Macalistkr — Temair Brer/: Remains and Traditions of Tar a. 390 



It is not easy to identify the five mounds which Pococke here indii;it< -. 

 They might be Pupal/. Adam ndin ; Duma na 2W (Petrie's mound, now missing I 

 side by side with Duma na nGiall; Tech Cormaic; and M&r Ten. This would 

 be interesting for two reasons. It would prove the existence of Mur Tea, 

 now almost disappeared, on 6 August 1753, the date of Pococke's visit : 

 and it would indicate the (a priori not improbable) fact, that the stoni 

 inauguration then stood, not, as Petrie's local informants told him, on Duma 

 na nGiall, but on the traditional foundress's grave. But there are difficulties 

 in the way of this, for the literary evidence is to the effect that Fal was on 

 or beside Duma na nGiall. If, however, we are to call Pococke's southern 

 mound Duma na nGiall on account of the presence of the stone, we should 

 have difficulties in identifying the four to the north of it the end of Tech 

 Midchuarta, Dull, Dorcha, and Pupall Adamndin, seems the only possible 

 series of identifications; but evidently this is strained), and it would be hard 

 to explain how the Bishop came to miss the conspicuous structures in Edith 

 Big. Suppose the mound with the stone is Tech Cormaic (Petrie's Forrad , 

 which would contradict Petrie's story that the stone had been transferred 

 after the rebellion of 1798, then the mounds might be Pupall Adamndin, 

 Petrie's Duma na Bo, Duma na nGiall, and either my Duma na Bo or the 

 Forrad. It seems impossible to get any nearer to certainty than this, and 

 whatever scheme we adopt presents difficulties. Pococke probably had the 

 privilege of seeing the mounds in an even more perfect condition than Petrie, 

 but he lost the opportunity of making himself useful. 



The Bishop also notes the standing stone in the churchyard; the figure 

 upon it reminded him of a "German deity " whom he calls "Pusterus" — 

 a name which in my ignorance I never met with before ! 



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