18 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



Ui Dauaidh is named by Annals of Innisfallen in a.d. 596, Eathguala (if it 

 be Eathkeale) was taken about 620.' The battle of Carn Feradaig (Oarnarry), 

 621 ; also Cathair Chinnchonn of Eockbarton in 637 ;^ Aine (the Sid 

 Eoghabhail of the Agallamh, and therefore a fairy fort, and perhaps a temple 

 monnd) in 666 ;' Senati or Shanid fort in 834 ; Cathair Cuan in the Ui 

 Fidgeinte territory* was plundered by Brian Boroimhe in 973, while his 

 brother King Mathgamhain was betrayed by Donnabhan mac Cathail, Prince 

 of the Ui Fidgeinte, at Dun Gaifi in his house, believed to have been at 

 Brurigh. Brian repaired or made forts (1002-1012) at Dun Cliath (? Aine), 

 Dungrot and Cennabrat (near the Ballyhoura pass, Bealach Feabrat) and those 

 on the islands of Loch Cend, T^och Gair (Gur), and Loch Saiglend, besides 

 the important fort of Bruree or Dun Eochair Maige. Dun tri liag burned by 

 Torlough O'Brien on his way to Thomond from Emly in 1054. Dun Aiched 

 (an unknown fort identified by O'Donovan with Dunkip, but only from its 

 sound), Erughrigh, and the Loch Gur forts plundered in 1086,' while the fort 

 at Cromadh (Croom, perhaps the fine fort on the Maigue bank in Islandmore) 

 was burned in 1149. 



The forts in Leabhar na gCeart. — The document, whatever its period 

 (whether early or late tenth century or earlier), which gives most about forts 

 in Munster, is the list of those claimed by the King of Cashel in the Book of 

 Eights.' It is unfortunate that they are not given in regular order (as may 

 be seen by the identified names), and that they rarely have any note or epithet 

 to help us. Having recently been dealing with the districts covered by the 

 Tain bo Flidhais, and enjoyed its vivid and most reliable topographical help, 

 I feel all the more the want of a really helpful document for Co. Limerick. 

 I at once avow inability to elucidate all the list of forts, but it calls for 

 study in this connexion, and must be faced. O'Donovan makes most of his 

 uncertain identifications by mere guess, and curiously expends many notes in 



'Ann. Ulster, 622; Chron. Scot. 623; Ann. Inisf., 616; Ann. Four M., 618; 

 " Expugnatio Rath Guala," by Fiacha : " well known is the strength of its beams." 



2 3rd Fragment of Tighernach, Rev. Celt., vol. xxiii (1902). The battle of Cam 

 Fearadaigh in Cliu, where FaUbe Flan was victor. 



2 Cathair Chinn Chonn, battle won by the Munster men under Oengus Liathain 

 (Annals Ulst., 039 or 637). 



* Aine, Ann. Ulster and Four Masters, 666 ; Chron. Scot., 663 ; between the Aradha 

 and Hui Fidgente. It was a Mh or fairy mound — Sith Cliath, Elnockaine (Book of 

 Fermoy, R. I. Acad. Irish Texts, p. 9). Cuan Ring of Ui Fidgeinte slain in 642 at Carn 

 Chonaill. 



'= Or 1084, Chron. Scotorum. 



^ The list (I use the poem as probably older than the prose version) is connected with 

 the legendary Eric of Fearghus Scannal, which, however, only applied to Ossory (Book of 

 Lecan, f. 225 b and 229 b). It is attributed to Benean, disciple of Patrick, in the fifth 

 century, but is probably several centuries later. 



