272 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



The monument was probably a round tumulus with a neck-like projection 

 attached to it. Mr. Westropp has sent me a sketch of a mound of similar 

 design in the cemetery of Cenn Febrat. 



32. SI so id Temrach 



" The little dirty marsh," which, with the partial exception of the springs, 

 i- the only natural feature "f Temair mentioned in IHnd-shenchas Emm, 

 - level with Tech Midchuarta "ii the north-west. It was still remembered 

 in Petrie's time, though it had even then been drained.' It was south of 

 Cam na Ms de (PD 32) and easl of Raith Grainde (VD iii 45) ; Kaith 

 Neisi and Raith Conchobuir were east of it i VD iii 47). 



O'Donovan's account of the Sescend may here he quoted 2 : "This spot, 



nding from the ash-tree under which there was a well called ToherFin 



[sic] Bouthwa • ead" northwards "] to the road was spi wy land in the 



memory of Mr, MacMahon, a farmer, who holds the adjacent land and who 



u the hill in '9.S with all the vigor ol his ancestor Colla Da Chrioch. 



the proprietor of the land, to reclaim this ' spewy spot ' 



stopped up Tober Fin with/wra and rubbish ; and to carry off its fountain he 



. a drain epth for a short distance t" tin' west of the well 



1 t)C'l 11I(?S 



northwards to the road where the land \sie\". The ash-tree and the 



well can still tter marked by an irregular depression in the 



nd. 



:::: I; 



In th>* identification "f llaith Grainde and ii< companion Fothad Ratha 



'iid erred unaccountably. The ramparts which he calls by 



thee tinly the Cloenfertai Petrie's identification 1 leaves no 



, tin- hill fur the CloenTertai, which were t" tin- west of Kaith 



sven tin- relative positions <'f tin- two structures are given 



Bly, for Petrie makes the Pothad south of tin- Raith, whereas the 



authorities which we ha illow make it tin- northern of the two. 



rtai, we must look for Raith Grainde 

 of them: and we find it at mice, in a shapely ring-fort which 

 died Riith Caelchon. Even if there were evidence that such a 



Cemair at all — and, as we have 

 — tin- fort called by that name in Petrie's 

 work is too far from the site of Tech Midchiiarta to accord with the indica- 

 te 151. i Mi ith, p. 234. 3 Tara, p. 216. 



