274 Proceedings of the Royal Irtsh Academy. 



them with the pair of conspicuous ramparts on the steep north-western slope 

 of the hill. Petrie seems to have supposed that they were merely a sort of 

 wall or ditch, running down the hillside: but the fact that historical or 

 quasi-historical events are said to have taken place within them— the 

 slaughter of the prin - - y Dunlaing in the southern Cloenlert, and the 

 q U J,,:th>< or ■wrong judgments of the usurping king Lugaid in the northern — 

 is enough to show that they wen- I some kind. Indeed, the state- 



ment luidfd'n all kth don tig iiTtuad in ghubreith 1 " half the house where 

 the wrong judgment was g a dipped down the slope", grotesque though it 

 be, gives an accurate ide curious site of tins structure; half of it 



being on the flat top of the ridge, and half on the steep slope of its side. : 

 This is evidently the of the version of the story of the desertion of 



Temair told in tin- Now - / jaie.' 



The southern Cloenlert goes also by tin- name Fert no. n-Ingen: see 

 Hogan's I 



•"■'J. 



The Btone-heap <>f the Leinstei youths was beside and to the ninth of the 

 -nn ( li > .''Oi. Like most of the atone monuments, and nearly all the 

 structures at the north of the hill, it ! geared. 



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Th- Cross of the Holy Pilgrim Fergus, of whom we would like to know 



more, was it ( '■' »u& " in Carraic Cluman 



hi Maccraide" PD 37 . The cross has disappeared. The 



place nun- Carraic Cluman (Cluui in L) does not appear elsewhere, nor is 



there any prominent rock anywhere about, so far as I can see, to which it 



Id be likely to belong ; and Carnn raide exists no longer. Petrie 



gives : lie- "Irish tradition" that he reports, 1 to the efl 



that 1 - pilgrim of Carraic Clumain, saw in a vision that a cross 



would be erected in honour of himself near Fan ua Carput, on the hill of 

 i have failed to trace out his authority. 



Suva Gadelica, i, 255 ; ii, 288. 



Mi West! pp's photograph, reproduced in Piute X, fig. 2, where the eloping 

 site is well shown. 



:v. 10 Ba| - '.; . i. B), and Belha Ookndm (Todd 



Lett., xvii. p. 62) have a reference to a legend ascribing the " tilt " to the prayers of 



3l Patrick, which caused an earthquake ; the original legend doubtless attached to 



the Cioenfert, as suited in Beth- re the structure is called Claenraith 



■:><)■ In Sendiat M£t it i- luaiic to apply t<< the whole of Tea 



* r.ir.i, p. Hi. ii.-- 



