290 Griddle or Greidell Ine or Een. [Sess. 



used for baking oatmeal cakes. Such cakes are called Bocaire 

 and Blethach, and were always baked by being supported in 

 an upright position before the fire by means of a three- 

 pronged forked stick called a Maide an Bhocaire, or the 

 Bocaire Stick, or the Granachan, which, however, included 

 also the three-legged stool upon which the cake was sup- 

 ported by the stick. Erom the latter name the Bocaire is 

 sometimes called Ciste Granachan, or the cake of the Gran- 

 achan. 



I have pointed out the early period to which Greidell Ine 

 or Een belongs. This stone circle, mound, or cairn is the 

 only structure of its kind known in Ardnamurchan. 



I have shown that Ine was an Anglo-Saxon name, and 

 that one of the West Saxon kings bore that name. He died 

 during a visit to Eome about a.d. 726 or 728, so it is evident 

 he cannot be the person who gave his name to Greidell Ine 

 or Een, as he who did so must have lived many centuries 

 before that time. 



The probability seems to be that the name should be spelt 

 Een, one form of the name Find or Finn. In all likelihood 

 the Greidell got its name from being associated in some way 

 unknown to us with the great Celtic hero, Finn MacCumhail. 



In the notice of the Parish of Ardnamurchan written for 

 the 'New Statistical Account of Scotland' in 1838 by the 

 Eev. Angus M'Lean, the late minister of the parish 

 ("Argyll," p. 147), among his references to the antiquities he 

 writes as follows : " At Ormsaig Mor in Ardnamurchan there 

 are some large stones so placed as to resemble a rude Altar, 

 round which a circle of smaller stones may be traced. It is 

 called ' Griadal Fhinn ' — Fingal's Griddle." 



At the time the Eev. Mr M'Lean wrote, the larger of the 

 chambers, marked No. 1 upon the plan (Plate XXTL), would 

 have its large cover-stone in position, forming a flat roof to 

 the structure, which may have led him to describe it as an 

 altar. Now the chamber is roofless, with what was the cover- 

 stone leaning in a slanting position against the south-eastern 

 end. It is exceedingly interesting to observe that in 1838 

 the name of Fhinn or Fingal was associated with this burial- 

 place, and that naturally leads to the thought that this may 

 have been the place of Finn's sepulture, although Irish tradi- 



