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the Ullonian cycle, Conchobar, Cu-Chulaind, and the rest. Elsewhere the 

 luch donn appears as a monstrous [wolf?] : see Todd Lectures, xiv, p. 28. There 

 is a pile of stones in the north-east corner of the field containing the remains 

 here called Itaith Chonchohuir. This would about fit in with the place 

 indicated for Duma ind l.uchduinn. 



42. Adlaic ocus Di-adlaic 



These were two springs on the side of the slope, level with Baith Colmain 

 on the north-easl hi comhardus B.C. sairtuaid, .L hi toeb leitrech frisin rdith 

 anair-tuaid : I'D 42 . The directions are not very easily followed ; according 

 to VD iii 135, two streams Bowed from them down to Oamn naMaccraide; 

 therefore they must have been on the slope above the Cam, iliatis, to the 

 s.niih of il. But according i" PI) 42 they were north-easl (sair-tiiaid) from 

 Raith Cholui&iu, and the latter was not th-easl from Carnn MaccraideUaNeill, 

 which was the more northerly of the two Btone heaps. As we have already 

 said, wheu l'li and VD are thus irreconcilable, the former is to be preferred 

 in topographical questions. But it is not very clear what PD means by 

 They are two springs, Adlaic is one of them and l)i-adlaic the other, 

 but there is no diflerenci u Lhem " (di tipraid indsin, ytdlaic indara 



n-Oi 7 V 'U ixi nil deocJutir eturra). Taken in connexion with 



the names, which appear to meau 'desirable" and "non-desirable" respec- 

 tively, this perhaps implies thai the two wells are really one, and that under 

 certain mysterious circumstances it changed its character — being on some 

 occasions salutary, ou others hurtful. Ma^ic of ihis -,,ii is familiar in folk- 

 1 : we may compare the well of sliah uGam.' To the east of tlie pile of 



tes mentioned above in the notice of Duma ind Luchduinn, is a deep cow- 

 pond. If this be ;i Bpring il may represent either or both of these water- 



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 The stone commemorating the youths who wen- found playing hurley 

 with theheadof Cu-Chulaind, and were killed in punishment for the sacrilege, 

 was somewhere neai I ud Chon-Chulaind (VD iii 53), but there is no 



indication of its position relative to that monument. I have therefore 

 omitted it from the plan. 



Some other Bites in or near Temair are mentioned in Acallam na Sen&rach, 

 and may be here enumerated, though no attempt at an identification of any 

 of them can be made. These are / ■ /'■ uad, the Grave of the Druids, 



Metrical Dindshtxchtu (Todd Lect., vol. x), p. 436. 



