Westropp — The '^Ifound of the Fiana " at Cronmell Hill. 85 



at least four early pedigrees, found in various settings, and thus easily 

 detached. One is from Art Imlech and Bressrig, pre-Celtic gods ; the second 

 from a Siabra-go(\. Nia Segamon, and two others from Celtic gods. One of 

 these favoured by the MacCarthys in later times is from Allot and Nuada ; 

 the other is better attested as archaic, it runs thus in the"Mosaulum 

 Tale" : — LugFeidlech, Nuada Aicnech, lAiigthine, Daig, Dergthene (or "Corb 

 Oluim," the first Celtic prince of the later royal line), Oengus Mog Neid, 

 Eoghan Mog Nuadat, and Mais or Oilioll Aulom. The official pedigree gives — 

 Log Feidlech, Lachtaine, ISTuada Airgthech, Deirgthine, Deaga, or Ethleann, 

 Lug, Lachtaine, Nuada, Dergthened, Deaga Derg ; but it is quite clear that a 

 pedigre-i of Dergthene, the eponymous of the princes of Mag Femen, Cashel, 

 and the later Thomond, was rejected (probably for its open " paganism ") by 

 them and seized by the Corca Laide, who identified its " Daig " or " Deaga " 

 with their own ancestor, Dega or Deda.' 



Other non-Milesian tribes forced Lug into their ancestry, and most 

 probably confused him with earlier gods. Perhaps one of these clumsy com- 

 promises identified him as a god of harvests, hill-tops, and human sacrifice 

 with a similar deity, eventually nicknamed " Crom Dubh." 



' "Mosaulum," Todd Lecfc., xvi, p. 29 ; Keating's History, iv, p. 114. The Saltair 

 of Cashel gave " Eithleann, Lug, or Lng Mannraoh, Deag mannraoh." See Corca 

 Laidhe, p. 25. 



Note in Press. 



As Mr. Dalton's paper on " Cromm Cruaich " only reached me after my 

 essay was in pages, my conclusions are in no sense a reply to or criticism of 

 is monograph. — T. J. W. 



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