440 



in a conversation between Cailte Mac Eonain and his companion Fin- 

 chadh : — 



" Ba Mat fein do rinde both doibh ind oidchi sin, ocus do rinded 

 indeonadh leo, ocus teid Cailte ocus Findchadh do indlad a lamha cum int 

 srotha. Inad fulachta so ar Findchadh, ocus is cian o do rinded. Is fir 

 ar Cailte, ocus fulacht na Iforrighna so, ocus ni denta gan uisce." 

 " It was they who made a hut for themselves that night; and indeonad 

 (cooking places) were made by them. And Cailte and Finchadh went 

 to the stream to wash their hands. ' Here is the site of a fulacht,' said 

 Finchadh. 'True/ said Cailte; ' and this is a fulacht-na-morrighna 

 which is not to be made without water' " (i. e. there should be a supply 

 of water near at hand). 



The name of the Morrigan enters not a little into the composition 

 of Irish topographical names. In the present county of Louth there is 

 a district anciently known by the name of Gort-na-Morrigna, or the 

 " Morrigan's Field," which her husband, the Dagda, had given to her. — 

 " Book of Fermoy," fol. 125, a 2. 



The " Book of Lismore" (fol. 196, b. 1) mentions a Crich-na-Mor- 

 rigna as somewhere in the present county of "Wicklow. Among the re- 

 markable monuments of the Brugh on the Boyne were Mur-na-Morrigna 

 (the mound of the Morrigan) ; two hills called the Cirr and Cuirrel (or 

 comb and brush) of the Dagda' s wife, which Dr. Petrie has inadver- 

 tently transformed into two proper names ; and Da cich na Morrigna, 

 or the " Morrigan's two paps" in Kerry, not far from which is a large 

 fort, bearing the suggestive name of Lis-baba. 



The name of Morrigan is also probably contained in that of Tirree- 

 worrigan, in the county of Armagh. 



XL VII. — On Ancient Sepulchral Monuments found in the County 

 Galway. By M. Beogan. 



[Read February 8, 1869.] 



When travelling through the country on official duty, I frequently 

 meet with antiquarian remains, some of which may not have as yet been 

 brought under the notice of the Academy. Being recently employed on 

 inspection duty in the county of Clare, my attention was attracted by 

 what I at first conceived to be immense cromleacs, or druidical altars; but 

 which I concluded, on closer inspection, to be sepulchral monuments of 

 some of those stalwart heroes of the olden time who had been "dead 

 and turned to clay" long ere the Milesian adventurers left the sunny 

 shores of Spain to seek and win a new home in the green island of In- 

 nisfail. 



The precise locality of these antiquarian remains is a little south of 

 the public road leading from Gort to Feakle, and about midway between 

 these two towns, in the townland of Dromandoora. The situation is 



