[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.