The Round Towers of Ireland; or, The History of the Tuath-De-Danaans

by Henry O'Brien

[429] Antiquities of Ireland, vol. ii. p. 134.

[430] Antiquities of Ireland, vol. ii. p. 129.

[431] Dublin Penny Journal, 20th July 1833.

[432] Dublin Penny Journal, 10th June 1833.

[433] Dublin Penny Journal, 20th July 1833.

[434] Ibid. 5th October 1833.

[435] Colgan.

[436] Melpomene, ch. 46.

[437] “Oppidum vocant Britanni cum silvas impeditas vallo atque fossâ munierunt. The Britons call a town an encumbered wood, fenced in with a rampart and a ditch” (Cæsar’s Comment. lib. 5).

[438] Of whom O’Flaherty gives this character from an Irish poem, writ by one G. Comdeus O’Cormaic, which he thus translates into Latin:—