[171]. Pronounced Aive.
[172]. Pronounced Aiva.
[173]. Pronounced Alva.
[174]. Now called “North Channel”.
[175]. The Peninsula of Erris, in Mayo.
[176]. A small island off Benmullet.
[177]. See chap. XIV—“Finn and the Fenians”.
[178]. An island off the coast of Mayo. Its lonely crane was one of the “Wonders of Ireland”, and is still an object of folk-belief.
[179]. Pronounced Kemoc.
[180]. This famous story of the Fate of the Children of Lêr is not found in any MS. earlier than the beginning of the seventeenth century. A translation of it has been published by Eugene O’Curry in Atlantis, Vol. IV, from which the present abridgment is made.