The Testimony of Tradition

by David MacRitchie

[226] "The Irish before the Conquest," p. 237.

[227] More correctly, Gobban Saor ("Free or Noble Smith"). From the description given by Mr. Elton (Origins, p. 131) of "Wayland's Smithy" at Ashbury, Berkshire, it is evident that it also belongs to the same class as the Boyne mounds.

[228] The symbol for the Gaelic agus—"and."

[229] Dr. O'Conor's Rerum Hibernicarum Scriptores veteres, 1824, III., 363-364.

[230] "Bad translation and wretchedly erroneous topography," says the former; "by no means accurate," says the latter.

[231] Wars of the Gaedhill with the Gaill, lxxii, 23.

[232] Properly, of one-half only of Meath. (Wars of the Gaedhill, lxx, n³.)

[233] Op. cit., lxxxviii, xci, notes.

[234] For references to Scotch "weems" (specially so called), see Col. Forbes Leslie's "Early Races of Scotland," 1866, Vol. II., pp. 351-354. Also ante, p. [101.]

[235] ? The "black ford."