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Eniai-Clann Dedat ; it and one at another " holy " well at Cul m brocholl, 

 among the Ciarrhaige, in Kerry, but yet to be located.' It is interesting to 

 note that in no case does contradiction appear as to the persons buried in the 

 two places, and the monuments on Cenn Febrat agree minutely with those 

 named in the early poem circa a.d. 990-1010. 



At Temair Erann lay buried Deda's brother Febra, from whom the 

 mountain was named ; Deda's son Garban ; the wife of Daire, son of Deda ; 

 her son Lugaid Laegde ; the latter's daughter Ethne (with her grandmother) 

 in the conjoined barrows ; besides " Ere of Ir Luachair." At Cul m brocholl 

 were laid Dega's daughter Dairine ; her husband Lugaid mac Con ; his son 

 (or father) Mac Ma f the latter's sons Lugaid, Dau, Trian, and Echu Badamna ; 

 with " Cathmol, son of Erp," perhaps the above "Ere." Had we such place 

 indications as at Cenn Febrat for Cul m brocholl, another most interesting 

 legendary sanctuary might be discovered — a typical example, with a god's 

 mound (of Lug Long hand) and graves of the half-divine heroes and 

 heroines so characteristic of ancient Ireland's chief sanctuaries, the Brugh, 

 Tailltiu, Temair, and Cruachu. 



The other tribes dwelling round the hills of our district were the Uaithne 

 and Arada,^ divided by the Eiver Saimer, or " Morning Star " ; and the 

 Mairtene, with their five branches, who worshipped at Knockainey Hill, the 

 Dilraige, Margraige, Sibenraige, Calraige, and Gargraige. Eound the Galtees 

 lay the Crotraige and Eatharlaige, of Aherloe, and the tribe of Cliu lay 

 along the valley and far into Co. Tipperary, to the east, in CUu Mhail Mhic 

 Ugaine.* 



Ceomwell Hill (Ordnance Survey Map, 33). 



There is a large, conspicuous hill, north-east from Knockainey, and about 

 four miles from it, called Cromwell Hill. The only antiquities known to me 

 between the two ridges are a stone circle and earth- ring, cut by a laneway, 

 in Ballinamona, an outlier of the Loch Gur group, and two rather large 

 defaced earthworks, beside the Mahore, a tributary of the Cammogue, on 

 a gently rising ground, at Castle Farm, to the north of Hospital. There are, 

 perhaps, traces of conjoined rings in Ballinascoola, but I reserve judgment. 



' " Mosaulum Tale," Todd Lect. Ser., xv, p. 137. As to the Clann Dedat (affiliated 

 to Conaire) being true Ernai, see Leabarna hUidre, "Clann Dedat i Sil chonaire agus 

 Ernai " (Archiv fiir Celt. Lexik., i, p. 20). 



^ See Todd Lect. Ser., xvi, p. 5, for Oendia, Caindia, and Trendia. 



^For the Uaithne descent, see " Corcalaidhe, " p. 65. 



*Silva Gadelica, ii, p. 676. 'Aine drives the tribes oflf the hill "into Luachair," 

 which suggests that the latter territory had been " set back " from Cliu at the date of 

 the poem. We hear of a Luachair 'Aine on the Feil ford, but only the Feale on the 

 west border of Go. Limerick is known to us (Rev. Celt., xv, p. 448). 



