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source of the Barrow and jSTore, which seems hard to accept.^ The raid of 

 the Ultonians to Temair Luachair in the " Mesca Ulad " is defined in the 

 Dind Shenehas as ending at Genu Febrat, or Slievereagh, in south-eastern 

 Co. Limerick. 



" The Ulaid carried off from the west, from Temair Luachra, in the 

 furious foray they made from Dun da bend to Cenn Febrat of Sliab Cain, 

 when they wreclced the catTiair (of Crimthann ISTia Nair), and killed the king 

 and brought away his mantle."- The " Mesca Ulad " says he was slain by 

 Cu ChuUaind at a ford in Crich Uathne,^ or Owney, in eastern Co. Limerick. 



Indeed, the " Book of Eights " seems to regard Temair Luachra Deagaid 

 as the chief residence of the Thomond princes, where they gave a week's 

 entertainment, and whence the kings of Corca Modruad could claim their 

 daughters in marriage, which suits well their chief fort Dun Claire.* 



All this early evidence tends to one conclusion, but one late (if high) 

 authority contradicts it, raising natural doubt. The Four Masters, in 1598, 

 imply that the English army passed Temair Luachra in its march from Glin 

 to Castle Island, and presumably near Portrinard, where they rested. I have 

 ventured to suggest that Temair Luachra may have been at (or near)Dun Claire, 

 on the eastern slope of Cenn Febrat,^ and this vie-w has since been endorsed 

 by Professor MacNeiU and Mr. P. J. Lynch. The fort of Temair, according to the 

 " Mesca L^lad," was on the eastern slope of a mountain in Ir Luachair, over a 

 river glen, full of wild fowl, with forts on a ridge beyond it, and the Ulaid,'' in 

 their raid, went from Knockainey southward, towards Cenn Febrat to Oeuach 

 Clochair, and thence " in a straight line " to Temair — which suits in every 

 item the site of Dun Claire. 



Temair Eranu lay on the opposite (western) flank of Cenn Febrat, by a 

 famous well and stream, and was undoubtedly the chief cemetery of the 

 Ernai ; so far my identification of it" has, I believe, been accepted by all who 

 have studied its evidence. There were two ancient burial grounds of the 



^ Ibid., XV, p. 448. Dun Tulcha, where the Deluge whelmed Fintan, is certainly 

 Tontinna. See also Metr. Dind S., Todd Lect. Ser., x (ed. E. Gwynn), pp. 237-239. 

 Cliu Mail was, like Luachair, the land of the sous of Ugaine, and was held by Clann 

 Dedad. 



2RevTie Celt., xvi, p. 151. 



2 Loc. cit. , p. 53. 



^ Book of Rights (ed. O'Donovan), pp. 255, 261, 262. The history of the Dal Cais 

 princes at Bruree nearly perished with them in the Norse raid about a. d. 830. 



"North Munster Arch. Soc, iv, p. 159. 



•^ "Mesca Ulad," p. 17. I studied this, as possibly bearing on the strikingly similar 

 Diinganville fort, supra, xsxiii, p. 26. 



''Supra, xxxiv, p. 179. Cf. "Senchas naRelec" (Petrie's "Round Towers," pp. 

 100, 101). R. Soc. Antt. Ir., xlviii, p. 111. 



