[8] The sea between Erin and Alban (Ireland and Scotland) was anciently called the Sea of Moyle, from the Moyle, or Mull, of Cantire.
[9] Inish Glora; a small island, about five miles west from Belmullet, in the county Mayo, still known by the same name.
[10] The Taillkenn, a name given by the druids to St. Patrick.
[11] Three hundred years: the Dedannans were regarded as gods and lived an immensely long time.
[12] Carricknarone, the "Rock of the Seals": probably the Skerry rock near Portrush in Antrim: but the old name is now forgotten.
[13] Short Irish poems often began and ended in the same words, as seen in the above translation.
[14] In Ireland, in old times, the dead were often buried standing up in the grave. It was in this way Finola and her brothers were buried.
[15] Ogham, a sort of writing often used on tombstones to mark the names of the persons buried. It consisted of lines and points generally cut on the edges of the stone.
[16] Clonard, in Meath, on the Boyne. Bangor, in the Co. Down.
[17] St. Augustine came to England in the year 596—having been sent by Pope Gregory—and converted to Christianity those of the English who had not been already converted.