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aiinos plurimos praestitit illis IJominus secundum clamorem illorum, it is quite 

 likely that illi has reference to the people of that very district. 



The lands of Dal Buain and Coill Ultach were partly co-extensive. Dal 

 Buain, accovdihg to Hogan's Onomasticon, "included the parishes of Drumbeg, 

 Drumbo, Hillsboro', Blaris, Lambeg, Derryaghy, Magheragall, Magheramesk, 

 Aghalee, Aghagallon, Ballinderry, Glenavy," also Magh Comair = " Mucka- 

 more." This indicates an extent along the whole eastern side of Lough 

 Neagh, and thence south-eastward across the Lagan river, comprising 

 probably the greatest part of the baronies of Massareene, Upper and Lower, 

 in County Antrim, and Upper Castlereagh, in County Down. Under Coill 

 Ultach, Killultagh, Hogan has "County Antrim . . . rede in Co. Down ; as in 

 my ' Description of Ireland as it is in 1598,' p. 7 : — Kilulto in County of 

 Down, a very fast Gountrie full of Wood and Boggs, bordereth on Lough 

 Evaghe (L. Neagh) and Clanbrassell ;' the Captaine thereof is Bryan McArt 

 O'Neill." Hogan forgot that the county of Down, as it was described in 

 1598, included much of the southern part of the present county of Antrim. 

 " Killultagh House," about half-way between Glenavy and Lisburn, is in the 

 very middle of Dal Buain. 



Muirchu's Life, based in part on the Confession, has Fochloth where A has 

 Focluti. If we could be sure that Muirchu wrote Fochloth, we should have 

 to infer either that Focluti or perhaps Vocluti was the reading in the MS. of 

 the Confession which he used, or that he himself was the first to substitute 

 Focluti and Fochloth for the word in the original. It is, however, quite 

 possible that Muirchu did not write Fochloth, and that the same redactor who 

 substituted Focluti in the Confession substituted Fochloth in Muirchu's Life. 

 In this connexion, it is worth noting that Fochloth, a form by itself not 

 easy to explain, is identical in its ending with the genitive plural TJloth of 

 Muirchu's time. If Fochloth is a compound of the word which in Old Irish 

 is caill " a wood," its genitive iu Old Irish should be Fochleth, not Fochloth. 

 There is near Killala a hamlet now called in Irish Fochoill. In this name the 

 long vowel of the first syllable may be due to conscious etymology, /5 being 

 what may be called the grandiloquent form of the preposition fo, and faoi 

 (fiol) the ordinary colloquial form in present-day Connacht usage. In St. 

 Patrick's time, however, this name, if it existed, should have been written 

 *Uocallit- or Uocallet-, or, after syncope, *Uochlit- or Uochlet-. All the 

 variants of the Confession have u in the penultimate syllable, -icti, -ulti.^ 



• We should probably read "Lough Neaghe, Evaghe (= Uibh Eachach, " Iveagh "), 

 and Clanbrasaell." 



^ Regarding Muirchu, and what has been written about his father Cogitosus by Dr. 

 Newport White and others, it may be well to point out that moccu Machtheni does not 



