[111]. Pronounced Ildāna.
[112]. The Curlieu Hills, between Roscommon and Sligo.
[113]. Croagh Patrick.
[114]. The estuary of the Shannon.
[115]. This story of the Fate of the Children of Tuirenn is mentioned in the ninth-century “Cormac’s Glossary”. It is found in various Irish and Scottish MSS., including the Book of Lecan. The present re-telling is from Eugene O’Curry’s translation, published in Atlantis, Vol. IV.
[116]. Rhys: Hibbert Lectures, pp. 390-396.
[117]. A part of County Louth, between the Boyne and Dundalk. The heroic cycle connects it especially with Cuchulainn. Pronounced Mŭrthemna or Mŭrhevna.
[118]. There is known to have been a hill called Ard Chein (Cian’s Mound) in the district of Muirthemne, and O’Curry identifies it tentatively with one now called Dromslian.
[119]. Pronounced Pēzar.
[120]. Pronounced Dobar.