

 north ; and Lecht Maine ought to have been described along with Caprach 

 Cnrruaic if it were really in the place indie./ m it be that Eaith Big is 



here a la ;>>r Eaith na Senad '. 



MB Bluicne 



In Served only in L. among the Dublin KSS., I'D 21 



dest! ee M el 1! .. and Bluicne us 'three small stones beside Kaith na 



They 

 I in a trial. g -outh. and Bluicne to the 



north _ L8L D calls Blocc " Bole."' 



in imp Fal only, is I hope to show 



In tl. graphical study we need only note that they have 



disa] The ineignifican etrie,' of which I can 



find :inot be the monuments in question. They are in the wrong 



nd will not tit in with w are told of the stones and their 



functi • 



small and rounded, may be the oi _ 



the druid there 



buried in the earth at the 



:ne to Teniair befoul his 



- that the punishment of the druid was still 



I : -0. 



3 In the graveyard : marked ' in the plan, Plate I. It stands near the so- 



called Cros Adamnain, and is figured in T-ua. p. 1 - 



. • fusion; in another version in 



: inted in T< ipirtit< L 164) the name of the druid 



en M Mintais. This is evidently merely an adaptation of the Greek »a>Tn. but is 



n^t much less probable than Loeguirt. which is clearly a confusion with the name of the 



kin. .e story the words drui Lotgitiri, " the druid 



■ccurred. and .-» - ibe misinterpreted them as " the druid Loeguire." 



According t>> the Lebor Brecc version the druid was swallowed up by the earth, giving 



rise verb n>^;<" .'■/ tfai*. Whatever this may mean, it is not difficult 



that the statement about the dogs has somehow been derived from it. 



