288 Griddle or Greidell Ine or Een. [Sess. 



Find or Finn MacCumhail, on very doubtful authority, 

 was said to have been the commander of the Fianna,-^ a body 

 of warriors, a kind of Irish Militia. He was the father of 

 Oisin (Ossian), the celebrated poet, whose familiar name was 

 Guaire Gull. He had another son, named Fergus, also a poet, 

 who was known by the name of Filidh Feinn Eirinn, or Bard 

 of the Feinn of Erin (see Dean of Lismore's Book, p. 43). 

 Finn MacCumhail had also a daughter, Samair, who married 

 Cormac Cas, King of Munster. 



Finn and the Feinn e are associated with the names of many 

 places in Scotland, and the late Dr E. Angus Smith, in his 

 book upon 'Loch Etive and the Sons of Uisnach,' at p. 250, 

 gives a description and plate of a megalithic monument called 

 the Tomb of the Giants and of the Finn. It is situated on 

 ground overlooking Loch Nell, which is not far from Oban. 



In the " Dinsenchas of Brugh na Boine " there is mentioned 

 the Fert of Fedlimid the lawgiver (O'Curry, vol. i. p. dcxxxix). 

 This seems to prove that at least one fert was named after a 

 lawgiver ; and in Borlase's * Dolmens of Ireland ' (vol. ii. p. 

 348) reference is made to Fedlimid. It says :. " Fedlimid the 

 Law Giver is said to have been buried in Brugh or Brugh na 

 Boine, otherwise known as Broe House, New Grange, Town- 

 land of Knowth, Parish of Monknewton, County of Meath. 

 This place is close to the river Boyne, near Drogheda. This 

 chambered mound or tumulus itself consists of an enormous 

 cairn of loose stones, heaped within a curb of great stones, 8 

 to 10 feet long, laid on edge and touching end to end, over 

 which a covering of grass has grown. In plan the tumulus is 

 circular, and covers an area of about one acre, or, taking the 

 circle of the standing-stones, nearly two acres. The greatest 

 diameter of the mound measures 280 feet. Its present height 

 is 44 feet." From this we see that Fedlimid was buried in a 

 circular tumulus of much larger dimensions than Greidell Ine 

 or Een, but of the same form. It was also situated not far 

 from the sea, as is the case with Greidell Ine or Een. 



Borlase, vol. ii. pp. 439, 440, mentions that "The Dolmen 

 Cairn or Dolmen Circle type of Dolmen is found in Ireland 

 and Cornwall, hugging the coast, while wedge-shaped Dolmens 

 occupy positions on the hills or further inland. The occur- 



^ Fianna. — It is from this word that '* Fenian " is derived. 



