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Pintan, put in at Dun-nambarc.'^* The mountain of Sliawbeatha, in 

 Ulster, was called after Bith, Ardladram, in the county of Wexford, 

 was denominated after Ladra ; Pintan gave the name Feartfintain to his 

 burial place at Tultuinne ; and Cuil Keasrach and Carn Keasrach, in 

 Connaught, obtained their names from Csesarea. Knockmea, a hill in 

 the barony of Clare, and county of Galway, is thought to be this Carn 

 Keasrach, and near it is the Cuil Keasrach, above mentioned.| 



HEFEEEKCES TO lEELAND IN SPANISH CHllONICLES. 



Elorian D'Ocampo's Ceonica General de Espana," 4to, Alcala, 

 1578. — Of post-diluvian migrations from Spain into Ireland, we have 

 several accounts and references in Spanish chronicles. The most im- 

 portant of them is that which is to be found in the work of great labour 

 and research, of Elorian D'Ocampo, in his work, " Cronica General de 

 Espana." 



This volume contains all that was written by D'Ocampo of his 

 projected general History of Spain, which Yaseus tells us was intended 

 to have been comprised in four volumes. The author, however, com- 

 pleted only one volume, and the work was continued and completed by 

 Morales. D'Ocampo was a native of Zamora, a disciple of the cele- 

 brated Nebrija. He is said to have ransacked all the ancient convents 

 and libraries of Spain for his m.aterials. The title of historiographer of 

 Charles V. was conferred on him for his great merits as an historical 

 archseologist. Morales, Yaseus, Matamorus, and the celebrated ISTicolas 

 Antonio, greatly commend him for his erudition and research. Eesen- 

 dius and Mariana depreciate him, the latter virulently and unjustly. 

 He died in 1590. The great calamity that has befallen his chronicle, 

 that which has been the bane of nearly all the Spanisb annals and 

 histories of the sixteenth century, is the introduction into it of the fa- 

 bulous chronological data fabricated by Annius de Yiterbo. 



But this subject of the fabulous chronologies of Spanish chronicles, 

 derived from the work of Annius and Higuera, do not affect the authen- 

 ticity of their own old genuine records and well-established traditions. 

 We may safely get rid of all the rubbish about Tubal and his descend- 

 ants, the African tyi'ants and giants, the Geriones and Hercules and his 

 labours, but remain satisfied that there is some truth, nay, a great deal, 

 in the statements that are to be found in old Spanish chronicles, to the 

 effect that, subsequently to a great drought and dearth which prevailed 

 all over Spain for twenty-six years, as it is asserted, there was a 

 migration from Gallicia and the northern shore of Spain to Ireland, at 

 a very early period. In various Spanish chronicles and histories of the 

 sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, references are to be found to such 



* " A dunum, or fortified position for small vessels, which Cambrensis calls the shore 

 of small ships, in Corcodubuia, in the west of Munster." 

 I " Ogygia," part III., eh. i., p. 3. 



