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landed at a place then known as Inbher Sgeine is very probable, and 

 that the names of their leaders, as Eibher, Eremon, Ir, Donn, Colpa, 

 Scota, and Pais, &c, are genuine historical ones, I have no doubt; for 

 however facts may be disguised, distorted, or invented, names of places 

 and individuals are generally preserved intact, and will hold their 

 ground through ages. I have long been of opinion that the Bay of 

 Kenmare was not the scene of the landing of the Scoti. I believe that 

 event took place in the Bay of Dingle. Accepting the statement in 

 Keating, that a battle was fought at Sliabh Mis, three days after the 

 landing of the Scoti, it could only be true on the supposition that their 

 landing took place either in [the Bay of Dingle, or that of Tralee. If 

 we examine the map of the district, we find a long narrow peninsula, 

 the present barony of Corcaguiney, stretching out between the above- 

 named estuaries, and having a ridge of lofty mountains running through 

 the centre, from Tralee to Brandon Head. At the extremity, on the 

 north side, is the open Bay of Smerwick ; on the south side, are the 

 harbours of Yentry, Dingle, and a small land-locked inlet, now dry at 

 low water, called " Tra-beg," or "the Little Strand," upon the shore 

 of which lies the most remarkable Ogham monument we have. Dingle 

 is also a land-locked harbour, having a very narrow entrance, but of con- 

 siderable capacity inside. Now, the ocean current that runs round 

 the south-west shores runs into the Bay of Dingle, striking between 

 Dunmore Head and Yentry Harbour ; these currents do not run into 

 Kenmare Bay. This is important in estimating the chances of a fleet of 

 strange adventurers navigating, in their frail barks, seas to them little, 

 if at all known, and landing on our coasts. If it be admitted that our 

 shores were previously known to the invaders, they could not have 

 selected a more suitable locality for an infant colony. Here were safe 

 and sheltered harbours ; a district remote from the centre of power and 

 population; a sea teeming with fish, the mountains and woods with game ; 

 a district naturally fortified by the sea, and by mighty mountains, at 

 whose feet were large tracts of fertile soil. 



If, then, the Scoti landed at Yentry or Dingle harbours, they would 

 march along the base of the mountains through the lowlands skirting 

 the bay towards Castlemaine, and the first available pass through which 

 they could penetrate would be Glen Pais. In tbis pass a battle may 

 have been fought between them and the natives who inhabited the 

 great district of country lying between Tralee and the Shannon. If 

 they had heard of the arrival of the strangers, and were bent on opposing 

 them, the passes of the Sliabh Mis mountains, which terminate at Glen 

 Pais, would be the natural points of defence ; and, accordingly, we find 

 this mountain range handed down to us as the scene of their first battle, 

 and the two principal passes, Glen Fais and Glen Scothian, identified 

 with the names of two of the invading colony — Fais and Scota. In this 

 view of the case the difficulty as to time vanishes, as the distance be- 

 tween Yentry and the centre of the Sliabh Mis mountains is not more 

 than thirty-five miles, so that an invading force could have landed, 

 marched to that locality, and have fought a battle within three days — 

 a feat utterly impossible had they landed in the bay of Kenmare. 



