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18. Manaig or Monaig, dp. Manachaib, but derivative Manchaig. Cp. 

 Manapii 



19. Maugdoim, Mugdoim, gp. -dom, ap. -domu. Cp. Ptolemy's Darini. 



20. Sogain, gp. Sogan. Cp. Sograige (?), Corcu Sogain, Corcu Suigin 

 (Sogain here being gs. of the eponym, as in moccu Sogia, Ogham mucoi 

 Sogini). 



21. TTlaid, gp. Uloth, ap. UltiL The earlier np. must have been Uluti or 

 Oluti, and one may surmise that Ptolemy's Ouolountioi, whose location well 

 corresponds to that of the Ulaid aromid Emain, is a sciibal corruption of 

 Oulouti = TJluti, perhaps through the influence of the Latin voluntas. 



22. Yellabori (Ptolemy), Yelabri (Orosius) seems to have left a ti-ace in 

 the place-name Luacharr Fellubair (LL 2-3 a 17). This name occui-s iu a poem 

 which aims at accounting for the distribution of the peoples said to be 

 descendants of Fergus Mac Eoig. Wherever Eudraige, the Ulidian king of 

 Ireland, won a battle, his grandson Fergus planted a colony of his own race. 



Cech roi reraig corruadchathaib cen chridenas 

 cotgab iar fir roslin Fei^us dia fhinichas. 



Of these colonies were Ciarraige Luachra (in Xorth Kerry j and Ciarraige 

 Cuirche (Kerrycurrihy barony, co. Cork), and the victories of Eudraige which 

 led to them are thus recited : 



Fich eath Cnrchu cath Luachra laeehdu Fellubair 

 seeht catha i Cliu intochtmad friu i nOlendamain. 



Ptolemy clearly indicates the Vellabori as inhabiting the south-western comer 

 of Ireland, and Orosius speaks of the Yelabri as looking towards Spain. 

 In the verse cited, we should expect gp. Fellabor = *Yellabion, but the word 

 may be used eponymically in gs. like Dedad in Luachair Dedad, another name 

 for the same district. 



23. In the absence of examples of the singular, it seems likely that Aidni, 

 Luaigni, Luigni, Uaithni belong to this order rather than to the collectives 

 in -ne. 



24. Desi is to be classed apart-, being the plural of a common noun 

 dels "ensemble de vassaux." Aire desa, lord of a vassal tenantiy. See 

 D'Arbois de JubaiQ%dlle, Cours de Litterature Celtique, vol. viii, p. 204. In 

 the story of the migration of the Desi (ed. Meyer, Eriu, ui, p. 141), the 

 narrator is at pains to explain (II 215-219) that the derogatory term disi 

 is not applicable properly to Dal Fiachach, the dominant people of Desi 

 Muman : 



