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First. The name on this monument. 



Secondly. Its great size and evident importance, of showing that it 

 was erected to commemorate some distinguished personage. 



Thirdly, The finding of this stone in close proximity to the reputed 

 palace, or Dun of Curoi Mac Dair6, who was king of the whole dis- 

 trict, and who was treacherously slain by Cuchulainn, in the very 

 locality. 



Should we then conclude that the four last letters on the Glen Fais 

 Monument present to us the name of this provincial monarch and 

 warrior, the inscription will stand thus — 



" This is the Warrior of CueafF My grief, this is Curi." 



An apparent difficulty arises from the presence of two proper names, 

 but this may be fairly accounted for by the fact that many of our 

 ancient celebrities bore more than one name, thus : — Nuadhat, king of 

 the Tuath De Dananns, was also called " Airgetlamh," or " of the Silver 

 Hand." Finn MacCumhaill, bore also the name of " Mongan." The 

 monarch Con was surnamed " Cead Cathach;" and the celebrated Niall 

 had also the name of Naoighiallach, " or of the Nine Hostages." Nume- 

 rous other examples will be found in our ancient MSS. of a similar 

 nature, so that the apparent difficulty vanishes before the probability of 

 both the names in the inscription being applied to the same personage, 

 though, as far as I have been able to ascertain, he is only known to us 

 by that of Curi or Curoi. In the Book of Leinster it is stated, that the 

 Lecht, or monument of Conri, is on Slieve Mis Mountain. The late 

 Pr. O'Honovan (in Magh Eath) states that it is still to be seen on the 

 north-east shoulder of the mountain (Caher Conri). 



Dr. Eowan, in his paper, has referred at some length to the account 

 given by Keating, from the Book of Invasions, of the landing of the Scoti 

 or Clanna Miledh, at Inbher Sgeine, and has referred to the topography of 

 the district, names of places, the pillar stones, and to the recent discovery 

 of a considerable number of cist-formed graves in Glen Fais, as to a certain 

 extent confirmatory of the bardic accounts of that event. 



While I fully agree with the reverend writer that the facts and circum- 

 stances he has adduced are evidences that in this district some remark- 

 able transactions occurred at a remote period, and that probably in this 

 identical glen a battle may have been fought between an invading force 

 and the then possessors of the soil. I amnot disposed to accept the circum- 

 stances attending the landing of the Scoti and their conquest of Ireland, as 

 set forth by Keating from the Book of Invasions, and other authorities. 

 While the main facts of the case are probably true as to the Scoti being 

 a people from the maritime coasts of Spain, their having landed in the 

 Bouth-west of Kerry, and of their having become the dominant race in 

 our island, the details are entirely unworthy of credit. This will be 

 better understood by referring briefly to Keating' s narrative: — " Three 

 days after Heber and his followers were got on shore, they were attacked 

 by Eire, the wife of Mac Greine, one of the princesses of the country, 

 at Sliabh-Mis, or the Mountain of Mis. This lady was attended by 

 a strong body of men, and a desperate battle followed, in which 

 many were destroyed on both sides. In this action Fais, the wife of 



